The New International Encyclopædia/Mollenhauer, Edward

MOLLENHAUER, mŏl'len-hou'ẽr, (1827&mdash;). An American violinist and composer, born at Erfurt, Prussia. He studied under Ernst and Spohr, and had become famous in Germany and at Saint Petersburg before he was twenty-five. To escape conscription, he went to England, joined Jullien, and accompanied him to New York City in 1853. He settled there and became a founder in America of the Conservatory method of teaching the violin. Mollenhauer's best-known compositions for the violin are his quartets. He also wrote the operas, The Corsican Bride (1861), Breakers (1881), and The Masked Ball.