Richard Eilenberg (13 January 1848 – 5 December 1927) was a

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Born in

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, Eilenberg's musical career began with the study of piano and composition. At 18 years old, he composed his first work, a concert overture. As a volunteer he participated in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871. In 1873, Eilenberg became the music director and conductor in

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. In 1889, he decided to move to

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as a freelance composer, where his second marriage with his wife Dorothee started. They lived on 73 Bremer Street. Eilenberg composed marches and dances for orchestra, harmony and military music, and a ballet ''The Rose of Shiras'', Op. 134. He also composed the operettas ''Comtess Cliquot'' (1909), ''King Midas,'' ''Marietta,'' and ''The Great Prince''. The most notable music that he composed were his marches, including ''The Coronation March'' (for

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), and ''Janitscharen-Marsch'', Op. 295. Some of his music pieces, attributable to the

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and its entertainment, were ''The Petersburg Sleigh Ride'', Op. 52 and ''The Mill In The Black Forest'', Op. 57 (1885).http://www.jubal.de/pdf/050401.pdf Eilenberg completed 350 compositions throughout his life, including ten fantasies after melodies of great masters, like ''Ehrenkränze der Tonkunst'', Opp. 268–277 and the suite ''Durch Feld und Wald'', Op. 119. He died in

. His grave is located on the south-west cemetery of the Berlin Ecclesiastical Assembly in

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