The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Brandeis, Frederick

BRANDEIS, brăn'dīs, Frederick, American organist: b. Vienna, Austria, 1835; d. New York 1899. At Vienna he studied under Fischof, Czerny and Rufinatscha. He toured America in 1849 as a member of the Wallace Opera Company. In 1851 he settled in New York, and between 1865-98 filled positions as organist at the Catholic churches of Saint John the Evangelist and Saint James, and the 44th Street Synagogue and the church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Brooklyn. He wrote a prelude to ‘Maria Stuart’; ‘The Sunken Cloister’; a suite for string orchestra, and numerous other pieces, instrumental and vocal. He is best remembered for his song, ‘My Love is Like the Red, Red Rose.’