Arthur Oscar Bergh American composer, conductor and accompanist Date of Birth: 24.03.1882 Country: USA

Biography of Arthur Oscar Berg

Arthur Oscar Berg was an American composer, conductor, and accompanist. He was born on March 24, 1882, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Berg was a talented musician who played the piano, violin, and organ.

From 1903 to 1908, he worked as a violinist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In 1914, Berg became the conductor of the orchestra at Central Park in New York. He later joined Emerson Records as a manager in 1916, after previously working with Columbia Records. Some sources claim that he worked at Emerson Records from 1915 to 1922, and then moved to Columbia Records from 1922 to 1930.

In the last few decades of his life, Arthur Berg worked as a librarian in Hollywood film companies. He passed away on February 11, 1962, in Los Angeles, at the age of 79. Berg's wife, Geraldyne Brewer (1901-1998), was a wealthy heiress who was well-known in social and charitable circles in Los Angeles during the 1950s. After Berg's death, Geraldyne remarried on December 3, 1965, to McIntyre Faries, a judge of the Los Angeles Supreme Court. Geraldyne passed away in 1998 and was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.

Throughout his career, Berg composed several operas and operettas, including adaptations of Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." He also wrote a series of romances based on the poems of Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Additionally, Berg's works included a symphonic choral piece called "The Unnamed City," a romantic opera titled "Niorada," an orchestral march called "Honor and Glory," two operettas, "In Arcady" and "The Goblin Fair," a choral composition titled "O Captain, My Captain," a cycle called "The Congo," and 80 other pieces for violin and piano.