Gustav Hinrichs (Aimé Dupont Portrait, BPL Hale Coll)
Gustav Ludwig Wilhelm Hinrichs (10 December 1850 - 26 March 1942) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 19, where he became known especially as a conductor of opera in San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia. His compositions include four operas, many songs and instrumental works, and musical scores for silent films, including the 1925 version of ''The Phantom of the Opera''. Career Gustav Hinrichs was born in Grabow near Ludwigslust, Germany to August Hinrichs and Sophie ''née'' Havekoss. He studied clarinet, violin, and piano with his father, and composition with Angelo Reisland and Eduard Marxsen in Hamburg. While still a teenager he began playing with the Hamburg State Opera orchestra. At the age of 19, in order to avoid military service, Hinrichs emigrated to the United States. He sailed from Hamburg via Le Havre on SS ''Silesia'' and arrived in New York on 4 April 1870. He then traveled by train across the ...
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