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Aloys fleischmann biography of abraham graham: Aloys Fleischmann´s Music in Ireland was
The Fleischmann Choir of the Cork School of Music is so named in order to help perpetuate the memory of one of the most remarkable men to have given service to music in Ireland during the 20th century. Aloys Fleischmann was born in Munich to Irish-based German parents. His father, "Herr" Aloys G. Fleischmann became organist and choirmaster in the Cathedral of St.
Mary and St. Anne North Cathedral in His mother, Frau Tilly Fleischmann, whose father, Hans Conrad Swertz, had held the same post since , was also a musician: a highly-esteemed pianist and teacher. During that time he pursued his conviction that if music was to have a chance of flourishing in Ireland, it could only do so through the work of a body of well-trained teachers.
His courses were always designed to produce musically well-rounded graduates, capable of turning their hand to a diverse range of skills, from conducting and accompanying to scoring and composition, with a sound overview of music history and a good knowledge of those two cornerstones of practice that are a sine qua non for anyone who aspires to the accolade of "musician", namely harmony and counterpoint.
In , the year he was awarded his BMus, he founded the University Art Society, which continued until Having completed his MA in , he departed for a period of study in Munich.