| |
| | Joseph Joachim Raff - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | JOSEPH JOACHIM RAFF (1822-1882), German composer and orchestral conductor, was born near Zurich, Switzerland, on the 27th of May 1822, and educated chiefly at Schwyz. |
 | | Here, under the care of the Jesuit fathers, he soon became an excellent classical and mathematical scholar, but received scarcely any instruction in his favourite art of music, in which, nevertheless, he made extraordinary progress through sheer force of natural genius, developed by persevering study which no external obstacles could induce him to discontinue. |
 | | This page was last modified 16:25, 15 Sep 2006. |
| www.1911encyclopedia.org /Joseph_Joachim_Raff (509 words) |
|