Krug, Arnold

1849-

Talented composer and conductor; born at Hamburg. After receiving some musical instruction from his father, he studied with Gurlitt and in 1868 entered the Leipsic Conservatory, where in .1869 he won the Mozart foundation scholarship and began study with Reinecke and Kiel. In 1871 he went to E. Frank in Berlin for piano. In 1872 he became a teacher in Stern's Conservatory at Berlin, remaining there five years. On winning the Meyerbeer scholarship he went to France and Italy for study during 1877 and 1878. On his return he settled in Hamburg, where he organized a Gesangverein, and in 1885 he became a teacher at the local Hamburg Conservatory and conductor of the Altona Singakademie. He has composed many interesting pieces of music, among them Romanesque Dances for orchestra; Italianische Reiseskizzen for orchestra of strings; prologue to Othello; a suite; a violin concerto; a symphony; and several large choral works, including Herr Oluf, Sigurd, Am die Hoffnung and Nomadenzug.