New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-15
OBITUARY.
PROFESSOR sIGIsMUND LAsAR.

PROFESSOR SIG1SMUND LASAR
Professor Siglsmund Lasar. for twenty years III
s,ructor OF music at Packer institute III biooN'S H.
died at $40 o'clock yesterday morning III HIS @pai =
ments in the Hotel St George. The fuhera' WIN
he ha,d at the hotel tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock and Will be private. Mr.. Lazar Is survive"
bv a widow. who was his second wife. and by TWO
daughters OF his first rrage-Mrs. George =
studweu OF Brooklyn. and Mrs stevens. wiie OF
Judge Stephen D. Stevens Of w-Brighton, staten
Island.
He was we'll known in musical circles as an IN
structor and composer OF ability ana ne 'ooA
rark with the foremost In patriotism and good
citizenship He taken III al W aIpoie' ~ H.
where he was spending last summer. on aep'sH-
her z 1894 with kidney trouble. and his health had
been broken since then. The fatal change came
about a week ago. and for several days before MS
death he unconscious.
Professor I.asar was born in Hamburg. Germany
on Angus. IS 1872. At the OF twelve ne had
shown such proficiency in music as to warrant his
appointment as organist and precentor In the ham
burg Grammar School He studied the organ
pianororts and harmony under Dedrick Gottiried.
He came TO America when seventeen years DID,
and secured clerkship in the music store OF
Philip A. Mayer. in Albany. He subsequently
taught classes IN Schenectady and Amsterdam. and
became the musical instructor in the Kingston
Academy. Then he for year or TWO musical
instructor in the Napanock Female seminary, after
which he came 10 NewYork, In 1915. He was
chormaster and organist in the following churches
Moravian Church Of the Divine Unity. Hammond
Congregational. Plymouth in Brooklyn. Mercer
Stree; Presbyterian, Fourteenth Street Presby-
terrain North Presbyterian. Madison Avenue Bap-
list Fifth Avenue Presbyterian. Brick Presby-
terrain, Baptist Tabernacle and Central Congrega-
tionai. Removing to Brooklyn in 1872 he became
organist and chormaster for different periods IN
the Westminster Presbyterian Church. strong
Place Baptist, Christ Protestant Episcopal 81.
Luke's Protestant Episcopal and Emmanuel Prot
estant Episcopal.
He taught music in the Institution FOR the Blind.
Rutgers Female Institute. the Gardner and the
Ferris Institutes Miss Haness and Mrs. Mears :
young ladies' schools. In New-Io rk, the Nassau
and Holcomb Institutes and the brooklyn Heights
Seminary under DR.. G. +. West, In Brooklyn. In
1915 he became professor OF music in the Packer
Collegiate Institute. in Joralemon-st. holding the
place continuously nearly twenty years He taught
at Packer many Of the best English anthems. The
was instituted by him. He believed in teaching
even children good hymns, canticles and anthems.
Mr.. Lasar enthusiastic admirer OF Richard
Wagner, and was one of the three musicians fore
in bringing about under Theodore Thomas
the first Wagner ve-ein in New-York.
Politically Mr.. Lasar pronounced anil
slavery advocate. He introduced a OF mild
anti-slavery resolutions in the Young Mems Chris
tian Association in NeWYork in 1855, and saw
them defeated He was elected a director OF the
American Anu-Slavery Society and OF the Under
ground Railroad Company He was the first 10
sing the Battle Hymn OF the Republic at a
Cooper Union mass-ineeting. list OF his compo-
sitions includes The Caecllia, The Hymnary %
Hyrnnary." The Evangelical Hymnal." English
Anthems" The Chapel Hymnal" The Polymnia -
''rhe Ancient Canticles," THE Choral Hymnni 81.
Part Songs for Packer Institute" Nos. /. ? and 3