BURIAL OF B. R. NENTWIG.
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Sixty Musicians Led the Way to the Cemetery -- Services at St. Patrick's.
The funeral of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died Sunday morning at St. Joseph hospital, was held this morning from St. Patrick's church, where Mr. Nentwig had been organist for nearly twenty years. A boy's choir and several priests sang the requiem mass, assisted by the choir and organ music. The services lasted more than an hour. There were many floral offerings, among them one from the Musician's Protective union No. 34, of which Mr. Nentwig was a member.
There were twenty carriages in the funeral procession, which was led by a band composed of sixty members of the Musicians' union. Burial was at St. Peter's and St. Paul's cemetery, Twenty-seventh street and Broadway.
Mr. Nentwig was formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, the grand opera singer.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Tue., 22 Aug 1905, pg. 2
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HE NEVER SAW HER AGAIN
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AFTER THE PARTING NENTWIG RARELY TALKED OF ALICE NIELSEN.
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The Musician Coached the Singer Before and After the Marriage, but Would Not Go to Hear Her After She Won Fame.
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Friends of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died yesterday morning, formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, say that his careful instruction had much to do with the singer's success in music. Nentwig was a thorough musician. Not only was he a master of the organ, but he played nearly all string instruments, and he understood the theory of music through harmony far better than the average man in his profession. He first me Alice Nielsen in St. Patrick's church, where he was organist and she was a singer. She was hardly 17 years of age. He was accomplished and was able to sympathize with her in her ambition for a career on the stage.
Nentwig and Alice Nielsen studied together daily before their marriage. People who knew them thought their marriage would be a happy one. Nentwig was impulsive, Alice Nielsen hardly less so, and frequently, even before they were husband and wife, they quarreled, their friends say. When they were married, Nentwig and his bride went to live in a little house on Fifteenth street, near Cherry. Their baby, a boy, was born there. They lived together not much more that two years. Their life was unhappy. The wife found that with the cares of a mother and household she could not devote so much time to music and study. Nentwig complained and the wife became impatient; and finally they parted. The wife went with her mother to California where the boy, a big fellow now, still lives with his grandmother.
Alice Nielsen made her first appearance as a singer, outside a choir, in "The Chanticleer," a comic opera, written and composed in Kansas City, and presented for the first time at the Coates Opera house. This was after her marriage. Nentwig helped her in every way to prepare for the important night and never rested until she was "letter perfect" and ready to take her part with anyone in the company. She scored a hit, it was said, but the opera died that night. It never was produced again. The work necessary to carry it to its first production tried the temper of Nentwig and his wife and caused a quarrel. It is said that he never afterward could be induced to talk about the opera. He hated it. Nentwig and Alice Nielsen were together in the choir of St. John's church on Independance avenue before they went to St. Patrick's.
The married life of Nentwig and Alice Nielsen, their angry parting and the divorce are never discussed by Nentwig's relatives. His mother was opposed to the marriage at the time, and she remained always unfriendly to the young wife. When Alice became famous as a grand opera singer and returned to Kansas City for an engagement the Nentwig family would not go to hear her sing. Her former husband paid no attention to her. To his friends he said, "That is a closed chapter. I helped her, and she left me. I shall never see her again." He never did. Every effort on the part of friends to bring about a reconciliation failed. Father James Phelan of St. John's, who had known both for years, tried again and again to reunite the parted husband and wife, but without avail.
Mr. Nentwig's funeral will be under the auspices of Musicians' Protective union No. 34, the members of which will meet at St. Patrick's church, Eighth and Cherry streets, at 8:45 o'clock to-morrow morning. The funeral was to have been held at the Redemptorist church, but was changed. Burial will be at Mount St. Mary's.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Mon., 21 Aug 1905, pg. 2
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Sixty Musicians Led the Way to the Cemetery -- Services at St. Patrick's.
The funeral of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died Sunday morning at St. Joseph hospital, was held this morning from St. Patrick's church, where Mr. Nentwig had been organist for nearly twenty years. A boy's choir and several priests sang the requiem mass, assisted by the choir and organ music. The services lasted more than an hour. There were many floral offerings, among them one from the Musician's Protective union No. 34, of which Mr. Nentwig was a member.
There were twenty carriages in the funeral procession, which was led by a band composed of sixty members of the Musicians' union. Burial was at St. Peter's and St. Paul's cemetery, Twenty-seventh street and Broadway.
Mr. Nentwig was formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, the grand opera singer.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Tue., 22 Aug 1905, pg. 2
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HE NEVER SAW HER AGAIN
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AFTER THE PARTING NENTWIG RARELY TALKED OF ALICE NIELSEN.
----------
The Musician Coached the Singer Before and After the Marriage, but Would Not Go to Hear Her After She Won Fame.
----------
Friends of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died yesterday morning, formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, say that his careful instruction had much to do with the singer's success in music. Nentwig was a thorough musician. Not only was he a master of the organ, but he played nearly all string instruments, and he understood the theory of music through harmony far better than the average man in his profession. He first me Alice Nielsen in St. Patrick's church, where he was organist and she was a singer. She was hardly 17 years of age. He was accomplished and was able to sympathize with her in her ambition for a career on the stage.
