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Short Name: Joseph Ascher
Full Name: Ascher, Joseph, 1829-1869
Birth Year: 1829
Death Year: 1869

Joseph Ascher, born in London in 1831, died there, June 3, 1869. Pianist, pupil of Moscheles, whom he followed to the Conservatorium at Leipsic. He went to Paris in 1849 and became court pianist to the Empress Eugénie. His best known compositions are two mazurkas, la perle du Nord and Dozia, and an étude, Les gouttes d'eau; besides these, he wrote over a hundred gallops, nocturnes, mazurkas, transcriptions, and études. His song, Alice, where art thou is still a favourite at concerts.

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)


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