Frank Van der Stucken

conductor

Biography

Frank Van der Stucken is noted as having conducted symphony concerts for several seasons in Chickering Hall in New York, in the sequence of conductors and orchestras that used the hall, following Gotthold Carlberg's Orchestra and preceding Anton Seidl's appearances there with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The text gives no further biographical information about him beyond this activity. Frank Van der Stucken conducted a series of symphony concerts at the old Chickering Hall on Fifth Avenue and Eighteenth Street in New York. It was through his acquaintance that Ernest Urchs obtained his first position as a retail piano salesman, with Chickering and Sons.

Highlights

Conducted symphony concerts for several seasons in Chickering Hall
Conducted symphony concerts at the old Chickering Hall in New York and introduced Ernest Urchs to a position at Chickering and Sons

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911); Vol. II (1913), p. 190.

Public domain.

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