Born: De­cem­ber 22, 1819, Eil­en­burg, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: March 31, 1885, Wies­ba­den, Ger­ma­ny.

Buried: Süd­fried­hof, Wies­ba­den, Ger­ma­ny.

Abt at­tend­ed the Thom­as­schule and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig. He con­duct­ed in Zur­ich, Switz­er­land, and in Bruns­wick. In 1872, he trav­eled to Amer­i­ca for a suc­cess­ful per­form­ing tour. He wrote over 3,000 works dur­ing his life.

Sources

Music

  1. Abt
  2. The Light of Bethlehem
  3. Willingham