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A. H. Behrend

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Arthur Henry Behrend (2 October 1853 – 1935) was a Polish-born composer. He is remembered for his setting of Tennyson’s poem “Crossing the Bar”. History Behrend was born in Danzig, a grandson of Michael William Balfe, composer of the opera The Bohemian Girl. He was best known in his lifetime for the 1885 song Daddy (lyrics by Mary Mark-Lemon), which made a fortune for him, despite disposing of his copyright while it was still popular. A long-standing member of the Savage Club, he died in London. List of compositions ;Popular * “The Beautiful Land of Nod” * “Bonjour, ma belle” * “The Gift” * “Hearts that Love” (Frederic Weatherly) * “The Silver Chord” * “Think of Me” (Mary Mark-Lemon) * “When Everything Is Young” ;Art songs * “All’s Right” (Robert Browning) * “The Child Musician” (Austin Dobson) * “Clear and Cool” (Charles Kingsley) * “Crossing the Bar” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) * “Stay, Stay at Home” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) * “The Rainy Day” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) * “The Song of the Shirt” (Thomas Hood) * “A Widow Bird” (in Through the Year. A Cantata for Ladies’ Voices) (Percy Bysshe Shelley) Notes References

Abbie Gerrish-Jones

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Abbie Jane Gerrish-Jones (September 10, 1863 – February 5, 1929) was an American composer, librettist and music writer. Early life and education Abbie Gerrish was born in Vallejo, California, and grew up in Sacramento, the daughter of Samuel Howard Gerrish and Sarah Jane Rogers Gerrish. Both of her parents were born in New England; her father kept weather records for Sacramento. She began playing piano and composing at an early age and studied with Charles Winter. Career Gerrish-Jones composed nine operas. She also wrote over 100 songs. Her opera Priscilla is considered the first complete opera with both libretto and score composed by an American woman. One of her compositions won the Josef Hoffmann prize for “best American piano work”. Her songs for children were used in California public schools. Several concerts were given in California which featured Gerrish-Jones’s music exclusively, including “The Evening of Song” in Sacramento in 1906, and another in San Francisco in 1913. “They are the expression of a melodic gift which is often of great charm,” wrote critic Redfern Mason about Gerrish-Jones’ compositions in 1914, “supplemented by a keen sensibility to exotic influences and

Abbie Norton Jamison

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Abbie Norton Jamison (May 18, 1869 – August 8, 1955) was an American pianist, composer and clubwoman, based in Los Angeles. She was first vice-president of the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1915, president of the California Music Teachers Association, and president of the California Federation of Music Clubs. Early life and education Abbie (or Abby) Bennett Norton was born in Cooper, Michigan. She trained as a pianist, singer, and composer in the United States. Her composition teachers included Frederick Stevenson and Rudolf Friml. Career Music Jamison taught piano, voice, music theory, and musicianship in Los Angeles, and wrote music for songs, with titles including “The Rose and the Moth,” “Little Pigeon Lullaby”, “Mammy’s Lullaby” (1904, words by Maria Howard Weeden), “The First Blue Bird”, “The Rose and the Moth”, “Awakening”, “My Prayer” (set to a poem by Rabindranath Tagore), “When Love is Done”, “Thy Little One”, “Fate”, “Spirit of the Desert”, “Desert Love Song”, “Our Flag”, “Show Me the Way”, and “California is Calling to You”. She was involved with the Federal Music Project, a New Deal program, in Los Angeles. She hosted informal musical events with fellow compose

Abe Holzmann

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Abraham Holzmann (19 August 1874 – 16 January 1939) was an American composer, famous for his march “Blaze Away!”. Life and career Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City on 19 August 1874. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant and Isabella Holzmann, a native of Louisiana. The young Holzmann learned music in Germany. A review originally published by the New York Herald on Sunday, 13 January 1901, entitled German Composer who Writes American Cakewalk Music describes " h is knowledge of bass and counterpoint is thorough, and his standard compositions bear the stamp of harmonic lore, which makes his proclivity for the writing of the popular style of music the more remarkable." Abe married Isabelle Fishblatt around 1908, and he became the manager of the Orchestra Department at Jerome Remick & Company, music publisher in New York. He was an early member (1923) of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He earned his livelihood as composer/arranger for Tin Pan Alley publishers, including Leo Feist. He later was advertising manager for the American Federation of Musicians publication, International Musician. He was a member of Freemason

Abundio Martínez

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Abundio Martínez (February 8, 1875 – April 26, 1914) was a Mexican musician and composer. He was born on February 8, 1875, in Huichapan. His father was a carpenter and band director. He taught Abundio carpentry skills and various instruments such as trumpet, violin and drum. The whole family, seeking a better life, relocated to Mexico City. Abundio liked to listen to a band directed by Sappers Miguel Rios Toledano rehearsing on Corregidora Street. He joined a band, playing the clarinet, and became the composer of many popular pieces. However, he remained poor. Abundio became a victim of tuberculosis on April 26, 1914, in Mexico City. Compositions * “Arpa de Oro” – waltz * “En es Espacio” - waltz * “≥s” – waltz * “Morir de Amor” – danza * “Noche apacible” – waltz * “Para que sepas lo que es amar” – danza * “Sonrisas de Angel” – waltz * “Te amo, te adoro” – waltz * “Consuelo” - Schottisch. Dedicado a la srita. Consuelo C. Cadena. References

Achille Fortier

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Achille Fortier (23 October 1864 – 19 August 1939) was a Canadian composer and music educator. His compositional output includes a modest amount of choral and chamber works, several songs and motets, and a small amount of symphonic music. A considerable portion of his compositions are religious in nature. Much of his work remains unpublished and some of his music is now lost as it was destroyed by a fire. The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec holds more than 30 of his original scores in its collection. Life Born in Saint-Clet, Canada East, Fortier received his initial musical training at the Petit Séminaire de Saint-Thérèse just outside Montreal where he was a pupil of Father Sauvé. He then pursued further studies with Guillaume Couture and Dominique Ducharme in Montreal. In 1885 Fortier went to France where he studied for the next five years. Among his teachers there were André Gedalge and Ernest Guiraud (music composition). In 1889 he attended the Conservatoire de Paris, the first Canadian to be admitted as a regular student. In 1890 Fortier returned to Canada to join the teaching staff at the Institut Nazareth in Montreal where he was an instructor for classes in cou

Achille Philip

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Paul Camille Casimir Achille Philip (12 October 1878 - 12 November 1959) was a French organist, composer, conductor and pedagogue. A prolific performer, he occupied numerous posts as titular organist at various important churches throughout France, and taught at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Philip also co-founded the Quatuor français along with his first wife, Marthe Legrand. Biography Born in Arles, Provence on 12 October 1878, Philip entered the Conservatory of Marseille at the age of nine. There, he won first prizes for solfeggio in 1894, piano in 1896, and harmony in 1898. In October 1898, he entered the Conservatory of Paris to study organ with Alexandre Guilmant and composition with Charles Lenepveu. Philip won first prize in counterpoint and fugue in 1904. From 1904 to 1913 Philip served as organist of the choir organ at La Madeleine in Paris. From 1904 to 1950 he was professor of organ and harmony at the Schola Cantorum. Philip also held the position of titular organist at the following churches: *Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas (1913-1928); * Saint-Léon (1928-1949); * Saint-François-Xavier (1941-1946, from thereon succeeded by Gaston Litaize); *Val-de-Grâce (1913-1950) At Val-d

Achille Simonetti

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Achille Simonetti (12 June 1857 – 19 November 1928) was a prominent Italian violinist and composer, mainly resident in England and Ireland. He was mainly known as a chamber musician and teacher. Life Born in Turin on 12 June 1857, Simonetti left his family in Bologna (this can be gleaned from his letter to Mr Hill (of Hills and Sons) written in 1922, ) and completed his studies under Francesco Bianchi, Eugenio Cavallini, Giuseppe Gamba, Charles Dancla (regarded as the last exponent of the classical French school of violin playing), and Camillo Sivori, the last pupil of Niccolo Paganini. Simonetti died aged 71 in London on 19 November 1928. Career Simonetti came to England in 1891, embarking on a career as chamber musician. He became part of the first London Trio, an endeavour which occupied him from 1901 to 1912, along with cellist William Whitehouse and pianist Amina Goodwin. From 1912 to 1919, he was a professor of violin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, ;Chamber music * Allegretto Romantico in D minor for viola and piano (published 1897) * Andante mélancolique for violin (or cello) and piano * Ballata in C minor for viola and piano (published 1897) * Berceuse for violin and

Ada Jordan Pray

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Adagerta “Ada” G. Jordan Pray (April 9, 1884 – August 25, 1961), B.L., was a composer, teacher and concert singer, the director of the Ada Jordan Pray Music School. Early life Adagerta “Ada” G. Jordan Pray was born on April 9, 1884, in Livermore, California. Swiss Echo Song, words and music, Wishing on a Star in the Valley of the Moon, words by Nell Griffith Wilson, sung by Connie Von Loben Sels, and “Schubertiana”: symphony movement in rondo form: to be used with unison chorus if desired. She was a lecturer on Appreciation of Music. For a woman of her time, she travelled extensively abroad. She was vice-president of the California Music Teachers’ Association. She was a member of the Durham Woman’s Club and the Butte County Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. In 1936 she was appointed to supervise the promotion of musical activities in her district in Butte County, California, where she was assigned the role to make sure all of these musical activities in the district were being directed and developed properly. Personal life Ada Jordan Pray moved to Oroville, California, in 1916. In 1915 she married Lee Walker Pray (1881–1958). In 1919 she moved to San Francisco an

Addie Anderson Wilson

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Addie Anderson Wilson (August 17, 1876 – October 8, 1966) was an American composer, organist and carillonist who was born in Lawrenceville, Alabama, and lived in Alabama for most of her life. She studied music with Mary Carr Moore and M. Wilson. She married William Sidney Wilson on November 9, 1892, and they had one son. Life and career Wilson was active in civic affairs and music organizations, winning awards and holding several elected positions, such as: *First Vice President, Alabama Federation of Music Clubs *President, Harmony Club of Dothan, Alabama *President, Music Study Club *Woman of the Year, Dothan, Alabama Works Wilson composed several operettas and piano pieces, which were initially published by George Willig & Co and Carl Fischer Music. She also composed: Piano *“Southern Breezes” Vocal *“Apple Blossoms” *“Evening Song” *“Faith” (text from Mark X:36–52) *“Goodnight, Mr. Moon” *“Hi, Mr. Sunshine” *“I Will Give You Rest” (a cappella chorus; text from Matthew XI:28–30) *“Lullaby” *“Under the Rose” (words by Richard Henry Stoddard) *“Whenever Skies are Gray” References

Adela Maddison

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Katharine Mary Adela Maddison, née Tindal (15 December 1862 (1811–76) On 4 October 1882 at Marylebone parish church, she married barrister and former footballer Frederick Brunning Maddison (1849–1907); the ceremony was repeated on 14 April 1883 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, where her status as a minor was correctly recorded. Maddison and her husband were prominent figures in the London music scene starting around 1890, alongside patrons such as Mabel Batten and Frank Schuster. From around 1894, Maddison and her husband played a major part in encouraging and facilitating Gabriel Fauré’s entry onto the London musical scene. was a success. She continued to compose opera and songs, and to produce concerts, into the 1920s. From the early 1920s, Martha Mundt lived in Geneva, having joined the secretariat of the International Labour Organization (ILO) as an information officer on the strength of the recommendation of leading German socialist Eduard Bernstein to the ILO director, Albert Thomas. Mundt became the ILO’s officer dealing with employment issues for women and children, and the ILO’s liaison with feminist organisations. She represented the ILO at a number of internatio

Adele Laeis Baldwin

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Adele Laeis Baldwin (1864 – 1927) was an American composer, contralto singer, and voice and speech teacher at the Institute of Musical Art. Early life and education Laeis was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Felix Laeis and Theresa Laeis. Her father was a veteran of the American Civil War, born in Holland; her mother was born in Belgium. She studied voice with Achille Errani, Francesco Lamperti, and Anna de la Grange. Career Baldwin, a contralto, performed with the New York Oratorio Society under Walter Damrosch, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Frank Damrosch’s Musical Art Society choir. and sang at private musicales. “Her spirit and methods are at home in oratorio, and the larger arias were delivered by her with infinite sympathy and taste,” noted on 1897 review. “Her diction deserves commendation, being unusually clear, impressive and refined.” Baldwin taught vocal technique in New York City, at her own studio in Carnegie Hall, and at the private Finch School. She was on the faculty of the Institute of Musical Art, precursor to the Juilliard School. She was an authorized teacher of the Yersin method of French elocution, devised by Marie and Jeanne Yersin. She was pr

Adelina de Lara

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Adelina de Lara OBE (23 January 1872 – 25 November 1961) was a British classical pianist and composer. Early life She was born Lottie Adelina Preston in Carlisle, Cumberland on 23 January 1872 to parents George Matthew Tilbury (aka Preston) of Southampton and Anna de Lara. Her grandfather was David Laurent de Lara, a Dutch-born illuminator, who, according to Adelina de Lara, was the son of the Spanish Count Laurent de Lara. Her mother was the sister-in-law of Sir Landon Ronald. She was given the performing name of Adelina de Lara after a visit to a music shop with her father, to secure her first engagement. The music shop proprietor considered the name Adelina Preston far too ‘English’ to perform under and thus suggested her mother’s maiden name as a suitable replacement. She first appeared in public at the age of six, and gave recitals throughout the UK until the age of twelve. Career She was educated at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt under Iwan Knorr, and studied piano with Fanny Davies and Clara Schumann, whose work she championed for most of her life. She was close friends with Johannes Brahms through her studies. As an adult, Adelina de Lara performed in public for the fir

Adeline Frances Fitz

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Adeline Frances “Fanny” Slade Fitz (July 12, 1861 – March 7, 1938) was an American composer and clubwoman, based in Boston. She was state president of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and also held national office in the organization. Early life and education Slade was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the daughter of David Slade and Elizabeth Wilson Whitaker Slade. Her father was a spice importer; her mother was born in England. She was a student at Carolyn Johnson’s School for Girls in Boston. She also studied voice with Mrs. L. P. Morrill. Career Fitz was Massachusetts state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and held national offices in the organization as well. She was also a founding member of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and the Society of Colonial Dames. Compositions Slade wrote music and songs for school and community use, including children’s songs, patriotic songs, and hymns. * “The Sweetest Flower that Blows” (lyrics by Frederick Peterson) * “The Dandelion and the Daisy” * “The Siren of Old” * “Alouette” * “Sailing Away to Slumberland” (lyrics by Grace Lawrence) * “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” (lyrics by F

Adolf Schulz-Evler

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Adolf Andrey Schulz-Evler (12 December 185215 May 1905) was a Polish-born composer. Born in Radom, Poland (at that time part of the Russian Empire), he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory, then under Carl Tausig in Berlin. From 1884 to 1904 he taught at the Kharkiv Music School. He wrote about 52 original pieces. His piano transcription of Johann Strauss II’s Blue Danube Waltz: Arabesques on “An der schönen blauen Donau” has been recorded by many pianists, including Jorge Bolet, Jan Smeterlin, Marc-André Hamelin, Zlata Chochieva, Earl Wild, Leonard Pennario, Piers Lane, Byron Janis, Isador Goodman, Benjamin Grosvenor and Josef Lhévinne. His list of works includes: * Op 2: Invitation a la Valse (Jurgenson) * Op 4: Variations in G major (Jurgenson) * Op 5: Melodie (Jurgenson) * Op 6: Nocturne in F major (Jurgenson) * Op 8: Revelation I in B major (Jurgenson) * Op 9: Revelation II in E major (Jurgenson) * Op 10: Revelation III in F major (Jurgenson) * Op 11: Serenade (Jurgenson) * Op 12: “Arabesques” Variations on the Blue Danube Waltz Strauss (Jurgenson) * Op 14: Rhapsodie Russe for Piano & Orchestra (Jurgenson) * Op 17: Etude pour les octaves (Jurgenson) * Fantaisie (Johansen) * Melo

Adolphe Biarent

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Adolphe Biarent (16 October 1871 – 4 February 1916) was a Belgian composer, conductor, cellist and music teacher. Biarent studied at the conservatories of Brussels and of Ghent, and was a pupil of Émile Mathieu. He won a Belgian Prix de Rome with his cantata Oedipe à Colone in 1901, after which he remained near his home in Charleroi, composing, conducting and teaching (or more accurately, engaging in pedagogy, for example the writing of manuals as well). He was the teacher of Fernand Quinet. Although still little known now, Biarent composed music that successfully combines “the structural solidity” of César Franck and Vincent d’Indy with “something of the orchestral brilliance and clarity” of Emmanuel Chabrier. Selected works *Orchestral works **Trenmor, after Ossian (1905) **Rapsodie wallonne (für Klavier und Orchester) (1910) **Deux sonnets pour violoncelle et orchestre – d`après José-Maria de Hérédia (1909-1912) ***I Le réveil d’un dieu ***II Floridum Mare *Chamber music **Piano Quintet in B minor **Cello Sonata in F minor *Vocal **Song Cycle Huit mélodies pour mezzo-soprano ***I Lied ***II Désir de mort ***III Le chant de ma mère ***IV Il passa ***V Chanson ***VI La lune blanch

Adolphe Marty

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Adolphe Alexandre Silvain Marty (29 September 1865 – 28 October 1942) was a French organist, improviser, composer and music educator who was blind for most of his life. Early life and education Born in Albi in the Tarn department in the south of France, Marty became blind at the age of two and a half years. He entered the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris in 1874 and worked the organ with Louis Lebel (1831–1888). From 1884 to 1886 he studied music composition with Ernest Guiraud and pipe organ with César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning the first prize for organ in 1886, the first blind person to do so. Career In 1888 Marty succeeded Louis Lebel as organ teacher at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, where he taught until 1930. His students included Louis Vierne, Augustin Barié, Paul Allix, André Marchal, Jean Langlais and Gaston Litaize. Léonce de Saint-Martin also worked with him privately. Marty served as organist of Saint-Paul d’Orléans church from 1887 to 1888. In 1891 he succeed Albert Renaud as organist of Saint-François-Xavier church in Paris, a position he held until 1941. He was closely linked to the organ builder Puget, inaugurating a num

Agnes Clune Quinlan

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Agnes Clune Quinlan (20 September 187321 May 1949) was an Irish composer, lecturer and pianist who wrote Gaelic-influenced music for piano and voice and recorded commercially as a pianist. She moved to America and died in Philadelphia. Quinlan was born in Limerick, Ireland. She studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where her teachers included Henry Davenport, Frederick Eyres, and Arthur O’Leary. She was awarded medals by the Royal Academy of Music and by the Society of Arts, both in London. Quinlan traveled to New York in 1895 and in 1900 was living at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus in Delaware, Pennsylvania. In addition to composing, she was listed as a speaker with The Lecture Guild in New York City. She gave lecture recitals on various musical topics, including weekly talks on Philadelphia Orchestra programs during its winter season, and a lecture on ancient music and musical instruments of Ireland. With Katherine Bregy, she gave a lecture recital on modern French music and poetry. She wrote at least one article for The Etude entitled The Music of Ireland. As a pianist, Quinlan made several trial recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA

Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck

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Ella Overbeck, pseudonym Baroness Ella Overbeck or Overbach, also Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck, Elizabeth von Overbe(c)k, or Baroness Jo Overbeck (nicknamed Jimmy) (10 October 1870 – 12 November 1919) was an Anglo-Russian composer and pianist. Life and career Born in Russia, Overbeck was brought to England as a young child by her parents, both Russians. Following their deaths, she was adopted by an English woman, and educated at the Royal College of Music. She was piano accompanist to Clara Butt and students of Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García in London. In the 1890s she made friends with Edith Craig (1869-1947) and her brother Edward, son and daughter of leading British actress Ellen Terry, and wrote the stage music for Edward’s adaptation of Alfred de Musset’s On ne badine pas avec l’amour (as No Trifling with Love), which was performed in Uxbridge in 1894. Overbeck’s music was praised by the Musical Times; other early works, such as a violin sonata and various songs, were also positively reviewed by the musical press. A survey of women composers active in 1896 described Overbeck, though a ‘baby’ song-writer by comparison with the older Cecile Chaminade and Guy d’Hardelot, as possess

Aladar Rado

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Aladár Radó (26 December 1882, in Budapest – 7 September 1914, in Boljevci near Belgrade) was a Hungarian composer of classical music. Life and work Aladar Rado first studied under Hans Koessler (composition) at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music since 1904 with fellow students like Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly. He later continued his compositional studies under Leo Weiner. He was awarded the Hungarian State fellowship, the Franz-Liszt-fellowship of Budapest, a Bayreuth fellowship, and the Franz-Joseph-fellowship which allowed him to move to Berlin. There he continued to compose and also worked for the theatres of Max Reinhardt. In 1914 Aladar Rado was the designated principal conductor of the Reinhard Theatres with a contract starting on 1 September. But in July 1914 the World War I broke out and Aladar Rado enlisted for military service and was sent as a reserve officer to the front line in Serbia. There he was killed in action only a few weeks later. Compositions * Frühlingslied, for violin and piano (1906) * Suite for orchestra (1908) * String quartet * Symphony Petőfi (1909) * Symphonic poem for orchestra Falu végén kurta kocsma (1909) * Opera Der schwarze Kavalier (1910–11) on

Alan Rattray

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Alan MacKenzie Rattray was a lyricist, composer and arranger of music. Born in Concord, Sydney in 1878, Rattray was the son of pioneer capitalists George Allan and Catherine (Beames) Rattray. Rattray was a prolific lyricist and arranger, often collaborating with fellow Australian composers Edward Henry Tyrrell and Louis L. Howarde. Rattray is best known for the song “Boy in the Sailor Cap” which was the subject of a copyright claim He survived a shipwreck while on tour to India. Rattray was critical of Australian war time rationing, writing poetical polemics in the papers of the time. He died of pneumonic influenza at a temporary emergency hospital within the grounds of the Royal Agricultural Society in Moore Park, Sydney during the 1919 Spanish Flu pandemic. Works * Boy in the Sailor Cap * The Old Gum Tree performed most famously by Marie Eaton. * On the Briny * Jack Tar * 1908 Pansy Leaf * Somebody’s Sweetheart * My Black Canary * She’s somebody’s sweetheart still – words by Alan M. Rattray; the music by Alan M. Rattray & Clarence Vaughan * Oh! Angeline! – written by Alan M. Rattray; music by Clarence Vaughan * What would be a paradise to me – words by Alan M. Rattray; music by A

Albéric Magnard

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Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard (; 9 June 1865 – 3 September 1914) was a French composer, somewhat influenced by César Franck and Vincent d’Indy. Magnard became a national hero in 1914 when he refused to surrender his property to German invaders and died defending it. Biography Magnard was born in Paris, the son of , a bestselling author and editor of Le Figaro. Albéric could have chosen to live the comfortable life that his family’s wealth afforded him, but he disliked being called “fils du Figaro” and decided to make a career for himself in music, based entirely on his own talent and without any help from family connections. After military service and graduating from law school, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied counterpoint with Théodore Dubois and went to the classes of Jules Massenet. There he met Vincent d’Indy, with whom he studied fugue and orchestration for four years, writing his first two Symphonies under d’Indy’s tutelage. Magnard dedicated his Symphony No. 1 to d’Indy; and the two men always respected each other, despite their marked political differences (Magnard was pro-Dreyfus). Francis Magnard did what he could to support Albéric’s career wh

Albert Alain

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Albert Paul Alain (1 March 1880 – 15 October 1971 ) was a 20th-century French organist and composer. Biography Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Clarisse-Alphonsine Fouquet (born 1859) and Paul François Alain (born 1851), he entered in adulthood into the Conservatoire de Paris and obtained a first prize for harmony in 1904. He pursued counterpoint studies with Georges Caussade, fugue and music composition with Charles Lenepveu and Gabriel Fauré, at the same time as he worked on the organ with Guilmant and Louis Vierne. In 1924, succeeding Albert Renaud, he became organist of the church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a position he held until his death. Passionate about organ building, he built over the years (1911–1970) an instrument with 4 keyboards and 43 stops in his house. This organ is now installed in Romainmôtier, Switzerland. He married Magdeleine Alberty in 1910, and they became parents of four children with exceptional gifts: Jehan, Marie-Odile, Olivier and Marie-Claire. Alain family tree *Albert Alain **Jehan Alain (1911–1940), organist, composer and soldier **Marie-Odile Alain (1914–1937), organist **Olivier Alain (1918–1994), organist, pianist, musicologist and composer **Mar

Albert Bokhare Saunders

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Albert Bokhare Saunders (1880–1946) was a successful and prolific composer of romantic and light classical music. He worked as an arranger for Sydney music publisher W.H. Palings. He worked under various pseudonyms including Albert Earl and Albert Trelba but is most widely known as Clement Scott. Saunders was born in Brewarrina, rural New South Wales. He has been credited as composer of “Swiss Cradle Song”, possibly collected from the Māori folk song “Po Ata Rau” and given English language lyrics as “Now is the Hour”, sung by departing troops in The Great War and recalled by patriotic New Zealanders. During his life, he successfully sued a Sydney entertainment producer for breach of copyright, but his widow was unsuccessful making the same claim on Palings for the famous cradle song. The song was an international hit. On at least one occasion, Saunders acted as bandmaster for a group playing brass. Several solo piano editions of Saunder’s popular “Comet March” are preserved in Australian libraries. The original 1910 edition for trio of piano, cornet and violin seems to have been lost, yet the piece was still being orchestrated by amateurs twenty years later. Works Orchestrated work

Albert Fuchs

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Albert Fuchs (born 6 August 1858 in Basel; died 15 February 1910 in Dresden; full name: Leonhard Johann Heinrich Albert Fuchs) was a Swiss-German composer, conductor, music educator, and music critic, as well as a collector of historical musical instruments. Life and work Fuchs was the son of a master bookbinder born in 1806, working in Basel, whose father came from Mannheim, where he was a tobacco manufacturer. Fuchs’ mother was born in 1834. Albert Fuchs attended gymnasium in Basel. Even at this time, he received musical training, which he deepened from 1876 to 1879 in Leipzig at the Conservatorium of Music. His final polish was given by the music theorist Salomon Jadassohn and the composer and pianist Carl Reinecke, completing their training with distinction. Reinecke was at that time the director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Just three years later, he retired to Saxony. In Oberlößnitz outside the gates of the residence city Dresden, he acquired a vineyard for a few years (today known as Haus Steinbach), on which he “realized his compositional plans”. At the end of the 1880s, Fuchs acquired the Conservatory originally founded by Wilhelm Freudenberg and bankrupt under Ott

Albert Gumble

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Albert Gumble (September 10, 1883 – November 30, 1946) was an American composer, pianist, music arranger, and songwriter. After graduating from the Auditorium School of Music in Cincinnati, he lived and worked briefly in Chicago during the early years of the twentieth century before moving to New York City where he worked as a Tin Pan Alley composer of ragtime pieces and songs. As a songwriter he was particularly associated with dixie tunes. He also was a prolific music arranger and contributed music to several Broadway musicals. From 1938 until his death in 1946 he was a resident pianist at the Ansonia Hotel. Life and career Albert Gumble was born in North Vernon, Indiana, on September 10, 1883. He was the younger brother of pianist, songwriter, and publisher Moses Edwin Gumble. He was educated at the Auditorium School of Music (later known as the Ohio Conservatory of Music) in Cincinnati where he was a pupil of Clarence Adler After graduating, he moved to Chicago where he began composing in the early 1900s. He composed several more rags for the music publisher Jerome H. Remick, including the “Bolo Rag” (1908), “Minstrel Band Rag” (1909), “Georgia Rag” (1910), and “Red Fox Trot” (

Albert H. Oswald

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Albert Heckles Oswald (Hetton-le-Hole, 1879 – 1929) was an English composer and organist. Albert Oswald was born to Robert Oswald, a shoemaker, and his wife Jane Oswald (née Thompson). He composed many pieces for piano in light classical style, in the heyday of Edwardian Salon music. He was well known for his Wright Pianoforte Tutor. Selected works Tutors * The Wright Pianoforte Tutor * The Wright Edition, Albert H Oswald’s First Book of 36 Melodious Studies for the Pianoforte Other References External links * * “Albert H Oswald, Composer and Organist – Thornley”, Durham County Council

Albert Ketèlbey

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Albert William Ketèlbey (; born Ketelbey; 9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959) was an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music. He was born in Birmingham and moved to London in 1889 to study at Trinity College of Music. After a brilliant studentship he did not pursue the classical career predicted for him, becoming musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre before gaining fame as a composer of light music and as a conductor of his own works. For many years Ketèlbey worked for a series of music publishers, including Chappell & Co and the Columbia Graphophone Company, making arrangements for smaller orchestras, a period in which he learned to write fluent and popular music. He also found great success writing music for silent films until the advent of talking films in the late 1920s. The composer’s early works in conventional classical style were well received, but it was for his light orchestral pieces that he became best known. One of his earliest works in the genre, In a Monastery Garden (1915), sold over a million copies and brought him to widespread notice; his later musical depictions of exotic scenes caught the public imag

Albert Roussel

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Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism. Biography Born in Tourcoing, Roussel’s earliest interest was not in music but mathematics. He spent time in the French Navy, and in 1889 and 1890, he served on the crew of the frigate Iphigénie and spent several years in southern Vietnam. French composer and musicologist Yvonne Rokseth also studied with Roussel. His sixtieth birthday was marked by a series of three concerts of his works in Paris; the concerts also included the performance of a collection of piano pieces, Homage to Albert Roussel, written by several composers, including Ibert, Poulenc, and Honegger. One 21st-century critic, in the course of discussing the Third Symphony, wrote: The Albert Roussel Collection The association Les Amis belges d’Albert Roussel (The Belgian Friends of Albert Roussel) was founded in 1979 by André Peeters. In 1986 the association don

Albert Szirmai

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Albert Szirmai (sometimes credited as Albert Sirmay) (2 July 1880 –15 January 1967) was a Hungarian operetta composer and music editor. Szirmai was a graduate of the Budapest Academy of Music, studying piano and composition (with Hans Koessler). Szirmai received a doctorate in music from the University of Budapest, and was devoted to creating works for the stage. He wrote music for 12 one-act plays and over 300 songs for the Budapest theater Népszínház-Vígopera, at which he was musical director. When his first operetta, The Yellow Domino, met with success, he decided to continue in the genre; it is due to the works of Szirmai, Emmerich Kálmán, and Victor Jacobi, among others, that the Hungarian operetta gained recognition internationally at the beginning of the 20th century. Szirmai was born in Budapest. On September 3, 1923, he arrived in New York City aboard the and took a post as music director for Chappell Music (a publishing house now owned by Warner Music Group). He was music editor for such Broadway luminaries as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin, and for a collection of the British duo Gilbert and Sullivan. Szirmai made headlines in 1965, when he

Alberto Franchetti

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Alberto Franchetti (18 September 1860 – 4 August 1942) was an Italian composer and racing driver, best known for the 1902 opera Germania. Biography Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger, and finally in Dresden under Felix Draeseke. His first major success occurred in 1888 with his opera Asrael. His operatic style combined Wagnerianism and the traits of Meyerbeer with Italian verismo. During his life, critics sometimes referred to him as the “Meyerbeer of modern Italy.” The words of music critic G. B. Nappi sum up Franchetti’s primary talents: “His character is perhaps unsuitable for passionate dramas, but rather for those subjects, where the fantastic, romantic and epic are required in the symphonic texture and large choral pictures. In this regard Alberto Franchetti knows that he has no rival” (from “Orfeo” 6.3, 1915). Grove considers Cristoforo Colombo (1892) Franchetti’s best work. However, his most popular opera was Germania (1902; libretto by Luigi Illica). It clung to the general operatic repertoire until the First World War; it was performed worldwide,

Alberto Jonás

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Alberto Jonás (June 8, 1868 – November 10, 1943) was a Spanish pianist, composer, and piano pedagogue. Although not much is known about his life, as a pianist he was regarded as a virtuoso on the level of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal, Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, and Josef Lhévinne. He also ranked among the greatest and most sought-after keyboard pedagogues of the 1920s and ’30s. Life and early career (Madrid, 1868–1886) Born in Madrid to German parents Julius Jonas, a businessman, and Doris Sachse, his musical talents were recognized at an early age. King Alfonso XII of Spain received the young child in a private audience at the Royal Palace of Madrid in 1880 and Jonás was immediately hailed as a prodigy. He initially studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Manuel Mendizábal (1817–1896) in piano (Mendizábal had been Isaac Albéniz’s piano teacher) and Ciriaco Olave in organ, graduating at the age of 12, in 1880. For the next six years he travelled and lived in Belgium, England, Germany, and France studying business, in accordance to his parents’ desires for a career in finance, and also giving some public performances. At this time, Jonás started also to become

Alberto Nepomuceno

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Alberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864 – October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor. Career and music Nepomuceno was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará in Northeastern Brazil. His parents were Vitor Augusto Nepomuceno and Maria Virginia de Oliveira Paiva. He began to study music with his father, a violinist, organist, teacher and chapel-master at the Fortaleza Cathedral. In 1872, Nepomuceno and his family moved to Recife, also in Northeastern Brazil, where he initiated piano and violin studies. He went on to become an outspoken defender of Republican and Abolitionist causes in Brazil, and was active in campaigns that ultimately led to the overthrow of the Monarchy and the establishment of the First Brazilian Republic in 1889. At the age of eighteen, he became director of the Clube Carlos Gomes (Carlos Gomes Club) in Recife. In 1885, a series of songs in Portuguese by Nepomuceno was premiered at the Brazilian Musical National Institute. The concert was intended at defying those who thought Portuguese was inappropriate for the bel canto. As criticism poured, he embarked on a battle against newspapers and music critics. His struggle on behalf of nationalism in c

Alejandro Vega Matus

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Alejandro Vega Matus (August 17, 1873 – November 26, 1937) was a Nicaraguan composer. He founded his own orchestra in 1894, which grew to become one of Nicaragua’s most prominent groups. Matus was a prolific composer, particularly known for his waltzes. Biography Matus was born on August 17, 1873, in Masaya, Nicaragua. His father was Pablo Vega y Raudes, a composer. His family included many musicians, including the composer of “Salve a ti, Nicaragua”, the Nicaraguan national anthem. Matus studied music as a child with Don Carmen and later moved to Guatemala where Giovanni Aberle taught him at the Guatemalan Conservatory of Music. However, Grove Music Online describes him as “essentially self-taught”. He eventually returned to Nicaragua in 1894, founding and conducting an orchestra, Orquesta Vega Matus. Grove Music Online writes that the group grew to become the “unrivalled musical performance group of dance and semi-classical music in the nation.” He died on November 26, 1937, in Masaya. Matus was well known and respected during his lifetime, and was one of the first composers in the region seeing their music recorded and distributed. Matus composed numerous works, predominantly funer

Aleksander Läte

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Aleksander Läte (12 January 1860, in Pikasilla, Aakre Parish, Kreis Dorpat – 8 September 1948, in Tartu) was an Estonian composer, conductor and music critic. He is also known as the first Estonian professional music critic. In 1895, he started his education at Dresden Conservatory and graduated it in choir composition speciality. Since 1932, he led the piano factory Sprenk-Läte, located in Tartu. His brother was the piano master Eugen Sprenk-Läte (1871–1932), who ran the J. Moritz piano factory in Tartu, but was later a business manager. Founded his own piano workshop in Tartu in 1926, where he made pianos. Aleksander Läte continued his brother’s work after his death. Works * Five Cantatas * Kalevala (overture) (1901) * Eesti tants (for symphony orchestra, 1904) * Tempo di mazurka (for symphony orchestra, 1904) References

Aleksandr Sheremetev

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Count Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Sheremetev (11 March 1859 – 18 May 1931) was a Russian composer, conductor and entrepreneur. He founded his own private symphony orchestra in 1882, and from 1898 organized public concerts in Saint Petersburg that involved the orchestra and a choir he had inherited from his father, Dmitri Sheremetev. He also founded the Musical Historical Society in 1910, which gave free lecture recitals involving his orchestra and choir. Sheremetev conducted the Russian premiere of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal in a series of three concerts in 1906; his conducting on that occasion was described by the press as “primitive”. This was followed by Sheremetev conducting the opera’s first Russian staging on 21 December 1913 (according to the Russian Old Style calendar; 3 January 1914 according to the standard Western calendar), performed at the Hermitage Theatre before the Imperial Family, the diplomatic corps, representative members of the State Duma and senior government officials. After two further performances there, the production transferred to the Theatre of Musical Drama. On 10 June 1883 Sheremetev married Marie Heyden (born 1863 in Reval), daughter of Governor-General of

Alessandro Longo

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Alessandro Longo (31 December 1864 – 3 November 1945) was an Italian composer and musicologist. Early life Longo was born in Amantea. After studying at the Naples Conservatory under Beniamino Cesi (and composition under Paolo Serrao), he began teaching piano at his alma mater in 1887, deputizing for Cesi as pianoforte professor, and succeeded him in 1897. One of Longo’s earliest students was Franco Alfano. Career As a pianist, Longo often played in chamber ensemble with the Ferni Quartet, and with the Quartetto Napoletano (with Cantani, Parmiciano, Scarano and Viterbini). He founded various musical institutions in Naples, and gained a high reputation as a concert pianist. In 1914 he began editing the review L’Arte Pianistica. He became Director of the Naples Conservatory in 1944, and died in Naples the following year, aged 80. Legacy Today, Longo is mainly remembered for compiling an almost comprehensive catalogue of the keyboard works of Domenico Scarlatti. For many years, Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas were conventionally identified by their Longo numbers, but these were later superseded by those found in Ralph Kirkpatrick’s catalogue. Longo’s Catalogue originated in his landmark f

Alessandro Parisotti

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Alessandro Parisotti (24 July 1853 – 4 April 1913) was an Italian composer and music editor. Life and career Though also a composer, Alessandro Parisotti is better known today as the original editor of a collection of songs known as Arie antiche (Arie antiche: ad una voce per canto e pianoforte, Milan, 1885–1888). The original collection comprises three volumes of songs or arias published as a primer to study classical singing, but the three volumes have since been reduced to single-volumed extracts known as the 24 Italian Songs and Arias. The original Arie Antiche are still available through Ricordi, Schirmer, and Kalmus. Parisotti collected these antique arias (arie antiche is the Italian) in what was the 19th century vogue for discovering forgotten old or antique music from the classical and baroque eras. The most famous example of this practice of reclaiming forgotten music is Mendelssohn’s revival of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Berlin (1829). The taste for rediscovered music was de rigueur among musicians and audiences of the nineteenth century, with composers lesser than Mendelssohn and Brahms participating as well. Parisotti found forgotten scores and arranged their arias

Alex Lithgow

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Alexander Frame Lithgow (1 December 1870 in Glasgow – 12 July 1929 in Launceston, Tasmania) was a Scottish-born, New Zealand and Australian based composer and bandleader known as the “Sousa of the Antipodes”. Biography Known as Alec to his family, Lithgow was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1870. His family emigrated to Invercargill, New Zealand in 1876, where he attended Invercargill Grammar School and Presbyterian First Church of Invercargill. His family was musical, performing as the six-member Lithgow Concert Company around Southland. As a child, Lithgow learnt violin and cornet, initially being taught cornet by his father. In 1881, Lithgow joined the local brass band, the Invercargill Garrison Band. By 1886 he had advanced to be the band’s solo and principal cornetist. However, despite often being stated, he never was this band’s conductor. Lithgow began composing for brass band from a young age. His first composition to be published was the march Wairoa in 1887, named after a ship the band played on at the Invercargill estuary. In the following years, he played first violin with the Theatre Royal Orchestra and won national solo cornet titles. In 1893, aged 23, he toured New Zea

Alexander Glazunov

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Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued as head of the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. Glazunov successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music. While he was the direct successor to Balakirev’s nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin’s epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences. These included Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral virtuosity, Tchaikovsky’s lyricism and Taneyev’s contrapuntal skill. Younger composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich eventually considered his music old-fashioned, while also admitting he remained a composer with an imposing reputation, and a stabilizing influence in a time of transition and turmoil. Biography Prodigy Glazunov was born in Saint Petersburg, the son of a wealthy publisher. His father

Alexander Goedicke

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Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke (; 4 March 18779 July 1957) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Early life Alexander Goedicke was born in Moscow on 4 March 1877. He was Nikolai Medtner’s first cousin. Alexander’s father Fyodor Goedicke, a minor composer and pianist, was Medtner’s mother’s brother and his first teacher. Career Goedicke was a professor at Moscow Conservatory. With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. He received advice on music theory from Julius Conus, Nikolai Mikhailovich Ladukhin and Anton Arensky. He was also influenced by Sergei Taneyev. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900. Despite his lack of traditional guidance, his compositional efforts were rewarded when he won the Rubinstein Prize for Composition at the young age of 23. Goedicke died at the age of 80 in Moscow on 9 July 1957. Selected works ;Opera * Virineya (Виринея) (1913–1915); libretto by the composer * At the Crossing (У перевоза) (1933); libretto by the composer * Jacquerie (Жакерия) (1933–1937); libretto by the composer * Macbeth (Макбет) (1944); libretto by the composer after William Sh

Alexander Gretchaninov

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Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (; 25 October 1864 – 3 January 1956) was a Russian Romantic composer. Life Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late, because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm. Gretchaninov himself related that he did not see a piano until he was 14 and began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1881 against his father’s wishes and without his knowledge. His main teachers there were Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. In the late 1880s, after a quarrel with Arensky, he moved to St. Petersburg where he studied composition and orchestration with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov until 1893. Rimsky-Korsakov immediately recognized Gretchaninov’s extraordinary musical imagination and talent and gave him much extra time as well as considerable financial help. This allowed the young man, whose parents were not supporting him, to survive. Out of this came an important friendship, which only ended in 1908 with Rimsky’s death. As such, it is not surprising that Rimsky’s influence can be heard in Gretchaninov’s early works, such as his String Quartet No. 1, a prize-winning composition. Around 1896, Gretchaninov returned to Mosc

Alexander Ilyinsky

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Alexander Alexandrovich Ilyinsky (; 24 January 185923 February 1920) was a Russian music teacher and composer, best known for the Lullaby (Berceuse), Op. 13, No. 7, from his orchestral suite “Noure and Anitra”, and for the opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray set to Pushkin’s poem of the same name. Life Alexander Ilyinsky was born in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia, in 1859. His father was a physician in the Alexander Cadet Corps. His general education was in the First Cadet Corps at St Petersburg, and he served in the Artillery from 1877 to 1879. His music studies were in Berlin, under Theodor Kullak and Natanael Betcher He returned to Russia in 1885, graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory, His major work, the 4-act opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, to a libretto based on Alexander Pushkin’s poem, was produced in Moscow in 1911. He also wrote a symphony, a Concert Overture, He died in 1920 in Moscow. Orgy of the Spirits, an excerpt from The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, was used in the scores of the film East of Java (1935), as well as the adventure serials Tim Tyler’s Luck (1937) and Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938). References Sources * * Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5

Alexander Kopylov

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Alexander Alexandrovich Kopylov or Kopilov (Александр Александрович Копылов, 14 July 1854 – 20 February 1911) was a composer and violinist from the Russian Empire. Kopylov studied for many years as a chorister and violinist in the Imperial Court Choir, where he would later teach for much of his life. (The Court Choir was modeled after the more famous one in Vienna, known today as the Vienna Boys Choir). He was unable to gain entrance to either of the major conservatories in Russia, but was nevertheless able to study composition privately with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Liadov. Kopylov gained a reputation as a symphonist and composer of songs. Through his friendship with Rimsky-Korsakov, he became interested in chamber music, writing four string quartets. Wilhelm Altmann, the chamber music scholar and critic, writes in his Handbuch für Streichquartettspieler: Kopylov’s four carefully written string quartets show an outstanding command of proper quartet style. He gives all of the instruments mutually rich parts to play, alternating in exquisite fashion. His excellence is particularly strong in the sparkling themes. He is able to combine the external beauty of form with effec

Alexander Krein

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Alexander Abramovich Krein (; 20 October 1883– 25 April 1951) was a Soviet composer. Background Krein was born in Nizhny Novgorod on 20 October 1883. The Krein family was steeped in the klezmer tradition; his father Abram (who moved to Russia from Lithuania in 1870) was a noted violinist. All of the seven Krein brothers received their first musical training from him and became musicians; Alexander and Grigori made names for themselves as composers, David gained a strong reputation as a violinist. Of the three Krein family composers, Alexander, his brother Grigori, and Grigori’s son Julian, it is Alexander who composed the most music and thus to whom the most attention has been paid. After decades of posthumous neglect, however, his very name seems to have disappeared from international reference books. Studies and career In 1896, at the early age of 14, Alexander Krein entered the Moscow Conservatory where his studies included cello classes with Alexander von Glehn and composition lessons with Sergei Taneyev and Boleslav Yavorsky. His first works were published by P. Jurgenson in 1901. During the years immediately prior to the 1917 Revolution, he was on the faculty of the People’s

Alexander Scriabin

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Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 27 April 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Initially influenced by Frédéric Chopin, he composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, independently of his contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a highly dissonant musical language that transcended traditional tonality without being strictly atonal, aligning with his personal brand of metaphysics. He embraced the concepts of Gesamtkunstwerk and synesthesia, creating a colour-coded circle of fifths inspired by theosophy to associate colours with harmonies. Scriabin is widely considered the primary Russian symbolist composer and a major figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. Scriabin was an innovator and one of the most controversial composer-pianists of the early 20th century. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of him, “no composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed.” Leo Tolstoy described Scriabin’s music as “a sincere expression of genius.” Scriabin’s oeuvre exerted a salient influence on the music world over time, and inspired many composers, such as Nikolai Roslavets and Karol Szymanowski. His musical aesthetics have been r

Alexander Spendiaryan

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Alexander Afanasyevich Spendiarov (, November 1, 1871, Kakhovka, Russian Empire – May 7, 1928, Yerevan, Armenia) was a Russian composer and conductor of Armenian descent, founder of Armenian national symphonic music. Biography Alexander Spendiarov was born on 1 November (as 20 October) 1871 in Kakhovka, province of Tavrik (modern Ukraine). His artistic abilities were formed in early childhood. He inherited his musical abilities from his mother who played piano. When Alexander Spendiarov was seven he wrote a waltz. In 1890 he went to Moscow and studied for one year in the Natural Sciences faculty of Moscow University, and then in 1894 he graduated from the Law faculty. At the same time he continued his violin classes. In 1896 Alexander Spendiarov went to St. Petersburg to show his compositions to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who greatly admired his music and encouraged him to turn deeper into his people’s folklore. From 1896 to 1900 he took private composition lessons with Rimsky-Korsakov. According to Alexander Glazunov, “Rimsky-Korsakov was perfectly satisfied with the results of Alexander Spendiarov’s work and considered him a serious, talented composer with a great flair for composi

Alexander Taneyev

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Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev (, also transliterated as Taneiev, Tanaiev, Taneieff, and Taneyeff in English; January 17, 1850, Saint Petersburg – February 7, 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian state official and composer of the late Romantic era, specifically of the nationalist school. Among his better-known works were three string quartets, believed to have been composed between 1898 and 1900. Alexander Taneyev is not well known outside Russia. His name is often confused with that of his distant cousin Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915). A member of Russian aristocracy, Taneyev was a high-ranking state official, serving for 22 years as the head of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery. His daughter Anna Vyrubova was a lady-in-waiting and best friend of Tsarina Alexandra. Vyrubova is best known for her friendship with the Romanov family and with the starets Grigori Rasputin. Background Alexander Taneyev inherited an enthusiasm for music from his parents. He was dissuaded from pursuing a career as a musician due to his position in the Russian upper class. After studying at university, he entered the Russian civil service, succeeding his father as director of the Imperial Chancellery. After 190

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (13 April 1883 – 8 July 1946; born Koptelov or Koptelev) was a Soviet and Russian composer and founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who wrote the music for the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2000 became the National Anthem of the Russian Federation (with new lyrics). During his career, he also worked as a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, and became a Doctor of Arts. His work was recognized by the awards of the title of People’s Artist of the USSR and two Stalin Prizes. Background Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, known as Sasha, was born on 13 April 1883 in Plakhino, a village in Ryazan Governorate south-east of Moscow. As a boy, his singing was so impressive that he traveled to Saint Petersburg to become a chorister at Kazan Cathedral. Career A pupil of Medtner, Alexandrov studied composition at Saint Petersburg and in Moscow, where he eventually became professor of music in 1918 and choirmaster at Christ the Savior from 1918 to 1922. Works In 1942, Stalin commissioned Alexandrov and lyricists Sergey Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on 1 January 1944 and was used

Alexander von Zemlinsky

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Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky (14 October 1871 – 15 March 1942) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher. Biography Early life Zemlinsky was born in Vienna to a highly diverse family. Zemlinsky’s grandfather, Anton Semlinski, emigrated from Žilina, Hungary (now in Slovakia) to Austria and married an Austrian woman. Both were from staunchly Roman Catholic families, and Alexander’s father, , was raised as a Catholic. Alexander’s mother, Clara Semo, was born in Sarajevo to a Sephardic Jewish father and a Bosniak mother. Alexander’s entire family converted to the religion of his maternal grandfather, Judaism, and Zemlinsky was born and raised Jewish. His father added an aristocratic “von” to his name, though neither he nor his forebears were ennobled. He also began spelling his surname in Hungarian “Zemlinszky”. He was also a freemason. Alexander studied the piano from a young age. He played the organ in his synagogue on holidays, and was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory in 1884. He studied piano with Wilhelm Rauch and Anton Door, winning the school’s piano prize in 1890. He continued his studies until 1892, studying theory with Robert Fuchs and composition

Alexandre Eugène Cellier

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Alexandre Eugène Cellier (17 June 1883 in Molières-sur-Cèze – 4 March 1968 in Paris) was a French organist and composer. Cellier studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant until 1908. In 1908, he won the first prize for organ at the Conservatoire de Paris. Before that, he also studied with Henri Dallier and Charles-Marie Widor. He was the organist Titulaire of the Temple de l’Étoile in Paris from 1910 until his death in 1968. The organ he used was a 3-manual Cavaillé-Coll organ with 32 stops, which was extended by Mutin (Cavaillé-Coll) in 1914. In Louis Vierne’s biography Mes Souvenirs, he describes Alexandre Cellier as a “cultivated musician” with improvisation skills. He gave concerts abroad. He wrote a book about organ registration and is known as the French translator of the texts of the Bach Chorales. Selected compositions ;Orchestral * Paysages cévenols (1912) * Sur la colline d’Uzès (1928) * Le chant d’une flûte (1930) * Chacun son tour, Suite humoristique for wind soloists and string orchestra (1934) * Le Carnaval (1938) ;Chamber music * Piano Quintet No. 1 (1906) * String Quartet No. 1 in A minor (1911) * Piano Quintet No. 2 (1913) * Sonata in G major for cello and piano (1920)

Alexandre Georges

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Alexandre Georges (25 February 1850 – 18 January 1938) was a French organist, teacher and composer. Of his compositions, his most successful opera was Miarka, given at the Opéra-Comique and later at the Opéra. His most popular work was the song-cycle, Chansons de Miarka. Life Born in Arras, Georges studied at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, after which he joined the army and subsequently became at the Basilica of Saint Clotilde, Paris, where César Franck was organist. He later became organist at Saint-Vincent de Paul. In addition to his church appointments he was a teacher, returning to the École Niedermeyer as professor of harmony, Strongly attracted by the theatre, Georges composed several operas, of which the most successful was Miarka, premiered at the Opéra-Comique and later revised for a production at the Opéra. It tells the story of a Romany girl destined, according to the tarot cards, to become a queen. Works According to Grove, Georges’ style, is “often restlessly chromatic”, showing the influence of Franck, but like many composers of his generation, “he introduced local colour into his works by using characteristic regional dances and songs”. Operas *Le Printemps (1888) *

Alexandre Levy

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Alexandre Levy (10 November 1864 – 17 January 1892) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil’s popular folk music and rhythms. His hometown grants a prestigious award in his name. His Jewish family came from France and was musically active. His father, Henrique Luís Levy, was a musician who founded , a leading music store in São Paulo. Darius Milhaud, in his ballet Le Bœuf sur le toit, borrowed a theme from Levy’s Tango Brasileiro. Selected list of works Orchestra * Andante para cordas in E-flat major (1887) for String Orchestra (1887) * Werther, Symphonic Poem in E-flat major after Goethe (1888) * Marcha com coros, Orchestral Cantata (1888) * Hymne à 14 Juillet (1889) * Symphony in E minor (1889) ** Largo - allegro molto ** Andante ** Scherzo. Allegro vivo ** Allegro molto vivo * Comala, Symphonic Poem (1890) * Suite Brésilienne (1890) ** Prélude ** Dansa rustica: Canção Triste (lost) ** A beira do regato: Idyllio Sentimental ** Samba * Symphonic Poem (unnamed; n.d.) * Oedipe, Orchestral Cantata (n.d.) Chamber Music * Fantasia brillante sull’opera ‘Il Guarany’ for two pianos, Op. 2 (1880) * Piano

Alexandre Luigini

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Alexandre Clément Léon Joseph Luigini (9 March 185029 July 1906) was a French composer and conductor, especially active in the opera house. As a composer, he is now remembered almost solely for his Ballet égyptien. Life and career Luigini was born in Lyon in 1850. His grandparents had moved to Lyon from Modena, Italy, when his grandfather took up the post of trumpeter with the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre. Alexandre Luigini was brought up with music, his father Joseph also playing with, and later conducting, the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre. He was the nephew of César and (another) Alexandre Luigini, both noted instrumentalists. His daughter was the harpist Caroline Luigini, who married the painter Victor Tardieu. His grandson is the poet Jean Tardieu. After studying at the Conservatoire in Paris where he gained a second prize for violin, Luigini returned to Lyon and from 1872 played as a violinist in the theatre orchestra, which he went on to lead, becoming conductor in 1877. In 1897 he left Lyon to take up the conductorship of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and led a busy life until his sudden death there in 1906. At the Opéra-Comique he notably conducted the world premiere of J

Alexis Contant

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Joseph Pierre Alexis Contant (12 November 1858 – 28 November 1918) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. Trained as a pianist, he became one of the first Canadians to compose large-scale choral and orchestral works, in spite of the difficulty of finding suitable teachers of musical composition. His younger years were spent mostly in teaching, family, and work as a church organist, and many of his compositions were written later in life. Early life Contant was born in Montreal, the son of two amateur musicians. His father was a violinist who was involved in a number of community ensembles and his mother was a piano and voice student of Emma Albani. His younger siblings, Marie and Joseph-Albert, also became musicians. All three children had their initial musical lessons from their mother. At the age of 11, Contant became a pupil of organist and pianist Joseph-A. Fowler and two years later gave his first public recital. At the age of 17 he became a student of Calixa Lavallée, who had just returned from Paris. Contant himself wanted to pursue studies in Europe, but his father forbade him to go in fear that European society might be detrimental to Alexis’s reli

Alfred Bruneau

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Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857 – 15 June 1934) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. Life Born in Paris, Bruneau studied the cello as a youth at the Paris Conservatory and played in the Pasdeloup Orchestra. He soon began to compose, writing a cantata, Geneviève de Paris, while still a young man. In 1884, his Ouverture héroïque was performed, followed by the choral symphonies Léda (1884) and La Belle au bois dormant (1886). In 1887, he produced his first opera (9 June 1887, théâtre du Château-d’Eau), Kérim. In 1888, Bruneau met Émile Zola, beginning a two-decade-long collaboration. Bruneau’s 1891 opera Le Rêve was based on the Zola story of the same name, and in the coming years Zola would provide the subject matter for many of Bruneau’s works, including L’attaque du moulin (1893). Zola himself wrote the libretti for the operas Messidor (1897) and L’Ouragan (1901). Other works influenced by Zola include L’Enfant roi (1905), Naïs Micoulin (1907), Les Quatres journées (1916), and Lazare (produced posthumously in 1954). Other operatic works by Bruneau contained themes by Hans Christian Andersen (Le Jardin du

Alfred De Sève

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Alfred De Sève (May or June 1858 – 25 November 1927) was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H. Ditson. Life and career Born in Saint-Henri, Montreal, De Sève was a child prodigy and began studying the violin with Oscar Martel at the age of seven. After just six months of lessons, he gave his first public recital to critical acclaim. He later studied with Frantz Jehin-Prume in Montreal and in 1876 studied in Paris with Pablo de Sarasate, Hubert Léonard, and Lambert Massart. From 1877 to 1879 he studied with Henri Vieuxtemps in Paris and during that time served as Isabella II of Spain’s court violinist in addition to his active career as a concert violinist with a number of Paris orchestras and musical ensembles. After building his reputation in Europe, he returned to his native country and quickly became active as a concert violinist. He was accompanied in recitals by the pianist Joséphine Bruneau and the two married in 1880. In 1881 De Sève relocated to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States to join the faculty o

Alfred G. Robyn

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Alfred George Robyn (April 29, 1860 – October 18, 1935) was an American composer, organist, conductor, and music educator. While his compositional output consisted of a wide range of music, he is best remembered as a composer of light operas and Broadway musicals. He composed the Broadway musicals Princess Beggar (1907), The Yankee Tourist (1907), All for the Ladies (1912), and Pretty Mrs. Smith (1914); many in collaboration with lyricist and playwright Henry Blossom. His compositional output also consisted of fourteen operas, two oratorios, Symphony in D minor, the symphonic poem Pompeii, a piano concerto, a piano quintet, numerous works for solo piano, and over two hundred songs. His best known work is the comic opera The Yankee Consul (premiered 1903 in Boston; Broadway production in 1904). Alfred G. Robyn was the son of German composer, organist, and conductor William Robyn (1814–1905). William also founded the music department at Saint Louis University in 1838 and both the St. Louis Brass Band and St. Louis German Vocal Association in 1839. William’s brother (Afred’s uncle), was the cellist, composer, and music educator Henry Robyn. Composer Alfred G. Robyn’s first composition

Alfred Grünfeld

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Alfred Grünfeld (4 July 1852 in Prague – 4 January 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Life Alfred Grünfeld was born as the second of eight children to Jewish leather merchant Moritz Grünfeld (born 1817 Kolín nad Labem) and his wife Regina, nee Pick (born 1826 Osek), in Prague – New Town. Moritz Grünfeld was a leather merchant, and Grünfeld grew up in a middle-class, musical Jewish family. His siblings included: the cellist Heinrich Grünfeld; Ludwig Grünfeld, who worked for Deutsche Grammophon, and Siegmund Grünfeld, répétiteur at the Vienna Hofoper. The family lived at Zeltnergasse 38. He gave his first public concert on 12 April 1865 in the Konviktsaal in Prague. Grünfeld then studied under Josef Krejčí and Bedřich Smetana at the Prague Conservatory, and later at Theodor Kullak’s Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin. In the winter of 1871, Gustav Mahler was sent by his father to school in Prague, and boarded with the Grünfeld family. This proved to be an unpleasant experience for the eleven-year-old Mahler, and his wife Alma Mahler reported that his “clothes and shoes were taken from him and worn by others and he had to go barefoot and hungry also”. She also wro

Alfred Hill (composer)

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Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE (16 December 186930 October 1960) was an Australian-New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher. Life and work Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in Wellington before moving to Germany, where he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1887 and 1891 under Gustav Schreck, Hans Sitt and Oscar Paul. Later he played second violin with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, under guest conductors including Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Bruch, and Reinecke. While there, some of his compositions were played with fellow students, and several were published in Germany. These included the Scotch Sonata for violin and piano. Hill returned to New Zealand, where was appointed director of the Wellington Orchestral Society. In 1897 Hill returned to Australia, where he taught for a number of years. He married his first wife, Sarah Brownhill Booth, a New Zealander, on 6 October 1897 in Paddington, New South Wales. They were to have three children, who were given the Wagnerian names Isolde, Tristan and Elsa. and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St Geo

Alfred La Liberté

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Alfred La Liberté (10 February 1882 – 7 May 1952) was a Canadian composer, pianist, writer on music, and music educator. He was a disciple and close personal friend of Alexander Scriabin. He was also an admirer of Marcel Dupré and Nikolai Medtner. Dupré notably dedicated his Variations, Opus 22 for piano to him and Medtner dedicated his Sonata minacciosa, Opus 53 no. 2 and his song The Captive, Opus 52 no. 7 to La Liberté. Most of his own compositions remain unfinished. He also contributed articles to Le Passe-Temps, including one on Scriabin in May 1946. Life and career Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, La Liberté was named after the Canadian sculptor of the same name. He began his piano studies as a teenager with a Miss Malsberg. His later piano teachers included J.-B. Denys, Dominique Ducharme, Romain-Octave Pelletier I, and Émiliano Renaud. In 1902 he entered the Stern Conservatory in Berlin where he studied with such teachers as Ernst Baeker (harmony), Paul Lutzenko (piano), and Wilhelm Klatte (counterpoint and composition) through 1906. The expenses of his education in Berlin were paid largely through grants obtained from the German government after winning a series o

Alfred Patusset

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Armand Alfred Patusset (17 November 1853 – 13 or 20 March 1924 ) was a French composer, conductor and musical arrangeur. Life Born in Paris, the son of a musician, Patusset entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he won a second solfège medal in July 1869 then a first medal in 1870 First choir director at the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs in 1873 and assistant conductor at the Alcazar in 1885, he became conductor of the Déjazet and Beaumarchais theatres, the Alcazar concert, he Eden-Concert, the Scala and the and ended his career at the Folies-Bergère from January 1901. Also known under the pseudonyms Saint-Amand and Fred Wardal, he is responsible for the music of about sixty songs with lyrics by, among others, Henri Darsay, Adolphe Jost, Eugène Rimbault, Victor de Cottens and Eugène Héros, as well as waltzes and many ballet pieces. Patusset died in Paris at the age of 70 and is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. His son, Raoul Patusset (1876-1956), a banker by profession, was also an actor, playwright, and theatre administrator. Works ;Operette music: * 1881: Nos belles petites, fantasy in 4 acts and 4 scenes, libretto by Amédée de Jallais and Iginio Manzoni, music by Alfred Patu

Alfred Reisenauer

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Alfred Reisenauer (1 November 18633 October 1907) was a German pianist, composer, and music educator. Biography Reisenauer was born in Königsberg. He was a pupil of Louis Köhler and Franz Liszt. As one of the most important piano teachers and players of his time, Reisenauer became principal professor of piano at the Sondershausen Conservatory in 1885. He was in Liszt’s household when Liszt died in 1886 and was a torchbearer at the side of the coffin during the funeral procession. After beginning to teach piano at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1900, he was eventually appointed director of the same institution where his students included Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Sergei Bortkiewicz, , and Anna Schytte. Reisenauer led a highly successful career as a pianist, especially in Germany and Russia, and was well known for his sensitive playing, especially of Schumann. He also made a speciality of Liszt’s virtuosic piano music. Starting in 1886 he toured Central Asia and Russia as far east as Siberia. On 10 April 1905, he recorded ten piano pieces for the Welte-Mignon player piano for M. Welte & Sohn at the Popper Studio in Leipzig. Reisenauer also set numerous lieder to music. He was known to suffer

Alfred Sittard

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Alfred Sittard (4 November 1878 –– 31 March 1942) was a German cantor, composer of church music and one of the most important organists of his time. Life and career Born in Stuttgart, Sittard was a pupil of his father, the music teacher and musicologist Josef Sittard (1846-1903), as well as the Hamburg Petri-Cantor Wilhelm Köhler-Wümbach (1858–1926) and the Petri-organist Carl Armbrust (1849-1896). In 1896 and 1897, after the early death of Armbrust, he took over his post as a primate of the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. From 1897 to 1901 Sittard studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Friedrich Wilhelm Franke, Franz Wüllner and Isidor Seiß. He worked as a volunteer conductor at the Hamburg State Opera from 1901 to 1902 and was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship for composition in 1902. In 1903 he became organist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, then in 1912 organist at the newly rebuilt St. Michael’s Church, Hamburg with the then largest church organ of Eberhard Friedrich Walcker. He founded the choir at the Michaelis Church and conducted the Hamburger Lehrergesangverein from 1920 to 1925. In 1925 he was appointed professor for organ playing at the Royal Music Inst

Alfred Stier

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Alfred Stier (27 November 1880 – 21 July 1967) was a German composer and music director of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony. Life Stier was born in Greiz. After attending primary schools, he went to Leipzig in 1902 to study church music. In Limbach, he received his first position as a full-time church musician in 1904, and in 1911 he went to the Church of Reconciliation, Dresden. He was a Liedermeister and honorary Alter Herr of the "" Erato Dresden". From 1919 to 1945, he was editor of the Sächsische Zeitschrift für Kirchenmusiker, and from 1933 to 1944 he was co-editor of . In 1928 he was one of the Dresden co-founders of the . In 1933, he was appointed regional church music director. In 1947, he went to Ilsenburg, where from 1948 he was the regional singing director of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony. He led numerous singing weeks, courses for choir singing with lay people. He published old church music and composed chamber music, cantatas, choral works and Lieder himself. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald in 1955. He died in Ilsenburg in 1967 aged 86. Work * Die Erneuerung der Kirchenmusik. Kassel 1926 * Leit

Alfred Szendrei

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Alfred Szendrei (29 February 1884 – 3 March 1976), also Alfred Sendrey and Aladár Szendrei, was an American musicologist, organist, conductor, and composer of Hungarian origin. He was one of the leading conductors and pioneers of German radio. In exile he changed his Hungarian surname “Szendrei” to the Americanized spelling “Sendrey”. Life and career Szendrei was born in 1884 to a Hungarian middle-class family in Budapest (Austria-Hungary); his father was a civil servant. From the age of six he learned to play the piano. At the request of his parents, he first studied jurisprudence at the Corvinus University of Budapest. From 1931 to 1933 he was music director of the Berliner Rundfunk and teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. After his emigration to France, he worked from 1933 to 1940 as program director at Radiodiffusion nationale in Paris. When the Germans attacked France in May and June 1939, he fled to the United States. There he changed his name to “Sendrey”. He first worked as a translator for the United States Department of State. Later he was invited by Abraham Binder to the Jewish community center 92nd Street YMHA in New York City. From 1944 to 1952

Alfredo Casella

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Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Casella was born in Turin, the son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family included many musicians: his grandfather, a friend of Paganini, was first cello in the São Carlos Theatre in Lisbon and eventually became soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin. Alfredo’s father, Carlo, was also a professional cellist, as were Carlo’s brothers Cesare and Gioacchino; his mother was a pianist, who gave the boy his first music lessons. Alfredo entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1896 to study piano under Louis Diémer and composition under Gabriel Fauré; in these classes, Lazare Lévy, George Enescu and Maurice Ravel were among his fellow students. During his Parisian period, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky and Manuel de Falla were acquaintances, and he was also in contact with Ferruccio Busoni, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. Casella developed a deep admiration for Debussy’s output after hearing Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune in 1898, but pursued a more romantic vein (stemming from Strauss and Mahler) in his own writing of this period, rather than turning to impressionism

Alfredo Catalani

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Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani’s most famous aria “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana.” This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 film Diva. Catalani’s other operas were much less successful. Life and career Born in Lucca, Catalani came from a musical family. He was trained at the Milan Conservatory, where his teachers included Antonio Bazzini. Despite the growing influence of the verismo style of opera during the 1880s and early 1890s, Catalani chose to compose in a more traditional manner, which had traces of Wagner in it. As a result, his operas (La Wally excepted) have largely lost their place in the modern repertoire, even compared to those of Massenet and Puccini, whose style his own periodically resembles. (Catalani much resented Puccini’s emergence and even accused Puccini, falsely, of plagiarism.) The influence of Amilcare Ponchielli can also be recognized in Catalani’s output. Catalani’s reputation, like Ponchielli’s, now r

Alfredo D'Ambrosio

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Alfredo d’Ambrosio (13 June 1871 – 28 December 1914) was an Italian composer and violinist. He studied under Enrico Bossi at the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples, and later with Pablo de Sarasate in Madrid and August Wilhelmj in London. He then settled in Nice, rue de Russie 2, and afterwards in Paris, Boulevard de Courcelle 71, and devoted himself to his compositions and his work as a teacher. His cousin Luigi d’Ambrosio was also a violinist and later teacher of Salvatore Accardo. Alfredo D’Ambrosio died in Paris, aged 43. His wife was Blanche Aida Malvano; he had three sons, one of them, Violette d’Ambrosio was a concert violinist and played until mid ‘900, often performing her father’s Violin Concertos. Works Born in Naples, Alfredo d’Ambrosio is the author of the opera Pia de’ Tolomei, based on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the ballet Hersilia, two violin concertos, a string quartet in c minor, Op. 42 (1908) and a quintet, as well as various concert pieces for violin and piano, which had a certain popularity in the early 20th century. His first violin concerto (in B minor, Op. 29, dedicated to Arrigo Serato) was written from April to October 1903 and premiered in

Alfredo Keil

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Alfredo Cristiano Keil (3 July 1850 – 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese composer, painter, poet, archaeologist and art collector. Keil is best known as the composer of the Portuguese national anthem, A Portuguesa. Life Keil was born in Lisbon, the son of the tailor of the court, Johann Christian Keil (later João Cristiano Keil) and his wife Maria Josefina Stellflug, both of German origin. The boy developed an interest in both painting and music; at the age of 12 he composed the work Pensée Musicale and dedicated it to his mother. After studying painting in Munich and Nuremberg with the German romantic painters Wilhelm von Kaulbach and August von Kreling, he returned to Portugal in 1870, due to the Franco-Prussian War. Back home, he developed into a sought-after romantic painter. Painter At the time, the art world was moving towards Realism and Naturalist generation, but Keil still gained success with his melancholic intimate scenes and landscapes. Despite never becoming a full-time painter – also developing interests in poetry and musical composition – he continued painting and exhibiting throughout his life, and left hundreds of works. Predominantly a landscape painter, he also pai

Alfredo Mazzucchi

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Emanuele Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972) was an Italian composer and musician, known for being the co-author of some famous pieces of the (Neapolitan songs) such as “”, “Maria Marì”, and “I’ te vurria vasà”. Alfredo Mazzucchi was a composer and mandolinist who, on behalf of the musical publishers, made some adjustments to the original melodies before the publication of the songs; in this capacity he was therefore the co-author, together with Eduardo di Capua, of some well-known pieces of the Neapolitan songs including “”. According to others, however, Mazzucchi was a talented young composer who worked with the already famous Di Capua: Mazzucchi played his compositions, Di Capua listened to them and made some changes, and then published them only in his name. His contributions were not recognized for many years. Only on November 6, 1973, when the publisher “Casa Editrice Ferdinando Bideri” filed a complaint with the Ufficio della Proprietà Letteraria, Artistica e Scientifica (UPLAS) (in English Office of Literary, Artistic and Scientific Property), it indicated Mazzucchi as co-author of between 18 and 23 pieces signed only by Eduardo Di Capua. The Presidency of the Council of Minister

Alfredo Napoleão

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Alfredo Napoleão dos Santos (31 January 1852, Porto – 20 November 1917, Lisbon) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. He was the youngest of three Napoleão pianist and composer siblings, the others being Arthur Napoleão (1843–1925), and Aníbal Napoleão (1845–1880). Biography Their parents were Portuguese, musician Alexandre Napoleão and Joaquina Maria dos Santos. The latter died, when Alfredo was only a year old. The father worked in London, and Alfredo spent his childhood with his maternal grandmother in Porto, his birthplace. In 1858 he was brought to London to study with a certain Professor Wood. These studies continued up to 1868, when he went to Brazil, like his two brothers. In 1869 he gave his debut recital in Rio de Janeiro, with great success. He made an extensive tour through the country and settled in Buenos Aires, and then in Montevideo, where he taught piano. In 1879 he was again in Rio de Janeiro and for some years toured the northern parts of Brazil. At that time he was at the height of his fame. Returning to Portugal in 1882, he gave concerts in Lisbon and Porto, then London and Paris. In 1889 he went to Brazil again and made a tour through the entire continent. In

Alfrēds Kalniņš

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Alfrēds Bruno Jānis Kalniņš (23 August 1879, in Cēsis, Governorate of Livonia – 23 December 1951, in Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian composer, organist, pedagogue, music critic and conductor; the founder of national Latvian opera. Kalniņš is primarily remembered for his national opera Baņuta (1920). Life Kalniņš took piano and violin lessons at an early age. He attended the school of music in Riga. He often visited the Riga theatre, where he could listen to operas and concerts. He made acquaintance with Oskars Šepskis (1850-1914), a composer and organist, who gave him private lessons. From 1897 until 1901 he studied organ and composition at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. After a short stay in Riga, which he spent writing a series of songs, he accepted a post as an organist at the Saint Nicholas Church in Pärnu in 1903. At present Pärnu is located in Estonia, but then it belonged to the Russian Governorate of Livonia. Kalniņš also gave music lessons at the local grammar school and conducted the school choir. In Pärnu his son Jānis Kalniņš, who would become a composer too, was born in 1904. Kalniņš stayed in Pärnu until 1911. In that year he took the post of organist at the Church o

Algernon Ashton

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Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (9 December 1859 – 10 April 1937) was a British composer, pianist, and Professor of piano at the Royal College of Music 1884–1910. Ashton was born in Durham. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory as a pupil of Carl Reinecke and Theodor Coccius. He later studied at Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt under Joachim Raff. Modern recordings of four of the highly virtuosic piano sonatas and two cello sonatas have been released. The Tarantella for clarinet, Op. 107, has also been recorded. In later years Ashton became well known for his many letters to English newspapers concerning the upkeep of the graves of distinguished people. These letters were published in two volumes - Truth Wit and Wisdom and More Truth Wit and Wisdom published by Chapman & Hall. Ashton was also well known for keeping a daily diary for the majority of his life from the age of 15 running to some 58 volumes. The diaries and the unpublished works are believed to have been destroyed during the Blitz when his family home was hit by German bombs. Recordings * Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1, Leslie De’ath, Dutton Epoch CDLX 7248 (2010) ** No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 164 (published 1925) ** No. 5 in

Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann

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Alice Ellen Lauentine Charbonnet (12 October 1858, Cincinnati, Ohio – 1 June 1914, Paris, France) was an Australian composer of romantic and classical music. Her father was a French judge, and her formative years were spent in a variety of countries. She married violinist Frederick William Kellermann; their daughter Annette Kellermann was a long-distance swimmer, vaudeville entertainer, film actress, and educator. Alice and Frederick established a music school in Phillip Street, Sydney, and Alice became a distinguished figure on Sydney’s concert scene. She gave many afternoon recitals at gatherings at Phillip Street and at her home in Potts Point, and appeared in many larger concerts. After moving to Melbourne in 1901 without her husband, Alice became a music teacher at Simpson’s School, Mentone, where she commanded a high fees because of her experience and the high results she obtained with students. In 1907 she retired to Paris, but continued giving concerts. Her piano students included Dame Nellie Melba, composer Lydia Larner and May Summerbelle Works * 1892 Saltarella in A minor * 1898 Le train du diable, galop de concert * Ye Olde English Dances * Tarantella * Mappari * Brise

Alice Crane Williams

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Alice Ella Crane Williams (August 29, 1879 – October 24, 1964) was an American composer and literary editor. She was president of the Composers and Authors Association of America. Early life and education Alice Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, the daughter of Arthur Edward Crane and Ella M. Beardsley Crane. Her brother was confectioner Clarence Arthur Crane, the inventor of Life Savers candy, and her nephew was poet Hart Crane. She graduated from Hiram College, and pursued further music studies in Europe. Career Crane was a pianist, composer, and lecturer. Her compositions were called “quite modern in trend and of immense interest” by a 1926 publication. She also taught music. Crane gave a performances of her recent works at the National League of American Pen Women conference in Washington in 1926, and at the Poetry Society of America’s annual concert in New York in 1927. She was president of the Composers and Authors Association of America in the 1940s. From 1945 to 1964, Williams edited American Weave, a literary journal based in Cleveland, with her husband, Loring Eugene Williams. Compositions * “Mountain Harmony” (1926) * “Touch Me Not” (1926) * “In the Cathedral” (1954,

Alice Maynard Griggs

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Alice E. Maynard Woods Griggs (June 9, 1859 – April 9, 1939) was an American writer, artist, composer, clubwoman, and critic, based in Long Beach, California. Early life and education Alice E. Maynard was born in Decorah, Iowa, the daughter of Guy C. Maynard and Colena Emogene Moore Maynard. Her father was a carpenter from New Hampshire and a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War, and her mother was from Vermont. She attended the Dana Musical Institute in Ohio, and the Chicago Art Institute. and arts critic for Musical America, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and Pacific Coast Musician, among other publications. She was a founder and longtime press chair of the Long Beach Musical Arts Club. Her compositions were part of a program at the Woman’s Music Study Club in Long Beach in 1924. Griggs was treasurer of the Long Beach Art Association. Her painting “Zinnias and Gourds” was part of the Association’s 1933 show. Two of her paintings, “Gourds” and a still life featuring “anemones and a brass basket”, were part of the Association’s show at the Ebell Club in 1935. She won a state prize for her painting “California Dahlias” in 1937. She exhibited her paintings in Palos Verdes in

