Abraham Wolf Lilienthal (February 13, 1859 – March 15, 1928) was an American violinist and composer.
Biography Abraham Lilienthal was born in New York City on February 13, 1859, the son of Solomon Lilienthal and Louisa Schwarzschild.Joseph A. Bomberger, "Lilienthal, Abraham Wolf" in Grove Music Online - Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, published in print January 2013, published online May 2010, e-. He married Ida C. Salberg on May 15, 1885, and they had one daughter.
Lilienthal was a violinist in the orchestras of Leopold Damrosch and Theodore Thomas and with the New York String Quartet. He was heavily involved with the Bohemian music club in New York, including leadership roles through most of the 1910s. Much of his compositional output was chamber music, but he collaborated on an opera, The Dove of Peace, with Walter Damrosch and Wallace Irving.
Adolph Weiss and Maurice Baron were among his students of composition in New York. He died in New York City on March 15, 1928.
Selected Compositions
Mazeppa Galop, op. 5 for orchestra String Quartet in B-flat, op. 17, 1916 Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello in B-flat, Op. 25 Cello Sonata, op. 40 The Dove of Peace, opera, written with Walter Damrosch and Wallace Irving Sonata for violin and piano, 1914 arrangement of Goldmark's Call of the Plains and Witches' Sabbath
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