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Charles Martin Loeffler ....
Charles Martin Loeffler
American violinist and composer (1861–1935)
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (January 30, 1861 – May 19, 1935) was a German-born American violinist and composer.
Family background
Charles Martin Loeffler was born Martin Karl Löffler on January 30, 1861, in Schöneberg near Berlin to parents who were both from Berlin families.[1] The family moved repeatedly, first to Alsace, and then to Smila, 200 km from Kyiv, while Loeffler was still a small child, next to Debrecen, in Hungary, where his father Karl taught at the Royal Academy of Agriculture.[2] Later he lived in Switzerland.
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (January 30, – May 19, ) was a German-born American violinist and composer.
Karl was an agricultural chemist who espoused republican ideals in writing as a journalist under the name "Tornow" or "Tornov". When his son was about twelve years old, Prussian authorities arrested Karl Loeffler and he died of a stroke in prison.
Throughout his career, Charles Martin Loeffler claimed to have been born in Mulhouse, Alsace; in his lifet