Alice Sauvrezis

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Alice Marie Marguerite Sauvrezis (4 April 1866 – 12 April 1946) was a French composer, pianist, choral conductor and concert organiser. As an active member of a group of Breton composers in Paris and as president of the Société Artistique et Littéraire de l’Ouest she promoted Celticist music and culture in France. Life and music Little is known about Alice Sauvrezis’ life. She was born in the Breton city of Nantes where she worked as a piano teacher. She studied first with César Franck and later with Ernest Guiraud and Paul Vidal. She joined the Paris-based Société Artistique et Littéraire de l’Ouest in 1891 and became its president in 1920. The society organised concerts of “Celtic” music (contemporary “classical” music in a Celticist style) and poetry readings in so-called “Soirées celtiques” at Sorbonne university that included the creative output of Breton, Norman, and Irish composers, writers and artists. During 1913–1914 she was also the only female member of the short-lived Association des Compositeurs Bretons. Her published music consists mainly of songs as well as piano and chamber music. There is also a limited number of choral and orchestral compositions. As a moral supp

Alice Verne-Bredt

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Alice Barbara Verne-Bredt (née Würm; 1864–1958) was an English piano teacher, violinist and composer. Three of her sisters were also noted pianists: Adela Verne, Mathilde Verne and Mary Würm (who returned to Germany and retained the original family name). Life and career The sixth of ten children, Her father, a music teacher who specialised in zither, violin, and piano, worked as an organist. Her mother was a violinist who taught her the violin from a very early age. Later in her childhood she moved to London, where she lived all her life, Alice wanted to become a singer, but typhoid fever affected her voice. It was recorded in 2005 by the Summerhayes Piano Trio. Chamber music * Cello Sonata * Phantasie Piano Trio (1908) – performed at the Aeolian and Bechstein Halls on 25 January 1912. * Phantasie Piano Quartet (1908) (unpublished) * Phantasie Piano Quintet (no date, unpublished) * Piano Trio, No. 2 * Piano Trio, No. 3 * Wiegenlied (lullaby) for violin and piano (1911) Piano music * Arrangement of Pavane: from King Henry VIII’s Pavyn (1924) * Four easy inventions for young pianists (1920) ** Musical box ** The little drum ** Concert study ** The doll’s promenade * Polacca (Polka)

Alicia Adélaide Needham

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Alicia Adélaide Needham (née Montgomery; 31 October 1863 – 24 December 1945) was an Irish composer of songs and ballads. A committed suffragette, she was the first woman to conduct at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and the first female president of the National Eisteddfod of Wales (in 1906). Life Needham was born in Oldcastle, Co. Meath, daughter of John Wilson Montgomery (1834-1911), master of the Bailieborough Workhouse and a clerk to the poor law board of guardians; he was also an antiquarian, contributing to local newspapers on the subject, and produced some books of poetry, becoming known as the “Bard of Bailieborough”. The family subsequently lived at Downpatrick in County Down. She went to boarding school in Derry for four years and spent the following year in Castletown, Isle of Man. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, first for one year only (most likely the academic year 1880–1): piano with the Irish pianist and composer Arthur O’Leary, harmony and counterpoint with Francis William Davenport and occasionally with George Alexander Macfarren and Ebenezer Prout. It is not clear what she did in the intervening three years before she resumed her studies in 188

Alma Sanders

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Alma M. Sanders (1882 – December 15, 1956) was an American songwriter and composer of popular music, including several Broadway musicals, with her composer husband, Monte Carlo. Early life Sanders was born in Chicago, Illinois. She studied music there, and sang in concerts and as a church soloist. Music On Broadway, Alma Sanders’ compositions and songs were heard in the shows The Voice of McConnell (1918–1919), Tangerine (1921–1922), Elsie (1923), The Chiffon Girl (1924), Princess April (1924), Oh! Oh! Nurse (1925–1926), Mystery Moon (1930), and Louisiana Lady (1947). She also co-wrote the score of a film, Ireland Today. included “Two Lips are Roses”, “Honeymoon Home”, “Sweet Lady”, “Every Tear is a Smile (in an Irishman’s Heart)”, “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!”, “Sleepytime Rag: Pickaninny Lullaby” (1914, lyrics by Florence Cooke), “Some Pepp” (1915), “Along the Road to Singapore” (1915, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), “That Dear Old Mother of Mine” (1915, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), “Dance of the Teenie-Weenies” (1916), “Ev’ry Sammy needs his smokin’ over there” (1917, lyrics by Monte Carlo), “Hong Kong” (1917, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), “The Wild Irish Rose That God Gave Me” (1917,

Aloÿs Claussmann

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Aloÿs Claussmann (5 July 1850 – 7 November 1926) was a French organist, pianist and composer. Biography Born in Uffholtz, Haut-Rhin (Alsace, France), Claussmann was a pupil of organist Eugène Gigout at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, where he obtained first prizes in piano and organ, before winning the Grand Prix of the Ministry of Fine Arts in 1872. The following year, he settled in Clermont-Ferrand, where he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral. The new Merklin organ was inaugurated in 1877 by Edmond Lemaigre, the first holder. Claussmann succeeded him in 1888 until his death in 1926. A virtuoso interpreter, he chose to pursue his entire career in the Puy-de-Dôme area, while a Parisian position would have been readily accessible to him. He also founded the Conservatory of Clermont-Ferrand in 1909, directing it until his death. Although he wrote many works for piano as well as chamber music and vocal music, it is to the organ that he reserved the essential and most characteristic of his production, with about 350 compositions, fully in the post-Romantic music that he celebrated with brilliance but yet with sensitivity. He fulfilled his duties as organist o

Aloys Fleischmann (Senior)

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Aloys Georg Fleischmann (24 April 1880 – 3 January 1964) was a German composer, cathedral organist and choirmaster. Life Fleischmann was born in Dachau, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire. He was the only child of the Dachau shoemaker and founding member of the Dachau choir, the Liedertafel, Alois Fleischmann (1844–1914) and of Magdalena née Deger (1846–1928). From 1887 to 1894 he attended the Dachau primary school for boys. He was given private classes in music, music theory and Latin and in 1896 he was admitted to the preparatory two-year course at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. Having passed the entrance examination, he studied there from 1898 to 1901 taking the subjects organ, conducting and, with Josef Rheinberger, composition. He graduated with first class honours in all subjects. In January 1902 he was appointed organist and choirmaster to the parish church of St. Jakob in Dachau. There he founded a choir school and a school of music, in which children could learn music and purchase instruments at minimal cost. With the support of musician friends in Munich and members of the artists’ colony of Dachau (Hans von Hayek, Adolf Hölzel, August Pfaltz, Hermann Stockmann) he

Alphons Diepenbrock

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Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock (2 September 1862 in Amsterdam – 5 April 1921) was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist. Life and work Diepenbrock was not a musician by training. He was brought up in a prosperous Catholic family. Although he showed musical ability as a child, the expectation was that he would enter a university rather than a conservatory. He studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his doctorate cum laude in 1888 with a dissertation in Latin on the life of Seneca. The same year he became a teacher, a job which he held until 1894, and decided to devote himself to music. As a composer, he had been completely self-taught from an early age. He created a musical idiom which, in a highly personal manner, combined 16th-century polyphony with Wagnerian chromaticism, to which in later years was added the impressionistic refinement that he encountered in Debussy’s music. His predominantly vocal output is distinguished by the quality of the texts used. Apart from the Ancient Greek dramatists and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, he was inspired by, among others, Goethe, Novalis, Vondel, Brentano, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Verla

Amanda Aldridge

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Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge (10 March 1866 – 9 March 1956), was a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestral pieces under the pseudonym of Montague Ring. Born into an artistic family, the Aldridge legacy included her father who was a successful African-American Shakespearian actor, Ira Frederick Aldridge. He was dubbed the ‘African Roscius’ when he first starred as Othello at the Royalty Theatre in London. Her mother, Amanda Brandt, was a Swedish opera singer. Amanda’s sister, Luranah Aldridge was a star operatic contralto in Europe and the United States. Aldridge studied voice under Jenny Lind and George Henschel at the Royal College of Music in London, and harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Bridge and Francis Edward Gladstone. Career After completing her studies, Aldridge worked as a concert singer, piano accompanist, and voice teacher. A throat condition ended her concert appearances, and she turned to teaching and published about thirty songs between the years 1907 and 1925 in a romantic parlour style, as well as instrumental music in other styles. Among her pupils were the child

Amanda Röntgen-Maier

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Amanda Röntgen-Maier (20 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female to graduate with the title “Musikdirectör” from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1873. Biography Amanda Maier was born into a musical home in Landskrona and discovered her musical talent early. Her first instruction in violin and piano was from her father. At the age of sixteen (1869), Maier began studying at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where she studied violin, organ, piano, cello, composition and harmony. After graduation, she continued to study composition with the conservatory teachers Reinecke and Richter in Leipzig and violin from Engelbert Röntgen, concert master at Gewandhaus Orchestra in the same city. During this time in Leipzig (1873-76) she composed a violin sonata, a piano trio and a violin concerto for orchestra. Her Violin Concerto in D Minor was premiered in Halle in 1875 with Maier as soloist and received good reviews. It was repeated on 8 February 1876 in Leipzig at the Gewandhaus with Carl Reinecke conducting, and again in Stockholm on 18 November 1876. From 1876 to 1880, she went on three major concert tours. In the summer

Amédée de Vallombrosa

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Amédée Joseph Gabriel Marie Manca-Amat, Comte de Vallombrosa (24 March 1880 – 9 February 1968) was a French organist and composer. Early life Born in Cannes, Amédée de Vallombrosa was the son of Riccardo Manca-Amat, 4th Duke of Vallombrosa and Asinara (b. 1834), and Geneviève (b. 1836). He was the younger brother of Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès, who was a well-known frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West who was assassinated in Algeria in 1896. His paternal grandparents were Vincenzo Maria Giuseppe Manca-Amat, 3rd Duke of Vallombrosa and Asinara and Léontine Alexandrine Claire de Galard de Béarn. His maternal grandparents were Amédée-François-Régis de Pérusse des Cars, Comte des Cars and Duc des Cars, Peer of France, and Augustine-Joséphine du Bouchet de Sourches de Tourzel (a granddaughter of Louise-Élisabeth du Bouchet de Sourches, Duchess of Tourzel). His aunt, Marie-Paule de Pérusse des Cars, was the first wife of Louis, Duke of Blacas. Career Despite his family fortune, the Comte de Vallombrosa did not choose the path of business but devoted his life to music and the orga

Amédée Gastoué

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Amédée Henri Gustave Noël Gastoué (19 March 1873 – 1 June 1943) was a French musicologist and composer. Biography A Kapellmeister at the , professor of gregorian chant at the Schola Cantorum of Paris, Gastoué was particularly interested in Byzantine music, that of the Middle Ages and Armenian musical art. He also taught choral chant and Medieval music at the Institut catholique de Paris, the Collège Stanislas and the Lycée Montaigne. He was president of the (1934–1936) and remains known for his studies and writings. He was raised to the dignity of Commander of the Pontifical Order of Pope Gregory I by Pope Pius X. Gastoué is the great-great-grandfather of Emmanuel Trenque, himself an organist and choral conductor. Studies List according to the « Principaux ouvrages du même auteur » of Graduel et l’antiphonaire romains, histoire et description (fac-similé) * Le Graduel et l’antiphonaire romains, histoire et description, Jeanin frères, Lyon 1913, 302 p. (fac-similé). * Histoire du chant liturgique à Paris I, Dès origines à la fin des temps carolingiens, Poussielgue, Paris, 86 p. * Cours théorique et pratique de plain-chant romain grégorien, Bureau de l’édition de la Schola cantorum,

Amédée Tremblay

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Pierre-Joseph Amédée Tremblay (14 April 1876 – 14 July 1949) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. A largely self-taught composer, his output includes several motets, two masses, a few patriotic songs, works for solo organ, and the operetta L’Intransigeant (produced in Ottawa in 1906). His organ piece Suite de quatre pièces pour grand orgue is his most well known composition. Dedicated to Joseph Bonnet, it is noted for its “brilliant toccata” at the finale. His works have been published by Orme, Le Passe-Temps, and Ed. Archambault. Composers Guillaume Couture and Vincent d’Indy were admirers of Tremblay’s music. Life and career Born in Montreal, Tremblay, along with Alexis Contant, was one of the first major Canadian composers to be trained exclusively in his native country. At the age of 12 he began studying music with Father Sauvé, the organist at Saint Joseph’s Church in Montreal. He later studied with Alcibiade Béique (piano and organ), Father Cléophas Borduas (Gregorian chant), and Romain-Octave Pelletier I (organ and fugue). Tremblay became the organist at Saint Joseph’s Church in 1892 after having turned down a similar position at the Dominican Church in Sai

Amelia von Ende

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Amelia Kemper von Ende (; sometimes Amalie) (June 19, 1856 – August 25, 1932) was a Polish-born American writer, pianist, composer, teacher, and translator. Born in Warsaw of Polish and French extraction, von Ende emigrated to the United States when she was six, settling with her family in Milwaukee. She moved at 19 to Chicago, becoming a radical journalist in partnership with her husband, Heinrich von Ende, who died in 1879. The following year she opened a boarding school for girls of German-American extraction, the Minerva Institute. In 1893 she moved to New York City, where she would become a journalist writing for American and German audiences, largely on cultural themes; during her career she would contribute to the Musical Courier, Die Musik of Berlin, the New York Post, and The Nation. She soon became known as an intermediary between the German and American cultures. She championed the work of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, whose poetry she introduced to German-language audiences; she was the first writer to translate Dickinson into German. 1914 saw the publication of her article “Women as a Creative Force in Music” in Musical America. Von Ende had an active career as a p

Amélie Nikisch

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Amélie Heussner Nikisch (28 December 1862 – 18 January 1938) was a Belgian soprano, actress, voice teacher, and composer. Early life Amélie Augusta Heussner was born in Brussels. Career As a young woman, Heussner played soubrette roles in operas in Kassel and Leipzig. While her husband, Arthur Nikisch, was conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1890 to 1893, she frequently performed with the orchestra as a soprano soloist. “If anything, Mme. Nikisch’s work as a vocalist might be characterized as too finished for the appreciation of the general public”, noted an American newspaper in 1891, “free from all the tricks and devices that are too frequently resorted to for effect and applause”. Nikisch wrote music and lyrics for light operas. Her compositions included the operettas Prinz Adolar und das Tausendschönchen (1907, with Ilse Friedlaender), Meine Tante, deine Tante (1909), Daniel in der Löwengrube (1914, with Friedlaender), and Immer der Andere (1915). One of her voice students was American soprano Eleanor Painter Strong. Personal life Amélie Heussner married Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922) in 1885. Amélie Nikisch died in 1938, in Berlin, aged 75 years. Her

Amilcare Zanella

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Amilcare Zanella (26 September 1873 – 9 January 1949) was an Italian composer. Born in Monticelli d’Ongina, Zanella studied in Cremona under Andreotti before entering the Parma Conservatory, where he studied under Giovanni Bottesini and graduated in 1891. The following year he went to South America, where he worked as an opera conductor and a pianist; upon his return to his native land in 1901, he organized an orchestra that traveled the country giving symphonic concerts. It was with this group that he introduced some of his own music. In 1903 he became director of his alma mater, remaining in the post for two years; in 1905 he was tapped to succeed Pietro Mascagni as head of the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Gioachino Rossini” in Pesaro. There he was to remain until 1939, when he was succeeded in the post by Riccardo Zandonai. He died in Pesaro. Zanella’s compositional output consisted mainly of orchestral and chamber works. He also composed three operas; Aura (1910, to a libretto by Ida Finzi), premiered at the Liceo Rossini; La Sulamita (1926, to a libretto by Antonio Lega), premiered at the Teatro Politeama Piacentino in Piacenza; and Il revisore (1940, after The Government

Amy Ashmore Clark

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Amy Ashmore Clark (May 6, 1882 – January 9, 1954) was a Canadian-born American songwriter, composer, and businesswoman, “equally popular and successful as a writer of lyrics for other people’s music, and a writer music for other people’s lyrics”, despite being unable to read or write music. She also appeared in musical comedy and vaudeville, worked in music publishing, and at several magazines. Early life Amy Ashmore was born in Toronto, Ontario. Career Clark wrote songs in various genres: hymns, ballads, novelties, “every kind of song except ragtime”, noted one publication. Titles of her songs (either as lyricist or composer) included “The Flowers are Calling, Sweetheart”, “My Rosary for You”, “Where You Are is Paradise”, “Long Lost Mama, Daddy Misses You”, “Toys are Not Only for Children”, “And So Your Soul was Born”, “With Love He Cleanses Every Sin”, “Laddie Dear”, “Rockabye Rose”, “The Heart of You”, “Lambie Love” “I’m Telling the World That I Love You”, “You and I”, “To You”, “Just a Cloud”, and “I am One with Thee”. One of her songs (co-written with Florence Turner-Maley), “In a Little Town Nearby”, was used in theatres during showings of the silent film The Bond Boy. Clark

Amy Beach

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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her “Gaelic” Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers of her era to succeed without the benefit of European training, and was known as one of the most respected American composers. She was acclaimed for piano concerts she gave, featuring her own music, in the United States and Europe. Life Early years and musical education Amy Marcy Cheney was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, on September 5, 1867 to Charles Abbott Cheney (nephew of Oren B. Cheney, who co-founded Bates College) and Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney. Amy was an only child. Artistic ability ran in the family: Clara was reputedly an “excellent pianist and singer,” while Amy showed every sign of being a child prodigy. She was able to sing forty songs accurately by age one, she was capable of improvising counter-melody by age two, and she taught herself to read at age three. At four, she composed three waltzes for piano

Amy Horrocks

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Amy Elise Horrocks (23 February 1867 – 4 December 1919) was an English music educator, composer (particularly of songs) and pianist, born to English parents (Francis James Horrocks 8 July 1829 – 27 April 1913) and Hannah Horrocks (née Allen 1833 – 22 April 1913) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where it is suggested that Francis Horrocks was constructing tramways. Amy had an elder sister, Marian, also born in Brazil, but who died there in 1862 aged 1 year. Contrary to one report, she did not have a brother. She had a close association with the Royal Academy of Music as both a student, teacher and Fellow and enjoyed a degree of professional success, including several performances of her work at the Proms. Early life The family (Francis, Hannah, Amy aged 4 and their servant Mary Thompson) are recorded in the Scottish census of 1871, as lodgers in Edinburgh, so presumably they left Brazil between 1867 and 1871 and are possibly taking a holiday. When they return from Brazil the family settles initially in Cheshire. Francis had a loose family connection to the area with his elder brother Thomas having been born and died in Chester as an infant in 1827, during the time their father (also ca

Amy Woodforde-Finden

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Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 – 13 March 1919) was a composer who is best known for writing the music to “Kashmiri Song” from Four Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope. Biography Amy Woodforde-Finden was born Amelia Rowe Ward in 1860 at Valparaíso, Chile, the youngest daughter of American parents, Alfred and Virginia Worthington Heath Ward. Alfred served as a US Consul after being recommended by Balie Peyton, US Ambassador to Chile under President Zachary Taylor. Her father died in 1867 and her mother moved the family to London, where Virginia became a naturalized British citizen in 1873. Around that time Amy displayed a skill for composition and became a student of Carl Schloesser and Amy Horrocks. Her early work, published as Amy Ward, though promising, was received only tepidly. At the age of 34, she married Brigade-Surgeon Woodforde-Finden, who served during the Second Afghan War and Third Burmese War with the Bengal establishment of the Indian Medical Service; they lived in India for several years, and during her time there she wrote and published what would become her most famous pieces: Kashmiri Song (1902) and A Lover in Damascus (six songs, 1904, text Charles Hanson Towne). Ka

Ana Villamil Icaza

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Ana Villamil Icaza was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador (January 19, 1852) and died in Guayaquil, Ecuador (October 23, 1916). She was a composer, artist and a teacher of piano and singing. Biography Ana was born to her father, Francisco Villamil y Garaicoa, and mother, Isabel María Icaiza y Paredes.Her father was the son of José de Villamil, an Ecuadorian Independence leader. Her mother Isabel was the daughter of Francisco de Paula Icaza and Isabel Paredes y Olmedo; niece of the poet Magdalena, and sister of José Joaquin de Olmedo. Ana worked as music teacher at municipal schools in her hometown throughout her life. She lived in Guayaquil at “10 de Agosto and Chimborazo,” which is now considered to be a historic site. She lived there until her death on October 23, 1916. Projects Inspired by José Joaquin de Olmedo, she composed the music to “The hymn of Guayaquil,” which was later recognized as The Guayaquil anthem. References

Anatoly Lyadov

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Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (; 12 May 185528 August 1914) was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor. Biography Lyadov was born in 1855 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, into a family of eminent Russian musicians. He was taught informally by his conductor step-father from 1860 to 1868, and then in 1870 entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study piano and violin. He soon gave up instrumental study to concentrate on counterpoint and fugue, although he remained a fine pianist. His musical talent was highly regarded by Modest Mussorgsky, among others, and during the 1870s he became associated with the group of composers known as The Five. Expelled from the composition classes of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for absenteeism in 1876, he re-enrolled in 1878 in order to complete his graduation composition. Family * paternal grandfather – Nikolai G. Lyadov (), conductor of the Petersburg Philharmonic Society * father – Konstantin Lyadov (Константин Ладов), chief conductor of the Imperial Opera Company * mother – V. Antipova, pianist * sister – Valentina K. Lyadova (), dramatic actress * brothers-in-law – Mikhail Sariotti (), opera singer; Ivan Pomazanskiy (), musician * paternal u

André Bloch (composer)

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André Bloch (14 January 1873 – 7 August 1960) He was Jewish, and the son of a rabbi. Bloch studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1893, he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Antigone which used a text by Ferdinand Beissier. The prize enabled him to pursue further studies at the French Academy in Rome. In 1898, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris as a professor of harmony. One of his notable pupils at that school was Jehan Alain. He later taught at American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. His private students included the composer Fernand Oubradous. Bloch was known primarily as an opera composer. His first opera, Maïda, premiered in 1909, and his last opera, Guignol, was created in 1939 and premiered in 1949 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. He also composed symphonic works, ballets, chamber music, piano works, and chansons. He died on 7 August 1960, in Viry-Chatillon in Île-de-France, France. References External links *Jewish Encyclopedia: “Bloch, André” by Isidore Singer and Amélie André Gedalge (1906).

André Caplet

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André Léon Caplet (; 23 November 1878 – 22 April 1925) was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy who orchestrated several of his compositions, as well as arrangements of several of them for different instruments. Early life André Caplet was born in Le Havre on 23 November 1878, the youngest of seven children born to a Norman family of modest means. He began studying piano and violin when a child and by the age of 13 performed in the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre there. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1896 and won several prizes. While a student he supported himself first by playing in dance orchestras in the evening and then by conducting, where had immediate success. After a stint as assistant conductor of the Orchestre Colonne, in 1899 he took over the musical direction at the Théâtre de l’Odéon. Until the end of 1905, Caplet lived at the French Academy in Rome with the financial support the prize provided, though he took leave for long periods to attend performances in Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg. Caplet served as one of the conductors of the Boston Opera Company for four seasons, from 1910 to 1914, specializing in the French re

André Gedalge

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André Gedalge (27 December 1856 – 5 February 1926) was a French composer and teacher. Biography André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères in Paris where he first worked as a bookseller and editor, specialising in livres de prix for public schools. During this time his father and him published books by Marie Laubot and Edmond About for the Librairie Gedalge. In 1886, at the age of 28, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris. In that same year he won the Second Prix de Rome. He studied under Ernest Guiraud, professor of counterpoint and fugue, who had also been Jules Massenet’s teacher. In 1891, Gedalge composed the score for Le Petit Savoyard, a pantomime in four acts performed at the Théâtre des Nouveautés. In 1895, Pris au Piège was awarded the Prix Cressant. In June 1900, his one act ballet Phoebé debuted at the Opéra-Comique. He composed Quatuor d’archet, Les Vaux de Vire (a collection of mélodies), children’s songs, and three symphonies. These illustrated the proud motto that he followed: “Neither literature, nor painting”, which defined “pure music”. His Third Symphony in F Major and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (written in 1899) were considered masterpieces of F

André Messager

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André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty , opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet (1886) and (1898) have had lasting success; (1897) and (1919) were also popular internationally. Messager took up the piano as a small child and later studied composition with, among others, Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. He became a major figure in the musical life of Paris and later London, both as a conductor and a composer. Many of his Parisian works were also produced in the West End and some on Broadway; the most successful had long runs and numerous international revivals. He wrote two operatic works in English, and his later output included musical comedies for Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps. As a conductor, Messager held prominent positions in Paris and London, at the head of the Opéra-Comique, the Paris Opéra, the , and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Although as a composer he is known chiefly for his light works, as a conductor he presented a wide range of operas, from Mozart to Richard Strauss, and he acquired a reputation

André Wormser

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André Alphonse Toussaint Wormser (1 November 1851 – 4 November 1926) was a French Romantic composer. Life and career André Wormser was born in Paris and studied with Antoine Marmontel and François Bazin at the Paris Conservatoire. As a very wealthy man, Wormser was able to afford a membership in the social club Cercle artistique et littéraire. In 1872, Wormser won the Premier Prix in piano at the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1875, he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Clytemnestre. He is best known for the pantomime L’Enfant prodigue (1890), which was performed across Europe and revived at the Booth Theatre in New York in 1916 (as the three-act play Pierrot the Prodigal). He died in Paris. Notable students include Charles Malherbe. Works Wormser composed choral and orchestral music, opera and works for solo instrument and voice. Selected works include: *L’Enfant prodigue, pantomime (1890; scenario by Michel Carré) *L’Étoile, Ballet-pantomime en deux actes (Opéra, Paris, 31 May 1897; choreography by Joseph Hansen) *Ballada for Oboe and Piano (1909) *Clytemnestre, cantata (1897) *Rêverie (Gypsy Suite) for violin and piano *Adèle de Ponthieu, opera (1887) *Rivoli, opera (1896) Refere

Andrejs Jurjāns

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Andrejs Jurjāns (September 30, 1856 – September 28, 1922) was a Latvian composer and musicologist. He was Latvia’s first classical composer, having composed instrumental pieces and cantatas. Jurjāns also studied and collected more than 6000 pieces of Latvian folklore, among them 3000 songs, which he compiled in six books, called Latvju tautas mūzikas materiāli (Materials of Latvian Folk Music). Biography Andrejs Jurjāns was born in 1856 in Ērgļi, Latvia. Active in music from a young age, Jurjāns decides to become a musician after participating as a choir singer in the First Latvian Song Festival in 1873. In 1875, he studied music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, attending composition, organ and French horn classes with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and German organists Louis Homilius and Friedrich Homilius. In 1877, he published his first composition. From 1882 to 1916 Jurjāns taught music in the Russian Imperial Music Society Conservatory in Kharkiv, Ukraine. At the same time, he took an active part in Latvian musical life as a collector, researcher and arranger of national folk songs. His five-volume work, “Materials of the Latvian Folk Music” encompasses about 2,000 tunes. Jurjāns

Angelo Mascheroni (composer)

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Angelo Mascheroni (1855 in Bergamo, Italy – 1905) was a pianist, composer, conductor, and music teacher, brother of the conductor Edoardo Mascheroni. He is most famous for his “Eternamente” for voice and violin, sung by Enrico Caruso; his two-act opera Il mal d’amore, with a libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, was written in 1898. Among his pupils was Spyridon Samaras. He studied music at the Conservatoire of his native city under the guidance of Alessandro Nini, with such success that at the age of nineteen he became conductor of an operatic company. With them, he made the tour of Italy, France and Spain. Later, Mascheroni spent some years in Greece and Russia and then visited all the cities of importance in North and South America. He spent five years in Paris, perfecting himself in the vocal art at the Paris Conservatoire with Léo Delibes for composition and Camille Saint-Saëns for piano; a few years later, he made a name in England and America. When Mascheroni arrived in London, unknown, he experienced great difficulty in obtaining a few guineas for his song For all eternity; but this copyright, when sold by public auction a few years later, realised as many thousand guineas — the

Anna Cramer

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Anna M. Cramer (15 July 1873 – 4 June 1968) was a Dutch composer. Life and career Anna Cramer was born in Amsterdam and studied at the Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam. After graduating in 1897, she studied composition in Germany with Wilhelm Berger and Max von Schillings. After completing her studies she worked successfully as a composer and had several works performed in 1906–07. Cramer published her songs Op. 1–4 in Germany between 1907 and 1910. Cramer lived in Munich and Berlin from 1910 to 1925, and then moved to Vienna. In Austria she collaborated with poet and composer Walter Simlinger, who wrote the libretti for her two opera, Der letzte Tanz and Dr. Pipalumbo (1926–1927). Cramer suffered from mental health problems and in 1930 was committed to a mental institution. She was released in January 1931 and returned to The Netherlands, but then withdrew from public life. No more of her songs were published in her lifetime. However, she continued composing, and in 1958 she stored a suitcase of manuscripts at a bank in Amsterdam. Her mental health problems grew worse, and in 1960 she was hospitalized again, remaining in a nursing home until her death at the age of 94. The suitc

Anna Diller Starbuck

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Anna Maria Diller Starbuck (August 29, 1868 – February 12, 1929) was a composer, music educator, organist, and pianist. She was one of the first two women to attend Harvard University. Starbuck was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Anna Margaret Frey and Isaac Diller. Her eyesight was damaged when she contracted spinal meningitis as a young child. She graduated from Hellmuth College in 1887, later studying at Leipzig Conservatory, Zurich Musikschule, and Harvard University. Edwin taught education and philosophy, and Anna taught music. The Central Lecture Bureau in Iowa City booked lectures by Edwin and recitals of French, German, Russian, or general music with interpretive comments by Anna. A review in the Boston Evening Transcript noted that “Mrs. Starbuck is an artist of rare accomplishment and surprising versatility.” She gave piano recitals throughout America, including Boston, Des Moines, Indiana (Earlham College), Massachusetts (Mount Holyoke College), Pennsylvania (Harrisburg and Lancaster), Vermont (Burlington), and Washington D.C. as well as a second piano part for W.A. Mozart’s Sonata in F Major K. 332. References

Anna Gardner Goodwin

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Anna Gardner Goodwin (October 1874 – 1959) was a Black American composer of classical music. Early life Anna Gardner was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1874 to Daniel and Anna Gardner. Daniel Gardner was remembered as “the March King of Augusta”, a cornet player who ran a Sunday afternoon concert series for Black Augustans. “To dance and watch my father blow his cornet with such enthusiasm created within me a desire to make music,” Anna Gardner Goodwin wrote. Personal life and legacy In 1895, Anna Gardner married the Rev. George A. Goodwin, a professor of theology at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. Together they had four children: a son, George Jr., and three daughters: Janie, Anna, and Eunice. In summer 1913, Mrs. Goodwin earned a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania to study the “method and supervision of public-school sic music” in the summer of 1913. Her granddaughter, Jane Alexander Robinson, became one of the founders of the Michigan Association of Black Psychologists. Jane’s grandsons, David E. Robinson III and Richard Robinson, both became professional musicians and composers. Anna Gardner Goodwin’s great-grandson, Richard Robinson, became a full member of the D

Anne Mathilde Bilbro

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Anne Mathilde Bilbro was an American composer and music educator. Early life and career A native of Tuskegee, Alabama, who spent the lion’s share of years 20 through 49 in Gadsden, and the remainder divided primarily between New York, Birmingham, and St. Petersburg, Bilbro was the only daughter of five children born to Francina A. “Franke” (née Mason) and Judge James Andrew Bilbro. She attended the Alabama Conference Female College, graduating in 1887, and later studied music in Atlanta and New York. Bilbro published over 600 works, primarily in the field of music education. Her compositions included piano pieces, pianologues, song stories, piano duets and trios, and complete collections of piano music. Her teaching methods were recognized for their novelty in the context of children’s piano instruction. Bilbro operated a music studio in Gadsden, Alabama, from the 1890s to 1900s, and conducted master classes in multiple states. Beyond her work in music, she wrote short stories, a novel, articles for The Etude, and the “Legend of Noccalula,” a text associated with Noccalula Falls in Alabama. In her later years, Bilbro experienced hearing loss but continued to engage with music. In 1

Annie Patterson

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Annie Wilson Patterson (27 October 1868 – 16 January 1934) was an Irish organist, music educator, writer, composer, and arranger. Life Annie Patterson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, and was related through her mother’s family to Lord Macaulay. She made her debut performance in Dublin at age fifteen, studied at Alexandra College and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin (with Robert Prescott Stewart), and received her doctorate in 1889, becoming the first Irish or British woman to hold a Doctorate of Music. After she completed her studies, she became an examiner for the Royal University of Ireland and worked as an organist and conductor of the Dublin Choral Union and the Hampstead Harmonic Society. In 1897 she co-founded the Feis Ceoil festival in Dublin. The Dr. Annie Patterson Medal is awarded in her honor at the festival. In 1909 Patterson took a job as organist at St. Anne’s in Shandon, County Cork. Patterson composed sacred and secular cantatas, orchestral works and songs based on Irish themes. She also wrote poetry, essays, short stories as well as professional articles and books on music. She published articles in The Girl’s Own Paper in England and a series

Antoine Banès

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Antoine Banés, real name Antoine Anatole, (8 June 1856 – 9 January 1924) was a French composer of operettas and ballets. Biography Antoine Banes studied music under the direction of Émile Durand, professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire. Early on, he thought to appear in the theater. He enjoyed light music and represented various successful comic operas or operettas. After trying his hand in various musical pochades at the Eldorado, he represented works including, among others, la Nuit de noce (1881); les Délégués (1887); Toto (1892)… Main works Operas and operettas *1881: La Nuit de noce *1883: La Cadiguette, operetta in 1 act, libretto by Louis Péricaud and Lemoine (Eldoradp) *1884: L’Escargot, operetta in 1 act, libretto by Albert Barré and Paul Adely (Eldorado, 19 April) *1885: Les Délégués, vaudeville-operetta in 3 acts, libretto by Fabrice Carré and Émile Blavet (Théâtre des Nouveautés, 28 November) *1892: Toto, operetta in 3 acts, libretto by Albert Barré and Paul Bilhaud (Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs, 10 June) *1893: Madame Rose, opéra comique in 1 act, libretto by Albert Barré and Paul Bilhaud (Opéra-Comique, 25 September) *1894: Le Bonhomme de neige, operetta in 3

Antoine Mariotte

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Antoine Mariotte (22 December 187530 November 1944) was a French composer, conductor and music administrator. Biography Mariotte was born in Avignon (Vaucluse) in 1875. After studies at the School of Saint-Michel in Saint-Étienne, he entered naval school aged 15. In 1894, while serving on the frigate Iphigénie, he wrote to a friend that he missed music and if he had the means he would go to the Conservatoire de Paris. While still split between the life of a sailor and musician, he worked away on harmony. He took part in campaigns on board the Forfait in the South China Sea, then on the Vinh-Long, where he witnessed the closing stages of the Sino-Japanese War. He brought back sketches that became the suite Kakémonos, initially written for the piano, but later orchestrated and performed at the Concerts Poulet on 29 January 1923 (Panorama, Geishas, Temple au Crépuscule, Fête). In the Far East he read the Oscar Wilde play Salome, and decided to set it to music. On return to Europe, he sailed on the Marceau then the Magenta where finally, thanks to Admiral Gervais, he had a piano. On six months leave he followed a course at the Conservatoire by Charles-Marie Widor. After prolonging his

Antoine Simon (composer)

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Antoine Simon, commonly known as Anton Simon () (5 August 1850 – 1 February 1916), was a French composer, director and pianist, who made most of his career in Russia. Biography Born in Paris, Antoine Simon studied at Conservatoire de Paris in the piano class of Antoine François Marmontel and the composition class of Jules Duprato. Aged 21, Antoine Simon left for Moscow where he settled permanently. He was hired as a composer (Kapellmeister) for the Théâtre des Bouffes in Moscow and taught the piano for musical classes of the Philharmonic Society of Moscow. In 1897, he was appointed inspector of orchestras of the imperial theaters. Work Antoine Simon was one of the few composers in Russia at the time to create works for wind instruments such as the quartet-like sonata Op. 23 for two cornets, horn and trombone, or his twenty-two small pieces for ensemble, Op. 26, composed in 1887. Simon also composed three operas and a number of piano pieces. His Piano Concerto in A major, Op. 19 met with some success, as did his Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31 and his Fantaisie concertante for cello and orchestra, Op. 42. He also composed a Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 16, a String Quartet in A major, Op. 2

Anton Arensky

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Anton Stepanovich Arensky (; 12 July 1861 – 25 February 1906) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, pianist, conductor and professor of music. He is known especially for his chamber music, songs and piano works, and for a style often associated with the lyricism of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Biography Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving family in Novgorod, Russian Empire. His father was a doctor and amateur cellist, while his mother was a pianist; Arensky began piano lessons as a child and was composing songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. After graduating, Arensky was appointed to the Moscow Conservatory, where he taught harmony, counterpoint and composition. His pupils included Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Reinhold Glière, Alexander Goldenweiser, Konstantin Igumnov, Georgy Konyus and Arseny Koreshchenko. The Antarctic Arensky Glacier was named after him by the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987. Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the most important influence on Arensky’s mature musical language. The perception that Arensky lacked a strongly individual style contributed to the long-term neglect of much of his music, though his chamber works

Anton Beer-Walbrunn

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Anton Beer-Walbrunn (29 June 1864 – 22 March 1929) was a German composer. Life Beer was the 4th of five children of the teacher, cantor, sacristan and community writer Anton Beer and his wife Margarethe, née Walbrunn, in the Upper Palatinate Kohlberg. His birthplace was demolished in 2019. In 1877 he attended the Regensburg Preparatory School, took the entrance examination for the Dominican Monastery Eichstättand subsequent use teachers’ seminar in Eichstätt in 1880, but then changed to the newly founded seminar in Amberg - today the - and was one of the first graduates in 1882. In 1886 he passed the final examination as the best of 57 candidates. His teacher Domkapellmeister Widmann in Eichstätt made a significant contribution to him and enabled him to study in Munich from 1888 to 1891 with Joseph Rheinberger, Hans Bußmeyer (1853–1930), and Ludwig Abel at the Akademie der Tonkunst. In 1901 he was appointed teacher for counterpoint, composition, harmony and piano at the same Royal Academy of Music in Munich (today: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München). In 1908 he was appointed Royal Professor. In 1904 he married the painter Ida Görtz, with whom he has since used the maiden nam

Anton Mailyan

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Anton Mayilyan (Armenian: Անտոն Մայիլյան, 1880–1942) was an Armenian Soviet composer, musical and public figure, prose writer, librettist, conductor, teacher, folklorist and Honored art worker of Azerbaijani SSR. Biography He was born on March 28, 1880, in the city of Tbilisi. There he graduated from the Nersisian School and studied at the teacher’s seminary in Tbilisi from Makar Yekmalyan and H. Kara-Murza. Then in 1900–1903 he studied at the Tbilisi Musical College in the composition class of N. D. Nikolaev. He began his career as a composer in 1905. In 1906, he taught singing at the Tbilisi teacher’s seminary. From 1906 he lived and worked in Baku, where in 1908 he created the first working choir here. In 1910-1917, he published in Baku the monthly Armenian magazine Tatron yev yerazhshtutyun (Theatre and Music). On the pages of the magazine, questions of the development of the music of the East were developed. During the World War I he constantly participated in charity evenings organized by Armenians in Baku. So in 1915 he took part in the second Armenian charity evening in favor of refugees called Even or Odd. Armenian folk songs were performed in the evening, the song Kele-ke

Antoni Stolpe

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Antoni Stolpe (23 May 1851 – 7 September 1872) was a Polish composer and pianist. Life Antoni Stolpe was born in Puławy, Congress Poland, as a descendant of a musical family. His first teacher of music was his father, Edward, a pianist under whom Antoni Stolpe developed piano skills; he also studied at the Warsaw Conservatory where he simultaneously studied harmony and counterpoint with August Freyer and later with Stanisław Moniuszko. This time marks his first efforts in the field of composition, e.g. he wrote the vocal piece O Salutaris Hostia in 1866. In 1867 the sixteen-year-old Antoni Stolpe completed his education at the Conservatory with a “grand prize” in piano and a first prize in counterpoint and in 1868–69 he gave three concerts in Warsaw, performing as a pianist and conductor. During these concerts, several of his orchestral works, chamber, piano and vocal compositions were presented. For those performances Antoni Stolpe received splendid reviews from critics as both a gifted composer and pianist. An income from the mentioned concerts enabled him to travel in 1869 to Berlin where he studied composition and counterpoint with Friedrich Kiel and perfected his playing techn

Antonio Russolo

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Antonio Russolo (1877–1943 Antonio learned music early through his father, who successfully prepared him and another brother, Giovanni, to pass the entrance exam at the Milan Conservatory. This Futurist musical concept, which was introduced by F.T. Marinetti, sought to avoid imitating the sound of everyday life by stylizing sonic materials so that it loses its original sense; acquiring a new aural sphere in the process. A record made by Russolo in 1921 is the only surviving sound recording that features the original intonarumori. It includes the pieces, Corale and Serenata, which combined conventional orchestral music set against the famous noise machines. This music was released in 1924 on a 78 rpm record. In these pieces, Russolo used the intonarumori as underlay. The sounds made are described as tunes disrupted by growls and low-pitched electrical interference. In the same year, Russolo’s compositions were conducted during a concert organized by F.T. Marinetti at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The program included four of Russolo’s work along with two compositions of Nuccio Fiorda. The use of the noise intoners were acclaimed by critics such as Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Diaghile

Antonio Smareglia

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Antonio Smareglia (5 May 1854 – 15 April 1929) was an Italian opera composer. Life Antonio Smareglia was born in Pola, in the Istrian peninsula, then part of the Austrian Empire. In the house where he was born in Via Nettuno, there is now a small museum of his life and work. His father Francesco Smareglia from Pola was Italian, his mother Giulia Stiglich from Lovran was Croatian. The composer chose to set his most famous opera, Nozze istriane, in his grandfather’s village, Dignano d’Istria. Smareglia married Maria Jetti Polla, and they had five children. He became blind at the age of 46. Since then he composed his music dictating to his sons, Ariberto and Mario, and to his students and friends including Primo dalla Zonca, Gastone Zuccoli, and Vito Levi. Smareglia died in Grado in 1929. Works * Caccia lontana (a one-act dramatic sketch, a student work, 1879) * Preziosa (opera, 1879) * Bianca da Cervia (opera, 1882) * Re Nala (opera, 1887) * Il vassallo di Szigeth (opera, 1889) * Cornill Schutt (revised as Pittori Fiamminghi, opera, 1893) * Nozze istriane (opera, 1895) * La falena (opera, 1897) * Oceàna (opera, 1903) * Abisso (opera, 1914) Notes References *. *. External links *Anton

Antun Dobronić

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Antun Dobronić (; 2 April 1878 – 12 December 1955) was a Croatian composer and pupil of Vítězslav Novák. He studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1910 to 1912. From 1922 to 1940, he served as professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music. His works show a strong streak of Croatian nationalism, which also is manifest in his writings on music. He sought to integrate high culture music techniques with traditional Croatian folk elements. Dobronić was a prolific composer. He composed eight symphonies and six ballets. He also composed operas, chamber music, and works for choirs. Biography Dobronić was born on April 2, 1878, the ninth and last child of the family of Prošper and Barbara (). He had his first contact with music listening to two Jelsa (Hvar) brass bands. He had his first lesson in music from a priest, Pavao Matijević, and went on studying by himself with the help of various textbooks, and later on by correspondence as well. From time to time he went to Split to have lessons from the composer Josip Hatze. He studied to be a teacher in the Normal School in Arbanasi near Zadar. He had his first position as a teacher on Hvar Island in the villages of Gdinj and Vrisnik, then on the i

Apolinary Szeluto

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Apolinary Szeluto (23 July 1884 – 22 August 1966) was a Polish pianist and composer of the Young Poland style. Life and career Apolinary Szeluto was born in St. Petersburg, and began the study of piano at age nine. He studied music at the Saratov Conservatory with Stanislav Echsner, composition at the Warsaw Conservatory from 1902 to 1905 with Roman Statkowski and Zygmunt Noskowski, and piano performance in Berlin from 1905 to 1908 with Leopold Godowsky. He also completed studies in law at the University of Dorpat. After completing his education, he worked as a concert pianist, actively performing from 1909 until 1931. In 1909 Szeluto took a position as a professor at the Berlin Conservatory, and later relocated to work as a judge near Astrachan, Russia. He took part in the Russian Revolution, and was named Chairman of the local Revolutionary Committee. Afterward he worked for a time in the Ministry of Justice in Poland. His compositions from this period reflected his dedication to the ideal of Socialist realism. In 1934 he settled in Słupca in Greater Poland, where he worked as a notary and later as a judge. When the Nazis occupied Poland, he worked as a baker and street trader, w

Armande de Polignac

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Armande de Polignac, comtesse de Chabannes-La Palice (Marie Armande Mathilde; 8 January 1876 – 29 April 1962) was a French composer, the niece of Prince Edmond de Polignac and Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, the patron of Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud. She studied privately with Eugène Gigout and Gabriel Fauré, as well as with Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum. De Polignac married the Comte de Chabanne la Palice. Biography Born in 1876, Armande de Polignac was the only daughter from the first marriage of Camille de Polignac and Marie Adolphine Langenberger; Marie Adolphine died within a week of giving birth. From a very young age, Armande de Polignac was passionate about foreign languages, speaking a dozen of them, and cultivated a lifelong attraction to and strong taste for musical creation. She began her harmony studies in London. She supported Edgar Varèse, whom she had met at the Schola Cantorum, by raising funds in 1915 so that he could travel to the United States. From its founding in 1905, Armande de Polignac became a contributor to the Mercure musical, a journal founded by Louis Laloy. From its inception, Claude Debussy, Romain Rolland, Jean Marnold, and Willy also con

Armas Launis

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Armas Launis (April 22, 1884 – August 7, 1959), was a Finnish composer as well as an ethnomusicologist, a professor, a writer and a journalist. He was born in Hämeenlinna. Composer Armas Launis was mainly an opera composer. He wrote ten operas (both libretto and music). Several were performed: *In Finland: “The Seven Brothers” (1913), the first Finnish opera comique, and “Kullervo” (1917), both in full stage performance, and a concert performance of “Aslak Hetta” in 2004 at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, directed by Sakari Oramo. *In France: stage performance of Kullervo (1940, Nice, Palais de la Méditerranée) with radio broadcasts on Paris-Inter and Radio Monte-Carlo (1938–1940). A short version of “Jehudith” was also broadcast in 1954 (Paris-Inter) Armas Launis also wrote chamber music pieces, cantatas, choruses, suites for orchestra, and the music of the first Finnish ethnographic film “A Wedding in Karelia, the Land of Poetry” (1921). Ethnomusicologist Launis was one of the first scholars to research and collect folk music. He was very open-minded; passionately fond of travels, which he undertook alone; and eager to meet other people. He travelled to Lapland (1904, 1905, 1922), Kain

Arne Eggen

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Arne Eggen (28 August 1881 in Trondheim, Norway – 26 October 1955 in Bærum, Norway) was a Norwegian composer and organist, married in 1916 to Engel Johanne Othilie Sparre Gulbranson (1878–1918), the brother of musicologist and composer (1877–1957), and brother-in-law to the opera singer Ellen Gulbranson (1863–1947). Biography Eggen studied at the Conservatory of Music in Oslo with Catharinus Elling (1858–1942), Peter Brynie Lindeman (1858–1930), and graduated as organist in 1905. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1906–1907) with Stephan Krehl and Karl Straube (1873–1950). He worked as organist in Bragernes Church (1908–1924), Drammen Church (1908–1924), Bryn Church (1924–1955) and Tanum Church, Bærum. He was chairman of the Norwegian Society of Composers (1927–1945), Honorary Chairman 1945 in TONO 1928–1930. Of his compositions include Oratorio King Olav (1930), the operas Olav Liljekrans (lyrics by Ibsen, 1931–1940) and Cymbelin (lyrics by Shakespeare, 1943–1950), premiered in 1951, with Aase Nordmo Løvberg in the role of Imogen, the choral Mjøsen (mixed choir with piano, 1922), the melodrama Liti Kersti, Cantata to Drammens 100th anniversary (soli, choir and orchestra)

Arnold Bax

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Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems, he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist. Bax was born in the London suburb of Streatham to a prosperous family. He was encouraged by his parents to pursue a career in music, and his private income enabled him to follow his own path as a composer without regard for fashion or orthodoxy. Consequently, he came to be regarded in musical circles as an important but isolated figure. While still a student at the Royal Academy of Music Bax became fascinated with Ireland and Celtic culture, which became a strong influence on his early development. In the years before the First World War he lived in Ireland and became a member of Dublin literary circles, writing fiction and verse under the pseudonym Dermot O’Byrne. Later, he developed an affinity with Nordic culture, which for a time superseded his Celtic influences in the years after the First World War. B

Arnold Mendelssohn

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Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn (26 December 1855 – 18 February 1933), was a German composer and music teacher. Life He was born in Ratibor, Province of Silesia, the son of Felix Mendelssohn’s cousin Wilhelm Mendelssohn who, in 1854, had married Louise Aimee Cauer (sister to Bertha Cauer). In 1885, Arnold Ludwig himself married his second cousin, Maria Cauer, daughter of Karl Cauer (sister of Ludwig Cauer). Mendelssohn was originally a lawyer before studying music at the Institut für Kirchenmusik in Berlin (1877–80). His teachers there were Karl August Haupt for the organ, Carl Albert Löschhorn for the piano and Eduard Grell, Friedrich Kiel and Wilhelm Taubert for composition. A series of musical appointments followed: music director and organist at Bonn University (1880–82), where he became friendly with the Bach scholar Philipp Spitta; music director in Bielefeld (1882–5); teacher of composition at the Cologne Conservatory (1885–90); and master of church music and professor at the conservatory in Darmstadt (1891–1912). After that he taught at the Frankfurt Conservatory where his students included Paul Hindemith and Kurt Thomas. He died in Darmstadt. After his death his works were banne

Árpád Doppler

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Árpád Doppler (5 June 1857 – 13 August 1927) was a Hungarian-German composer. He was born in Budapest, the son of Karl Doppler, and he studied at the Conservatory of Stuttgart. From 1880 to 1883 he was a teacher at the Grand Conservatory in New York City, after which he returned to the German Empire in order to teach at the Conservatory in Stuttgart. From 1889, he was also a choir leader at the court opera in Stuttgart. He composed several works for piano and for orchestra, choral works, lieder, and operas. His comic opera Halixula was first performed in 1891 at the court opera in Stuttgart; His compositional style is reminiscent at times of Edvard Grieg. He died in Stuttgart in 1927. References

Arseny Koreshchenko

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Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko (, 18 December 1870 – 6 January 1921) was a pianist and composer of classical music, including operas and ballets. He was from the Russian Empire. Biography Koreshchenko was born in Moscow in 1870. He entered the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1891. He was only the second person ever to be awarded the Conservatory’s Great Gold Medal; the first was one of his teachers, Sergei Taneyev, and the third was Sergei Rachmaninoff. He also studied theory under Anton Arensky. He stayed with his alma mater as a professor of harmony and also taught counterpoint at the Moscow Synodal School. He died in Kharkov in 1921. List of works Opera *Belshazzar’s Feast, Op. 7 (1 act, produced Moscow, 1892) *The Angel of Death, Op. 10 (2 acts, based on Mikhail Lermontov) *The Ice Palace, Op. 38 (based on Ivan Lazhechnikov’s play; produced Moscow 1900) Ballet *The Magic Mirror, Op. 39 Incidental music *The Trojan Women (Euripides), Op. 15 *Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides), Op. 18 Choral works *Don Juan, cantata, Op. 5 *Armenian Songs, Op. 8 *Prologue for the 25th anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory, Op. 9 *Armenian Songs, Op. 13 *Georgian Songs, Op. 27c *other (Opp. 16,

Arthur Batelle Whiting

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Arthur Batelle Whiting (June 20, 1861 – July 20, 1936) was an American teacher, pianist, composer, and writer on music, known for his conservative compositional style, espousal of early music, and his long-running university lecture-recital series. Biography Whiting was born on June 20, 1861, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, son of Charles Edward and Emma Reeves Leland Whiting. He began studying piano at the age of 8 with his mother. A few years later, he left school and was placed under the instruction of his uncle, organist and composer George E. Whiting, who gave him lessons in the organ. He continued studying the piano; in 1873 or 1874, at the age of 13, he began his career as a concert pianist, in a concert in Worcester, Massachusetts. Whiting also studied piano with Prof. Hans Bussmeyer (1853–1930), head of the piano department at the School * Organ music * Chamber music for various combinations of instruments * Arrangements of French and English folk songs * Transcriptions for piano of toccatas and suites of Bach and Handel References External links * Whiting Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts *Whiting biography in American Choral Music section of

Arthur Bergh

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Arthur Oscar Bergh (March 24, 1882 – February 11, 1962 ) was an American composer, conductor and accompanist. He performed on the piano, violin and organ. Bergh was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Bergh became the recording manager at Emerson Records in 1916; he had previously been employed by Columbia Records, and was convinced to move to Victor Emerson’s new company after Emerson himself left Columbia. In his later life, Bergh worked as a librarian with Hollywood film companies. He died in Los Angeles on February 11, 1962. After Bergh’s death, Geraldyne married Los Angeles Superior Court judge McIntyre Faries on December 3, 1965. Geraldyne died in 1998 and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Works He composed a number of operas and operettas, including adaptations of Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. His Lieder include music to Walt Whitman’s The Imprisoned Soul (1939), Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Music, When Soft Voices Die (1947), Emily Dickinson’s The Grass (1954), and John Greenleaf Whittier’s Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (1955). * 1908 – The Raven, Op. 20 (Edgar Allan Poe) * 1910 – December, Op. 9 No. 1 (Thomas Bailey Al

Arthur De Greef (composer)

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Arthur De Greef (10 October 186229 August 1940) was a Belgian classical pianist and composer of the romantic era. Life and career Born in Louvain, he won first prize in a local music competition at the age of 11 and subsequently enrolled at the Brussels Conservatoire. His main teacher there was Louis Brassin, a former pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, although he also took lessons from other staffers at the institution, including Joseph Dupont, François-Auguste Gevaert and Fernand Kufferath. After graduating with high distinction from the Conservatoire at the age of 17, De Greef went to Weimar to complete his studies under Franz Liszt. He was a pupil of Liszt for two years. Following the Weimar sojourn, De Greef embarked on a career as a concert pianist, travelling widely. He was a friend of Edvard Grieg, whose Piano Concerto he had played publicly in 1898, and who called him “the best performer of my music I have met with”. In addition, he enjoyed the endorsement of Camille Saint-Saëns. British critic Jonathan Woolf has written: “De Greef was, in all respects, an intensely musical, non-sensationalist, eloquent and impressive musician and whilst not being averse to some of the intervention

Arthur Foote

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Arthur William Foote (March 5, 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts – April 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American classical composer, and a member of the “Boston Six.” The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker. Biography Foote was appointed organist of the First Church in Boston (Unitarian) in 1878, remaining there 32 years. A founder of the American Guild of Organists, he was one of the examiners at the first Guild Fellowship examination. He helped organize the New England chapter of the AGO, and from 1909 to 1912 (when the office was discontinued) he served as National Honorary President of the AGO, succeeding Horatio Parker in that position. He was one of the editors of Hymns of the Church Universal, a Unitarian hymnal published in 1890. The modern tendency is to view Foote’s music as “Romantic” and “European” in the light of the later generation of American composers such as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and William Schuman, all of whom helped to develop a recognizably American sound in classical music. A Harvard graduate and the first noted American classical composer to be trained entirely in the U.S.,

Arthur Friedheim

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Arthur Friedheim (, 26 October 1859 – 19 October 1932) was a Russian-born concert pianist and composer who was one of Franz Liszt’s foremost pupils. One of Friedheim’s students was Rildia Bee O’Bryan Cliburn, the mother of 20th-century piano virtuoso Van Cliburn. Biography Friedheim was born in Saint Petersburg on 26 October 1859. He began serious study of music at age eight. He later studied for a year with noted pianist Anton Rubinstein but disapproved of Rubinstein’s disorganized teaching methods and went instead to Liszt. At first Liszt did not like Friedheim’s playing, though he admitted the individuality of Friedheim’s style. Harold C. Schonberg asserts in his book The Great Pianists that another reason Liszt may have been hesitant was that Friedheim had studied with Rubinstein, of whom Liszt may not have been terribly fond. Friedheim had to play before Liszt several times before becoming accepted as a pupil in 1880. The friendship between them eventually led Liszt to make Friedheim his secretary. Friedheim copied many of Liszt’s mannerisms, which were noted by pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni on hearing Friedheim play in Vienna in 1883. Busoni wrote: “There is a pianist

Arthur H. Bird

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Arthur Homer Bird (23 July 1856 – 22 December 1923) was an American composer, for many years resident in Germany. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied organ and composition in Berlin and spent a year at Weimar with Franz Liszt. He composed a symphonic poem, Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5, and a Symphony in A major, Op. 8 (both in 1886); three orchestral suites; some works for wind instruments alone including a Suite in D; some music for the ballet; a comic opera; and some chamber music; he was also commissioned by the Mason and Hamlin company to write a suite of short pieces for the reed organ. He married Wilhelmine Waldemann in Peterborough, England in 1888. Selected Compositions * Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5, symphonic poem (1886) * Symphony in A Major, Op. 8 (1886) * Suite in D, for wind dectet * Serenade for wind dectet * Marche miniature, for woodwind nonet References * External links *

Arthur H. Otto

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Arthur Hermann Otto (10 February 1876 – ?) was an organist, composer, singer and teacher of music in Adelaide, South Australia. He had a later singing and teaching career in England as Arthur Kingston-Stewart. History Otto was the only son of Frederick Hermann Otto (c. 1848 – 4 October 1894) and his wife Margaret Otto, née Stewart, (c. 1852 – 13 February 1934) who married in 1874. Frederick, a tobacconist, was a fine singer, a member and secretary of Adelaide Liedertafel. Their family home, from around 1890 to 1923, was “Bonella Villa”, 204 Halifax Street, Adelaide. He studied piano as a boy and by age 12 he was accompanying his father’s singing at public concerts. and was appointed his assistant organist and choirmaster of St. Peter’s Cathedral sometime before 1896, when he himself was advertising for students. In 1902 Rev. W. S. Hopcraft appointed Otto as organist and choirmaster for St John’s Church, Adelaide, with the aim of reorganising and training the choir into the traditional Anglican cathedral model. He acted as accompanist to visiting artists Ada Crossley, Evangeline Florence and Johann Kruse. His voice students include Harold Gard. In 1908 he began giving vocal concerts

Arthur Hervey

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Arthur Hervey (26 January 1855 – 10 March 1922) was an Irish composer, music critic, and an expert in French music. Life Hervey was born in Paris of Irish parentage – his father was Charles J.V. Hervey who owned Killiane Castle in County Wexford, Ireland. He was educated at the Oratory, Birmingham, and studied in London with Berthold Tours and Edouard Marlois, two organist-composers with a French background. Hervey worked as music critic for Vanity Fair (1889–92) and The Morning Post (1892–1908). He died in London. Music Hervey composed in many forms including opera and orchestral music. Some of his larger works were written for and performed at major British music festivals at Cardiff, Norwich and Brighton. A French influence is detectable in his early chamber music. His wife Clare (née Harrison, widowed Webster) occasionally contributed the words to some of his songs and the libretto to his second opera Ilona (1914). In an obituary for the Musical Times, his musical language was described as being “always marked by melodiousness, straightforwardness of utterance, and polish of manner”. Since 1959, the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London is awarding an annual Arthur Hervey Priz

Arthur Kay (musician)

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Arthur Kay, né Kautzenbach (16 January 1882 in Grottkau/Grodków (Silesia), Germany; † 19 December, 1969 in Los Angeles (CA), United States) was a German-American conductor, composer, arranger, and cellist. Educated in Silesia and Berlin, he emigrated to the United States in 1907, where, after a few seasons as cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, he embarked on a career as conductor, composer, and arranger in operetta, silent film, and talkies, first primarily on the East Coast and from 1918 on the West Coast. Biography Family and education Arthur Kautzenbach came from a Catholic family in Silesia in which there had already been musicians in earlier generations. He was the first of eight children of the cartwright and musician Ferdinand Kautzenbach (1856–1942) and his wife Bertha Kautzenbach, née Großmann (1861–1923). Kautzenbach’s main instrument was the cello, but he learned other instruments during his training in his father’s apprentice orchestras in Grottkau, Frankenstein, and Reichenbach im Eulengebirge. His sisters learned piano, his brothers string instruments. His sister Maria Kautzenbach, married Folgmann (1884–1915), and his

Arthur Meulemans

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Arthur Meulemans (19 May 1884 in Aarschot – 29 June 1966 in Etterbeek) was a Belgian composer, conductor, and music teacher. Biography Meulemans’ father was an artisan and a music lover who composed dance music. As a child, Arthur Meulemans received his first music lessons from his father and his uncle Jan, who taught him to play the piccolo. He also got violin classes from a certain mister Single, and piano lessons from Ernest Maréchal. Alfons van den Eynde, a student of Peter Benoit, gave the boy introductory classes in harmony, counterpoint, and fugue. Meulemans studied at the Lemmensinstituut in Mechelen with, among others, Edgar Tinel, Aloys Desmet, and Oscar Depuydt. After completing his final exams, he became a teacher at this institution and remained so until 1914. He got married in 1911 and settled in Tongeren, where he taught music at the Koninklijk Atheneum (a high school). This situation lasted until 1930, the year in which Meulemans was appointed as conductor (together with Fernand Quinet) of the newly founded Vlaams Radio Orkest in Brussels., which nowadays is known as the Brussels Philharmonic. In 1916, he found the Limburge Orgel- en Zangschool in Hasselt. From 1932

Arthur Somervell

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Sir Arthur Somervell (5 June 18632 May 1937) was an English composer and educationalist. After Hubert Parry, he was one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s–1900s. According to Michael Hurd, his most important work is found in the five song cycles, particularly his settings of Tennyson in Maud (1898) and Housman in A Shropshire Lad (1904). Career He was born in Windermere, Westmorland, the son of Robert Miller Somervell and his wife. His father was a shoe manufacturer who served as a JP, of “Hazelthwaite” at Windermere (1821-1899). The Somervell (originally Somerville) family came from Scotland, settling in London in the 1700s. Somervell’s brother, Colin Somervell, became a shoe-manufacturer like their father and later served as High Sheriff of Westmorland in 1916. Colin’s son, Maj. Arnold Colin Somervell, O.B.E., served in this office in 1936; later, other members of the Somervell family also served. Somervell was initially educated at Uppingham School and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied composition under Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. From 1883 to 1885 he studied at the High School for Music, Berlin,

Arthur Warren Darley

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Arthur Warren Darley (19 June 1873 – 19 December 1929) was an Irish violinist, folksong collector, music teacher, and adjudicator as well as a traditional music archivist. As a violinist (or “fiddler”) he was equally at home in classical music as in the traditional music of Ireland. Life Arthur Warren Darley was born in Dún Laoghaire and first lived on Silchester Road, Glasthule. He was a grandnephew of poet George Darley. His father Henry Warren Darley had converted to Catholicism. His family was musical both in traditional and classical. His grandfather played the uilleann pipes and fiddle, and his father played fiddle and viola. Darley began learning the violin at age 8 and studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), becoming a teacher there while still studying, initially assisting his teacher Adolf Wilhelmj (son of August Wilhelmj). He was appointed senior professor at the RIAM, 1900–1903. Later he was a fellow in the College of Violinists, London, a professor at the Leinster School of Music & Drama, in August 1928 became the first director of the Municipal School of Music, Dublin. He was the founder and leader of the Dublin String Quartet, which also included Terry O'

Arthur Wellesley Hughes

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Arthur Wellesley Hughes (8 April 1863;18 April 1937) was a Canadian musician and composer. Possibly born in Kingston, Ontario (although his WW1 papers consistently list his birthplace as either Bloomington or Birmingham Illinois, he separated from his family at a young age, spending many years in the United States as an itinerant circus musician. He was a performer on piano, calliope, and alto horn. He enlisted for WW1 service in Toronto in 1915, claiming a date of birth of 1873, but was discharged as medically unfit in 1916 and his age is then noted as 53.5 years. He served as a bandmaster for the 76th Batallion. His circus associations on record include: Mighty Haag Circus, Downie & Wheeler Circus (1912); Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus (1922); Sells-Floto Circus (1923); and Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows (1924–26). He was with Robbins Bros. Circus (1928–29) whence his Robbins Bros. Triumphal March arose, and Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Wild West Show, and Walter L. Main Circus (1930–31). Hughes worked as composer and arranger for the Waterloo Music Company of Waterloo, Ontario, from 1932 to 1935. At other times, Hughes worked as arranger in the Whaley, Royce and Cundy-Betton

Arthur Willner

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Arthur Willner (5 March 18816 April 1959) was a Bohemian-German composer, pianist, and teacher who from 1938 lived and worked in the UK. Education and European career Willner was born in Turn () in Teplitz-Schönau, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He attended the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied with Adolf Ruthardt (piano), Carl Reinecke (composition) and Carl Piutti (music theory). He then continued his studies at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich with Joseph Rheinberger (piano) and Ludwig Thuille (composition). In 1902 he secured his first significant academic post, as composition teacher and (from 1904) deputy director of the Stern Conservatory, Berlin. The position was secured after Gustav Hollaender heard his first string quartet. Fellow teachers there included Englebert Humperdink, Arnold Schoenberg and Ferrucio Busoni. Students he taught and influenced included Claudio Arrau, Otto Klemperer, Frederick Loewe, Edgar Varese, Kurt Weill and Stefan Wolpe. ) were living in the 7th district of Vienna, in the Zieglergasse. Exile in England On 15 March 1938 at the age of 57, Willner left Austria for Paris to escape the Anschluss; he moved to England later that year. After arriving in

Arthur Wood (composer)

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Arthur Henry Wood (24 January 1875 – 18 January 1953) was an English composer and conductor. Wood is known for his 1924 work “Barwick Green”, the signature theme for the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers. Wood initially learnt to play the violin, before later learning to play the flute and piccolo which became his primary instruments. Petticoat Fair, and Fancy Fair, the latter two dating from about 1918. Apart from “Barwick Green”, his works are now rarely performed. The couple had five children including Peggy Ann Wood, an actress, director and theatre manager. Wood moved to live in London in 1903, and in 1907 moved into 20, Arlington Gardens in Chiswick, Middlesex (present-day London). In 2012 Wood’s grand-daughter led an unsuccessful campaign to have a blue plaque erected on the building, which has been converted into flats. Notes References External links * *Item about Woods on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, 24 June 2011, at 18m27s. By chance, the clip begins with the final seconds of the evening’s The Archers, so Barwick Green is heard.

Artur Kapp

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Artur Kapp (28 February 1878 – 14 January 1952) was an Estonian composer. Early life and career Born in Suure-Jaani, Estonia, then part of the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician. Kapp began his musical career studying organ at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory as a student of both Louis Homilius and composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1891. Kapp graduated from the Conservatory in 1900 as a composer and from 1904 until 1920 worked as a music director in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan, then returning to Estonia as a professor and conductor at the Tallinn Conservatory where he counted among his students such future notable Estonian composers as Evald Aav, Edgar Arro, Gustav Ernesaks, Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Riho Päts and Enn Võrk. He is, along with Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918), generally considered to be one of the founders of Estonian symphonic music. Kapp’s son Eugen (1908–1996) and nephew Villem (1913–1964) became notable composers as well, having studied at the Tallinn Conservatory under direction of the elder Kapp. Some of Kapp’s most enduring works are the 1899 overture Don Carlos and the

Arturo Buzzi-Peccia

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Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (13 October 1854 – 29 August 1943) was an Italian singing instructor and song composer. Biography Buzzi-Peccia was born on 13 October 1854 in Milan, Austrian Empire, to Antonio and Clotilde Peccia. External links * Arturo Buzzi-Peccia in Discography of American Historical Recordings at UC Santa Barbara

Attilio Brugnoli

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Attilio Brugnoli (7 October 1880 – 10 July 1937) was an Italian composer, pianist and musicologist. Life and career Born in Rome, Brugnoli graduated in piano and composition at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory. He soon began a concert career, both as a member of the Waldemar Mayer quartet and as a soloist. In 1907 he was simultaneously offered the positions of academic chair of the piano faculties at the Naples Conservatory and the Parma Conservatory, ultimately deciding to accept the position in Parma, and later became professor at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence and at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in his hometown. He was author of several publications about piano teaching and piano techniques. Married with pianist Elvira Silla, he suddenly died in Bolzano, where he had gone as to serve as commissioner for the final exams at the city conservatory. References Further reading * External links * * Attilio Brugnoli at Musicalics.com

Attilio Parelli

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Attilio Enrico Paparella, known professionally as Attilio Parelli (31 May 1874 – 26 December 1944) was an Italian conductor and composer. Born in the village of Monteleone d’Orvieto, about 35 km southwest of Perugia, he studied with Cesare de Sanctis at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome between 1891 and 1899. He started work as a conductor in Italy and Paris, before moving to the United States. From 1906 he collaborated with Cleofonte Campanini at the Manhattan Opera House and the Chicago Grand Opera Company. His most important opera, I dispettosi amanti (The Lovers’ Quarrel), received its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, in March 1912. In 1925 Parelli returned to Italy and became artistic director of the newly formed Unione Radiofonica Italiana (Italian Radio Union; now RAI) in Milan. In 1926, I dispettosi amanti became the first opera to be broadcast in its entirety on Italian radio. Parelli married his student Isolina Rapalli. They had no children. He died in Monteleone d’Orvieto on 26 December 1944 and lies buried in the cemetery of his native village. References Further reading *Brumana, Biancamaria (2002). Il fondo musicale Attilio Parell

August de Boeck

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Julianus Marie August De Boeck (May 9, 1865 in Merchtem, Belgium – October 9, 1937 in Merchtem) was a Belgian composer, organist and music pedagogue. He was the son of organist and director Florentinus (Flor) De Boeck (1826-1892) Career From 1880 he studied organ at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels under Alphonse Mailly, whose assistant he became until 1902. In 1889 he met the young Paul Gilson who became a close friend and, despite being the same age, his teacher for orchestration. Gilson encouraged De Boeck’s composition work. He became an organist at various churches in Belgian villages (1892-1894 in Merchtem, 1894-1920 in Elsene). His academic career continued in 1907 as professor of harmony at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (1909–1920) and the Brussels Conservatory, and as director of the Conservatory of Mechelen (1921–1930). His students included Maria Scheepers. In 1930 August De Boeck retired to his birthplace, Merchtem. As with Gilson, De Boeck’s style was influenced by the Russian Five, and especially Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Along with Gilson, he introduced impressionist composition in Belgium. He wrote about 400 compositions including vocal work, operas, religious

August Enna

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August Enna (13 May 1859 – 3 August 1939) was a Danish composer, known mainly for his operas. Biography Enna was born in Nakskov, Lolland, Denmark, but his ethnic origins lay in Sicily. His grandfather, an Italian by birth, had emigrated to Denmark with his German-born wife after the Napoleonic Wars (in which he served as a soldier). In 1870 the family moved to Copenhagen, where Enna became a shoemaker’s apprentice (his father was a shoemaker) and received music lessons. He became a violinist and performed in Finland and Sweden. In 1883 he returned to Denmark to become music director at Werner’s Theatre Company, a travelling touring theatre. In 1884, he composed his first opera, Agleia, some piano pieces and instrumental works, and in 1886 a symphony (in C minor) which attracted the interest of Niels Gade. In 1890/91 he was conductor at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen. After that he lived from composing and short-term engagements. In 1908 he became an adjunct professor. In 1892, his groundbreaking work, the opera The Witch, was premiered. He then had great success with other operas, including Cleopatra (1894), The Little Match Girl (1897), Gloria Arsena (1917) and The Comedians (1

August Högn

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August Högn (2 August 187813 December 1961) was a German teacher, composer and historian. Biography August Högn was born on 2 August 1878, the middle of five children to married bookbinders Andreas and Helene Högn in Deggendorf. Like all children of the later municipality authorities, county commissioners and legislative representatives, Andreas taught August piano. He continued his studies and trained to teach at the prep school in Deggendorf (1891–1894) and at the teaching school in Straubing (1894–1896). As a young teacher he was placed in many locations (Deggendorf, Neukirchen (Niederbayern), Schaufling, Geratskirchen, Zeilarn, Wallersdorf, Eberhardsreuth). On 20 June 1904 Högn married Emme Gerstl in Wallersdorf. From this marriage came two children (Elfriede, 14 August 1906; August, 17 January 1912). Högn was sent to Ruhmannsfelden, where he remained until his death. In his first years there he made a name for himself as dean of the gymnastics club (21 May 1910 – 27 December 1913), secretary of the Ruhmannsfelden volunteer fire dept. (26 December 1910 – 26 December 1950), and parish clerk for the neighboring Zachenberg (1913–1920). Högn’s wife Emma died 26 June 1926. Following

August Reuß

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August Reuß (6 March 1871 – 18 June 1935) was a German composer. Life Reuß was born in Liliendorf, Moravia. His father ran a railway construction company, and his grandfather had worked as a teacher and organist in Würzburg, Lower Franconia. He joined his father’s company after his secondary school years in Ingolstadt. Due to his father’s early death, Reuß had to wait until 1899, before he could finally start studying music with Ludwig Thuille in Munich Source for the list of works: Stage music * Herzog Philipps Brautfahrt (after Hanns von Gumppenberg), Opernlustspiel 3 acts (1909 Graz). * Piano Concerto, op. 48 Music for piano * Piano Sonata, op. 27 * Fantasie in A minor for two pianos, op. 42 * Goldammer. Ein Stimmungsbild für Klavier., op. 43,1 * Kleine Sonate für Klavier, op. 55 Chamber music * Quintet in F minor, op. 12 * Strin Quartet in D minor, op. 25 * Piano Trio, op. 30 * String Quartet in E major (Frühlings-Quartett)’ op. 31 * Romantische Sonate für Violine und Klavier, op. 35 * Oktet for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons in B major, op. 37 Vocal music * Gotenzug (after Felix Dahn) op. 5 * Tag & Nachtgesänge from Gottfried Keller’s Buch der Natur (5 songs) op.

