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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1After holding this important post for six years he was appointed to take the second leadership of the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig, the first place being filled (after David's death) by the promotion of Engelbert Röntgen. At the same time (1874) he became professor of the violin at the Conservatorium. For some time previously Schradieck had taken the greatest interest in the teaching of his instrument, and so under him the violin classes at the Conservatorium maintained the high standard which they had reached under David. But the Gewandhaus appointment carried with it also the duty of leading the Opera orchestra, and in consequence Schradieck was, like many another, overworked. For this reason he resigned his post in 1882 in order to go to America whence he had received an invitation to proceed as director and teacher of the violin in the College of Music at Cincinnati.
3The statement that the Leipzig appointment meant overwork is amply proved by the fact that when Schradieck quitted that town and his post there, the appointment was divided into two portions, one being given to Brodsky, and the other to Henri Petri.
5The Cincinnati College had been founded by an art loving amateur named Nichols and his friend, Springer, in 1877, and was destined for the purpose of giving young American musicians a thorough musical training, as indeed it did under Schradieck's leadership. Unfortunately all the artistic impulse of the place seemed to die out with the decease of the two founders in 1884-5. Their successor did not care to spend much money, while at the same time he endeavoured to make as much as possible out of the school, the natural consequence being that the institution became a mere financial speculation. Schradieck himself says that money was saved in the wrong direction, and that even the orchestral concerts which had formed a special attraction under his leadership were put down. At the end of his contract, then, Schradieck returned to Germany. He next went to Hamburg in the hope of obtaining a post as conductor
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