![Simon Knaebel]() | Simon Knaebel (1812 - 1880)  États-Unis(b Baden, 1812; d Ossining, NY, c1880). American composer, arranger, horn player, violinist, cellist, and pianist of German origin. He immigrated to the United States in the mid-1830s and took up residence in Boston, where he became well known as an arranger for Ned Kendall’s Boston Brass Band. The noted African-American composer Justin Holland studied with Knaebel in the late 1830s. After a brief trip to Germany in ... |