August Stradal

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August Stradal (17 May 1860 – 13 March 1930) was a Czech virtuoso pianist, arranger, composer, author and music teacher. Career Stradal was born on 17 May 1860 in Teplice, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic). He attended the grammar school in Litoměřice and then the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied piano with Anton Door. He also became a composition student of Anton Bruckner and studied piano further with Theodor Leschetizky and (from late 1884) with Franz Liszt, appearing in the latter’s master classes in Weimar, Rome, and Pest, where he played some of Liszt’s most difficult works. After returning to Teplice, Stradal was active as a teacher until 1890. For some years he travelled widely as a recitalist on the Continent and in London, particularly admired as a Liszt interpreter. He married Rosa Zweigelt from Krásná Lípa. Then he devoted himself to making piano transcriptions. He arranged music from Bach (most of the organ works and concertos, including the six Brandenburgs), Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner (Symphonies 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8), Buxtehude, Handel (the organ concertos), Liszt (the 13 Symphonic Poems and the Dante Symphony), Mozart, Paganini, Purcell, Reubke,

August Wiltberger

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August Wiltberger (17 April 1850 – 2 December 1928) was a German royal music director, composer and professor at a teachers’ seminary. Career Wiltberger was born in Sobernheim. He received his first lessons from his father, who was organist and teacher. From 1868 to 1871 he attended the seminary in Boppard, where the music pedagogue Peter Piel was his role model. From 1871 to 1873 he worked as a teacher in Bad Salzig. In 1873, he followed the calling as a music teacher at the Präparandenanstalt (preparatory school) in Colmar, from 1876 at the Gymnasium and at the Höhere Töchterschule, a school for girls, in Saargemünd. In 1880, he went to the newly established seminary in Münstermaifeld. From 1888, he worked until his retirement at the seminary in Brühl. Wiltberger was married to Theresa Wiltberger, née Grünewald. Since 1879, he was a presenter of the Allgemeiner Cäcilien-Verband für Deutschland, a Catholic organisation for choral singing. He actively supported the training of teachers, students and organist. His own compositions were almost exclusively written for amateur choirs, similar to those of Michael Haller, Peter Griesbach, Immanuel Faisst, Vinzenz Goller. His works were m

Auguste Chapuis

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Auguste Chapuis (; 25 April 1858 – 6 December 1933) was a 19th/20th century French composer, organist, and professor. He was a student with César Franck. The in the 20th arrondissement of Paris was named after him when he died in 1933. He was awarded the Prix Rossini in 1886 for Les Jardins d’Armide on a libretto by the playwright Émile Moreau. In 1894, he succeeded Adolphe Danhauser as head of the municipal of Paris. Two scores were dedicated to him, one by Jacques Charlot, Chanson (1910), for piano, and the other one by Samuel Rousseau, 12 Pièces for organ. Works (selection) Sept paroles du Christ, oratorio for soloists, choir, and orchestra, Notre-Dame-des-Champs Church, 1883, with Charlotte Jacquemont, a soprano student of Mr. Saint-Yves Bax, and Devineau, tenor, student of Crosti, and one hundred and fifty performers, conducted by Mr. Lucien Michelot, choirmaster. * Les Jardins d’Armide, lyrical scene, or cantata (1886, libretto by Émile Moreau). Prix Rossini * 2 Pièces pour violoncelle, avec piano (1890): Sérénade mélancolique; Badinage * La source, three-part chorus a cappella on a poem by Théophile Gautier (1898) * Solo de trompette en fa*, avec piano (1899) * Enguerrande

Auguste Le Guennant

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Auguste Joseph-Marie François Le Guennant (10 January 1881 – 17 May 1972) was a French organist, church musician and composer. He was, after positions as organist and head of the chapel in Paris and Nantes, the director and teacher at the Gregorian Institute of Paris, as a specialist of Gregorian chant. Biography Born in 1881 in Auray (Morbihan), Auguste Le Guennant was the son of Auguste Marie Le Guennant and his wife Valentine Joséphine Françoise le Duff. Le Guennant studied at the Schola Cantorum de Paris – the organ with Alexandre Guilmant and composition with Vincent d’Indy. He held for some time the position of organist at the grand organ of Notre-Dame de Clignancourt, and left Paris in 1905 to become head of the chapel at Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port in Les Sables-d’Olonne, and from 1908 at the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas in Nantes. He founded the mixed group A Capella in this city, in collaboration with A. Mahot. The Mutual Edition of the Schola Cantorum published his Adagietto for organ, and an O Salutaris for four mixed voices. Biton published an accompanying book on Gregorian chant. In 1925, Le Guennant arrived at the Gregorian Institute of Paris as director and teacher of Grego

Auguste Sérieyx

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Auguste Sérieyx (14 June 1865 – 19 February 1949) was a French music pedagogue, musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Amiens, Auguste Sérieyx, musicographer and composer studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Gedalge and subsequently at the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Charles Bordes, Paul Dukas and Vincent d’Indy where he latter taught music composition (1900–1914). As early as 1883, he wrote in his diary: “Music holds an increasingly important place in my preoccupations”. In particular, he discovered Tchaïkovsky, Liszt and Saint-Saëns. In 1905, he married pianist Jeanne Taravant, a sought-after performer of the musicians of his time, in particular the piano music of Debussy. It was she who contributed to the introduction of Sérieyx into the Parisian musical life of the time. In the same year, Sérieyx undertook a trip to Switzerland. He visited Bulle, Montreux, the Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum and he attended the fête des vignerons in the company of Albert Roussel. Installed in Montreux since 1914, Auguste Sérieyx taught at the Institut Ribaupierre. Several local musicians followed his teaching at this time, such as , , Philippe Jules Godard and Fernand Maudon.

Augustus Stephen Vogt

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Augustus Stephen Vogt (August 14, 1861 – September 17, 1926) was a German Canadian organist, choral conductor, music educator, composer, and author. Vogt was born on 14 August 1861 in Washington, Oxford County, Canada West, Province of Canada. His father, John George Vogt, was a German Roman Catholic who emigrated to Canada to avoid the German revolutions of 1848–1849. His mother was a Swiss Lutheran woman named Marianna Zingg, who immigrated to Canada with her parents in the 1830s. Vogt grew up in Elmira, Ontario. Vogt’s father was a hotel-keeper and also built organs. Vogt was appointed organist at the local church and later studied in Hamilton. He was appointed organist of First Methodist Church in St Thomas, Ontario. From 1881 to 1884, he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. From 1885 to 1888, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany. In 1888, he returned to Canada and was organist-choirmaster of the Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto, where he would stay until 1906. He taught at the Toronto College of Music and at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Among his notable pupils were W. H. Hewlett and Ernest

Avery Robinson

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Avery Robinson (January 21, 1878 – May 11, 1965 ) was an American classical composer who worked with, among others, Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson. Biography Avery Robinson was born on January 21, 1878, in Louisville, Kentucky. His father was a local mill owner there. After graduating from MIT, Avery returned to Louisville to work for his father and for another mill owner, W. E. Chess. In 1907 he married Chess’s daughter Mary, who would later found the Mary Chess Company, a perfume manufacturer. In 1909 their daughter Carley was born. In 1920 Robinson left Louisville for London where he was employed as treasurer to the Royal Philharmonic Society. While there his daughter attended the newly founded Montessori School, and later studied musical composition with Nadia Boulanger. After returning to the United States Avery was employed by the Mary Chess Company. Avery Robinson died in Pittsfield, Mass. on May 11, 1965. Works Pieces composed by (or in part by) Robinson include: *“Waterboy” *“I’ve Been Driving on Bald Mountain” References External links * * Avery Robinson on Allmusic: classical , jazz * Avery Robinson papers at the University of Oregon

Axel Christensen

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Axel Waldemar Christensen (March 23, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was an American composer, arranger, publisher, pianist and music instructor. He was the founder of the Christensen School of Popular Music, under which he published various instruction books about the playing of syncopated music. The school enrolled upwards of 500,000 students in its numerous branches across the United States, making it one of the first and most successful examples of standardizing the instruction of popular music. The school also published the music magazine ‘Christensen Ragtime Review’. His formal attire and preference for grand pianos gave him the vaudeville title ‘Czar of Ragtime’. Life and career Axel Christensen was born in 1881 in Chicago, Illinois to Danish parents Charles and Mary Christensen. Playing classical music from an early age, he would first delve into the popular ragtime music in his teenage years. He would marry Reine Annette Swanson in 1903, a marriage that would last until his death. They had one child, Carle Christensen, in 1909. In 1902, Christensen made his first publication, a ragtime arrangement of Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. The following year, he opened the Christensen

Aymé Kunc

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Aymé Kunc (20 January 1877 – 13 February 1958) was a French composer and administrator. Career Born in Toulouse, Kunc won second prize alongside Maurice Ravel in the Prix de Rome competition of 1902. Until 1907 he conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre Apollo in Paris. In 1914 he became the director of the Toulouse Conservatory, in which capacity he served for thirty years until 1944. He died in Toulouse aged 81. Beginning in 1996, the Association Aymé Kunc has promoted the composer’s music, and has recorded a number of his works, including the Messe de Sainte-Cécile. Selected works Music for the stage * Les Esclaves, opera (1911) * Les Armes de Vulcain, ballet * Les Dieux morts, ballet * Pastorale antique, ballet Orchestral works * Ouverture de fête (1904-1907) * Suite dramatique (1904-1907) * Feuillets d’album * Quatre Esquisses méditerranéennes (1949) * Cloches d’Automne * Prelude and final * Fantaisie, for piano and orchestra (1904–07) * Pensée musicale, for harp and orchestra (1916) * Quatre Pièces, for flute and orchestra * Pastorales, for violin and orchestra (1919) * Légende, for viola and orchestra (1931) * Poème, for cello and orchestra (1943) * Nocturne, for horn and orc

Basil Harwood

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Basil Harwood (11 April 1859 – 3 April 1949) was an organist and composer in the English church music tradition, best known today for his liturgical works, particularly his anthem O How Glorious is the Kingdom (1898) and his Service in A flat (1892), which still remain popular in English churches. He wrote numerous hymn tunes, several of which became well-known including Luckington (“Let All the World in Every Corner Sing”) and Thornbury (“O Jesus I Have Promised” and “Thy hand, O God, has guided”). Early life Basil Harwood was born on 11 April 1859 at Woodhouse, Olveston, Gloucestershire, the youngest child of Edward Harwood (1818–1907), a banker. His mother Mary, née Sturge (1840–1867), was of Quaker extraction, and Harwood was brought up in that faith until a switch to Anglicanism in 1869 following his father’s second marriage. Education As a boy, Harwood attended Walton Lodge preparatory school in Clevedon, followed in 1864 by Charterhouse. In 1876 he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, where he was placed in the second class in classical moderations (1879) and the third in modern history (1881). He took his music degree (BMus) in 1880, studying with C. W. Corfe, then

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann

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Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (10 November 1883 – 5 November 1951) was a Czech organist, composer, teacher and organ builder. Life Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann was born on 10 November 1883 in Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He graduated from the classical lyceum in Prague, where his teacher for elective singing was the organist Josef Klička (who also taught at the Prague Conservatory). He worked briefly as a finance clerk in Kroměříž before deciding to study theology at Olomouc. During his studies in Olomouc, he was the organist and choirmaster at the St. Wenceslas cathedral. After seven semesters of study, shortly before he would have graduated, he abandoned theology and enrolled in the Prague Conservatory, where he would study from 1908 to 1910, organ with Josef Klička and composition with Vítězslav Novák. Between 1910 and 1919 he worked as a church organist, first at the cathedral in Brno, then in Prague at the Emmaus Church and at the Church of Cyril and Methodius in Karlín. At the same time, he played the viola in the Czech Philharmonic for three years. In the meantime, he also joined the faculty of the Prague Conservatory, where he would teach from 1917 to 1944 and ag

Ben Jerome

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Benjamin M. Jerome (1881 – March 29, 1938), was an American composer, arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and conductor. In his early career he worked in New York City as a Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music, and was a notable arranger of ragtime music. He also composed music and/or wrote lyrics to several musicals staged on Broadway. Jerome died in Chicago on March 29, 1938, after a five-day illness. Broadway premiere at the Sam H. Harris Theatre on October 3, 1927 References External links * *

Benoît Poirier

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Benoît Poirier, (17 October, 1882 – 7 October, 1965) was a Canadian organist, composer and music educator. Benoît Fidèle Poirier (17 October 1882 – 7 October 1965) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. He was a church organist and taught at several educational and religious institutions in Montreal, Quebec. He created a number of compositions for organ and piano. Early life and education Poirier was born Benjamin Perry in Tignish, Prince Edward Island. His parents were Laurence Poirier Perry & Emelia Margaret Desroches. His pipe organ study began when he was 13. He studied at the francophone University of St. Joseph’s College, Memramcook, New Brunswick, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1902 and was granted an honorary Master of Arts in 1928. While an undergraduate there, he was also organist of St Thomas Church, Memramcook. Career In 1903 Poirier relocated to Montreal to study for the priesthood. He taught at the Collège de Montréal and became the organist of the Séminaire de Philosophie. In 1919 he was elected to the board of the Schola cantorum, later serving as its president from 1923 to 1925. He was the director of the Conservatoire national de musiqu

Benoît Verdickt

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Benoît Verdickt (27 September 1884 – 28 April 1970) was a Canadian organist, choirmaster, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth. His compositional output consists mainly of sacred music, some of which he self-published. His most notable works are his Cantique de mariage for soloist and two-part choir (1918) and his Missa pro defunctis for three-part choir and organ (1941). Early life Born in Steenhuffel, Londerzeel, Verdickt studied in Mechelen, first at the Interdiocesan School of Sacred Music, and then at the Mechelen Conservatory where he ultimately graduated with his diploma. Career In 1906 Verdickt immigrated to Canada to assume a church organist post in Victoriaville, Quebec. He remained there until 1912 when he became an organist/choirmaster at a church in Rochester, New York in the United States. After just one year there, he returned to Canada in 1913 to assume a similar role at Sts-Anges Church in Lachine, Quebec near Montreal. He remained there until his retirement in 1963. References

Berenice Wyer

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Annie Berenice Crumb Wyer (October 5, 1873 – January 29, 1960) was an American pianist, composer, and lecturer. Wyer composed for both piano and organ, and wrote art song and works for violin. She collaborated with Ethan Allen Taussig in performances of spoken recitation accompanied by the piano. Early life Annie Berenice Crumb was born in North Windham, Connecticut, on October 5, 1873, to Ellen V. (née Peck) and Desevignè Starks Crumb, but spent most of her childhood in Missouri. In 1911 Wyer lectured before the Piano Club of Kirkwood and gave lecture recitals in St. Louis. Wyer also composed for both piano and organ, as well as works for violin and for voice and piano. As of 1922, they were unpublished. Her solo piano compositions included “Concert Etude in D flat”, the ballades “Chivalric Poem” and “Of Romance”, and a Ballade in C-sharp minor that won the Prize for a Piano Composition in the 1916 St. Louis Art League Music Competition; organ works included “Etude in D minor”, “Lento Assai”, and “Meditation”. Her works for violin included “Serenade”, “Spring Fantasie”, and “Twilight in the Garden”. Personal life and family Back home from her European tour, on June 11, 1901, Beren

Bernard Zweers

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Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (18 May 1854 – 9 December 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper and piano tuner. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business. Being fundamentally self-taught, he had some minor musical successes before his parents finally approved and sent him to study with Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig in 1881–1883. Of crucial importance to Zweers’ musical education was his first exposure to the work of Richard Wagner when he was present at the Berlin premiere of the Ring des Nibelungen, in 1881: I, who never ventured farther than Nijmegen and who had never heard even a normal opera before, I was in Berlin, listening to Wagner’s Ring! … and I returned a full-blooded Wagnerian. After his return, he became active in Dutch musical life and took on various appointments, including the conductorship of various choirs. However, due to deterioration of his hearing abilities and his own wish to concentrate on teaching, he relinquished most of thes

Bernardo De Pace

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Bernardo De Pace (March 31, 1881 – June 15, 1966) was an actor, musician and comedic vaudeville entertainer of the 1910s and 1920s, billed as “the Wizard of the Mandolin”. He learned to play mandolin in the Italian tradition under Francesco Della Rosa. De Pace’s repertoire and technique was described in the Brooklyn Life as involving “the most difficult violin and piano compositions, executed at inconceivably rapid tempi demanding an uncanny technique seldom heard on fretted instruments”. In 1927 the Minneapolis Star said that he had been recognized as one of the best mandolinists in the United States. He worked in England for nearly 10 years, starting in 1900, playing with the Blackpool Winter Gardens’ Orchestra for 3 seasons and touring the country for nearly 7 seasons with his brother Nicolas, until 1909 when they emigrated to the United States from Italy. By 1921 he had toured extensively both as a musician and a vaudeville performer. European tours Bernardo moved to Naples with his family when he was two. He began to play the mandolin at five years of age and it became his passion “to the exclusion of all else”. He impressed Luigi with his musical aptitude and received lessons

Bernhard Heinrich Irrgang

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Bernhard Heinrich Irrgang (23 July 1869 – 8 April 1916) was a German organist, composer and docent for organ practice. Life Irrgang was born in Zduny, former Province of Posen. His father was a Protestant cantor and teacher in Zduny. Bernhard was educated at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin from 1890 to 1896 and in the academic master class in composition. Active as an organist in various parishes from the beginning of his studies, Irrgang was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1897.Memorial Bernhard Irrgang. In Berlin.Friedparks.de. The pupil worked from 1894 to 1905 as organist at the newly built in Kreuzberg, The organ virtuoso was known in Berlin for his “groundbreaking” concerts. In 1909 Irrgang made a concert tour to Sweden. From 1905, he taught organ playing at the Stern conservatory and from 1912 at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. Among his pupils was John J. McClellan. Irrgang composed organ sonatas and sacred songs, motets and aria in his sonatas following the tradition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Josef Rheinberger. For Irrgang’s appreciation of Rheinberger, see his letter dated 5 October 1901: Bernhard Irrgang introduces himself to Rheinberger by let

Bernhard Sekles

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Bernhard Sekles (20 June 1872 – 8 December 1934) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue. Life and career Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna (née Bischheim). The family name Seckeles was changed by Bernhard Sekles to Sekles. From 1894 to 1895 he was the third Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater in Mainz. In 1896 he became a teacher at the Hoch’sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main; here he started the first jazz class anywhere in 1928. He was the director of the Hoch’sche Konservatorium from 1924 to 1933. For his composition students, He was one of the first German Jewish academics to lose his job when Hitler came to power in Germany. He died in his native Frankfurt am Main. Selected compositions Publishers: Schott, Eulenberg, Leukart, Brockhaus, Oehler, Rather. Stage works * Der Zwerg und die Infantin, (The Birthday of the Infanta), ballet, op. 22, 1913, based on an Oscar Wilde fairy tale * Scheherazade, opera, op. 26, 1917 * Die Hochzeit des Faun, comic opera, 1921 * Die zehn Küsse, comic opera, 1926 Orchestra * Aus den Gärten der Semiramis, symphonic poem, op. 19 * Kleine Suite, dem Andenken E. T. A. Hoffmanns,

Bernhard Stavenhagen

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Bernhard Stavenhagen (24 November 1862 – 25 December 1914) was a German pianist, composer and conductor. His musical style was influenced by Franz Liszt, and as a conductor he was a strong advocate of new music. Biography Born in Greiz, he commenced piano study in 1868. His family moved to Berlin in 1874 where he began studying with Theodor Kullak. He entered university there in 1878, privately studying composition with Friedrich Kiel. In 1885 Stavenhagen became a pupil of Franz Liszt in Weimar, travelling with him to Rome, Budapest, Paris, London and Bayreuth. After Liszt’s death in 1886, Stavenhagen embarked on a ten-year series of piano concert tours in Europe and to North America. In April 1890 he was appointed court pianist to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar and the following July he married Agnes Denninghoff (better known as Agnes Denis-Stavenhagen, 1860-1945), a soprano with the Weimar Court Opera. In 1893 he composed his Third Piano Concerto in B minor. He fulfilled conducting appointments in Weimar, where he was appointed court Kapellmeister and conducted Weimar premieres of six new operas in eighteen months, and from 1898 a similar appointment in Munich. Then in 1907 he mov

Bert Potter (composer)

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Albert Lincoln “Bert” Potter (March11, 1874 – January29, 1930) was a composer of popular songs active between 1904 and 1917. Biography Bert Potter, born in Boston, was the first child of Algernon S. and Flora E. Potter. Algernon was a wholesale dealer in clothing, and Bert was raised in an upper-middle-class family, with two Irish servants in the household. After his marriage to Eleanor Dodge (August 2, 1898), Bert worked in his father’s business; but early in the twentieth century he migrated into music, publishing his first songs in 1904. Shortly afterwards he settled in Dorchester, in a house that he occupied the rest of his life. The 1908 city directory identified him as a “musician”, and at least from 1910 to 1914 he worked as a salesman in piano stores. By 1918, however, he had abandoned the musical profession and become an agent with John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co., serving in that capacity until his death. Composer Between 1904 and 1907 eighteen publications by Potter were copyrighted; in 1912 there were two more, and in 1917 a single, final one. He wrote piano pieces and songs, the latter usually to his own texts. Most pieces are uptempo rags, marches, and novelties; at lea

Bertha Tapper

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Bertha Johanne Feiring Maass Tapper (25 January 1859 – 2 September 1915) was a Norwegian composer, pianist, and teacher, best known for editing the piano works of Edvard Grieg for publication in America. She published under the name Bertha Feiring Tapper. Biography Tapper was one of nine children born in Christiania, Norway, to Berthe Iversdatter and Lars Olsen Feiring. She married Carl Ludvig Otto Maass and they had a son (Louis) and a daughter (Klea). She later married musicologist Thomas Tapper in New York in 1894. Tapper studied music with Johan Svendsen and Agatha Backer Grondahl in Norway. In 1878, she graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Leipzig, Germany (today the University of Music and Theatre), and later studied with Theodor Leschetizkey in Vienna. Tapper emigrated to America in 1881. She taught and performed, both as a piano soloist and as an accompanist, and with the Kneisel Quartet and other musicians. She taught piano at the New England Conservatory from 1889 to 1897, and at the Institute of Musical Art (which became the Juilliard School) from 1905 to 1910. Her students included Abram Chasins, Lev Ornstein, and Kay Swift. She often hosted her students at her s

Bertram Luard-Selby

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Bertram Luard-Selby (12 February 1853 – 26 December 1918) was an English composer and cathedral organist. As an organist, he served in Salisbury Cathedral and Rochester Cathedral. As a composer, he wrote prolifically for the church, the concert-hall and the theatre. Family Luard-Selby was born at Ightham Mote, Kent, to Robert Luard-Selby (1800−1880) and his second wife Lewis Marianne Selby. His father was the brother of Lt.-Col. John Luard and the uncle of the antiquarian Henry Richards Luard and Lt.-Gen. Richard George Amherst Luard. His half-brother Charles was married to Caroline Mary Luard, the victim of an unsolved murder. Life and works Luard-Selby studied the organ at the Leipzig Conservatoire under Carl Reinecke and was appointed organist at, successively, St. Barnabas, Marylebone, and Highgate School (1876); Salisbury Cathedral (1881); St John’s Church, Torquay, 1884; and St. Barnabas, Pimlico, 1887. He was appointed organist of Rochester Cathedral on the death of the incumbent, John Hopkins, in 1900, He was the musical editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, published in 1904. He also gave chamber music concerts in London in the 1880s. At the Three Choirs Festival of 1877, Lu

Bertram Shapleigh

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Bertram Lincoln Shapleigh (15 January 1871 – 2 July 1940) was an American composer, heavily interested in the culture of Asia. Education He studied composition with G.E. Whiting and George Whitefield Chadwick at the New England Conservatory; graduating in 1891. He continued his studies with Edward MacDowell in the United States, and gave piano recitals and accompanied singers in the Boston area. He also studied in France and Germany. A man of wide interests, he entered the Vermont Medical College, graduating with an MD degree in 1893. Career He became a lecturer on the arts, but a developing concern with South Asian music that led him to give his attention fully to music and to composition. He played the piano and cello, and gave lecture-recitals on music history, Eastern music and Wagner’s operas. In 1898 he left the United States for Europe, living in Cologne and Brussels, eventually settling in Longfield, Kent in his home he named “Weird Wood”. He became an editor for Breitkopf & Härtel. However, after his house, with his library of 7000 volumes, had been destroyed by fire, he returned to the USA in 1917, settling in Chicago and then Washington DC, to serve as an adviser to Brei

Bessie Marshall Whitely

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Bessie Marshall Whitely or Whiteley (December 25, 1871 - November 7, 1944 ) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. She attended the Oakland Conservatory of Music in Oakland, California, and studied with H. G. Pasmore, J. P. Morgan, and Louis Lesser. Whitely was a piano teacher and music supervisor in Kansas City, Missouri, for 32 years. Whitely published an article on Form and Spirit in Music in the journal Music in 1892. Her opera Hiawatha’s Childhood won the National Federation of Music Clubs award in 1912. Her music was published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and C. C. Birchard & Co. (later Summy-Birchard, then Birchtree Ltd.). Her compositions include: Opera *Hiawatha’s Childhood (for unchanged voices; composer) *Pandora (text based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Masque of Pandora) *Sarita Orchestra *Five Symphonic Sketches Vocal *Four Winds (men’s quartet) *Garden of Buddha (woman’s voice + men’s quartet) *Goblin (words by Florence C. Fox; music by Bessie Marshall Whitely) *Hymn *Landing of the Pilgrims *Missouri *Muramadzu (tenor and orchestra) *Shadows (voice and piano; unspecified award winner) *Three Madrigals (a capella chorus) References

Bettina Walker

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Bettina or Bessie Walker (1837 – 4 February 1893) was an Irish pianist and composer. She wrote a memoir of her musical education, published in 1890. Biography Walker was born in Dublin, the daughter of physician William Augustus Walker, who died in 1838. Her mother encouraged her study of music, but opposed Walker’s hopes of a career as a pianist. Walker studied in the 1870s, first with William Sterndale Bennett in London and Carl Tausig in Berlin and Giovanni Sgambati in Rome. In 1883 she came to Weimar and continued her studies with Franz Liszt. She also studied under Ludwig Deppe, Xaver Scharwenka and Adolf Henselt. She advertised herself as an “honorary associate of the St. Cecilian Academy of Rome.” After Henselt’s death in 1889 she settled in Fulham, London, where she taught her piano methodology, but died four years later, in 1893, in her sixties. memoirs, My Musical Experiences (1890), in which she details her numerous encounters with important musicians. “The book is pleasantly written with perfect freshness and innocence and freedom from affectation,” commented one reviewer. Critics compared Walker’s book to Amy Fay’s Music Study in Germany (1880), an American woman’s mem

Blanche Ray Alden

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Blanche Ray Alden (July 5, 1870 – November 14, 1934 ) was an American pianist and composer, who published under the pseudonym Theodora Dutton. Her short piano piece, Christmas Day Secrets, is the only work in the Suzuki Piano Repertoire attributed to a female composer. Notes References Sources * Suzuki, Dr. Shinichi. (1995). Suzuki Piano School Volume 1, Revised edition. Alfred Publishing Company. * Ccm :: Alden, Blanche Ray Alden - Dutton, Theodora Dutton at composers-classical-music.com External links * * Scanned copy of letter Blanche Ray Alden wrote to Edvard Grieg in 1894 * Biography of Blanche Ray Alden (Theodora Dutton) and how she became included in the Suzuki Piano repertoire. * Website with articles on and music by Blanche Ray Alden (Theodora Dutton).

Blanche Robinson

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Blanche Robinson (Mrs. Martin Hennion Robinson, née Williams; 18 May 1883, near Liberty, Kansas – 19 August 1969, Los Angeles) was an American composer and well-known piano accompanist. During her prolific years as a composer, she lived in New York City. During her more active years as a piano accompanist, she lived in Los Angeles. In her published music, she was known as Mrs. M. Hennion Robinson or Mrs. M. Hennion-Robinson. Music career Robinson became a pupil in composition of Frederick Stephenson in Los Angeles. Her The Woman at Home, a chorus for women’s voices, was performed with much success by the Lyric Club. Among her better-known compositions are Songs of You, The Mystic Hour, Youth, Fairies, Butterflies, The Dawn of Dawns, and a chorus for men’s voices, A Song for Heroes. She performed under the management of Mr. Behymer in concert work. She also performed with Ebell Club, the Friday Morning Club, the Gamut Club, and many leading artists who toured Los Angeles. Family * Father: Oliver David Williams (1854 Kentucky – 1932, Venice, California) * Mother: Joanna Williams, née Dickerson (25 Oct 1855 Crawfordsville, Indiana – Oct 1949, Venice, California) ** Husband: Martin Hen

Blanche Selva

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Marie Blanche Selva (Catalan Blanca Selva i Henry, 29 January 18843 December 1942) was a French pianist, music educator, writer and composer of Spanish origin. Biography Blanche Selva was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in Corrèze. As a child she studied piano with a number of teachers, took preparatory classes with Sophie Chéné, and was admitted to the Paris Conservatory in 1893. She studied with S. Chéné and won a medal in competition, but left the Conservatory without graduating. Her family moved to Geneva, and Selva began giving concerts at the age of 13 in Lausanne. She studied with Vincent d’Indy, and became a professor at the Schola Cantorum de Paris in December 1901, later taking positions at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and the Prague Conservatory. Blanche Selva was the only French pianist of her time to specialise in Czech music, and she was consequently very popular in Czechoslovakia. in Europe. By the age of 20 she had performed all of J.S. Bach’s keyboard works in 17 recitals. Between 1906 and 1909 she premiered all four books of Isaac Albéniz’s piano suite Iberia. In January 1925 Selva moved to Barcelona, where she founded her own

Bob Cole (composer)

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Robert Allen Cole Jr. (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911 ) was an American composer, actor, and playwright who produced and directed stage shows. In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown (1898), the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola (1898) was a result of their collaboration. Cole later partnered with brothers J. Rosamond Johnson, a pianist and singer, and James Weldon Johnson, a pianist, guitarist and lawyer, creating more than 200 songs. Their vaudeville act featured classical piano pieces and their musicals featured sophisticated lyrics without the usual stereotypes such as “hot-mamas” and watermelons. Success enabled Cole and Rosamond to tour America and Europe with their act. The trio’s most popular songs were “Louisiana Lize” and “Under the Bamboo Tree” (1901?). Their more successful musicals were The Shoo-Fly Regiment (1906) and The Red Moon (1908, written without Weldon). Cole was the preeminent leader in the world of black musical theater both as a composer and as a performer. His skills in acting, writing, and directing were brought to the public eye through his early works: first, h

Bohumil Fidler

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Bohumil Fidler (also Fiedler) (May 27, 1860 - June 2, 1944) was a Czech composer, choirmaster, choral conductor and music teacher. He was born in Příbram, where he lived and worked his entire life. Biography Fidler was a foremost figure in the musical life of Příbram and the surrounding region. Upon completing his education, he taught at the local teachers college until 1889, and subsequently served as choir director at St. Jacob’s Church. For more than 15 years Fidler was also the choirmaster of Příbram’s “Lumir-Dobromila” choral association. Additionally, he founded the Příbram Philharmonic Orchestra and was its conductor from 1908-1913. Style Bohumil Fidler’s compositions include two Missa brevi, two Pastorale Masses, a celebratory Mass for mixed choir, soloists, orchestra and organ, and numerous smaller works for chorus as well as songs for solo voice. For the stage he wrote music for two fairy tales: Mikeš Lumidřevo and Zvířátka a Petrovští. His Slavonic Waltz was composed for the Příbram Philharmonic Orchestra; he also wrote 20 funeral marches for military band. Selected works Church music: *Missa solemnis in D major (1901) - performed in 1903 *Missa pastoralis II. (1937) *Mi

Borghild Holmsen

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Borghild Holmsen (22 October 1865 – 4 December 1938) was a Norwegian pianist, teacher, music critic and composer. She is thought to be the first Norwegian woman to perform a concert featuring only her own compositions. Early life and education Borghild Holmsen was born on 22 October 1865 in Vevelstad, Akershus to proprietor Thorvald Holmsen. When she was 7 years old, her family settled in Christiania (now Oslo). She began playing the piano at an early age and soon began composing compositions. Holmsen studied piano with Agathe Backer-Grøndahl and Otto Winter-Hjelm, and then in 1885 joined the Music Conservatory in Leipzig where she was tutored by Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn, as well as by Albert Becker in Berlin. She made her debut in 1890 in Christiania. Her first work, a violin sonata in G major, was performed at one of the conservatory’s public student concerts, which received positive attention. Despite this, she was rejected for a scholarship to further her studies. Holmsen remained in Leipzig, where she became a piano teacher. But she still continued to perform concerts during this time, including a matinee in December 1895 at the Blüthner-Saal in Berlin. Between 1890

Boris Asafyev

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Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev (29 July 188427 January 1949; also known by pseudonym Igor Glebov) was a Russian and Soviet composer, writer, musicologist, musical critic and one of founders of Soviet musicology. He is the dedicatee of Prokofiev’s First Symphony. He was born in Saint Petersburg. Asafyev had a strong influence on Soviet music. His compositions included ballets, operas, symphonies, concertos and chamber music. His ballets included Flames of Paris, based on the French Revolution, and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, which was first performed in 1934, and was performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 2006. His writings, under the name Igor Glebov, included The Symphonic etudes , The Book about Stravinsky and Glinka (for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1948). Selected works ;Opera * The Cashier’s Wife * Minin and Pozharsky * The Girl without a Dowry ;Ballets * The Fairy Gift (1910) * White Lily (1911) * Flames of Paris (1931) * The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (1936) * The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1938) * The Rustic Lady * The Stone Guest (1946) ;Orchestra * 5 Symphonies * Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (1939) * Concerto for guitar and chamber orchestr

Boris Krasin (composer)

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Boris Borisovich Krasin (3 (15) April 1884, Tyumen–21 June 1936) was a Russian musician who was politically active in Proletkult and the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians. Early life Boris was the fifth and youngest son of Boris Ivanovich Krasin, chief of police in Tyumen. Leonid Krasin was one of his brothers. Musical career Krasin was head of the Moscow Proletkult’s Music Department in which capacity he claimed that the music provided in restaurants and cabarets was anti-art. He set poems to music such as Andrei Bely’s “Чающие” (Tea Lovers), “Одиночество” (Loneliness) and “Осень” (Autumn). He is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. Texts *1920 “С чего и как начинать работу в области музыкального искусства” (Where and how to start working in the field of musical art) Proletarskaya Kul’tura, No.17-19, August – December, 1920 References

Borys Yanovskyi

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Borys Karlovych Yanovskyi or Janowsky () (31 December 1875, Moscow19 January 1933, Kharkiv) was a Russian/Ukrainian composer, music critic, conductor and teacher of German origin. His actual surname was Siegl. Yanovskyi lived and worked in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kyiv and Kharkiv. Biography Borys Karlovych Yanovskyi was born on 19/31 December 1875 in Moscow, the son of a German, Karl Siegl. His initial musical training was undertaken by his father, before he became a student of E. A. Ryb. Yanovskyi lived in Kyiv until 1910, where he graduated from and Kyiv University (1903). He worked as a conductor, teacher, and critic. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1910. Between 1916 and 1917, he was the conductor of the Zimin Opera in Moscow. In 1918, he travelled back to Ukraine, becoming a teacher at the Music Technical College and the Music and Drama Institute in Kharkiv. Member of the editorial board of the journal. “Music”, head of the music department of the newspaper “Communist” in Kharkiv. Member of the Kharkiv branch of MTL. He worked in Kyiv as an employee of periodicals and magazines, at the same time he taught, had conducting practice and wrote critical articles. He was the first e

Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg

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Sigwart Botho Philipp August zu Eulenburg, Count of Eulenburg (10 January 1884 – 2 June 1915) was the second son of Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) and his wife Augusta, born Countess of Sandels (1853–1941) and a German late romantic composer who fell in the First World War. Childhood and studies Prince zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld was born in Munich, but the family seat was the castle and estate of Liebenberg in the region of Brandenburg, north of Berlin. Art and music played a central role in family affairs. The prince himself played and composed music and wrote poetry and romances (the famous Rosenlieder and Scandinavian Cantos) and was a friend and confidant of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who regularly visited Liebenberg. He supported his gifted son and daughter Victoria, familiarly called Tora, who was a pianist, and they grew up in a musical environment at the castle of Liebenberg Sigwart showed his musical talent at a young age. Already at seven he composed songs by ear and at eight years old he began music lessons in Munich and Vienna, devoting himself to musical composition and improvising at the piano, often when the emperor visited them at Liebenberg. Emperor Wilhelm even comm

Bram Eldering

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Abraham “Bram” Eldering (8 July 1865 – 17 June 1943) was a Dutch violinist and music pedagogue. Life Born in Groningen, Bram (abbreviation of Abraham) Eldering studied violin with Jenő Hubay at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. After his appointment to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, he followed his teacher in 1886. With Victor von Herzfeld and David Popper he played in Hubay’s String quartet. In 1888 he moved to Berlin to continue his studies with Joseph Joachim. In 1893 he was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Hans von Bülow. In 1894, after von Bülow’s death, he became concertmaster of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, of which he was a member until 1899. At the invitation of the industrialist family Weyermann, he took part with other members of the orchestra in an intimate chamber music festival at near Bad Honnef at Whitsun 1896 and took part in the performance of Robert Schumann’s String Quartet in A major and Johannes Brahms’s Piano quintet F-minor - with Brahms at the piano. In 1899 he was appointed as a docent at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. From 1903 he taught as professor at the . One of his students was Theo Giesen, who later became first c

Bror Beckman

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Bror Beckman (2 February 1866 – 22 July 1929) was a Swedish composer, treasurer to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and principal of the Royal College of Music. Stylistically he was strongly influenced by Carl Nielsen and other contemporary Nordic composers. Among his compositions, his symphony in F major has been singled out, together with several pieces for piano, as particularly lasting. Biography Bror Beckman was born in Kristinehamn. His grandfather was the pastor and hymn writer . After finishing upper secondary school, his first job was in a music shop in Kristiania (present-day Oslo) in 1884. Later the same year he moved to Stockholm, to work in a music shop there. In 1888 he started working as a clerk in an insurance company, a job he would keep until 1909. In parallel he pursued studies in musical composition for 1885–1890. During this time, he made lifelong friends with several other young Swedish composers: Harald Fryklöf, and . After finishing his studies he immediately took up teaching counterpoint at a musical institute in Stockholm run by . In 1893 the first musical composition by Beckman was printed. He received a state-sponsored scholarship in 1894 and made a st

Bruce Carey

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Bruce Anderson Carey (16 November 1876 – 8 May 1960) was a Canadian choir conductor, baritone, and music educator. He began his career in Hamilton, Ontario, where he notably founded the Bach-Elgar Choir in 1905. After directing that ensemble for seventeen years, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States where he was conductor of two famous choruses: the Mendelssohn Club and The Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Life and career Born in Millgrove, Ontario (now Hamilton, Ontario), Carey was from a prominent family of Canadian musicians. He began his musical education in his native country with J.E.P. Aldous (piano) and Elliott Haslam (voice). In 1900-1901 he studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London with William Hayman Cummings and Albert Visetti. Upon returning to Canada in 1901, Carey held the post of choirmaster at various churches in Hamilton, Ontario through 1922. In 1905 he founded the Bach-Elgar Choir, serving as its first conductor until 1922. From 1926 to 1934 he was conductor of the Mendelssohn Club in Philadelphia, notably collaborating frequently for concerts with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1933 to 1938 he was conductor of the

Bruno Barilli

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Bruno Barilli (14 December 188015 April 1952) was an Italian actor and music composer, and best remembered for his writings on music and music composition. Biography He was born in Fano in the region of Marche, Italy, as the son of a Parmesan painter Cecrope Barilli and his wife, Anna Adanti. As a member of a noted family that, for centuries gave a lot of artists, he studied musical composition at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory at Parma. From there, he gained the position of conducting the orchestra at the Dirigentschule in Munich. There he married Danica Pavlović, descendant of the Karađorđević dynasty and second cousin of the King Petar I of Serbia. Together they had one daughter, Milena Pavlović-Barili, who became a prominent Serbian painter. Returning to Italy in 1910, Barilli composed the opera Medusa with libretto by Ottone Schanzer. In 1914, the opera was awarded at the MacCormick competition. Barilli wrote the music and libretto for the opera Emiral (1915), awarded a prize in a Roman competition judged by Giacomo Puccini. As an actor, he is known for his performance in La Rosa (1921). But Barilli is known mainly for his prolific writing and editing as a music critic for nume

Bruno Granichstaedten

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Bruno Bernhard Granichstaedten (September 1, 1879, Vienna – May 30, 1944, New York City) was an Austrian composer and librettist. He composed sixteen operettas and music for various films. He contributed the song “Zuschau’n kann i net” to the musical play The White Horse Inn. He emigrated from Austria, ending up in the United States of America in 1940, where he was only able to earn his living by playing the piano at night clubs. Works *Bub oder Mädel? ( and Adolf Altmann), operetta, prologue and 2 acts (13 November 1908 Vienna, Johann Strauss Theater) *Wein, Weib and Gesang (Adolf Altmann), operetta 1 act (1909 Vienna) *Lolotte (Bruno Granichstaedten and Alfred Schick-Markenau), operetta 3 acts (1910 Vienna) *Majestät Mimi (Felix Dörmann and Roda Roda), operetta (1911 Vienna) *Casimirs Himmelfahrt (Arthur Maria Willner and Robert Bodanzky), burlesque operetta (1911 Vienna) *Die verbotene Stadt (Bruno Granichstaedten and Karl Lindau, operetta (1913 Berlin) *Der Kriegsberichterstatter (Rudolf Österreicher and ), bunte Bilder vom Tage (1914 Vienna) (Music: Eysler, Granichstaedten, Nedbal, Weinberger and Ziehrer) *Auf Befehl der Herzogin (der Kaiserin) ( and Robert Bodanzky), operetta

C. Mortimer Wiske

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Charles Mortimer Wiske (also spelled Whiskey or Wiskey), (January 12, 1853 – July 9, 1934) was an American choral conductor, organist, and composer. Born in Bennington, Vermont, and raised in Troy, New York, Wiske began working as an organist at the age of twelve. In 1872 he moved to New York City where he became a prominent organist and choir director in Brooklyn. He founded and/or led several notable choirs, among them the Amphion Musical Society, the Brooklyn Choral Society, the Orpheus Glee Club, and the Caecilia Ladies Vocal Society. He spent five years as choirmaster for Theodore Thomas and his orchestra. In 1896 he moved to Paterson, New Jersey where he worked for several churches. He was the longtime director of the Patterson Music Festival and Newark Music Festival, the latter of which he founded in 1915. He continued to lead these New Jersey music festivals until his retirement in 1930. In his later life he divided his time between his home in Paterson and a farm/inn he built in Woodstock, New York where he also operated a music camp. Early life and career Born in Bennington, Vermont on January 12, 1853, Charles Mortimer Wiskey (later consistently spelled Wiske) was the s

Caesar Hochstetter

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Caesar Hochstetter (also known by the pen name Caesar Ahrlsteller) was an organist and a composer, arranger and critic of music from a talented Jewish family. Born 12 January 1863 in Ladenburg, a suburb of Mannheim, Germany – his date and place of death are unknown but he is thought to have disappeared during The Holocaust. Caesar Hochstetter was a friend and admirer of the well known composer Max Reger who dedicated Aquarellen Op. 25 and Five pittoresque Pieces for 4-hand Piano, Op. 34 to him. Private life On 13 February 1888, Compositions and arrangements Caesar Hochstetter published his arrangement “Album fuer einhändige Klavierspiel: 8 Stuecke von Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Reger und Zichy”, for right or left hand (Breitkopf & Haertel, 1915). His known works also include “Zwei Clavierstücke” Op. 2 (R. Forberg, Leipzig), arrangements for Bach’s “Sarabande und Bourrée” for piano (A. Holzmann, Zurich) and “10 kleine Stücke Op. 24” (A. Holzmann, Zurich). One-hand compositions Hochstetter published an article in “Musikalisches Wochenblatt” in Leipzig on 24 January 1901 giving a positive critique of a concert given in Budapest by Count Géza Zichy of Hungary, who suffered a riding accide

Caleb Simper

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Caleb Simper (12 September 1856 – 28 August 1942) was an English composer and church organist. He gained fame for his prolific output of choral cantatas, anthems and organ works, which were widely performed and sold in their millions. His straightforward, sometimes simplistic and over sentimental style was written with amateur performance in mind, and can be compared to that of his close contemporary, John Henry Maunder. Career Simper was born in the village of Barford St Martin, Wiltshire, the son of a shoemaker. After a period in Worcester, where he worked in a music shop that was owned by the Elgar family. He moved in the 1890s to Barnstaple where he spent the remainder of his active life working as a composer, and as choirmaster and organist at St Mary Magdalene’s Church. He produced a prodigious amount of Anglican church music and organ pieces, written in an unsophisticated, popular style and aimed at small parish choirs and unskilled organists. Although ignored if not derided by critics, his anthems in particular became widely popular and were sold by his publisher under the slogan “Sung throughout the civilized world”. He composed over 160 anthems under his own name and many

Camille Decreus

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Camille Léo Ernest Decreus (sometimes spelt as “Camille DeCreus” or “Camille de Creus”) (23 September 1876 – 26 September 1939) was a French composer and pianist. Biography Decreus was born in Paris and studied with Raoul Pugno at the Paris Conservatory. He married the talented violinist Renée Chemet on 20 May 1906. This year also marked his solo debut. Since then, he was mainly known as a piano accompanist for other musicians in Europe and America, including his wife and the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. Decreus became Director of the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau in or before 1924. During the years at the American Conservatory, many musicians have benefitted from his teaching, including Jane Pickens Hoving, Jane Hobson, Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Humberto Viscarra Monje, Evangeline Marie Lehman and others. Musical works As a composer, Decreus is today forgotten. Only about ten short vocal pieces with piano accompaniment or piano solo pieces are attributed as Decreus’s compositions. No recordings for any of Decreus’s work exist, although information about live performance of his work can be found. A number of composers dedicated works to Decreus, including: * Godowsky’s concert transcri

Camille Erlanger

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Camille Erlanger (25 May 186324 April 1919) was a French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes (composition), Georges Mathias (piano), as well as Émile Durand and Antoine Taubon (harmony). In 1888 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Velléda. His most famous opera, Le Juif polonais, was produced at the Opéra-Comique in 1900. Erlanger died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. A street in Quebec City, Avenue Erlanger, is named after Erlanger. The opera L’Aube rouge was revived at the Wexford Festival (2023) directed by Guillaume Tourniaire and Christophe Manien. Broadcast in November on Raidió Teilifís Éireann and BBC Radio 3. A concert version of La Sorcière was given on 12 December 2023 in Geneva’s Victoria Hall, again conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire., and was recorded for a CD on the B.records label, released on 4 October 2024: Works * Velléda, scène lyrique (1888), given at the Concerts Colonne in 1889 * La Légende de Saint-Julien l’Hospitalier, légende dramatique in three acts and seven tableaux, after the story by Gustave Flaubert, (1888) * Kermaria, drame lyrique in three acts, libretto by Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Opéra-

Camillo Schumann

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Camillo Schumann (10 March 1872 – 29 December 1946) was a German late Romantic composer and organist. Life Schumann was born in Königstein as one of twelve children of the city music director Clemens Schumann sen. (18391918) and his wife Camilla Ottilie, née Müller. His elder brother was the composer Georg Schumann; other siblings were Alfred Schumann (18681891), latterly concertmaster with the Bremer Philharmoniker, and Clemens Schumann jun. (18761938), violinist in the Dresden Staatskapelle from 1900 to 1936. Schumann received his first lessons, as did his brothers, from his father and learned to play several instruments during his early childhood. From 1889 to 1893, he was trained first for a short time at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, then at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig with Carl Reinecke, Salomon Jadassohn, Bruno Zwintscher, Paul Homeyer and others. In 1894 and 1895, he studied with Woldemar Bargiel and Robert Radecke at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. During his time in Berlin, Schumann worked as a substitute organist in several larger churches. On 1 October 1896 he took up the post of full-time organist at the Hauptkirche St. Ge

Candelario Huízar

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Candelario Huízar García de la Cadena (2 February 1883 – 3 May 1970, Mexico City) was a Mexican composer, musician and music teacher. He completed four symphonies, leaving a fifth unfinished, and a string quartet, but is remembered most for his tone poems. He also left celebrated arrangements of works by Vivaldi and Bach, among others. Early life Huízar was born in Jerez, Zacatecas into a working-class family, and he became a goldsmith apprentice at a very early age. Huízar taught himself to play the guitar as a child. Career Huízar studied saxophone under Narciso Arriaga, and in 1892 he became a member of the Municipal Marching Band of Jerez. He later played the viola in the string quartet of Enrique Herrera, and studied harmony with Aurelio Elías. He became a member of Banda de Música del Primer Cuadro del Batallón de Zacatecas. He also participated in the Mexican Revolution as a member of a brass band. In 1917 moved to Mexico City, and became a member of the Marching Band of the North Division there. In the following year he joined the Presidential Guard Marching Band led by Melquíades Campos. Huízar enrolled in the National Conservatory of music, where he studied horn under the

Carl Cohn Haste

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Carl Cohn Haste (December 7, 1874 – June 4, 1939) was a Danish pianist, organist and composer. Blind from the age of 5, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He was concert pianist, a music teacher at the Blind Institute, the first president of the Danish Association of the Blind, and the editor of the magazine “Nordens Musik”. Most of the blind organists who were employed in the early 20th century were trained by him. Early life and education Haste was born in 1874. He went blind when he was 5 after an eye inflammation. From 1883 to 1892, he was a pupil at the Blind Institute. Then, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music from 1893 to 1895 under Victor Bendix and Orla Rosenhof. Career In 1896, Haste made his debut as a concert pianist and, from 1898, he was employed as the Blind Institute as a music teacher. Most of the blind organists who were employed in the early 20th century were trained by him. Alongside his teaching work and organization work, he was regularly away on concert tours across Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Haste was a member of the Danish Authors’ Society for Composers and Songwriters (KODA). He became the first president of the Danish Associati

Carl Frühling

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Carl Frühling (28 November 186825 November 1937) was an Austrian composer and pianist. Born in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), he attended from 1887 until 1889 the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde where he was taught the piano by Anton Door and music theory by Franz Krenn. He became a piano accompanist and teacher, working with Bronisław Huberman, Pablo de Sarasate, Egon Wellesz, and the Rosé Quartet. He died in Vienna in poverty. His early piano works are salon pieces, while his Piano Quintet, Op. 30, and Clarinet Trio, Op. 40, are more substantial, written in the Romantic tradition. In 2009, his Piano Quintet was reprinted by Edition Silvertrust. Much of his music is lost or has yet to be uncovered. Steven Isserlis, the cellist, has championed his music, some of which he has rediscovered and performed. Compositions Orchestral *Piano Concerto, Op. 12 *Festmarsch, Op. 23 *Scènes de ballet, Op. 34 *Suite in F major, Op. 36 *Heitere Ouvertüre, Op. 75 *Miniaturen, suite, Op. 78 *Humoreske, Op. 87 Chamber *Sonata, Op. 22, for cello and piano *String Quartet in E major, Op. 25 *Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 30 *Piano Trio in E major, Op. 32 *Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 35 *Trio in A minor,

Carl Hardebeck

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Carl Gilbert Hardebeck or Carl G. Hardebec (10 December 1869 – 10 February 1945) was a British-born Irish composer and arranger of traditional music. Biography Hardebeck, whose father was German and mother was Welsh, was born in Clerkenwell, London. He lost his sight when he was a baby. He attended the Royal Normal School for the Blind in London (1880–1892) where, under his teacher Frederick Corder (a professor from the Royal Academy of Music), he showed a marked aptitude for music. In 1893, at the age of twenty-four, he moved to Belfast, where he opened a music store, but the venture failed, and he became the organist of a small parish in the city, the Holy Family Church, Wellington Place. He entered an anthem, O God of My Salvation for contralto and chorus, for the 1897 Dublin Feis Ceoil and won; on this occasion he heard folk song arrangements of Charles Villiers Stanford and others for the first time. At the 1901 Feis Ceoil, he again won a prize, this time for a large cantata, The Red Hand of Ulster. In 1914 Mary Reavy, Hardeback’s wife died. In 1919, he was to become the director of the music school in Cork and became the first professor of Irish music at University College Co

Carl Heins

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Carl Heins (8 June 1859 - 10 September 1923) was a German pianist, and a composer of light salon music in classical music style. He wrote both solo piano works and parlor songs. Heins’ pieces show a special pianoesque ability to fashion pretty melodies picturesquely in the salon style of the time. His competency on the keyboard led him to perform and compose. He composed the song ‘Zwei Dunkle Augen’, which was recorded by the tenor Fritz Wunderlich. Stylistically his music is similar to that of his older compatriot Carl Bohm. Robert Leonhardt, an operatic baritone who sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera company between 1913 and 1922, made numerous recordings for many major record labels, both in Europe and in the United States. An early recording he made on Gramophone 42325 with matrix number 1113B 54 was “Zwei dunkle Augen” by Carl Heins. Leonhardt recorded it onto a 78 rpm in October 1901 when he was 24. Works Thoughts of Home Traute Heimat Op. 279 No. 2 *Im Hochland. Charakterstück (In Highland. Character Piece) *Village Idyll *Bärentanz (Dance of the Bear) *Senner Traum (Rêve du vache) *Slumber Song: The Widow to Her Child, for voice & violin *Die Spieluhr, (The Music Box

Carl Lachmund

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Carl V. Lachmund (27 March 185320 February 1928) was an American classical pianist, teacher, conductor, composer, and diarist. He was a student of Franz Liszt for three years, and his detailed diaries of his time with Liszt provide an invaluable insight into that composer’s teaching methods and some aspects of his character. He founded the Lachmund Conservatory in New York and ran it for 22 years, and he founded the Women’s String Orchestra, conducting it for 12 seasons. Biography Carl Valentine Lachmund was born in Boonville, Missouri in 1853, but spent most of his early life in Iowa. His parents Gustav Otto Lachmund and Sophia née Schmidt were immigrants from Germany. His musical talent was recognised early. He went to Europe at the age of 16 and studied for six years, graduating in 1875 from the Cologne Conservatory, where his teachers were Ferdinand Hiller, Adolf Jensen, Friedrich Gernsheim and Isidor Seiss. He continued his studies in Berlin with Moritz Moszkowski, Friedrich Kiel (Paderewski was a fellow student), and Xaver and Philipp Scharwenka. In 1877 he founded the German Conservatory of Music in Clinton, Iowa. He accompanied the violinist August Wilhelmj on his 1880 Euro

Carl Nielsen

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Nielsen was born on 9 June 1865, the seventh of twelve children in a poor peasant family, at Sortelung near Nørre Lyndelse, south of Odense on the island of Funen. The surname Nielsen was originally a patronymic meaning ‘son of Niels’. His father, Niels Jørgensen, was a house painter and traditional musician who, with his abilities as a fiddler and cornet player, was in strong demand for local celebrations. Nielsen described his childhood in his autobiography (My Childhood on Funen). His mother, whom he recalls singing folk songs during his childhood, came from a well-to-do family of sea captains, while one of his half-uncles, Hans Andersen, was a talented musician. Nielsen gave an account of his introduction to music: “I had heard music before, heard father play the violin and cornet, heard mother singing, and, when in bed with the measles, I had tried myself out on the little violin.” He had received the instrument from his mother when he was six.

Carl Ruggles

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Carl Ruggles (born Charles Sprague Ruggles; March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed “dissonant counterpoint”, a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles’ music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number of eight pitch classes intervened. He is considered a founder of the ultramodernist movement of American composers that included Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford Seeger, among others. He had no formal musical education, yet was an extreme perfectionist—writing music at a painstakingly slow rate and leaving behind a very small output. Famous for his prickly personality, Ruggles was nonetheless close friends with Cowell, Seeger, Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives, and the painter Thomas Hart Benton. His students include the experimental composers James Tenney and Merton Brown. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has championed Ruggles’ music, recording the complete works with the Buffalo Philharmonic and occasionally performing Sun-Treader with the San Francisco Symphony. Especially later in life, Rugg

Carl Thiel

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Carl Josef Thiel (9 July 1862 − 23 July 1939) was a German organist, church musician and professor of music. Life Born in Oleśnica Mała (formerly german Klein Öls), Thiel was born as the son of the trained miller and grain merchant August Thiel and his second wife Regina Thiel, née Gebel. His mother’s two brothers, Carl and Ignatz Gebel, worked as principal teachers and choir directors in Ziębice and Parchwitz. Thiel received his first musical instruction from the cantor Scholz of his home parish. He was baptized catholic and grew up in Lower Silesia in simple circumstances. Nevertheless, he was able - just like his brother Reinhold, who was five years younger - to complete training as a primary school teacher. In 1876 he came to the Präparandenschule and afterwards to the in Oppeln. As a junior teacher Thiel taught at a village school in Koszęcin, where he had his own grand piano, and a little later in Zabrze(Mikultschütz). At that time Thiel also played viola. After four and a half years as a teacher and a study leave granted to him in Berlin, he gave up the profession in 1888 and devoted himself to church music. Musical education From 1887 to 1892 Thiel studied with Woldemar Bar

Carl Venth

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Carl Venth (February 16, 1860 – January 29, 1938) was a German-American composer, violinist, conductor, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in the first half of the twentieth century and was one of the early music directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Venth was born in Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of Carl Venth and Friderika von Turkowitz. He began learning the violin at age 9 with his father. Carl studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm-Gymnasium; at the Cologne Conservatory, where he learned the violin with George Japha and composition with Ferdinand Hiller, Gustav Jensen, and Otto Klauwell; and at the Brussels Conservatory, where he studied violin with Henryk Wieniawski and from which he graduated in 1877. Career In 1878 Venth was appointed concertmaster of the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra and of the Flemish Opera in Brussels; in 1879 he assumed the same post with the Offenbach Comic Opera of Paris. He made his solo debut in 1878 with the Utrecht Symphony, followed by a concert tour of the Netherlands in 1879 (together with Alfred Patzig and Luise Wandersleb-Patzig, 16 concerts in 12 cities) and of the Unite

Carlo Albanesi

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Carlo Albanesi (22 October 1858 – 26 September 1926) was an Italian-born composer, pianist, teacher and examiner who spent most of his working life in England. His Exercises for Fingering, first published in the early 1900s, are still in use today. Life and career Born in Naples, Albanesi received piano lessons from his father, the piano virtuoso Luigi Albanesi (1821–1898), and composition lessons from Sabino Falconi. From 1882 he settled in London, where he composed and performed widely for the next ten years. In 1893 he was appointed professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music, succeeding the deceased Thomas Wingham. He remained there until his death. Albanesi was appointed Chevalier of the Crown of Italy, and was a long-term member of the London Philharmonic Society. He was also an examiner at the Dublin Royal Academy of Music. Composer As a composer Albanesi wrote orchestral and chamber music, including a string quartet and trio for piano and strings. But he is best remembered for his piano music and particularly the six piano sonatas, the last of which was composed in 1907. Of those, Number 4 in B♭ minor (1905), with a graceful Barcarolle as its middle movement, achieved

Carlo Curti

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Carlo Curti (6 May 1859 – 8 May 1922), also known as Carlos Curti, was an Italian musician, composer and bandleader. He moved to the United States whose most lasting contribution to American society was popularizing the mandolin in American music by starting a national “grass-roots mandolin orchestra craze” (that lasted from 1880 until the 1920s). He also contributed to Mexican society in 1884 by creating one of Mexico’s oldest orchestras, the Mexican Typical Orchestra. The orchestra under his leadership represented Mexico at the New Orleans Cotton Exhibition. As with his Spanish Students, Curti dressed his Mexican band in costumes, choosing the charro cowboy outfit. The patriotic value of having Mexico represented on the international stage gave a boost to mariachi bands (which had normally been repressed by social elites); the mariachis began using charro outfits as Curti’s orchestra had done, expressing pride in being Mexican. Curti’s Orquestra Típica Mexicana has been called the “predecessor of the Mariachi bands.” He was an orchestra leader, composer, educator at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexican National Conservatory of Music), xylophonist, violinist, mandolinist

Carlo Zangarini

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Carlo Zangarini i (9 December 1873 – 19 July 1943) was an Italian librettist, poet, and academic. He lived his entire life in the city of Bologna, and is best remembered today for penning the libretti for the operas La fanciulla del West (1910) by composer Giacomo Puccini, I gioielli della Madonna (1911) by composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and Conchita (1911) by Riccardo Zandonai. Life and career Born in Bologna, Zangarini’s father was Italian and his mother was an American. His mixed heritage made him an ideal choice to serve as Giacomo Puccini’s librettist for his 1910 opera La fanciulla del West; a work which he co-authored with the poet Guelfo Civinini. Set in the Western United States and adapted from David Belasco’s 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West, the opera tells the story of a Californian mining camp during the 1849 Gold Rush. In addition to La fanciulla del West, Zangarini also wrote the libretti for the operas I gioielli della Madonna (1911) by composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Conchita (1911) by Riccardo Zandonai. Zangarini lived his entire life in the city of Bologna, and served as the chair of poetic and dramatic literature at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Ma

Carmela Mackenna

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Carmela Mackenna Subercaseaux (31 July 1879 – 30 January 1962) was a Chilean pianist and composer. She was successful as both a pianist and composer in Europe, and is identified with the expressionist and neo-classism style. Early and personal life Carmela Mackenna Subercaseaux was born in Santiago on 31 July 1879, As a child, Mackenna was educated at home, like most Chilean women at the time, and showed an aptitude for creative subjects including music, painting and writing. She studied music theory with Bindo Paoli in Santiago, who saw her talent for music and encouraged her to continue her musical studies. Mackenna received critical acclaim during a piano recital presented by Paoli’s students in 1917 and was described in the press as having the “soul of an artist”. Mackenna married diplomat Enrique Cuevas and together they relocated to Germany in 1926, where they lived for the next ten years and was Mackenna’s most active period as a composer. However, her Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, which was first played in Berlin on 21 May 1933, was performed in Chile. References

Carmen Karr

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Carme Karr i Alfonsetti (Spanish, Carmen Karr; Barcelona, 16 March 1865 – 29 December 1943) was a Spanish Catalan feminist, journalist, writer, musicologist and song-composer. Karr was one of the most ardent Catalan feminists of the early 20th century, together with Dolors Monserdà with whom she collaborated. Her feminist philosophy, which promoted giving women the necessary tools for a profession, as well as equal rights, was frequently a subject in the journal Feminal, which she edited from 1907 to 1917. She frequently signed articles with the pseudonym Joana Romeu. She also wrote for Diario de Barcelona, La Veu de Catalunya, Or y Grana,(1906–1907, where she promoted Catalan solidarity), Ofrena (1916–17), La Mainada (1922–23), La Actualidad, Día Gráfico and Las Provincias of Valencia, where she sometimes used the pseudonym Xènia in reference to the name Xènius used by Eugenio d’Ors, with whom she argued in Joventut. Biography Carme Karr’s father was a French engineer and diplomat in Catalunya and her mother, who was Italian, died when Karr was an infant. She was the niece of the French novelist Alphonse Karr. She was raised between Barcelona and Perpignan at schools run by the Do

Caro Roma

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Caro Roma (September 10, 1866 – September 22, 1937) was the stage name of Carrie Northey, an American singer and composer known for Tin Pan Alley era songs. Early life and education Carrie Northey was born in Oakland, California, the daughter of Vernal Sidney Northey, who operated a forge. She studied in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1888. Career Northey began performing on stage at age three, and as a teenager toured in Canada as orchestra conductor for a French opera company. She became prima donna with the Henry Savage Opera Company in Boston and sang opera in the United States and in Europe, where she performed for royalty including King Edward VII. She made recordings as early as 1899. Northey wrote songs and poetry as a child and developed her composition skills during her years as a performer. She sang whole recitals of her own works as early as 1909, She received a best song award from the American National Composers’ and Authors’ Association in 1924. Roma married Jesse Douglas. *Faded Rose *The Angelus *Thinking of Thee *Resignation *Lullaby In collaboration with composer Ernest R. Ball, she also wrote the lyrics for: *In The Garden Of My H

Carrie B. Wilson Adams

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Carrie Belle (Wilson) Adams (1859–1940) was the first American woman to conduct a public performance of Handel’s oratorio, “Messiah.” An Ohio native and musical child prodigy who performed in concert for the first time at age seven, she spent much of her life in Indiana, where she was a choral conductor and organist. By the time of her death in Portland, Oregon, she had also become one of the most prolific American composers, completing 4,000 anthems, 12 cantatas, and 28 operettas during her lifetime. Formative years Born in Oxford, Ohio on July 28, 1858 (alternate birth date June 29, 1859), Carrie Belle Wilson was the oldest child of Allie (Myers) Wilson and David Wilson, a songwriter and music educator. Among the works completed in later life was the cantata, “The Easter Triumph.” Completed in 1940, it was published posthumously. * “Easter Praise” (cantata). New York, New York: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1908. * “Jesus, Thou Source of Calm Repose.” Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1906. * “How Beautiful Jesus’ Love!” in International Praise: for the Sunday school and church. Chicago, Illinois: E. O. Excell, 1902. * “Redeemer and King” (cantata). New York, New York: Lorenz Publish

Catharina van Rennes

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Catharina van Rennes (2 August 1858, Utrecht – 23 September 1940, Amsterdam) was a Dutch music educator, soprano singer and composer. Van Rennes was the daughter of Jan van Rennes and Marianna Josepha de Jong. Among her tutors were Richard Hol and Johan Messchaert. She made a career as a singer in oratorios and was highly praised for her interpretations of Schumann Lieder. She was also known for vocal compositions. She composed and conducted a cantata for The International Alliance meeting of the women’s suffrage movement held in Amsterdam in 1909 which was performed by the Queen’s Royal Band. Van Rennes established her own singing school and developed her own teaching technique. Like her contemporary Hendrika Tussenbroek, she is remembered today for some popular Dutch children’s songs such as "" (Three little toddlers were sitting on a fence), a translation of a Kate Greenaway verse, and "" (Madonna child) as well as a religious song " (Children of one Father). Works Selected works include: *Lentetover, songs for children *Jong Holland, songs for children *Vocal quartets, Op. 24 *Duets, Op. 59 References External links

Catharinus Elling

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Catharinus Elling (13 September 1858 – 8 January 1942) was a Norwegian music teacher, organist, music critic, and composer. He was also a folk music collector and the author of a number of books. Biography Elling was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Andreas Schaft Elling (1818–1872) and Pauline Bangsboe (1826–1905). His brother was engineer Ægidius Elling (1861–1949). As a composer, he wrote symphonies, a violin concerto, chamber music, an opera, and more than 200 songs, most in the 1890–1905 period. His works are seldom performed now, but many musicians were influenced by him, such as Fartein Valen, who studied music under Elling. Elling is principally known for his extensive work on collecting and recording Norwegian folk music. Elling was named a Government scholar in 1899. He continued a folk music collection across many rural parts of the country: Trøndelag, Gudbrandsdalen, Oppland, Telemark, Setesdal, Valdres and Sunnfjord. At the same time, folk music collector Olav Sande (1850–1927) was also named to a state stipend, and the two divided the country between them; Sande taking the music tradition from Sogn to Vest-Agder. Elling’s mandate was to collec

Cecil Forsyth

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Cecil Forsyth (30 November 1870, in Greenwich – 7 December 1941, New York City) was an English composer and musicologist. Career He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the Royal College of Music (with Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry), and played viola in various London orchestras (including the Queen’s Hall Orchestra) while establishing himself as a composer. In 1914 he moved to the US and took up a position at the music publishers H.W. Gray, who also became his publisher. He continued to compose and secure performances in the US, though mostly with choral societies and glee clubs. and repeated in 1904 and 1906. According to Lewis Foreman, it is “possibly the first full blown concerto for viola by a British composer”. (York Bowen’s Viola Concerto followed in 1907). There is a modern recording by Lawrence Power and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Chanson Celtique (1906) for viola and piano, also achieved some popularity and was later orchestrated. The orchestral suite Four Studies from Victor Hugo also had its debut at the Proms in 1905. There were two comic operas, Westward Ho! and Cinderella, both produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, and a setting of

Cecil Mack

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Cecil Mack (November 6, 1873 – August 1, 1944) was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher. Biography Born as Richard Cecil McPherson in Portsmouth, Virginia, he attended the Norfolk Mission College and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (class of 1897) before leaving to go to New York City where the 1900 Federal Census lists his occupation as a stenographer. Mack started writing song lyrics, starting with “Good Morning, Carrie” in 1901. He co-founded the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company in May 1905, in New York City; it was likely the first black-owned music publishing company. In July 1906, an article in The New York Age referred to Mack as the company’s “secretary and treasurer and general business director.” In 1907 he wrote the lyrics for the musical The Black Politician. In 1925 he co-wrote the book for the musical Mooching Along. Mack also formed a choir, the Southland Singers, that year. In 1931 he co-wrote the music for the musical Rhapsody in Black. Birth date His birthdate is also given as 1880 and 1883, and an 1876 date is shown by his World War I Draft Registration card, as referenced above, and the 1900 US Census, but an 1891 Navy Enlistment Record a

Cécile Chaminade

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Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d’Honneur, a first for a female composer. Biography Born in Batignolles (a village then outside Paris), Chaminade was raised in a musical family. She received her first piano lessons from her mother. Her father forbade it because he believed it was improper for a girl of Chaminade’s class. and music composition with Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard and Benjamin Godard. Chaminade experimented in composition as a young child, composing pieces for her cats, dogs and dolls. In 1869, she performed some of her music for Georges Bizet, who was impressed with her talents. . In her early years, she gave recitals throughout France, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland. In 1892, she debuted in England, where her work was popular. She visited England again in 1907 and performed at the Aeolian Hall in London, and in Bath. Queen Victoria was known to enjoy Chaminade’s music and in 1901 at her funeral, the Prélude for Organ, Op. 78, by Chaminade was played. Chaminade married a music publisher from Marseille, Louis-Mathieu Carbonel, in 1901. In 1908, she performed conce

Cécile Hartog

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Cécile Sarah Hartog (1857–1940) was an English composer and pianist, born in London. She was the daughter of French school teacher, author and editor Marion Moss Hartog, and her husband Alphonse Hartog, and her siblings were the artist Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, natural historian Marcus Hartog, mathematician Numa Edward Hartog, and the chemist Philip Hartog. The mathematician and engineer Hertha Ayrton was her cousin. She studied music with Charles Salaman, and later at the Royal Academy of Music, where she took the gold medal for composition in 1889 and had a piano quartet performed, as well as an orchestral Andante and Gavotte. Her teachers there and elsewhere included Frederick Cowen, Woldemar Bargiel, Oscar Beringer, and (in Berlin) Karl Klindworth. She was active as a soloist and sometimes conductor from the 1880s until the First World War. She also taught harmony at the Maida Vale High School for Girls in London. While conducting the orchestra for the play Beethoven’s Romance at the Royalty Theatre on 1 December 1894, the sleeve of her muslin dress was set alight by one of the lamps on her music desk. A member of the orchestra managed to extinguish it quickly with an opera cl

Cecilia Arizti

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Cecilia Arizti Sobrino (28 October 1856 – 30 June 1930 ) was a Cuban composer, pianist and music educator. Biography Cecilia Arizti was born in La Loma del Angel, Havana, the daughter of pianist Fernando Arizti and his wife Teresa Sobrino. Arizti studied music with her father and composition with Francisco Fuentes and Espadero Ruiz, and showed an early talent for composition. After completing her studies, Arizti performed as a concert pianist in Cuba and the United States. She became a professor at the Conservatory Peyrellade, and published a manual of piano technique. Works Arizti’s works are for piano and composed in Romantic style. Selected works include: *Impromptu in F minor *Vals lent *Romanza *Nocturn *Caprici *Reverie, Op. 16 *Chamber Trio for piano, violin and cello References Further reading * * * * * * * * * *

Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria

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Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria (5 April 1873 – 9 September 1938) was a Brazilian composer, pianist, poet, singer and teacher who used the pseudonym Stella Bomilcar. Biography She was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of João Paulo Gomes de Mattos and Joana de Alencar Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos. She first studied piano in Fortaleza, and she was drawn towards music, literature, and design. She moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1900, and in 1901 she enrolled in the Instituto Nacional de Música, where she studied voice, theory, and solfeggio with Frederico Nascimento; composition with Alberto Nepomuceno; and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Francisco Braga. She became a singing monitor at the Instituto Nacional de Música in 1905, an adjunct professor in 1907, and a theory and solfeggio professor in 1911. She went on to study voice in Paris in 1914 with Mme. Bauer, and later returned to Europe to study in Berlin in 1928. As a teacher, she would organize salons featuring her students at a home on Rua Fonte da Saudade, creating a well-known space for musical gatherings. Celeste Jaguaribe combined several aspects of her artistry into her career. In addition to teaching at the Instituto Nacio

Celestina Ekel

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Celestina Terezija Ivana Ekel, Sister Alakok, (November 15, 1867 – April 20, 1935), was a Slovenian music teacher, musician, organist and composer. Childhood and youth Celestina was born on November 15, 1867, in Novo Mesto, into a wealthy and prominent family. Her father was Joseph Ekel, a district governor and government councilor in Novo Mesto, and her mother was Cölestine von Stransky, a noblewoman. Celestina as composer As a composer, in 1925 Celestina published her first 12 church songs through the Graz-based publishing house Styria: 10 benediction hymns and 2 in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the booklet Lasset uns anbeten! (Let Us Adore!). This work was also published in Slovene in 1927 under the title Pridite molimo! (Come, Let Us Pray!) by the Yugoslav Bookstore in Ljubljana. The main difference between the two editions was that the German version was arranged for a women’s choir, while the Slovene version was arranged for a mixed choir. References

Celia Torrá

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Celia Torrá (18 September 1889 – 16 December 1962) was an Argentine composer, conductor, and violinist. She was the first woman to conduct an orchestra at the Teatro Colón. Torrá was born in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina. Her father was her first violin teacher. She later studied music with Andres Gaos, Athos Palma, and Alberto Williams. In 1909, she won a National Commission of Fine Arts prize which funded her studies in Europe with Vincent d’Indy, Jenő Hubay, Zoltán Kodály, Paul Le Flem, and César Thomson. She won the Royal Conservatory of Brussels’ Grand Prix for violin in 1911. The Entre Rios provincial government gave her a grant to continue her studies in Europe. She remained in France during World War I, where she gave benefit concerts for the Red Cross. Torrá conducted both groups in over 200 concerts. In 1952, she founded a choir for the employees of Philips Argentina S.A., the first workers choir in Argentina. *Pieces (violin and piano) Vocal References External links * *Watch

César Thomson

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César Thomson (18 March 1857 – 21 August 1931) was a Belgian violinist, teacher, and composer. Biography He was born in Liège in 1857. At age seven, he entered the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and studied under Désiré Heynberg, Rodolphe Massart and Jacques Dupuis (1830-1870). By age 16, he was considered to have “a technique unrivalled by any other violinist then living”. He was also a student of Hubert Léonard, Henryk Wieniawski and Henri Vieuxtemps. In 1873, he became concertmaster of the private orchestra (52 players) of Baron , a Russian banker and railroad magnate, who, in 1870, had built the Castello di Trevano as a temple to music, in the vicinity of Canobbio, by Lugano, Switzerland. After von Derwies lost his mind and disappeared, Thomson left Lugano in 1877, but not before he had married a local noblewoman, Luisa Riva. César Thomson revived many of the then obscure works of Niccolò Paganini, and he did much work in editing, arranging and transcribing works from the early Italian school, by composers such as Corelli, Handel, Tartini, J. S. Bach, Nardini and Vitali. His own compositions included a Zigeuner Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1909). Many well-known violinists

Charles A. E. Harriss

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Charles Albert Edward Harriss (16 or 17 December 1862 – 31 July 1929) was a British-Canadian composer, impresario, educator, organist-choirmaster and conductor. Early life and education Harriss was born in London, England, around midnight between 16 and 17 December 1862. He was the son of Edwin Harriss, organist and choir conductor. He studied at St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, with Sir Frederick Ouseley. Upon graduation, his first job was that of choir master at St. John’s church in Wrexham, Wales. Career At the age of 18 Harriss was appointed organist in a church in Welshpool, Wales. Through his teacher Ouseley’s connections in Canada, and after a direct petition from Agnes Macdonald, wife of the Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John Macdonald, Harriss was invited to audition for the job of organist at St. Alban the Martyr in Ottawa, Canada. After moving there in 1882, he became the organist at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal (1883–1886). In 1886 Harriss succeeded his own father as organist in St. James the Apostle church, also in Montreal. Harriss composed a number of hymns and other choral works. His most famous composition is his opera Torquil, conceived firstly in 1896 as a

Charles A. Zimmermann

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Charles A. Zimmermann (1861 – January 16, 1916) was an American composer of marches and popular music. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, he was appointed bandmaster at the United States Naval Academy in 1887 at the age of 26. Zimmermann served as the academy’s bandmaster until his death from a brain hemorrhage in 1916. Zimmermann is buried at the Naval Academy cemetery. Zimmermann composed his most famous march, “Anchors Aweigh”, in 1906 when he was a lieutenant in the United States Navy. The lyrics were written by Alfred Hart Miles, a midshipman. The march was intended from the beginning to serve as a rousing tune for football games. The familiar strain is actually the trio of the larger work. Zimmermann also composed numerous songs for the 1902 stage play The Wizard of Oz. List of compositions *with Frank Keesee: **Only You (Sir Dashemoff Daily) *with Mr. Hollister: **When the Heart is Sad (Sir Dashemoff Daily) *with Vincent Bryan: **Marching Thro’ Georgia (Scarecrow and Tin Woodman) **Sitting Bull (Scarecrow) **Football (Scarecrow and Tin Woodman) **Marching Through Port Arthur (Scarecrow and Tin Woodman) Bibliography *Holsinger, M. Paul, ed. (1999).

