As part of the Rochester's Rich History Series, Lisa Kleman will discuss Searching for the Dossenbachs at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in the Rundel Auditorium of the Rundel Memorial Building.

October is German-American Heritage Month!the Dossenbachs, a poor German immigrant family, came to the city of Rochester in 1872. Their movements throughout the city in the ensuing decades mirror the story of German immigration in Rochester. The four Dossenbach brothers were involved in all things musical: Otto and Adolf were child violin prodigies; Theodore founded and directed the Rochester Park Band; and Hermann founded and conducted the Rochester Orchestra (which would later become the RPO), and established the music school that became the world-famous Eastman School of Music. Hermann and Theodore were also part of the quintet that served as George Eastman's "house band" from 1905 to 1919. The story of the Dossenbachs is the story of the glorious city of Rochester in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

[source: Monroe County Library website, 2015-Oct-12]