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RICHARD HOFFMAN

24th May 1831 --- 17th August 1909

Richard Hoffman was born on 24th May 1831 in Manchester, England, which was same day and month as the birthday of Queen Victoria. His father
was a English composer and would have started his interest in music from a early age,  and were he studied composing and piano under some very
famous composers, Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, Anton Rubinstein.  In around 1847 Hoffman was sent to live with his Uncle in America. After a
short time he went on tour of America and Canada as a soloist.

A couple of years later in 1850  he accompanied Jenny Lind on her tours,  later on his tours he played with some famous  composers one was Louis
Moreau Gottschalk  and later in  1875 with Hans von Bülow in New York.    It was around this  time he  had established his position as  a important
figure in American musical life. Among his work's, he created music compostion for the piano,  various piano transcriptions,  anthems, and nearly a
hundred salon compositions.

Hoffman began playing for the Philharmonic, his first time he played Mendelssohn's G minor concerto, and for many years after appeared regularly
in the Philharmonic concerts, later he was elected as honorary member of the Philharmonic Society.

In 1897,  he attended a testimonial concert to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance in New York. It was after this time he gave
up playing in public, but he did continued his teaching. He died at Mount Kisco, New York.  His book Some Musical Recollections of Fifty Years was
published a year after his death in 1910.

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