Charles Ancliffe

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Charles William Ancliffe (25 July 1880 – 20 December 1952) was an Irish-born composer of light music, chiefly remembered for his salon piano music, genre dance pieces, light character pieces and his “Nights of Gladness” waltz. Early life and education Ancliffe was born on 25 July 1880 at Curragh Camp, Kildare, Ireland. His father, John Benjamin Ancliffe (1854–1916), was bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment from 1884 and the 2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry from 1894 until he was discharged in 1908. When aged 11, he was organist at the military church in Secunderabad where his father was stationed. At the age of 15 in 1896 he joined the 2nd Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry in Guernsey as a boy bandsman. He studied at the Royal Military School of Music in Kneller Hall (1899–1900), graduating at the age of 20 having been awarded the gold baton for composition for a suite called “Gipsy Pictures”. Career Ancliffe followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a bandmaster himself; from 11 December 1900 he was bandmaster of the First Battalion, South Wales Borderers, seeing much service in India (1901–1910). In 1902 he joined the Freemasons. In 1903, when he was

Charles Cuvillier

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Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas La reine s’amuse (1912, played as The Naughty Princess in London) and with The Lilac Domino, which became a hit in 1918 in London. Biography Cuvillier was born in Paris, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet. He began writing for the Paris musical stage and had a success with Avant-hier matin (1905), a small scale work with piano accompaniment. Later stage works to achieve success in France and abroad included Son p’tit frère (1907), his first collaboration with André Barde, and La reine s’amuse (1912). Cuvillier fought in the trenches against Germany during the war, and thereafter made his career in France and the U.K. His greatest international success was the operetta The Lilac Domino, originally Der lila Domino (Leipzig, 1912). The critic Andrew Lamb writes that Cuvillier composed “light, insinuating music, distinguished by typically French phrasing.” Cuvillier also composed film music, including Mon amant l’assassin (1931), Occupe-toi d’Amélie (1932) and (1935). Cuvillier died in Paris in 1955, at the ag

Charles E. King

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Charles Edward King (January 29, 1874 – February 27, 1950) was a Hawaiian-born American educator, Hawaii territorial legislator, and a songwriter who is most widely known as the composer of “Ke Kali Nei Au”. King was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1995. Music historian George Kanahele regarded King as the “Dean of Hawaiian Music”, although this sobriquet is more associated with John Kameaaloha Almeida. Teaching and legislative career Charles E. King was born of part Hawaiian ancestry, at the Nuʻuanu Valley estate of Queen Emma of Hawaii, in Honolulu, to Walter and Mary Ann Brash. He was adopted by his maternal grandfather John Lewis King after the death of his mother, and was christened by his godmother Queen Emma at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. King was educated in public schools in Hawaii and the Kamehameha School for Boys. In 1914, Kamehameha alumni circulated a petition requesting that King be named school principal, but Ernest C. Webster was chosen instead. When Bishop Estate trustee Samuel Mills Damon resigned in 1916, the trustees named former teacher William Williamson, a white man, to fill the vacancy. As established by the original trust deed, any trustee app

Charles Hylton Stewart

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Arthur Charles Lestoc Hylton Stewart (21 March 1884 – 14 November 1932 ) was an English organist and composer. Early life and education The son of the Rev. Charles Henry Hylton Stewart and Florence Hope Dixon, Stewart was born at Chester and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. Like his younger brother Bruce, he was an organ scholar at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Career After teaching music at Sedbergh School from 1907 to 1908, Stewart composed several works for the organ and for choirs, including the tune “Rochester” for the hymn ‘Light of the lonely pilgrim’s heart’ by Sit Edward Denny (New English Hymnal 399). Family In 1917 Stewart married Gladys Maud Priestley Inglis, the daughter of Charles John Inglis and granddaughter of Dr. James Inglis. References

Charles J. Orth

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Charles Joseph Orth (April 11, 1867 – February 1, 1921) was an American pianist, composer, and businessman known primarily for American march music and the novelty descriptive piece “In a Clock Store”, which featured in popular music repertoire of the early 20th century. Biography Orth was born on April 11, 1867, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he showed interest in music as a child, but his father planned for him to take over the family business instead. Due to his father’s disapproval, he studied music in secret with the help of his mother. He became a student of Christopher Bach, Otto von Gumpert, William Dohrbeck, Hugo Kaun and Franz Neumann. His father eventually found out, and was impressed by his son’s musicianship, allowing him to continue his music studies as long as he balanced it out with his business education. He began to play piano in public throughout the city and the state. Orth eventually completed his study of business and joined his family’s business according to the wishes of his father, but the business failed. Wanting to now pursue a career as a musician, his father still refused to allow it. They came to a compromise, with Orth working for a music d

Charles Koechlin

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Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (; 27 November 186731 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his better known works is Les Heures persanes, a set of piano pieces based on the novel Vers Ispahan by Pierre Loti and The Seven Stars Symphony, a 7 movement symphony where each movement is themed around a different film star (all Silent era stars) who were popular at the time of the piece’s writing (1933). He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars (especially Lilian Harvey and Ginger Rogers), traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. He once said: “The artist needs an ivory tower, not as an escape from the world, but as a place where he can view the world and be himself. This tower is for the artist like a lighthouse shining out across the world.” Life and career Charles Koechlin was born in Paris and baptized Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin. He was the youngest child of a large family. His mother’s family came from Alsace and he identified with that region; his maternal grandfath

Charles Legh Naylor

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Charles Legh Naylor (14 October 1869 – 22 November 1945) was a composer and organist based in Harrogate. Life He was the son of John Naylor and Mary Ann Chatwin. His father was organist of York Minster from 1883 to 1897. He was educated at St Peter’s School, York and later he was awarded a first class degree in music from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1890. He married Ada Emily Binns in Scarborough in 1902, and they had one daughter, Carolina Mary Naylor, in 1905. Appointments *Organist at Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1889–1892 *Deputy organist at York Minster 1891–1892 *Organist at St. Peter’s Church, Harrogate 1892 –1902 *Conductor of the Kursaal Orchestra, Harrogate 1902–1911 *Organist of All Souls, Blackman Lane, Leeds 1911–1917 *Organist at St. Peter’s Church, Harrogate 1917–1935 Compositions He was the musical advisor to the Methodist School Hymnal and composed 50 tunes for it. He also composed: *psalm chants *Communion Service in D 1883 *O Perfect Love 1889 *Where sunless Rivers weep 1892 *Lead Kindly Light 1895 *God that Madest Earth and Heaven 1896 *Through the Day thy love has spared us 1898 *Ye Mariners of England. 1900 *We sing a song of Christmas-time 1909 *Will God in

Charles Malherbe

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Charles Théodore Malherbe (; 21 April 1853 – 5 October 1911) was a French violinist, musicologist, composer and music editor. Life and career Malherbe was born in Paris, son of Pierre Joseph Malherbe (1819–1890) and Zoé Caroline Mozin (1832–1921) the youngest daughter of French painter Charles Mozin (1806–1862). He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but instead decided on music as a profession. He studied music with Adolphe Danhauser, Jules Massenet and André Wormser, and served as Danhauser’s secretary on a tour through Holland, Belgium and Switzerland to survey systems of music pedagogy in the public schools. He afterward settled in Paris, and became assistant to Charles Nuitter, the archivist-librarian of the Paris Opera Library in 1896, succeeding him in 1899. He edited the music periodical Le Ménestrel and also wrote for a number of other publications, including Le Guide musical, Progrès artistique, Revue internationale de musique and Le Monde artiste. Beginning in 1895, Malherbe annotated sixteen volumes of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Œuvres complètes (“Complete works”) (1895–1913), providing much information concerning performance practice and genre history, as well as Rame

Charles Martin Loeffler

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Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (January 30, 1861 – May 19, 1935) was a German-born American violinist, composer, and viola d’amore player. Family background Charles Martin Loeffler was born Martin Karl Löffler on January 30, 1861, in Schöneberg near Berlin to parents who were both from Berlin families. The family moved repeatedly, first to Alsace, and then to Smila, 200 km from Kiev , while Loeffler was still a small child, and then to Debrecen, in Hungary, where his father Karl taught at the Royal Academy of Agriculture. Later he lived in Switzerland. The father, Karl Löffler, was an agricultural chemist who espoused republican ideals in writing as a journalist under the name “Tornow” or “Tornov”. When his son was about twelve years old, Prussian authorities arrested Karl Loeffler and he died of a stroke in prison. Throughout his career, Charles Martin Loeffler claimed to have been born in Mulhouse, Alsace; in his lifetime, articles were published dissecting his “typically Alsatian” temperament. He sometimes used his father’s pseudonyms as one of his middle names. Career Loeffler decided to become a violinist and studied in Berlin with Joseph Joachim, Friedrich Kiel and Woldemar B

Charles O'Neill (musician)

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Charles O’Neill (31 August 1882 – 9 September 1964) was a Canadian bandmaster, composer, organist, cornetist and music educator of Scottish birth and Irish parentage. Although he wrote many symphonic and choral works, the majority of his compositional output was devoted to band music. Education and early career Born in Duntocher to Irish parents, O’Neill began his musical training in the piano as a young child. He then studied the organ with Albert Lister Peace in Glasgow and music theory with Archibald Evans in London. From 1897 to 1901 he serves as organist at Grimsby, Lincolnshire and was a cornet player in a local band in that city. In 1901, O’Neill moved to the United States, settling first in Boston, Massachusetts and then in New York City in 1903. He moved again in 1905 to Kingston, Ontario in Canada, where he played in the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Band as a cornet soloist. In 1908, he returned to England to receive training as a bandmaster for at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall through the support of the Canadian Department of National Defence. After earning a diploma from the RMSM in 1909, O’Neill returned to Canada in 1910 to succeed Joseph Vézina

Charles Sanford Skilton

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Charles Sanford Skilton (August 16, 1868 – March 12, 1941) was an American composer, teacher and musicologist. Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Blair Fairchild, Arthur Nevin, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he was one of the leading Indianist composers of the early twentieth century. Life Skilton was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1889. From that year until 1891 he taught languages at a preparatory school in Newburgh, New York; while there, he studied composition with Dudley Buck and organ with Harry Rowe Shelley. Skilton traveled to Berlin for further study in 1891, remaining there until 1893 and studying at the Hochschule für Musik with Woldemar Bargiel and Otis Boise. Returning to the United States, he became director of music at the Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in which position he served until 1896. In 1897 he found work as an instructor of piano and music theory at the State Normal School in Trenton, New Jersey (now The College of New Jersey); he moved west in 1903, when he became a professor of organ, theory and history at the University of Kansas. He served as the Dean

Charles Tomlinson Griffes

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Charles Tomlinson Griffes ( ; September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German style, After early studies on piano and organ in his home town, on recommendation of Broughton, he went to Berlin to study with pianist Ernst Jedliczka and Gottfried Galston at the Stern Conservatory. Although recognised as a performer, Griffes grew more interested in composition. Despite being advised against it by Broughton, he left the conservatory and was briefly taught by composer Engelbert Humperdinck. His post has been described as “grim and unrewarding”, though it gave him financial stability. He continued to compose at Hackley in his free time and promoted his music during the summer. In 1918, Ito gave three dance recitals interpreting White Peacock, with Griffes at the piano. Personal life Griffes died of influenza in New York City during the 1918 worldwide Spanish flu pandemic at the age of 35 and is buried in Bloomfield Cemetery in Bloomfield, New Jersey. His papers passed to his younger sister Marguerite, who chose to destroy many that explicitly re

Charles Tournemire

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Charles Arnould Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphonies (one of them choral), four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos. He is mainly remembered for his organ music, the best known being a set of pieces called L’Orgue mystique. Biography Born in Bordeaux, Tournemire moved in adolescence to Paris, and there became one of César Franck’s three youngest students (the other two were Henri Büsser and a Belgian, Guillaume Lekeu, the latter having been born only two days before Tournemire). From 1898 (on the resignation of Gabriel Pierné) to 1939, Tournemire served as the organiste titulaire at Franck’s old church, the Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris. He was also professor of chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1931, he published a biography of Franck. A year before the biography appeared, Tournemire recorded five organ improvisations, which were later transcribed by Maurice Duruflé from phonograph recordings. Of ten 78-rpm discs which Tournemire made in 1930, playing the Aristide Ca

Charles Villiers Stanford

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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it. While still an undergraduate, Stanford was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1882, aged 29, he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. From 1887 he was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. As a teacher, Stanford was sceptical about modernism, and based his instruction chiefly on classical principles as exemplified in the music of Brahms. Among his pupils were rising composers whose fame went on to surpass his own, such as Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. As a conductor, Stanford held posts with the Bach Choir and the Leeds Triennial Music Festival. Stanford composed a substantial number of concert works, including seven symphonies, but his be

Charles Wakefield Cadman

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Charles Wakefield Cadman (December 24, 1881 – December 30, 1946) was an American composer. For 40 years, he worked closely with Nelle Richmond Eberhart, who wrote most of the texts to his songs, including Four American Indian Songs. She also wrote the librettos for his five operas, two of which were based on Indian themes. He composed in a wide variety of genres. Life and career Cadman’s musical education, unlike that of most of his American contemporaries, was completely American. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he began piano lessons at 13. Eventually, he went to nearby Pittsburgh where he studied harmony, theory, and orchestration with Luigi von Kunits and Emil Paur, then concertmaster and conductor, respectively, of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This was the sum of his formal training, although he has been said to have been a pupil of Anna Priscilla Risher as well. By the age of eighteen, he was working as a clerk in a railroad office in Homestead, also in steel country. On the side, he continued writing music. In 1902 he met neighbor Nelle Richmond Eberhart and learned that she was interested in music. They began to work together, she writing the text and he the music fo

Charles Wood (composer)

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Charles Wood (15 June 1866 – 12 July 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as an Anglican church music composer, but he also wrote songs and chamber music, particularly for string quartet. Early life and education Born in Vicars’ Hill in the Cathedral precincts of Armagh, Ireland, Charles was the fifth child and third son of Charles Wood Sr. and Jemima Wood. The boy was a treble chorister in the choir of the nearby St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Church of Ireland). His father sang tenor as a stipendiary ‘Gentleman’ or ‘Lay Vicar Choral’ in the Cathedral choir and was also the Diocesan Registrar of the church. He was a cousin of Irish composer Ina Boyle. Teaching career He began teaching harmony and counterpoint at Selwyn College. In 1889 he attained a teaching position at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, first as organ scholar and then as fellow in 1894, becoming their first director of music and organist. He was instrumental in the reflowering of music at the college, though more as a teacher and organiser of musical events than a

Charles-Gaston Levadé

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Charles-Gaston Levadé (3 January 1869 – 27 October 1948) was a French composer. A pupil of Jules Massenet, Grand Prix de Rome in 1863, Levadé wrote chamber music, melodies, religious music, drama and opéras comiques. He was very successful in his time. Life Levadé was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. At the age of 13 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he followed the solfège classes of Albert Lavignac, Charles de Bériot, Georges Mathias, and Auguste Bazille. A few years later, at Lavignac’s that he met Erik Satie who dedicated one of his Ogives and one of his Gymnopédies to him. He was a student of Jules Massenet, of whom he wrote in 1911, in the Annales politiques et littéraires, 17 December 1911: After Massenet’s resignation in 1896, Levadé attended the classes of Charles Lenepveu and obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1899 with his cantata Callirhoe to a text by Eugène Adénis. In 1895 he produced a Japanese pantomime: Coeur de magots, a “sketch” given at the “Grand Guignol” in 1897, and a “salon opera” in 1903. He wrote a three-act opera: The Heretics, a lyrical tragedy on a poem by Ferdinand Hérold. In 1908, he composed the music for La Courtisane de Corinthe,

Christiaan Kriens

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Christiaan Pieter Wilhelm Kriens (April 29, 1881 – December 17, 1934) was an American composer, pianist, violinist and conductor of Dutch parentage. He was born in Germany while his father, clarinetist Christiaan Pieter Willem Kriens, was playing with the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden during the 1880/1881 season. he came to the United States in 1906. He wrote a number of pieces for orchestra, including two symphonies (when he was very young); he also composed songs and some chamber music, including a string quartet. He received his education from his father and at the Haagse Muziekschool. When he was fourteen he gave a concert with the orchestra led by his father, during which he was the violin soloist in the Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven, and the pianist the Piano Concerto No. 5 by the same composer and led his own second symphony as a conductor. He became solo violinist in the Haarlemse Orkest Vereeniging (predecessor of Noordhollands Philharmonisch Orkest) before joining orchestras in France and the United States. He ran an orchestra school in Carnegie Hall (Kriens Symphony Club) and a string quartet. In November 1910, Musical America published an interview with

Christian Geisler

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Christian Peder Wilhelm Geisler (28 April 186919 August 1951) was a Danish organist and composer. He graduated at the Conservatory of Music in the years 1887–1890 of, among others, Niels W. Gade, J.P.E. Hartmann and Gottfred Matthison-Hansen and studied 1895–96 with Max Bruch in Berlin. After his return, he acted as a composer, vocalist and organist. He was a teacher at the United Church Schools and Ingrid Jespersen School. From 1893 to 1911 he was employed as an organist at Reformed Church and from 1911 to 1939 at the church of Garnison. He was a temporary with both Hartmann and Gade, who both embraced his musical attitude. His music is in the same style as theirs, and most of it was composed before the First World War. He composed in many genres. Notable works * Arnes Sange, 3 Songs of Björnetjerne Björnsons Arne, Op. 1 (1889) * Sonatine in G major for piano, Op. 2 (1897) * String Quartet in B minor, Op. 3 (1893) * Foraar (Spring), Poem Cycle for soprano and piano, Op. 4 (1910); words by Christian Richardt * O, welch ein Tiefe for chorus, Op. 5 (1902) * Julekantate for chorus, Op. 8a * Ode til den menneskelige stemme for chorus, Op. 8b * Under Egetræet for soloist, chorus and orc

Christian Sinding

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Christian August Sinding (11 January 18563 December 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his successor. Personal life Sinding was born at Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway. His parents were mine superintendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell. He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding. His sister Thora Cathrine Sinding was married to jurist Glør Thorvald Mejdell. Christian Sinding was a nephew of Nicolai Mejdell and Thorvald Mejdell. He was also a first cousin of journalist and writer Alfred Sinding-Larsen. In November 1898 he married actress Augusta Gade, née Smith-Petersen (1858–1936). She was the daughter of Morten Smith-Petersen and Cathrine von der Lippe. She had previously been married to physician and art patron Fredrik Georg Gade. Career He studied music first in Christiania (now Oslo) before going to Germany, where he studied at the conservatory in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn and fell under the musical influences of Wagner and Liszt. He lived in Germany for much of his life, but re

Ciprian Porumbescu

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Ciprian Porumbescu (; born Cyprian Gołęmbiowski; 14 October 1853 – 6 June 1883) was a Romanian composer born in Șipotele Sucevei in Bucovina. He was among the most celebrated Romanian composers of his time; his popular works include Crai nou, Song of the Tricolour, Song for Spring, Ballad for violin and piano, and Serenada. In addition, he composed the music for the Romanian patriotic “Song of Unity”, also known as “Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire” (“On our flag is written Unity”), which was Romania’s anthem from 1975 to 1977 and is currently used for Albania’s national anthem, “Himni i Flamurit”. His work spreads over various forms and musical genres, but the majority of his work is choral and operetta. Life and career Ciprian Porumbescu was born into the family of Iraclie Gołęmbiowski a Romanian Orthodox priest and Emilia Clodnițchi, Polish, daughter of the forest brigadier from Voievodeasa. Iraclie Gołęmbiowski called himself Iraclie Porumbescu from his youth, but he did not officially change his name until 1881, when Ciprian was at school in Suceava. He was assigned as a priest to Șipotele Sucevei, a Hutsul village, as a punishment for repeatedly criticizing Bishop Eugene Hack

Clara Anna Korn

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Clara Anna Korn (née Gerlach, January 30, 1866–July 14, 1940) was an American pianist, composer, and music writer. She sometimes wrote under a pseudonym, C. Gerhard. She was born in Germany, and moved to New Jersey with her family at the age of 3. She graduated from Jersey City High School in 1881. She initially embarked on a career as a concert pianist, and had early studies with William G. Vogt. When Tchaikovsky was in New York in 1891 he had read some of her composition manuscripts (probably when he was visiting with Schirmer), and sent her a letter of encouragement. She then pivoted towards composition, entering the National Conservatory of Music in New York, where she studied under Bruno Oscar Klein and Horatio Parker and was listed as an “unofficial” composition student of Antonín Dvořák. After graduation from the National Conservatory, she taught there from 1893 to 1898. She also taught in New Jersey public schools, and was head of the piano department at the DeBauer School of Music and Languages in New York City. Korn contributed articles to several music journals and helped to found the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Manuscr

Clara Edmunds Hemingway

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Clara Edmunds Hemingway (October 4, 1878 – December 31, 1958) was an American poet, editor, composer, and contralto singer, based in the Chicago area. Early life Clara A. Edmunds was born in Tuscola, Michigan, the daughter of Dennis Bowen Edmunds and Florence Davis Edmunds. Her father was a farmer when she was born, but later owned a veneer mill. She graduated from Benton Harbor High School. Career Edmunds Hemingway was a noted contralto singer, whistler, and dramatic reader. She gave recitals, mainly in the American midwest. During World War I, she gave free recitals to raise funds for the Red Cross. One of her programs, “Stories in Stone” or “Rock Pictures”, involved Lake Michigan rocks that she had painted to resemble Biblical figures, and her stories about them. Her original songs were popular with other touring singers in the early twentieth century United States. Edmunds Hemingway published a book of sonnets, Oak Roots (1931). Her poems were published in a variety of collections and periodicals, Some of her poems were written in Scots dialect, for example “She Slippit Awa’”, which begins, “She slippit awa’ sae peacefu’ lak”. She also collected old songs and tunes. the Illinoi

Clara Edwards

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Clara Edwards (April 17, 1880 – January 17, 1974) was an American singer, pianist, and composer of art songs. She also used the pseudonym Bernard Haigh. Biography She was born Clara Gerlich in Decoria Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota. She received her education from the Mankato State Normal School and the Cosmopolitan School of Music in Chicago. She married physician John Milton Edwards before finishing her degree, and the couple moved to Vienna, where she continued musical studies and had a daughter. In Europe she prepared for a career as a singer, and gave concerts in both the United States and Europe joining the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1925. She toured in Vaudeville at about the same time, and organized the Chautauqua Concert Company in 1934. She often collaborated with Jack Lawrence, but also wrote many of the lyrics to her own songs. Music Edwards composed over 100 works and published over 60 songs. Several of her songs are sacred, and she wrote choral arrangements for some of them. She also composed music for solo piano, for children’s marionette plays and animated films. Her songs have been recorded and issued on CD and used in

Clara Mathilda Faisst

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Clara Mathilda Faisst (22 June 1872 – 22 November 1948) was a German pianist, composer and writer. Early life Clara Faisst was born in Karlsruhe, Baden to August and Emma Faisst. Her father died when she was one year old. She was the youngest of six children. Those close to her considered her to be quiet and dreamy as a child. Faisst suffered poor health throughout most of her childhood. Education Her musical education began when she entered school. She received musical training from the Grand Ducal conservatory in Karlsruhe until 1894. At age 7, she was the youngest student ever taught by concertmaster Carl Will. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin until 1896. At the academy, she had many prestigious teachers. Clara Schumann’s student Ernst Rudorff taught her piano. Woldemar Bargiel (Schumann’s stepbrother) also taught her the theory of counterpoint and composition. Berlin composer Robert Kahn taught her piano and music theory. Her most well-known teacher was Max Bruch (1838 – 1920) who taught composition. She remained in correspondence with Bruch for most of his life. She composed the score for “Five Songs for a Voice with Pianoforte”, for which Max

Clara Ross

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Clara Louisa Ross Ricci (1 July 1858 - 1954) was a British composer, mandolinist, and singer. She is best known for her compositions for mandolin and her songs, which she published as Clara Ross or Clara Ross-Ricci. Ross was born in Brighton, England, to a well to do family. In 1877 she auditioned before Sir Arthur Sullivan and received a scholarship to study voice at the National Training School for Music in London, where she remained until 1882. She later studied at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1895, Ross moved to the United States to marry Richard Atkins Griffin, who had attended the Royal College of Music with her. He was a singer and voice teacher who used the stage name Riccardo Ricci. The couple settled in Wheeling, West Virginia, where Ross gave voice lessons and composed songs. Ricci died in 1905, and Ross remained in Wheeling for several decades, returning to Brighton sometime before World War II. Ross’ music was published by Davis Burkham & Tyler Company, F. A. Mills, F. W. Baumer Company, George White, Huntzinger & Dillworth, John Alvey Turner, Oliver Ditson, Phillips & Page, Reid Brothers, Theodore Presser Company, William Maxwell Music Company, and William

Clare Kummer

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Clare Kummer (January 9, 1873 – April 21, 1958) was an American composer, lyricist, and playwright. Early life Kummer was born Clare Rodman Beecher in Brooklyn, New York, the granddaughter of Rev. Edward Beecher and great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher. Her great-uncle was Henry Ward Beecher, and her great-aunt was Harriet Beecher Stowe, among other notable members of their family. Her parents were Eugene Francis Beecher and Susan Wood Beecher. Career Kummer wrote songs for musicals in New York beginning in 1903 such as in Sergeant Blue (1905) and A Knight For a Day (1908), before she started writing whole shows, usually musical comedies. Her plays included Noah’s Ark (1906), The Opera Ball (1912), The Choir Rehearsal (1914), Good Gracious, Annabelle (1916-1917), A Successful Calamity (1917), The Rescuing Angel (1917), Be Calm, Camilla (1918), Rollo’s Wild Oat (1920), The Choir Rehearsal (1921, one-act), Chinese Love (1921, one-act), The Robbery (1921, one-act), Bridges (1921, one-act), The Mountain Man (1921), Banco (1922), One Kiss (1923), Annie Dear (1924), Madame Pompadour (1924), Pomeroy’s Past (1926), So’s Your Old Antique (1930), Amourette (1933), Her Master’s Voice (1933),

Clarence Cameron White

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Clarence Cameron White (August 10, 1880 – June 30, 1960) was an American neoromantic composer and concert violinist. Dramatic works by the composer were his best-known, such as the incidental music for the play Tambour and the opera Ouanga. During the first decades of the twentieth century, White was considered the foremost black violinist. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Early years Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, to James W. White, a doctor and school principal, and Jennie Scott White, a violinist who studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His father died when he was only two years old. White relocated with his mother and younger brother to Oberlin, Ohio, to live with her parents, where he was first exposed to the violin: My mother took me to hear The Messiah sung at the conservatory and I came away humming snatches of it. Mother thought I had a good musical ear and persuaded my grandfather, who was a religious man, to give me his violin…I was only six at the time, nevertheless, my grandfather pouted, “I’ll give him the violin. But if he ever plays at a dance I’ll take it back.” In 1890, Mrs. White remarried and White relocated with his family to Washington, D

Clarence L. Partee

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Clarence Lockhart Partee (born Concord, North Carolina January 20, 1864, died Manhattan, New York April 17, 1915) was an American composer and arranger and music publisher. He was also founder, editor and publisher of The Cadenza magazine, and devoted his life to teaching and advancing the banjo, mandolin and guitar, arranging more than 150 works for these three instruments. Partee took up the banjo as a profession after his parents died before he was 14, and he moved to Chicago to pursue that goal. He also began studying the guitar and the mandolin. He also branched out adding sections to the magazine for voice, violin, harp and piano. Jacobs ceased publication in 1924. * American Conservatory banjo method (1895) written with his brother Charles H. Partee * Practical hints on modern guitar playing (1899) * American Conservatory Mandolin Method … containing also arrangements by Mrs. C. L. Partee (1898) * Book of harmony and composition : for the violin, mandolin, guitar and banjo (1907) Music * De Coontown Jubilee. Cake Walk. Banjo Solo by Clarence L Partee (1897) * Prairie rose waltz. By Clarence L. Partee and J.C. Groene & Co, (1890) See also * List of mandolinists (sorted) Ref

Clarence Lucas

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Clarence Lucas (October 19, 1866 – July 2, 1947), was a Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor, and music professor. Lucas was born at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario and was a student of Romain-Octave Pelletier I. He taught at the Toronto College of Music, taught in Utica, New York, and was the musical director at Wesleyan Ladies College in Hamilton, Ontario. In London, he tutored pupils in composition, proofread music for Chappel publishing, and was a correspondent and then editor for the magazine Musical Courier which he later held in New York and Paris. In Sèvres, just outside Paris, Lucas freelanced as a music transcriber, arranger, lyricist, and translator. He also contributed to Etude, a musical periodical. Lucas conducted works by George Frideric Handel, Michael Costa, Edvard Grieg, George M. Cohan, and others. He toured the British Isles as a conductor for the Irish musical Peggy Machree, and the United States for Grieg’s Peer Gynt. Lucas’ first wife was the English pianist Clara Asher (who had studied with Clara Schumann) and their son was the British composer and conductor Leighton Lucas (1903 - 1982). She died in 1942. His second wife was Gertrude Pidd, a musician. In the

Claude Debussy

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Debussy was born on 22 August 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, on the north-west fringes of Paris. He was the eldest of the five children of Manuel-Achille Debussy and his wife, Victorine, née Manoury. Debussy senior ran a china shop and his wife was a seamstress. The shop was unsuccessful and closed in 1864; the family moved to Paris, first living with Victorine’s mother, in Clichy, and, from 1868, in their own apartment in the Rue Saint-Honoré. Manuel worked in a printing factory. In 1870, to escape the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, Debussy’s pregnant mother took him and his sister Adèle to their paternal aunt’s home in Cannes, where they remained until the following year. During his stay in Cannes, the seven-year-old Debussy had his first piano lessons; his aunt paid for him to study with an Italian musician, Jean Cerutti. Sivry’s mother, Antoinette Mauté de Fleurville, gave piano lessons, and at his instigation the young Debussy became one of her pupils. Debussy’s talents soon became evident, and in 1872, aged ten, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he remained a student for the next eleven years. He first joined the piano class of Antoine François Marmontel, and studied solfège with Albert Lavignac and, later, composition with Ernest Guiraud, harmony with Émile Durand, and organ with César Franck. The course included music history and theory studies with Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, but it is not certain that Debussy, who was apt to skip classes, actually attended these. At the Conservatoire, Debussy initially made good progress. Marmontel said of him, “A charming child, a truly artistic temperament; much can be expected of him”. Another teacher was less impressed: Émile Durand wrote in a report, “Debussy would be an excellent pupil if he were less sketchy and less cavalier.” A year later he described Debussy as “desperately careless”. In July 1874 Debussy received the award of deuxième accessit for his performance as soloist in the first movement of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto at the Conservatoire’s annual competition. He was a fine pianist and an outstanding sight reader, who could have had a professional career had he wished, but he was only intermittently diligent in his studies. He advanced to premier accessit in 1875 and second prize in 1877, but failed at the competitions in 1878 and 1879. These failures made him ineligible to continue in the Conservatoire’s piano classes, but he remained a student for harmony, solfège and, later, composition. His first compositions date from this period, two settings of poems by Alfred de Musset: “Ballade à la lune” and “Madrid, princesse des Espagnes”. He travelled with her family for the summers of 1880 to 1882, staying at various places in France, Switzerland and Italy, as well as at her home in Moscow. He composed his Piano Trio in G major for von Meck’s ensemble, and made a transcription for piano duet of three dances from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

Claude Terrasse

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Claude Terrasse (27 January 1867 – 30 June 1923) was a French composer of operettas. Terrasse was born in L’Arbresle, Rhône. He became known by writing the music for the play Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry in 1896. In Paris, his brother-in-law, the painter Pierre Bonnard, introduced him to the artistic world and the avant-garde literature and art of the time. Bonnard also did several portraits of him. In 1890, Terrasse married Andrée Bonnard, sister of the artist Pierre Bonnard. By 1899, they had six children, several of whom appear in Bonnard paintings. Their son Charles Terrasse published a monograph on Bonnard in 1927. Terrasse died in Paris, and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery. Works * Vive la France! – Trilogie à grand spectacle (trilogy of a great spectacle) – libretto by Franc-Nohain – (Theater of the Pantins, Paris; 29 March 1898) * La petite femme de Loth – Opéra bouffe in 3 acts – libretto by Tristan Bernard (first presented at the Théâtre des Mathurins, Paris; 1 October 1900) * Les travaux d’Hercule – opera in 3 acts – libretto by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet – (Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris; 7 March 1901) * Le sire de Vergy – Opéra bouffe in 3 act

Clemens von und zu Franckenstein

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Clemens Erwein Heinrich Karl Bonaventura Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (14 July 1875 – 19 August 1942) was a German opera composer. Early life Franckenstein was born in Wiesentheid, Germany to Karl, Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (1831–1898) and Elma, née Countess von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1841–1884). His brother was Austrian Ambassador to England, Georg von und zu Franckenstein. Georg’s son, actor Clement von Franckenstein, was his nephew. Franckenstein studied in Vienna, Austria, and later in Munich, Germany, with Ludwig Thuille and at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt with Iwan Knorr. Career After a visit to the USA he conducted the Moody-Manners Opera Company, acted from 1902–1907 as opera conductor in London, then worked at the court theatres of Wiesbaden and Berlin, until the court theaters were abolished after the First World War. He was the last royal general director of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (1912–1918 and 1924–1934) and the only one who exercised this office twice. He produced the Munich Opera Festival through 1934 when he was forced out by Nazi prohibitions. Personal life Franckenstein, who married Maria Nezádal, died in Hechendorf am Pilsensee, Ob

Clément Broutin

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Clément Jules Broutin (4 May 1851 – 27 May 1889) was a French composer. Life Born in Orchies, Broutin studied with Victor Delannoy at the Conservatoire of Lyon from 1871 before joining the Conservatoire de Paris. There he was a pupil of Émile Durand for harmony, César Franck for organ and Victor Massé for musical composition. After an honorary mention in 1877 he won the First Grand Prix de Rome with the three-part scene La Fille de Jephté based on a text by Édouard Guinant. During his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the prize, Broutin composed Sinai, a work for soloists choir and orchestra, which was premiered in 1881 in the hall of the Paris Conservatory. The work was received coolly by the audience, but critics praised it for the excellent quality of the composition, its exquisite taste and great intelligence. In the following years he composed a number of songs and piano pieces, several orchestral pieces and an opera. Most of his works were published by Henry Lemoine. Broutin died in Roubaix aged 38. In his native town, a street was named after him. Selected works Stage * Rebecca à la fontaine, three-part scene (1877) * Jenny, one-act opéra comique, l

Clement Harris

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Clement Hugh Gilbert Harris (8 July 1871 – 23 April 1897) was an English pianist and composer who studied in Germany and died fighting in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Biography Clement Harris was born on 8 July 1871 in Wimbledon, London, into a family of ship-owners. His siblings included Sir Austin Edward Harris, who became a noted banker, Frederick Leverton Harris, a British Member of Parliament, and Walter Burton Harris, a journalist, writer, traveller and socialite who achieved fame for his writings on Morocco. He was educated at Harrow School, and subsequently studied music in Frankfurt, where he was a piano pupil of Clara Schumann. Friendship with Siegfried Wagner Harris became intimate friends with Siegfried Wagner after meeting him in 1889 at a soirée at the house of Edward Speyer. Becoming restless after spending the summer of 1891 in Bayreuth with Siegfried, Harris proposed taking a free trip to the far East on one of his father’s ships. In 1892, Siegfried travelled to London where Harris introduced him to Oscar Wilde. Harris is described as a protegé of Wilde’s for whom Harris would perform Richard Wagner transcriptions. Wilde liked to talk with Harris about “the most

Clément Lippacher

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Clément Lippacher (1850–1934) was a French composer and organist. Life Born in Haguenau, a student of Édouard Ignace Andlauer in Alsace, then at the École Niedermeyer of Paris, he won a second organ prize in 1868, a first runner-up prize in plainsong in 1869, a second harmony prize in 1870. He became an organist at the Église Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile in Paris. Selected works * 1882: Les Papillons, 2-act ballet by Holtzer, music by Raoul Pugno and Clément Lippacher. * 1883: la Vente de M. X… * 1886: Viviane, ballet-féerie in five acts and six scenes, by Edmond Gondinet, music by Raoul Pugno and Clément Lippacher, premiered on 28 October 1886 at the Eden-Théâtre. * 1886: La Pension de Me Laicque, with Mengal * 1886: Joséphine vendue par ses sœurs, 3-act opéra bouffe by Paul Ferrier and Fabrice Carré, music by Victor Roger premiered in Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, 20 March. * 1892: Le Christ, sacred drama, libretto by Charles Grandmougin, stage music by Lippacher. * 1892: Noël d’Alsace, libretto by Charles Grandmougin, stage music by Clément Lippacher. Notes and references Notes References Sources *. External links

Colin McAlpin

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Colin McAlpin (9 April 1870 – 13 May 1942) was an English composer of songs, operas and ballet music, an organist and a writer of critical essays on music. Life Colin McAlpin was born in 1870, at 15 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, England. He was the fourth child of a clothier John William McAlpin, and his German wife Marie Louise (née Gerdes). His elder siblings were Kenneth, Donal and Janet, and his younger brothers Alan and John. McAlpin published his first composition when he was only 15 and at Wellingborough School: a song called The Cuckoo published in the Midland Musical Journal. At the age of 16 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music to study harmony with Francis William Davenport and organ playing with Charles Steggall, and after three years he acquired silver medals in both areas of study. In 1892 Robin Hood, his first dramatic work, was performed at Wellingborough School and that year he was appointed organist and choirmaster at Kensington Presbyterian Church. In 1897, King Arthur, an opera in three acts, commissioned by impresario Herbert Marshall, was performed by the Leicester Philharmonic Society under H. S. Ellis. In that year three of McAlpin’s Ten Songs were pe

Conrad Ansorge

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Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge (15 October 1862 – 13 February 1930) was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Ansorge was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886. He toured Europe and the United States. He was known for his interpretations of Beethoven. On 15 April 1890, his “Orpheus” symphony was performed in Steinway Hall, New York, under the baton of Theodore Thomas. He became professor of pianoforte at Weimar in 1893. From 1898 to 1903 he taught at Berlin, in the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. In 1920 he became head of the piano master class at the German Academy (Deutschen Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Prague. Conrad Ansorge’s students included: Selim Palmgren, Eduard Erdmann, James Simon, Alice Herz-Sommer, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. He made some Welte-Mignon recordings in 1905, of music by Liszt, Schumann and others. He also wrote a Requiem, two symphonies, a piano concerto, three piano sonatas, two string quartets, and other works. None of these are in the current repertoire. He married the pianist Margarete Wegelin. Their son Joachim (1893–1947) was also a pi

Conrado del Campo

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Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta (28 October 1878 – 17 March 1953) was a Spanish composer, violinist and pedagogue. Career Del Campo was born in Madrid. He became professor at the Madrid Royal Conservatory in 1915, where he was an influential teacher. Among his pupils were Salvador Bacarisse, Julián Bautista, and Fernando Remacha. His compositions were played in the Theatre Real of Madrid for José María Alvira. His opera Lola la Piconera made its debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 12 December 1952. He was also the principal conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. Del Campo was a major figure in the conservative musical climate during the period of rule by Francisco Franco, writing in a late Romantic style. He died in Madrid aged 74. Selected works Symphonic works Del Campo’s characteristic symphonic music takes the form of evocative tone poems. * Ante las ruinas (Before the Ruins, 1898) * La dama de Amboto (The Lady of Amboto, 1901) * Two Parts from the Divina Commedia ** Prologue (1908) ** Inferno (1910) * Bocetos castellanos (Castilian Sketches, 1911) * Granada, a symphonic poem (1913) * Fantasía sobre temas del Maestro Chapí (Fantasy on themes of Master Chapi, 1913)

Cora Decker Sargent

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Cora Emily Decker Sargent (21 May 1868 - 27 September 1944) was an American composer who is best remembered for her song “A Summer Girl,” which was performed at the Proms (today the BBC Proms) concert series in England on 28 September 1900. Decker was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Katharine Ellsworth Worden and Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker. Her father was a judge. Little is known about Decker’s education. She married George W. Sargent in 1888 and they had one son. The couple was listed in the 1919 Social Register of Minneapolis. Decker died in Chicago in 1944. Decker’s music was published by G. Schirmer, Inc. Her works for voice and piano included: * “A Summer Girl” (text by Samuel Minturn Peck) * “Spanish Song” (text by Samuel Minturn Peck) References

Cornélie van Oosterzee

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Cornélie van Oosterzee (16 August 1863 – 12 August 1943) was a Dutch pianist and composer. Biography Cornélie van Oosterzee was born on August 16, 1863, to Pieter Cornélis van Oosterzee and Johanna Theophanie Bernardina in Jakarta (then Batavia). She had six siblings: three brothers and three sisters. At the age of 5, Cornelie moved with her family to The Hague from Jakarta. There, she began piano lessons with Carel Wirtz at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and at age 16 started music theory lessons under composer and organist Willem Nicolaï. Her studies ended in 1883, when her family moved to the Dutch East Indies. Describing the end of her musical career as a “great cover-up” in letters to Clara Schumann, Cornelie asked for advice about the future, and was encouraged to pursue a career as a concert pianist. Returning to the Netherlands upon the death of her mother in 1888, Cornélie resumed her classes with Nicolaï but left soon after for Berlin upon the advice of her friends Julius Rontgen and Johannes Masschaert. After 2 years in Berlin, she moved to Stuttgart to study with composers Samuel de Lange and Robert Radecke. Soon she returned to Berlin upon her acceptance into Heinri

Cornelis Dopper

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Cornelis ‘Kees’ Dopper (7 February 1870, Stadskanaal – 19 September 1939, Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher. Life Born in the northern Dutch town of Stadskanaal, he came to study at the Leipzig conservatory with, among others, Carl Reinecke. After his studies he settled in Groningen, not far from his place of birth. His first opera, De blinde van Castel Cuillé (The Blind Girl of Castel Cuillé), was premiered in Amsterdam in 1894 by the Nederlandsche Opera under the baton of Cornelis van der Linden, and in that same year he entered the service of that company; there he worked as a violinist, chorus master and conductor. During the years 1904–1905 he worked as a music critic for the Amsterdam newspapers De Echo (The Echo) and Het Leven (The Life). A year later, Dopper joined the Savage Opera Company and began to tour the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In that capacity, he was responsible for the American premiere of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (1906 B.C ). He subsequently toured the country with that opera for two seasons (‘06-‘07 and ‘07-‘08). Having grown tired of touring life, he returned to Amsterdam in 1908 to become second conductor of the Amsterdam Conc

Cyril Scott

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Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrote around 20 pamphlets and books on occult topics and natural health. Biography Scott was born in Oxton, Cheshire to Henry Scott (1843-1918), shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary (née Griffiths), an amateur pianist of Welsh origin. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to study piano in 1892 at age 12. He studied with Iwan Knorr and belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. At 20, the German poet Stefan George helped Scott organize a performance of Scott’s first symphony. He played his Piano Quartet with Fritz Kreisler, Emil Kreuz, and Ludwig Lebell in St. James’ Hall in 1903. In 1902 he met the pianist Evelyn Suart, with whom he had a long artistic association. She championed his music, premiering many of his works, and introducing him to his publisher, Elkin, with whom he remained for the rest of

Daniel Alomía Robles

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Daniel Alomía Robles (3 January 1871 – 17 July 1942) was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song “El Cóndor Pasa” in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. This song was based on Andean folk songs and is possibly the best known Peruvian song, partly due to the worldwide success that the melody obtained when it was used by Simon & Garfunkel as their music for “El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)”, although that song has different lyrics. Early life Daniel Alomía Robles was born in Huánuco, Peru, on January 3, 1871 to Micaela Robles and Marcial Alomía, a French immigrant. It was while living with an uncle in Lima at the age of 12 that Alomía Robles first heard musical theatre. In an interview in 1942 with Esteban Pavletich Trujillo, Alomía Robles credited his wife as the impetus for creating his first musical works. In 1910, Alomía Robles published his discovery that the musical structure of Andean music involved a Pentatonic scale. “El Cóndor Pasa” In 1913, Daniel Alomía Robles composed “El Cóndor Pasa”, and the composition was first performed publicly at the Teatro Mazzi in Lim

Daniel B. Towner

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Daniel Brink Towner (March 5, 1850 – October 3, 1919) was an American church music director, college professor, and composer of over 2,000 hymns and gospel songs , many of which are still popular today, the most notable being “Trust and Obey”. He was also associated with other great evangelicals of the late 19th century, including evangelist Dwight L. Moody and songwriter Philip P. Bliss. Younger Years Born in Rome, Pennsylvania, Towner was the second child and oldest son of “Professor” J. G. Towner, a teacher and director of singing schools in the Rome area; two younger brothers came along later. When he was seven years old, he had his first introduction to Philip P. Bliss, when Bliss came to teach at the school he attended, Rome Academy. His musical talents were recognized by his father early in life; in fact, when J. G. realized how well his son could sing, he was moved to tears, calling him “The Prince of Singers”. When “Professor” Towner taught at various singing schools, he would often take Daniel along with him; by the age of 17, he became known as the “Wonderful Boy Bass”. He went on to study at the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Towanda, Pennsylvania, where Philip P.

Daniel Gregory Mason

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Daniel Gregory Mason (November 20, 1873 – December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic. Biography Mason was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of notable American musicians, including his father Henry Mason, and his grandfather Lowell Mason. His cousin, John B. Mason, was a popular actor on the American and British stage. Daniel Mason studied under John Knowles Paine at Harvard University from 1891 to 1895, continuing his studies with George Chadwick and Percy Goetschius. He also studied with Arthur Whiting and later wrote a biographical journal article about him. In 1894 he published his Opus 1, a set of keyboard waltzes, but soon after began writing about music as his primary career. He became a lecturer at Columbia University in 1905, where he would remain until his retirement in 1942, successively being awarded the positions of assistant professor (1910), MacDowell professor (1929) and head of the music department (1929-1940). He was elected a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music, in 1914 by the Fraternity’s Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory in Boston. After 1907, Mason began devo

David Granadino

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David Granadino (June 13, 1876 – August 22, 1933) was a Salvadoran composer and musician, one of the most celebrated of the country. Granadino was born on June 13, 1876, in Barrio de Santa Barbara in the Salvadoran city of Santa Ana, the son of Joaquin Chavez, a pianist, and Simona Granadino. He studied music with teachers Daniel Alas and Pío Paredes Gonzáles. In 1897 he learned to play violin with the Dutch master José Kessels, performing with the Sociedad Lírica Santaneca and the Banda Marcial de Santa Ana. Granadina became noted for his waltzes. The first he composed was “El Pirulí” as part of the examination he took to study at the music academy. In commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of Granadino’s death, a special concert was presented in Santa Ana on 22 August 2013 under the auspices of the city’s cultural department. The group Yulu Nahuat performed a new version of “Bajo el Almendro”, singing the specially written lyrics. References

David Roitman

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David Roitman (November 1, 1884 – April 4, 1943) was a Russian-American hazzan and composer. Early in his career he worked as cantor in villages and cities in Russia such as Vilna and Odessa. In 1921 he immigrated to the United States and eventually joined the Congregation Shaare Zedek. Renowned for his lyric tenor compositional recordings and cantorial recitatives, Roitman became known as “the poet of the pulpit”. Biography Roitman was born to Mordecai and Mariom Roitman on November 1, 1884 at the Jusefpol village in the Russian province of Podolia. At the age of 12, he became the choral assistant to a cantor at the nearby town Lidvinke. He was then apprenticed to a series of cantors starting with Yankel Sorover and including Zeidel Rovner. Roitman would remain with Rovner throughout his teenage years. He studied music at Yeshiva College and continued his studies as a post-graduate at the Leningrad Conservatory. Roitman worked as a cantor for five years at the Jewish Temple of Elisavetgrad, starting in 1904. From 1909 to 1912, he worked as cantor at Vilna. He became the chief cantor at the Ginsbourgh Synagogue in Leningrad starting in 1912, until the October Revolution of 1917 des

David Vaughan Thomas

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David Vaughan Thomas or David Vaughan-Thomas (15 March 1873 – 15 September 1934), born David Thomas, and known also by his bardic name Pencerdd Vaughan, was a composer, organist, pianist and music administrator. His compositions are deeply influenced by the musical and literary traditions of his native Wales. Though his music is now little performed he has been described as “the leading native Welsh musician of his time” and as “one of the most important composers in the transitional period of Welsh music from the Victorian era to our own times”. The broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was his son. Life Born in 1873 to Jenkin Thomas and Anne Thomas in Ystalyfera, he moved with the family successively to Llantrisant, Maesteg, Llangennech, Dowlais and Pontarddulais. He received his musical education from the composer Joseph Parry, and also went to Llandovery College and Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated in mathematics. Returning later to Oxford, he gained degrees as Bachelor of Music and Doctor of Music. For some years he worked as a mathematics teacher at United Services College, Westward Ho!, and Monkton Combe School, Bath, before becoming a music teacher and organist at Ha

Denys Sichynsky

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Denys Sichynsky (; 2 October 1865 – 6 June 1909) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. Biography Denys Sichynsky was born on 2 October 1865 in Kliuvyntsi, now the Khorostkiv urban hromada of the Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine. In 1888–1891, he studied music in Ternopil and the Lviv Conservatory. In Lviv, Kolomyia, Stanyslaviv, and Przemyśl, he organized and conducted the choir association “”. In 1894, Sichynsky, along with Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Pavlyk, Osyp Rozdolskyi, Filaret Kolessa, and Ostap Nyzhankivskyi, actively participated in a committee established in Lviv to collect and publish Ukrainian folk songs. From 1899 he lived in Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk). In the city, he founded a music school and the publishing house “Muzychna Biblioteka” (which published works by Ukrainian composers); he was an active co-founder of the Union of Singing and Music Societies. He died on 6 June 1909 in Stanyslaviv. Works The first professional Ukrainian composer in Galicia. Sichynsky is the author of the opera “Roxelana”, for which Volodymyr Lutsyk and Stepan Charnetskyi wrote the libretto in 1908. Sichynsky has also composed works for symphony and chamber orchest

Déodat de Séverac

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Marie-Joseph Alexandre Déodat de Séverac (; 20 July 1872 – 24 March 1921) was a French composer. Life Séverac was born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, Haute-Garonne. He descended from a noble family, profoundly influenced by the musical traditions of his native Languedoc. He first studied in Toulouse, then later moved to Paris to study under Vincent d’Indy and Albéric Magnard at the Schola Cantorum, an alternative to the training offered by the Conservatoire de Paris. There he took organ lessons from Alexandre Guilmant and worked as an assistant to Isaac Albéniz. He returned to the southern part of France, where he spent much of the rest of his rather short life. His native south was a region that attracted a number of his contemporaries—artists and poets he had met in Paris. He died in Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, Roussillon aged 48, and was interred in the family grave in his native village of Saint-Félix-Lauragais. Music Séverac is noted for his vocal and choral music, which includes settings of verse in Occitan (the historic language of Languedoc) and Catalan (the historic language of Roussillon) as well as French poems by Verlaine and Baudelaire. His compositions for solo piano have

Dina Appeldoorn

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Christina Adriana Arendina (Dina) Koudijs-Appeldoorn (26 December 1884 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands – 4 December 1938 in The Hague) was a Dutch composer and pianist whose works, such as her two symphonic poems Noordzee-symfonie and Volkfeest, were written in the Romantic style. She also had a predilection for programme music, as is evidenced by her four movement suite Woudsproke. Her works for amateur singers and choruses have been described as energetic. In them, Appeldoorn used simple tonal melodies and set the texts predominantly syllabically. In contrast, her accompaniments show a spicy harmonic language filled with dissonances which illustrate the text, such as in Frissche bloemen. Biography Dina Appeldoorn attended the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she studied composition under F.E.A. Koeberg and later with Johan Wagenaar. The later would become a close friend whom she would continue to consult throughout her life. She graduated the conservatory in 1910, at which time twenty of her songs had already been published. Her early work met with mixed reviews from Dutch music critics with some pieces, like Frissche bloemen, getting better reviews than others. Appeldoorn wo

Dina Nurpeisova

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Dina Nurpeisova or Nurpeissova (1861 - 31 January 1955) was a composer from the western part of Kazakhstan in the Uralsk area. She was also a noted dombyra player. For her musical accomplishments, she was recognized as the National Artist of Kazakhstan. as well as a small village, Dina Nurpeisova. On the 150th anniversary of her birth, in 2011, a postage stamp was issued to commemorate her. Biography Nurpeisova was born in the village of Beketay-kum, currently in West Kazakhstan Region of Kazakhstan, and her father, a dombyra player, taught her how to play at a young age. As a young girl, she met the composer, Kurmangazy, who became her mentor. In 1885, her first husband died, and she married his younger brother. In April 2021, the country of Kazakhstan celebrated the 160th anniversary of Dina Nurpeisova’s birth. Work Nurpeisova’s interpretations of traditional music created a link between the past and modern dombyra music. The type of traditional Kazakh folk music she worked with was called kyuy or kyui. V. Belyaev, a Soviet musicologist, wrote that she “raised the value of folk musical instruments.” Selected compositions * Ana buirigi * Bulbul * Bayzhuma * Enbek ery * Kogentup *

Dobri Hristov

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Dobri Hristov (; 14 December 1875 – 23 January 1941) was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra. Hristov was born in Varna, then in the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1903 (under the directorship of the famous Czech composer Antonín Dvořák). He returned to Bulgaria and helped with the development of Bulgarian music culture, using many Bulgarian folklore elements in his compositions. He was conductor of The Seven Saints ensemble and choir in the church of the same name in Sofia, Bulgaria between 1911 and 1928. He died in Sofia in 1941 at age 65. Works * Blagoslovi, soul moia, Gospoda * Heruvimskaya pesn’ No. 4 * Nyne otpushchayeshi * Sviatii Bozhe No. 4 * You Poem References External links *Hristov depicted on the 500 leva banknote

Dolores Paterno

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Dolores Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio (March 10, 1854 – July 3, 1881) was a Filipina composer known for the song “La Flor de Manila” (also known as “Sampaguita”). Biography Dolores Paterno e Ignacio (anglicized as Dolores Paterno-Ignacio) was born on March 10, 1854, in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines. She was one of the thirteen children of Máximo Molo-Agustín-Paterno y Yamzon and Carmen de Vera-Ignacio y Pineda Dolores Paterno came from the wealthy mestizo sangley Paterno family. She was the sister of Lcdo. Dr. Pedro Alejandro Paterno, a Filipino politician, poet, and novelist. Her sisters and stepsisters, Águeda, Jácoba, Paz, Concepcion, and Adelaida, were celebrated painters and jewellers whose works were exhibited at the Exposición Regional de Filipinas in Manila in 1895 and at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. She was also related to the Asuncion brothers, among them Justiniano Asuncion who painted her portrait in 1870. Musically inclined at a young age, she was sent by her parents to the Santa Isabel College, Manila, an all-girls Catholic school managed by the Daughters of Charity. She devoted much of her time to learning the piano. In 1879, at the age of 25 she composed her on

Domenico Bellando

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Domenico Bellando (1868-1922) was an Italian organist, teacher and composer, best known as a composer of music for church services, piano pieces and songs. Life Domenico Bellando was born in Genoa in 1868. Details of his early musical education are obscure. At the age of 17 he was appointed organist of Genoa’s Metropolitan Cathedral, a post he retained for 27 years. In 1904 he was appointed the head of organ studies at Genoa’s Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini. Selected work Choral * 18?: Mass in the 6th tone, with interludes in F for organ/harmonium. * 1908: Mass for two equal voices and organ/harmonium. * 1911: 3 ‘O salutaris hostia’ : soprano or tenor, solo. * 1911: 6 ‘Tantum ergo’ : 3 male voices. * 1911: ‘Tantum ergo’ : medium voice, solo. Orchestra * 1916?: Inni for small orchestra . Organ * (n.d.): Notturnino. * 189?: Élévation. * 1896: Offertory in G. * 1897: Toccata. * 19?: 6 pieces. Organ/harmonium * 18?: 40 versetti in various keys. * 189?: 30 Interludes (20 in G, 10 in Gm). * 19?: Andantino pastorale. Organ/Piano * 192?/repr.1931: Bethleem! : pastorale. Piano * (n.d.): Characteristic pieces (incl: Canzonetta; In sogno; L’arcolaio). * (n.d.): Fiori di nozze : melody. * (n.d

Domenico Brescia

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Domenico Brescia (28 April 1866 – 1939) was an Italian composer who taught in Chile and Ecuador, then became known in the United States for writing chamber music as well as musical accompaniment for dramatic performances. Brescia led the Music Theory department at Mills College. Brescia influenced two students who would later make names for themselves in Ecuadorian contemporary music: Segundo Luis Moreno and Luis H. Salgado. Ecuadorian Indian moods were used in two musical numbers. Brescia wrote in the notes to the score that he thought it was the first time that a chromatic set of cowbells, spanning an octave and a half, had been used as a symphony instrument. Brescia brought Marcelli into the Bohemian Club where Marcelli wrote the music for the next year’s Grove Play. In 1921, Brescia’s Dithyrambic Suite for woodwind quintet premiered at Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge’s Berkshire Chamber Music Festival, with the performance featuring flautist Georges Barrère. Reviewer Carl H. Tollefsen commented on the name Dithyrambic, writing “After hearing the music and in order to link my recollections of it with the title, I decided that the words ‘Did he ramble’ would bring back both. I’ll say

Donald Heins

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Donald Heins (19 February 1878 – 1 January 1949) was a Canadian violinist, violist, conductor, organist, composer, and music educator of English birth. He notably founded the first professional orchestra in Ottawa, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra (no relation to the current orchestra of that name), in 1902, serving as its director until 1927. He also served in a variety of positions with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1927 to 1949, including concertmaster, principal violist, and assistant conductor. He was highly active as an educator, notably founding the instrumental music program at Ottawa’s public school system and teaching on the faculties of the Canadian Conservatory of Music (1902–1927) and the Toronto Conservatory of Music (1927–1948). His compositions include several motets and anthems, some chamber music for string instruments, a small amount of orchestral music, the Saint Ursula Mass for female choir and small orchestra, and two short operettas, An Old Tortugas (1936) and Yellow Back (1939), both of which were commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Early life and education Born in Hereford, Heins was the grandson of a German piano maker who had immigra

Donald Tovey

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Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 187510 July 1940) was a British music analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. He had been best known for his Essays in Musical Analysis and his editions of works by Bach and Beethoven, but since the 1990s his (relatively few) compositions have been recorded and performed with increasing frequency. The recordings have mostly been well received by reviewers. Life He was born at Eton, Berkshire, the son of Duncan Crookes Tovey, an assistant master at Eton College, and his wife, Mary Fison. As a child Tovey was privately educated exclusively by Sophie Weisse. She was impressed by his musical gifts evident at an early age and took it upon herself to nurture him. Through her network of associates he was introduced to composers, performers and music critics. These included Walter Parratt, James Higgs and (from the age of 14) Hubert Parry for composition. In 1898, Tovey graduated from Balliol College at Oxford University, where he had studied the classics and developed his interest in music, particularly that of Bach. When Tovey was seven or eight years old, he met violinist Joseph Joachim, another acquaintance of Weisse. T

Dora Bright

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Dora Estella Knatchbull (née Bright; 16 August 1862 – 16 November 1951) was a British composer and pianist. She composed works for orchestra, keyboard and voice, and music for opera and ballet, and as a captain of the Hallamshire Volunteer Rifle Corps. He was an amateur violinist and in 1873 Dora, aged nine, performed alongside him in a benefit concert for his military unit. Charles Dibdin Pitt, who was a son of the dramatist George Dibdin Pitt, was lessee of the Theatre Royal, Sheffield, until his death on 21 February 1866, aged 47, and was succeeded as lessee of that theatre by his widow. Kate Pitt’s works included the plays Not False but Fickle, Noblesse Oblige, Bracken Hollow and Naomi’s Sin. Royal Academy and touring While at the Royal Academy of Music during 1881–89, Thereafter she lived at Babington House in Babington, Somerset, She was also the composer for ballets created with Adeline Genée, Later career and death Bright continued to compose orchestral music into the 20th century: her Variations for Piano and Orchestra was completed during a stay in Paris in 1910. Suite bretonne was performed at the Proms in August 1917. On 28 April 1939 the BBC broadcast her playing from

Dragica Legat Košmerl

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Karolina Legat Košmerl, also known as Dragica Legat Košmerl, (29 October 1883 – 1 September 1956) was a Slovenian zither player, zither teacher, and composer. She is considered the most important Slovenian zither player and educator in mid-1900s. Her mother, Leopolda Korošec, rented out rooms, and her father, Franc Legat, was a clerk. Her mother came from Kranj, and her father from Zasip; a few months before her birth they moved to Ljubljana. She attended the five-grade municipal German language girls’ elementary school in Ljubljana. Work In 1899 she began working as a zither teacher, which she did throughout her life. For the next five decades she taught the zither privately as well as in schools. She devoted herself in particular to teaching children that were blind or deaf-mute. She also composed works for the zither. She arranged many Slovenian folk songs, as well as some classical works, for the zither. On 28 November 1907 she married Janez Košmerl - Janko (1880–1961), a railway clerk and amateur accordionist from Sodražica. She dedicated several of her compositions to him. When Radio Ljubljana, the first Slovene radio station, began operating in 1928, she became an active con

Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac

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Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac (18 March 1866 – 8 January 1928) was a Romanian composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist. He was particularly known for his sacred choral works and art songs which were based on the Romanian Orthodox tradition and Romanian folklore. Kiriac was born in Bucharest and began his musical studies at the Bucharest Conservatory (now the National University of Music) with Gheorghe Brătianu (1847–1905) and Eduard Wachmann (1836–1908). From 1892 to 1899 he studied in Paris with Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and with Charles-Marie Widor and Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatory. It was during this time that he began collecting Romanian children’s folk songs. On his return to Bucharest in 1900 he became a professor at the Bucharest Conservatory. The following year he founded the Romanian choral society, Carmen. Kiriac died in his native city at the age of 61. He was considered one of the founders of modern Romanian music. Festivalul Internaţional de Muzică Corală “D.G. Kiriac”, an international festival of sacred choral music held annually in the city of Pitești, is named in his honour as is the city’s male voice choir. References Further reading *

Dynam-Victor Fumet

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Dynam-Victor Fumet (4 May 1867 – 2 June 1949) was a French composer and organist. Life Born in Toulouse in 1867, son of a very strict watchmaker, Dynam-Victor Fumet began his musical studies at the municipal Conservatory where his exceptional talents were very quickly recognized, and where he received all the possible prizes. At the age of 16, he entered the Paris National Conservatory, where he studied organ with César Franck and composition with Ernest Guiraud. The city of Toulouse voted him a scholarship to finish his studies in Paris, and he was sent off to the capital city accompanied by the municipal band. At first his studies in Paris were pursued with hard work, but once finally freed from his father’s stifling education, he soon began to frequent anarchist groups (Louise Michel, Prince Kropotkine, Jean Grave, Charles Malato). He continued none-the-less his musical studies at the conservatory, where his fellow students nicknamed him “Dynam”, probably both because of the dynamic way he played and because of the way he lived. At 19 he entered the competition to obtain the “Prix de Rome”, was congratulated by Reyer and complimented by Saint-Saens, but did not win the prize, pe

E. T. Cook

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Edgar Thomas Cook CBE D.Mus. (Cantuar) FRCO FRCM (18 March 1880 – 5 March 1953) was an English organist and composer. Biography Edgar Cook was born in Worcester, England. He was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester and began his career as a church organist in 1898. In 1904 he became assistant organist of Worcester Cathedral under Sir Ivor Atkins. He won an Organ Scholarship to The Queen’s College, Oxford where he studied music and obtained his MMus. In 1909 he became organist of Southwark Cathedral in which position he remained until his death in 1953. He was the cathedral’s first organist. He was one of the first organists to broadcast on radio and he became famous for his lunchtime concerts broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s and 1940s. He was awarded the prestigious Lambeth degree of DMus (Cantuar) by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1936 and was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1949. He composed choral and organ works including an Evening Service in G. Amongst other honours he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, becoming vice-president, and Professor of Music and Fellow of the Royal College of Music. He died in 1953 shortly before the

Earnest Andersson

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Earnest Andersson (born Ernest DeNeen Anderson; February 10, 1878 – June 23, 1943) was an American polymath born to a Swedish immigrant father in Iowa. Childhood illness prevented him from attaining formal schooling beyond the fifth grade. Andersson, a highly precocious child, nevertheless became skilled as a composer, inventor, and painter through a combination of home schooling and auto-didacticism. After dithering over which field to pursue, he chose to become an inventor and moved to New York City to find work. Andersson soon became financially successful; by the end of the 1920s, the patents he was granted for various packaging machines he invented had made him a millionaire. He also became an accomplished amateur athlete, race car driver, pilot, photographer, and radio operator. His wealth connected him to influential artists, including those that he met at the Hotel des Artistes, which he had devised and where he also kept a residence. Although he was affected by the consequences of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, financial decisions he had made allowed him to bear the period without excessive detriment. After a brief residence in Florida, where he became a professional golfe

Eaton Faning

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Joseph Eaton Faning (20 May 1850 – 28 October 1927), known as Eaton Faning, was an English composer and teacher. The son of a music teacher, he became the organist of a church at the age of twelve. He attended the Royal Academy of Music, where his teachers included Arthur Sullivan. He was an outstanding student, winning many awards. He joined the staff of the Academy in 1874 and later taught at the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal College of Music and Harrow School. As a composer, Faning’s works ranged from operettas, including a one-act Savoy Opera, to church music, including a Mass and a Magnificat. He also composed orchestral music including a symphony, and was best known for his songs, of which the most popular was the part-song The Vikings. Biography Early years Faning was born in Helston, Cornwall, where his father, Roger Faning, was a music teacher. Faning received his first instruction in music (piano and violin) from his parents. At the age of five he made his first public appearance at a local function, when he played a violin solo on a tiny fiddle. When he was nine years old, his father died, and the family moved to Ipswich, Suffolk. Faning sang alto in the choir of

Edgar Bainton

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Edgar Leslie Bainton (14 February 18808 December 1956) was a British-born, latterly Australian-resident composer. He is remembered today mainly for his liturgical anthem And I saw a new heaven, a popular work in the repertoire of Anglican church music, but during recent years Bainton’s other musical works, neglected for decades, have been increasingly available in commercial recordings. Early life and career Bainton was born in Hackney, London, the son of George Bainton, a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary, née Cave. Bainton later moved with his family to Coventry and he showed early signs of musical ability playing the piano; he was nine years old when he made his first public appearance as solo pianist. He was awarded a music scholarship to King Henry VIII Grammar School in Coventry in 1891, and in 1896 he won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music to study theory with Walford Davies. In 1899 he received a scholarship to study composition with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. At college he became friends with George Dyson, William Harris and especially Rutland Boughton, whose friendship and support continued throughout Bainton’s career. Bainton kept a notebook

Edgar Tinel

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Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (27 March 185428 October 1912) was a Belgian composer and pianist. He was born in Sinaai, today part of Sint-Niklaas in East Flanders, Belgium, and died in Brussels. After studies at the Brussels Conservatory with Louis Brassin (piano) and François-Auguste Gevaert (composition), he began a career as a virtuoso, but soon abandoned this for composition. In 1877 his cantata Klokke Roeland won him the Belgian Prix de Rome, and in 1881 he succeeded Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens as director of the Mechelen Institute of Religious Music. He devoted himself to a study of old church music, and his ideas gave rise to Pope Pius X’s Motu proprio. Appointed inspector of music education in 1889, he moved to the Brussels Conservatory to become professor of counterpoint and fugue in 1896, and director at the end of 1908. He was made maître de chapelle to the king in 1910, having been elected to the Belgian Royal Academy in 1902. His liturgical music is polyphonic in the Palestrina style, but this technique conflicted with Tinel’s lyrical and mystical temperament, and he had much greater success in his two concert settings of the Te Deum, the oratorio and the religious dramas. Th

Edgard Varèse

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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (; also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French and American avant-garde composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse’s music emphasizes timbre and rhythm; he coined the term “organized sound” in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse’s conception of music reflected his vision of “sound as living matter” and of “musical space as open rather than bounded”. He conceived the elements of his music in terms of “sound-masses”, likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystallization. Varèse thought that “to stubbornly conditioned ears, anything new in music has always been called noise”, and he posed the question, “what is music but organized noises?” Although his complete surviving works only last about three hours, he has been recognized as an influence by several major composers of the late 20th century. Varèse saw potential in using electronic media for sound production, and his use of new instruments and electronic resources led to his being known as the “Father of Electronic Music”. Writer Henry Miller described him as “The stratospheric Colossus of Sound”. Varès

Edith Haines Kuester

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Mary Edith Haines Kuester (May 8, 1870 – June 6, 1956) was an American composer, songwriter, pianist, singer, and music educator. Early life and education Haines was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan, Colorado, and California, the daughter of Henry O. Haines and Margaret Leonardson Haines. She showed musical aptitude from an early age, and studied with composer Bruno Huhn and other musicians. church organist, accompanist, vocal coach, and piano teacher. She also composed music, and published a book of music for piano students. and a recital with her husband and pianist Olga Lieber in 1930, in Montreal. Kuester assisted the musical director of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915. In 1920 she was the director of the Wednesday Musical Club in Burlingame, California. In 1928 she directed a musicale for the Westmount Women’s Club in Montreal. In 1940 she taught classes at the Warren Conservatory of Music in Pennsylvania, where her husband was head of the voice department. Publications * “When Love is Best” (1911, words by Ada Foster Murray) * “Springtime of Love” (1912, sheet music) * “Virgilia” (1915, words by Edwin Markham) * “One Hour” (words by Edwin Markham) *

Edmund Eysler

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Edmund Samuel Eysler (12 March 1874 – 4 October 1949), was an Austrian composer. Biography Edmund Eysler was born in Vienna to a merchant family. He was supposed to enter the engineering profession, but his acquaintance with Leo Fall led him to study music at the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied composition under Robert Fuchs, and became educated as a piano teacher and Kapellmeister. After completing his degree with many plaudits, Eysler made ends meet by teaching piano. In 1898, he married Poldi Allnoch, with whom he had two daughters, and in 1901, he found a position as a Kapellmeister. After that, he composed chamber music and piano pieces, as well as the opera Fest auf Solhaug (Celebration on Solhaug), and the ballet Schlaraffenland. Through a magnanimous relative, Eysler met the librettist Ignaz Schnitzer, who was compiling the text for Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy King). Eysler was given the task of setting this text to the opera Der Hexenspiegel (The Witches’ Mirror) by Schnitzer. Originally, the work was supposed to be staged at the Vienna Court Opera upon completion, but it was spurned by the director for having overly simple music. Josef Weinberger encouraged Eysler to turn

Édouard Commette

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Édouard Commette (12 April 1883, in Lyon21 April 1967 ) was an organist from Lyon in France of international fame who served the Archdiocese of Lyon and was organist at Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière for over 50 years. Place Édouard Commette at the foot of the hill on which the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière is built is named in his honour. A student of Charles-Marie Widor and Victor Neuville, his recordings were known worldwide, and he was also known as a composer of accessible and tuneful organ music in his own right. Biography Born in Lyon in the center of the silk manufacturing district where his father was an exporter, Edouard studied piano at the lycée of Bourg-en-Bresse, after which he returned to Lyon and turned his attention to organ and harmony. A pupil of Charles Marie Widor, in 1900 he made his debut as organist in Lyon at the Church of the Good Shepherd (Église du Bon-Pasteur). Four years later he spent six months at the Church of Saint Polycarpe (Église Saint-Polycarpe), which was renowned in Lyon for its pipe organ. He took up his post at Lyon Cathedral in 1904 and was a professor at the Conservatoire de Lyon. Among his students were Pierre-Octave Ferroud and

Edouard Kann

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Edouard Kann (born 28 February 1857) was a French composer and musician. Biography Edouard Kann was born into a Jewish family in Paris, France, the son of a prominent banker. He received his musical education under Massenet for composition and A. Duvernoy for piano. In 1895, he produced the oratorio Ruth at the of Lyons. This was followed by the two-act opera Gaitanne, which appeared at the Théâtre des Arts de Rouen in 1898 and the Théâtre Royal de Gand in 1900, and the one-act comic opera Maritorne, produced by the Théâtre de St-Malo. In the years following these works, Kann brought out several musical compositions, including Le Baptême du printemps!, Syrinx, and Lion Amoureux. Publications * * * * * * * * * * * * References

Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes

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Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes (3 April 1874, in Havana – 7 September 1944) was a Cuban composer, and an author of books on the history of Cuban folk music. The outstanding habanera Tú, written when he was sixteen, was his best-known composition. As an adult, he composed the scores for the opera Yumurí, the ballet Dioné, the oratorio Navidad and the cantata Anacaona. His writings are still charming and informative today, though their standing has suffered from an accurate criticism by later musicologists. They realized that he had systematically underestimated the contribution of the Africans in Cuba. He insisted, instead, on the supposed contribution of Cuba’s original aboriginal population, which was subsequently disproved. :“It is a shame that a succession of errors should have spoilt the greatest work of a man who had carried his musicianship for almost half a century with rare dignity. Because in the end…Sanchez de Fuentes will remain, above all, a composer of habaneras and songs. In a hundred years his Cuban melodies will occupy a place of honor in our traditions…” Bibliography *El folklore en la música cubana *Cuba y sus músicos *Influencia de los ritmos africanos en nuestro

Edvin Kallstenius

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Edvin Kallstenius (29 August 1881 – 22 November 1967) was a Swedish composer and librarian. He arranged the traditional folk tune used as the de facto national anthem of Sweden, Du gamla, Du fria. Life and career Born in Filipstad, Kallstenius studied natural sciences at Lund University from 1898–1903, then music at the Leipzig Conservatory under Stephan Krehl from 1904–1907. As music librarian at Sveriges Radio from 1928–1946, he made a significant contribution in the field of music administration in Sweden. He also served on the Board of the Society of Swedish Composers from 1933–1961 (as treasurer 1933–1943), and was on the board of the Swedish Performing Rights Society from 1932–1957. Kallstenius achieved an individual style and avoided using only tonal language by devising intense melodies reinforced with imaginative harmony. He declared that his “musical religion is called harmonics – everything else is secondary” and from this basis he worked out his “meticulously declamed themes”. Although in later works he employed his own personal interpretation of serial style, he also composed charming versions of older Swedish music. He died in Stocksund, Stockholm. Selected compositio

Edward Elgar

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Edward Elgar was born in the small village of Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, England, on 2 June 1857. His father, William Henry Elgar (1821–1906), was raised in Dover and had been apprenticed to a London music publisher. In 1841 William moved to Worcester, where he worked as a piano tuner and set up a shop selling sheet music and musical instruments. In 1848 he married Ann Greening (1822–1902), daughter of a farm worker. Edward was the fourth of their seven children. Ann Elgar had converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before Edward’s birth, and he was baptised and brought up as a Roman Catholic, to the disapproval of his father. William Elgar was a violinist of professional standard and held the post of organist of St George’s Roman Catholic Church, Worcester, from 1846 to 1885. At his instigation, masses by Cherubini and Hummel were first heard at the Three Choirs Festival by the orchestra in which he played the violin. All the Elgar children received a musical upbringing. By the age of eight, Elgar was taking piano and violin lessons, and his father, who tuned the pianos at many grand houses in Worcestershire, would sometimes take him along, giving him the chance to display his skill to important local figures. His friend and biographer W. H. “Billy” Reed wrote that Elgar’s early surroundings had an influence that “permeated all his work and gave to his whole life that subtle but none the less true and sturdy English quality”. He began composing at an early age; for a play written and acted by the Elgar children when he was about ten, he wrote music that forty years later he rearranged with only minor changes and orchestrated as the suites titled The Wand of Youth. He worked through manuals of instruction on organ playing and read every book he could find on the theory of music. Elgar began to learn German, in the hope of going to the Leipzig Conservatory for further musical studies, but his father could not afford to send him. Years later, a profile in The Musical Times considered that his failure to get to Leipzig was fortunate for Elgar’s musical development: “Thus the budding composer escaped the dogmatism of the schools.” After a few months, Elgar left the solicitor to embark on a musical career, giving piano and violin lessons and working occasionally in his father’s shop. but Elgar himself, having heard leading virtuosi at London concerts, felt his own violin playing lacked a full enough tone, and he abandoned his ambitions to be a soloist. Elgar coached the players and wrote and arranged their music, including quadrilles and polkas, for the unusual combination of instruments. The Musical Times wrote, “This practical experience proved to be of the greatest value to the young musician. … He acquired a practical knowledge of the capabilities of these different instruments. … He thereby got to know intimately the tone colour, the ins and outs of these and many other instruments.” Elgar regularly played the bassoon in a wind quintet, alongside his brother Frank, an oboist (and conductor who ran his own wind band). In 1882, seeking more professional orchestral experience, Elgar was employed as a violinist in Birmingham in William Stockley’s Orchestra, for whom he played every concert for the next seven years and where he later said he “learned all the music I know”. On 13 December 1883 he took part with Stockley in a performance at Birmingham Town Hall of one of his first works for full orchestra, the Sérénade mauresque – the first time one of his compositions had been performed by a professional orchestra. Stockley had invited him to conduct the piece but later recalled “he declined, and, further, insisted upon playing in his place in the orchestra. The consequence was that he had to appear, fiddle in hand, to acknowledge the genuine and hearty applause of the audience.” Elgar often went to London in an attempt to get his works published, but this period in his life found him frequently despondent and low on money. He wrote to a friend in April 1884, “My prospects are about as hopeless as ever … I am not wanting in energy I think, so sometimes I conclude that ’tis want of ability. … I have no money – not a cent.”

Edward German

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Sir Edward German (born German Edward Jones; 17 February 1862 – 11 November 1936) was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera. Some of his light operas, especially Merrie England, are still occasionally performed. As a youth, German played the violin and led the town orchestra of Whitchurch, Shropshire. He also began to compose music. While performing and teaching violin at the Royal Academy of Music, German began to build a career as a composer in the mid-1880s, writing serious music as well as light opera. In 1888, he became music director of the Globe Theatre in London. He provided popular incidental music for many productions at the Globe and other London theatres, including Richard III (1889), Henry VIII (1892) and Nell Gwynn (1900). He also wrote symphonies, orchestral suites, symphonic poems and other works. He also wrote a considerable body of songs, piano music, and symphonic suites and other concert music, of which his Welsh Rhapsody (1904) is perhaps best known. German was engaged to finish The Emerald Isle after

Edward Jakobowski

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Edward Jakobowski (17 April 1856 – 29 April 1929) At age six, he moved to Vienna, Austria, where he lived for some 15 years and was given a musical education. In the late 1870s he lived in Paris for three years. In 1881, he returned to London. Jakobowski’s most successful work by far, Erminie, opened in 1885 in London. It was revived extensively and toured internationally, playing with extraordinary success on Broadway from 1886. None of his other works had more than a short run or two, although many of them toured profitably. Tarantella (1899; libretto: Alfred Murray) and Winsome Winnie (1903). He was one of eight composers who contributed to Pat in 1892. Two short operettas in 1893 with libretti by B. C. Stephenson, The Improvisatore and A Venetian Singer, made little impact. Jakobowski was married twice, the second time in New York in 1895 to Clara Brown, which ended in a London divorce in 1901. In 1902, he was declared bankrupt with debts of £1,090 (£ in adjusted for inflation). He died at the Infirmary, Friern Barnet, north London, in 1929. His estate was valued at 47 pounds, 8 shillings. Notes References *Wearing, J. P. “Jakobowski, Edward or Edouard " in The London Stage, 18

Edward M. Zimmerman

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Edward Moore Zimmerman, often given as E. M. Zimmerman, (January 9, 1859 – December 6, 1922) was an American bass, composer, choir conductor, organist, and music educator. A longtime resident of Philadelphia, he was active as a church and concert singer in that city from the 1880s into the early years of the 20th century. He also worked as a voice teacher in Philadelphia, and held posts as a choir conductor and organist at several churches in that city. He was also a vocal music instructor at the Methodist Conference Seminary (now The Pennington School). He is best remembered as a composer of hymns, and for co-writing the suffragist anthem “Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song” (1915) with his wife and frequent singing partner, the soprano Marie Kunkel Zimmerman. Early life and education Born on January 9, 1859, in Wilmington, Delaware, He attended schools in his youth in Newark, Delaware. He studied singing in London with George Henschel, and in New York City with Emilio Belari and John Howard. In February 1886 he was a guest soloist in a benefit concert given to raise funds for the Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After moving to Philadelphia, he ent

Edward MacDowell

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Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches includes his most popular short piece, “To a Wild Rose”. In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Studies Edward MacDowell was born in New York City to Thomas MacDowell, a Manhattan milk dealer, and Frances “Fanny” Mary Knapp. He received his first piano lessons from Juan Buitrago, a Colombian violinist who was living with the MacDowell family at the time. He also received music lessons from friends of Buitrago, including the Cuban pianist Pablo Desverine and Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño. After two years of studies under Antoine François Marmontel and being at the top of his class, he continued his education at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany, where he studied piano with Carl Heymann and composition with Joachim Raff. When Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann visited the conservatory in early 1880 and attended a recit

Edward Naylor

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Edward Woodall Naylor (9 February 1867 – 7 May 1934) was an English organist and composer. Naylor was born in Scarborough in 1867. His father, John Naylor, was organist of York Minster. He won a choral scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA in 1887. From 1888 to 1892 he studied at the Royal College of Music. After spending eight years as organist of London churches St. Michael’s Church, Chester Square (1889) and St. Mary’s Church, Kilburn (1896), Naylor returned to Cambridge in 1898, where he became an assistant master at The Leys School and organist of Emmanuel College. Naylor lived in Cambridge until his death in 1934. His most important compositions were for voices; his composition The Angelus, won the Ricordi prize for an English opera. His church music blends elements of 16th to 20th century music. Naylor was considered an authority on Shakespeare and music, and was an early exponent of greater musical authenticity. His son, Bernard James Naylor (1907–1986) was the first composer (1948) living in Canada to employ post-tonal writing in choral music, and was one of the pioneers of a truly contemporary (post-tonal) English (Anglican) cathedral music in t

Edward Potjes

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Edward Potjes (born Eduard Adriaan Nicolaas; in French Edouard-Adrien-Nicolas) was a Dutch-born composer and piano virtuoso. Born in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) on 13 August 1860, Potjes began his music studies at the age of 7. He received the rudiments of piano from P. Van Merkestein, and learned harmony and counterpoint from Grégoire Van Dyck in Boxmeer. From 1878 to 1880 he attended composition classes by Richard Hol. After that, at Cologne, he was pupil of Ferdinand Hiller (composition) and of Jacob Kwast (piano). He graduated from the University of Belgium in 1887. After completing his studies, Potjes established in Antwerp as a music teacher and in 1885 he had the opportunity to be heard by Liszt; following his advice he applied for the position of piano teacher at the Strasbourg Pādagogium and was accepted. Potjes was regarded as a virtuoso, receiving positive reception for his concert performances. it can be cited his recital in Liège dedicated to the members of the Legia in January 1896; the one he presented in January 1897 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, where his performances of a varied repertoire (Bach, Tausig, Liszt, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Beethoven

Edwin Eugene Bagley

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Edwin Eugene “E. E.” Bagley (May 29, 1857 – January 29, 1922) was an American composer most famous for composing the march National Emblem. Bagley was born in Craftsbury, Vermont on May 29, 1857. He began his music career at age nine as a vocalist and comedian with Leavitt’s Bellringers, a company of entertainers that toured many of the larger cities of the United States. Bagley began playing the cornet, traveling with the Swiss Bellringers for six years. After his touring days, Bagley joined Blaisdell’s Orchestra of Concord, New Hampshire. In 1880, Bagley came to Boston as a solo cornet player at The Park Theater. For nine years, he traveled with the Bostonians, an opera company. While with this company, Bagley changed from cornet to trombone. He also performed with the Germania Band of Boston and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In the early 1900s, Bagley played with Wheeler’s Band in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Wheeler’s Band was the first to publicly perform Bagley’s “National Emblem March” in 1906. Bagley is best known for composing marches, particularly the famous march National Emblem. This piece is played as a patriotic tune on Independence Day celebrations in the United States a

Edwin Franko Goldman

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Edwin Franko Goldman (January 1, 1878 – February 21, 1956) was an American composer and conductor. One of the most significant American band composers of the early 20th century, Goldman composed over 150 works, but is best known for his marches. He founded the renowned Goldman Band of New York City and the American Bandmasters Association. Goldman’s works are characterized by their pleasant and catchy tunes, as well as their fine trios and solos. He also encouraged audiences to whistle/hum along to his marches. He wrote singing and whistling into the score of “On the Mall” (which vies with “Chimes of Liberty” as his two most-enduring marches). Early life and education Goldman was born January 1, 1878, in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of David Henry and Selma Franko Goldman. The family moved to Evansville, Indiana in 1879 and, finally, to Terre Haute, Indiana. His father died in Terre Haute on December 18, 1886, when Goldman was only eight years old, and the following year, Selma and her four children, Edwin, Mayer, Irma and Alfred, moved to New York City. Before her marriage, Goldman’s mother was a professional pianist and part of the Franko Family, which made its debut at Steinway

Edwin Lemare

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Edwin Henry Lemare (9 September 1865 – 24 September 1934) was an English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States. He was one of the most highly regarded and highly paid organists of his generation, Biography Edwin H. Lemare was born in Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight on 9 September 1865. His birth year is sometimes erroneously stated as 1866, including in Lemare’s own autobiography Organs I Have Met. He received his early musical training as a chorister and organist under his father (a music seller, also called Edwin Lemare) at Holy Trinity Church. He then spent three years at the Royal Academy of Music from 1876 on a Goss Scholarship, where he studied under Sir George Alexander Macfarren, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Dr Charles Steggall and Dr Edmund Hart Turpin. He obtained the F.C.O. (Fellow of the College of Organists, later to become the Royal College of Organists ) in 1886. He became an organ professor and examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in 1892. After eight years of marriage, they were divorced and Lemare married Elsie Francis Reith. They were divorced in 1909. Lemare left England for the United States where h

Effie F. Kamman

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Effie F. Kamman (1868–1933) was an American composer, pianist, music teacher, and vaudeville performer. She was known for composing “The Dance of the Brownies” (1893), a popular tune inspired by the children’s books by Palmer Cox. Early life Effie F. Kamman was from Detroit, the daughter of Frederick Kamman and Minerva A. Howlett Kamman. Her father was a butcher. Career Kamman was a music teacher in Detroit, who also gained notice as a performer in vaudeville. She toured in several shows, including The Fencing Master (1894), Run on the Bank (1895), The Governors (1897), Hunting for Hawkins (1901), and On the Stroke of 12 (1903). She sang soprano parts, but also sometimes toured as a “lady baritone” novelty singing act. She was also the music and art editor for the newspaper Detroit Journal. Later in her career, she played piano on radio, and in theatres during silent films. Published works by Kamman included *“The Dance of the Brownies” (1893) *“The American Two-Step” (1895) *“Dance of the White Rats” (1901) *“Hunting for Hawkins” (1901) *“I Love You Yet” (1903) *“Skirmish” (1903), *“What’s Your Hurry?” (1922) *“The Old Fashioned Love of the Days Long Ago” (1928) *“In Twilight Land

Eleanor Everest Freer

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Eleanor Everest Freer (14 May 1864 – 13 Dec 1942) was an American composer and philanthropist. Life Eleanor Everest was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cornelius Everest and Ellen Amelia (Clark) Everest, and studied singing in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and composition with Benjamin Godard. She taught music in Philadelphia and New York City, and married Chicago doctor Archibald Freer in 1893. The couple had one daughter and moved to Chicago in 1899, where Eleanor Freer studied music theory with Bernard Ziehn. In 1934, she received a D.Mus. from the Boguslawski College of Music. Freer was an active advocate for American opera, and opera sung in English. To this end, she helped to found the Opera in Our Language Foundation (OOLF) in 1921, and the David Bispham Memorial Fund in 1922 to promote concerts of American composers’ works and award a Bispham Medal. The two organizations merged in 1924 to become the American Opera Society of Chicago. Freer’s one-act opera The Legend of the Piper was performed numerous times by the American Opera Company from 1928 through 1929. She died in Chicago in 1942. Works Freer composed eleven operas and more than 150 songs, many of which were pu

Eleanor Rudall

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Eleanor Clementine Rudall (26 April 1881 – 6 May 1960) was a composer and pianist, who after a promising start while a student at the Royal Academy of Music struggled to find more widespread recognition. She continued her career teaching piano, harmony and composition, and in 1927 became the second wife of composer Frederick Corder. She was a friend and collaborator of English composer and pianist Emma Lomax. Education and early career Rudall was born at 25 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington (now Kensington High Street), the daughter of composer and author Henry Alexander Rudall (1837–1896) and Jane Sinclair Bails. H.A. Rudall wrote a biography in the Great Composers series on Beethoven in 1890. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the R.A.M. Club prize for composition in 1906. Her Introduction and Allegro for string octet was played at a Royal Academy concert in 1906. Four Orchestral Illustrations (inspired by the paintings of G F Watts), were performed at a Queen’s Hall student concert on 25 June 1907. Rudall won the Charles Lucas Medal for composition in 1908 for her Suite of Three Movements for orchestra. Her orchestral Variations on an Irish Air was also pe

Elena Gnesina

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Elena Fabianovna Gnesina (or Gnessina; ; 30 May 1874 – 4 June 1967) was a Soviet and Russian composer and music educator, a sister of the composer Mikhail Gnesin. Gnesina was born in Rostov-on-Don to Rabbi Fabian Osipovich Gnesin (d. 1891) and his wife Bella Isaevna (née Fletzinger), who was a singer and pianist who had studied with Stanisław Moniuszko. Gnesina received numerous state awards, including two Orders of Lenin, and recognition as an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1935). External links * Kadja Grönke, Art. “Gnessina, Jewgenia, Maria, Elena und Jelisaweta”, in: Lexikon “Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts”, hrsg. von Freia Hoffmann, 2016.

Elisabeth Kuyper

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Elisabeth Johanna Lamina Kuyper (13 September 1877 – 26 February 1953) was a Dutch Romantic composer and conductor. Life Elisabeth Kuyper was born in Amsterdam, the eldest of three children. At the age of twelve, she began the formal study of music at the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst with Antoon Averkamp, Louis Coenen, and Daniel de Lange. She began composing at an early age, including a piano sonata and a prelude and fugue, which she performed for her diploma examination in 1895, and a one-act opera that was performed in Amsterdam in 1895. She moved to Berlin in 1896 to continue her composition studies with Heinrich Barth and Leopold Carl Wolff at the Hochschule für Musik, completing her studies there in 1900. Because of the challenges Kuyper faced during her career, she became strongly connected with the women’s liberation movement of the period. Other than possible soloist performances, professional opportunities for female musicians were extremely limited, as no major orchestras of the time employed female musicians. Kuyper took great effort to bring change this situation. In 1908 she formed a women’s choir at the . In 1910 she formed and conducted the Berlin Wome

Elise Fellows White

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Mary Elise Fellows White (November 14, 1873 – March 22, 1953) was an American author, composer, and violinist who recorded for Schirmer records. the only child of Frank and Deborah Swan Fellows. Her father played violin and was White’s first violin teacher. When she was 10 years old, White and her mother moved to Boston so she could study at the New England Conservatory of Music with Timothee Adamowski, Campanari, Emery, L.C. Elson, and later Franz Kneisel. with the McKenzie Tour Company trio consisting of soprano Rebecca McKenzie, pianist Bertha O’Reilly, and White. Family During this tour, White met her future husband, Bruce M. White, a mine owner and developer. Writing White’s articles include: *College Jazz and What it Symbolizes (Musical Observer) *Music Versus Materialism (Musical Quarterly 8; 1922) White’s poems include: *Concert (Sonnet) *Fifth Symphony (Sonnet) *In Memoriam White encountered several well-known people during her life, including Johannes Brahms while studying in Vienna during the 1890s. She wrote in her diary about seeing Charles Lindbergh in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on July 25, 1927, only two months after his historic solo flight across the Atlantic. Artis

Elsa Laura Wolzogen

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Elsa Laura Seemann von Mangern von Wolzogen (5 August 1876 – 25 April 1945) was a German composer, lute player, and singer. She was born and grew up in Dresden, where her family owned a guesthouse which entertained well-known artists and scholars like Arthur Rubinstein. Elsa married Ernst von Wolzogen in 1902. Ernst had opened the 650-seat Buntes Theater in Berlin in 1901, one of the first cabarets in Germany. Elsa often sang and accompanied herself on lute at the theater, where Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg conducted the house orchestra. Elsa and Ernst toured the United States from 1910 to 1911. An unidentified critic noted in 1911 that “Elsa Laura sings songs in ten different languages and in many dialects. … she is equally at home in the folk songs of Provence and in the darky songs of America. The French Chanson and the Tyrolian Schnaderhiipfel have no terrors for her.” Elsa composed her own songs and arranged hundreds of French, German and Scandinavian folk songs for voice and lute, which were published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag in Leipzig. She also set poems by her husband Ernst to music. Her works include: *Death Rides *Father Weislein *Five Songs (words by

Else Streit

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Else Streit (born 27 July 1869) was a German composer, pianist, teacher, and violinist. Streit was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. She studied music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory. Her teachers included Heinrich Deeke, Gustav Hollaender, Stephan Krehl and Max Loewengar. Streit taught violin, piano, and music theory at the Bromberg Conservatory, the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, and the New Conservatory, Charlottenburg. She also taught privately in Berlin. Streit’s music, in opus numbers through at least 25, was published by Adolf Martin Schlesinger. Her compositions include: Chamber *Romance in B minor (violin and piano) *Sonata (violin and piano) Opera *St. Nikolaus und seine Gehilfen Orchestra *Festmarsch for Infantry *Symphonietta (string orchestra) *Theme and Variations Vocal *Drei Lieder, opus 25 *“Es war einmal”, opus 7 *“Psalm” (soprano, violin and organ) *Vier Lieder, opus 21 *Vier Lieder, opus 22 *“Weihnacht” References

Emánuel Moór

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Emánuel Moór (; 19 February 1863 – 20 October 1931) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and an inventor of musical instruments. Life Moór was born in Kecskemét, Hungary, and studied in Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Between 1885 and 1897 he toured Europe as a soloist and ventured as far afield as the United States. His output of compositions amounted to 151 works including five operas, eight symphonies, four concertos for piano, four for violin, two for cello, a viola concerto and a harp concerto. Included in his works were also a triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano; chamber music; a requiem; and many songs. His three Piano Trios (in D major, op. 74, in C major, op. 81 and in B♭ major, op. 89), have been recorded by the Storioni Trio. They show the influence of Brahms, who befriended Moór. His best-known invention was the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte, which consisted of two keyboards lying one above each other and allowed, by means of a tracking device, one hand to play a spread of two octaves. Two new instruments In 1921 Emánuel Moór sparked a lively controversy in the world of music by presenting two revolutionary inventions in quick succession. First, “a giant violin, one and a

Emanuil Manolov

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Emanuil Manolov (; 7 January 1860 – 2 February 1902 ) was a Bulgarian composer. Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He went to the Moscow Conservatory from 1879 to 1885. He composed the first Bulgarian opera Siromahkinia, based on Ivan Vazov’s work with the same title, consisting of two parts. His works in the genres of the “kitka” and schools songs are very popular. One of his most famous works is the song “What a Girl I saw, Mama” (Kakva moma vidiah, mamo). He died at Kazanlak. Honours Manolov Glacier in Antarctica is named after Emanuil Manolov. References

Emil Ábrányi

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Emil Ábrányi (22 September 1882 11 February 1970) was a Hungarian composer, conductor, and opera director. Life He was conductor at the Royal Hungarian Opera House from 1911 to 1919, and director there from 1919 to 1920. In 1921, he became the director at the Budapest Municipal Theatre, where he remained until 1926. For many years he taught conducting at the Budapest Academy of Music. He composed twelve operas of which only six have been performed professionally. He was the grandson of the composer Kornél Ábrányi. Operas *A ködkirály (The King of Mist) (1 act, libretto by Á. Pásztor, 17 May 1903, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *Monna Vanna (3 acts, libretto by Emil Ábrányi, Sr. (father of the composer) after Maeterlinck’s drama of the same name, 2 March 1907, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest). *Paolo és Francesca (3 acts, libretto after Dante by Emil Ábrányi, Sr., 13 January 1912, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *Don Quijote (3 acts, libretto after Cervantes by Emil Ábrányi, Sr., 30 November 1917, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *Ave Maria: Májusi intermezzo (A May Intermezzo) (1 act, 25 February 1922, Budapest Municipal Theatre) *A vak katona (The Blind

Emil Kreuz

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Emil Anton Joseph Friedrich Kreuz, also known as Emil Frederick Thornfield (25 May 1867 – 3 December 1932) was a German violinist, violist, teacher, conductor and composer. Biography Emil Kreuz was born in Elberfeld near Wuppertal, began playing violin at an early age and studied under Georg Joseph Japha (1835–1892) in Cologne from the age of ten. At sixteen he won a scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied violin with Henry Holmes and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford until 1888. For two years he concentrated his studies on the viola, making his debut as soloist with Hector Berlioz’s Harold en Italie in December 1888 at one of the London Symphony Concerts established by George Henschel. He became well known in England. He was violin soloist at the Leeds Festival in 1889, violist of the Gompertz Quartet along with violinists Richard Gompertz, Haydn Inwards and cellist Charles Ould from 1888 to 1903, and a member of the Covent Garden Opera Orchestra from 1900 to 1903. In 1903, he became assistant musical director of the Covent Garden Opera and joined The Hallé to study conducting with its principal conductor Hans Richter. He then turned his atte

Emil Liebling

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Emil Liebling (April 12, 1851 – January 20, 1914) was a German-American pianist and composer. Biography Liebling was born into a Jewish family in the Duchy of Pless, Kingdom of Prussia. Liebling was from a famous family of musicians. His three brothers, George, Max, and Solly Liebling, were also successful pianists, and all four of them were trained on the piano by Franz Liszt in Weimar. In 1867 he came to the United States, where he settled as a music teacher at a seminary in Kentucky where he remained on the faculty until 1871. His compositions include piano pieces and songs in the popular style of his day. Liebling served as visiting director of piano at the Frances Shimer Academy in Mount Carroll, Illinois, from 1904 to 1913. The position involved visiting the school several times per year to perform a concert and inspect student progress. He also held a similar position at Milwaukee-Downer College in Wisconsin. References External links * *

Emil Mattiesen

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Emil Karl Gustav Alfred Mattiesen (23 January 1875 – 25 September 1939) was a Baltic-German musician, music pedagogue, composer and philosopher. He composed lieder, song cycles, ballads, chamber music and organ music, but is better known for standard works in German on parapsychology. He was a professor of church music at the University of Rostock from 1929. Life Mattiesen was born in Dorpat. * 1910 Ballade von der Liebe * 1926 Die Kunstkasse in Neukloster. Eine Geschichte und ein Aufruf in Mecklenburgische Monatshefte Parapsychology * 1925 Der jenseitige Mensch. Eine Einführung in die Metapsychologie der mystischen Erfahrung. reprinted unchanged in 1987 by Walter de Gruyter-Verlag Berlin and New York * 1936–39 Das persönliche Ueberleben des Todes. Eine Darstellung der Erfahrungsbeweise (3 vols.). Reprinted in 1961 with a preface by Gebhard Frei, reprinted in 1987 with a preface by Bauer, both Walter de Gruyter-Verlag BerlinNew York References Further reading * * Werner F. Bonin: Lexikon der Parapsychologie und ihrer Grenzgebiete. Bern, München 1976, p. 328. External links * * * * SUB Göttingen * Dr. Emil Mattiesen / 1875–1939 rodiehr.de * Emil Mattiesen classicalvocalreprints.com

Emil Młynarski

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Emil Szymon Młynarski (; 18 July 18705 April 1935) was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue. Life Młynarski was born in Kibarty (Kybartai), Russian Empire, now in Lithuania. He studied violin with Leopold Auer and composition with Anatoly Lyadov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He was the founding conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently served as principal conductor of the Scottish Orchestra in Glasgow from 1910 to 1916. He conducted the premiere of Karol Szymanowski’s opera King Roger. He composed, among other things, a symphony dedicated to his homeland (Symphony in F major, Op. 14, Polonia), and two violin concertos (1897, 1917). The latter concerto, in D major, Op. 16, has been recorded by Konstanty Kulka and Nigel Kennedy. Emil Młynarski died in Warsaw at age 64. His daughter Wanda married Wiktor Łabuński. His daughter Aniela (Nela, Nelly) married Mieczysław Munz and later Arthur Rubinstein. He is the grandfather of John Rubinstein and the great-grandfather of Michael Weston, both American actors. He is closely related to the famous Polish poet and singer Wojciech Młynarski (1941–2017) and his daughter Agata Młynarska (born 1965), a Polish

Emil von Reznicek

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Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek (4 May 1860, in Vienna – 2 August 1945, in Berlin) was an Austrian composer of Romanian-Czech ancestry. Life Reznicek’s grandfather, Josef Resnitschek (1787–1848), was a trumpet virtuoso and band leader in the Imperial regiments Nos. 32 (Esterhazy), based in Budapest, and 60 (Gustav Wasa), based in Vienna where he played music with Johann Strauss Sr. and Joseph Lanner. Reznicek’s father Josef Resnitschek/Reznicek (1812–1887) entered the army as a cadet and eventually became Feldmarschall-Lieutenant, the second-highest rank in the Austrian army, gaining an ordinary diploma of nobility in 1851 and the rank as a Baron (Freiherr) in 1859. His mother, Clarisse Fürstin Ghika Budești (1837–1864), belonged to the influential Ghika family of Romania. Emil Nikolaus was the half-brother of the artist Ferdinand von Řezníček (1868–1909). Reznicek passed his childhood in Vienna, until the family moved to Graz in 1874. He began piano lessons in 1871; his first compositions date from 1876–78, when he was a student in Graz and at the Staatsgymnasium in Marburg an der Drau (Maribor). He studied law and music in Graz from 1878–80. He never finished his law

Emil von Sauer

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Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer (8 October 186227 April 1942) was a German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher. He was a student of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation. Josef Hofmann called von Sauer “a truly great virtuoso.” Martin Krause, another Liszt pupil, called von Sauer “the legitimate heir of Liszt; he has more of his charm and geniality than any other Liszt pupil.” Life Sauer was born in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 8 October 1862 as Emil Georg Conrad Sauer. He studied with Nikolai Rubinstein at the Moscow Conservatory between 1879 and 1881. On an 1884 visit to Italy he met the Countess von Sayn-Wittgenstein, who recommended him to her former paramour, Franz Liszt. He went on to study with Liszt for two years, but did not for some time consider himself a Liszt pupil. In an 1895 interview, he even denied it: “It is not correct to regard me as a pupil of Liszt, though I stayed with him for a few months. He was then very old, and could not teach me much. My chief teacher has been, undoubtedly, Nicholas Rubinstein.” From 1882, Sauer made frequent and successful tours as a virtuoso pianist; his performing car

Émile Bourdon

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Joseph Antoine Émile Bourdon (; 14 February 1884 – 11 July 1974) was a 20th-century French organist and composer. Biography Bourdon was the son of Magdelaine Louise Villate de Peufeilhoux (of noble descent) and Victor-Louis-Gabriel Bourdon (a financier). Later, he became a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant in the Conservatoire de Paris, Bourdon was a condisciple and friend of Marcel Dupré. He was the organist of the great organ of the Saint Nicholas Cathedral of Monaco from 1922 to 1968, before canon Henri Carol succeeded him. In addition, he was professor of organ at the Académie de Musique Fondation Prince Rainier III until 1968. His wife Jeanne Barbezat died on 17 August 1974, and Bourdon himself died on 11 July of that year. Works Bourdon is the author of several pieces for pipe organ including: # Dix Pièces Op. 7 (Paris, Leduc, 1921) : ## Offertoire pour la Fête de l’Assomption ## Carillons (popularised by Marcel Dupré) ## Méditation sur un Psaume d’Introït ## Sortie sur l’Hymne Veni Creator Spiritus ## Bénédiction nuptiale ## In memoriam ## Sur l’Alleluia de la Fête de saint Louis ## Légende pour la Toussaint ## Triptyque sur la Prose de la Fête-Dieu ## Toccata sur deux noëls # Six

Émile Pierre Ratez

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Émile Pierre Ratez (also René Emile Ratez; 5 November 1851 – 19 May 1934) was a French composer, administrator, and violist. Life Ratez was born in Besançon and became a pupil of Pierre De Mol at the music school there and later a pupil of Bazin and of Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris in the 1870s. Music His compositions include some chamber music: at least three piano trios, a piano quintet, a cello sonata, at least two violin sonatas, a string trio, for example), a suite for violin and piano, two operas Lydéric (premiered 1895, Lille) and Paula (premiered 1904, Besançon) and many songs and other choral and piano works (&c…) His six Pièces charactéristiques have been republished by Billaudot. Discography * 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0358 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 1 * 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0366 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 2 References External links * *

Émile Sauret

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Émile Sauret (22 May 1852 – 12 February 1920) was a French violinist and composer. Sauret wrote over 100 violin pieces, including a famous cadenza for the first movement of Niccolò Paganini’s First Violin Concerto, and the “Gradus ad Parnassum” (1894). Biography Sauret was born in Dun-le-Roi in 1852. He began studying violin at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg at the age of six, and with a reputation as child prodigy he began performing two years later. He studied under Charles Auguste de Bériot and later became a student of Henri Vieuxtemps and Henryk Wieniawski. Aged 18, he started studying composition as a pupil of Salomon Jadassohn at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he struck up many friendships. Among these were Fritz Steinbach and Richard Sahla, a child prodigy like Sauret himself. Sauret played in the most famous concert halls of his time. He made his American debut in 1872. Franz Liszt performed sonatas with him. In 1873, Sauret married Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan pianist and composer, by whom he had a daughter, Emilita. The marriage did not last; in 1879 he remarried. He held posts at a variety of institutions, including the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin - where he

Émile-Robert Blanchet

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Émile-Robert Blanchet (17 July 1877 in Lausanne, Switzerland – 27 March 1943 in Pully, Switzerland) was a French-speaking Swiss pianist, composer and mountaineer. Life He was taught by his father, Charles Blanchet, the organist of a cathedral in Lausann and a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, and Hauptmann. He later attended Cologne Conservatory and was a pupil of Busoni in Weimar and Berlin. He was professor of piano 1904-1917, then director 1905-1908 of the Lausanne Conservatory. He continued teaching there until 1917. In 1917 he resigned and spent time on climbing on which he would write 2 books. There is a CD at this address where a piece of his is recorded. * On Columbia Masterworks Ervin Nyiregyházi , available on YouTube as well. References External links * Émile Robert Blanchet * * List of compositions * A biography about him

Emilius Bangert

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Emilius Bangert (19 August 1883 – 19 August 1962) was a Danish composer, organist, and professor. He played the organ at Roskilde Cathedral and also composed orchestral and chamber music. Biography Emilius Ferdinand Caspar Bangert was born in Copenhagen, the son of Conrad Bangert and Ida Anderson. In 1902, he graduated from Borgerdydskolen (School of Civic Virtue), Copenhagen’s most prestigious private school. He acquired a cand. phil. degree in 1903. He was a private pupil in theory and composition with Carl Nielsen 1902–07. He contributed several times to compositions that Nielsen had received orders for either transcript, instrumentation, or directly as a composer. Emilius Bangert also had piano lessons with Henrik Knudsen and organ lessons with Edgar Henrichsen and Eugene Gigout in Paris. In 1913 he received the Ancker Award scholarship (Det anckerske Legat) and went on study tour to Germany and Italy. In 1908 he took the exam organist. From 1915, he was organist at various churches, the first being Skovshoved church (Skovshoved kirke) and the last being Roskilde Cathedral (Roskilde Domkirke) to 1955. In the years 1908–09, he conducted Bangert Academic Orchestra. From 1912, he

Emily Bruce Roelofson

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Emily Bruce Roelofson (1832–1921) was an American composer, pianist, poet and singer. She composed songs and collections through at least opus number 15. Roelofson grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father, Alec W. Bruce, was an organist and dry goods merchant. Roelofson and her three sisters performed as the Bruce vocal quartet. She married Frederic Eugene Roelofson and they had a son and a daughter. and S. Brainard Sons. Poetry *Forget Me Not (set to music by Alba Rosa Vietor) *Carpe Diem, opus 15 no. 6 (text from A Masque of Poets) *From the Close Shut Window, opus 15 no. 5 (text by James Russell Lowell) *Sands of O’Dee, opus 15 no. 1 *Sea Shell, opus 15 no. 2 (text by Richard Henry Stoddard) *Winter Song References

Emma Lomax

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Louise Emily (Emma) Lomax (22 June 1873 – 29 August 1963) was an English composer and pianist. She was born in Brighton, daughter of the curator of Brighton Free Library and Museum. She attended the Brighton School of Music and then the Royal Academy of Music in London studying clarinet, and composition with Frederick Corder. She was a Goring Thomas Scholar from 1907 to 1910 and won the Charles Lucas Medal in 1910, awarded for her Theme and Variations for orchestra. After completing her studies, Lomax became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music (1918-38), and taught at Brighton College. She was a friend and collaborator of English composer and pianist Eleanor Rudall. Much of her music was dramatically inspired, including a series of recitations and dramatic sketches, some with supernatural themes and with orchestral or piano accompaniment. For instance, The House of Shadows, performed at the Royal Academy in 1904, was described as “a poetic play in two Acts which involved several remarkable electric lighting effects devised by the composer “. The Toy Overture, a parody of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, was performed by The Brighton Municipal Orchestra in 1915. Lomax was a member

Emma Mundella

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Emma Wright Mundella (30 April 1858 – 20 February 1896) was an English composer and arranger, recital pianist, church organist, choral conductor, teacher of music and hymnal editor. In her short life she published anthems, choruses and cantatas as well as songs, hymns, pieces for solo piano and for piano and other string instruments. As Director of Music Teaching at Wimbledon High School for Girls her particular interest was the encouragement of musical appreciation by young people, in pursuit of which she wrote many compositions for children and schools. Though her music is now seldom heard, her lasting achievement was her well-regarded editorship of The Day School Hymnbook, the expanded edition of which was published shortly after her early death and which brought her posthumously into national prominence. Early life and education Emma Mundella was born in Nottingham, England, the first of a family of eight children. Her father, John Mundella, was a hosiery manufacturer in the family firm of Hine & Mundella. He died when she was 15. Her uncle was Anthony John Mundella, a Liberal statesman and a member of William Ewart Gladstone’s Cabinet. Her grandfather, Antonio Mondelli, was an

Emma Roberto Steiner

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Emma Roberta Steiner (1856 – February 27, 1929) was an American composer and conductor. She was one of the first women in the United States to make a living from conducting, and did so at more than 6,000 performances during her lifetime. She was additionally the first woman to conduct a Theatre orchestra in New York. Her career spanned nearly five decades, from the 1870s, when she first began conducting for touring comic opera companies, until her death in 1929. In the early 1900s, she took a decade-long hiatus from her musical career to move to Alaska, where she was a prospector and traveler. Steiner wrote hundreds of musical pieces, including seven operas. Biography Steiner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1856. Her father, Colonel Frederick Steiner, was a Mexican War hero and her mother an accomplished pianist. Thus, she was exposed to music at a young age, composing songs by age 7 and a piano duet at 9. Others recognized her talents early, and even suggested to her father that he send her to Paris to study music, but her parents refused and did not encourage her to develop the talent. She nonetheless continued composing, starting on an opera at age 11, Aminaide, one scene of wh

Emmerich Kálmán

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Emmerich Kálmán ( ; 24 October 1882 – 30 October 1953) was a Hungarian composer of operettas and a prominent figure in the development of Viennese operetta in the 20th century. Among his most popular works are Die Csárdásfürstin (1915) and Gräfin Mariza (1924). Influences on his compositional style include Hungarian folk music (such as the csárdás), the Viennese style of precursors such as Johann Strauss II and Franz Lehár, and, in his later works, American jazz. As a result of the Anschluss, Kálmán and his family fled to Paris and then to the United States. He eventually returned to Europe in 1949 and died in Paris in 1953. Biography Kálmán was born Imre Koppstein in Siófok, then in Austria-Hungary, on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, to a Jewish family. Kálmán initially intended to become a concert pianist, but because of early-onset arthritis, he focused on composition instead. He studied music theory and composition at the National Hungarian Royal Academy of Music (then the Budapest Academy of Music), where he was a fellow student of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály under Hans Kössler. His early symphonic poems Saturnalia and Endre és Johanna were well-received, although he fai

Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)

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Engelbert Humperdinck (; 1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893). Early life Humperdinck was born in Siegburg in the Rhine Province in 1854. After receiving piano lessons, he produced his first composition at the age of seven. His first attempts at works for the stage were two singspiele written when he was 13. His parents disapproved of his plans for a career in music and encouraged him to study architecture. But he began taking music classes under Ferdinand Hiller and Isidor Seiss at the Cologne Conservatory in 1872. In 1876, he won a scholarship that enabled him to go to Munich, where he studied with Franz Lachner and later with Josef Rheinberger. In 1879, he won the first Mendelssohn Award given by the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) in Berlin. After winning another prize, Humperdinck traveled through Italy, France, and Spain. For two years, he taught at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. In 1887, he returned to Cologne. He was appointed professor at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1890 and also teacher of harmony at Julius Stockhausen’s Vocal School. By this time he had com

Enoch Sontonga

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Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (c. 1873 – 18 April 1905) was a South African composer, who is best known for writing the Xhosa hymn “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” (“God Bless Africa”), which, in abbreviated version, has been sung as the first half of the national anthem of South Africa since 1994. Previously, it had been the official anthem of the African National Congress since 1925. This song was first adopted by Tanganyika as the national anthem, as a translated Swahili version, in 1961 following independence from Great Britain. In 1964, Zambia also adopted it as its national anthem, followed by Botswana and Zimbabwe (who translated into Shona, “Ishe Komborera Afrika”) from 1980 until 1994. South Africa adopted it as its national anthem in 1994. Early life and education Sontonga, a Xhosa, was born in the city of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape Colony. He trained as a teacher at the Lovedale Institution and subsequently worked as a teacher and choirmaster at the Methodist Mission school in Nancefield, near Johannesburg for eight years. Career The first verse and chorus of "" was composed in 1897 and it was originally intended to be a school anthem. It was first sung in public in 1899 at the ordi

Enric Morera i Viura

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Enric Morera i Viura (; 22 May 1865 – 11 March 1942 ) was a Catalan musician and composer from Spain. Career Morera was born in Barcelona but moved with his father, a musician, to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1867, studying organ, trumpet, and violin there. He returned in 1883 to Barcelona, studying with Isaac Albéniz and Felip Pedrell. Later he lived for two years in Brussels before returning to Argentina. He finally returned to Barcelona in 1890 where he was prominent in the movement Catalan Musical Modernism, with for example the opera La fada (The Fairy) in 1897. He founded the choir “Catalunya Nova”. He wrote books on musical theory such as a “Practical Treatise on Harmony”. Among his students were Vicente Asencio, Agusti Grau, Manuel Infante, Xavier Montsalvatge and Carlos Surinach. His music is generally strongly nationalist in character and forms part of the repertory of Catalan national compositions. He wrote more than 800 compositions, including songs, a requiem mass, lyric works, symphonic works, operas, symphonic poems, and sardanes for cobla. Although he spent some time in Argentina and Belgium, Morera spent most of his life in Barcelona and died there in 1942. The perso

Enrico Martinelli

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Enrico Martinelli (24. November 1852 – 8 April 1922) was an Italian trumpet player, teacher and composer. Enrico was born in Modena, the son of to Ludovico Martinelli, a local barber, and Maria Rinaldi, a tailoress, and the first child of seven. At the age of ten he started to play the trumpet, first under Girolamo Altinieri, the conductor of the national army band in Modena and later with Gaetano Ferrari. At the age of 15 he became a member of the City Guard Band and one year later also started to play in the orchestra of the Teatro Aliprandi. In 1869 Martinelli enlists to the 4º reggimento Granatieri di Lombardia, an army unit stationed in Catania and took part of the Third Italian Independence War and the liberation of Rome. Martinelli left the army in 1877 and went back to his hometown and became the first trumpeter in the Municipal Band of Modena, a position he held for 27 years. He also founded three new music ensembles in Modena: In 1878 the Concerto della Societa di Ginnastica e Schermo ‘Panaro’ ; in 1891 the Fanfara del Patronato pei Figli del Popolo and in 1893 the Banda dell’Instituto Provinciale S. Filippo Neri e S. Bernardino. Beside his outstanding musical position in

Enrico Polo

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Enrico Polo (18 November 1868 in Parma – 3 December 1953 in Milan) was an Italian violinist, composer and pedagogue. Biography Polo was admitted to the Royal School of Music in Parma (now the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito) in 1879 studying violin and composition. He graduated in June 1887 with honors and received the Barbacini Prize for outstanding graduate of his class. He was a close friend of orchestra director Arturo Toscanini from the earliest years of study in Parma. In the fall of 1887, Toscanini was to conduct Giuseppe Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crociata and requested Polo to play the lengthy violin solo at the end of Act III. In 1893, with the financial support of Count Stefano Sanvitale, Polo went to Berlin to study with Joseph Joachim. In 1903 Polo was appointed Professor of Violin at the Milan Conservatory where he was an influential teacher for more than thirty years. In 1906, he founded the Quartetto Polo along with violinist Costantino Soragna, violist Guglielmo “Willy” Koch and cellist Camillo Moro. The quartet performed to great acclaim in Milan and throughout Europe. During World War I, Soragna was replaced by Michelangelo Abbado, a student of Polo at th

Enrico Toselli

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Enrico Toselli, Count of Montignoso (March 13, 1883 – January 15, 1926), was an Italian pianist and composer. Born in Florence, he studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Giuseppe Martucci and Reginaldo Grazzini. He embarked on a career as a concert pianist, playing in Italy, European capital cities, Alexandria and North America. His most popular composition is Serenata ‘Rimpianto’ Op.6 No.1. They had one son, Carlo Emanuele (7 May 1908 – 1969). Toselli’s memoirs of his marriage to royalty, Mari d’altesse: 4 ans de mariage avec Louise de Toscane, ex-princesse de Saxe, were published in French after his divorce. He died of consumption in 1926 at the relatively young age of 43. References *Luisa di Toscana. La mia storia, Societa’ Editrice Italiana, Milano (1911). *Enrico Toselli. Mari d’altesse: 4 ans de mariage avec Louise de Toscane, ex-princesse de Saxe, Albin Michel Éditeur, Paris (1912). *Enrico Toselli. Il mio matrimonio con Luisa di Sassonia, Italian translation by Paolo Reni, Societa’ Editrice Italiana, Milano (1912). *Leonardo Previero. Enrico Toselli, Il musicista della Serenata, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze (1997). External links *

Enrique Fernández Arbós

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Enrique Fernández Arbós (24 December 1863 – 2 June 1939) was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor who divided much of his career between Madrid and London. He originally made his name as a virtuoso violinist and later as one of Spain’s greatest conductors. Career Fernández Arbós was born in Madrid. After studying violin at the Madrid Conservatory under Jesús Monasterio, he continued his studies in Brussels under Henri Vieuxtemps and later in Berlin under Joseph Joachim. In Brussels he studied composition with François-Auguste Gevaert and in Berlin under Heinrich von Herzogenberg. After teaching at the Madrid Conservatory and in Hamburg, with spells as leader of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra, he became professor of violin at the Royal College of Music, London, in 1894, a post he occupied until 1916. In 1904, he was offered the position of principal conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for nearly 35 years. His many pupils included Maud MacCarthy (later Omananda Puri), the wife of the composer John Foulds. He conducted the first Spanish performance in 1932, at the Calderón Theatre in Madrid, of Igor Stravinsky’s The Ri

Enrique Granados

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Enric Granados i Campiña, born Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916) was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Malats and other pianists, he was part of the modern Catalan school of piano, initiated by Pere Tintorer. He is known for his piano works, such as the Goyescas suite, on which he also based the opera of the same name. He created a piano school in Barcelona, the Acadèmia Granados, which has produced a long list of talented pianists, with such notable figures as Frank Marshall and Alicia de Larrocha. He died in the attack on the SS Sussex, in the English Channel, when it was torpedoed by the German navy during the course of World War I. He had received the Order of Charles III and the French Legion of Honour. Granados’ personal collection is preserved in the Library of Catalonia and the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, and includes his epistolary collection with letters from Pablo Casals, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Jules Massenet, and others. Life Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Spain, the son of Calixto José de la Trinidad Granados y Armenteros, a Spanish army captain wh

Erik Furuhjelm

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Erik Gustaf Furuhjelm (1883–1964) was a Finnish composer, violinist, and writer. Biography Erik Furuhjelm was born on 6 July 1883, in Helsinki and died in the same city on 13 June 1964. His parents were , Secretary of Protocol for the Senate, and Selma Gabriela Antell. He was the brother of the astronomer and politician Ragnar Furuhjelm. Erik Furuhjelm entered high school in 1901, studied at the Philharmonic Society’s orchestral school from 1893, at the Sibelius Academy from 1901 to 1906, at the University of Helsinki from 1901 to 1902, and in Vienna and Munich from 1906 to 1907 and in Paris from 1908 to 1909. Erik Furuhjelm served as acting director of the Sibelius Academy. He held the positions of Professor 1905–1906, professor 1907–1935, and assistant director 1920–1935. Erik Furuhjelm gave numerous concerts, conducted choirs, and played viola in concerts with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 1904–1905 and in opera performances conducted by Armas Järnefelt. He founded the Finnish Music Review (Fisk Musikrevy) in 1904 and worked as a music critic for the from 1912 to 1914 and for the from 1915 to 1920. Prizes and awards * Composer’s state pension d’État de compositeur (1921

Erik Satie

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Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain a diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached. Following a period of sparse compositional productivity, Satie entered Paris’s second music academy, the Schola Cantorum, as a mature student. His studies there were more successful than those at the Conservatoire. From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality. Among them were the group known as Les Six. A meeting with Jean Cocteau in 1915 led to the creation of the ballet Parade (1917) for Sergei Diaghilev, with music by Satie, sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso, and choreography by Léonide Massine. Satie’s example guided a new generation of French composers away from post-Wagnerian Impressionism towards a sparer

Erkki Melartin

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Erkki Gustaf Melartin (7 February 1875 – 14 February 1937) was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of Finland’s most significant national Romantic composers, although his music—then and now—largely has been overshadowed by that of his contemporary, Jean Sibelius, the country’s most famous composer. The core of Melartin’s consists of a set of six (completed) symphonies, as well as is his opera, Aino, based on a story from the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic, but nevertheless in the style of Richard Wagner. Melartin’s other notable works include the popular wedding tune, Festive March (1904; from the incidental music to the play, Sleeping Beauty); the symphonic poem, Traumgesicht (1910); the Violin Concerto in D minor (1913); the Kalevalic symphonic poem for soprano and orchestra, Marjatta (1914); The Blue Pearl, Finland’s first large-scale ballet (1930); and a set of four string quartets, composed between 1896 and 1910. In addition, a number of Melartin’s songs for solo voice and piano have found a lasting place in the Finnish repertoire. Two additional projected symphonies, the Sevent

Erma Hoag Miranda

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Erma Mae Hoag Miranda (August 31, 1883 – December 2, 1964) was an American singer, music educator, and composer. She taught at Beloit College, Lincoln College, and Rocky Mountain College. One of her voice students was opera singer Anna Moffo. Early life and education Erma Hoag was born in Plainfield, Illinois, the daughter of Harry Clarence Hoag and Margaret Lillian Tait Hoag (later Margaret Hoag French). In 1920 she graduated from Northwestern University’s School of Music, where she sang in the a cappella choir under director Peter Lutkin. She also studied piano and composition with Emil Liebling, and voice in Paris, with Marcelle Demougeot and Georges Mauguiere. Career Miranda was a lyric soprano who performed as a church soloist and recitalist. She and her husband taught in the music program at Beloit College, where she organized and directed a fifty-voice a cappella choir. They also taught at Lincoln College in Illinois. They were co-directors of music at Rocky Mountain College in Montana. Miranda wrote an opera, The Legend of the Trailing Arbutus. She also wrote songs, including “Birds” (1928), a setting of a poem by Richard Henry Stoddard, and songs for Delta Kappa Gamma and

Ernest Austin

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Ernest John Austin (31 December 1874 – 24 July 1947) was an English composer, music arranger and editor. Although little-remembered today (he does not even have an entry in the comprehensive New Grove dictionary), Austin’s orchestral music enjoyed some success in its own time, including performances at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and on BBC Radio during the 1920s. He was a prolific composer of songs, covering a wide spectrum of mood, from serious Shakespearean settings to ballads of both sentimental and robust natures. He found some success writing piano pieces and unison songs for children. He also made piano transcriptions of the work of other composers, a particularly common practice of the time. Life and works He was born Ernest John Austin in Poplar, London (now in the borough of Tower Hamlets), the son of Elizabeth and William Austin, a shirt tailor. Ernest Austin was the younger brother of baritone and composer Frederic Austin (1872–1951). He first worked for the Board of Trade and then pursued a career in business. Largely self-taught, by 1902 he had composed a piano sextet (first performed in 1910) and by the age of about 30 he had turned to music as a career. He wor

Ernest Bloch

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Ernest Bloch (; ; July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Several of his most notable compositions reflect his Jewish heritage. As well as producing musical scores, Bloch had an academic career that culminated in his recognition as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. Biography Bloch was born in Geneva on July 24, 1880, to Jewish parents. He began playing the violin at age 9, and began composing soon after. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. He then traveled around Europe, moving to Germany (where he studied composition from 1900 to 1901 with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt), on to Paris in 1903 and back to Geneva before settling in the United States in 1916, taking US citizenship in 1924. He held several teaching appointments in the US, where his pupils included George Antheil, Frederick Jacobi, Quincy Porter, Bernard Rogers, and Roger Sessions. In 1917, Bloch became the first teacher of composition at the Mannes School of Music, a post he held for three years. In December 1920 he was appointed the first musical dire

Ernest Chausson

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Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer. Life Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a building contractor who made his fortune assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s. To please his father, Chausson studied law and was appointed a barrister for the Court of Appeals, but had little or no interest in the profession. He frequented the Paris salons, where he met celebrities such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Odilon Redon, and Vincent d’Indy. Before deciding on a musical career, he dabbled in writing and drawing. In 1879, at the age of 24, he began attending the composition classes of Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire; Massenet came to regard him as “an exceptional person and a true artist”. He had already composed some piano pieces and songs. Nevertheless, the earliest manuscripts that have been preserved are those corrected by Massenet. At the Conservatoire, Chausson also studied with César Franck, with whom he formed a close friendship that lasted until Franck’s death in 1890. Chausson interrupted his studies in 1881 after a failed attempt to win the Pri

Ernest Edwin Mitchell

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Ernest Edwin Mitchell (16 January 1865 – 10 December 1951) was an Australian composer, conductor, music lecturer and organist. Career Mitchell was born on 16 January 1865, in , South Australia, when his father, Thomas James Mitchell, was 43 and his mother, Thurza Lucy Cole, was 36. He married Amy Bertha Edmeades on 27 July 1885. He died on 10 December 1951, in Payneham South, South Australia, at the age of 86, and was buried in Payneham Cemetery, Payneham, South Australia, Australia. They had three children Lillian Bertha Mitchell 1886–1974, Kathleen Lois Mitchell 1895–1972 and Alan Rodney Clemhilt Mitchell 1904–1983. Mitchell graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Music and was granted honours in second year. He played keyboards and organ. Mitchell was a devout member of the Uniting Church with passionate feelings about music particularly the standard of teaching. So keen on quality services, he allowed his musical works to be distributed by newspaper. Mitchell was secretary of the South Australia Music Teachers’ Society. He was active in music teaching for at least sixteen years. Australian composer Ruby Claudia Davy was a pupil. Notable works Mitchell’s not

Ernest Fanelli

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Ernest Fanelli (29 June 1860 – 24 November 1917) was a French composer who is known for his works which have been considered as precursing Impressionism. He gained renown when his symphonic poem Thèbes premiered in Paris; this was a work incorporating elements associated with music ahead of its time, such as unique harmonies, extended chords, and polytonality. Fanelli was born in Paris to Italian parents and started studying music at the age of 10. He earned a living playing timpani and piano, eventually composing seriously when he was 22, although he abandoned the activity in 1894. Upon applying to work as a copyist for Gabriel Pierné in 1912, his music—a manuscript of Thèbes, composed in 1883—astonished the latter, and a performance led to wide publicity and critical assessment of Fanelli’s music and of the roots of the Impressionist style, especially that of Claude Debussy. Fanelli lived in poverty and struggled to support his family. He died in 1917 in Paris. His oeuvre includes orchestral works, 32 orchestrally-accompanied songs, a few chamber works and a three-act opera buffa. Most of his works are of long duration, which may have discouraged their performance, as may their m

Ernest Gillet

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Ernest Gillet (13 September 1856 – 6 May 1940) was a French composer and cellist, the brother of oboist and composer Georges Gillet. Biography A student at the École Niedermeyer de Paris then of Auguste-Joseph Franchomme at the Conservatoire de Paris, Gillet won the First Prize of the Conservatoire in 1874 and became a cellist of the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris (1875–1882). Solo cellist of the Concerts Colonne, the Concerts Lamoureux and the Concerts de Monte-Carlo, Gillet obtained a great success with his operetta La Fille de la mère Michel, with a libretto by Daniel Riche in 1893 as well as with his piece Loin du bal (1888) that can be heard in the feature film The Dancing Masters with Laurel and Hardy in 1943. Works Gillet wrote more than four hundred pieces, including: ;Operetta * La Fille de la mère Michel (1893) ;Compositions Bibliography * Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten, History of the Violoncello, the Viol Da Gamba, 1915, p. 537 * Florian Bruyas, Histoire de l’opérette en France, 1855-1965, 1974, (p. 336) * Oscar Thompson, Bruce Bohle, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1985, p. 822 * Benoît Duteurtre, L’opérette en France, 1997, p. 99, * Mauri

Ernest Hutcheson

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Ernest Hutcheson (20 July 1871 – 9 February 1951) was an Australian pianist, composer and teacher. Biography Hutcheson was born in Melbourne, and toured there as a child prodigy at the age of five. He later travelled to Leipzig and entered the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Stavenhagen (a pupil of Franz Liszt) and Bruno Zwintscher. He was part of the London music circuit in 1896 and 1897. Prior to the outbreak of World War I he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, but in 1914 he settled in New York City, where he made his US debut. He is believed to have been the first pianist to play three concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in a single concert: his performances of Beethoven’s third, fourth and fifth with the New York Symphony Orchestra in the Aeolian Hall in 1919. He became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, and successively Dean (1926–1937) and President (1937–1945) of the school. At Juilliard, he championed the use of radio musical broadcasts in education. He taught many first-rate students. One of these many students was Mary Ann Craft, who later taught the prodigy Edgar Coleman during his formative years. T

Ernest Schelling

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Ernest Henry Schelling (July 26, 1876 – December 8, 1939) was an American pianist, composer, and conductor, and music director. He was the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1935 to 1937. His first wife was Lucie Howe Draper, whom he married on May 3, 1905, in Manhattan, New York City. She died on February 4, 1938, at their summer home in Lausanne, Switzerland. He married his second wife, Helen Huntington “Peggy” Marshall, on August 11, 1939, when she was 21 and he was 63. She was the stepdaughter of the philanthropist Brooke Astor, and a niece of Vincent Astor. He died of a cerebral embolism at his home in Manhattan, New York City, on December 8, 1939. His bride of four months was at his deathbed side. Composer Schelling wrote numerous works for piano, orchestra and chamber groups which were often performed during his lifetime, but have since fallen from the repertoire. His most popular work was A Victory Ball, a symphonic poem for orchestra based on an anti-war poem by Alfred Noyes. Willem Mengelberg and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra made an early electrical recording of the music for the Victor Talking Machine Company. Honours He was elected an honorary mem

Ernest Shand

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Ernest Shand (born Ernest William Watson; 31 January 1868 – 29 November 1924) was an English performer and composer for the classical guitar, and a music hall singer and actor. Biography Ernest William Watson was born into a musical family in Hull, Yorkshire, his mother having been a piano teacher, his father a music dealer, and his brother an actor. He began his musical education on the violin. He came to the guitar when he discovered a composition for guitar by the Spanish composer Dionisio Aguado. Viewing it as a challenge, he bought a guitar and practised until he could play it. He then became a pupil of Madame Sidney Pratten (1821–1895) who provided him with scores and became the first publisher of his compositions. These apparently impressed her so much that by 1888 she apparently had nothing more to teach him, and that his pieces were superior to hers. Before the age of 30, Shand had already written more than 150 pieces for solo guitar, a guitar concerto (the first from the British Isles) and a tutor (1896). In the United Kingdom, his playing remained unsurpassed until the emergence of Julian Bream in the late 1940s. Despite his success as a composer and performer, the guita

Ernest Trow Carter

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Ernest Trow Carter (September 3, 1866 – June 22, 1953) was an organist and composer who won the Bispham Award. Biography He was born on September 3, 1866, in Orange, New Jersey to Aaron Carter and Sarah Swift Trow. At age seven, in 1873 he started what would become eight years of study of piano with Mary Bradshaw as his teacher. At age thirteen, in 1879, he organized an amateur orchestra, studied the cornet, was assistant conductor of the school orchestra; and at sixteen he was playing cornet in a professional orchestra. Operas *The White Bird *The Blonde Donna References External links *

Ernest Truman

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Ernest Edwin Philip Truman (29 December 1869 - 6 October 1948) was an Australian organist and a composer of light romantic era classical music. Early life Truman was born was in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Son of Edwin Philip Truman, a fishmonger, and Elizabeth Robinson Crawfurd Smith. His family emigrated to Melbourne and then New Zealand, before settling in Hunters Hill, a suburb of Sydney, in 1885. Musical career Truman was taught music by his father, then studied under Arthur J. Barth of Dunedin, New Zealand and Julius Buddee of Sydney. From 1888 until 1893, Truman attended Leipzig Conservatory along with Australian Alfred Hill. While at Leipzig he composed 26 fugues, as a result of which he was known at the Conservatorium as “The English Bach”. Upon his return to Sydney, he became organist at Christ Church St Laurence from 1893 until 1896. He also presided at the console of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney and St Patrick’s, Church Hill in Sydney. He was the most competitive organist in New South Wales when appointed Sydney city organist in which role he held at least 3,000 recitals. He accompanied many famous singers, including Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Florence

Ernest Walker (composer)

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Ernest Walker (15 July 187021 February 1949) was an Indian-born English composer and writer on music, as well as a pianist, organist and teacher. Biography Ernest Walker was born in Bombay, India, in 1870, where his father was a partner in a merchant firm (his father had also had ambitions to be a writer, and even published two novels under the pseudonym “Powys Oswyn”, but these plans were abandoned). and played for artists such as Pablo Casals, on one occasion in 1898 performing together for Queen Victoria at Osborne House. As late as 1947, Casals wrote to Walker expressing his admiration for the musicianship he had displayed almost 50 years earlier. He also accompanied Joseph Joachim in concert; Joachim later wrote to Walker to express his gratitude for the quality of his playing. and John Stainer’s The Crucifixion, and he dismissed all medieval music as “pre-artistic”. Among Walker’s students were Herbert Murrill, Reginald Jacques, Victor Hely-Hutchinson, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Graham Peel, Sir William McKie, and Gervase Hughes. He resigned as Director of Music at Balliol College to devote himself to composition. In 1942 the Cobbett Gold Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicia

Ernestina Lecuona

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Ernestina Lecuona y Casado (16 January 1882 – 3 September 1951) was a Cuban pianist, music educator and composer. Life Ernestina Lecuona y Casado was born in Matanzas into a musical family. Her brother was pianist and composer Ernesto Lecuona. Leo Brouwer, a classical guitarist, is her grandson, and gymnast-political scientist Rafael A. Lecuona, an anti-communist, was her nephew. She studied music at the Centro Asturiano de La Habana and with French teacher Lucía Calderón. At the age of 15, Lecuona completed her first work Habanera Luisa, which was published widely in Cuba and Spain by Anselmo López in 1897. She gave early music lessons to her younger brother Ernesto. In 1936 she was invited to New York City by the Pan American Union, where she accompanied the Mexican tenor Tito Guizar. She made contact with singer Jessica Dragonette, who added some of Lecuona’s works to her repertoire. In 1937 she founded a women’s orchestra in Cuba, which debuted at the Teatro Alkazar, and in 1938 performed in concerts at the National Theatre. In 1939 she toured Mexico, Chile and Argentina, and traveled in South America again from 1940 to 1942. She traveled with her brother on tour, and sometimes

Ernst Mielck

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Ernst Leopold Christian Mielck (24 October 187722 October 1899) was a Finnish composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. A precocious but sickly youth, his promising career was cut short in its infancy when he died of consumption in Locarno, Switzerland, at age 21. As a result, Mielck’s is small; his most acclaimed compositions are the Symphony in F minor (Op. 4; 1897) and the Dramatic Overture (Op. 6; 1898). Life Mielck was born in Viipuri (Vyborg). He started piano lessons at the age of ten; in 1891 he was sent to Berlin, where he studied under Max Bruch, one of the leading composers of the period. Bruch said of Mielck that he had “an easy, felicitous, and remarkable flair for invention.” Mielck returned to Finland in 1896. Three years later he died of tuberculosis in Switzerland, at age 21. Music Mielck composed all his works in the short span of four years. His catalogue includes a number of works in the field of chamber music, including a string quintet and a string quartet. He also composed the Symphony in F minor (1897), two overtures, a concert piece for piano and orchestra, as well as one for violin and orchestra, the Finnish Suite, and two major vocal works in the

Ernst von Dohnányi

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Ernst von Dohnányi (Hungarian: Dohnányi Ernő, ; 27 July 1877 – 9 February 1960) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used the German form of his name on most published compositions. Biography Dohnányi was born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Bratislava, Slovakia). Born into the old noble Dohnányi family, he was the son of (1843–1909) and his wife, Ottilia Szlabey. He first studied music with his father, a professor of mathematics and amateur cellist, and when he was eight years old, with Carl Forstner, organist at the local cathedral. In 1894 he moved to Budapest and enrolled in the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music, studying piano with István Thomán and composition with Hans von Koessler, a cousin of Max Reger. Thomán had been a favorite student of Franz Liszt, while von Koessler was a devotee of Johannes Brahms’s music. These two influences played an important part in Dohnányi’s life: Liszt for his piano playing and Brahms for his music. Dohnányi’s first published work, his Piano Quintet in C minor, earned the approval of Brahms, who promoted it in Vienna. Dohnányi did not study long at the Academy of Music: in June 1897 he sought to take the

Erwin Lendvai

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Erwin Lendvai (4 June 1882 – 21 March 1949) was a Hungarian composer and choral conductor. He was an uncle of the composer Kamilló Lendvay. Lendvai was born in Budapest. He graduated from the National Music Academy of Budapest, studying with Hans von Koessler. He also studied with Giacomo Puccini in Milan. From 1906 on, he lived in Germany, where he began his teaching career. From 1913 to 1914, he taught at the J.-Dalcroze Institute in Hellerau, near Dresden, where he married the photographer Erna Dircksen. From 1914 to 1920, he taught composition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and in 1923 choral singing at the Volksmusikschule in Hamburg. He was also director of a musical society in Koblenz and director of the popular choir of Munich. In 1929, he premiered Arnold Schoenberg’s choral work Glück Op. 35, No. 4. In 1933, he emigrated from Germany due to the Nazi regime and after that worked as a music teacher in Kenninghall, England. After the war, he headed the Györ Conservatory of Music. He became interested in Béla Bartók’s music there. He died in Epsom, Surrey, UK. Lendvai wrote one opera, Elga (1916, to a libretto by Gerhart Hauptmann), the festival music Völ

Estelle Ricketts

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Estelle Ricketts (c. 1867 – after April 1, 1940) was an American composer. Personal life Ricketts was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, which is now a suburb of Philadelphia. Her parents were Allen and Mary (Carroll) Ricketts. Allen was born into slavery in Maryland and self emancipated about age 11. He ended up in Darby, Pennsylvania, and taken in by Quakers, John and Rachel Hunt, where he worked as their gardener and chore boy. There he was educated at the Darby Friends School. He graduated and became a farmer at the Sharon Boarding Academy. In June of 1847, Allen was tricked, kidnapped, and taken to Baltimore and sold to a slave trader named Hope H. Slatter. Because Allen was literate, he was able to write a letter to George S. Truman, a friend back in Darby. Upon receiving the letter, Truman went with a friend, John Needles, to find Slatter and bargain for Allen’s release. Slatter agreed to take $800 for the release of Allen, but only if the money was provided by the same day the following week. With the help of Darby Monthly Meeting minister, John Jackson, they were able to get word out about Allen’s kidnapping and they had soon collected $500 from residents of Darby, with a wealth

Ethel Barns

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Ethel Barns (5 December 1873 – 31 December 1948) was an English violinist, pianist and composer. She was born in London and entered the Royal Academy of Music at as a teenager, where she studied with Emile Sauret for violin, Ebenezer Prout for composition and Frederick Westlake for piano. Barns made her debut as a violinist at The Crystal Palace in London in 1896, and toured in England and the United States. While on tour, Barns sometimes accompanied prominent opera singer, Adelina Patti. Barns was a member of the first council of the Society of Women Musicians, which was founded in 1911. Barns became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and died in Maidenhead on 31 December 1948. Early life and career Barns was born in London in the year 1874 (some sources inaccurately list 1880 as her birth year). and Crystal Palace in 1896. *Hindoo Lament (Chanson indienne) (1908) *Concertück (1908) * L’Escarpolette (Swing Song) for violin and piano (1908) *Swing Song And Other Forgotten Treasures By Ethel Barns, Nancy Schechter (violin) and Cary Lewis (piano). Aca Digital (2005) *Idylle. May Mukle, cello; George Falkenstein, piano. Victor Matrix B-15880, 13 April 1915 *Romance and Reverie:

Ethel Mary Boyce

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Ethel Mary Boyce (5 October 1863 – 3 March 1936) was an English composer, pianist and teacher. Boyce was born and resided in Chertsey, Surrey, daughter of Justice of the peace George Boyce (1832–1914). She studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Walter Cecil Macfarren and composition with Francis William Davenport. The prizes she won include the Cipriani Potter Exhibition Prize and the Sterndale Bennett Prize for piano playing (both in 1866) and the Charles Lucas Medal for composition in 1889. In 1890 she was appointed associate of the Royal Academy, becoming a composition teacher in 1891, when she gave up public performances as a pianist. Boyce was at one time the fiancée of Edward German, but the engagement was broken off and German never married. She played piano duets with Dora Bright, including a concert performance of Bright’s Variations on an Original Theme of Sir G. A. Macfarren, named for George Alexander Macfarren, their teacher’s brother. Her compositions include an orchestral March in E (1889), the Introduction and Rondo for piano, violin and cello (which won her the Lucas prize, also in 1889), eight pieces for violin and piano (published by Novello) and variou

Ethel R. Harraden

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Ethel Rosalie Glover (; 1857–1917) was an English pianist, composer and music critic. Life Ethel Rosalie Harraden was born in Islington, Middlesex, England, in 1857, the daughter of Rosalie and Samuel Harraden, a London/Calcutta agent, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. After completing her studies, she worked as a pianist and composer. She married Frank Glover and settled in Leamington Spa. Harraden became interested in composing for the stage, sometimes collaborating with her brother Herbert Harraden. She reviewed for the Leamington Spa Courier, a newspaper owned by her husband. Ethel was the third of six children, including her youngest sister Beatrice Harraden (born in 1864), who became a novelist known for “Ships that Pass in the Night.” Grandchildren: Norah Rigby Childs nee Glover She died on 5 January 1917 at Leamington Spa. Works Harraden composed mostly ballads and stage music. Her works include: *Two Melodies *Tristesse for Cello and Piano (1886, Schott Music) * I go to prove my soul (Text: Robert Browning) (c. 1884) *The Rainy Day (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) *Pearl, cantata *His Last Chance, operetta (1890) *The Lady in Pink, operetta (1891) *The Taboo, op

Ethel Scarborough

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Frances Ethel Scarborough (10 January 1880 – 9 December 1956) was an English pianist, composer, conductor and later a politician. Among her compositions were a Symphony, three piano concertos, solo piano music, choral music and songs. Education She was born in Crouch End,London, the third of seven children of Walter Scarborough, a timber merchant, and his wife Matilda. She studied piano with Oscar Beringer at the Royal Academy of Music, but shifted her focus to composition and began studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1906, while studying there, Scarborough’s Piano Concerto in C minor was performed in a concert. One newspaper reported that “in the opinion of the principal of the school, the piece is of exceptional merit”. In 1907 and in 1908 she conducted her own compositions at similar student concerts. She later studied composition and orchestration as a private pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford. In 1907 she was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ silver medal. Composer and conductor A Symphony, dated 1909, is mentioned in some sources but there is no record of any performance. But in 1912 she conducted the Brighton Municipal Orchestra in a performance o

Ethel Smyth

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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (; 22 April 18588 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalised as a “woman composer”, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream. the fourth of eight children. While 22 April is the actual date of her birth, Smyth habitually stated it was 23 April, the day that was celebrated by her family, as they enjoyed the coincidence with William Shakespeare’s. Her father, John Hall Smyth, who was a major general in the Royal Artillery, was very much opposed to her making a career in music. The home of her early years was Sidcup Place in Sidcup, then in Kent. From 1867 her family base was Frimhurst, near Frimley Green; from 1894 she lived at One Oak, also in Frimley, before moving in 1910 to Hook Heath on the outskirts of Woking. Her youngest brother was Robert (“Bob”) Napier Smyth (1868–1947), who rose to become a Brigadier in the British Army. Musical career Smyth was a child prodigy. She was a stellar pianist at a very young age and was able to compose her first hymn by the age of 10.

Ethelbert Nevin

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Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (November 25, 1862 – February 17, 1901) was an American pianist and composer. Early life Nevin was born on November 25, 1862, at Vineacre, on the banks of the Ohio River, in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania. There he spent the first sixteen years of his life, and received all his schooling, most of it from his father, Robert Peebles Nevin, editor and proprietor of a Pittsburgh newspaper, and a contributor to many magazines. (Robert Nevin also composed several campaign songs, among them the popular “Our Nominee,” used in the day of James K. Polk’s candidacy.) Nevin’s mother, Elizabeth Duncan Oliphant, was a pianist. The first grand piano ever taken across the Allegheny Mountains was carted over for Nevin’s mother. Other members of the Nevin family showed musical inclinations as well; Nevin’s younger brother, Arthur, also achieved some renown as a composer, as did his cousins George and Gordon Balch Nevin. Musical education From a young age, Nevin was musically inclined. He began playing the piano by the age of four, although he needed cushions piled on the pedals to enable him to reach them. Nevin’s father provided for his son both vocal and instrumental instruction.

