William Stuckenholz

William Stuckenholz (c. 1840, Germany[1] – died July 18, 1884, New Orleans[2]) was a German born American composer, pianist, and music teacher.

[7] By August 1876 he had moved to Sacramento, California where he worked as a pianist and teacher of piano and singing.

[9][10] The Harmonie Maennerchor (founded 1874), a well known choir and singing society in Reading, Pennsylvania,[11] programmed Stuckenholz's waltz "Blumenstrauss" in 1880.

[14] His waltz "The Billets Doux" was performed in concerts in Oakland, California by the Columbia Orchestra in 1895.

[15][16] In 1884 Stuckenholz left San Francisco for New Orleans where he worked as pianist in clubs and on Poydras Street and in the French Quarter.