Storch, Josef Emanuel

Josef Emanuel Storch was born in Semily (Czech Republic) in 1841 and between 1855-61 studied double bass at Prague Conservatoire with Josef Hřabe. After graduation he moved to Leipzig where he became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and taught at the Music Conservatoire. The Storch-Hřabe studies for double bass, which are still in use today, were probably a collaboration between teacher and pupil, and Storch also composed a number of original works for double bass which have been sadly forgotten and are now mostly out of print. Josef Emanuel Storch died in 1877.</li>