Ureli Corelli Hill

Hill served alternately as conductor and violinist with the New York Sacred Music Society between 1828 and 1835.

[4] As was typical of this era, the concert featured several different conductors and a mixture of opera excerpts, full orchestral works, and chamber music.

[4] For the Orchestra's third season, Hill invited both Spohr and Felix Mendelssohn to conduct, however neither could accept, sending letters of acknowledgement instead.

[3] These difficulties, combined with his forced retirement from the violins of the Philharmonic on account of his old age, are thought to have contributed to his taking his own life on September 2, 1875 at his home in Paterson, New Jersey.

[3] His farewell note, written before swallowing an overdose of morphine, stated "Why should or how can a man exist and be powerless to earn means for his family?