Joseph Mosenthal was a German-American

German American

German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry and comprise about 51 million people, or 17% of the U.S. population, the country's largest self-reported ancestral group...

 music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

ian, born at Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

. He studied under his father and Spohr

Louis Spohr

Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...

 and in 1853 went to America, where he played the organ in Calvary Church

Calvary Baptist Church (Manhattan)

Calvary Baptist Church is located at 123 West 57th Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, near Carnegie Hall in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is an independent, non-affiliated church. The senior pastor is Rev. David Paul Epstein, the brother of television personality...

, New York City

New York City

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, from 1860 to 1887. He was conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club

Mendelssohn Glee Club

The Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York City, founded in 1866, is the oldest glee club not associated with a university in the United States. An early men's glee club that traveled up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States, the Mendelssohn helped to popularize classical music before...

 in New York City from 1867 to 1896, played a first violin in the Philharmonic Orchestra

New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"...

 for 40 years, a second violin in the Mason and Thomas Quartet for 12, and composed much Church music, such as the psalm

Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification...

 "The Earth is the Lord's," and part songs for male voices, Thanatopsis, Blest Pair of Sirens, and Music of the Sea.

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