The Dossenbachs, a poor German immigrant family, came to the city of Rochester in 1872. The four Dossenbach brothers were involved in all things musical, founding what would later become the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and establishing the music school that became the world-famous Eastman School of Music. The story of the Dossenbachs is the story of the glorious city of Rochester in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.