Nentwig and Alice Nielsen studied together daily before their marriage. People who knew them thought their marriage would be a happy one. Nentwig was impulsive, Alice Nielsen hardly less so, and frequently, even before they were husband and wife, they quarreled, their friends say. When they were married, Nentwig and his bride went to live in a little house on Fifteenth street, near Cherry. Their baby, a boy, was born there. They lived together not much more that two years. Their life was unhappy. The wife found that with the cares of a mother and household she could not devote so much time to music and study. Nentwig complained and the wife became impatient; and finally they parted. The wife went with her mother to California where the boy, a big fellow now, still lives with his grandmother.
Alice Nielsen made her first appearance as a singer, outside a choir, in "The Chanticleer," a comic opera, written and composed in Kansas City, and presented for the first time at the Coates Opera house. This was after her marriage. Nentwig helped her in every way to prepare for the important night and never rested until she was "letter perfect" and ready to take her part with anyone in the company. She scored a hit, it was said, but the opera died that night. It never was produced again. The work necessary to carry it to its first production tried the temper of Nentwig and his wife and caused a quarrel. It is said that he never afterward could be induced to talk about the opera. He hated it. Nentwig and Alice Nielsen were together in the choir of St. John's church on Independance avenue before they went to St. Patrick's.
The married life of Nentwig and Alice Nielsen, their angry parting and the divorce are never discussed by Nentwig's relatives. His mother was opposed to the marriage at the time, and she remained always unfriendly to the young wife. When Alice became famous as a grand opera singer and returned to Kansas City for an engagement the Nentwig family would not go to hear her sing. Her former husband paid no attention to her. To his friends he said, "That is a closed chapter. I helped her, and she left me. I shall never see her again." He never did. Every effort on the part of friends to bring about a reconciliation failed. Father James Phelan of St. John's, who had known both for years, tried again and again to reunite the parted husband and wife, but without avail.
Mr. Nentwig's funeral will be under the auspices of Musicians' Protective union No. 34, the members of which will meet at St. Patrick's church, Eighth and Cherry streets, at 8:45 o'clock to-morrow morning. The funeral was to have been held at the Redemptorist church, but was changed. Burial will be at Mount St. Mary's.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Mon., 21 Aug 1905, pg. 2
BURIAL OF B. R. NENTWIG.
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Sixty Musicians Led the Way to the Cemetery -- Services at St. Patrick's.
The funeral of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died Sunday morning at St. Joseph hospital, was held this morning from St. Patrick's church, where Mr. Nentwig had been organist for nearly twenty years. A boy's choir and several priests sang the requiem mass, assisted by the choir and organ music. The services lasted more than an hour. There were many floral offerings, among them one from the Musician's Protective union No. 34, of which Mr. Nentwig was a member.
There were twenty carriages in the funeral procession, which was led by a band composed of sixty members of the Musicians' union. Burial was at St. Peter's and St. Paul's cemetery, Twenty-seventh street and Broadway.
Mr. Nentwig was formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, the grand opera singer.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Tue., 22 Aug 1905, pg. 2
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HE NEVER SAW HER AGAIN
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AFTER THE PARTING NENTWIG RARELY TALKED OF ALICE NIELSEN.
----------
The Musician Coached the Singer Before and After the Marriage, but Would Not Go to Hear Her After She Won Fame.
----------
Friends of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died yesterday morning, formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, say that his careful instruction had much to do with the singer's success in music. Nentwig was a thorough musician. Not only was he a master of the organ, but he played nearly all string instruments, and he understood the theory of music through harmony far better than the average man in his profession. He first me Alice Nielsen in St. Patrick's church, where he was organist and she was a singer. She was hardly 17 years of age. He was accomplished and was able to sympathize with her in her ambition for a career on the stage.
Nentwig and Alice Nielsen studied together daily before their marriage. People who knew them thought their marriage would be a happy one. Nentwig was impulsive, Alice Nielsen hardly less so, and frequently, even before they were husband and wife, they quarreled, their friends say. When they were married, Nentwig and his bride went to live in a little house on Fifteenth street, near Cherry. Their baby, a boy, was born there. They lived together not much more that two years. Their life was unhappy. The wife found that with the cares of a mother and household she could not devote so much time to music and study. Nentwig complained and the wife became impatient; and finally they parted. The wife went with her mother to California where the boy, a big fellow now, still lives with his grandmother.
Alice Nielsen made her first appearance as a singer, outside a choir, in "The Chanticleer," a comic opera, written and composed in Kansas City, and presented for the first time at the Coates Opera house. This was after her marriage. Nentwig helped her in every way to prepare for the important night and never rested until she was "letter perfect" and ready to take her part with anyone in the company. She scored a hit, it was said, but the opera died that night. It never was produced again. The work necessary to carry it to its first production tried the temper of Nentwig and his wife and caused a quarrel. It is said that he never afterward could be induced to talk about the opera. He hated it. Nentwig and Alice Nielsen were together in the choir of St. John's church on Independance avenue before they went to St. Patrick's.
