Grobe, Charles, German-American pianist, teacher, and composer; b. probably in Saxe-Weimar, c. 1817;d. Stroudsburg, Pa., Oct. 20, 1879. He emigrated to the U.S. about 1839. From 1840 to 1861 he was head of the music dept. at Wesleyan Female Coll. in Wilmington, Del. After running his own Musical and Educational Agency there (1862-70), he taught at Pennington (N.J.) Seminary and Female Collegiate Inst. (1870-74) and at Centenary Collegiate Inst. in Hackettstown, N.J. (1874-79). He publ. a New Method for the Pianoforte (1859) and Concordia: A Collection of Vocal Music (1861), both for female seminaries. He also contributed articles to many American music journals. Grobe was a prolific composer of piano music, producing a grand total of 1,998 opus numbers.