Damrosch
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Damrosch is a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

, and may refer to:
  • Clara Mannes
    Clara Mannes
    Clara Mannes, born Clara Damrosch was a German-born American musician, music educator. With her husband David Mannes she founded the Mannes College The New School for Music in 1916 ....

     (born Damrosch, 1869–1948), a musician, sister of Walter
  • Frank Damrosch
    Frank Damrosch
    Frank Heino Damrosch was a German-born American music conductor and educator.-Biography:He was born on June 22, 1859 in Breslau, and came to the United States with his father, Leopold Damrosch, and brother, Walter Damrosch in 1871. He had studied music in Germany under Dionys Pruckner. He studied...

     (1859–1937), Silesian-American conductor, music-educator
  • Leo Damrosch
    Leo Damrosch
    Leo Damrosch is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His areas...

    , American scholar and author, professor of literature at Harvard
  • Leopold Damrosch
    Leopold Damrosch
    Leopold Damrosch was a German American orchestral conductor.- Biography :Damrosch was born in Posen , Kingdom of Prussia, and began his musical education at the age of nine, learning the violin against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to become a doctor...

     (1832–1885), Silesian-American conductor, musician, composer
  • Walter Johannes Damrosch
    Walter Johannes Damrosch
    Walter Johannes Damrosch was a German-born American conductor and composer. He is best remembered today as long-time director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and for conducting the world premiere performances of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F , and An American in Paris .- Biography...

     (1862–1950), Silesian-American musician, conductor, composer

See also

  • Damrosch Opera Company
    Damrosch Opera Company
    The Damrosch Opera Company was an American opera company which existed from 1894 until 1900.The company was organized by Walter Damrosch, and was meant to present German opera; in this capacity it did much to advance the cause of Richard Wagner's music in the United States...

     (1894–1900), an American opera company
  • Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, New York City
  • Damrosch (horse)
    Damrosch (horse)
    Damrosch was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1916 Preakness Stakes. Bred by August Belmont, Jr. at his Nursery Stud near Lexington, Kentucky, he was sired by the 1903 English Triple Crown winner, Rock Sand. Damrosch was out of the mare Dissembler, a daughter of the...

    , American racehorse
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