Joseph Mosenthal (30 November 1834 – 6 January 1896) was a German-American musician, born at

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

. He studied under his father and

Spohr Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conducting, conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten Sy ...

and in 1853 went to America, where he played the organ in Calvary Church, New York City, from 1860 to 1887. He was conductor of the

Mendelssohn Glee Club The Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York City, founded in 1866, is the oldest surviving independent musical group in the United States after the New York Philharmonic. Their concerts, given in very high-society settings, featured the new (to America ...

in New York City from 1867 to 1896, played a first violin in the Philharmonic Orchestra for 40 years, a second violin in the Mason and Thomas Quartet for 12, and composed much Church music, such as the psalm " The Earth is the Lord's", a setting of part of Psalm 145 (published in 1864), and part songs for male voices, ''Thanatopsis'', ''Blest Pair of Sirens'', and ''Music of the Sea''. He died in New York City. His son was physician

Herman O. Mosenthal Herman Otto Mosenthal (8 July 1878 – 24 April 1954) was an American physician and diabetologist. Biography Mosenthal was born in New York City on 8 July 1878. His father Joseph Mosenthal a musician, migrated to the United States from Kassel ...

. Among Mosenthal's students was

Carolyn Beebe Carolyn Beebe (September 30, 1873 – September 24, 1950) was an American pianist, founder of the New York Chamber Music Society in 1915. Early life Carolyn Harding Beebe was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the daughter of Silas Edwin Beebe an ...

, pianist and founder of the New York Chamber Music Society.Kozenko, Lisa
"The New York Chamber Music Society, 1915-1937: A Contribution to Wind Chamber Music and a Reflection of Concert Life in New York City in the Early 20th Century"
(DMA diss., City University of New York 2013): 27-41; ''CUNY Academic Works''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mosenthal, Joseph Musicians from New York City American violinists German violinists German emigrants to the United States 1834 births 1896 deaths 19th-century American musicians 19th-century German musicians 19th-century violinists American male violinists 19th-century male musicians