Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848.

He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U. S. Steel.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room consisting of half the ground floor which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family.

Carnegie was a consistent borrower and a " self-made man " in both his economic development and his intellectual and cultural development.

In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.

Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.

He was invited to many important social functions — functions that Carnegie exploited to his own advantage.

In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2, 000 tons of pig metal per day.

In 1901, Carnegie was 66 years of age and considering retirement.

Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.

It was said that "... Carnegie never wanted to see or touch these bonds that represented the fruition of his business career.

The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.

Carnegie was also known to be a great journalist.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.

Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

According to Carnegie, PSU was honored for " excellent alignment of mission, culture, leadership, resources, and practices that support dynamic and noteworthy community engagement.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

With the fortune he made from business among others he built Carnegie Hall, later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie gave most of his money to establish many libraries, schools, and universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, as well as a pension fund for former employees.

Carnegie sold it in 1901 for $ 480 million to J. P. Morgan, who created U. S. Steel.

In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.

Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.

In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.

Reinvesting his returns in such inside investments in railroad-related industries: ( iron, bridges, and rails ), Carnegie slowly accumulated capital, the basis for his later success.

Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

The investment proved a great success and a source of profit for Woodruff and Carnegie.

The young Carnegie continued to work for the Pennsylvania's Tom Scott, and introduced several improvements in the service.

Carnegie believed in using his fortune for others and doing more than making money.

Carnegie, through Keystone, supplied the steel for and owned shares in the landmark Eads Bridge project across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri ( completed 1874 ).

Carnegie erected commodious swimming-baths for the people of his hometown in Dunfermline in 1879.

In the following year, Carnegie gave $ 40, 000 for the establishment of a free library in Dunfermline.

In 1898, Carnegie tried to arrange for independence for the Philippines.

In Scotland, he gave $ 10 million in 1901 to establish the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.

Between 1886 and 1917, Carnegie reformed both library philanthropy and library design, encouraging a closer correspondence between the two.

These collections deal primarily with Carnegie philanthropy and have very little personal material related to Carnegie.

In the 20th century American philanthropy matured, with the development of very large private foundations created by titans of industry — Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, et al .— and later in the century with the professionalization of the field led and funded by those great foundations.

Rockefeller's interest in philanthropy on a large scale began in 1889, influenced by Andrew Carnegie's published essay, The Gospel of Wealth, which prompted him to write a letter to Carnegie praising him as an example to other rich men.

The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America after the Carnegie Corporation, the foundation's impact on philanthropy in general has been profound.

He has also been compared to Andrew Carnegie by Barabara Ford, president of the American Library Association, in honor of his philanthropy, implying that its influence on the world's libraries rivals that of the Carnegie family on the United States '.

" Wealth ", more commonly known as " The Gospel of Wealth ", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

Many of these captains of industry, in addition to building the still fledgeling American economy, participated in immense acts of philanthropy ( referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the " Gospel of Wealth ") and used private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities.

Peabody is the acknowledged father of modern philanthropy, having established the practice later followed by Johns Hopkins, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Bill Gates.

The wealth of the period is highlighted by American upper class opulence, but also by the rise of American philanthropy ( referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the " Gospel of Wealth ") that used private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities.