German Music and Musicians

History of German Music in Syracuse area:

• 1830's: Heinrich Herbener, Prussian music teacher
  
  
• 1840's: Jakob Samsel's German Brass Band founded
  
  
• c. 1850: German Musical Institute and three German musicians/teachers
  
  
• 1852: The Sängerbund, first official singing society, established
  
  
• 1853: Caspar Miller's Brass Band founded
  
  
• 1855: Liederkranz established
  "How the Syracuse Liederkranz Came Into Existence" (1893 article)
  
  
• 1857: Concordia singing society established

Images:

• Advertisement for Goettel's Military Band, circa 1904
  
  
• "Turner-Gruss Marsch" [sheetmusic and lyrics]