Ernest G. Eberhard

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1839|05|30}}

| birth_place = Kingdom of Hanover

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1910|01|16|1839|05|30}}[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C1EF6395F13738DDDA10994D9405B838DF1D3 New York Times obituary, January 18, 1913, Dr. Ernst G. Eberhard]

| death_place = New York City

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| occupation = College president, author, journalist, publisher , music teacher, organist, composer, conductor

| language = English

| nationality = German

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| education = educated in Europe

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| spouse = Caroline Louise Bogert

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| children = *Mrs. Edward Lansing

• Mrs. Howard Hyde
• Beatrice Eberhard
  
• Ernest G. Eberhard.

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Ernest G. Eberhard (May 30, 1839 - January 16, 1910) was a German immigrant who founded the Grand Conservatory of New York City, of which he was president for about 40 years.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F11F93C5B10738DDDAC0A94DD405B8484F0D3 The New York Times, May 25, 1884][https://archive.org/stream/grovesdictionary00grovrich#page/226/mode/2up Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1920, page 227] He was also an organist, conductor of choral societies and orchestras, author of musical instruction books[https://archive.org/stream/grovesdictionary00grovrich#page/22/mode/2up Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1920, page 24] and a publisher.[http://imslp.org/wiki/Nocturne_No.3,_Op.173_(Maylath,_Henry) One of the works he published.]

Eberhard founded the Grand Conservatory in 1874, with some help from the New York State Legislature. At a graduation ceremony, Theodore Roosevelt (then a state congressman), admitted to being involved in the legislation which allowed the conservatory to offer a Musical Doctor degree. Ernst Eberhard was the first to receive the doctorate.