Article on the formation of a new Musical Mutual Protective Union

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5 January 2026

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02 Apr 1866

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Participants:  Musical Mutual Protective Union (1863-186x?)

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Article: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 02 April 1866, 170.

     Non-members and former members of the Musical Protective Union united recently to form a second Protective Union. 60 musicians came to the meeting, although the members of two orchestras could not attend. H. Appy lead the meeting and Mr. Monk was the secretary. A committee was formed to establish the bylaws. It was decided that an announcement to all musicians will be made to join the new Union. There are supposed to be 200 musicians that are not members of the other Protective Union. Most of them are musicians of the orchestras at Wallacks, Niblo’s, Winter Garden, Olympic, New and Old Bowery Theater and the New York Circus.

     Gentlemen who plan to join the new union are Louis Schreiber, brothers Mollenhauer, Robert Stoepel, Dodworth and many other respected musicians who do not agree with the constrictions of the other union.