Music Of The Great Composers --

Engelbert Humperdinck Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces, September 1, 1854. In 1872 he entered the Cologne Conservatory under Ferdinand Hiller. In 1876 he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Munich, where he studied with Lachner and later with Rheinberger. He won the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) of Berlin in 1879, and went to Italy, and became acquainted with Wagner in Naples. Wagner invited him to go to Bayreuth, and during 1880..