Etilmon J. Stark

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Etilmon “Til” Justus Stark (May 1867 – January 1, 1962) was an American ragtime composer and arranger, the eldest son of ragtime publisher John Stark. His best-known works include the pieces “Trombone Johnsen” (1902), “Billiken Rag” (1913), and “Gum Shoe” (1917), and the arrangements for the collection “Fifteen Standard High Class Rags” (1912), popularly known as “The Red Back Book”. Biography Stark was born in May 1867, in Gosport, Indiana, though his birth date is sometimes erroneously cited as 1868. Stark moved to Missouri with his family in his youth. In 1885, his father, who previously had been a farmer and ice cream store proprietor, took the family to Sedalia, Missouri, and opened a music store, John Stark and Son. John Stark later became a music publisher and made his fortune by publishing Scott Joplin’s The Maple Leaf Rag. All of the Stark children, including sister Eleanor and brother William were talented musically, but Stark was the one who achieved greatest success. He died in Maplewood, Missouri, on January 1, 1962. Career Stark became a music instructor, first at the Marmaduke Military Academy in Sweet Springs, Missouri. When Marmaduke burned in 1896, Stark moved to

Ettore Perosio

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Ettore Perosio (May 10, 1868 - February 14, 1919) was an Italian composer and conductor. Perosio was a native of Genoa, the son of art critic and amateur musician Giuseppe Perosio, who had been a friend of Giuseppe Verdi. The younger Perosio studied at the Niccolò Paganini Institute in Genoa before embarking on a conducting career that took him around Italy, as well as to Spain, Portugal, and the United States. His career also took him to Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where he worked alongside soprano Eugenia Burzio. Perosio married soprano Giuseppina Falconis della Perla (née Battaglia) in 1900. He died in the city of his birth. Perosio composed five operas during his career. The first of these, premiered at Genoa’s Teatro Paganini on January 13, 1889, was Adriana Lecouvreur, to a libretto by his father; based on the same play that later inspired Francesco Cilea, this saw performance in other theaters as well. Three other stage works - Furio, to a libretto by Luigi Orsini; Scacco al re, to a libretto by E. Ducati; and Morosina - appear never to have received a performance. Besides operas, Perosio also wrote chamber music, songs, and sacred works. He also produced Apoteosi di Colomb

Eugen d'Albert

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Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d’Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany and later to Switzerland. Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Annie Rowell, and a German-born father of French and Italian descent, Charles Louis Napoléon d’Albert (1809–1886), whose ancestors included the composers Giuseppe Matteo Alberti and Domenico Alberti. D’Albert’s father was a pianist, arranger and a prolific composer of salon music who had been ballet-master at the King’s Theatre and at Covent Garden. D’Albert was born when his father was 55 years old. The Musical Times wrote in 1904 that “This, and other circumstances, accounted for a certain loneliness in the boy’s home-life and the years of his childhood. He was misunderstood, and ‘cribbed, cabined, and confined’ to such an extent as to largely prejudice him against the country which gave him birth”. D’Albert was brought up in Glasgow and taught music by his father until he won a scholarship to the new National Training School for Music (forerunner of the Royal College of Music) in London, which he entered in 1876 at the age of 12. Also in 1880, d’Albert arranged the p

Eugen Haile

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Eugen Haile (February 21, 1873 – August 14, 1933) was a German-American composer, singer, and accompanist, primarily known for his songs. In his lifetime, it was claimed that he was one of the “truly inspired melodists, a lineal descendent of the great lyricists, Schubert, Schumann, Franz and Brahms.” Biography Early life Haile was born in Ulm, “on the fringe of the Black Forest”. During his childhood Haile liked the zither, and also played the flute, which he learned from “an old town musician … The boy preferred to play by ear and in the open; or to improvise an obbligato to the deep bass of an old shoemaker friend whose singing of chorals he enjoyed.” He loved “emotional spontenaity” and folksong, and had a “preference for simple sentiments simply and sincerely expressed”. and got married. His wife was a contralto, Around 1905, Haile began work on a second opera, called Viola d’Amore. They became active in the musical life of the city. In November, 1907, the singer Theodore Van Yorx gave a recital of Haile’s songs at Mendelssohn Hall in New York City, accompanied by the composer at the piano. The program consisted of readings by Van Yorx from Haile’s autobiography, intersperse

Eugène Ysaÿe

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Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as “The King of the Violin”, or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the “tsar”. Early years Born in Liège, Ysaÿe began violin lessons at age five with his father. He would later recognise his father’s teaching as the foundation of everything he knew on his instrument, even though he went on to study with highly reputed masters. In 1867, Ysaÿe entered the Royal Conservatory of Liège to study with Désiré Heynberg, and in the process won a shared second prize with the Viotti 22nd Violin Concerto. He then went on to study with Henryk Wieniawski for two years in Brussels and Henri Vieuxtemps in Paris. Ernest Bloch, Jascha Brodsky, Mathieu Crickboom, George Enescu, Charles Houdret, Julia Klumpke, Louis Persinger, Oscar Shumsky, and Jacques Thibaud. () During his tenure as professor at the Conservatoire, Ysaÿe continued to tour ever more widely, visiting all of Europe, Russia, and the United States. Despite health concerns, particularly regarding the condition of his hands, Ysaÿe was at his best when performing, and many prominent composers dedicated major

Eugenia Calosso

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Eugenia Calosso (21 April 1878 – after 1914) was an Italian conductor and composer. She studied at the conservatory in Leipzig, and studied composition with Giovanni Cravero. She began her career as a conductor at the Casino Municipale in San Remo and continued concert tours of Europe until 1914. Calosso wrote madrigals, orchestral suites, and instrumental works for violin and piano, and more than fifty lieder. She wrote one opera, Vespero, with a libretto by Ernesto Ragazzoni. Life Eugenia Calosso was born on 21 April 1878 in Turin, Piedmont. She studied at the conservatory in Leipzig, and studied composition with Giovanni Cravero. Calosso wrote madrigals, lieder, orchestral suites, and instrumental works for violin and piano. She wrote about fifty lieder. She died after 1914. References

Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville

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Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (5 January 1870 – 28 October 1946) was a Belgian composer, pianist, violinist, music educator, conductor and organist. Life Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville was born in Liège, Belgium, and began the study of music with her father who was a lawyer and amateur musician. She lived for several years in London, Works Folville composed for theater, solo instruments, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble. Selected works include: Orchestral works * Scènes champêtres. 1 re Suite d’orchestre, op. 9 (1885) : Aux Champs, Dans la montagne, Rêverie, Fête de village * Scènes de la mer. 2 e Suite d’orchestre, op. 14 (1886) : Chanson du pêcheur, Nuit étoilée, Mer phosphorescente, Flots agités, Adieux à l’océan * Scènes d’hiver. 3 e Suite d’orchestre, op. 17 (1887) : Ballade, La neige, Noël, Carnaval * Violin concerto in G Minor, op. 20 (1888) * Piano concerto in D Minor (1902–1903) * Concerstück for cello and orchestra (1905) * Impressions d’Ardenne, orchestral suite (1910) * Triptyque for violin and orchestra, or piano (ca. 1935) Chamber and piano works * Souvenir de Mozart. 1 re Sonatine (op. 7, 1881) and 2 e Sonatine (op. 11, 1882) * Berceuse for violin and pia

Eusebius Mandyczewski

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Eusebius Mandyczewski (, ; 18 August 1857, in Molodiia – 13 August 1929, in Vienna) was a Romanian musicologist, composer, conductor, and teacher. He was an author of numerous musical works and is highly regarded within Austrian, Romanian and Ukrainian music circles. Personal life Eusebius Mandyczewski was born in the village of Bahrynivka (Ukrainian: Багринівка; Romanian: Bahrinești) (then Austria-Hungary; now Ukraine, Hlyboka Raion) on 18 August 1857. His father was a priest and his mother, Veronica, born Popovici, was the sister of Eusebiu Popovici, erudite professor of history at the University of Cernauti and the father of the Bucovinian poet Gheorghe Popovici (known under the pen name of T. Robeanu). His origin according to the father has Slavic affiliations; according to his mother the origin is Romanian. Eusebius had two brothers (Georgiy and Prof. Kostiantyn) and one sister (Kateryna). Kostiantyn was a secondary school teacher, member of the regional School Council and later Head of the Chernivtsi Library. Kateryna Mandychevs’ka was a school teacher. Georgiy was also a composer of choral music. He finished his secondary studies at the upper school of Chernivtsi and simulta

Eva Dell'Acqua

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Eva Dell’Acqua (also Dall’Acqua, 28 January 1856, Schaerbeek12 February 1930, Ixelles) was a Belgian singer and composer of Italian ancestry. She wrote fifteen operas and operettas, as well as orchestral works, pieces for chamber orchestra, and other works for piano and solo voice. Dell’Acqua’s song “Villanelle” for coloratura soprano has been widely performed and recorded, and has appeared on film soundtracks including Get Hep to Love (1942) and I Married an Angel (1942). Biography Eva Dell’Acqua was born in 1856 in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of the Italian painter Cesare Dell’Acqua and his wife Carolina van der Elst. Dell’Acqua had a younger sister, Aline, born July 18th, 1857. Dell’Acqua’s name does not appear in documents from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, suggesting that her formal music education took place at home through private instruction. Given her father’s connections within Brussels’ artistic circles, she may have had access to influential musicians in the city, though no specific teacher has been definitively identified. Dell’Acqua composed in the Romantic style and produced orchestral works, pieces for chamber orchestra, and other works for pia

Eyvind Alnæs

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Eyvind Alnæs (29 April 1872 – 24 December 1932) was a Norwegian composer, pianist, organist and choir director. Personal life Alnæs was born in Fredrikstad, as the son of headmaster Johannes Jørgen Lauritz Alnæs (1835–1916) and Elise Martine Hansen (1851–1931). He married Emilie Thorne (1882–1976) in 1903. He was the father of author Lise Børsum, and grandfather of novelist Finn Alnæs and artist Bente Børsum. Career In 1888 he was enrolled at the Music and Organist School in Oslo (Musikkonservatoriet i Oslo). Alnæs studied piano with Westye Waaler, organ with Peter Brynie Lindeman as well as harmony, counterpoint and composition with Iver Holter. In April 1892, after Alnæs had finished his studies in Oslo, he studied in Leipzig with Carl Reinecke and, after the première of his first symphony in 1896, in Berlin with Julius Ruthardt. For many years he played the organ in several churches and conducted choirs. During the years 1895-1907 he was organist at Bragernes Church in Drammen. From 1907 to 1916 he was at Uranienborg Church in Oslo and between 1916 and 1932 at Oslo Cathedral. He helped found the Norwegian Society of Composers in 1917 and served as chairman from 1921 to 1923. Aln

Fannie Charles Dillon

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Fannie Charles Dillon (March 16, 1881 – February 21, 1947) was an American pianist, music educator and composer. Life Fannie Charles Dillon was born in Denver, Colorado in 1881. She moved with her family to Long Beach, California in 1890. She graduated from Pomona College and studied composition with Heinrich Urban, Hugo Kaun and Rubin Goldmark, and piano with Leopold Godowsky in Berlin. Personal life and marriage After completing her studies, Dillon worked as a pianist, teacher, performer and composer in Los Angeles. She taught at Pomona College from 1910 to 1913 and in the Los Angeles high school system from 1918 to 1941. She founded Woodland Theater at Fawnskin, Big Bear Lake, California, in 1924 and served as its general manager from 1926 to 1929. She married Cypriot theater actor James Christo. Dillon died in Altadena, California. Her papers are stored by the UCLA library. As a composer, Dillon was known for adapting bird calls into her scores. While she was teaching at Los Angeles High School in the late 1920s, future composer John Cage was among her students. Works Dillon composed for piano, voice, orchestra and chamber ensemble, as well as for outdoor dramas. Selected works in

Fannie Morris Spencer

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Fannie Morris Spencer (August 15, 1865 – April 9, 1943) was an American composer and organist who wrote a collection of 32 hymns and was a founding member of the American Guild of Organists. Spencer was born in Newburgh, New York, to Cynthia McCollum and Timothy W. Spencer. She studied music in New York City with Alexander Lambert and Samuel P. Warren, then taught and worked as a church organist. She taught at the Dr. Holbrook’s Military School and Miss Fuller’s School for Girls in Ossining, and at Miss Spence’s School for Girls (today the Spence School) in New York City. She was an organist at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, and Pilgrim Congregational Church, all in New York City. Spencer chaired the music committee of the Professional Women’s League and served as vice president of the New York State Music Teachers Association, where she worked with Florence Sutro. She also chaired the music committee of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. In 1896, Spencer was one of 145 organists (and only four women) to found the American Guild of Organists. *Magnificat in C *“Lord’s Prayer” *“When I Know” References

Fanny Howie

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Fanny Rose Howie ( or Poata; 11 January 1868 – 20 May 1916), also known by her stage name Te Rangi Pai, was a New Zealand singer and composer. Of Māori descent, she identified with the iwi of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. The lullaby “Hine E Hine” is her most famous composition, and she was well known in Britain as a singer of opera and popular music from 1901 to 1905. Early life She was born in Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand, on 11 January 1868, the daughter of Thomas William Porter and Herewaka Porourangi Potae (also known as Te Rangi-i-pāea). She was the eldest of their nine children. Her mother was the daughter of Tama-i-whakanehua-i-te-rangi (a high-ranking Ngāti Porou chief and signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi) and Mereana Tongia, and held high rank in Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Te Whānau-ā-Ruataupare and Ngāti Porou. From her mother, Howie would inherit the title of ariki tapairu, meaning first-born female of a family of rank. In December 1900 she travelled to England where she embarked on concert, oratorio and ballad training with (amongst others) the baritone Charles Santley. Her vocal range was from mezzo soprano to contralto and allowed her to cover many styles. She sang be

Felix Blumenfeld

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Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (; 19 April 1863 – 21 January 1931) was a Russian and Soviet composer and conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher. Early life He was born on 19 April 1863 in Kovalyovka, near the city of Yelisavetgrad, in Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine). He was the son of Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld, of Austrian Jewish origin, and Maria Szymanowska. He was the uncle of Heinrich Neuhaus and first cousin, once removed of Karol Szymanowski (Felix’s mother and Karol’s father, Stanisław Szymanowski, were cousins). Blumenfeld studied with Gustav Neuhaus, who was married to his older sister. Then he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and piano under Fedor Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1895 until 1918, whilst also serving as conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1911. Career The Mariinsky saw the premieres of the operas composed by his mentor Rimsky-Korsakov. He was also the conductor at the Russian premiere of Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. In 1908, he conducted the Paris premiere of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Bor

Felix Dreyschock

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Felix Dreyschock (27 December 1860 – 1 August 1906) was a German pianist, son of Raimund Dreyschock, and nephew of Alexander Dreyschock. Biography Felix Dreyschock was born in Leipzig on 27 December 1860. At the age of sixteen, he studied music with the Leipzig organist Karl Junne. He entered the Royal College of Music in 1875, where he studied with Friederich Grabau and Franz Schulz. Dreyschock studied composition with Friedrich Kiel and Wilhelm Taubert. He further improved his piano technique with Heinrich Ehrlich. He first gave concerts in February 1883 in Berlin and made extensive tours throughout Europe (Austria, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, Scandinavia). In Stockholm he performed successfully in 1886 and 1889, both as a virtuoso and composer. Dreyschock taught at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst and later the Stern Conservatory. Dreyschock wrote salon pieces of moderate difficulty which were well-received and also a collection of twelve easy pieces based on fairy tales. References External links * *

Felix Harold White

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Felix Harold White (27 April 1884 31 January 1945) was an English composer, music teacher and pianist. Early career and war White was born in Fetcham, Surrey into a Jewish family originally called Weiss. He was the oldest of five children, and initially worked with his coal merchant father and his brothers transporting coal around Surrey. But his mother had taught him piano from the age of five and he made rapid progress, and soon developed a career as a music teacher. Other than that he was largely self taught, though Hubert Parry took an interest in his work and helped secure some early performances. In 1914, White married Marta Scholten, a Swiss-German, and in 1916 he registered as a conscientious objector. For the rest of the war he was sent off away from his family to work on a farm in Cornwall, and then to another farm in Hemel Hempstead. His Fanfare for a Challenge to Accepted Ideas of 1921 was inspired by his resistance to the war and militarism. Post war Before and during the war White was living in Kingston-upon-Thames. During the 1920s, White and his family were living at 28, Hilldrop Crescent, London N7. Between 1933 and 1935 White played with the London Philharmonic Or

Felix Mottl

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Felix Josef von Mottl (between 29 July/29 August 1856 – 2 July 1911) was an Austrian conductor and composer. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day. He composed three operas, of which Agnes Bernauer (Weimar, 1880) was the most successful, as well as a string quartet and numerous songs and other music. His orchestration of Richard Wagner’s “Wesendonck Lieder” is still the most commonly performed version. He was also a teacher, and his pupils included Ernest van Dyck and Wilhelm Petersen. Career Mottl was born in Unter Sankt Veit, today Hietzing, Vienna in 1856. His date of birth has been reported variously as 29 July, and 29 August. After early voice training at the Löwenburg Konvikt, a training school for the Imperial Court Chapel, he had a successful career at the Vienna Conservatory. He also orchestrated Chabrier’s Bourrée fantasque and Trois valses romantiques, and arranged a popular suite of orchestral excerpts from Christoph Willibald Gluck’s operas. In later years, as a conductor of Wagner especially, he visited Amsterdam, London and New York, guest-conducting the Metropolitan Opera in 1903. He was made a director of the Academy of Arts, Berlin in

Felix Weingartner

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Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (2 June 1863 – 7 May 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist. Life and career Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (now Zadar, Croatia), to Austrian parents. The family moved to Graz in 1868, and his father died later that year. He studied with Wilhelm Mayer (who published his own compositions under the pseudonym of W. A. Rémy and also taught Ferruccio Busoni). In 1881 he went to Leipzig to study philosophy, but soon devoted himself entirely to music, entering the Conservatory in 1883 and studying in Weimar as one of Franz Liszt’s last pupils. Liszt helped produce the world premiere of Weingartner’s opera Sakuntala in 1884 with the Weimar orchestra. According to Liszt biographer Alan Walker, however, the Weimar orchestra of the 1880s was far from its peak of a few decades earlier and the performance ended up poorly, with the orchestra going one way and the chorus another. Walker got this account from Weingartner’s autobiography, published in Zürich and Leipzig in 1928–1929. The same year, 1884, he assumed the directorship of the Königsberg Opera. From 1885 to 1887 he was Kapellmeister in Danzig, then in Ham

Felix Woyrsch

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Felix Woyrsch (8 October 1860 – 20 March 1944) was a German composer and choir director. Life Woyrsch was born in Troppau, just over the Prussian border in Austrian Silesia (now Opava in the Czech Republic). He was raised in Dresden and later Altona, a suburb of Hamburg, in a lower middle class family of limited means. Largely self-taught in music, he did study for some time with Ernst August Heinrich Chevallier. He became director of the “Altonaer Liedertafel” in 1887 and director of the Altona Church Choir in 1893. In 1895, he took over the direction of the Altona “Singakademie”, and became organist at the Friedenskirche and then at the Johanniskirche. From 1903, he created municipal symphonic and folk music concerts. Already a music professor since 1901, he was elected into the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1917. He worked as a conductor and as Altona’s city music director until 1931. In 1936, he was given the Goethe Medal, followed by the Beethoven Prize in Berlin upon his retirement in 1937. He died in Altona. Style and legacy His main influences included his friend Brahms as well as Bach, Palestrina, Lassus, and Heinrich Schütz. Although Woyrsch quite valued the music

Ferdinand Hummel

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Ferdinand Hummel (September 6, 1855 in Berlin – April 24, 1928 in Berlin) was a German composer, harp player, pianist and conductor. Hummel started as a child prodigy, and his father, who was a flute player in the Royal Orchestra in Berlin, took care of his son’s first musical training instructing him in both the piano and the harp from the age of four (some say seven) gaining a King Wilhelm von Preussen Stipendium, so he could study with Antonio Zamara at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. In the years 1864 to 1867, the boy toured with his father to South and North Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Russia, where he was hailed as a great harp virtuoso. Through a Royal grant, he later went to study at New Academy of Music, Berlin (Theodor Kullak’s institute) from 1868 to 1875 and later at the Royal High School for Music and Composition with Woldemar Bargiel and Friedrich Kiel as his principal teachers. After his education, he was a harp player in B. Bilse’s Orchestra, which was later to become the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1892, Hummel was appointed leader of the stage music at the Royal Theatre in Berlin, becoming director from 1897 to 1917. As a composer, Humm

Ferdinand Pfohl

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Ferdinand Pfohl (; 12 October 1862 in Elbogen, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, now Loket n.O., Czech Republic – 16 December 1949 in Hamburg-Bergedorf) was a German music critic, music writer and composer. Pfohl studied law at Prague, then in Leipzig he studied music as private pupil of Oscar Paul and attended courses in philosophy at the university, worked as music critic at Leipziger Tageblatt and Königlich-Leipziger Zeitung; from November 1892 to 1931 he was music editor of Hamburger Nachrichten, since 1913 to 1934 teacher and co-director of Vogt Conservatory in Hamburg (Thompson - Slonimsky - Sabin, ). Prof. h.c., Dr. phil. h.c., author of many books on music, e.g. a biography on famous Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch and on Richard Wagner. Pfohl was amongst the most highly regarded music critics in Germany; his opinions carried a great deal of weight. Amongst music circles he was particularly well known as a writer and composer (Willscher in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2005). His compositions include a lot of lieder, some piano pieces and works for orchestra. The Pfohl-Woyrsch-Society, Pfohl-Woyrsch-Gesellschaft e.V. Hamburg is going to revive his music and to inform about

Fernand de La Tombelle

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Baron Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fernand Fouant de La Tombelle (3 August 1854 – 13 August 1928) was a French organist and composer. Life Born in Paris, Fernand de La Tombelle had piano lessons in his childhood with his mother Louise Gueyraud, a pupil of Sigismund Thalberg and Franz Liszt. From the age of eighteen he took private organ and harmony lessons with Alexandre Guilmant. At the Conservatoire de Paris he studied counterpoint, fugue and composition with Théodore Dubois. For his compositions he was twice awarded the gold medal at the Grand Prix Pleyel, in 1888 and 1894. In the following years he performed as a concert organist throughout France. From 1896 to 1904, he was the first harmony teacher at the Schola Cantorum. Among his students were Louis Boyer, René de Castéra, Auguste Le Guennant, Marc de Ranse, Blanche Selva, Déodat de Séverac, and Jean Vadon. In addition to music, La Tombelle, who was interested in many things, was active as a writer and columnist, sculptor and painter, art photographer, music ethnologist and astronomer. His wife Henriette Delacoux de Marivault (1857-1943) became known as a novelist, poet and playwright under the pseudonym Camille Bruno. Sele

Fernand Halphen

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Fernand Gustave Halphen (18 February 1872 – 16 May 1917) was a French Jewish composer. Life and career Fernand Halphen was the son of Georges Halphen, a diamond merchant, and of Henriette Antonia Stern (1836–1905), who was from the Stern banking family. From the age of ten, he studied under the direction of Gabriel Fauré before entering the Paris Conservatory where he took a composition course taught by Ernest Guiraud, who also taught Paul Dukas, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie. After Guiraud’s death in 1892, Halphen studied with Jules Massenet, who also taught Henri Rabaud, Florent Schmitt, Charles Koechlin and Reynaldo Hahn. He won first prize for his fugue in 1895, and the next year won second place for the second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Mélusine, behind Jules Mouquet and Richard d’Ivry. Fernand Halphen is known principally as a composer. Among his notable works are the one-act opera Le Cor Fleuri (libretto by Ephraïm Mikhael and André-Ferdinand Hérold), which debuted in the national theatre Opéra-Comique, 10 May 1904, several symphonies, one of which was performed in Paris and in Monte Carlo, a suite for orchestra, the pantomime Hagoseida, the ballet Le Réveil du faun

Fernando Paillet

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Fernando Paillet (27 October 1880 – 3 November 1967), was an Argentine photographer. He portrayed the colonisation and life of the settlers in Esperanza, an agricultural colony founded in 1856 in Santa Fe Province. Paillet defined himself as a “provincial photographer that recorded the pampa gringa”. Paillet is one of the most notable photographers of the first half of the 20th century. Early life Paillet was the son of Clotilde Insinger, granddaughter of Peter Zimmerman, the first colony that died in Esperanza. Paillet started photography while young, becoming an employee of the Lutser studio of Santa Fe in 1898. In 1899 Paillet acquired his first camera, a Widmayer, and returned to his hometown. Career At the beginning of the twentieth century he worked as a photographer in Esperanza. He opened a studio in 1902, continuing until 1950. Paillet became the city’s most renowned photographer, recording its traditions and landscapes. He interacted with including majors, police chiefs, judges, ladies of charity and other anonymous personalities. Their hardiness seems an extreme way of fineness today. Bucolic, gallant, laborious, agricultural, metallurgic scenes; all of them take us to l

Ferruccio Busoni

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Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary figures of his time, and he was a sought-after keyboard instructor and a teacher of composition. From an early age, Busoni was an outstanding, if sometimes controversial, pianist. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and then with Wilhelm Mayer and Carl Reinecke. After brief periods teaching in Helsinki, Boston, and Moscow, he devoted himself to composing, teaching, and touring as a virtuoso pianist in Europe and the United States. His writings on music were influential, and covered not only aesthetics but considerations of microtones and other innovative topics. He was based in Berlin from 1894 but spent much of World War I in Switzerland. He began composing in his early years in a late romantic style, but after 1907, when he published his Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, he developed a more individual style, often with elements of atonality. His visits to America led to interest in North American indigenous tr

Filaret Kolessa

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Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, from 1929, and the founder of Ukrainian ethnographic musicology. Biography Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa was born on 17 July 1871 in the Galician village of Tatarske, now the village of Pishchany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. He studied at the University of Vienna under the composer Anton Bruckner from 1891 to 1892, and completed his studies at the Lviv University in 1896. Filaret taught in high schools in Lviv, Stryi, and Sambir. He worked with the composer Mykola Lysenko, and the writers Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka. In 1918, he defended his dissertation at the University of Vienna and received the title Doctor of Philology. He studied the rhythms of Ukrainian folk songs of Galicia, Volhynia and Lemkivshchyna. From 1939 he was a professor at Lviv University, from 1940 the director of the State museum of Ethnography in Lviv, director of the Lviv section, of the Institute for Art studies, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (from 1940), and a part

Fini Henriques

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Valdemar Fini Henriques (baptized Finni) (20 October 1867 at Frederiksberg - 27 October 1940 in Copenhagen) was a Danish composer and violinist. His parents were hospital inspector and justice counsel Vilhelm Moritz Henriques (1828-1889), who was of Jewish origin, and Marie Christine Rasmussen (1826-1913). He was brother-in-law to the doctor and philosopher Severin Christensen. Fini Henriques’ son, musician Johan Henriques, was the concert master of the 2nd violin group in the Royal Chapel, where his father had worked for almost four years as a violinist. Career Henriques became a private student of the violinist Valdemar Tofte, who was the concert master of the chapel and professor at the Conservatory of Music, and of the chief director of the Royal Chapel, Johan Svendsen, after Niels W. Gade had advised him to go through the Conservatory of Music. From 1888 - 1891 he was in Berlin, where he studied at violinist Joseph Joachim and composer Woldemar Bargiel, who was half brother to Clara Schumann and himself student of Niels W. Gade. After his time in Copenhagen, he returned for one year to Germany and Austria. At the time of his return, he was employed in the Royal Chapel in 1892,

Fleta Jan Brown Spencer

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Fleta Jan Brown Spencer (March 8, 1882 – September 2, 1938) was an American songwriter, composer, pianist, and singer. Early life Fleta Jan Brown was born near Sioux Rapids, Iowa, the daughter of William Edward Brown and Jennie Etta Watkins Brown. Her father was a barber. She trained as a pianist and composer at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Career Brown moved to St. Louis, Missouri, after her studies in Cincinnati, and published her first three songs in 1905. After she married fellow songwriter Herbert Spencer, the pair moved to New York, and there were prolific songwriters, sharing credit on dozens of songs published by M. Witmark & Sons, and by Jerome H. Remick. They also performed together at times, both as singers and pianists, in concerts and on the vaudeville stage. Songs with music, lyrics, or both by Brown included “Tangle Foot Rag” (1907), “Fancies” (1908), “I Wish I was in Heaven Sittin’ Down” (1908), “The Party That Wrote ‘Home Sweet Home’ Never Was a Married Man” (1908, later covered by Jerry Garcia), “O Wondrous Night in June” (1909), “I Know a Blossom” (1909), “In the Dusk” (1909), “The Birth of Love” (1909), “Tickle Toes” (1910), “Back to the Old Folks At Ho

Florence Atherton Spalding

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Florence Atherton Spalding (September 10, 1859 – December 13, 1933) was an American music teacher and a composer from Boston, Massachusetts. Early life She was born Florence A. Faxon in 1859, the daughter of Edward Faxon (1824–1886) and Eliza Otis Pope (1824–1869), a musically gifted and prosperous family with connections, that descended from Myles Standish and other colonial figureheads. Spalding grew up in an environment that played a big emphasis on musical composition. Her father was a member of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, and was an accomplished tenor singer, and later served as director. By profession, he was a dealer in the supplies of piano manufacture. Since her father was a key member of the Handel and Haydn Society, she would have witnessed the preparations for the celebrations marking the effective date of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, followed by the societies golden jubilee in 1865, which consisted of a five-day festival of nine concerts, employing a chorus of 700. Two years later the New England Conservatory of Music was established. At the age of nine her mother died. Her father remained in 1870 to Lucretia Eddy Holland. She focused h

Florence Aylward

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Florence Aylward (10 March 1862 – 14 October 1950) Aylward began composing at an early age, and her songs began to be performed at local concerts when she was 12. Family life Aylward married Harold Kinder, an architect, in 1881 in Rye, Sussex. *“Vitai Lampada” (1900, words by Henry Newbolt) References External links *Florence Aylward “The Window” from YouTube *The song “Aspiration” on The Art Song Project * https://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/aylward-florence Markus Gärtner, Art. “Aylward, Florence”, in: Lexikon “Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts”, hrsg. von Freia Hoffmann, 2011.

Florence Maude Ewart

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Florence Maude Ewart (16 November 1864c.8 November 1949) was an English violinist, music educator and composer who lived and worked in Australia. Biography Florence Donaldson was born in Kentish Town, London, the daughter of accountant Frederick William Donaldson and his wife Elizabeth Lewis. Ewart studied violin with John Carrodus and made her début as a violinist at age 14 at the Albert Hall, London. She won one of the first twelve Birmingham scholarships to the South Kensington National Training School, later the Royal College of Music, and continued her studies in Leipzig and Berlin with Joseph Joachim. After completing her studies, she worked in Birmingham as a conductor, violinist and music lecturer. In December 1898, she married Alfred James Ewart, whom she had met in Leipzig, at the parish Church of St. Paul, Oxford. The couple settled in Birmingham and had two sons born in 1900 and 1902. In 1906 the Ewart family moved to Melbourne, Australia, and a rheumatic condition ended Florence’s career as a violinist. In 1907 she served as co-conductor for the first Australian Women’s Work Exhibition, and won first prize for her composition “God Guide Australia”, an anthem with words

Florence P. Rea

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Florence Pauline Rea (5 June 1878 - 25 December 1924) was an American composer of many pedagogical works for piano and organ. Rea was born in Oakland, California, to Catherine Ford Rea and John Rea. Little is known about her education. She died in Evanston, Illinois. Arthur Music, and Clayton F. Summy Co. Her works for piano and organ include: *At the Organ *Descriptive Pedal Studies *Fairy Frolics (a collection) *Fall and Winter Holidays *Four Teaching Pieces *Hello Mr. Robin! *King Thrush *Linnet *Spring and Summer Holidays References External links *Listen to The Wood Nymph’s Harp by Florence P. Rea. *Download sheet music for The Wood Nymph’s Harp by Florence P. Rea. *Download a manuscript copy of Florence P. Rea’s At the Organ.

Florence Parr Gere

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Florence Beatrice Parr Gere (April 25, 1875 – September 4, 1964) was a Canadian-born American pianist and composer. Early life Florence Beatrice Parr was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the eldest child of Florence Robbins Parr and Henry Albert Parr. Her father was a dentist associated with the University of Pennsylvania Dental School; Dr. Parr’s varied career included espionage for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and treating presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Chester A. Arthur. Florence Parr trained as a musician under Theodor Leschetizky and Isidor Philipp, and studied composition in Paris and Vienna, and in New York with Max Spicker. Career Gere wrote both music and lyrics for songs, with titles such as “A New World is Born” and “I Walked with Anguish in my Heart”. Gere’s songs were popular with concert singers in New York, including Johanna Gadski, Maggie Teyte, and Marguerite Namara. She also composed music for settings of poems by others, including a setting of John Keats’ “The Devon Maid”. Composer Meta Schumann used Gere’s lyrics for her song “Thee.” She hosted gatherings of musicians at her New York home. In 1922 she spent six months in France and Switzerland,

Florence Turner-Maley

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Florence Turner-Maley (August 23, 1871 – January 3, 1962) was an American composer, singer, and teacher. Florence Turner was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, to William Hayward and Mathilde (Holwill) Turner. Her father had been a boy soprano. She attended the Hasbrouck Institute in New York She married actor Stephen Maley in 1901. and with conductors Edward Morris Bowman, Alfred Hallam, Victor Harris, and Arthur Mees. the Musicians Club of New York, and the New York Singing Teachers’ Association. Her music is included on the following commercial recordings: *Edison 5839 (1917) *Columbia 77628 (1918) *Columbia 77735 (1918) *Edison 7224 (1920) *Edison 7521 (1920) *Columbia 80464 (1922) *Victor BVE-33610 (1925) *Victor BVE-37388 (1927) Turner-Maley’s music was published by Allen and Co., G. Schirmer Inc., Huntzinger and Dilworth, John Church Co., M. Witmark and Sons, and Oliver Ditson and Co. *Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices? *Pastoral (men’s choir) Songs *“A Call” *“Ah Sweet Is Tipperary in the Spring” *“Fields of Ballyclare” (text by Dennis A. McCarthy) *“God Grant Us Repose” *“In a Little Town Nearby” (text by Amy Ashmore Clark) *“Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts” (text by T. R.

Florent Schmitt

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Florent Schmitt (; 28 September 187017 August 1958) was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches. His most famous pieces are La tragédie de Salome and Psaume XLVII (Psalm 47). He has been described as “one of the most fascinating of France’s lesser-known classical composers”. Biography Early life and career Born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. At the age of 19 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois, and Albert Lavignac. In 1900 he won the Prix de Rome. During the 1890s he became friendly with Frederick Delius, who was living in Paris at the time, and Schmitt prepared vocal scores for four of Delius’s operas: Irmelin, The Magic Fountain, Koanga and A Village Romeo and Juliet. From 1929 to 1939 Schmitt worked as a music critic for Le Temps, where he proved controversial. He was known to shout out his views from his seat in the hall. The music publisher Heugel called him “an irresponsible lunatic”. In November 1933, at a concert that included music by Kurt Weill, who had just been forced to leave Germany and was present, Schmitt l

Floy Little Bartlett

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Floy Little Bartlett (January 1, 1883 – March 7, 1956) was an American composer. She wrote many compositions, with one of them appearing in the 1930 sound version of the 1925 silent film The Big Parade. Bartlett also wrote a book for children in 1931 titled The Busy Book. Early life Bartlett was born in 1883 to Esther Palmer Little and Dr. George Little in Burlington, Iowa. She attended the Congressional Church in Burlington, where her brother played the organ for 35 years. At 23 years old, Bartlett traveled to Paris to study the violin, and after her trip she was a concert violinist. She married Sidney F. Bartlett of Burlington when she was 25 years old, and the two of them later moved to LaGrange, Illinois. After a move to New York, their son Jack was born, and their daughter Miriam was born six years later. In 1935, she received an honorary degree in music from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Career On March 20, 1917, the Asbury Park Press said that Bartlett is “one of the most talented of America’s women composers” about her later performing at the First M.E. Church. Bartlett sang some of her songs that were for children at the church. On February 14, 1920, Buffalo Evening

Frances C. Robinson

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Frances Coster Small Robinson (8 August 1858 - 11 November 1905) was an author, composer, and music educator who was born in Canada and lived most of her life in the United States. She published under the name Frances C. Robinson. Robinson was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, to Emma Pheasant and Otis M. Small. Little is known about her education. She married William S. Robinson and gave piano lessons in Wakefield, Massachusetts, from at least 1901 until her death in 1905. Robinson’s articles on music education appeared in The Etude magazine and the New England Conservatory magazine. She composed works for piano and voice through at least opus 45, and William A. Pond & Co. Her publications included: Articles in The Etude magazine *Child Study: The Teacher’s Privilege and Duty (in a collection of essays reprinted from The Etude 1892-1902) *Collateral Summer Reading for Musicians (Jul 1900) *Cultivation of Touch (Oct 1903) *Ear Training and Use of the Damper Pedal (Oct 1902) *Primary Teaching (Oct 1900) Voice *“An Oriole’s Nest” *“Butter Making” (action song) *“Sleigh Song” *“Soldier Song” (action song) *Download free sheet music to “On the Beach” by Frances C. Robinson Refe

Frances Marion Ralston

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Frances Marion Ralston (“Fanny”) (7 January 1875 - 5 February 1952) was an American author, composer, pianist and teacher. Widely published during her lifetime, she is best known for her works for piano. Biography Ralston was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Lucy Boyd Lewis and John Ralston. She studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music and in Chicago. Her teachers included Carl Faelten, Arthur Foote, Percy Goetschius, Ernest R. Kroeger, Fannie Payne, Richard S. Poppen, Nellie Strong Stevenson and Adolf Weidig. Ralston was awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony (today known as MacDowell) in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1926, and 1944. She served as director of the music department at Central College (Lexington, Missouri) for two years, and director of the music school at Rockford College (today Rockford University) in Illinois for nine years. She died in Arcadia, California. Works Ralston’s works are archived at the University of California, Los Angeles, Library. They were published by Balmer and Weber, Breitkopf & Härtel, C. F. Summy, Composer Press, G. Schirmer Inc., Hatch Music Company, R. G. Badger, Schroeder & Gunther, and Thiebes-Stierlin Music Company. Her works includ

Francesco Balilla Pratella

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Francesco Balilla Pratella (Lugo, Italy February 1, 1880 – Ravenna, Italy May 17, 1955) was an Italian composer, musicologist and essayist. Although he was one of the leading advocates of Futurism in Italian music, much of Pratella’s own music betrays little obvious connection to the views espoused in the manifestos he authored. Biography Born in Lugo, and deeply impressed by the folk-music he heard in his childhood in his native Romagna (now part of Emilia-Romagna), Pratella entered Pesaro Conservatory and studied with Vincenzo Cicognani and Pietro Mascagni. Pratella’s professional career was largely centered in teaching and musicology; he served as director of the Liceo Musicale in Lugo from 1910 until 1927, when he accepted a post as director of the Istituto G. Verdi in Ravenna, where he remained until his retirement in 1945. His interest in collecting Romagna’s folksongs began before his futurist period and continued after, intensifying later through Pratella’s arrangements of folksongs and training of choruses. Pratella also made modern performance arrangements of early polyphonic music. From 1921 to 1925 Pratella headed the Bologna-based music publication Il Pensiero Musicale

Francesco Cilea

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Francesco Cilea (; 23 July 1866 – 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L’arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur. Biography Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea was the son of Giuseppe Cilea and Felicita Gallo. Giuseppe was a prominent lawyer and Cilea originally intended to follow his father into a law career. He gave an early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma and was greatly affected by it. He was sent to study music at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella in Naples under the guidance of Beniamino Cesi, he distinguished himself through diligence and precocious talent, earning a gold medal from the Ministry of Public Education and being appointed ‘first student instructor’. In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d’or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville (1787–1865). This “melodramma idilico” was performed in the college theatre, and it attracted the attention of the publish

Francesco Fanciulli

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Francesco Fanciulli (May 29, 1853 – July 17, 1915) was a Grand Duchy of Tuscany-born naturalized American band director and composer. Between 1892 and 1897 he led the United States Marine Band. Biography Francesco Luigi Fanciulli was born in Porto Santo Stefano. He learned cornet at a young age and played in a local band. Displaying talent, he was sent to study at the Florence Conservatory, where he obtained his diploma. At age twenty he became the first cornettist at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and in 1875 he obtained a position in the orchestra of the Politeama Fiorentino. He was also engaged as a conductor at the Teatro Goldoni, at the Politeama, and at the Teatro Nazionale. In 1876 he emigrated to the United States to teach privately for a wealthy New York family. Arriving in New York on September 24, 1876, he also began working as an organist at St. Peter’s Church in Brooklyn and as a teacher of piano and singing. He composed works for Patrick Gilmore’s band. Among his compositions was a piece transcribed from his first opera The Voyage of Columbus that Gilmore described as “the most beautiful piece of descriptive music ever written.” In 1892, Fanciulli’s reputation

Francesco Paolo Frontini

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Francesco Paolo Frontini (Catania, August 6, 1860 – Catania, July 26, 1939) was an Italian composer. He studied music with his father, composer Martino Frontini; he also studied the violin with Santi D’Amico, playing a concert with him at the town concert hall at the age of 13. At 15 his first composition, a Qui tollis, was played at the city cathedral, under the direction of Pietro Antonio Coppola. In 1875 Frontini matriculated at the Palermo Conservatory, where he studied with Pietro Platania; from there he passed to the conservatory in Naples, where he received his diploma in composition under the tuition of Lauro Rossi. Among his first substantial compositions was a funeral Mass in honor of Pietro Coppola. In 1881 came the premiere of a three-act melodrama, Nella; further operas followed, beginning with Sansone in 1882, Aleramo (based on the legend of Adelasia and Aleramo) in 1883, Fatalità in 1890, Malia (on a libretto of Luigi Capuana) in 1891, and Il Falconiere in 1899. At the same time his lyric poem Medio-Evo received favorable notice from Jules Massenet. He wrote music for the one-act play Vicolo delle belle by Saverio Fiducia, as well as for Antonino Russo Giusti’s comed

Francis Burgess (musician and priest)

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Francis Henry Burgess (1879-1948) was a leading British proponent of the use of plainsong in Anglican church music. He was born in Marylebone, London. From sometime before 1916 until at least 1921 Burgess lived at 27 Lechmere Road, Willesden Green, London. Personal life * In 1906 he married Mabel Thistleton at St Columb’s church, Notting Hill, London. Together they had a daughter Mabel Charlotte. * In 1917 for several months he worked at the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS President II. * In 1946 he married Freda Bartlett and together they had a son Arthur. Career Musician * 1900: ** Organist, St. Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, London, * 1902: ** Organist, St Mark’s, Old Marylebone Road. * 1904 ** Organist, St. Columb’s, North Kensington. He was still in post there in 1921. He was taken ill and died just days before his induction. ** Goodwill music : a collection of hymns and tunes, together with a number of alternative tunes to hymns already contained in “Hymns ancient and modern”. ** The office for the dead / set to its ancient music by Francis Burgess. * 1906 ** Night at the Opera: Verdi’s Il trovatore. ** Night at the Opera: Verdi’s Rigoletto. * 1908 ** The organ of fifty y

Francisco Braga

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Antônio Francisco Braga (15 April 1868 – 14 March 1945) was a Brazilian music composer. Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886, he founded the Sociedade de Concertos Populares. In 1906, his composition Hino à Bandeira was adopted as the Brazilian national flag anthem. Starting in 1890 Antônio Francisco Braga studied at the Conservatoire in Paris with Jules Massenet. After that he spent time both in Germany and in Italy and then returned to Brazil in 1900. Upon his return to Brazil, Antônio Francisco Braga taught at the Instituto Nacional de Música and was the conductor of the Sociedade de Concertos Sinfonicos between 1908 and 1933. His pupils included Brazilian composers Cacilda Borges Barbosa and Hilda Pires dos Reis. Antônio Francisco Braga composed three operas and produced orchestral pieces, chamber music, piano pieces and many songs. Works *Missa de S. Francisco Xavier (s.d.) *Missa de S. Sebastião (s.d.) *Te Deum (s.d.) *Stabat Mater (s.d.) *Trezena de S. Francisco de Paula (s.d.) *A Paz, poem with chorus (s.d.) *Oração pela Pátria, poem with chorus (s.d.) *Trio, para piano, violin e cello (s.d.) * Dois Quintet

Francisco Tárrega

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Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (21 November 185215 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe, Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Vals. Biography Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, Spain. It is said that Francisco’s father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, Francisco would take his father’s guitar and attempt to make the beautiful sounds he had heard. Francisco’s nickname as a child was “Quiquet”. As a child, he ran away from his nanny and fell into an irrigation channel and injured his eyes. Fearing that his son might lose his sight completely, his father moved the family to Castellón de la Plana to attend music classes because as a musician he would be able to earn a living, even if blind. Both his first music teachers, Eugeni Ruiz and Manuel González, were blind. In 1862, concert guitarist Julián Arcas, on tour in Castellón, heard the young Tárrega play and advised Tárrega’s father to allow Francisco to come to Barcelona to study with him. T

Franco Alfano

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Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Risurrezione (1904), Sakùntala (1921), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), and for having completed Puccini’s opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Early life and training He was born Francesco Alfano on 8 March 1875 at 8:15 a.m. in Posillipo, Naples, to French-born Francesca “Fanny” (during World War I italianized to Fourcati ) and Vincenzo Alfano, a highly regarded silver engraver, whose firm, Vincenzo Alfano & Figli, was appointed to the Italian royal family. Francesco was the first of six sons and there was also one daughter. which he entered as an external student on 1 December 1891 and where he remained three years. In 1895 he pursued further composition studies with Hans Sitt and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig. From 1918 he was Director of the Conservatory of Bologna, from 1923 Director of the Turin Conservatory, and from 1947 to 1950 Director of the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. Alfano died in Sanremo. Operas Alfano completed his first opera, Miranda (unpublished), for which he also wrote the libretto

Franco Leoni

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Franco Leoni (24 October 1864 – 8 February 1949) was an Italian opera composer. After training in Milan, he made most of his career in England, composing for Covent Garden and West End theatres. He is best known for the opera L’oracolo, written for Covent Garden but taken up successfully by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In addition to his operas, Leoni wrote several cantatas and oratorios and many ballads and other songs. He also worked as a conductor in London, both in the concert hall and in the theatre. Life and works Early years Leoni was born in Milan and studied music at the Milan Conservatory under Amilcare Ponchielli and Cesare Dominiceti. His opera Raggio di Luna (Moonbeam) to a libretto by Camillo Zanoni was first performed at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan in June 1890. Two years later, Leoni emigrated to England, which remained his home until 1917. In 1896, he wrote what he called “a dramatic musical poem”, “Sardanapalus”, inspired by Byron’s 1821 play of the same name. The work, for soloists, chorus and orchestra, was premiered at the Queen’s Hall and was well reviewed, although reviewers commented on the influence of earlier composers on the score. In 1897, Leoni’s

Frank Bridge

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Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor. Life Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845–1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a master lithographic printer from a family of cordwainers, and his second wife, Elizabeth (née Warbrick; 1849–1899). He also taught Benjamin Britten. His father “ruled the household with a rod of iron”, and was insistent that his son spend regular long hours practising the violin; when Frank became sufficiently skilled, he would play with his father’s pit bands, conducting in his absence, also arranging music and standing in for other instrumentalists. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others. He played in a number of string quartets, including second violin for the Grimson Quartet and viola for the English String Quartet (along with Marjorie Hayward). He also conducted, sometimes deputising for Henry Wood, before devoting himself to composition, receiving the patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. According to Benjamin Britten, Bridge had strong pacifist convictions, and he

Frank H. Losey

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Frank Hoyt Losey (March 18, 1870 – 3 May 1931) was an American musician, composer, and arranger of band and orchestra music. He is credited with over 400 compositions and 2,500 arrangements including his most recognized composition, “Gloria March”. Losey was born in Rochester, New Jersey and raised in Lawrenceeville. While it has been commonly cited that he was born in 1872 or 1875, his presence as an infant in the 1870 Census shows these references to be incorrect, as well as his correct age of 61 on his death certificate. Frank studied music at an early age, learning to play cornet, violin, and piano. Losey was a cornetist for local and regional bands until he suffered from lip paralysis which forced him to switch to trombone and euphonium and limited him to smaller theater performances. Starting in 1902, Losey composed and arranged music for Carl Fischer and became editor-in-chief of the Vandersloot Music Publishing Company. In 1919, Thomas Edison selected Losey to be the music adviser for Edison’s phonograph company. He was also approached by Henry Ford to arrange music for the Ford Orchestra in Detroit. Losey died in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1931. The Historic American Sheet Musi

Frank La Forge

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Frank La Forge (October 22, 1879 – May 5, 1953) was an American pianist, vocal coach, teacher, composer and arranger of art songs. Biography He was born on October 22, 1879, in Rockford, Illinois. La Forge was a boy soprano. He first studied piano with his older sister, and went to Vienna in 1900 to study with Theodor Leschetizky. He recorded prolifically for the Victor Talking Machine Company, as both a soloist and accompanist starting in 1906. As a soloist, he recorded works by Chopin, Liszt and MacDowell. In performance he usually accompanied entirely from memory, considered an unusual feat for an accompanist. In his biography Pathways of Song, La Forge claimed that he had ‘a repertoire of over five thousand memorized accompaniments embracing all schools’. He toured Europe, Russia, and the United States as an accompanist to Marcella Sembrich. La Forge moved to New York City in 1920, where he became a music teacher, coach, and accompanist. He taught a number of important American singers, including Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, Marie Powers, Emma Otero and Richard Crooks. He served as accompanist for many vocal stars and instrumentalists of the day including Johanna Gadski,

Frank Tapp

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Frank Harold Tapp (1883 – 15 June 1953, often Frank H. Tapp, sometimes Frank W. Tapp) was a British composer, pianist and conductor associated with the City of Bath, where he was the director of the Pump Room concerts between 1910 and 1917. Tapp was an accomplished pianist, and the composer of three symphonies and other orchestral works. Career Frank Tapp was born in Bath, making his first appearance as a pianist when he was only five. He first studied music locally with the organist Sir Percy Buck. He went on to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir Frederick Bridge and Charles Wood as well as John Arthur St. Oswald Dykes (piano) and William Sewell (organ). The Pump Room was (and is) famous for its salon and light music, but Tapp also programmed new and challenging repertoire - such as the first West of England performance of Elgar’s Enigma Variations, his own Symphony No. 1 The Tempest (in 1913), and Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces. Over sixty symphonies, including all nine of Beethoven’s, were programmed during his time there. He left the orchestra in 1917: some sources say he was sacked for programming the Schoenberg

Frank Welsman

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Frank Squire Welsman (20 December 1873 – 2 July 1952) was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer and music educator. He began his career as a concert pianist, but ultimately earned his place in Canadian history for establishing Toronto’s first symphony orchestra of any standing, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (no relation to the current orchestra of that name) which was active from 1906 to 1918. As a composer he wrote a few songs and some instrumental pieces, mostly works for solo piano. His grandson John Welsman is a notable film score composer and his granddaughter Carol Welsman is a successful jazz pianist and singer. Early life and education Born in Toronto, Welsman pursued courses in violin and piano performance at the Toronto College of Music before going to Leipzig in 1894 for further studies. His teachers included Richard Hofmann, Martin Krause, and Gustav Schreck. After completing his education, he returned to Canada in the spring of 1897. Some sources claim he studied the piano privately with Arnold Mendelssohn in Germany Career In 1897 Welsman returned to Toronto and commenced a career as a concert pianist, giving annual recitals in Toronto from 1897 until 1905. He also

František Drdla

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František Alois Drdla (Germanised as Franz Drdla; 28 November 1868 – 3 September 1944) was a Czech concert violinist and composer of light music. Biography Drdla was born in 1868 in Žďár nad Sázavou in Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic). He studied violin and composition first at the Prague Conservatory and later at the Vienna Conservatory where his teachers were Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. for violin, Anton Bruckner for music theory and Franz Krenn for composition. However, Drdla’s music shows none of his teachers’ influences. From 1890 to 1893 he played violin in the orchestra of the Vienna Court Opera, and from 1894 to 1899 he pursued his career as the director and concertmaster of the Theater an der Wien. By then a well-known concert violinist, Drdla toured throughout Europe (1899–1905) and later the United States (1923–1925). Drdla enjoyed a good reputation as a violinist with a technically refined tone. In 1927 he received an honorary title from the President of Austria. Drdla died in Bad Gastein, Austria on 3 September 1944. Although he composed three operettas, a violin concerto, several orchestral works and two piano trios, international fame came to Drdla as a

František Ondříček

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František Ondříček (29 April 1857 – 12 April 1922) was a Czech violinist and composer. He gave the first performance of the Violin Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, and his achievements were recognised by the rare award of honorary membership of the Philharmonic Society of London (now the Royal Philharmonic Society) in 1891. Life and career František Ondříček was born in Prague on 29 April 1857, the son of the violinist and conductor Jan Ondříček. His younger brother is Karel Ondříček (1865–1943), also a violinist. František studied at the Prague Conservatory under Antonín Bennewitz, and was then supported by Henryk Wieniawski through two years studying at the Paris Conservatoire with Lambert Massart. He shared a first prize with Achille Rivarde. Ondříček was the soloist in the first performance of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, Op. 53 in Prague on 14 October 1883, and performed it again in Vienna on 2 December. In the late 1880s he settled in Vienna, where he taught. He also published a technical treatise on violin technique in 1909. After World War I, Ondříček returned to Prague, where he directed the violin masterclass at the Prague Conservatory. Notable students include composer Karel Nav

Franz Curti

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NOTOC Jean Baptist Joseph Franz Henry Curti (1854–1898) was a Swiss-German opera composer. Curti was born 16 November 1854 at Kassel, son to the lawyer and court opera singer Anton Curti (1820–1887), and his wife Marie Clementine, née Gräbner (1827–1898). From 1864, while his father took up engagements in Europe’s opera houses, Curti grew up with his uncle in Rapperswil, Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Zurich. In addition to school lessons, he learned to play the piano, organ and violin. After graduating from high school in 1871 he travelled to Italy to recover from lung disease; while there he was impressed by the country’s opera. In 1880 he completed medical studies and the state examination at Berlin, subsequently opening a dental practice in Dresden. In addition to his medical practice he took composition lessons with Edmund Kretschmer (1830–1908) and Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen (1838–1915). Curti published his first work Die Gletscherjungfrau in 1882, and his first opera, Hertha, was awarded the Gold Medal for Art and Science by Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg in 1887. His international breakthrough came in 1896, two years before his death, with the opera Lili-Tsee, which

Franz Lehár

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Franz Lehár ( ; ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe). Life and career Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary (now Komárno, Slovakia), the eldest son of Franz Lehar Sr. (1838–1898), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt (1849–1906), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent. He grew up speaking only Hungarian until the age of 12. He later put an acute accent above the a of his father’s surname Lehar to indicate the pronunciation of the vowel as , in accordance with Hungarian orthography. While his younger brother Anton entered cadet school in Vienna to become a professional officer, Franz studied violin at the Prague Conservatory, where his violin teacher was Antonín Bennewitz, but was advised by Antonín Dvořák to focus on composition. However, the Conservatory’s rules at that time did not allow students to study both performance and composition, and Bennewitz and Lehár senior exerted pressure on Lehár to take his degree in viol

Franz Schmidt (composer)

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Franz Schmidt, also Ferenc Schmidt (, 22 December 1874 – 11 February 1939) was an Austro-Hungarian composer, cellist and pianist. Life Schmidt was born in Pozsony/Pressburg, in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia) to a half-Hungarian father – with the same name, born in the same city – and to a Hungarian mother, Mária Ravasz. He studied piano briefly with Theodor Leschetizky, with whom he clashed. He moved to Vienna with his family in 1888, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory (composition with Robert Fuchs, cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger, and, for a few lessons, counterpoint with Anton Bruckner, who was already seriously ill at that time ), graduating “with excellence” in 1896. He obtained a post as cellist with the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra, where he played until 1914, often under Gustav Mahler. Mahler habitually had Schmidt play all the cello solos, even though Friedrich Buxbaum was the principal cellist. Schmidt was also in demand as a chamber musician. Schmidt and Arnold Schoenberg maintained cordial relations despite their vast differences in eventual outlook and style (Schmidt certainly shows a perceptible influence from Schoenberg’s ea

Franz Schreker

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Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music. Formative years He was born as Franz Schrecker in Monaco, the eldest son of the Bohemian Jewish court photographer Ignaz Franz Schrekker (Germanized from Ignácz Furencz, originally Isak), he moved into the composition class of Robert Fuchs, graduating as a composer in 1900. His first success was with the Intermezzo for strings, Op. 8, which won an important prize sponsored by the Neue musikalische Presse in 1901. His first opera, Flammen, was completed in 1902 but failed to receive a staged production. Career launch Schreker had begun conducting in 1895, when he had founded the Verein der Musikfreunde Döbling. In 1907 he formed the Vienna Philharmonic Chorus, which he conducted until 1920: among its many premi

Fred J. Eustis

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Frederick J. Eustis, sometime referred to as F. J. Eustis, (c. 1858, in Boston, Massachusetts – March 28, 1912, in Toronto, Canada) was an American composer, conductor, and theatre director. He is best remembered for writing music for several Broadway musicals. Career Eustis first drew attention as a theatre composer with the 1879 musical Sancho Pedro, with a book by Charles Felton Pidgin, staged at the Gaiety Theatre on Broadway in 1879. This was followed by the musical Penny Ante; or The Last of the Fairies, with a book and lyrics by Jeff S. Leerburger and premiered at Broadway’s Fourteenth Street Theatre on June 9, 1884, It featured the actor Charles H. Drew performing the title heroine in drag. He wrote music for the 1890 musical Blue Beard, Jr. which was a tremendous success when it premiered at the Grand Opera House, Chicago; ultimately touring to Broadway’s Niblo’s Garden. Eustis composed music for two Broadway musicals based on classic fairy tales: Mother Goose (Fourteenth Street Theatre, 1899) and Little Red Riding Hood (Boston Museum, 1899; and Casino Theatre, 1900). He also directed the musical The Ameer, which was staged at Wallack’s Theatre in 1899–1900, and served as

Fred S. Stone

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Frederick St. Clair Stone (fr) (January 22, 1873 – January 14, 1912) was an African-Canadian ragtime music composer, born in Chatham, Kent County, Ontario. Works (sources: ) * 1891 - The Detroit Wheelman’s March * 1896 - La Albaceté: Spanish Waltzes. Detroit, MI: Detroit Music Co, 1896. * 1905 - Belinda: March Two Step. New York, NY: Jerome H Remick, 1905. * 1906 - Melody at Twilight. New York, NY: Jerome Remick & Co, 1906. * 1908 - Stone’s Barn Dance. New York, NY: Jerome H Remick, 1908. Sheet Music Fred S. Stone, 1899, “The Bos’n Rag” Charles H. Templeton, Sr. sheet music collection. Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries ::https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102350221 * Fred S. Stone, 1902, “Sue” : Fred S. Stone, 1902, “Sue” Charles H. Templeton, Sr. sheet music collection. Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries : Fred S. Stone, 1902, “Sue” Charles H. Templeton, Sr. sheet music collection. Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries via CORE (research service) :* Fred S. Stone (1902) “Sue” (Sheet Music) with ad for Whitney Warner Collection of Mandolin and Guitar Music by Samuel Siegel :*Sue (Stone, Fred S.) at Inte

Fred Werner

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Fred Werner born Gottfried W Werner was an Australian composer, music teacher. He was possibly born near Berlin where he attended the prestigious Stern Conservatory and studied under Polish composer Theodor Kullak. He migrated to Coolabah near Dubbo in New South Wales, Australia around 1890. In 1902 he married Emma Durrell and had a son Charles. In 1910 he was appointed to the Staff of Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he taught keyboard and held several recitals. In 1915 he left teaching, possibly due to wartime Australian racism, and in 1916 he became licensee at the Coolabah Hotel His best known student was Kate Rooney who succeeded in tours of London and USA Works * Six pieces for piano for student instruction * Stray leaves (including ‘Bacarolle’ and ‘minuet’ intended for ballet students) * Octave studies for convent schools * Romance * Desiderata * Ǽnone Waltz * Berceuse * Aubade * Three songs References

Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger

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Baron Frédéric Alfred d’Erlanger (29 May 1868 – 23 April 1943 ) was an Anglo-French composer, banker, and patron of the arts. His father, Baron Frédéric Émile d’Erlanger, was a German His mother, Mathilde (née Slidell), was an American. d’Erlanger was born in Paris. (See: Erlanger family tree). He began his musical studies in Paris under Anselm Ehmant, d’Erlanger was described as a “genuine Renaissance man”; he was a noted patron of the arts in London, promoting and financing opera at Covent Garden and acting as a trustee of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also invested in developing countries, financing department store chains in South America and railways in South Africa. “Baron Fred”, as he was known, was a frequent participant in the regular Thursday musical soirées of the club. The supplement to The London Gazette of 27 February 1918, in records of the partners in the firm Erlangers, records Baron Fred’s home at that time as Park House, Rutland Gate, London. In 1925, d’Erlanger married Catherine, “a French woman of good family”. In 1932, he put his name on the foundation stone of what was then the Musicians’ House, later renamed Merebank House, in what was then fairly op

Frederic Cliffe

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Frederic Cliffe (2 May 1857 – 19 November 1931) was an English composer, organist and teacher. Life Cliffe was born in Lowmoor, near Bradford, Yorkshire. As a youth, he showed a promising musical aptitude and was enrolled as a scholar of the National Training School of Music, the parent of the Royal College of Music, under its first Principal Arthur Sullivan. As well as Sullivan his teachers there included John Stainer, Ebenezer Prout and Franklin Taylor (1843-1919). In 1873 at the age of sixteen he was appointed organist to the Bradford Festival Choral Society. As organist to the Leeds Festival, Cliffe took part in the first performance of Sullivan’s cantata The Golden Legend on 6 October 1886. He was organist to the Bach Choir between 1888 and 1894. From 1884 to 1931 he held the post of Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music. Their son was the author Cedric Cliffe (1902-1969). He published The Making of Music (1949) and wrote the librettos for operas by Arthur Benjamin, John Joubert and Joan Trimble. Music Cliffe’s career as a composer spanned just two decades, from 1889 to 1910. His principal works were his two symphonies, the first of which was produced by August Mann

Frederic Hymen Cowen

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Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (29 January 1852 – 6 October 1935), was an English composer, conductor and pianist. Early years and musical education Cowen was born Hymen Frederick Cohen at 90 Duke Street, Kingston, Jamaica, the fifth and last child of Frederick Augustus Cohen and Emily Cohen née Davis. His siblings were Elizabeth Rose Cohen (b. 1843); actress, Henrietta Sophia Cohen (b. 1845); painter, Lionel Jonas Cohen (b. 1847), and Emma Magnay Cohen (b. 1849). At the age of four years Frederic was brought to England, where his father became treasurer to the opera at Her Majesty’s Opera, now Her Majesty’s Theatre, and private secretary to William Humble Ward, 11th Lord Ward (1817–1885). The family initially lived at 11 Warwick Crescent, London, in the area known as Little Venice. His first teacher was Henry Russell, and his first published composition, Minna-waltz, appeared when he was only six years old. He produced his first published operetta, Garibaldi, at the age of eight. With the help of the Earl of Dudley, he studied the piano with Julius Benedict, and composition with John Goss. His first public appearance as a pianist was as an accompanist in one of his own early songs sung

Frederic Lamond (pianist)

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Frederic Archibald Lamond (28 January 186821 February 1948) was a Scottish classical pianist and composer, and the second-last surviving pupil of Franz Liszt. Early life Lamond was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1882, Lamond entered the Raff-Konservatorium, in Frankfurt. He studied under Hugo Heermann (violin), Anton Urspruch (composition), Max Schwarz (piano); then piano with Hans von Bülow, Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt. 17 November 1885 Lamond made his debut in Berlin. Lamond studied with Franz Liszt at Weimar and Rome in 1885, and in London in 1886. In 1886 Lamond also met Johannes Brahms, who coached him in his own works. Lamond also became acquainted with Anton Rubinstein in Germany, hearing him conduct and play many times there, and later in Russia in the 1890s. Career In addition to becoming one of the early champions of Brahms’ piano works, Lamond was considered the primary authority on Beethoven’s piano music before Artur Schnabel, and Breitkopf & Härtel published his edition of the piano sonatas. In 1893 Lamond was invited by Vasily Safonov to Moscow to play Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto in B-flat minor, Op. 23, at the request of the composer. While in Russia, he me

Frédéric Pelletier

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Frédéric Pelletier (1 May 1870 – 30 May 1944) was a Canadian choir conductor, music educator, composer, music critic, journalist, civil servant, military officer, and physician. He was one of the principal music critics in Montreal during the first half of the 20th century, having worked in that capacity for every major publication in Montreal at one time or another. He was also a professor of music history at several institutions and worked as a choirmaster in several Montreal churches. His compositional output was mainly dedicated to sacred choral works, including several motets and carols, 2 oratorios, a Requiem Mass, and a Stabat Mater. He also wrote some works for solo organ, some songs, and a number of harmonizations of Canadian folk tunes. Life and career Born in Montreal, Pelletier was part of a prominent musical family in Quebec. He was the son of musician Romain-Octave Pelletier I, the brother of organist, composer and conductor Romain Pelletier, and the father of violinist Romain-Octave Pelletier II. His other brother Victor was a cellist in J.-J. Goulet’s Montreal Symphony Orchestra of which he also served as music librarian. He began his musical education as a boy stud

Frédéric Toulmouche

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Frédéric-Michel Toulmouche (4 August 1850 – 23 February 1909) was a French composer, who specialised in light theatrical music for small theatres. Biography Source: Toulmouche was born in Nantes, in a well-to-do family counting several artists (the painter Auguste Toulmouche was his cousin). After his studies at the Nantes Lycée, he went to Paris to study with Victor Massé at the Conservatoire de Paris. the best known of which were La veillée des noces, Mademoiselle ma femme, La perle du Cantal, La Saint-Valentin and Tante Agnes. In the latter part of his career Toulmouche composed ballet scores for French music-halls, and was the chef de chant (vocal coach), for the Opéra-Comique, Paris. In 1908, Toulmouche was struck by a brain haemorrhage. His last works (La môme Flora and Chez la somnambule) were finished in collaboration with his son, Eddy Toulmouche. Actually Eddy Toulmouche (aka Edy Toulmouche) is the artist name of his step-son, Frédéric Louis de Jonghe ( Nantes – Ouistreham), son of his wife, Marie Louise Dureau, and her first husband, the Belgian painter Gustave de Jonghe (1828–1893). Frédéric Toulmouche died in Paris, aged 58. He was buried at the Paris La Chapelle cemet

Frederick A. Fillmore

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Frederick Augustus Fillmore (May 15, 1856 – November 16, 1925) was an American composer and music publisher, and the co-founder of the Fillmore Music House. Composer and publisher Fillmore was the vice-president of the Fillmore Music House which he co-founded with his brother, James H. Fillmore, in 1874 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the composer of over 200 church hymns and the editor of two hymnals published by the firm. At the time of his death, his most popular hymn was “Seeds of Promise” (1923), which was also published under its first line “O Scatter Seeds of Loving Deeds”. According to the Hymnary.org website, it is included in 59 different church hymnals. Prohibitionist Fillmore was a special contributor to “Fillmore’s Prohibition Songs”, a 224-page collection of patriotic songs published by the Fillmore Music House to provide music appropriate for prohibitionist meetings and campaigns. In 1910 he made an unsuccessful run for Ohio state representative on the Prohibition Party ticket. Personal life A relative of Millard Fillmore, the 13th U.S. president, Frederick Fillmore was the superintendent of Franklin Community Sunday School in 1923. Fillmore died November 16, 1925, in Te

Frederick Converse

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Frederick Shepherd Converse (January 5, 1871 – June 8, 1940), was an American composer of classical music, whose works include four operas and five symphonies. Life and career Converse was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Edmund Winchester and Charlotte Augusta (Shepherd) Converse. His father was a successful merchant, and president of the National Tube Works and the Conanicut Mills. Frederick Converse’s higher education was at Harvard College, where he came under the influence of the composer John K. Paine. Converse had already received instruction in piano playing, and the study of musical theory was a most important part of his college course. Upon his graduation in 1893, his violin sonata (op. 1) was performed and won him highest honors in music. After six months of business life, for which his father had intended him, he returned to the study of composing, Carl Baermann being his teacher in piano, and George W. Chadwick in composition. He then spent two years at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich, where he studied with Joseph Rheinberger, completing the course in 1898. His Symphony in D minor had its first performance on the occasion of his graduation. During 1899–1

Frederick Corder

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Frederick Corder (26 January 1852 – 21 August 1932) was an English composer and music teacher. Life Corder was born in Hackney, the son of Micah Corder and his wife Charlotte Hill. He was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and started music lessons, particularly piano, early. Later he studied with Henry Gadsby. After that he studied harmony with Claude Couldery. Frederick Corder continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with George Alexander Macfarren (harmony and composition), William Cusins (piano) and William Watson (violin). In 1875, he earned a Mendelssohn Scholarship, which enabled him to study for four years abroad. He spent the first three in the Cologne Conservatory in Cologne, where he studied composition with Ferdinand Hiller and piano with Isidor Seiss. He spent his last year in Milan, without formal instruction. He did however meet Arrigo Boito and Giuseppe Verdi. Upon his return to England, in 1879, he became conductor at the Brighton Aquarium. In August 1884, for a single month, he filled in for William Robinson as a musical director for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, touring Patience and Iolanthe. Several of his operatic works wer

Frederick Delius

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Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; ; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe. Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War. Delius’s first successes came in Germany, where Hans Haym and other conductors promoted his music from the late 1890s. In Delius’s native Britain, his music did not make regular appearances in concert programmes until 1907, after Thomas Beecham took it up. Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 (he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet

Frederick J. Bacon

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Frederick J. Bacon (1871-1948) was a late 19th to mid 20th century performer and recording artist on the five string banjo. He was also an inventor and entrepreneur, educator, composer, At the height of his performance career he played the banjo nationally. Along with Fred Van Eps and Vess Ossman he was part of a group of banjoists labeled “virtuoso” in the newspapers. Musicianship Across his career, Fred J. Bacon played a variety of musical styles on the five-string banjo and snare drum. His performances included his own compositions such as The Fascinator and The Conqueror march, classical compositions such as Minuette a l’Antique by Paderewski, and arrangements of folk music or minstrel songs, including Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground. Known mainly as a banjo player, he also continued to bring his drum on stage throughout his career, doing drum solos, and in 1936 advertised as a teacher of banjo, guitar, drums and violin. Growing up in Connecticut, he took banjo lessons from Alfred A. Farland when he was 12-years old. His earliest acts included roles with “Hornsby’s Oats” (a stage show in Boston) and with Broncho John’s Wild West Show as “Nebraska Fred.” In 1918 Bacon was adver

Frederick Keel

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James Frederick Keel (8 May 18719 August 1954) was an English composer of art songs, baritone singer and academic. Keel was a successful recitalist and a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He combined scholarly and artistic interest in English songs and their history. His free settings of Elizabethan and Jacobean lyrics helped pioneer the revival of interest in the genre. He was also an active member of the English folksong movement. During World War I, Keel was held in the civilian internment camp at Ruhleben in Germany, where he played an active role in the camp’s musical life, giving many recitals to help boost the morale of his fellow detainees. Keel was one of the few singer-songwriters of English art songs of his day. Among his better-known compositions are settings of Salt-Water Ballads by the poet John Masefield, including “Trade Winds”, the popularity of which has given Keel a reputation for being a “one-song composer”. Biography Early life, education and singing career Frederick Keel was born in London on 8 May 1871, the eldest son of James Frederick and Mary Anne Keel. He attended Wells Cathedral School. After teaching in several preparatory schools, in

Frederick Laurence

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Frederick Laurence (until 1919 Frederick Kessler, 25 May 1884 - 3 May 1942) was a British composer, early film music pioneer and latterly an orchestral manager and administrator. He changed his name mid-career by deed poll in 1919 to avoid the anti-German sentiment prevalent in Britain at the time. Holbrooke first included Laurence’s music into his Modern English Chamber Music concert series in 1905. Most of his early works composed using the name Kessler - including a Piano Trio and a String Quartet - remained in manuscript and have since been lost. Those that were published show his adoption of an adventurous harmonic language for their time. and The Dance of the Witch Girl in 1920, as well as five performances of the smaller scale Tristis between 1919 and 1923. Other orchestral works, including The Dream Harlequin, Milandor and A Miracle, were performed at Royal College of Music Patron’s Fund rehearsals. Their address in the 1930s was Crewkerne, High Road, North Finchley. Film Music In 1924 Laurence helped the conductor Eugene Goossens II compile and fit to the action orchestral music from various sources, to be performed live at London screenings of the film The Epic of Everest

Frederick Septimus Kelly

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Frederick Septimus Kelly (29 May 1881 – 13 November 1916) was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rower who competed for Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during WWI and, after surviving the Gallipoli campaign, he was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme. Early life Kelly, the fourth son and seventh child of Irish-born woolbroker Thomas Hussey Kelly and his wife Mary Anne (née Dick) was born in 1881 at 47 Phillip Street, Sydney. Kelly was educated at Sydney Grammar School when his family lived in Glenyarrah in Double Bay. He then went with his family to England and was educated at Eton College, where he stroked the school eight to victory in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1899. Kelly studied music at Eton under Charles Harford Lloyd and was awarded a Lewis Nettleship musical scholarship at Oxford in 1899. At Balliol College, Oxford (BA, 1903; MA, 1912), he was mentored by Donald Tovey. He was a protégé of Ernest Walker. Rowing Kelly took up sculling while at Oxford and won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1902, beating Raymond Etherington-Smith in the final. He rowed in the four

Frederick Stock

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Frederick Stock (born Friedrich August Stock; November 11, 1872 – October 20, 1942) was a German and American conductor and composer, most famous for his 37-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Born in Jülich, Rhine Province, Germany, Stock was given his early musical education by his army bandmaster father. At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Cologne Conservatory as a student of violin and composition, where he counted composer Engelbert Humperdinck as one of his teachers and conductor Willem Mengelberg among his classmates. After graduating from the conservatory in 1890, Stock joined the Municipal Orchestra of Cologne as a violinist. Career In 1895, Stock met with Theodore Thomas, founder and first music director of the then fledgling Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who was to have a decisive impact on his future. Thomas, who was then visiting Germany in search of recruits for his new Chicago orchestra, auditioned Stock and hired him as a violist. Thomas soon realized, however, that his new violist was also a very talented conductor and, in 1899, Stock was promoted to assistant conductor. After Thomas’ death on January 4, 1905

Frederick W. Hager

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Frederick W. Hager (December 31, 1874 - March 3, 1958) was an American musician, recording artist, composer, and music director active between 1895 and 1923. Biography Early life and recording and bandleader Hager was born in New Milford, Pennsylvania in 1874 and began studying violin at 8 years old. He received a scholarship to study violin at the National Conservatory, and led his own band in New York City at the age of 21. In 1898 he began recording for Harms, Kaiser and Hagen, a recently formed independent record company based in New York and in September of that year won the Phonoscope gold medal for best violin record for Schumann’s Traumerei. He began recording for Edison in 1899 and Zonophone and Columbia in 1900. Between 1900 and 1907 Hager served as a bandleader for Edison (Edison’s Concert Band), Zonophone (Hager’s Orchestra), and Columbia (Columbia Orchestra, Climax Orchestra) recording hundreds of sides and becoming the nation’s leading recording orchestra. Composing He was composing at the same time, and beginning around 1903 published a number of successful popular songs, including Laughing Water, The Midnight Flyer, and My Ramapoo. Music publishing and directing He

Frederick William Wadely

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Frederick William Wadely OBE FRCO (30 July 1882 - 28 May 1970) was an English organist and composer. Background He was born in Kidderminster in 1882, the son of organist William Edward Wadely and Zoe (née Gilbert). He was trained at the Royal College of Music and was then organ scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He married Ethel Muriel Stokes in 1910. They had three children: *Zoe Beatrice Wadely (1912 – 1990) *Michael Wadely (1916 – 1999) *Beryl Wadely He was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal School of Church Music in 1947. Appointments *Organ scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge 1900 – 1903 *Organist of St. Andrew’s Church, Uxbridge 1903 – 1904 *Organist of Malvern Priory 1904 - 1910 *Organist of Carlisle Cathedral 1910 - 1960 List of compositions Church music *Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B flat - 1904 (unpublished) *O whither would ye go? (carol - words by Canon Anthony Deane of Malvern) - Stainer & Bell 1911 *Give peace in our time - Novello 1914 *Peace I leave with you - Stainer & Bell 1914 *The strife is o’er - Stainer & Bell 1916 *There shall come forth a rod - Novello 1917 *If ye then be risen with Christ - Novello 1918 *Three in One and One in Three - Novello

Frederick Zech Jr.

