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Welsman, Frank
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Dates of existence
1873-1952
History
Frank (Squire) Welsman was a Canadian conductor, teacher, and pianist. Born in Toronto, Ontario on December 20, 1873, he studied violin and piano at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, at the Leipzig Conservatory (1894-1897), and with Arnold Mendelssohn in Germany. In 1906, he joined the faculty of the Toronto Conservatory, and in 1908, he founded the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 1918, he left the Toronto Conservatory to teach at the Canadian Academy of Music before the amalgamation of the two institutions in 1922. He retired in 1951 and died in Muskoka, Ontario on July 2, 1952.