Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
Who can tell me anything about either: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939), both were musicians and composers, and I would very much like to know more about them, where they lived and if anyone knows where I can find their music, either written copies or performed?
Thanks! Anna Wolterbeek
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
I did a search on Otto Pfefferkorn to find out some info on a piece of sheet music I have and came up with this message you posted. What I have is fairly worn, but is readable. The copyright date is 1895. I can send you a picture of it if you'd like. If you are interested in this, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you,
Debbie Kalis Katy, Texas, USA
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
dear debbie
I am SO pleased that you answered this message, and am sending on your information to Richard Jorden, as he is the one interested in Pfefferkorn. I am sure he will get in touch with you soon!! Thankyou soo much!
Anna W.
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
Sorry to be so slow in responding. Otto Pfefferkorn was my great grandmother's half brother. I would be interested in his music. I would be glad to send you my info on him but it might be easier to send it directly to you. I recently completed a genealogy and got quite a bit on Otto, and a branch of the Pfefferkorns in Saxony going back to about 1600. RJ
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
Hi Debbie, I'm Otto's great grandson Carl. I don't have much informatio on Otto but I was wondering where I might get a copy of that sheet music you were describing. Many thanks, Carl Foden
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
Dear Anna,
Today I was Googling Pfefferkorns, came across the Pfefferkorn Family Page website and was pleasantly surprised to find your post asking about Otto and Ferdinand. I hope you are still alive and interested.
Otto was my grandfather and Ferdinand was his dad. I have quite a rich history of Otto and a lot of his music. Also, I have a pretty good track of his genealogy and some details on his father, who interestly, was good friends with the German writer, Karl May. My sister and I may collaborate on formalizing all this to see if we can trace our lineage back to the Pfefferkorn that helped save his land from the Turks and because of his warrior skills was awarded a Pfefferkorn Coat of Arms by a king of the Holy Roman Empire.
Otto grew up where his dad settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts, played music all over the world and was living in Chicago IL when he was persuaded by Dr. Van Hoose, who had heard Otto play a concert in Atlanta, Georgia around 1900 to help him develop a great Conservatory of Music for young ladies in the South. Otto was not impressed with the name of Van Hoose's school. "The Georgia Baptist Female Academy and Conservatory of Music" and discussed some kind of name change on more than one occasion. Since Dr. Van Hoose often referred to southern girls as "pure gold" whose only need might be some additional refinements -- which Van Hoose wanted his "Academy" to provide, Otto suggested creating a name to reflect this thinking, and offered the name "Brenau" with the "bren" coming from a German or older word meaning burned or refined, and the "au" being the chemical symbol for gold. This name was adopted and Otto moved to Gainesville GA in 1902 to work at Brenau College and Brenau Conservatory of Music, where he held the position of Dean of the Conservatory of Music for 37 years until his death in 1939.
In 1907 Otto was chosen as the concert pianist to perform as the Jamestown (VA) Exposition (300th Anniversary of its Founding). At this exposition, he played extensive and varied programs for three weeks and came to know President Theodore Roosevelt and writer-philosopher-lecturer Elbert Hubbard. During his life he also got to personally know the likes of Mark Twain, Fritz Kreisler, Paderewski, Marshall Field and P.T. Barnum (he played for Barnum's funeral at the request of the family.)
During his life, Otto was quite the renaissance man who in his spare time, loved to play chess and argue the law with Clarance Darrow from his porch at home on Sunday afternoons. Rumor has it that Otto got tired of losed law debates and earned a law degree so he would have a better chance of successfully arguing with the renowned Clarance Darrow.
Otto was married twice, his last to Josephine Elizabeth Kennedy (from Virginia) whose descendants came over on the Mayflower (I have this genealogy.) Otto had one child by his first brief marriage, and four by his second and final one. I can give you all this detail later if you like, except to say that Otto's two oldest boys by his last marriage, Robert (my dad) and Lawrence settled in Winston-Salem, NC; their sister, Delphine resided Alexandria, VA with her husband David Farragut, and younger brother, Stanley ended up in Clayton GA.
Let me know your specific interests and I'll be delighted to share what I have with you. A question I have -- "Why the interest in my grandfather and great grandfather?
Sincerely...Jim Pfefferkorn (Columbia, SC)
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
Dear Jim, Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808-1891) (I have it as Carl Ludwig Ferdinand) was my Great-great-great-grandfather. I have done some research on the family to include visiting Ernsthal-Hohenstein and looking at church records there, and have some data going back nine generations before the above ancestor. I would be interested in anything you might have on the family in Germany and in Hungary, where I am told they originated. Thanks, Granville Knox Newington, NH gsk@his.com
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
Dear Granville,
Thanks for your reply. I would love to have all the genealogy you have that ties directly back from my great grandfather (your great-great)Ferdinand C L Pfefferkorn.
This Friday, 2 March, I will be getting all my family records back from my sister who wanted this data with the idea that we can collaborate in building our Pfefferkorn Family Tree. I'll have this and be able to send you all I have as early as next weekend, which I will be glad to do.
The other day I heard from another "new relative" from Harrisville NH, a Richard Jordan whose great grandmother was Eleanore Augusta Pfefferkorn, the 8th child of Ferdinand C L Pfefferkorn and Christiane Wilhelmina Ezold. Richard has this relative traced back to a Veit Pfefferkorn traced back in Germany to Veit Pfefferkorn who died 11 Sept 1600. He had been married to Anna Mehlhorn for 43 years. He had hired a researcher in Germany to get the church records, which took about 4 years, and Richard considers the genealogy quite complete considering the lack of, and destruction of records.
I will be interested to compare your records with what I get from Richard as soon as I have both. Whatever's the easiest and best way to get what you have to me, I would greatly appreciate -- email, or snail mail is fine by me. My mailing address is Jim Pfefferkorn, 208 Beacon Lane, Columbia SC 29229 and my home phone number is 803-865-7987.
How neat that you've been over to Ernsthal-Hohenstein. I hope for me and my wife to make that trip one day. Did you happen to run across the Pfefferkorn Coat of Arms awarded to a Pfefferkorn by a king of the Holy Roman Empire? Again, I've got the details on this at my sisters and give provide to you as soon as I recover these documents and can get in front of a computer.
Again thanks for making the connection and I look forward to a good exchange of information as we collaborate to build the Pfefferkorn genealogy.
Warm regards...Jim Pfefferkorn Columbia SC
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
The Libray of Congress has a copy of Otto's music and I believe you can get a copy offline, not sure but, you can contact them about it. My aunt had a copy when I was little and it popped up in 2007 when I statred researching the Pfefferkorn clan.
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Re: Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Pfefferkorn (1808- 1891, Ernsthal Konigreich Sachsen) and/or Otto William Gotthold Pfefferkorn (1863 - 1939)
Here's the pic of Otto's music I have stored. It in the Library of Congress.
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