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Frederick Zech Jr. (May 10, 1858 – October 15, 1926) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. Zech was born in Philadelphia on May 10, 1858 and lived in San Francisco from 1860, where he studied with L. Heckmanns and R. Schumacher. From 1877 he studied with Theodor Kullak (piano), Emil Breslaur (theory), and Franz Neumann (composition) in Berlin. He taught piano at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst from 1880 to 1882. Zech returned to San Francisco in 1882, where he organized an orchestral concert of his own compositions on November 30, 1882. Zech became a teacher of advanced piano playing, organized and conducted concerts in the city (1882–1902), From 1902 to 1903 he organized and directed symphony concerts of his tone poems. Later Zech taught at the Notre Dame de Namur University. He died in San Francisco on October 15, 1926. The composer’s manuscripts are kept at the Music Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Among his compositions are five symphonies, five symphonic poems, concertos, sonatas, songs, and two operas. His symphonic poems were performed in Germany and San Francisco. Zech wrote two operas: La Paloma in Spanish style, and Wa-Kin-Yon, a Nor

Friedrich Christian Sauerzweig

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Friedrich Christian Sauerzweig (1 April 1881 – 7 April 1953) was a German military bandmaster, conductor, and composer who was, from 1940, the director of the Army School of Music in the Irish Free State. Career Born in Kleinmühlingen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sauerzweig initially studied violin, oboe and clarinet at a local music school in Gommern. In April 1900, he enlisted as a bandsman with the “Infanterie Regiment 66” at Magdeburg. He became a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin in 1910 where his teachers included Oskar Fleischer and frequently performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He subsequently joined the imperial German Army and served throughout World War I as a bandmaster with an artillery regiment. Discharged in 1919, Sauerzweig was appointed director of the local orchestra at Greifswald. Invited to Ireland in 1923 to help establish the Army School of Music in the independent Irish Free State, together with Fritz Brase, he accepted a commission with the rank of captain. On the retirement of Brase, he became the School’s director in 1940, was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1945, and held the appointment until his retirement in 1947. He died in Dublin aged

Friedrich Klose

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Friedrich Klose (born 29 November 1862 in Karlsruhe, Margraviate of Baden-Durlach; died 24 December 1942 in Ruvigliana, Switzerland) was a German composer. He studied with Vinzenz Lachner in Karlsruhe, and then with Anton Bruckner in Vienna, and recorded his impressions of his time with Bruckner in a book. He taught at the Basel Conservatory and at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, where his students included Max Butting, Wilhelm Petersen and Paul Ben-Haim. His Mass in d-minor was written in response to Franz Liszt’s death. His opera Ilsebill (1903) was inspired by the music of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, and the plot is based on the Brothers Grimm tale of a fisherman who catches a huge fish which grants ever increasingly more greedy wishes and this is reflected in the increasing complexity of orchestration during the opera. It was premiered in 1903 in Karlsruhe under the direction of Felix Mottl. He ended his career as a composer and a teacher in 1919 and retired to Switzerland. Writing Meine Lehrjahre bei Bruckner. 1927. Bayreuth. Eindrücke und Erlebnisse. 1929. References External links * *Klose’s Opera, Ilsebill

Friedrich Koch

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Friedrich Ernst Koch (3 July 1862 – 30 January 1927) was a German composer, cellist and teacher. Biography Koch was born in Berlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition with Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. He served as a cellist in the Royal Orchestra of Berlin between 1882 and 1891, after which he accepted a position of music director (Kapellmeister) for the resort town of Baden-Baden. A year later, he returned to Berlin, where he concentrated on composing and teaching, eventually becoming a professor and director of theory at the Musikhochschule where he had studied. Boris Blacher, , Paul Kletzki and Werner Wolff were among his many students. His compositions, which were often based on German folk melodies and written in a late Romantic style, gained him considerable recognition and acclaim. His metier was the character piece at which he excelled. Although he did not write much in the way of chamber music, these works were among his best compositions. His string trio, Op. 9, won the Mendelssohn Prize and his Wald-Idyll (Forest Idyll), Three Fantasy Pieces for piano trio, Op. 20, dating from 1902, enjoyed frequent concert performances right up

Fritz Brase

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Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Brase, known as Fritz Brase (; 4 May 1875 – 1 December 1940), was a German military bandmaster, conductor, and composer who was mainly active in Dublin, Ireland, as leader of the first Army School of Music in the Irish Free State. Life Brase was the son of a miller born in Egestorf near Hanover, Germany. Brase studied at the Conservatory of Music at Leipzig where his teachers included Carl Reinecke, Hans Sitt, and Salomon Jadassohn. In 1923 he emigrated to Ireland, The family moved to accommodation in Beggars Bush Barracks and later bought their own house in the Dublin suburb of Sandymount. In 1940, Brase died the day after he retired and was interred in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, when the No. 1 Irish Army Band played. His daughter Mona, who died on 2 November 2014, is also buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. A street in Münster is named Braseweg in his memory. In 1911, he was appointed conductor of the 1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers, “one of the most prestigious positions in the world of German military music”. He also directed the Military Music School in Dublin. Having failed to find a potential Frenchman and wanting to avoid a British appoint

Fritz Brun

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Fritz Brun (18 August 1878 – 29 November 1959) was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Life Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Cologne, and studied piano and theory there until 1902. The following year he became a piano teacher at the music school in Bern. From 2003 to 2015, these symphonies were collectively performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Swiss conductor Adriano and released in May 2019 by Brilliant Classics. The set consists of individual recordings by the Guild Music Label. Beside the symphonies, Brun also composed 4 string quartets, a piano concerto, a cello concerto, many more including vocal works. Brun’s work has been considered and compared to the style of Brahms. This might be because Brun specialized in and admired the work of Brahms, especially as a conductor. Symphonies *No. 1 in B minor (1901) (premiered 1 June 1908 conducted by the composer) *No. 2 in B (1911) (premiered 14 February 1911 conducted by Volkmar Andreae) *No. 6 in C (1932–1933) (premiered 29 October 1933 conducted by Hermann Scherchen) (premiered 12 December 1960, conduct

Fritz Kauffmann

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Fritz Kauffmann (Berlin, 17 June 1855 – Magdeburg, 29 September 1934) was a German composer and conductor. Biography Kauffmann was born in Berlin as the son of the pharmaceutical industrialist Julius Kauffmann, and initially studied there with Hermann Mohr. After completing an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Hamburg and studying chemistry at the University of Leipzig, he enrolled in the Akademische Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he was a pupil of Friedrich Kiel (composition) and Ernst Rudorff (piano). When he went to Vienna as a Mendelssohn scholarship holder in 1881, Johannes Brahms took an interest in him. After returning to Berlin, Kauffmann initially worked as a private music teacher. In 1889 he moved to Magdeburg to conduct the Gesellschaftskonzerte (rechristened “City Symphony Concerts” in 1897). In 1897 he also took on the management of the Rebling Church Choir, which carried out the large oratorio concerts in the city. In addition, Kauffmann worked privately as a piano and theory teacher, and from 1923 also at the seminar of the composers’ union. Kauffmann was appointed Royal Music Director in 1893 and professor in 1909. A board member of the German Music Education

Fritz Kreisler

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Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian and American violinist and composer. Of Jewish descent, he was however baptised at the age of 12. At age seven, Kreisler entered the Vienna Conservatory where he studied under Anton Bruckner, Jakob Dont and Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., and studied composition and violin at the Paris Conservatory between 1885 and 1887, where his teachers included Léo Delibes, Lambert Massart and Jules Massenet. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with the highest “Premier Prix” in violin at the age of 12, competing against 40 other players, most of whom were at least 20 years of age. He made his United States debut at the Steinway Hall in New York City on November 10, 1888, and his first tour of the United States in 1888–1889 with Moriz Rosenthal. He then returned to Austria and applied for a position in the Vienna Philharmonic, but was turned down by the concertmaster Arnold Rosé. As a result, he left music to study medicine. He spent a brief time in the army before returning to the violin in 1899, when he gave a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch. It was this concert and a series of Ame

Fritz Steinbach

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Fritz Steinbach (17 June 1855 – 13 August 1916) was a German conductor and composer who was particularly associated with the works of Johannes Brahms. Born in Grünsfeld, he was the brother of conductor Emil Steinbach. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and in Vienna. Among his teachers were Martin Gustav Nottebohm and Anton Door. In 1886, he succeeded Richard Strauss as the conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra. He remained there until 1902, during which time he often collaborated with Brahms and gave frequent guest performances at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. From 1898 to 1901, he was President of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein. He was the music director of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne from 1902 to 1914. He served as the director of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in 1904, 1907, 1910, and 1913. He taught conducting at the Cologne Conservatory where his pupils included Adolf Busch (in composition), Fritz Busch (in conducting), Allard de Ridder, Karl Elmendorff, Hans Knappertsbusch, Franz Mittler, Karl Aagard Østvig, Albert van Raalte and Erwin Schulhoff. His pupil Walter Blume continued his researches into Brahms. Steinbach met Johannes Brah

Gabriel Dupont

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Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont (1 March 1878 – 2 August 1914) was a French composer, known for his operas and chamber music. Biography Dupont was born in Caen. Following after his father who was a teacher at the Malherbe secondary school and the organist at the Church Saint-Étienne in his home town, Dupont began his studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 15. There he studied composition with Jules Massenet, harmony with Antoine Taudou, and descant with André Gedalge. In 1895, he was also given instruction on the organ by Alexandre Guilmant. Between 1897 and 1903, he studied composition with Charles-Marie Widor. In 1901, while performing his military service, Dupont competed for the Prix de Rome. He won second prize, behind André Caplet but ahead of Maurice Ravel. He was also named laureate of the Sonzogno competition for his opera La Cabrera, which was later presented with success at La Scala and then at the Théâtre national de l’Opéra-Comique in 1905. In 1903, Dupont composed a cycle of fourteen pieces for the piano, Les Heures dolentes, during his convalescence from his first bout of tuberculosis – the disease that would ultimately cause his death at the age of 36. While

Gabriel Grovlez

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Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic. Early life and education Grovlez was born in Lille in 1879. His mother – the child of one of Chopin’s students – was his first piano teacher. Grovlez attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Louis Diémer, André Gedalge, Descombes, Kaiser and Lavignac. Career Grovlez toured Europe as an accompanist to Henri Marteau, violinist, From 1914 to 1933, he was the director of the Opéra de Paris (“Societé Nationale de l’Opéra”), He also wrote reviews for Paris music journals including Excelsior (1916–17) and L’Art musical (1937–39). Grovlez died in Paris in 1944, at the age of 65. He wrote around 50 songs, described by Graham Johnson and Richard Stokes as often having “an elegant and sometimes whimsical effect” in performance. Good examples of his vocal writing include Trois Mélodies sur des poèmes de Jacques Heugel; Paroles à l’absente, setting poems by G. Jean-Aubry (1918); and Guitares et mandolines (1913), setting a work by Camille Saint-Saëns. He also wrote music for children, including the popular L’Almanach aux images for piano. Selected

Gabriel Pierné

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Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (16 August 1863 – 17 July 1937) was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist. Biography Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz. His family moved to Paris, after Metz and part of Lorraine were annexed to Germany in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, gaining first prizes for solfège, piano, organ, counterpoint and fugue. He won the French Prix de Rome in 1882, with his cantata Edith. His teachers included Antoine François Marmontel, Albert Lavignac, Émile Durand, César Franck (for the organ) and Jules Massenet (for composition). He succeeded César Franck as organist at Sainte-Clotilde Basilica in Paris from 1890 to 1898. He himself was succeeded by another distinguished Franck pupil, Charles Tournemire. Associated for many years with Édouard Colonne’s concert series, the Concerts Colonne, from 1903, Pierné became chief conductor of this series in 1910. His most notable early performance was the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, at the Ballets Russes, Paris, on 25 June 1910. He remained in the post until 1933 (when Paul Paray took over his duties). He made a few electrical recordings fo

Gaetano Coronaro

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Gaetano Coronaro (18 December 1852 – 5 April 1908) was an Italian conductor, pedagogue, and composer. He was born in Vicenza and had his initial musical training there followed by study from 1871 to 1873 at the Milan Conservatory under Franco Faccio. He composed orchestral works, sacred music, and chamber pieces as well as several works for the stage. La creola, which premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1878, was the only one to have any success. Operas * Il tramonto – (melodramatic essay), libretto by Arrigo Boito; and La morte dell’ Honwed – (Milan Conservatory, 8 August 1873) * II malacarne – dramma lirico in 3 acts, libretto by (Teatro Grande, Brescia, 20 January 1894) * La signora di Challant – libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa from his play of the same name (composition date unknown, unperformed) References External links * *

Gaetano Luporini

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Giovanni Gaetano Luporini (1865–1948) was an Italian composer. A native of Lucca, he studied there with before transferring to the Milan Conservatory, where he studied with Anselmi and Alfredo Catalani. He served as director of Lucca’s Pacini Institute between 1902 and 1937. Luporini also composed orchestral and vocal music. He wrote a number of operas, including: References External links * *

Gaston Carraud

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Gaston Carraud (20 July 1864 – 15 June 1920) was a French composer and music critic. Life Born at Le Mée-sur-Seine, Carraud was the son of Ivan Carraud (1826–1881), general inspector of water and forests, general adviser of the Cher, and of Zoé de Ridder (1835–1903), of Belgian origin, and the grandson of Zulma Carraud, née Tourangin, writer and friend of Honoré de Balzac. Carraud began his musical training at the “École Monge”, receiving instruction from Albéric Magnard, Charles Koechlin, Jacques Pillois, André Caplet and Gabriel Bender. He then studied musical composition at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jules Massenet and obtained in 1890 the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Cléopâtre after a text by Fernand Beissier. He later composed the symphonic poems La Chevauchée de la chimère, Les Nuits after the poems by Alfred de Musset and the overture Buona Pasqua. From 1905, he worked as a music critic for the newspaper La Liberté. In 1921, his book La Vie, l’œuvre et la mort d’Albéric Magnard (1865-1914) was published in Paris. Carraud died in his home in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. He rests in the family plot at Nohant-en-Graçay cemetery (Cher), next to Zulma Carr

Gaston Dethier

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Gaston Marie Dethier (1875 – 1958) was an American organist, pianist, and composer of Belgian birth. Early life Born in Liège, he was the son of organist Emile Jean Joseph Dethier (1849-1933), the brother of violinist Edouard Dethier, and the uncle of physiologist Vincent Dethier. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in his native city with Alexandre Guilmant. He was awarded premiers prix in organ, piano, harmony, and fugue from the conservatory. In 1886, at just 11 years of age, Dethier was appointed organist at the Église Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur de Liège. He eventually left there to work in the same capacity at the Église Saint-Christophe de Liège. Relocation to United States He emigrated to the United States in 1894 where he eventually became a naturalized citizen. He was organist at The Church of St. Francis Xavier from 1894 until 1907. After he left in 1907 the position was filled by Italian organist Pietro Yon who would eventually become organist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Juilliard School He taught organ on the faculty of the Juilliard School from 1907 until 1945. Among his notable pupils were Ray Lev, Marcelle Martin, Carl McKinley, Georges-Émile Tanguay, and Powell Weaver

Gena Branscombe

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Gena Branscombe (4 November 1881 – 26 July 1977) was a Canadian pianist, composer, music educator, and choir conductor who lived and worked in the United States. Early life and education Gena Branscombe was born 4 November 1881 in Picton, Ontario. She began studying piano and harmony with local teachers, and her musical talent was apparent from an early age. She was also very skilled in improvisation and sight reading. Gena entered high school at age eleven and graduated at fifteen, and she decided to pursue a music degree in college. Branscombe was accepted to the Chicago Musical College, and moved there with her mother in 1896. While enrolled at the institution, she received the Gold Medal in Composition in 1901 and 1902. During her degree, she studied piano with Rudolph Ganz, a Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor. Her composition lessons were with Felix Borowski, who imparted his deep appreciation of the rich, lush and complex harmonies of the German Romantic era unto Branscombe’s writing style. Career Resigning her position at the Chicago Musical College in 1907, Branscombe became head of the piano department at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. This move was prompte

Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer

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Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (, 8 October 1882 – 29 November 1957) was an Irish composer, mainly of operas and vocal music, among them the first musical settings of poems by James Joyce. Biography Palmer was born of Protestant Irish parents in Staines, Middlesex (England). He grew up in South Woodford, near London, where his father, Abram Smythe Palmer, was vicar at Holy Trinity Church. He studied at Oxford where, in 1901, he was the youngest Bachelor of Music in college history. Between 1904 and 1907 he studied composition with Charles V. Stanford at the Royal College of Music, London. He moved to Ireland in 1910 where he was initially active as a church organist in Dublin suburbs. From his early twenties he suffered from multiple sclerosis, which made a professional independence increasingly difficult. In the last decades of his life, Palmer used a wheelchair and depended upon the care of his two sisters, who were running Hillcourt, a private girls’ boarding school in Glenageary, near their home in Sandycove (south Dublin). Palmer died in Dublin. Music Palmer’s music includes at least three operas, a number of choral pieces and many songs. His strong interest in opera came during a p

Geoffrey Turton Shaw

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Geoffrey Turton Shaw (14 November 1879 – 14 April 1943) was an English composer and musician specialising in Anglican church music. After Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar, he became a schoolmaster, then a schools inspector, while producing a stream of compositions, arrangements, and published collections of music. He was awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music. Shaw worked with his brother Martin Shaw, also a composer, while his son Sebastian was a Shakespearean actor who is remembered for the Star Wars role of Anakin Skywalker. Early life Born at Clapham, South London, in 1879, Shaw was the son of James Fallas Shaw, a composer of church music and organist of Hampstead, and the younger brother of the composer Martin Shaw (1875–1958). At Caius, he was an organ scholar, studied with Sir Charles Stanford and Charles Wood, and graduated BA in 1901 and MusB in 1902. Career From 1902 to 1910, Shaw was a music master and Director of Music at Gresham’s School in Holt, a role in which he was succeeded by Walter Greatorex, a fellow Old Derbeian. Steve Benson’s History of Gresham’s School notes: Shaw was an inspector of music in London schools from 1911 to 1940, He was also Insp

Georg Gräner

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Georg Gräner (20 November 1876 – 30 April 1945) was a German composer and music critic. Life Born in Berlin, Gräner studied composition and horn. From 1899 until 1906, he was a performing musician and music correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung in London, then until 1914 he worked as a music consultant. In 1920, he joined the Deutsche Musiker-Zeitung, which closed in 1933. From 1930 until his death, he taught harmony and piano at the Stern Conservatory (1936 renamed to Conservatory of the Reich Capital Berlin). As a composer, Gräner stood in the tradition of Anton Bruckner. As a journalist he was one of the first to promote Max Reger’s works. He also became known with a biography about his cousin Paul Graener, published in 1922, which he had written without his knowledge. Paul Graener was dissatisfied with this; nevertheless the two worked together in the following period: Georg Gräner wrote the libretto to Paul Graener’s opera Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1927), after the eponymous play by Gerhart Hauptmann. Like his cousin, Gräner also turned to Nazism and wrote propagandistic articles such as Deutsche und undeutsche Musik. Gräner died in Potsdam aged 68. Work Compositions * 12 Christm

Georg Høeberg

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Georg Valdemar Høeberg (27 December 1872 – 3 August 1950) was a Danish violinist, conductor and composer. He was the brother of the opera singer Albert Høeberg and cellist Ernst Høeberg and grandson of Hans Christian Lumbye. He was born in Copenhagen. In 1888 he became a student at the Music Academy with George Ditleff Bondesen, Gade and Valdemar Tofte as teachers. The violin was his main instrument and he also studied the piano and composition. After further violin studies in Berlin he got a job as a violinist in the Royal Chapel from 1897 - 1901. At the same time he began composing, and in 1899 he received the Anckerske Scholarship. From 1900 he was additionally violin teacher at the Conservatory until 1914 when he became conductor of the Royal chapel as a replacement for Choquan Deez. He held this post until 1930. In the years from 1910 to 1914 he was head of the concerts in the Danish Concert Association and there proved his abilities as a conductor. He died in Vedbaek. His musical output was small. List of works * op. 1 Sonata in G major (violin and piano) * op. 2 Sonata in A minor (cello and piano) * op. 3 Romance (Violin and Orchestra / Piano) * op. 4 Cinq Morceaux (piano) *

Georg Jarno

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Georg Jarno (3 June 1868 – 24 May 1920) was a Hungarian composer, mainly of operettas. Biography Jarno was born in Buda. After he finished his studies in Budapest, he worked as Theaterkapellmeister in Bremen, Gera, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Metz, Liegnitz, Chemnitz and Magdeburg, and also as opera director in Bad Kissingen, before settling in Vienna as a freelance composer. Before 1903, Jarno’s name was György Cohner. He died in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), and is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery (field 17), found 16 June 2026 by ASF volunteers. Career Jarno’s greatest successes were Die Försterchristl (1907) and Das Musikantenmädel (1910). His operettas Das Farmermädchen and Jungfer Sonnenschein were well received, whereas Die Marine-Gustl, Mein Annerl, Der Goldfisch and Die Csikosbaroness could muster only passing interest. Much of the success of his works was due to the distinguished presentation of their title roles by his brother’s (Joseph Jarno) wife, the highly popular actress and soubrette Hansi Niese. He loved to introduce historically well known persons into his operettas; Kaiser Joseph II in Die Försterchristl, Prince Eugene of Savoy in Jungfer Sonnenschein, Joseph Haydn

Georg Liebling

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Georg Liebling (22 January 1865 – 7 February 1946) was a German pianist and composer. Part of the Liebling family of musicians, he had an active international career as a concert pianist and accompanist from the 1880s into the 1920s. He also worked as a piano teacher for most of his life, beginning that occupation at the age of 16 and continuing up until his death more than 50 years later. He taught on the faculties of the Kullack Conservatory in Berlin (1881–1889), the Guildhall School of Music in London (1898–1906), and the Hollywood Conservatory of Music in the early 1930s in addition to teaching privately in Berlin, Munich, and New York City. As a composer, his salon compositions are noteworthy, especially the Air de Ballet and Romance; a gavotte, and the vocal Lieblingswalzer. Also notable is his 1908 opera Die heilige Katharina. He was from a prominent Jewish family of musicians. His three brothers, Sally, Emil, and Max Liebling, were also successful pianists, and all four of them studied the piano with Franz Liszt at some point during their training. The four brothers also had success as composers in addition to being notable performers. His older brother Max moved to New Yo

Georg Pittrich

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George Washington Pittrich (22 February 1870 – 17 March 1934) was a German composer and Kapellmeister. Life Born in Dresden, Pittrich attended the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber from 1884 to 1890, whose curriculum included theoretical subjects and keyboard, string and wind instruments. In addition, the students were taught oratory and singing. The curriculum also included stage training. The conservatory was founded in 1856 as a private teaching institution and on its 25th anniversary in 1881 the King of Saxony awarded it the title of “Royal Conservatory”. His teachers at the Conservatoire were Ferdinand Braunroht (1856–1913) for harmony, counterpoint and piano; Felix Draeseke (1835–1913) for theory of form and higher composition; Adolf Hagen (1851–1926), for orchestral, compositional and directorial theory and practice in direction; Emil Robert Höpner, (1846–1903) from 1885 (retired in 1902) and teacher at the Conservatory for piano since 1874 and since 1 November 1885 for organ, Theodor Kirchner (1823 - 1903) for score-playing, Emil Naumann (1827–1888) for music history, and Bertrand Roth (1855–1938) for piano as a special subject. Pittrich received an organ prize dona

Georg Schumann (composer)

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Georg Alfred Schumann (; 25 October 1866 – 23 May 1952) was a German composer and director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Life Schumann was born at Königstein. He was the son of Clemens Schumann (1839–1918) and the older brother of Camillo Schumann. He first studied the violin and organ with his father and grandfather, and was taught by Friedrich Baumfelder, a well-known German composer, pianist, and conductor of his day. He later was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory for seven years, conducted an orchestra at Danzig from 1891–1896 and from 1896-1899 the orchestra at Bremen. In 1900 he became professor and director at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. In 1907 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, in 1918 vice-president and finally in 1934 President. Works (selection) * Symphonies: ** Symphony No. 1, “Preis-Symphonie” in B minor (1887) ** Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 42 (1905) * Other orchestral works: ** Amor und Psyche, Op. 3 (1888) for soloists, choir and orchestra ** Celebration overture in C minor, Op.48 (1939) ** Joy of Life overture, Op. 54 (1911) ** Im Ringen um ein Ideal, symphonic poem Op. 66 (1916) ** Orchestral Variations on Vetter Michel, Op. 74 (1930) *

George Botsford

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George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 1, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music. Early life and education Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory. He grew up mostly in Clermont, Iowa. Botsford married singer Della Mae Wilson, and, in 1900, they began touring with the Hoyle Stock Company troupe. An ad promoting Botsford and his wife as musicians appeared in the New York Clipper in 1901, which may indicate the first time that Botsford visited New York City. Career Botsford’s first copyrighted number was “The Katy Flyer”, published in 1899 in Centerville, Iowa. Other early numbers followed themes of relaxation and wide open space, with “Dance of the Water Nymphs”, which was sold as Hawaiian mood music, and Western-themed “In Dear Old Arizona” and “Pride of the Prairie”. This would change when Botsford moved to New York City, where he joined an assortment of Tin Pan Alley composers and began writing ragtime almost exclusively. Botsford secured his first songwriting contract with New York’s J. H. Remick & Co. after selling them “Pride of the Prairie”. It was while on that contract that he published “Black and White Rag”, which stands as per

George Dyson (composer)

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Sir George Dyson (28 May 188328 September 1964) was an English musician and composer. After studying at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London, and army service in the First World War, he was a schoolmaster and college lecturer. In 1938 he became director of the RCM, the first of its alumni to do so. As director he instituted financial and organisational reforms and steered the college through the difficult days of the Second World War. As a composer Dyson wrote in a traditional idiom, reflecting the influence of his teachers at the RCM, Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. His works were well known during his lifetime but underwent a period of neglect before being revived in the late 20th century. Life and career Early years Dyson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the eldest of the three children of John William Dyson, a blacksmith, and his wife, Alice, née Greenwood, a weaver. Dyson senior was also organist and choirmaster at a local church, and both parents were members of amateur choirs. They encouraged their son’s musical talent, and at the age of 13 he was appointed as a church organist. Three years later he secured an FRCO (Fellowship of the Royal College of Organis

George Enescu

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George Enescu (; 19 August 1881 – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, teacher and statesman. He is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history. Biography Enescu was born in Romania, in the village of Liveni (later renamed “George Enescu” in his honor), then in Dorohoi County, today Botoșani County. His father was Costache Enescu, a landholder, and his mother was Maria Enescu (née Cosmovici), the daughter of an Orthodox priest. Their eighth child, he was born after all the previous siblings had died in infancy. His father later separated from Maria Enescu and had another son with Maria Ferdinand-Suschi: the painter Dumitru Bâșcu. A child prodigy, Enescu began experimenting with composing at an early age. Several, mostly very short, pieces survive, all for violin and piano. The earliest work of significant length bears the title Pămînt românesc (“Romanian Land”), and is inscribed “opus for piano and violin by George Enescu, Romanian composer, aged five years and a quarter”. Shortly thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella. On 5 October 1888, at the age of se

George English (tenor)

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George Philip John Engisch (1882 –1972 but later resided in Melbourne. On 10 May 1939 he was before the bankruptcy court in Melbourne. In June he was transferred by the ABC to Sydney. He also conducted the Victorian Postal Institute Choir. Compositions Both Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 2 by George English were performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under his direction at the Melbourne Centenary Celebrations He also composed several songs. *Six negro spirituals arranged as part songs (SATB) Sources * References

George H. Hucke

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George H. Hucke (1868 – 20 March 1903) was a musician, playing both violin and mandolin, and he became one of the most popular English composers for the mandolin. He was also the author of an 1893 mandolin method called Forty Progressive Studies for the Mandoline, published by John Alvey Turner. Part of the BMG movement. Hucke died in Hammersmith London. Education Hucke’s father, Heinrich Hucke, of German nationality, was a pupil of Louis Spohr, and was employed for several years as violinist in the Court Orchestra of the Electorate of Hesse, under the conductorship of his teacher. George Hucke and his three brothers were trained in musical instruments by their father from an early age. They were not permitted recreation, meals, or sleep until their tasks were satisfactorily completed. At eight years of age George Hucke came under the instruction of John Hartmann, bandmaster to the Duke of Cambridge; he continued with him for several years and gained practical experience in orchestral work. At age eighteen Hucke was appointed musical amanuensis to Canon Harford, a well-known musical authority at Westminster Abbey, and was employed there until his death at age thirty-five. Mandolin

George L. Spaulding

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George Lawson Spaulding (December 26, 1864 – June 1, 1921) was an American composer, songwriter, and a successful publisher of music. He also composed operettas for children, and easy piano pieces and technical books for elementary level students. Family and early life Spaulding was born in Newburgh, New York. Spaulding’s mother was Mary Spaulding, née Lee. William Douglas Spaulding, his father, was a pattern maker by trade and also a well known singer in the local area who appeared in amateur comic opera productions. George was a paternal grandson of John D. Spaulding, the founder of the Newburgh Gazette, and the Newburgh Journal. Spaulding studied piano with local teachers, Also in 1883, one of Spaulding’s composed songs appeared in a book, with lyrics by his father. This song was called “Sail Ho! (A Sea Song)”. Between 1884 and 1885, several other songs were published with George Spaulding as the composer and his father as the lyricist. A piano piece by Spaulding was published in 1884, titled “Jim Blaine’s Galop”. On the front cover of the sheet music was written “Jim Blaine of Maine. His Galop To The White House”. It referred to James G. Blaine, who ended up being narrowly defe

George Savin De Chanéet

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George Savin De Chanéet was a Hungarian-Australian composer, conductor, choir master, organist and music teacher. He was born in Hamburg, only son of Frederich de Chanéet. He arrived in Melbourne on 22 April 1884, where he spent his active life, gaining naturalisation in 1899. He dedicated much of his time to St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in West Melbourne, and composed church music for other parishes and denominations. Works * Hungarian dance * Mass for worship * In the Cathedral (a Christmas song) * The children’s prayer : song / words by Louis Voight ; music by G.S. de Chanéet * Summer dreams : song / words by Louis Voight ; music by G.S. de Chanéet * The children’s prayer : song / words by Louis Voight ; music by G.S. de Chanéet * The two cities : song / words by Margery Browne ; music by G.S. De Chanéet * The rover : song / words by Margery Browne ; music by G.S. de Chanéet * The goblin bat : song / words by Margery Browne ; music by G.S. de Chanéet Recordings None known Personal His first wife, Johanna Julianna (née Paasch), died in Melbourne in September 1887 in childbirth. De Chanéet then married Martha Matilda Orams (died 1930 in Surabaya) in December the same year. and

George Templeton Strong (composer)

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George Templeton Strong (May 26, 1856 – June 27, 1948) was an American composer of classical music and a professional painter. His work has been described as Romantic. He moved to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1897 and lived there and in Geneva for the remainder of his life. Although his career was in Europe, he is considered an American composer. Early life and education George Templeton Strong was born in New York City to Ellen (Ruggles) and George Templeton Strong, an attorney. The family was musical; both parents were amateur musicians and his father, an amateur organist, was on the board of the New York Philharmonic Society. He occasionally played as an oboist and English horn player with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. After his 1891 return to the United States, Strong taught counterpoint and composition at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He disliked the work, and his health suffered. In 1897 he moved back to Europe to Vevey, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva. For the next several years he studied watercolor painting and worked as professional artist. About 1912, he moved to Geneva, where he began to compose music again. He lived in Geneva for the rest of his life and painted se

George Washington Gregory

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George Washington Gregory (February 15, 1867 – May 2, 1902 A composer, he arranged classical music for the 5-string banjo. For about two years he was part of the Gregory Trio, consisting of himself, W. B. Farmer and Charles Van Baar. Gregory arranged European classical music for the banjo, which he and his trio would play. His choice of music made him part of the same musical movement as Alfred A. Farland, William A. Huntley, and S. S. Stewart, men “elevating” the banjo by appearing with the banjo in formal dress and playing music suitable for the parlor. The European classical works that Gregory arranged for the banjo include Wagner’s Grand March from Tannhauser, Listz’s Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 2, Moszkowski’s Boleros and Spanish Dances. He began a performing career about 1891, performing alongside top performers of his day. His performing career may have been cut short by an injury to his hand in mid-1893. His father died in 1886, and in the mid-1880s) George went to Grafton, New Mexico to work on a cattle ranch and remained there for seven years. About 1891 he returned to the East Coast. The appearance marked the beginning of his appearance in the journal, in which Stewart talke

George Whitefield Chadwick

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George Whitefield Chadwick (November 13, 1854 – April 4, 1931) was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Second New England School of American composers of the late 19th century. Chadwick’s works are influenced by the Realist movement in the arts, characterized by a down-to-earth depiction of people’s lives. His works included several operas, three symphonies, five string quartets, tone poems, incidental music, songs and choral anthems. Along with a group of other composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Chadwick was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States. Early life Born in a rural part of Lowell, Massachusetts, Chadwick received some early musical training from organ lessons given by his older brother, Fitz Henry. He developed an independent, self-reliant character early in his life. Dropping out of high school in 1871, Chadwick assisted briefly in his father’s insurance business. The experience enabled him to travel to Boston and other cities, where he attended concerts an

Georges Fragerolle

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Auguste-Georges-Prosper Fragerolle (11 March 1855 – 19 February 1920) was a French musician and composer. Life Georges Fragerolle was born on 11 March 1855 in Paris, the son of wealthy merchants. He studied literature at the Collège Rollin, and obtained a degree in law. Against the advice of his parents, he tried to devote himself to opera, but failed to obtain admission to the Conservatoire de Paris. Fragerolle joined the literary club. On 12 May 1880 he published an article on “Fumisme”. “Fumisme” is a system of elaborate hoaxes used to expose hypocrites and deflate the pompous. It was often practiced by the Hydropathes. According to Fragerolle, fumisme Fragerolle learned composition from Ernest Guiraud. He composed arrangements of work by contemporary poets such as Jean Richepin, and sang them to his own accompaniment. Fragerolle became the regular pianist at Le Chat Noir with Erik Satie. He composed most of the music and poetry of the shadow theater pieces, which he interpreted with a baritone voice. He was the maestro of Le Chat Noir and Hydropathes. On 6 January 1890 Fragerolle produced a Nativity play, La Marche à l’Étoile, with an impressive set of paintings by Henri Rivièr

Georges Gillet

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Georges-Vital-Victor Gillet (May 17, 1854 – February 8, 1920) was a French oboist, teacher and composer. In addition to premiering oboe works by prominent French composers of the 19th century, including Émile Paladilhe, Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, Clémence de Grandval, and Camille Saint-Saëns, among others, Gillet was the teacher of Fernand Gillet and Marcel Tabuteau at the Paris Conservatory, helped develop the F. Lorée brand of oboe, and composed a number of études that are still used today. Biography Born into a musical family in Louviers on 17 May 1854, Gillet and his brother, cellist and composer, Ernest Gillet (1856–1940) were musical prodigies. Gillet began studying the oboe when he was twelve and, less than a year later, entered the Paris Conservatory to study with Charles Colin. After receiving the premier prix at 15 years old, he graduated in 1869. Gillet died February 8, 1920, at the age of 65, and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery. As a teacher, two of Gillet’s notable students were his nephew, Fernand Gillet and Marcel Tabuteau. Tabuteau used his teacher’s methods to adapt a new playing style in America. Other students included two principal oboists of the Boston Sym

Georges Hüe

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Georges Adolphe Hüe (6 May 1858 – 7 June 1948) was a French composer of classical music. Biography Hüe was born in Versailles into a noted family of architects. His musical education included studies with Charles Gounod and César Franck. In 1879, he won the Prix de Rome with his cantata Médée. Upon his return to Paris, the Opéra Comique produced his first stage work, Les Pantins (“The Jumping Jacks”). This plotless, two-act set-piece for four singers doubling roles completely ignored fashionable realist trends of the day, and won high acclaim. For the next twenty years, his musical career went in other directions. Hüe returned to the stage with his first full-length opera, Le Roi de Paris, a historical drama with a subplot about unrequited love. His follow-up opera was Titania. Stimulated by fantasy and Shakespeare, this work is noteworthy for its impressionistic woodland scenes for chorus and orchestra. In 1910, the Opéra produced Le Miracle, a grand five-act work combining the mythological story of Pygmalion with a religious miracle. Hüe’s most successful work with the public was Dans l’ombre de la cathédrale, whose topical plot was driven by the conflicting ideals of socialism a

Georges Jacob (organist)

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Georges (Armand Paul) Jacob (19 August 1877 – 28 December 1950) was a French organist, improviser and composer. Biography Born in Paris, Georges Paul made his first musical studies at the École Niedermeyer de Paris. After he joined the Conservatoire de Paris in 1896, he won a First prize in organ in 1900, in Alexandre Guilmant’s class. From 1892 to 1912, G. Jacob gave organ recitals, which were very well attended at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. His aim was to bring out the best of both ancient and modern works of organ literature. As a composer, he has already written and published many works. In addition, he began publishing, with an explanatory commentary, the great works for organ of J.-S. Bach. From 1902 to 1914, he was a piano teacher at the Schola Cantorum. Organist and Kapellmeister of Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare de Paris from 1897 to 1903, organist of the great organ of the from 1903 to 1906, he then held the position of organist and Kapellmeister of the , from 1907 to his death in 1950. In 1922, he succeeded Joseph Bonnet as organist of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. Georges Jacob died in Paris on 28 December 1950 and was buried in the Père La

Georges Martin Witkowski

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Georges Martin Witkowski (6 January 1867 – 12 August 1943) was a French conductor and composer. Born in French Algeria, he later moved to Paris for musical studies. He became director of a conservatory in Lyon in 1924 and also established an orchestra there. Career Born in Mostaganem, French Algeria, Witkowski started early life in the army, becoming a cavalry officer. He met noted organist Louis Vierne during that time and was encouraged to study music. He later moved to France, where he studied with Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. After settling in Lyon, he was appointed director of the conservatory there in 1924. He founded the “Société des Grands Concerts” in Lyon, forerunner of the Orchestre National de Lyon. It organized hundreds of concerts and introduced to the public the works of French composers such as Pierre de Bréville, Jacques Ibert, Paul Le Flem, André Caplet, Albert Roussel, Francis Poulenc, Jean Roger-Ducasse, Henri Rabaud, Pierre-Octave Ferroud and Adrien Rougier, as well as works by foreign composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Albéniz, Sergei Prokofiev, Arthur Honegger, Ottorino Respighi, Alexandre Glazounov, etc. He married and had a family.

Georges Marty

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Georges-Eugène Marty (Paris, 16 May 1860 – Paris, 11 October 1908 ) was a French conductor and composer associated with both major opera houses in Paris. Career Showing musical talent very early on, and entering the Paris Conservatoire aged 12, he won the first prize for solfege there in 1875. Marty took the first prize for harmony in 1878 and the Prix de Rome in 1882 with his cantata Edith (he was a pupil of Massenet). After his stay in Rome, he travelled to Sicily, Tunisia and Germany before returning to the French capital and gaining much experience as a chorus master. Marty was the conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire from 12 June 1901 to 11 October 1908, directing a wide repertoire from Bach to contemporary composers, giving and several local premieres. In 1906 he replaced Jules Danbé at the Casino de Vichy classical concerts, but although in otherwise good health, he died there from disease of the liver just as the 1908 season was finishing. His wife was a mezzo-soprano active in both the opera house and on the concert platform; his only son was killed at the beginning of the First World War. References External links * *

Georges Street

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Georges Street (21 January 1854 – 6 February 1908) was a German-born French composer. Life He was born in Hamburg, the son of Agnes Street-Klindworth (1825–1906) and an unknown father. His mother had briefly been married to a Paris-born Englishman, Ernest Denis-Street, and her son, christened Ernst August Georg, was given the surname Street. Agnes had an affair with the composer Franz Liszt in the mid-1850s, and some suspected that Liszt was the boy’s father. In 1868, Agnes moved to Paris together with her widowed father and her sons Georges and Charles. Street showed musical talent, which his mother encouraged. He took violin lessons with Hubert Léonard and became a follower and supporter of Georges Bizet. Together with André Messager, Maurice Lefèvre and Raoul Pugno, Street regularly played through the score of Bizet’s Carmen, which they regarded as “the opera of the century”. Street’s opérette Mignonette (1896), was a parody of Ambroise Thomas’s opera Mignon, written thirty years earlier. Later in his career, Street became music critic for the newspapers L’Éclair and Le Matin, and was the founding editorial secretary of the latter. Street died in Paris at the age of fifty-four.

Georgi Atanasov (composer)

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Georgi Atanasov () (May 6, 1882 – November 17, 1931) was a Bulgarian composer. Biography A native of Plovdiv, Atanasov began formal musical studies in Bucharest at the age of 14. From 1901 until 1903 he studied composition at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro with Pietro Mascagni. Upon receiving his diploma with the title of “maestro”, he adopted the word as his formal style of address. He returned to Bulgaria soon after, becoming well known as a leader of military bands. His style is Italianate, melodic and bearing the influence of folk idioms. He alternated contrasting musical numbers to achieve dramatic effect in his works. Operas *Borislav (1911) *Moralisti (operetta) (1916) *Gergana (1917) *Zapustyalata vodenitsa (The Abandoned Watermill) (1923) *Tsveta (1925) *Kosara (1929) *Altzec (1930) References

Georgi Conus

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Georgi Eduardovich Conus (Russian: Георгий Эдуардович Конюс; September 30 1862 29 August 1933) was a Russian music theorist and composer of French descent. He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. Family and Education He was the eldest of the three Conus brothers, of whom the others were Julius and Lev, and son to Eduard Konstantinovich Conus, a pianist and composer, and Klotilda (sometimes Clothilde in French) Adolfovna, née Tambroni. His father never intended originally for him to become a professional musician but seeing as this was incompatible with his son, in 1881 he successfully gained admission to the Moscow Conservatory. Originally, Conus decided to pursue a career as a professional pianist, studying with Pavel Pabst. However, after an injury he later pursued composition, studying instead with Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. Give his competency, Conus, along with other students, gained the attention of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Moreover, at the age of 14 Conus began teaching, firstly at the Chernavsky Institute (also known as Usachevsko-Chernyavskya School), in 1891 being invited again to teach counterpoint and harmony, being praised by those like Alexander Goldenwe

Gerard von Brucken Fock

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Gerardus Hubertus Galenus von Brucken Fock (28 December 1859 – 15 August 1935) was a nineteenth-century classical Dutch pianist who gave up his career as a performer to compose and paint. Constantly torn between art and church, he traveled much in Europe, later establishing himself in Amsterdam. He married the daughter of a member of the Zeeland parliament. He joined the Salvation Army and traveled from place to place in France, preaching and playing organ. He was also considered a very good draftsman and watercolorist whose works often inspired his own musical pieces. His orchestral works frequently lean towards French Impressionists like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Life Family and education Gerard von Brucken Fock (also known as Geert) was born as Gerardus Hubertus Galenus Fock on Ter Hooge Castle, Koudekerke, in the outskirts of Middelburg where he spent the summers of his early childhood. His father was Henri Dignes von Brucken Fock and his mother Johanna Kuykendall. He had three brothers, one of them being Abraham Emilius von Brucken Fock, a soldier who later acquired fame as a composer as well. Less than four years later his father changed his name to “von Brucken Fock”

Gerardo Iasilli

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Gerardo Iasilli (November 10, 1880 – May 10, 1969) was an Italian-American saxophonist, conductor, and composer. He was born in Muro Lucano, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in 1904. He first joined the Silvio Mancini Band, where he eventually became assistant conductor and arranger. He later joined the Giuseppe Creatore Orchestra. He then formed and led his own band Orchestrina Italiana Gerardo Iasilli. He composed and arranged mostly brass and band music. He composed a number of marches, including the “American Army”, “America”, and “Blue Eagle” marches. He wrote many books of etudes and exercises for saxophone, and published many arrangements for band and for saxophone. * Blue Eagle March * Generale Umberto Nobile * Do re mi * Furore d’Una Banda (Furor of the Band) Many of these compositions were recorded on early Victor and Columbia phonographs, where he is credited variously as Iasilli, Issilli, and Jasilli. References

Gerhard Schjelderup

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Gerhard Rosenkrone Schjelderup (November 17, 1859 – July 29, 1933) was a Norwegian composer, known especially for his operas. Biography Schjelderup was born in Kristiansand. Norway. One of five children, each with an artistic bent, his talent was encouraged from youth. The composer Mon Schjelderup was his cousin. In 1878 he traveled to Paris, where he studied cello with Auguste Franchomme and music theory with Augustin Savard. He also studied with Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. By the time of his return to Norway, in 1884, he had already written a number of works. Schjelderup was introduced to the work of Richard Wagner while in Paris, and went to Germany for further exposure to his work. This in turn inspired him to write operas, which were to prove the bulk of his output, though he also composed a number of orchestral and chamber works. He wrote on music for Norwegian publications, and wrote biographies of Edvard Grieg and of Wagner. In 1921 together with Ole Mørk Sandvik, he published Norsk folkemusik, særlig Østlandsmusikken which was the first history of Norwegian music. Schjelderup was among the founders of the Norwegian Society of Composers (Norsk komponistfor

Gerónimo Giménez

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Gerónimo Giménez y Bellido (10 October 1854 – 19 February 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer, who dedicated his career to writing zarzuelas, such as La tempranica and La boda de Luis Alonso. He preferred to spell his first name with a “G”, even though his name at birth officially began with a “J”. Written in Spanish, a very comprehensive biographical exposition by Ascensión García de las Mozas may be found at the Universidad de Cádiz institutional repository of Research and Learning Objects (RODIN). Career Giménez was born in Seville. A son of the Granada musician José María Giménez and his wife Antonia Bellido, he moved with his family to the city of Cadiz, where he soon became a choirboy. Although the details of his early years are not entirely certain, Giménez spent his childhood and adolescence in Cádiz. A child prodigy, he began music lessons with his father and continued his education with Salvador Viniegra. By the age of 12, he was already playing among the first violins of the Teatro Principal orchestra in Cádiz. Five years later, he became the director of an opera and zarzuela company, making his debut in Gibraltar with a production of Giovanni Pacini’s Safo. A sch

Gerrit Smith (composer)

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Gerrit Smith (December 11, 1859 – July 21, 1912) was an American composer, organist, and educator. Born in Maryland and raised in Geneva, New York, he studied at Hobart College and the Stuttgart Conservatory as well as privately with significant musicians in America and Europe. His first organist posts were in Buffalo, New York at St. Paul’s Cathedral (1879-1880) and Lafayette Street Church (1880-1881). He was organist at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Albany, New York from 1882 until 1885 when he became organist of South Reformed Dutch Church in New York City. He remained at this latter church until his death in 1912. In addition to his church work, Smith taught on the faculties of the Master School of Music in Brooklyn and Union Theological Seminary. In 1889, he co-founded the Manuscript Society of New York, and was elected its first president. In 1896, he was a founding member of the American Guild of Organists, and also served a term as president of that organization. Life and career The son of Gerrit H. Smith, He studied organ with Adolph Baumbach in his youth. While a student there he spent two years as the school’s chapel organist. He then went to Germany to study at the St

Gertrud Grunow

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Gertrud Grunow (8 July 1870 – 11 June 1944) was a German musician and educationalist who formulated theories on the relationships between sound, colour and movement and was a specialist in vocal pedagogy. She taught courses in the “theory of harmonisation” at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she was the school’s first woman teacher and the only woman teacher during the school’s Weimar years. Life and work Grunow was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia on 8 July 1870. She began exploring the relationships between sound, colour and movement as early as 1914 and gave her first lectures on her theories in Berlin in 1919. Later that year she was invited by the Swiss painter and designer Johannes Itten, to teach at the Bauhaus, where he was a master. She began teaching a course in the “theory of harmony”, later called the “theory of harmonisation”, at the Bauhaus from the end of 1919, and remained at the school until the summer of 1924. Unlike her male colleagues, she was paid on a freelance fee basis and was not taken on as a contracted employee until the summer of 1923. Both masters and students attended her courses. Grunow, along with Itten, Lothar Schreyer and others, was regarded as one

Géza Horváth (composer)

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Géza Horváth (* May 27, 1868 in Komárom, Hungary; † July 19, 1925 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian composer, arranger and music school director who worked in Vienna. Life Géza Horváth attended music school in his hometown of Komárom and became a full-time musician at the age of 18. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and passed the state music teacher examination in 1892. After a few years as a music teacher, Horvath opened his own private music school. Around 1911 he was active as President of the committee of licensed music school owners. After his death in 1925, the private music school Horvath (Hirschengasse 15, 1060 Vienna) was continued by his daughter Blanca Horvath. Compositions During his time as music school director, Horvath created numerous works for learning piano and violin, which are often used in modern teaching materials to this day (e.g. Canzonetta). Horvath is considered one of the outstanding composers and arrangers for multi-handed piano playing. “The works by Wilhelm Kramer and Géza Horváth stand out from the estimated 400 pieces for piano duet in the 19th century. In their numerous original compositions and arrangements, both created a balanced piano setting wit

Giacomo Puccini

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Born in Lucca in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in 1858; he was the sixth of nine children of Michele Puccini (1813–1864) and Albina Magi (1830–1884). The Puccini family was established in Lucca as a local musical dynasty by Puccini’s great-great-grandfather – also named Giacomo (1712–1781). This first Giacomo Puccini, though often referred to as Jacopo, was maestro di cappella of the Cattedrale di San Martino in Lucca. He was succeeded in this position by his son, Antonio Puccini, there, he studied composition with Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti, Amilcare Ponchielli, Amintore Galli, and Antonio Bazzini. He shared his dorm with Pietro Mascagni. Later that year, Puccini composed his Mass, marking the culmination of his family’s long association with liturgical music in his native Lucca.

Gian Francesco Malipiero

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Gian Francesco Malipiero (; 18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor. Life Early years Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner. His father separated from his mother in 1893 and took Gian Francesco to Trieste, Berlin and eventually to Vienna. The young Malipiero and his father broke up their relationship bitterly, and in 1899 Malipiero returned to his mother’s home in Venice, where he entered the Venice Liceo Musicale (now the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia). After stopping counterpoint lessons with the composer, organist and pedagogue Marco Enrico Bossi, Malipiero continued studying on his own by copying out music by such composers as Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi from the Biblioteca Marciana, in Venice, thereby beginning a lifelong commitment to Italian music of that period. Musical career In 1905 Malipiero returned to Venice, but from 1906 to 1909 was often in Berlin, following Max Bruch’s classes. Later, in 1913, Ma

Gilda Ruta

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Gilda Ruta (13 October 1853 – 26 October 1932) was an Italian pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Countess Gilda Ruta Cagnazzi was born in Naples, the daughter of composer Michele Ruta and English singer Emilia Sutton. She studied music with her father and with the opera composer Saverio Mercadante and became a noted pianist. She played before Queen Margherita of Italy at the Constanzi Theater in Rome (now Teatro dell’Opera di Roma) and won a gold medal at the International Exposition in Florence. After being widowed at age of 27 with two children, she began composing. She moved to New York City, taught private piano lessons in Greenwich Village, and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Manhattan at age 79. Works Ruta produced more than 125 works for voice and piano, and also composed for opera. Selected works include: *Scherzo for pianoforte *Voglio guarire, melodia romantica *Tempo di Gavotta e Musette for pianoforte *Canto melanconico for contralto and basso *La Gavotta per pianoforte *Partirai!! canto for mezzo-sop and baritono *Alle stelle melodia romantica *Canzone marinaresca for soprano *Allegro appassionato for pianoforte *Per te! canto *Dolci memorie! melodia *Dam

Gino Marinuzzi

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Gino Marinuzzi (24 March 188217 August 1945) was an Italian conductor and composer, particularly associated with the operas of Wagner and the Italian repertory. Biography Marinuzzi was born and studied in Palermo, graduating from the Palermo Conservatory. He began his career in Palermo as well, conducting the local premieres of Tristan und Isolde in 1909, and Parsifal in 1914. He then appeared in Rome and Milan, where he conducted several local premieres (mostly Wagner operas) and many revivals of rarely performed operas such as Lucrezia Borgia, La straniera, Beatrice di Tenda and L’incoronazione di Poppea. In 1930, he conducted the world premiere of Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Lo straniero. He made guest appearances at the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House in London, and the Monte Carlo Opera, where he conducted the world premiere of Puccini’s La rondine in 1917. He was artistic director of the Chicago Opera Association from 1919 to 1921, and the Rome Opera from 1928 to 1934. He conducted opera at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires during seven seasons between 1915 and 1933. This included the Western Hemisphere premieres of Puccini’s La rondine (first version) in 1917 and Turandot in Jun

Giovanni Antiga

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Giovanni Antiga (July 29, 1878 – July 11, 1960), also known as Jean Antiga, was an Italian organist and composer. He was born in Miane and he died in Nice. Career Born into a family with many children, he was entrusted to the care of his uncle, Leopoldo Antiga. He began to learn music under the tutelage of Ferdinando Battel, the organist at San Michele di Ramera. After graduating, he moved to the French town of Grasse. From 1902 to 1910, he was the director of the cathedral. He held the titles of Professor of Education and Grand Officer of the national academy of Paris. He married cellist Jenny Motti; they had two daughters, Mireille and Andreina. Notable works *Impressioni al Carmine (piccola suite) *Campane a festa *Presso una fontanella *Ninna Nanna *Raggi di luna sul mare *Campane di Roma *Contemplando un Crocifisso del Brustolon a S. Fior *Canto d’Amore *Piccola raccolta di impressioni giovanili *Riduzioni di composizioni classiche per le piccole mani *Sulla tomba di un eroe *La visione del Cadore *Le foglie d’autunno *Il canto del montanaro *La canzone nostalgica *Il tramonto del sole *Trot des cavaliers *Boite a musique *Le fontane di camurei *Je t’amerai toujours *Dance rou

Gisella Selden-Goth

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Gisella Selden-Goth (6 June 1884 – 5 September 1975) was a Hungarian author, composer and musicologist who became an American citizen in 1939. She composed at least four string quartets and donated her large collection of original music manuscripts to the Library of Congress. Biography Selden-Goth was born in Budapest to Michael and Rosalia Schlesinger. Her music teachers included Béla Bartók, Ferruccio Busoni, and István Thomán. Her set of piano compositions, , was one of 10 winners (out of 874 submissions) in the 1910 competition in Germany. She married Ernst Goth and they had a daughter, Trudy Goth, who became a dancer and journalist. Selden-Goth lived in Berlin and Florence, Italy, before emigrating to America in 1938. She returned to Florence in 1950 and remained there until her death in 1975. She served as a music critic for newspapers in Berlin, Prague, Switzerland, and Budapest, most notably for Prager Tagblatt, a German newspaper in Prague. She maintained a lengthy correspondence with the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, often discussing their mutual interest in collecting original music scores. After Zweig’s suicide, Selden-Goth commented that, “A chamber group in a house or

Giuseppe Becce

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Giuseppe Becce (3 February 1877 – 5 October 1973) was an Italian-born film score composer who enriched the German cinema. Biography Becce was born in Lonigo, province of Vicenza, Italy. He showed his musical talents early and was named the director of the student musical orchestra at the Pollini Conservatoire in Padua where he studied ‘cello and flute, along with geography and philology. In 1906 he moved to Germany and studied musical composition with Arthur Nikisch and Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin. In the 1913 silent movie Richard Wagner, directed by Carl Froelich, Becce played the title role and wrote the accompanying music (see also List of films about Richard Wagner.) He continued to write such music for a series of subsequent movies. A collection of these pieces, the so-called “Kinothek” was published between 1919 and 1933 by the Verlag Schlesinger’sche Buchhandlung in Berlin. From 1915 to 1923, Becce was the director of the little orchestra of the Berlin Mozartsaal cinema, located upstairs at the Neues Schauspielhaus in the Nollendorfplatz. After World War I, he was named to direct the music department of the Decla-Bioscop AG and chief director of its movie orchestra, later to

Giuseppe Creatore

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Giuseppe Creatore (), called the Great Creatore, was an Italian bandmaster in Italy and the United States. He was born in Naples, Italy, on June 21, 1871, and died in New York City on August 15, 1952. Creatore’s fame rivaled that of John Philip Sousa, and he was known for performances that were engaging for both their showmanship and musicianship. The music critic of the Kansas City Journal provides a colorful description of Creatore’s stage presence: “Creatore starts the band in a mild, entreating way. A simple uplifting of the arms. Then suddenly, with a wild shake of his shaggy head, he springs across the stage with the ferocity of a wounded lion. Crash! Bang! And a grand volume of sound chocks the hall from pit to dome.” Career Creatore studied trombone and conducting with Nicola D’Arienzo and Camillo de Nardis at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella. In 1887, at the young age of 17, he accepted a position to direct the Naples Military Band. but also for Edison Records, Paramount Records, and Columbia Records. In 1931, he conducted a series of open air concerts for a symphony orchestra, and in 1937 conducted the New York State Symphonic Band and the New York Symphonic Orch

Giuseppe Ferrata

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Giuseppe Ferrata (1865–1928) was an Italian-American pianist, composer, and university professor. He was a student of Giovanni Sgambati and Franz Liszt at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (English: National Academy of Saint Cecilia) in Rome, Italy. Ferrata was knighted by the Royal Court of Portugal, the Royal Court of Belgium, and the King of Italy. Ferrata composed for two different audiences. Some of his works were composed for their popular appeal. Other compositions were intended to advance orchestral music as a musical art form, for audiences that were musicians, other composers, and people with deep appreciation of orchestral music. Ferrata was also an inventor, having obtained three United States Patents. Early life and education Ferrata was born in Gradoli, Italy, to a family of small landowners. Ferrata played the clarinet. Later in his childhood, he served as assistant conductor for the local municipal band. Ferrata initially studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and musical composition with Antonio Terziani at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and then later while still at the academy with Franz Liszt. Ferrata had auditioned for Liszt who then invited Ferr

Giuseppe Martucci

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Giuseppe Martucci (; 6 January 1856, in Capua – 1 June 1909, in Naples) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. Sometimes called “the Italian Brahms”, Martucci was notable among Italian composers of the era in that he dedicated his entire career to absolute music, and wrote no operas. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. Nevertheless, as a conductor, he did help to introduce Wagner’s operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of British music there. Career Martucci was born at Capua, in Campania. He learned the basics of music from his father, Gaetano, who played the trumpet. A child prodigy, he played in public on the piano when only eight years old. From the age of 11, he was a student at the Naples Conservatory, on the recommendation of professor Beniamino Cesi, the latter being a former student of Sigismond Thalberg. From Paolo Serrao, Martucci acquired his initial training in composition; his own composition students later on, when he worked and taught at Bologna, included Ottorino Respighi. He died in Naples in 1909. His son Paolo, born in Naples in 1883, also became a pianist of note, br

Gottfried Mann

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Johann Gottfried (Godfried) Henrik Mann (The Hague, 15 July 1858 – Rosmalen, 10 February 1904) was a Dutch composer, conductor, and musician, who, despite being prodigious and producing over 100 opuses, is generally unknown. He was first taught piano and theory by , and then, after enrolling into the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, he began studying with for composition, for piano, and “Mulder” for violin. He also had interest in the public education of music and musical taste according to documented statements. Despite being a composer, he is best remembered as an orchestral conductor, recognized by musicologist Henri Anastase Viotta as such. Select works Mann wrote for numerous genres, including concertos, sonatas, and small-ensemble and chamber works. * 1875: Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 26 * 1885: Clarinet Concerto, Op.90 ** Dedicated to Herrn Christian Kriens * 1889: Andante, Op.94 (for cello and orchestra) ** Dedicated to Leonidus Aaron van Praag *Feest Praeludium, Op. 95 *1896: 2 Chœurs (for 3 female voices/violin and piano) **Poetry of Théophile Gautier *Troisième Suite, Op. 98 * 1901: Violin Concerto, Op.101 ** Dedicated to Czech violinist Karel Hoffmann Notes References Exte

Graham Peel

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Gerald Graham Peel (1877 – November 1937) was an English composer. Life Graham Peel’s father was Gerald Peel, a millionaire Lancashire cotton spinner and magistrate of Pendlebury, near Manchester, England. During his life, Peel was one of the first persons ’to take parties inside prisons to entertain the inmates’, and of unobtrusive character, was later remembered for his generosity. Clothes and jobs for prisoners were provided through Peel with his involvement in the Dorset and Bournemouth Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society. He was a resident of ‘Marden Ash’, Bournemouth on his death, after a year’s illness. A philanthropist, he died leaving £191,499. Many settings were for folk songs and pianoforte solos, His tunes included: ::Almond, wild almond ::Go down to Kew in lilac time ::Her loveliness ::In summer time on Bredon (well regarded, and written c. 1908) References

Granville Bantock

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Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music. Biography Granville Ransome Bantock was born on 7 August 1868 in London. His father was an eminent Scottish surgeon. His younger brother was the dramatist and film director Leedham Bantock. Granville Bantock was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but he suffered poor health and initially turned to chemical engineering. At the age of 20, when he began studying composers’ manuscripts, at South Kensington Museum Library, he was drawn into the musical world. In 1888, he entered the Royal Academy of Music where he studied harmony and composition with Frederick Corder winning the Macfarren Prize in the first year it was awarded. Early conducting engagements took him around the world with a musical comedy troupe. With his brother Leedham Bantock he wrote a couple of music hall songs which met with some success. He founded a music magazine, The New Quarterly Music Review, In 1934, he was elected Chairman of the Corporation of Trinity College of Music in London. He was knighted in 1930. Among his other better-known works are the overture The Pierrot of the Minute (1908)

Gregory Alchevsky

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Gregory Alchevsky (Ukrainian: Алчевський Григорій Олексійович; 1866–1920) was a Ukrainian composer. Alchevsky was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, the son of the wealthy industrialist and banker Aleksey Alchevsky, and his wife Khrystyna Alchevska, a teacher who was a prominent activist for national education in Imperial Russia. Their six children were all musically gifted. Alchevsky graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kharkiv University in 1887 and went on to study at the Moscow Imperial Conservatory. He was the friend of several Russian composers, including Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin and Alexander Goldenweiser. Alchevsky was a late Romantic movement composer. His most popular works were romances and settings of folk songs, which perpetuated the use of Ukrainian folk music into the 20th century. He worked as a music teacher and a singer, activities which acted to limit his output as a composer. He wrote a symphonic poem, , while his work Breathing Tables for Singers and their Application to the Development of the Basic Qualities of the Voice, first published in 1908, remains in print. Biography Family Gregory Oleksiiovych Alchev

Grigory Kompaneyets

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Grigory Isaakovich Kompaneyets (Ukrainian: Григорій Ісакович Компані́єць, Russian: Григорий Исаакович Компанеец) (1881–1959) was an internationally recognized composer, choir conductor, and educator. Biography Grigory Kompaneyets was born in Poltava, Ukraine. During his childhood, his family moved to Rostov, where he received his early musical training in the synagogue choir. In 1904–05, he took voice lessons in Milan, with the Italian tenor Augusto Brogi. He was active in the Society for Jewish Folk Music, and in 1912, he conducted the first performance of the opera Samson and Delilah in a modern Hebrew translation, at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1916, he conducted an orchestra of 83 musicians for a concert organized by Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, the first performance by a large orchestra in this context. In the same year, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In the mid-1920s, Kompaneyets moved to Mandatory Palestine, where he served as musical director of Habima. From 1932 to 1934, he taught conducting and score-reading at the Kharkiv National University of Arts, and at the same time headed the music department of the Jewish Theater. In

Grikor Suni

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Grikor Mirzaian Suni (; originally Grikor Mirzaian, also Grigor; September 10, 1876 – December 18, 1939) was an Armenian composer and choirmaster. In his hometown of Shushi, Suni became famous for his musical talents and organized his first concert. This would get him in trouble with Russian authorities forcing his chorus out of Shushi where they went on to spread Armenian cultural music around the world. Suni was an instrumental figure in establishing the national identity of Armenian music and considered one of the many founders of modern Armenian music. Biography Grikor Suni came from a family of Armenian meliks (princes) from Syunik. He was the son of the singer and miniaturist Hovhannes Varandetsi and the grandson of the once famous ashug (folk singer) Melik Hovhannes Mirzabekyan. Suni spent much of his childhood in Shushi where he first started to study music. There in the regionally famous Armenian Khandamiryan theater, he gave his first concert with his chorus composed of folk songs he collected from the region. With the money he made from the concert, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he studied music from 1895 to 1904 with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov and A

Guido Alberto Fano

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Guido Alberto Fano (18 May 1875 in Padua – 14 August 1961 at Tauriano di Spilimbergo) was an Italian pianist and composer. From 1894 he was the favoured pupil of Giuseppe Martucci. In 1905 he was appointed director of the Parma Conservatory, and in 1916 he became director of the Palermo Conservatory. From 1922 he was professor of piano at the Milan Conservatory. Fano, who was of Jewish origin, was removed from this position by the Italian Fascist racial laws in 1938. He moved to Fossombrone and Assisi to survive the holocaust from 1943 to 1945. He returned to teaching 1945–47, then retired. Works, editions and recordings * Canzoni. Sara Mingardo. 2011 References

Guido Chigi Saracini

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Count Guido Chigi Saracini (Siena, 8 March 1880 – Siena, 18 November 1965), full name Guido Chigi degli Useppi Saracini Lucherini, was an Italian patrician, a musical patron and composer, and a public administrator. Having inherited the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini in the centre of the city of Siena, Tuscany, he applied his musical instincts to his new opportunities, restored the Palazzo in 1923, and established a concert society and later (1932) a musical academy there. The Accademia Chigiana, which flourishes today, grew under his supervision into a famous institution for higher instruction, research and performance in chamber music, playing an important role in the revival of Italian baroque instrumental music, and in the advocacy and performance of contemporary Italian classical music. Chigi Saracini, who lent his authority to various cultural projects and public forums in Siena, through his academy and through the September music festival “Settimane musicali” which he established in 1939, gave to Siena an international musical reputation: leading world musicians brought their experience and example to its work and performances, while the international tours of the Quintetto Chigiano

Guillaume Balay

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Guillaume Balay, (born April 30, 1871, in Crozon and died December 13, 1943, in Ploujean (now Morlaix), was a French military bandmaster and composer. Bio Guillaume Balay was born on April 30, 1871, in Crozon, into a large family. His father, a schoolteacher, introduced him to music. In 1889, he enlisted in the army, joining the band of the 19th Infantry Regiment in Brest. In 1892, he transferred to the 5th Infantry Regiment in Caen. Guillaume Balay studied cornet at the Paris Conservatory, where in 1894 he unanimously won first prize in the class of Jean-Joseph Mellet. He also studied harmony with Paul Vidal and composition with Vincent d’Indy. In 1894, he was appointed assistant bandmaster and joined the 119th Infantry Regiment in Courbevoie. In 1898, he was appointed bandmaster. He was assigned to the 154th Infantry Regiment in Bar-le-Duc in 1900, and then in 1904 to the 72nd Infantry Regiment in Amiens, with which he won first prize at the Caen Military Band Competition in July 1908. In 1911, Guillaume Balay won the competition for Bandmaster of the Republican Guard, succeeding Gabriel Parès. He held the position of musical director until his retirement in 1927. Returning to ci

Guillaume Couture (musician)

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Guillaume Couture (23 October 1851 – 15 January 1915) was a Canadian choir conductor, composer, music critic, and music educator. Although he never pursued a performance career, he is particularly remembered for his work as a voice teacher, having taught many notable Canadian singers. He is the grandfather of composer Jean Papineau-Couture. Life and career Born in Montreal, Couture was choirmaster at Saint-Jacques Cathedral before studying at the Conservatoire de Paris with Romain Bussine and Théodore Dubois from 1873 to 1875. His Rêverie, opus 2 (notably the only Canadian orchestral work published before 1900) was premiered in Paris in 1875 in a concert that also included original works by Henri Duparc, Gabriel Fauré, and César Franck. That same year he returned to his native city where he began teaching privately and writing as a music critic for La Minerve. He continued to return periodically to France for further studies with Bussine through 1887. In early 1876 Couture returned to Paris to assume the post of choirmaster at the Basilica of St. Clotilde, Paris. César Franck was notably the organist at the cathedral at that time. He left there in late 1877 for Montreal where he to

Guillaume Lekeu

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Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu (; 20 January 1870 – 21 January 1894) was a Belgian composer. Life Lekeu was born in Heusy, a village near Verviers, Belgium. He originally studied piano and music theory under Alphonse Voss, the director of the brass band at the local conservatory. In 1879, his parents moved to Poitiers, France. especially chamber music, and studied harmony and violin from 1887 under Octave Grisard. In June 1888, his family moved to Paris where he began to study philosophy. He was introduced to the works of Téodor de Wyzewa and continued his studies under Gaston Vallin. In August 1889, he travelled to Bayreuth to see the operas of Richard Wagner. On his return, he studied counterpoint and fugue privately with César Franck. Lekeu contracted typhoid fever from a contaminated sorbet in October 1893. He died in his parents’ home in Angers on 21 January 1894, the day after his 24th birthday. On 26 January 1894, he was buried in a small cemetery in Heusy. His style, prophetic of early-twentieth-century avant-garde French composers like Satie and Milhaud, was influenced by Franck, Wagner and (especially in the Trio) Beethoven, though these influences did not manifest t

Guillermo Uribe Holguín

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Guillermo Uribe Holguín (sometimes spelled Uribe-Holguín) (17 March 1880 – 26 June 1971) was a Colombian composer and violinist and one of the most important Colombian cultural figures of his generation. He composed prolifically in many genres and founded the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia (previously the orchestra of the National Conservatory). Biography Uribe Holguín was born in Bogotá. His father was Guillermo Uribe and his mother Mercédes Holguín. While studying at the School of Engineering, he simultaneously studied violin with Ricardo Figueroa, and composition with Santos Cifuentes and Augusto Azzali, at the National Academy of Music. He became dissatisfied with his progress, and sought out a private teacher, Narciso Garay. He completed his engineering studies. In 1903 he visited New York City and for the first time he heard professional orchestras and opera. It was there that he started his series of 300 trozos, based on folk melodies, written for various instruments. In 1905 he was appointed professor of violin and harmony at the Academia. There, in December 1905, he conducted his Victimae Paschali for solo voice, chorus and orchestra. He obtained a scholarship fro

Gustaf Hägg

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Gustaf Wilhelm Petersson Hägg (November 28, 1867 – February 2, 1925) was a Swedish organist and composer. Life Hägg was born in Visby, Gotland. He studied at the Royal Swedish College of Music receiving his organist’s degree in 1886 and his higher degree (kyrkosångar- och musiklärarexamen) in 1889. He was appointed organist of Klara Church in 1893 and began teaching harmony at the Royal College in 1904. In 1908 he began teaching organ and he was appointed professor of organ in 1915. He died in Stockholm. His “Legend” for reed organ has been republished by the Reed Organ Society; it is a short, highly chromatic piece of intermediate difficulty, somewhat in the style of Grieg. It begins in six-eight in d-minor, with a folklike theme repeated with variants over sustained chords. The second theme is more-or-less in E-major, but with many accidentals and a highly chromatic accompaniment in the left hand. After the second theme is developed, an abbreviated version of the original theme is restated, and then abruptly shifts from d-minor to D-major, where it is developed, briefly returning to a minor tonality before resolving on a drawn-out D-major chord. The story, one imagines, had a sai

Gustav Brecher

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Gustav Brecher (5 February 1879 – May 1940) was a German conductor, composer, and music critic. As director of the Leipzig Opera, he conducted world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill, including Jonny spielt auf and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. He was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933, lived at risk in Stalingrad, Berlin, Prague, and finally Ostend, where he took his life together with his wife’s. Life Brecher was born in Eichwald, Ore Mountains, then in Austria-Hungary. His Jewish The latter, who was not Jewish, left Ostend in August 1939 The fate of the Brecher family is not known but they disappeared without a trace around May 1940 when the Germans occupied Belgium. Their files in the National Archives of Belgium (Algemeen Rijksarchief) in Brussels retrospectively state they “left for England”. It is not certain if they committed suicide or perished at sea. A Stolperstein in front of the Hamburg State Opera reminds of his fate. References Further reading * : Gustav Brecher und die Leipziger Oper 1923–1933. With a contribution by Heinrich Creuzburg: Erinnerungen an Gustav Brecher. Edition Peters, Leipzig 1990 * Richard Wagner gepfändet: ein Leipziger Denkma

Gustav Bumcke

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Gustav Bumcke (18 July 1876 – 4 July 1963) was a German composer and founder of the first German saxophone orchestra. Biography Born on 18 July 1876, in Berlin, after attending the Oberrealschule and subsequent years as a commercial apprentice, Bumcke took lessons in composition with Gustav Kulenkampff (1848–1921), Max Bruch and Engelbert Humperdinck, piano with Hugo Rüdel and Otto Neitzel, and trumpet with Julius Koslek (1835–1905). From 1900 to 1902, he was a theatre director in Constance, Heilbronn and Bayreuth. In 1902, on a trip to Paris, he met the son of Adolphe Sax. Bumcke brought eight saxophones (instruments with the “beautiful, noble sound” ) of all sizes with him to Berlin and since then devoted all his creative energy to the classical saxophone in Germany. From 1903 to 1936, he taught music theory, harmony and composition at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. For lack of good saxophonists, Bumcke played many of his compositions himself and in 1927 founded his own saxophone class at Stern’s Conservatory, then later at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, from which especially Bumcke’s daughter Hilde became famous as a German saxophonist under her stage name Ingrid Lar

Gustav Helsted

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Gustav Carl Helsted (30 January 1857 - 1 March 1924) was a Danish organist and composer. Helsted was the son of composer Carl Helsted, brother of painter Viggo Helsted, and nephew of composer Edvard Helsted. He was a student of Gottfred Matthison-Hansen. Helsted was the first organist of the Jesus Church in Copenhagen. He was paid 600 Danish crowns a year for the position. He was also the music director of the Danish Musical Society. Notable works * Overture in C minor (piano four hands 1875) * Scherzo in C♯ minor (for 2 pianos/eight hands 1880) * String quartet in B minor (1881) * op. 1 Erotiske Sangtekster (voice and piano, 1883) * op. 2 Symphony no. 1 in D minor (1883) * op. 3 String quartet no. 1 in D minor (1884) * Romance in G major (violin and piano 1884) * Romance in A major (violin and piano 1885) * op. 4 En Kærlighedshistorie (piano 1886) * op. 5 Paa Fodtur en Sommerdag (suite for orchestra 1885) * op. 6 piano trio in E minor (1886) * op. 7 Six songs (1886) * op. 8 Violin concerto in C major (1887) * op. 9 En Bryllupsfest (orchestral suite 1887) * op. 10 Suite no. 2 in A major (orchestra 1887) * op. 11 Romance for violin and orchestra in G major (1888) * op. 12 Fem sange

Gustav Hinrichs

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Gustav Ludwig Wilhelm Hinrichs (10 December 1850 - 26 March 1942) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 19, where he became known especially as a conductor of opera in San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia. His compositions include four operas, many songs and instrumental works, and musical scores for silent films, including the 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera. Career Gustav Hinrichs was born in Grabow near Ludwigslust, Germany to August Hinrichs and Sophie née Havekoss. He studied clarinet, violin, and piano with his father, and composition with Angelo Reisland and Eduard Marxsen in Hamburg. While still a teenager he began playing with the Hamburg State Opera orchestra. At the age of 19, in order to avoid military service, Hinrichs emigrated to the United States. He sailed from Hamburg via Le Havre on SS Silesia and arrived in New York on 4 April 1870. He then traveled by train across the continent to San Francisco, where friends of his parents lived, arriving on 6 May 1870. In San Francisco Hinrichs quickly found work as a musician. He gave piano lessons, played the organ at St. Mark’s church, conducted fo

Gustav Holst

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Gustav Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being most crucial early in his development. The subsequent inspiration of the English folksong revival of the early 20th century, and the example of such rising modern composers as Maurice Ravel, led Holst to develop and refine an individual style. There were professional musicians in the previous three generations of Holst’s family, and it was clear from his early years that he would follow the same calling. He hoped to become a pianist, but was prevented by neuritis in his right arm. Despite his father’s reservations, he pursued a career as a composer, studying at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford. Unable to support himself by his compositions, he played the trombone professionally and later became a teacher—a great one, according to his colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams. Among ot

Gustav Jenner

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Gustav Jenner (3 December 1865 – 29 August 1920), born Cornelius Uwe Gustav Jenner was a German composer, conductor and musical scholar. He was the only formal composition pupil of Johannes Brahms. Biography Jenner was born in Keitum on the island of Sylt, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His father, a doctor, came from a Scottish family: he claimed descent from Edward Jenner, the discoverer of smallpox vaccine, and was related to the family who built the eponymous Art-Nouveau style department store which is one of the landmarks of Edinburgh’s Princes Street. While at school in Kiel, Jenner started to teach himself to write music but, after his father committed suicide in 1884 (he had been accused of abusing female patients), he was befriended and assisted by the poet Klaus Groth, who arranged for him to study with Brahms’s old teacher Eduard Marxsen in Hamburg. Marxsen in his turn handed Jenner over to Brahms, with whom he studied in Vienna from February 1888 to 1895, also receiving instruction from Eusebius Mandyczewski. Though Brahms was a merciless critic of Jenner’s compositional attempts, he took great care over his welfare. He had him appointed Secretary of the Vienna To

Gustav Mahler

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The Mahler family came from eastern Bohemia, now in the Czech Republic, and were of humble circumstances—the composer’s grandmother had been a street pedlar . Bohemia was then part of the Austrian Empire; the Mahler family belonged to a German-speaking minority among Bohemians, and was also Jewish. From this background the future composer developed early on a permanent sense of exile, “always an intruder, never welcomed”. The pedlar’s son Bernhard Mahler, the composer’s father, elevated himself to the ranks of the petite bourgeoisie by becoming a coachman and later an innkeeper. He bought a modest house in the village of Kaliště (), and in 1857 married Marie Herrmann, the 19-year-old daughter of a local soap manufacturer. In the following year Marie gave birth to the first of the couple’s 14 children, a son named Isidor, who died in infancy. Two years later, on 1860, their second son, Gustav, was born.

