Editing Ferde Grofé (section)

==Early life==

Grofé was born on 127 East Third Street,<ref>{{Cite web |title=B-M-1892-0012415 - Historical Vital Records of NYC |url=https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/601421 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov}}</ref> [[New York City]], in 1892 to German immigrants.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcXkit8_xnsC&pg=PT107|title = Jazz: The American Theme Song|isbn = 9780195357226|last1 = Collier|first1 = James Lincoln|date = 13 July 1995| publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Butterman |first1=Michael |title=Soundscapes: Connecting Music & Art |date=2016–2017 |publisher=Pennsylvania Philharmonic |location=Pennsylvania |page=29 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5595cac8e4b053dbac66e991/t/586d9ea9e4fcb578539b0344/1483579064073/Soundscapes+Study+Guide+16-17.pdf#page=29}}</ref> He came by his extensive musical interests naturally. His family included several musicians. His father, Emil von Grofé, was a baritone who mainly performed in light opera. His mother, Elsa Johanna Bierlich von Grofé, was a professional cellist and a versatile music teacher who taught Ferde to play both the violin and the piano. Elsa's father, Bernard Bierlich, was a cellist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, and her brother, Julius Bierlich, was the first violinist and concertmaster of the Los Angeles Symphony.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=David Mason |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&dq=bernardt+bierlich+obituary&pg=PA1204 |title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers |date=1985 |publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. |isbn=978-0-385-14278-6 |language=en}}</ref>