The married life of Nentwig and Alice Nielsen, their angry parting and the divorce are never discussed by Nentwig's relatives. His mother was opposed to the marriage at the time, and she remained always unfriendly to the young wife. When Alice became famous as a grand opera singer and returned to Kansas City for an engagement the Nentwig family would not go to hear her sing. Her former husband paid no attention to her. To his friends he said, "That is a closed chapter. I helped her, and she left me. I shall never see her again." He never did. Every effort on the part of friends to bring about a reconciliation failed. Father James Phelan of St. John's, who had known both for years, tried again and again to reunite the parted husband and wife, but without avail.
Mr. Nentwig's funeral will be under the auspices of Musicians' Protective union No. 34, the members of which will meet at St. Patrick's church, Eighth and Cherry streets, at 8:45 o'clock to-morrow morning. The funeral was to have been held at the Redemptorist church, but was changed. Burial will be at Mount St. Mary's.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Mon., 21 Aug 1905, pg. 2
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Sixty Musicians Led the Way to the Cemetery -- Services at St. Patrick's.
The funeral of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died Sunday morning at St. Joseph hospital, was held this morning from St. Patrick's church, where Mr. Nentwig had been organist for nearly twenty years. A boy's choir and several priests sang the requiem mass, assisted by the choir and organ music. The services lasted more than an hour. There were many floral offerings, among them one from the Musician's Protective union No. 34, of which Mr. Nentwig was a member.
There were twenty carriages in the funeral procession, which was led by a band composed of sixty members of the Musicians' union. Burial was at St. Peter's and St. Paul's cemetery, Twenty-seventh street and Broadway.
Mr. Nentwig was formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, the grand opera singer.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Tue., 22 Aug 1905, pg. 2
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HE NEVER SAW HER AGAIN
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AFTER THE PARTING NENTWIG RARELY TALKED OF ALICE NIELSEN.
----------
The Musician Coached the Singer Before and After the Marriage, but Would Not Go to Hear Her After She Won Fame.
----------
Friends of Benjamin R. Nentwig, who died yesterday morning, formerly the husband of Alice Nielsen, say that his careful instruction had much to do with the singer's success in music. Nentwig was a thorough musician. Not only was he a master of the organ, but he played nearly all string instruments, and he understood the theory of music through harmony far better than the average man in his profession. He first me Alice Nielsen in St. Patrick's church, where he was organist and she was a singer. She was hardly 17 years of age. He was accomplished and was able to sympathize with her in her ambition for a career on the stage.
Nentwig and Alice Nielsen studied together daily before their marriage. People who knew them thought their marriage would be a happy one. Nentwig was impulsive, Alice Nielsen hardly less so, and frequently, even before they were husband and wife, they quarreled, their friends say. When they were married, Nentwig and his bride went to live in a little house on Fifteenth street, near Cherry. Their baby, a boy, was born there. They lived together not much more that two years. Their life was unhappy. The wife found that with the cares of a mother and household she could not devote so much time to music and study. Nentwig complained and the wife became impatient; and finally they parted. The wife went with her mother to California where the boy, a big fellow now, still lives with his grandmother.
Alice Nielsen made her first appearance as a singer, outside a choir, in "The Chanticleer," a comic opera, written and composed in Kansas City, and presented for the first time at the Coates Opera house. This was after her marriage. Nentwig helped her in every way to prepare for the important night and never rested until she was "letter perfect" and ready to take her part with anyone in the company. She scored a hit, it was said, but the opera died that night. It never was produced again. The work necessary to carry it to its first production tried the temper of Nentwig and his wife and caused a quarrel. It is said that he never afterward could be induced to talk about the opera. He hated it. Nentwig and Alice Nielsen were together in the choir of St. John's church on Independance avenue before they went to St. Patrick's.
The married life of Nentwig and Alice Nielsen, their angry parting and the divorce are never discussed by Nentwig's relatives. His mother was opposed to the marriage at the time, and she remained always unfriendly to the young wife. When Alice became famous as a grand opera singer and returned to Kansas City for an engagement the Nentwig family would not go to hear her sing. Her former husband paid no attention to her. To his friends he said, "That is a closed chapter. I helped her, and she left me. I shall never see her again." He never did. Every effort on the part of friends to bring about a reconciliation failed. Father James Phelan of St. John's, who had known both for years, tried again and again to reunite the parted husband and wife, but without avail.
Mr. Nentwig's funeral will be under the auspices of Musicians' Protective union No. 34, the members of which will meet at St. Patrick's church, Eighth and Cherry streets, at 8:45 o'clock to-morrow morning. The funeral was to have been held at the Redemptorist church, but was changed. Burial will be at Mount St. Mary's.
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), Mon., 21 Aug 1905, pg. 2
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