![]() ![]() After a bitter argument, Junior left home and moved to Europe, eventually settling in Switzerland, where he pursued a dual artistic career as composer and watercolorist. The sad father-son relationship is documented painfully in the final entries of the elder Strong’s diaries. ![]() Moreover, Junior rebelled against his father’s ultra-conservative tastes in music: Strong Senior detested the music of Liszt and Wagner, whereas Junior, who became a composer, modeled his works on those very composers. His father was not very happy about that. The younger Strong became a fine oboist who played in various New York orchestras of his day. ![]() That George Templeton Strong was a lawyer and music lover who lived from 1820-1875, whose diary entries offer a detailed picture of daily life in New York City.īut there’s another member of the family we’d like to tell you about – the son of the famous diarist, George Templeton Strong, Junior, born in New York in 1856, and died in Geneva, Switzerland on today’s date in 1948. The name “George Templeton Strong” crops up frequently in both the Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War and Ric Burns’ history of New York City. ![]()
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