Victor Herbert Victor Herbert had always felt music in his blood. He knew he was to be a musician from an early age. Even his grandfather, Samuel Lover, was a musician of sorts. He wrote songs and for part of his life was a traveling performer. When Victor was three his father died. When his mother remarried shortly after, Victor’s mother took a great interest in her son’s musical future. She enrolled him …showed first 75 words of 1507 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1507 total…to whom he had belonged, gathered there along with musicians from nearly every orchestra in the city. Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stikes gave the eulogy. “We shall never be able to think of Victor Herbert without thinking of melody. He is not dead. His work lives and is permanent and eternal.”(Purdy) These words have proved true. Even today in 1999, the name of Victor Herbert is still upheld and respected by musicians and actors alike.