About: Abraham Nordheimer     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:Person, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FAbraham_Nordheimer

Abraham Nordheimer (February 24, 1816 – January 18, 1862) was a German Jewish-Canadian musician, merchant and music publisher who established Canada's first publishing house specializing in music. The son of Meier Nordheimer, a cattle dealer, and Esther Nathan, he was born in Memmelsdorf and came to New York City in 1839 with his brother Samuel. Nordheimer moved to Kingston in 1842, becoming the first Jew living there and began advertising his services as a music teacher. He also opened a store which sold sheet music and musical instruments. It has been said that Nordheimer gave music lessons to the children of Canadian Governor-General Sir Charles Bagot.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Abraham Nordheimer (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Abraham Nordheimer (February 24, 1816 – January 18, 1862) was a German Jewish-Canadian musician, merchant and music publisher who established Canada's first publishing house specializing in music. The son of Meier Nordheimer, a cattle dealer, and Esther Nathan, he was born in Memmelsdorf and came to New York City in 1839 with his brother Samuel. Nordheimer moved to Kingston in 1842, becoming the first Jew living there and began advertising his services as a music teacher. He also opened a store which sold sheet music and musical instruments. It has been said that Nordheimer gave music lessons to the children of Canadian Governor-General Sir Charles Bagot. (en)
foaf:name
  • Abraham Nordheimer (en)
name
  • Abraham Nordheimer (en)
birth place
death place
death place
  • Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria (en)
death date
birth place
birth date
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
birth date
death date
father
  • Meier Nordheimer (en)
mother
  • Esther Nathan (en)
occupation
  • Musician, merchant, music publisher (en)
relatives
spouse
  • Fanny Rosenthal (en)
has abstract
  • Abraham Nordheimer (February 24, 1816 – January 18, 1862) was a German Jewish-Canadian musician, merchant and music publisher who established Canada's first publishing house specializing in music. The son of Meier Nordheimer, a cattle dealer, and Esther Nathan, he was born in Memmelsdorf and came to New York City in 1839 with his brother Samuel. Nordheimer moved to Kingston in 1842, becoming the first Jew living there and began advertising his services as a music teacher. He also opened a store which sold sheet music and musical instruments. It has been said that Nordheimer gave music lessons to the children of Canadian Governor-General Sir Charles Bagot. In 1844, he opened a music store in Toronto with his brother Samuel. Besides selling reprints of European music, the brothers also published Canadian compositions. The firm sold instruments manufactured in the United States; it later became involved in the manufacturing of pianos. Branches of the store were opened in Montreal, Hamilton and London. The firm invited famous performers of the day to come to Canada and established a concert hall in Montreal. Nordheimer played the piano and sang; he also played second violin for the Toronto Philharmonic Society. In 1849, with , he purchased land to establish a Jewish cemetery in Toronto. Nordheimer married Fanny Rosenthal. He died in Bamberg at the age of 45 during a visit to Germany. In 1927, Heintzman & Co. took over the operation of the Nordheimer Piano & Music Company Ltd. factory. (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
birth year
death year
occupation
relative
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is relatives of
is relative of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 51 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software