Charles Grobe

Charles Grobe
Bornc. 1817
Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
DiedOctober 20, 1879(1879-10-20) (aged 61–62)
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US
OccupationComposer

Charles Grobe (c. 1817 – October 20, 1879) was an American composer who wrote nearly two thousand works,[1][2] including many piano variations on popular melodies. According to The Grove Dictionary of American Music, he was the most prolific 19th-century composer of battle pieces in the United States, who wrote music for the American Civil War and Mexican–American War.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Baker was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Olson, Anthony (November–December 2018). "Revisiting Long-lost Gems: American Folktunes in Nineteenth-century Piano Music". Clavier Companion. Vol. 10, no. 6. Retrieved February 7, 2023 – via EBSCOHost.
  3. ^ Clark, J. Bunker; Camus, Raoul F. (2013). The Grove Dictionary of American Music. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 378–379.