Abbott, Richard

According to his statement here, Richard G. Abbott was born in Heidelberg, Germany on 22 October 1881 of an English father and German mother. He studied piano from an early age, studied chemistry at the university at Leipzig, studied music at Berlin, and later went to Munich to study organ, he was imprisoned when war broke out in 1914, and composed during his four years of imprisonment. He took over his father's business (Emery Mines) in Smyrna after the war, and began composing again in 1930.

From the description of Correspondence to Marian Anderson, 1930-1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905305