Introduction
Born: June 3, 1851, New York City.
Died: October 13, 1934, Dresden, Germany.
Cremated: Ashes were returned to Leipzig, Germany at his request to be with his wife’s.
Born: June 3, 1851, New York City.
Died: October 13, 1934, Dresden, Germany.
Cremated: Ashes were returned to Leipzig, Germany at his request to be with his wife’s.
Around 1865, Baker was an organist in Concord, Maine.
He lived in Germany 1874–90, where he studied music, receiving his PhD degree at the University of Leipzig. His doctoral dissertation was on the music of the Seneca Indians.
Later he was a literary editor for the G. Schirmer Music Company (1892–1926) and wrote the Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900).
He returned to Germany in 1926.