Edward Mollenhauer

Edward Mollenhauer (1827–1914) was an American violinist and composer.

He studied under Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst and Louis Spohr, and had become famous in Germany and at Saint Petersburg before he was twenty-five years old.

To escape conscription, he went to England, where he met conductor Louis-Antoine Jullien, and accompanied him to New York City in 1853.

He settled there and became a founder in America of the Conservatory method of teaching the violin.

[5] Among those he taught were African-American soloist and orchestra director, Walter F.