Born: November 23, 1897 - Antwerp, Belgium
Died: June 12, 1980 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA |
The Belgian-American conductor and music publisher; Henri Elkan, studied at the Antwerp and Amsterdam conservatories.
After finishing his studies, Henri Elkan emigrated to the USA in 1920; subsequently conducted performances of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company from 1928 to 1936. In 1926 he founded the Henri Elkan Music Publishing Company in Philadelphia; in 1928 he was joined by Adolphe Vogel, a cellist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the company became the Elkan-Vogel Music Publishing Company; the pannership was dissolved in 1952, and in 1956 Elkan formed a publishing firm once again under his own name. |