Louis Koemmenich

Louis Koemmenich (October 4, 1866 – August 14, 1922) was an American composer and conductor who died by suicide in 1922.

Koemmenich conducting Verdi's Requiem at the Polo Grounds, New York City, on 4 June 1916. The soloists are (from left to right) Giovanni Zenatello, Louise Homer, Maria Gay, and Léon Rothier.

Koemmenich also conducted an open-air performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem at the Polo Grounds, New York City, on 4 June 1916. Maria Gay, her partner Giovanni Zenatello and Leon Rothier. Rehearsals had been going on for a month, but he seems not to have actually conducted during the performance.

In June 1917 two hundred members of the Oratorio Society held a protest meeting in Carnegie Hall because he had not been re-elected as conductor, a position he had held for five years.