Guillaume Stengel
Wilhelm Ludwig "Guillaume" Stengel (August 7, 1846 - May 15, 1917) was a musician and a music teacher.[1]
Biography[edit]
He was born on August 7, 1846, in Lviv. Marcella Sembrich become one of his students and they married in 1877.[1]
He became ill from blood poisoning from a carbuncle that developed from a scratch on his lip. He had his first operation on May 6, 1917.[2] His health improved temporarily.[3]
He died at his apartment in the Hotel Gotham in Manhattan on May 15, 1917, from the blood poisoning after his third operation.[1] His funeral was at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan and the temporary burial until the end of the war was at Woodlawn Cemetery.[4] He had 20 pallbearers including Paul Drennan Cravath, Harry Harkness Flagler, Zygmunt Stojowski, Ernest Schelling and Ignacy Jan Paderewski.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Guillaume Stengel Dies At The Gotham. Husband of Mme. Sembrich, and a Musician, Succumbs After a Third Operation". New York Times. May 16, 1917. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ^ "Stengel-Sembrich Ill. Condition of Noted Singer's Husband Alarms His Friends". New York Times. May 7, 1917. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ^ "Guillaume Stengel Slightly Better". New York Times. May 9, 1917. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ^ "Throng At Stengel Bier. City's Musical Colony at Services in Church of St. Mary the Virgin". New York Times. May 19, 1917. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ^ "Stengel Burial Tomorrow. P. D. Cravath, H. H. Flagler, and Paderewski Among Pall Bearers". New York Times. May 17, 1917. Retrieved 2015-05-31.