Charles Ansorge (born in Spiller

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, Germany, in 1817; died in

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, 28 October 1866) was a German-born musician and composer who, as a Forty-Eighter, emigrated to the United States and worked for a time there also.

Biography

Germany

He was educated in Breslau, where he received high honors, and also obtained a thorough musical training. For some years after his graduation he devoted his attention to teaching, and was further occupied in editing a public newspaper. He subscribed to the liberal ideas prevalent in Germany during the

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, and published articles offensive to the authorities, for which he was tried and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. But he escaped to

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, where he was joined by his family.

United States

He sailed for the United States. He settled in

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, and became

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and chorister of the First Church in Dorchester, where he remained for 13 years. He was also a teacher of music in the asylum for the blind in South Boston for four years. For some time he was a resident editor of the ''Massachusetts Teacher'', and he took an active part in the state teachers' association. In 1863 he moved to

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, where he died. His remains were interred in the Dorchester North Burying Ground.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ansorge, Charles 1817 births 1866 deaths German-American Forty-Eighters American male organists Musicians from Boston Educators from Massachusetts 19th-century American musicians 19th-century American male musicians American organists 19th-century organists