Stock/Chicago - Goldmark: Overture “Au Printemps“

Frederick Stock 1872, Jülich, Germany -- 1942, Chicago Friedrich August Stock began studying the violin with his father, a bandmaster in the German army. In 1886, at the age of 14, he won a scholarship to the Cologne Conservatory, where he studied violin with G. Japha, theory and composition with Engelbert Humperdinck, Franz Wüllner, and Gustav Jensen (the famous conductor Willem Mengelberg was among his classmates). Upon his graduation, Stock joined the Cologne Municipal Orchestra as a violinst and playe