Gustav Strube

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Gustav Strube (3 March 1867 – 2 February 1953) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was the founding conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1916, and taught at the Peabody Conservatory. He wrote two operas, Ramona, which premiered in 1916, and The Captive, which premiered at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore in February 1938. He was also a member of Baltimore’s famous Saturday Night Club with H. L. Mencken. Strube was born in the Harz Mountains of Ballenstadt in 1867 and came from a musically gifted family. By the age of 10, Strube was in his father’s symphony, and at the age of 16 he entered the Leipzig Conservatory. Strube used to earn pocket money by making dance music for Saturday night dance parties. Upon graduation he entered the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and played under Johann Strauss, the younger, while teaching at the Mannheim Conservatory. In 1889 Strube and conductor Artur Nikisch immigrated to the United States to play in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he said. Strube played in the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 23 years, and eventually became concert maestro. Strube was one of the first conductors of the Boston Pops, formed because of the success of “march m

Gustav Wohlgemuth

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Gustav Wohlgemuth (2 December 1863 – 2 March 1937) was a German choral conductor and composer. Career Wohlgemuth was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. From 1878, he attended the teacher training seminar in Grimma. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the Leipzig Volksschule . During this time he conducted two men’s chorus: the Liederfels and the Liederhain. On 14 March 1891, Wohlgemuth united both choirs to form one men’s chorus, which he directed until his death and led to national fame. In 1900 he gave up his teaching profession and studied for three years at the Leipzig Conservatory. In the same year, he also took over the direction of the , a mixed choir which was founded in 1802 by the then director of the Gewandhaus concerts and later Thomaskantor, Johann Gottfried Schicht. From 1896 to 1932, Wohlgemuth took part in the festivals of the as festival conductor of the complete chorus. From 1898 until 1932, he was a member of the executive committee of the Deutscher Sängerbund as musical expert of the managing committee. In the autumn of 1906, Wohlgemuth took over as editor of the magazine Sängerhalle (later Deutsche Sängerbund-Zeitung) for 20 years. He was a member of the Leip

Gustave Charpentier

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Gustave Charpentier (; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. Life and career Charpentier was born in Dieuze, Moselle, the son of a baker, and with the assistance of a rich benefactor he studied violin at the conservatoire in Lille before entering the Paris Conservatoire in 1881. There he took lessons in composition under Jules Massenet (from 1885) and had a reputation of wanting to shock his professors. In 1887 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Didon. A film adaptation of the work followed in 1939 with Grace Moore in the title role. At the revival of Louise at the Opéra-Comique on 28 February 1950, celebrating the 50th anniversary of its creation and the 90th birthday of its composer, it was hoped that Charpentier himself might conduct the performance, but André Cluytens did so, with the composer conducting the “Chant de l’apothéose” after the third act. Louise is still occasionally performed today, with the soprano aria “Depuis le jour” a popular recital piece. In 1902, Charpentier founded the Conservatoire Populaire Mimi Pinson, intended to provide a free artistic education to Paris’s working girls. However, he became unpro

Gustave Doret

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Gustave Charles Vincent Mathey-Doret (20 September 1866 – 19 April 1943) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Career Doret was born in 1866 in Aigle, Switzerland. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Music with Joseph Joachim, and then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet. His career as a conductor began in 1894 in Paris, where he led the first performance of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. He was second conductor of the Concerts d’Harcourt from 1893 to 1895 and director of the Opéra-Comique in the 1890s and 1900s. He was also the founder of the Théâtre du Jorat, in Mézières. His two serious operas, heavily indebted to Massenet, were performed in Paris; his light opera and other stage works were far more popular across French-speaking Europe. In 1914, Doret returned to Switzerland and began studying local popular music and folk music traditions. He also wrote for Swiss newspapers and wrote a memoir, Temps et contretemps, published in 1942. Most of his output was vocal, and included operas, music theatre pieces, one oratorio, choral music, and more than 300 songs. His only instrumental works were two orchestral pieces, a string quartet, an

Gustave Goublier

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Gustave Goublier, born Gustave Conin, (15 January 1856, Paris – 27 October 1926, Paris) was a French composer, conductor, and pianist. His younger son was the operetta composer Henri Goublier. He became known for his popular mélodies. These include “La voix des chênes”, “L’Angélus de la mer”, and “Le Credo du paysan”; the latter two especially being important early hits. In October 1890, his first musical stage work, the one act Chanteur et Pipelot, was mounted in Lille. As a conductor, Goublier was music director of the El Dorado music hall in Paris for six years. While there his one act musicals Par-devant le notaire (1899), Le Serum de l’amour (1899), and Les Filles de la Belle Helene (1900) were performed there. He left this post to become music director of the Moulin Rouge. He also served as an orchestra conductor at the Parisiana, and Folies Bergère. His most successful work, the operetta Mam’zelle Boy Scout, was given its premiere at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on April 3, 1915. His last work, Ah! Quelle nuit was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord on November 19, 1920. References

Gusztáv Szerémi

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Gusztáv Szerémi (; also Gustave Szerémi, Gustav Szerémi; 9 May 1877 in Budapest – 16 August 1952 in Budapest) was a Hungarian violinist, violist and composer. Szerémi was professor of violin and viola at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music (Országos Magyar Királyi Zeneakadémia, now the Franz Liszt Academy of Music) in Budapest around the turn of the 20th century. His pedagogical works for viola were introduced as the official curriculum of the Academy. Selected works ;Concertante * Concerto No. 1 in F major for viola (viola alto) and orchestra, Op. 6 (published 1890s) * Concerto No. 2 in g minor for viola (viola alto) and orchestra, Op. 57 (1911) * Concertino No. 1 in G major for violin and orchestra, Op. 63 * Concertino No. 2 in E minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 64 * Concertino No. 3 in D major for violin and orchestra, Op. 65 ;Chamber music * Rêverie for viola (viola alto) and piano, Op. 2 * Souvenir, Morceau de salon for violin and piano, Op. 3 * Rêverie in F major for violin and piano, Op. 5 * Öt előadást képző könnyü hegedűdarab (5 Easy Concert Pieces in Positions I–V; 5 Leichte Vortragstücke von I. bis V. Lage) for violin and piano, Op. 5 :# Gyermekjelenet (Kind

Guy d'Hardelot

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Guy d’Hardelot (August 1858 – 7 January 1936) was the pen name of Helen Rhodes (née Helen Guy), a French composer, pianist and teacher. Biography D’Hardelot was born Helen Guy, to an English father and a French mother, at Château d’Hardelot, near Boulogne-sur-Mer. At the age of 15, she went to Paris, where she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Marie Renaud-Maury (1852-1928) and came to the notice of Charles Gounod and Victor Maurel, who were much impressed with her ability. She also met Jules Massenet, who encouraged her to compose. On coming to London, she became a pupil of Clarence Lucas. Emma Calvé was a good friend to d’Hardelot and did much to bring her songs to notice. Most of her life, d’Hardelot was engaged in teaching singing and diction at her home in London and many of her pupils attained success. In 1896, she toured the United States with Calvé. Her first real success as a composer was won with “Because”, though her song “Sans Toi” had previously been favorably received. Among her other successes were “I Know a Lovely Garden”, “I Think”, “I Hid My Love”, “Dawn” and “A Bunch of Violets”. She was singularly successful as a writer of songs, in which she combined

Guy Ropartz

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Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor), stage works, a number of choral works and other music, often alluding to his Breton heritage. Ropartz also published poetry. Life Ropartz was born in Guingamp, Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany. He studied initially at Rennes. In 1885 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, studying under Théodore Dubois, then Jules Massenet, where he became a close friend of the young Georges Enesco. He later studied the organ under César Franck. He was appointed director of the Nancy Conservatory (at the time a branch of the Paris Conservatory) from 1894 to 1919, where he established classes in viola in 1894, trumpet in 1895, harp and organ in 1897, then trombone in 1900. He also founded the season of symphonic concerts with the newly created orchestra of the Conservatory, ancestor of the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy. Ropartz was associated with the Breton cultural renaissance of the era, setting to music the words of Breton writers such as Anatole Le

Hakon Børresen

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Axel Ejnar Hakon Børresen (2 June 1876 – 6 October 1954) was one of the foremost Danish composers of the 20th century. Life Børresen was born and died in Copenhagen, and was descended from a merchant family. As a child, he was given violin, cello and piano lessons. When Børresen made clear to his father that he wished to become a composer, the latter arranged for him to study at the Royal Danish Conservatory in 1895. There he studied composition with Johan Svendsen. After further private studies, his First Symphony was privately premiered in 1901. It made his name as an up-and-coming composer. There followed travels in Germany, France and Belgium, where he made many useful connections. From 1902 on he divided his time between Copenhagen and Skagen where he maintained a second home. Børresen was an important organizer of several Danish music festivals and served as the president of Danish Composers Union between 1924 and 1949. At the time of his death, he was widely regarded as one of Denmark’s most important musicians. His opera The Royal Guest is widely regarded as the best early 20th-century Danish opera, and his chamber music works received considerable critical praise. His work

Hale A. VanderCook

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Hale Ascher VanderCook (3 September 1864 – 16 October 1949) was a composer, conductor, and cornetist best known for his marches and brass solos. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and began composing at the age of sixteen. He was performing in bands by the age of 14, and became conductor of the J.H. LaPearl Circus Band in 1891. He conducted circus and theater bands for much of the 1890s. VanderCook composed over 70 marches as well as numerous series for solo brass instruments. Among his most famous marches are American Stride, Olevine, Pacific Fleet, Pageant of Columbia and S.S. Theodore Roosevelt. He published his Course in Band and Orchestra Directing in 1916. VanderCook studied cornet with Frank Holton and A.F. Weldon. He founded VanderCook College of Music (originally called VanderCook Cornet School) in 1909. VanderCook composed scores of student-level solo works for the cornet and other brass instruments, often grouped into topical sets such as the Trumpet Stars (Arcturus, Orion, Vega, etc.), birds (The Warbler, The Starling, The Meadowlark, etc.) and flowers (Columbine, Peony, Chrysanthemum, etc.). Many of the solos were included in the curriculum of his mail order cornet cou

Halfdan Cleve

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Halfdan Cleve born Halfdan Klewe (5 October 1879 – 6 April 1951) was a Norwegian composer, and father of the singer and composer Cissi Cleve. Biography Cleve was born and raised in Kongsberg, Norway. He lived some time in Germany. Some examples of his output as a composer are piano concertos, other piano works, and some chamber music. He was described as a child prodigy. He married pianist (10 February 1878 – 23 September 1964) and they had four children. That same year, he married Berit Winderen, a student of Teresa Carreño, and made numerous concert appearances together, both in Norway and abroad. Cleve composed five piano concertos, a violin sonata, a piano quintet, songs with orchestral accompaniment and over one hundred piano pieces. In the last period of his life (1926–50), he worked as a piano teacher at Music Conservatory in Oslo and died 1951 in Oslo. Works * 1900: 7 Klaverstykker, op. 1 * 1901: Klaverkonsert nr. 1, op. 3 * 1904: Klaverkonsert nr. 2, op. 6 * 1907: Klaverkonsert nr. 3, op. 9 * 1908: Four songs with orchestra to palms by Olaf Schou, op. 11 * 1912: Klaverkonsert nr. 4, op. 12 * 1915: Klaverkonsert nr. 5, op. 20 * 1931: Sonata for violin and piano, op. 21 (op.

Hamilton Harty

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Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (4 December 1879 – 19 February 1941) was an Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist. After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved to London at about age 20, soon becoming a well-known piano accompanist. The Musical Times called him “the prince of accompanists”. As a composer he wrote throughout his career, many of his works being well received, though few are regularly performed in the 21st century. In his career as a conductor, which began in 1904, Harty was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz. From 1920 to 1933 he was the chief conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he returned to the high standards and critical acclaim that it had enjoyed under its founder, Charles Hallé. His last permanent post was with the London Symphony Orchestra, but it lasted only two years, from 1932 to 1934. During his conducting career, Harty made some recordings with his orchestras. Shortly after his dismissal by the LSO, Harty began to suffer the symptoms of a brain tumour. After surgery, he resumed his career until 1940, but the tumour returned to cause his death at the age of 61. Life and care

Hamish MacCunn

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Hamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn (22 March 18682 August 1916) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher. He was one of the first students of the newly founded Royal College of Music in London, and quickly made a mark. As a composer he achieved early success with his orchestral piece The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1887), and, later, his first opera, Jeanie Deans (1894). His subsequent compositions did not match those two successes, and although he continued to compose throughout his life, he became best known as a conductor and teacher. He held teaching appointments at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. As a conductor MacCunn served as musical director to the Carl Rosa, Moody-Manners and D’Oyly Carte opera companies, and worked with Thomas Beecham in the latter’s London opera seasons in 1910 and 1915 and on tour. Life and career Early years James MacCunn was born in Greenock, Scotland, the second son of James MacCunn and his wife Barbara, née Neill. It was a musical household: MacCunn senior, a prosperous shipowner by profession, was an amateur cellist; his wife, a former pupil of Sterndale Bennett, sang and played the piano. The parents enco

Hanina Karchevsky

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Hanina Karchevsky (1877-20 December 1925), was a Jewish composer, conductor and music teacher who became an important figure in the establishment of the musical culture of the pre-state Yishuv and of Israel. Biography Karchevsky was born in 1877 in Petrovka, a village in Russian-ruled Bessarabia. He moved with his parents to the nearby town of Bender, where he studied Torah. At the same time, he learned piano and notation with his teacher, who was also a cantor (hazzan) where he was heard by the well-known cantor Zeidel Rovner, who convinced his parents to move to Kishinev, so the child could join the synagogue’s choir. At the age of 22, he moved to Warsaw, where he conducted an army orchestra. As a supporter of Zionism, he immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1908, during the Second Aliyah. He taught music there in several institutes, among them the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, where he founded an orchestra and a choir. Notes External links * Hanina Karchevsky’s Music, National Library of Israel. Accessed 24 March 2024.

Hans Huber (composer)

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Hans Huber (28 June 185225 December 1921) was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys. Biography He was born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau (Canton of Solothurn). The son of an amateur musician, Huber became a chorister and showed an early talent for the piano. In 1870, he entered Leipzig Conservatory, where his teachers included Oscar Paul. In 1877, he returned to Basel to teach, but did not obtain a post in the Conservatory there until 1889; seven years later, he became director. Among his notable students were Hans Münch and Hermann Suter. In 1889, Huber wrote an A major symphony, which was conducted in December 1889 by Friedrich Hegar, and whose full score survives. He wrote in all nine symphonies, eight acknowledged, and several concertos, two for violin and four for piano. During his last years, he lived in Minusio in Villa Ginia. He died at Locarno. Works Huber’s first symphony, in D minor, subtitled “Tellsinfonie” has a slight programmatic element, derived from the story of the Swiss national hero William Tell. The symphony is somewhat similar in style a

Hans Pfitzner

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Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a Russian-born German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), very loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli. Life Pfitzner was born in Moscow where his father played cello in a theater orchestra. The family returned to his father’s native town Frankfurt in 1872, when Pfitzner was two years old, he always considered Frankfurt his home town. He received early instruction in violin from his father, and his earliest compositions were composed at age 11. In 1884 he wrote his first songs. From 1886 to 1890 he studied composition with Iwan Knorr and piano with James Kwast at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. (He later married Kwast’s daughter Mimi Kwast, a granddaughter of Ferdinand Hiller, after she had rejected the advances of Percy Grainger.) He taught piano and theory at the Koblenz Conservatory from 1892 to 1893. In 1894 he was appointed conductor at the Staatstheater Mainz where he worked for a few months. These were all low-paying jobs, and Pfitzner

Hans Rott

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Johann Nepomuk Karl Maria Rott (1 August 1858 – 25 June 1884) was an Austrian composer and organist. His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner. He left a symphony and Lieder, among other works. Life Rott was born in Braunhirschengrund, a suburb of Vienna. His mother Maria Rosalia (1840–1872; née Lutz) was an actress and singer. His father Carl Mathias Rott, who married her in 1862 (born 1807; né Roth), was a famous comic actor in Vienna who was crippled in 1874 by a stage accident which led to his death two years later. Studies Hans was left alone to continue his studies at the Conservatory. Fortunately, both his skill and financial need were recognized and he was excused from paying tuition. While studying, he briefly roomed with Gustav Mahler and . He studied piano with Leopold Landskron and Josef Dachs, harmony with Hermann Graedener, counterpoint and composition—like Mahler—with Franz Krenn. He studied organ with Bruckner, starting in 1874, and graduating from Bruckner’s organ class in 1877, with honors. Bruckner said that Rott played Bach very well, and even improvised wonderfully (a high compliment since

Hans Sitt

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Hans Sitt (born Jan Hanuš Sitt on 21 September 1850, Prague – 10 March 1922, Leipzig), was a Bohemian violinist, violist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the foremost teachers of violin. Most of the orchestras and conservatories of Europe and North America then sported personnel who numbered among his students. Biography Sitt was born in Prague the son of Anton Sitt (originally Szytt) the Elder (1819–1878), a prominent Hungarian-born violin maker. Sitt’s musical talent manifested itself early and from all accounts, he could easily have enjoyed the typical career of a “wunderkind” had his parents chosen to exploit him, but they wisely refused this course. Instead, he was allowed to have a normal life and received a regular education at a gymnasium (high school) before being sent to the Prague Conservatory. There he studied violin with Moritz Mildner (1812–1865) and Antonín Bennewitz, and composition with Josef Krejčí (1821–1881) and Johann Friedrich Kittl (1806–1868) from 1861 to 1867. along with Hugo Becker, Julius Klengel, and founder Adolph Brodsky. Besides his pedagogical works, Sitt wrote several pieces for violin and orchestra, including s

Hans von Koessler

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Hans von Koessler (1 January 1853 – 23 May 1926) was a German composer, conductor and music teacher. In Hungary, where he worked for 26 years, he was known as János Koessler. Biography Koessler, a cousin of Max Reger, was born in Waldeck, Fichtelgebirge (now part of Kemnath, Upper Palatinate). He was taught the organ from 1874 to 1877 by Josef Rheinberger and attended the choir lessons of Franz Wüllner in Munich. Immediately after that, he moved to Dresden, where he was appointed director and teacher for music theory and choral music at the Dresden School of Music. From 1878, he was also conductor of the Dresdner Liedertafel orchestra. From 1882 to 1908, he initially taught organ and choir at the National Music Academy of Budapest in Hungary. Later, he also became professor for composition and was also given a peerage. His students became some of the best Hungarian composers of the time: Zoltán Kodály, Béla Bartók, Ernő Dohnányi; for more After his retirement in 1908, he returned to Germany, but became appointed to the agency of Kálmán and Dohnányi in order to ensure that he received a moderate income. He died in Ansbach in 1926, aged 73. Music Koessler composed over 130 works, inc

Harald Fryklöf

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Harald Leonard Fryklöf (14 September 188211 March 1919) was a Swedish composer, music teacher, and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The music he wrote was in a Late Romantic style. At the time of his early death, he was considered a promising composer in Sweden, appreciated by his colleagues. Biography Harald Fryklöf was born in Uppsala. Little is known about his early life. In 1901 he entered the Royal Conservatory of Music, the predecessor of the present-day Royal College of Music, Stockholm. In 1902 he started taking private lessons, in addition to attending the conservatory. In 1905, he spent a term in Berlin, where he studied instrumentation under Philipp Scharwenka. Fryklöf considered this experience to be of great value for his development as a composer. He also took private piano lessons in Sweden from 1904 until 1910, and in general continuously sought to improve his skills and knowledge throughout his short life. He began teaching harmony and piano in 1904 and would continue to be active as a teacher for all his life, dividing his teaching efforts between private schools and the Royal Conservatory. In 1908 he attained the position of assistant organist at Sto

Harald Heide

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Harald Heide (March 8, 1876 – January 27, 1956) was a Norwegian violinist, conductor, and composer. Heide was born in Fredrikstad, the son of the violin-maker Johan Albert Heide (1847–1925). followed by a tour as a concert violinist in England and the United States. Under Heide’s management, the orchestra’s program was expanded, from six to eight concerts per year to over 80, and it was also better staffed with musicians for all of the positions in a symphony orchestra. Heide was a guest conductor in Helsinki in 1924, in Göteborg in 1928, and in Stockholm in 1931. Under his direction, the Harmony Music Society performed over 6,000 works by 455 different composers. Heide’s compositions for orchestra, including his Symphonie romantique, were stylistically influenced by Johan Halvorsen. In 1929, Heide married the singer Henriette Strindberg, née Nielsen (1894–1964). After her debut in 1918, she performed in operas and operettas in Oslo and Bergen, and also as a concert singer in these cities and in London. She later worked as a voice instructor at the Bergen Conservatory. Harald Heide was the brother of the actress Signe Heide Steen (1881–1959), who was the mother of the singer Randi

Harriet P. Sawyer

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Harriet Priscilla Sawyer Achorn (11 November 1862 – 20 May 1934) was an American composer who wrote mostly songs and some educational pieces for children. She was also known as Hattie, and published most of her music under the name Harriet P. Sawyer. Life and career Sawyer was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harriet Adams Hayes and Melville Sawyer. Little is known about her education, although her obituary stated that she “received her musical education in various European cities.” In 1897, George Whitefield Chadwick dedicated his song “The Rose Leans Over the Pool” to Sawyer. She married John Warren Achorn in 1907. In 1913, they were living in Boston. She died in Pinebluff, North Carolina on 20 May 1934. Sawyer’s music was published by Arthur P. Schmidt and G. Schirmer Inc. List and compositions Chamber *Five Pieces for Violin and Piano *Little Soldier Tunes Vocal *“Across the Dreary Sea” *“Barcarole” (text by Adolf Licht; included in Vier Lieder collection) *“Christmas Bells” (text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) References

Harriet Ware (composer)

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Harriet Ware (August 26, 1877 – February 9, 1962) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator. Early life Harriet Ware was born in Waupun, Wisconsin, the daughter of Silas Edward Ware and Emily Sperry Ware. She showed musical promise from an early age, and graduated from Pillsbury Conservatory of Music in 1895, with further studies in Paris and Berlin. Career Harriet Ware composed songs, choral works, piano pieces, and at least one opera, Undine. Her “Hindu Slumber Song” (1909) and Call of Râdha (1909) were settings of poems by Sarojini Naidu. She also wrote settings of poems by Thomas Moore, Edwin Markham, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Richard Lovelace, Bayard Taylor, Joyce Kilmer, and Marie Van Vorst. She also wrote musical plays, The Morning Glory and The Varying Shore, both with Zoë Akins. Her “Women’s Triumphal March” was the official song of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1929, and her setting of Daniel A. Poling’s poem “The Rose is Red” was the song of the American Mothers Association. Harriet Ware’s works were especially popular in programs of American song, or in programs focused on women composers. Harriet Ware saw the importance of wo

Harry Burleigh

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Harry Burleigh (born Henry Thacker Burleigh, December 2, 1866 – September 12, 1949) was an American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice. The first black composer who was instrumental in developing characteristically American music, Burleigh made black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to spirituals and by arranging spirituals in a more classical form. Burleigh also introduced Antonín Dvořák to Black American music, which influenced some of Dvořák’s most famous compositions and led him to say that Black music would be the basis of an American classical music. Early and family life Henry “Harry” Thacker Burleigh was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1866 to Elizabeth Burleigh and Henry Thacker. Burleigh’s maternal grandfather, Hamilton Waters, was granted manumission from slavery in Somerset County, Maryland, after paying $55 ($50 for him and $5 for his mother) in 1832 and receiving a certificate of freedom in 1835. They traveled to Ithaca, New York, where two of Waters’s half-brothers lived. After his mother died, Waters married Lucinda Duncanson. Their first child, Elizabeth Lovey Waters (who would be

Harry Dean (musician)

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Harry Dean (22 February 1879 – 30 October 1955) was a Canadian conductor, pianist, organist, and music educator of English birth. He was a particularly influential figure within the field of music education in Halifax, notably founding the Maritime Academy of Music and the Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers’ Association. Among his important students were Howard Brown, Harold Hamer, Georges and Carl Little, Gordon MacPherson, Jocelyn Pritchard, and Marguerita Spencer. Life Born in Yorkshire, Dean began his musical education in his native country with Tobias Matthay. He then pursued studies at the Leipzig Conservatory where he was a pupil of Robert Teichmüller (piano) and Paul Homeyer (organ). In 1906 he joined the faculty of the Halifax Conservatory of Music (HCM) as head of the school’s keyboard and theory department. Two years later he was promoted to director of the school, serving in that post for the next 26 years. He also worked as a professor at Dalhousie University from 1909 to 1932. From 1907 to 1917 he was the conductor of the Orpheus Club and from 1919 to 1954 he conducted the Halifax Philharmonic Society. He also was the organist and choirmaster at Fort Massey United

Harry Farjeon

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Harry Farjeon (6 May 1878 – 29 December 1948) was a British composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years. Early life and studies Harry Farjeon was born in Hohokus Township, New Jersey, United States, the eldest son of author Benjamin Farjeon, who was from the East End of London, and Margaret, the daughter of American actor Joseph Jefferson. His parents returned to Britain when he was a baby, and he lived in Hampstead in London for the rest of his life. His younger sister, Eleanor Farjeon (b. 1881), with whom he shared a rich imaginary life, wrote children’s books and poetry, including the hymn, Morning Has Broken. His younger brothers were J. Jefferson Farjeon (b. 1883), novelist, and Herbert Farjeon (b. 1887), writer of theatrical revues. Harry studied music privately with Landon Ronald and John Storer, then in 1895 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied composition with Battison Haynes and Frederick Corder, and piano with Septimus Webbe. There he was a contemporary of Arnold Bax, York Bowen, Adam Carse, Eric Coates, Benjamin Dale and Percy Hilder Miles. An opera, Floretta, to a libre

Harry Rowe Shelley

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Harry Rowe Shelley (June 8, 1858 – September 12, 1947) was an American composer, organist (church and concert), and professor of music. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and completed his musical education in London and Paris. According to his New York Times obituary, Shelley “penned church music that won him wide popularity. For 60 years a host of English-speaking peoples throughout the world sang his hymns.” Shelley attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut, and at fourteen played the organ at Center Church on the Green in New Haven. Although he entered Yale, he did not complete his freshman year. Shelley was organist at the Church of the Pilgrims during the ministry of Henry Ward Beecher and played at his funeral. Shelley died at age 89 in Short Beach, Connecticut. Shelley taught at the American Institute of Applied Music, where his students included composers Mabel Madison Watson and Gertrude Hoag Wilson, among others. Positions held * 1878–1881 – Organist, Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn * 1881–1887 – Organist, Plymouth Church (same)

Hartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn

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Hartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn (21 December 1863 – 6 December 1914) was an Austrian Catholic priest, composer, organist, and conductor. Life He was born Paul Eugen Josef von An der Lan-Hochbrunn in Salorno, County of Tyrol, descended from an ancient noble Tirolean family. His father was a railway officer in Salorno. He completed his first musical studies at the Academy of Bolzano. In 1880, he joined the Order of Friars Minor (better known as the Franciscan friars) at the age of sixteen at their novitiate in Salzburg, where he received his religious name of Hartmann. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1886 in Brixen. After serving as organist and choir director in Lienz and Reutte, he then studied in Innsbruck with Josef Pembauer. In 1893 Lan-Hochbrunn was sent to the Holy Land, where he became organist at the Monastery of Saint Saviour and director of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Jerusalem, and from 1894 organist at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there. In 1895, Lan-Hochbrunn went to Rome, where he worked as organist at the Franciscan Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitoline Hill and from 1901 as director of the conservatory on the Piazza Santa Chiara

Havergal Brian

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William Havergal Brian (29 January 187628 November 1972) was an English composer, librettist, and church organist. He is best known for having composed 32 symphonies—an unusually high number amongst his contemporaries—25 of them after the age of 70. His best-known work is his Symphony No. 1, The Gothic, which calls for some of the largest orchestral forces demanded by a conventionally structured concert work. He also composed five operas and a number of other orchestral works, as well as songs, choral music and a small amount of chamber music. Brian enjoyed a period of popularity earlier in his career and rediscovery in the 1950s, but public performances of his music have remained rare and he has been described as a cult composer. He continued to be extremely productive late into his career, composing large works even into his nineties, most of which remained unperformed during his lifetime. Life Early life William Havergal Brian was born on 29 January 1876 in Dresden, in the Potteries district of Staffordshire, near the Stoke-on-Trent suburb of Longton. He was one of a very small number of composers to originate from the English working class. Brian’s middle name Havergal, by whic

Haydn Wood

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Haydn Wood (25 March 1882 – 11 March 1959) was a 20th-century English composer and concert violinist, best known for his 200 or so ballad style songs, including the popular Roses of Picardy. while Daniel S Wood (1872-1927) was principal flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra from 1910, taught flute at the Royal Academy of Music and composed practice pieces that are still in use today. In 1897, at the Royal College of Music, Haydn Wood studied violin with Enrique Fernández Arbós and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford. In 1901, he was soloist at a special concert commemorating the opening of the Royal College of Music’s Concert Hall. The concert was attended by Joseph Joachim (who had heard him play before) and Pablo de Sarasate. They were so impressed that they sent him to Brussels for study with the renowned teacher César Thomson. Career He then embarked on a world tour, accompanying the Canadian soprano Dame Emma Albani and they continued their association for a further eight years. reportedly selling 50,000 sheet music copies per month and earning a six figure royalty sum The song Love’s Garden of Roses was written in 1915, but didn’t become well known until populari

Hedwige Chrétien

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Hedwige (Gennaro)-Chrétien (5 July 1859 – 4 April 1944) She was a prolific composer, yet not much else is known about her life. Her compositions, about 150 in all, consist of pieces for piano, orchestral and chamber works, songs, two ballets and two one-act operas. One of the most extensive collections of her work in the United States is held in the University of Michigan’s Women Composers Collection, which is available on microfilm from there and other libraries. Ballets * Ballet orientale, ballet * La Valée des sphinx, ballet in two acts Chamber works * Berceuse (violin) * Grand solo (Andante et Allegro) (1886) (trombone) * In memoriam (1934) (violoncello and organ) * Lied ‘Soir d’Automne (cello and piano) * Poème lyrique (1886) (competitive examination winner for Société des compositeurs de musique) * Quintette (Arabesque et Sarabande) (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano) * Serenade sous bois (trio for flute, oboe and piano) * Trio pour violon, violoncello and piano (Allegro con fuoco, Andante expressivo, Scherzo) Choral * Les Ailes du rêve! * L’Angelus * Août, words by Horace Hennion from Mois, Mixed choir SATB * Ballade * L’Été * La Madone des champs (3 voices) * L

Heinrich Albert (guitarist)

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Heinrich Albert (16 July 1870 – 12 March 1950) was a German guitarist, composer and teacher – the most prominent German classical guitarist of his time. Life Heinrich Albert was born in Würzburg and initially learned violin and horn, studying the latter at the Königliche Musikschule Royal Music School Würzburg (1881–8). Following his studies he played in various orchestras in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and Russia. Between 1895 and 1900 he was a member of the Kaim Orchestra, the predecessor of the Munich Philharmonic, playing under such renowned conductors as Felix Weingartner, Arthur Nikisch, Ferdinand Löwe, and Gustav Mahler. Around 1892 he began to teach himself the guitar, aided, from about 1905, by Luigi Mozzani. His performing career, both as guitarist and as conductor of a mandolin orchestra, lasted from 1900 to 1943. In 1900 he began to establish himself as a full-time teacher of guitar and mandolin in Munich. Among his most prominent pupils were Luise Walker and the comedian Karl Valentin. In 1909, he was appointed “Kammervirtuose” chamber virtuoso by Marie of Bavaria. Around 1910, he founded a unique guitar quartet following the principles of the string quartet, using i

Heinrich Berté

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Heinrich Berté (), born Heinrich Bettelheim (8 May 1857 – 23 August 1924) was an Austrian-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas. Life Heinrich Berté was born in Galgócz, Hungary (now Hlohovec, Slovakia) in a Jewish family. At the beginning of his career, he was a relatively unsuccessful composer of ballets and an opera. In 1911 he was offered a libretto by the writer Alfred Maria Willner for an opera about Franz Schubert, based on the novel, Schwammerl by Rudolf Hans Bartsch, but this was turned down and he was told to use Schubert’s music in a pastiche instead. On 15 January 1916, his first performed work, an arrangement of Franz Schubert’s Das Dreimäderlhaus was premiered in the Raimund Theater in Vienna, Gretl Schörg’s voice was discovered during the run. The operetta was translated into 22 languages and in 1921 it opened as Blossom Time in New York City, in 1922 as Lilac Time in London), and was performed in over 60 countries, it was a worldwide success. The operetta was filmed several times. Berté could not build on this success; his second Schubert operetta was unsuccessful. He died in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria, aged 66. Works Opera * Schneeflocke (Vienna, 1896) Operettas

Heinrich Grünfeld

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Heinrich Grünfeld (21 April 1855 – 26 August 1931) was a Czech-Austrian cellist, music educator and composer. He published his autobiography, ‘In Dur und Moll’ in 1923, an historically important source for Brahms, Joachim, and Richard Strauss. He is the brother of pianist and composer Alfred Grünfeld. Early life Heinrich Grünfeld was born on 21 April 1855 into an affluent Jewish family in Prague, the son of merchant Moritz Grünfeld (1817, Kolín – 1882, Vienna) and his wife Regina, née Pick (1826, Dobruška – 1881, Vienna). After the discovery of his elder brother Alfred’s musical talent, the family home became a key part of Prague’s music scene. Grünfeld thus became acquainted with many of the prominent Czech musicians of the time, including Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and David Popper, with the latter of whom he became close friends. Popper later dedicated two Spanish dances to Grünfeld. Grünfeld studied the cello from the age of fourteen, first with Alois Neruda and then with Frantisek Hegenbarth at the Prague Conservatory, graduating in 1873, where he was a contemporary of Hanuš Wihan, Karel Halíř, Otakar Ševčík and Florián Zajíc. Three of Grünfeld’s four brothers also went o

Heinrich Jalowetz

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Heinrich Jalowetz (December 3, 1882 – February 2, 1946) was an Austrian musicologist and conductor, who settled in the United States. He was among the musicians associated with Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School. Biography Heinrich Jalowetz was born on December 3, 1882, in Brünn, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents Emilie Jalowetz (née Deutsch) and Julius Jalowetz. A musicology pupil of Guido Adler, Jalowetz was among Arnold Schoenberg’s first students in Vienna, 1904–1908. He completed his doctorate degree in 1908, with a dissertation on Ludwig van Beethoven’s early techniques in melody. From 1909 to 1933, he worked as a conductor in Regensburg, Danzig, Stettin, Prague, Vienna and Cologne (as successor to Otto Klemperer). In 1933, he left Germany and moved to Prague with his wife because of the rise of anti-semitism in Nazi Germany. After emigrating to the United States in 1938, he taught at Black Mountain College, North Carolina. Though his name is less widely known than that of many of Schoenberg’s more famous students, Schoenberg regarded Jalowetz very highly indeed. He is one of the seven “dead friends” (the others being Alban Berg, Anton Weber

Heinrich Köselitz

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Johann Heinrich Köselitz (10 January 1854 – 15 August 1918) was a German author and composer. He is known for his longtime friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche, who gave him the pseudonym Peter Gast. Life Köselitz was born in Annaberg, Saxony to (1822–1910), the vice mayor (Vizebürgermeister), and his wife Caroline (1819–1900), a native of Vienna. His younger brother was the painter Rudolf Köselitz. From 1872, Köselitz studied music with Ernst Friedrich Richter at the University of Leipzig. He transferred in 1875 to the University of Basel, where he attended the lectures of Jacob Burckhardt, Franz Overbeck, and Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1877, Köselitz sharply criticized the Basel music instructor Selmar Bagge in a newspaper article, which led to a minor scandal. In Basel, a friendship developed between Köselitz and Nietzsche. Köselitz read for Nietzsche during the latter’s intermittent spells of near blindness, and also took dictation. Köselitz was instrumental in the preparation of all of Nietzsche’s works after 1876, reviewing the printer’s manuscript and sometimes intervening to finalize the text formatting. Nietzsche’s break with Wagner and his search for a ‘southern’ aesthetic wi

Heinrich Reimann

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Heinrich Reimann (March 12, 1850 – May 24, 1906), was a German musicologist, organist, and composer. Reimann was born in Rengersdorf, Silesia, and was a son of Ignaz Reimann, also a musician. Reimann studied at the University of Breslau and was awarded a degree in classical philology in 1875, having simultaneously studied organ with the Silesian composer and organist Moritz Brosig (1815–1887). It was only in 1886 that Reimann changed his profession to music, becoming active in Berlin as an organist, choral conductor, and write on subjects from Byzantine music through Wagner and contemporary composition. Reimann was appointed official organist for the Berlin Philharmonic where he performed on the Schlag und Söhne organ (1888), and became instructor in music theory and organ at the Klindworth-Schwarwenka-Conservatory; he was later appointed organist at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche in 1895 (where Wilhelm Sauer’s largest organ to date—Opus 660—was installed). In fact, Reimann was responsible for the addition of a fourth manual to the organ in 1897 in the form of an enclosed echo division (German: Fernwerk), which spoke through a soundproof duct and stone wall to a screen directl

Heinrich Reinhardt (composer)

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Heinrich Reinhardt (1865–1922) was an Austrian composer. He died on 31 January 1922 in Vienna and is buried at the Döbling Cemetery. Biography Reinhardt was born on 13 April 1865 in Pressburg (now Bratislava). The son of a jeweller, he went to Vienna to study at the conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde where he was one of Anton Bruckner’s pupils. He became an accomplished pianist and organist, and his familiarity with several other instruments later served him well as orchestrator of his own works and those of others. Between 1890 and 1900 he published numerous songs, piano and salon pieces, as well as an opera, Die Minnekönigin (1895). He also wrote music reports for the Neue Freie Presse, Neues Wiener Journal and Die Zeit, but abandoned this after the tremendous success of his first operetta, Das süsse Mädel (Carltheater, 25 October 1901). It opened a new phase for Viennese operetta, being more overtly in the song and dance musical comedy style. However, Reinhardt’s dozen later works were eclipsed by those of Edmund Eysler, Franz Lehár, Oscar Straus and Leo Fall. Compositions Operas * Die Minnekönigin (1895) * Der Söldner (1922) Operettas * Das süsse Mädel (1901) * D

Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz

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Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz, also Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss, Younger Line (German: Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß zu Köstritz, also Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß jüngere Linie, 8 December 1855 – 2 October 1910) was a German aristocrat and composer. Early life Heinrich XXIV was born on 8 December 1855 in Trebschen in the Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia. A descendant of the Reuss-Köstritz line, the Younger Line, of the extended German noble family of Reuss, he was the son of Prince (Fürst, monarch) Heinrich IV Reuss of Köstritz (1821–1894) and Princess Luise Caroline Reuss of Greiz (1822–1875). Among his siblings were Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria. Heinrich XXIV spent his youth in Vienna, where he was influenced greatly by the artistic atmosphere of his parents’ home. He received his first music lessons in piano, organ and counterpoint from his father Heinrich IV, himself a dilettante and composition student of Carl Gottlieb Reissiger. Career Heinrich XXIV received formal music instruction in Dresden, and continued his studies at the Universities, first in Bonn, then in Leipzig where he was a pupil of Wilhelm Rust. Despite his obvious musical talent,

Heinrich Zöllner

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Heinrich Zöllner (4 July 1854 – 8 May 1941) was a German composer and conductor. Biography The son of composer Carl Friedrich Zöllner, Heinrich Zöllner was born in Leipzig. From 1875 to 1877 he attended the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied music under Carl Reinecke, Salomon Jadassohn, and Ernst Friedrich Richter. In 1878, Zöllner became the director of music at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu) in Estonia where he stayed for almost seven years. In 1885, he joined the faculty at the Cologne Conservatory and while there he conducted the Cologne Male Voice Choir. Zöllner moved to the United States in 1890 to become the conductor and director of the Deutscher Liederkranz in New York City. He remained in that position for eight years and achieved considerable success. His cantata, Die neue Welt (The New World), won a prize at the 1892 Cleveland Sängerfest. overtures, works for solo and four-hand piano, choral music, lieder, and numerous smaller vocal pieces. Like his father, Zöllner composed a significant number of pieces for men’s chorus. However, unlike his father, he showed a preference for large-scale works with full orchestral accompaniment. He is probably best remembered f

Helen Buchholtz

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Charlotte Helena Geiger-Buchholtz (24 November 1877 in Esch-sur-Alzette – 22 October 1953 in Luxembourg City) was a Luxembourgish composer. She left around 136 compositions in manuscript, including 53 Lieder (settings of Luxembourgian, German, and French texts), nineteen choral works, fourteen piano sonatas, 38 character pieces and dances for piano, eight works for symphony orchestra, and six works for wind ensemble, sixteen of these published during her lifetime. The manuscript archive is held by Cid-femmes (Women’s Information Center) in Luxembourg. The center organized a three-year celebration, from 2009 to 2011, of Buchholtz’s work that included concerts, recordings, and music editions. Helen Buchholtz was born to the Esch-based Buchholtz-Ettinger family. Her father was the owner of a hardware store and the founder of the Buchholtz brewery. She started learning music from a very early age. After finishing primary school, she attended a girls’ boarding school in Longwy. On 2 April 1914, she married the German doctor Bernhard Geiger, and the couple moved to Wiesbaden. After her husband died in 1921, she returned to Luxembourg and lived in Luxembourg City in the Boulevard Paul Eys

Helen Hopekirk

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Helen Hopekirk (20 May 1856 – 19 November 1945) was a Scottish-born American pianist and composer, who after the age of 40, lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts. Life and career Helen Hopekirk was born in Portobello, Edinburgh in Scotland, a daughter of music shop owners Adam and Helen (née Croall) Hopekirk. She studied music with George Lichtenstein and Scottish composer Alexander Mackenzie, and made her debut as a soloist in 1874 with the Edinburgh Amateur Orchestral Society. After other successful performances and the death of her father, she relocated to study composition with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig. After successful debuts in Leipzig and London, she began regular concert tours of Europe. In 1882 Hopekirk married Edinburgh merchant and music critic William A. Wilson (d. 1926), who began serving as her manager. She made her American debut in 1883 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and commenced concert tours in the United States. She planned to continue her studies with Franz Liszt, but after his death studied instead with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna and Czech composer Karel Navrátil in Prague. She and her husband lived in Vienna until 1892, and then moved to Paris, whe

Helen May Butler

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Helen May Butler (1867–1957) was an American bandleader and composer who has been called “The female Sousa”. Leading an all-women’s band from 1898 to 1912, she had an extremely successful career at a time when women were discouraged from such public activities. She died on June 16, 1957, in Covington. External Links * Cosmopolitan America March for band

Helena Stone Torgerson

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Helena Stone Torgerson (1878 – September 9, 1941) was an American harpist and composer of harp music, based in Chicago. Early life Helena Stone was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of Frank A. Stone and India E. Colestock Stone. Her father was a manufacturer. Career Helena Stone played harp at public events from her teenaged years. In 1899 she replaced Edmund Schuecker as harpist of the Bruno Steindel Concert Company. She was listed among the best-known women harpists in the United States in 1908, and in 1926 Torgerson was described as “Chicago’s best woman harpist.” Torgerson performed as a solo harpist and in ensemble, and sometimes played her own compositions. She also gave talks about harp music and the history of the instrument. She had a custom-made concert harp, “built on larger scale than is commonly used”, for “bigness and resonance of the tone”. “Mrs. Torgerson plays the harp in an altogether superior way,” commented one writer in 1913, adding that “besides possessing transcendent technic for the instrument, she is a thorough musician and has abundant good taste in interpretation.” Torgerson also taught harp and composed harp music. She studied composition wit

Hélène Fleury-Roy

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Hélène-Gabrielle Fleury-Roy (21 June 1876 – 18 April 1957) was a French composer and the first woman to gain a prize at the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition. Background Fleury was born in Carlepont, Department Oise, France. She studied with Henri Dallier, Charles-Marie Widor, and André Gedalge at the Paris Conservatory. In the late 1890s, she lived in La Ferte-sous-Jouarre (Seine-et-Marne). She sent compositions to the Journal Musical Santa Cecilia Reims Composition Competition, and won in 1899 with Symphony Allegro for organ. Fleury-Roy was the first woman admitted in 1903 to the Prix de Rome competition. On her first attempt at the prize, she failed the fugue test, but the next year she tried again and succeeded with the cantata Medora (libretto: Édouard Adenis) for two male and one female voice. She was awarded a third prize in the Grand Prix. Hélène Fleury-Roy became a piano teacher after marrying her husband Louis Roy, a professor of mechanics at the university of Toulouse, in about 1906, and resided in Paris. In 1928, she became a professor at the Conservatory of Toulouse, teaching harmony, composition and piano. Her notable students at the conservatory included the c

Hendrika van Tussenbroek

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Hendrika Cornelia van Tussenbroek (2 December 1854 – 21 June 1935) was a Dutch composer and teacher who is best known for her music for children. Tussenbroek was born in Utrecht. She studied music with Richard Hol and Johan Wagenaar, and collaborated with composer Catharina van Rennes. She gave singing and piano lessons in Utrecht and Amsterdam. Several of her songs were included in the popular Dutch textbook Can You Still Sing, Sing Along, which was reprinted in 41 editions between 1906 and 1986. Tussenbroek wrote words as well as music for many of her songs and operettas. She also composed music for texts by other writers, including Jan Dirk Christiaan van Dokkum, J.N. van Hall, Jan Pieter Heije, C.H. de Jong and Jacoba Mossel. was performed at the National Exhibition of Women’s Labor at The Hague in 1898. Tussenbroek rehearsed the children herself. The premiere was for paid subscribers; a free performance open to the public was held later. Helen Metzelaar noted in 2001 that Tussenbroek and Catharina van Rennes “inspired a love of music in both young and old” and “created a new genre for children which remained viable in the Netherlands up to the 1960s.” References External links

Henri Berény

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Henri Weiss, better known as Henri Berény and also given as Henrik Berény and Henry Bereny (1 January 1871 – 23 March 1932) was a Hungarian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, screenwriter and film director. He is best remembered as a composer of operas and operettas. The brother of composer and pianist Josef Weiss, his best known works are Lord Piccolo (also known as Little Boy Blue) and Das Mädel von Montmartre (English: The Girl from Montmartre), both of which were staged on Broadway and at theaters internationally. In addition to his work for the theatre, Berény wrote more than 300 popular dance works, and composed numerous songs in both classical and popular styles. He also published several ragtime piano works that were written in the style of Scott Joplin, and had a brief career as a film director and screenwriter for silent films that began with the 1907 short film The Hand. He notably directed his wife, the Danish actress Charlotte Wiehe-Berény, in the 1916 Danish film Lotte vil paa Landet. Both Henri and his brother were pupils of Franz Liszt at the Budapest Conservatory in their youth. As a young adult, Berény studied violin with Joseph Joachim at the Vienna Conserv

Henri Büsser

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Paul Henri Büsser (16 January 1872 – 30 December 1973) was a French classical composer, organist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were César Franck, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet. In addition to his own compositions Büsser edited and orchestrated a wide range of music – mostly but not exclusively French – dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. He was at various times in his career the conductor of the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique, and professor of composition at the Conservatoire de Paris. Life and career Büsser was born in Toulouse of partly German ancestry. He was the son of an organist, Fritz Büsser (1846–1879), and sang as a boy in the choir of Toulouse Cathedral under before entering the École Niedermeyer de Paris in 1885 to study with Alexandre Georges. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1889, studying organ with César Franck and composition with Ernest Guiraud, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet. He took the second prize in the 1892 Prix de Rome competition. In that year, through the influence of Gounod, he was appointed organist of Saint-Cloud, near Paris, a post he held for 30 years. but Büsser soon mastered the work and the composer inscribed

Henri Christiné

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Henri Marius Christiné (27 December 1867 – 25 November 1941) was a French composer of Swiss birth. The son of a French Savoyard watchmaker, Christiné was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He began by teaching at the lycée in Geneva, while pursuing his interest in music and playing organ in a local church. He married a cafe singer whose troupe was passing through Geneva, and went with her to Nice where they were married. He made his home in France, writing songs firstly for his wife and then for popular singers such as Mayol, Dranem, and Fragson. He also conducted for the music hall at the Place Clichy. Although Christiné wrote some operettas for the Scala theatre in Paris before the First World War, his career took off when he had his operetta Phi-Phi staged the day of the Armistice on 11 November 1918, with words by Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar and which ran for three years at the Bouffes-Parisiens. This success was followed by Dédé in 1921, Madame (1923) and J’adore ça (1925). These works were in the forefront of a new fashion in music-theatre: sparkling, witty, jazzy musical plays. Christiné’s tunes often build on repeated refrains of six or seven notes (a ‘hook’) which made the

Henri Marteau

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Henri Marteau (31 March 1874 – 3 October 1934) was a French violinist and composer. Life and career Marteau’s debut was made when he was 10 at a concert given by the Vienna Philharmonic Society conducted by Hans Richter. A tour through Switzerland and Germany followed. A year later Charles Gounod selected him to play the obbligato of Vision de Jeanne d’Arc, composed for the Joan of Arc Centenary Celebration at Reims, where he also performed, before an audience of 2500 people, his teacher Léonard’s Violin Concerto No. 5. Marteau was an advocate of chamber music. On 13 April 1894, he, pianist Ami Lauchame, a violist named Koert, and a cellist named Hegner were reported to have given their second invitation chamber music concert in New York, performing works of Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré; a third concert was scheduled for the following week. By 1906, Marteau was leading a string quartet that broke up in a dispute over a work by Max Reger. In Berlin, he formed another string quartet with his student Licco Amar as second violinist and Hugo Becker as cellist; later, Becker’s student George Georgescu would take over the cello position. Marteau died of pneumonia on his estate in

Henri Miro

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Henri Enrique Miro (13 November 1879 – 19 July 1950) was a Canadian composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and music critic of Catalan birth. He was a pioneering conductor for Canadian radio and his works were performed in all of Montreal’s major performance venues of the day. He is best known for his operas, although the Montreal Symphony Orchestra did perform some of his symphonic music. Early life and education Born in Tarrega, Spain, Miro began his musical education under Padre Domingo de Guzman at the monastery of Montserrat. In 1895 he entered the Barcelona Conservatory where he was a pupil of Bienvenido Socias y Mercadé. After earning his diploma, he moved to France in 1898 where he was director of an opera troupe for four years. Career In 1902 Miro immigrated to Montreal where he was active as a composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and pedagogue. His notable students included Lucio Agostini, Fleurette Beauchamp, and Rafael Masella. In 1936 he was the first winner of the Société des concerts symphoniques de Montréal composition competition for his Scènes mauresques and the work was premiered by that orchestra at Plateau Hall under the direction of Wilfrid Pelletier on 3 Ap

Henri Mulet

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Henri Gabriel Mulet (; 17 October 1878 – 20 September 1967) was a French composer, pipe and reed organist, and cellist. Biography Mulet was born on 17 October 1878 in Paris. His father Gabriel Léon Mulet was choirmaster of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, where his mother Blanche Victoire Augustine Gatin would also play the harmonium; as a boy he sometimes deputised for her. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1890, where his teachers included Jules Delsart, Raoul Pugno, Xavier Leroux, Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor. He originally intended to be a cellist, but later served as an organist at Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge and also taught at the École Niedermeyer and the Schola Cantorum, where he worked with his friend Vincent d’Indy. From 1922 to 1937 he was organist at the Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule. Mulet’s most notable works are for organ: the Esquisses byzantines (1914–1919) and the Carillon-Sortie (1911/12). The former, a set of ten pieces, was a recollection of the Romano-Byzantine architectural style of Sacré-Cœur and five of the pieces are named after some of its features, including “Campanile” (bell-tower) and “Chapelle des Morts” (chapel of the dead). The Cari

Henri O'Kelly

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Joseph Pierre Henri O’Kelly (23 June 1859 – 15 March 1938) was a Franco-Irish composer, pianist, organist and choir director, based in Paris. A minor composer in the Impressionist school, as a conductor he made outstanding contributions to French church music. Biography Henri O’Kelly was the second child (first son) of Joseph O’Kelly’s (1828–1885) first marriage (1856). He was born in Paris and grew up in Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière in the 9th arrondissement. After initial piano studies with his father, he enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris (1874–79) studying solfège with Albert Lavignac (1874–76) and piano with Georges Mathias (1876–79). O’Kelly was an exceptional student, winning awards every year, always sharing them with his fellow students Claude Debussy and Gabriel Pierné. While Debussy never won a “premier prix” in piano, O’Kelly did in his final year, 1879. The somewhat unexpected birth of a son in 1881 forced him to abandon a promising pianistic career and seek financial safety as a church organist and choir master, holding such positions at Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois in central Paris (1881–1900) and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in the 10th arrondissement (1900–1918). O’Kelly

Henri Quittard

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Henri Quittard (16 May 1864 – 21 July 1919) was a French composer, musicologist and music critic. Biography A musician, composer, musicologist and music critic, Quittard was both the cousin of Emmanuel Chabrier (Quittard being the grandson of Aunt Zélie dear to Chabrier) and Roger Désormière who he chaperoned when, at the age of 15, the future conductor left Vichy to enter the Conservatoire de Paris (the maternal grandmother of Désormiere was a Quittard). He obtained his baccalauréat in the early 1880s in Clermont-Ferrand where he began studying literature at the faculty, obtaining a bachelor’s degree. At the instigation of Chabrier, he went to Paris, where he lived by giving lessons and trying to become a composer, following classes with César Franck. He also studied at the Oriental Languages (then École des langues orientales vivantes) where he met Louis Laloy. On 21 May 1891, the unique theatre play by Paul Verlaine, Les Uns et les Autres, in one act and in verse, was premiered at the Théâtre des Variétés, performed by the troupe du Théâtre d’Art. The music was by Quittard, like that of Cherubin by Charles Morice, in the same program. This “symbolist” evening had to be for the b

Henriette Blanke-Belcher

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Henriette Blanke-Belcher (February 16, 1882 – March 1958), also known as Henrietta Blanke-Belcher and later as Henriette B. Melson, was an American composer of popular music, especially waltzes and ragtime tunes. Early life Henriette Berger Blanke was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the eldest of four daughters of Max Blanke and Dora Berger Blanke. Her father was an immigrant from Romania; her mother was from New York City. Henriette was raised in Chicago, and Detroit; her father died in the latter city when she was a teenager. Career Henriette Blanke worked for Whitney-Warner Publishing Company and Jerome H. Remick, music publishing companies in Detroit. They published many of her compositions. She performed in vaudeville in 1909, and a number of recordings of her compositions were made between 1905 and 1926. “I want to become known as a waltz writer exclusively,” she said in 1902, but she also wrote ballads and novelty songs. Compositions by Blanke-Belcher included “Lazarre Waltzes” (1901), “Francezka Waltzes” (1902, named for the novel by Molly Eliot Seawell), “Hearts Courageous: Waltzes” (1902), “Cubanola: A Spanish Love Serenade” (1902), “Hearts’ Haven Waltzes” (1905), “When th

Henriette Renié

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Henriette Renié (; 18 September 1875 – 1 March 1956) was a French harpist and composer who is known for her many original compositions and transcriptions, as well as codifying a method for harp that is still used today. She was a musical prodigy who excelled in harp performance from a young age, advancing through her training rapidly and receiving several prestigious awards in her youth. She was an exceptional instructor and contributed to the success of many students. She gained prominence as a woman in an era where fame was socially unacceptable for women. Her devotion to her religion, her family, her students, and her music has continued to influence and inspire musicians for decades. Musical education Before the age of five, Henriette played piano with her grandmother. Renié was inspired to learn the harp after she heard her father perform a concert in Nice featuring Alphonse Hasselmans, a prominent harpist. She became inspired by the music and she decided that she wanted to play the harp under the instruction of Hasselmans. She began playing when she was eight, but she was still too short to reach the harp’s pedals, so her father invented extended foot pedals to assist her. In

Henrique Oswald

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Henrique José Pedro Maria Carlos Luis Oswald (April 14, 1852 – June 9, 1931) was a Brazilian composer and pianist. Biography Oswald was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father was a Swiss-German immigrant and his mother from Italy. The family name was changed from “Oschwald” due to concerns of discrimination. In 1854 the Oswald family moved to São Paulo. His mother taught music privately to aristocrats and by age twelve he had his first recital. In São Paulo, he also studied with Gabriel Guiraudon. His “farewell recital” occurred at age 16, after which he went to study in Europe , spending several years in Florence. In 1902 he won a piano composition competition sponsored by Le Figaro with a piece Il neige!.. (“It’s snowing!”). He then left his family in Europe (they moved to Brazil much later) and from 1903 to 1906 directed the Instituto Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro. He also served as Brazilian consul in both The Hague and Genoa. He died in 1931, just several days after his birthday festivities. Family Oswald came from a family of musicians, with both of his parents being musicians, as well as his daughter, Mima Oswald. Works Oswald’s best-known compositions today are numerous

Henry Eichheim

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Henry Eichheim (January 3, 1870 – August 22, 1942) was an American composer, conductor, violinist, organologist, and ethnomusicologist. He is best known as one of the first American composers to combine the sound of indigenous Asian instruments with western orchestral colors. Life He was born in Chicago, where he studied at the Chicago Musical College. He later went to Boston to play with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After about 1912 he became more interested in conducting and composition than in violin performance; he was an early promoter of the works of contemporary French composers, particularly Debussy, Ravel and Gabriel Fauré, in the United States. Following some trips to east Asia, including Korea, Japan, and China, he began to study the music of those cultures, and as a result began to use both the instruments from east Asia and Indonesia in his compositions, as well as some of the rhythmic and melodic elements of the indigenous music. He moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1922, although he continued to travel widely. On two of his trips–to Bali, and India—he went with Leopold Stokowski, a friend of his. After Eichheim’s death, the University of California, Santa Barba

Henry Erskine Allon

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Henry Erskine Allon (16 October 1864 – 3 April 1897) was an English composer. Biography Henry Erskine Allon was born on 16 October 1864 to the prominent Nonconformist minister Henry Allon (1818–1892) and his wife, Eliza née Goodman. Allon grew up among four sisters and two brothers, and was educated at Amersham Hall in Caversham, Reading. He first attended University College London, and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated at in 1882. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts there in 1885. At Cambridge he received an English essay prize and graduated with a third in History. His father tried to get him appointed as an inspector of the university, but was dissuaded from this by his friend Matthew Arnold as he suspected the Tory government in power (whose Lord President had the job of appointing inspectors) would be unlikely to appoint Nonconformist inspectors. (Other composers included in this group were William Wallace, Reginald Steggall, Stanley Hawley and Arthur Hinton). Allon was responsible for about thirty compositions, including six cantatas (among them, “Annie of Lochroyan” and “The Child of Elle”), and a number of solos and sonatas. Allon composed mainly for the p

Henry Fillmore

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Henry Fillmore (December 3, 1881 – December 7, 1956) was an American musician, composer, publisher, and bandleader, best known for his many marches and screamers, a few of which he wrote for the Band of the Hour at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Early life and education Fillmore was born in Cincinnati, Ohio as the eldest of five children. In his youth, he mastered piano, guitar, violin, flute, and slide trombone. He kept his trombone activities a secret at first, as his circumspect religious father James Henry Fillmore (1849–1936)—a composer of gospel songs, often in collaboration with Jessie Brown Pounds —believed it an uncouth and sinful instrument. Henry’s mother secretly bought a used trombone for him and obscured from Henry’s father the son’s learning to play the instrument. Fillmore, whose uncle, Frederick A. Fillmore (1856–1925) was also a tune-composer for gospel songs, was a singer for his church choir as a boy. He began composing at 18, with his first published march “Hingham”, named after a line of brass instruments. Fillmore attended the Miami Military Institute in Germantown, Ohio from 1899 to 1901, and then entered the Cincinnati Conservatory of Mus

Henry Holden Huss

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Henry Holden Huss (June 21, 1862 in Newark, New Jersey – September 17, 1953 in New York City) was an American composer, pianist and music teacher. Huss grew up in New York City, the son of German immigrant parents. After studying piano and organ locally with a teacher who had trained at the Leipzig Conservatory, Huss traveled to Munich to study at the Royal Conservatory with Josef Rheinberger. His fellow students at the Royal Music School in Munich included Arthur Whiting and Horatio Parker. After graduating, he returned to the States and embarked on a career as a touring piano virtuoso. As a composer, he was regarded as one of the best of his generation by those who counted, but it was at a time when American composers could rarely get a hearing for their works. An exhaustive study of Huss’ life and music, with a complete catalog of compositions, has been published: Henry Holden Huss: An American Composer’s Life, by Gary A. Greene (1995, Scarecrow Press (Metuchen NJ and London)), . His niece was philosopher Helen Huss Parkhurst. Works His 1886 Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 23, subtitled “The Munich” and dedicated to Rheinberger, was premiered with considerable acclaim and a number of

Henry Kimball Hadley

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Henry Kimball Hadley (20 December 1871 – 6 September 1937) was an American composer and conductor. Early life Hadley was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, to a musical family. His father, from whom he received his first musical instruction in violin and piano, was a secondary school music teacher, his mother was active in church music, and his brother Arthur went on to a successful career as a professional cellist. In the Hadley home, the two brothers played string quartets with their father on viola and the composer Henry F. Gilbert on second violin. Hadley also studied harmony with his father and with Stephen A. Emery, and, from the age of fourteen, he studied composition with the prominent American composer George Whitefield Chadwick. Under Chadwick’s tutelage, Hadley composed many works, including songs, chamber music, a musical, and an orchestral overture. In 1893, Hadley toured with the Laura Schirmer-Mapleson Opera Company as a violinist. But he left the tour when the company encountered financial difficulties and was unable to pay his salary. In 1894, he travelled to Vienna to further his studies with Eusebius Mandyczewski. During this period Hadley also befriended the Ger

Henry Marcellus Higgs

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Henry Marcellus Higgs (1855–1929) was a British composer and performer whose early life and entire career was spent in London. His published output includes not only original instrumental, organ and sacred/secular vocal music but also arrangements of music from popular comtemporary stage works both for solo piano and for ensembles. Early life Henry Marcellus Higgs was one of three children born to organist and composer Marcellus Higgs (1827–88) and his wife Clara, nee Tomlin (c.1829-?). The organist and academic musician James Higgs, was brother to Marcellus. At the time of his birth Henry’s family were living in the parish of St George Hanover Square, London. Henry’s father Marcellus was organist of St James the Less, Westminster, and teacher of music and singing. By 1861 the family had moved to Bessborough Street in the parish of St John Westminster, where Marcellus had been appointed organist of the parish church, developing “considerable private teaching”. Henry and Emmeline settled in Twickenham before moving to Sutton. They had six children: Irene Emmeline Marcella Higgs, William Clapham Marcellus Higgs, Sidney Marcellus Higgs, Ethel Florence Gertrude Higgs, Ernest Henry Marc

Henry Schoenefeld

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Henry Schoenefeld, also spelled Henry Schoenfeld (October 4, 1857 in Milwaukee – August 4, 1936 in Los Angeles) was an American composer. Schoenfeld studied in the German Empire at the Weimar Conservatory. He moved to Chicago in 1879, when he began conducting Germania Männerchor that year and a mixed choir there from 1891 to 1902. In 1904, he again became a choir master and conducted the Woman’s Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles. His compositions included two operas, a Rural Symphony, a suite on Indian themes for strings, and two Indian legends, as well as numerous pieces for piano. Schoenfeld taught at UCLA and many of his students, such as Roy Harris, went on to have successful careers. His son was the harpsichordist George Schoenefeld. References

Henry Thomas Pringuer

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Dr. Henry Thomas Pringuer DMus(Oxon), BMus(Oxon), FCO (23 February 1852 – 26 October 1930) was an English composer, organist, and one of the first examiners for Trinity College, London. Pringuer became Organist and Master of the Choir at St. Dunstan’s, Canterbury in 1866 at the age of 14. He then served at St. Matthew’s Parish Church Redhill and then for 40 years at St. Mary’s Parish Church Stoke Newington until his retirement due to ill-health in 1919. He subsequently went on to become organist at All Saints Lindfield. Early life (1852–1869) Henry Thomas Pringuer was born on 23 February 1852 at St. Peter’s Place, Canterbury. His parents were Samuel Freemoult Pringuer (1828–1907), a cabinet maker of Canterbury, Kent; and Eliza Hayward (1825–1902) of Blean, Kent. It is likely that the Pringuer family were Walloon refugees, many of whom settled in the Canterbury area. A good portion of the Pringuer family also worshipped in Bethnal Green and Spitalfields, both often considered hubs of Walloon settlements. In 1861, at the age of just nine and a half, Pringuer was appointed organist of a chapel in Canterbury and in 1864, moved to All Saints’ Church. Shortly after, he attained the covet

Herbert Bunning

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George Herbert Bunning (2 May 1863 – 26 November 1937) was an English composer and musical director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He had one opera produced at Covent Garden, but was better known as a composer of lighter works and incidental music for stage productions. Life and career Bunning was born in London, and educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford. On leaving the latter he was commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant in the Queen’s Own Hussars, serving from 1884 to 1886. and later in Italy (Milan) between 1886 and 1890. He was musical director of the Lyric Theatre, London (1892–1893), and the Prince of Wales Theatre, (1895–1896). In 1902 Bunning’s opera La Princesse Osra was produced at Covent Garden. The libretto was an Anglicised version of a French text based on Anthony Hope’s Ruritanian novel The Heart of Princess Osra, and was ineffective. The Musical Times commented that Bunning’s gifts were lyrical rather than dramatic. In a 2013 survey of opera in Britain between 1875 and 1918, Paul Rodmell cites Saint-Saëns and Massenet as influences on Bunning’s musical style. In addition to La Princesse Osra, Bunning published two orc

Herbert De Pinna

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Herbert De Pinna (1883–1936) was a composer and medical doctor. He was a medicine graduate from Cambridge University who trained at Middlesex Hospital. He opened a hospital in Queensland, but claimed he made more money from music. Herbert De Pinna is best remembered for Broadway-style numbers written for successful pantomimes The Bunyip and Robinson Crusoe, which toured major Australian cities. A song from the ‘Bunyip was adopted by schools and enjoyed phenomenal sales De Pinna won a successful Supreme Court case for defamatory remarks made to his medical clients. During world war two, his son Arthur was shot down and killed by Imperial Japanese Army Air Service over Kupang, Indonesia. Works * Seven songs for the 1914 musical Bunyip (musical) * I Wonder * The Parsons’ Glide : two-step & one-step * Claire : graceful dance * Dorothy : old English dance * Eight interesting pianoforte solos * Devil’s Picnic : for piano * E’er Dawns Another Day * Moonlight Surfing * All the Girls are After Me References

Herbert Hughes (composer)

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Herbert Hughes (16 May 1882 – 1 May 1937) was an Irish composer, music critic and a collector and arranger of Irish folksongs. He was the father of Spike Hughes. Biography Hughes was born and brought up in Belfast, Ireland, but completed his formal music education at the Royal College of Music, London, where he studied with Charles Villiers Stanford and Charles Wood, graduating in 1901. Subsequently, he worked as a music critic, notably for The Daily Telegraph from 1911 to 1932. Described as having an “ardent and self-confident manner”, Hughes is first heard of in an Irish musical capacity (beyond being honorary organist at St Peter’s Church on Antrim Road at the age of fourteen) collecting traditional airs and transcribing folksongs in North Donegal in August 1903 with his brother Fred, F.J. Bigger, and John Campbell. Dedicated to seeking out and recording such ancient melodies as were yet to be found in the more remote glens and valleys of Ulster, he produced Songs of Uladh (1904) with Joseph Campbell, illustrated by his brother John and paid for by Bigger. Throughout his career, he collected and arranged hundreds of traditional melodies and published many of them in his own uniq

Herbert J. Ellis

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Herbert J. Ellis (4 July 1865 – 13 October 1903) was a banjo player, a mandolinist, guitar player and a composer. Music historian Philip J. Bone called him “without question the most fertile English composer and arranger for mandolin and guitar.” He was the author of a banjo method, a guitar method, and a Tutor for Mandolin (1892), which he wrote while still in school. Ellis was born in Dulwich, London, the son of a licensed victualler, and received no musical instruction beyond that given by his mother, who had been a pupil of Sir Julius Benedict; she taught her son the piano and harmony. He became the delighted owner of a banjo as a boy and said that, “Having the infatuation (for the banjo), I learnt several tunes out of my piano tutor, and then occurred to me the idea of writing my own music for it. Gradually growing ambitious, I did not rest until I had written an instruction book, which, in due course saw the light and without being egotistical, I think I can safely say that it was from the advent of my Thorough school that the banjo began to be popular.” *Thorough School for the Mandoline John Alvey Turner, pub., London (1898) *Dallas Tutor for the Banjo, John Dallas and Sons

Herbert Sanders

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Herbert Sanders (20 September 1878 – 18 May 1938) was a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer, music writer, and music educator of English birth. His compositions include numerous sacred songs, anthems, and organ works. He twice won the American Guild of Organists’s Clemson Gold Medal for composition. The Canadian Musical Heritage Society recently reprinted seven of his hymns and the anthem Light’s Glittering Morn. Several of his compositions are in the Catalogue of Printed Music at the British Library in London, and many of his original manuscripts are in the collection at the Library and Archives Canada. Life and career Born in Wolverhampton, Sanders studied at the Royal College of Music (RCM) with Charles Swinnerton Heap (organ), Charles H. Kitson (theory), and Charles W. Perkins (organ). After graduating from the RCM with an associates diploma in 1896, he served as the organist at Camphill Presbyterian Church in Birmingham. He left there after a few years to work in the same capacity at St Mary’s Methodist Church in Truro, Cornwall. He also played the violin in a number of orchestras while living in England. In 1907 Sanders emigrated to Canada to assume the post of or

Herman Wohl

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Herman Wohl (; 1877–1936) was a Jewish–American composer closely associated with the American Yiddish Theatre. Galicia Wohl was born in Otyniia near Stanislavov (now called Ivano-Frankivsk) in eastern Galicia, now Ukraine. He was raised in a Chasidic home and studied with cantors from the age of 9. He soon began composing, directing choirs, and singing as a Hazzan himself. At the age of 16 he joined Kalman Juvelier’s troupe in Galicia, acting, singing in the chorus, and writing songs for their repertoire. America In 1896 he was brought to America to teach; he soon began writing for several theater troupes. He partnered with Aaron (Arnold) Perlmutter and over the course of 16 years they wrote music for many operettas including , and dozens of others by Moshe Hurwitz (Horowitz), Anshel Shor’s (The Widow) and (One should be a decent person) also Motashevski’s , and Working with Edelstein in the People’s Theater, he composed music to * Mikhl Goldberg’s musical comedy (Lived and laughed) * Adam Mesko’s operetta (The night of love) * Boris Thomashefsky’s (The holy song) * Itskhok Lesh’s , 1921 * Israel Rozenberg’s * Tomashevski’s Lebedik un freylekh and Thousand and One Nights * William

Hermann Bischoff

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Hermann Bischoff (7 January 1868 in Duisburg – 25 January 1936 in Berlin) was a German composer of classical music. After leaving Leipzig to continue his first studies of music, he met Richard Strauss and fell in with his circle. Bischoff’s two symphonies have been recorded on the record label Classic Produktion Osnabrück, along with a 1926 Introduction und Rondo. His first symphony, dedicated to Strauss was performed (premiered?) in Essen on 24 May 1906, as part of the 42nd Tonkünstler-Festival, the same festival that saw the premiere of Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Compositions *Two symphonies **No. 1 in E major (published in 1906) **No. 2 in D minor (1910, premiered 1911, published 1914 by F.E.C. Leuckart) *Other works with Orchestra **Introduction and Rondo for Orchestra (1926) *Various Songs with Piano (e.g. Op. 3, Op. 6, Op. 7, Op.15 ) and with Orchestral Accompaniment References * External links *

Hermann Löhr

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Hermann Löhr (26 October 1871 – 6 December 1943) was an English composer. He was born in Plymouth, the son of Frederic Nicholls Löhr (1844–1888), a composer of songs and piano works. F N Lohr’s piano berceuse Cradle Song, an Idyll was written circa 1875 and dedicated to his twin sons, then four years old: “To my boys Victor and Hermann Frederic Lohr”. Hermann Löhr studied at the Royal Academy of Music, studying piano with Walter Cecil Macfarren and Frederick Westlake and harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Corder. At the academy he won the Charles Lucas medal for composition. He became famous as the composer of many songs. Among notable songs are “Chorus, Gentlemen!” (words by Mark Ambient), “Where my Caravan has Rested” and “The Little Irish Girl” (both with words by Edward Teschemacher), and “Little Grey Home in the West” (words by D. Eardley-Wilmot). His piano works include the intermezzo Autumn Gold (1928) which also exists in orchestrated versions. Löhr died in Tunbridge Wells in 1943. References External links * * Hermann Löhr at Discography of American Historical Recordings * Hermann Löhr at National Jukebox *

Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg

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Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (14 November 1876 in Thamsbrück – 15 May 1956 in Wesel) was a German composer of military marches. Blankenburg was the only son of three children of Johann Heinrich and Ernestine Friederike Koch Blankenburg. He was born with the middle name Louis but changed it to Ludwig later in life perhaps as a connection to Beethoven. Raised on a sheep farm in Thamsbrücke, he was expected to manage the farm someday. However, he showed a propensity for music starting with performing on the piccolo – a favorite instrument his entire life. His family agreed on his studying music as long as he promised to serve in the army for twelve years. Blankenburg taught himself to play various instruments including bassoon, tuba, and violin and he conducted his school orchestra at the age of ten. He served actively in the military for two years (1896–1898), playing tuba in the band of the 6th Field Artillery Regiment in Breslau. After that his only service was prior to and during the early years of World War I in reserve bands. He played tuba in the band of Field Artillery Regiment No. 43 in Wesel from 1913 until 1915, when he got a medical discharge. He remained in Wesel for the re

Hermann Necke

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Hermann Necke (8 November 1850 – 15 February 1912) was a German composer, conductor, music director, pianist, and violinist of the Romantic period. He is best known for the galop Csikós Post, first published in 1895 as part of Klänge aus Ungarn Sounds from Hungary , Opus 286. While seldom heard today, Necke’s prolific output of songs, choruses, and instrumental works (upwards of 400 opus numbers) was well-known during his lifetime. Life Early years Necke was brought up in Wiehe, and his initial education was “conducted under the guidance of several able teachers in Germany.” His desire to become a composer stemmed from a young age. Musical career Necke’s compositions were quick to attract multiple publishers. His first known published works, appearing in 1873, were a galop and rheinländer for brass band. Necke led several singing societies, most notably the Dürener Männergesangverein Düren Men’s Singing Society from 1877 to 1895. The Dürener Männergesangverein was founded on September 6, 1877 by members of a similar group when the disagreeable personality of a newly elected conductor caused many to resign. According to Hildegard von Radzibor (1969, p. 76), the association’s sole pu

Hermann Suter

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Hermann Suter (28 April 1870 – 22 June 1926) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Biography Born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel, Stuttgart and Leipzig, under Hans Huber and Carl Reinecke. He was an organist and conductor in Zurich from 1892 to 1902, after which he moved to Basel, where he lived to his death. He was director of the Basel Conservatory from 1918 to 1921. One of his pupils at Basel was Richard Tauber who sang three of his songs at the Olten Music Festival in June 1912. Compositions Suter’s compositions contain echoes of Brahms, Strauss, Mahler, and many other composers whom Suter conducted at Basel. Much of his output is for chorus, both accompanied and unaccompanied; the best-known of his works is the oratorio Le Laudi (The Praises) or Le Laudi di San Francesco d’Assisi, based on the Canticle of the Sun, written in the summer of 1923 in Plaun da Lej, in Engadine, and premiered on 13 June 1924 in Basel. By 1930 the oratorio had been performed over eighty times in nearly as many cities. Wilhelm Furtwängler led the Vienna premiere, and the work was acclaimed in Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Cologne, and a host of smaller

Hermann T. Schrader

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Hermann Theodor Schrader (1860 – 9 July 1934) was a South Australian pianist, violinist and cellist, who had a later academic career in Victoria. History Hermann was born in Adelaide, South Australia the second son of Heinrich Ludwig Christian Schrader (4 February 1832 – 21 February 1880) and his wife Wilhelmine “Menna” Schrader, née Oelmann (c. 1822–1910), who married in 1857. Hermann Schrader sen. arrived in Adelaide from Brunswick, Germany in 1857 and was from 1861 landlord of the Black Horse Hotel in Leigh Street, a singing teacher at the Deutsche Schule run by Leschen and Niehuus in Wakefield Street, and bandmaster with the Adelaide Regiment, Volunteer Force, then had his own private band. He played the cornet, contrabass tuba and cornopean. He also served on occasion as court interpreter. Hermann was a student at the Deutsche Schule, Wakefield Street, followed by John Whinham’s North Adelaide Grammar School. Around 1878 he left for Germany to study music under Hans von Bülow at the Königliche Musikschule in Munich, returning shortly after his father’s early and unexpected death. He made his debut concert appearance in July 1880 at a reunion of the Liedertafel Society at the G

Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen

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Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen (Göttingen, 12 October 1882 – Munich, 14 June 1954) was a German composer, conductor, teacher and writer. Life and career He was the son of the economist August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852–1938) and his wife Charlotte Freiin von Kapherr, a descendant of the historian Georg Friedrich Sartorius. He studied composition with Ludwig Thuille in Munich from 1901 until 1907. He also studied piano with August Schmid-Lindner from 1905 to 1915. At the age of nine, Waltershausen was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. To prevent its spread, doctors amputated his right arm and leg. This did not prevent Waltershausen from pursuing music, however – he specialised in left-handed piano performance with Schmid-Lindner and conducted with his left hand. Waltershausen’s greatest professional success was the opera Oberst Chabert, which he adapted from the novel by Honoré de Balzac. The pacing, characterisation, and pathos of Waltershausen’s libretto was widely admired by his contemporaries, often more so than the music itself. Composer and critic Edgar Istel commented, “Though Waltershausen has not as yet shown himself to be a musician of great

Hermann Zilcher

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Hermann Zilcher (18 August 1881 – 1 January 1948) was a German composer, pianist and conductor, and also a music teacher. His compositional oeuvre includes orchestral and choral works, two operas, chamber music and songs, études, piano works, and numerous works for accordion. As a music teacher, Zilcher also enjoyed an outstanding reputation. His students included, among others, Norbert Glanzberg, Karl Höller, Winfried Zillig, Kurt Eichhorn, Maria Landes-Hindemith, and Carl Orff. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, Zilcher became a member of the party, a fact for which he would later be criticized. Early life and education Zilcher received early piano lessons from his father, Paul Zilcher, who was known as a composer of didactic piano and chamber music. He studied from 1897 at the Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, piano with James Kwast, counterpoint and morphology with Iwan Knorr, and composition with Bernhard Scholz. At graduation, he was awarded the Mozart Prize. Career In 1901, Zilcher moved to Berlin, where he quickly established himself mainly as a pianist for singers and instrumentalists, with concert tours, which made him internationally known in the United States an

Hilda Sehested

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Hilda Sehested (27 April 1858 – 15 April 1936) was a Danish composer. Biography Hilda Sehested was born in Funen, Denmark, of parents Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested (1813–82), an archaeologist, and Charlotte Christine Linde (1819–94). She studied music with C. F. E. Horneman in Copenhagen and later with Louise Aglaé Massart (1827-1887) in Paris. She studied organ with Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod and composition with Orla Rosenhoff, and began composing at the age of 30. Sehested’s mother died in 1894, and she moved to Copenhagen to live with her sister Thyra. She became engaged to archaeologist and museum director Henry Petersen there, but he died before the wedding. Shocked by his death, Sehested took a job as a nurse for a while and then as a church organist, and eventually returned to composing. She died in Copenhagen. Works Sehested wrote a number of songs, compositions for instruments and orchestra and one opera. Selected works include: *Fantasy Pieces, 1891 *Sonata for Pianoforte, 1896 *Intermezzi for Piano Trio, sonata, 1904 *Suite für Cornet in B und Klavier, 1905 *Songs with Piano, 1907 *Agnete and the Merman opera, 1914 *Miniatures for Orchestra, 1915 *Rhapsody, 1915 *Quartet

Hilda Wilson

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Hilda Wilson (7 April 1860 – 10 December 1918) was a British contralto and composer who also used the name Matilda Ellen Wilson and composed under the name Douglas Hope. Life Wilson was born into a musical family in Monmouth. Her father James Wilson was the bandmaster of the Monmouth Volunteer Corps. Her sister Agnes became a professional contralto, their brother James taught at the West London Conservatoire of Music, another brother, Henry Lane Wilson, (1871–1915), was a pianist, composer and baritone, and a third, W. Stroud Wilson, became a well-known violinist. Hilda’s early years were largely spent in Gloucester, where her family moved when she was four. The following year, a reviewer in The Western Mail wrote: Her vocal range in her early years was unusually wide. She was heard in concert in mezzo soprano and soprano solos, and was invited to sing the soprano part in Haydn’s The Creation before being guided towards a career as a contralto. During the 1880s and 1890s Wilson was a frequent soloist at the Three Choirs Festivals. In addition to singing in the mainstays of the festivals’ repertoire such as Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St Paul, she took part in less often he

Hjalmar Borgstrøm

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Hjalmar Borgstrøm (; 23 March 1864 – 5 July 1925) was a Norwegian composer and music critic who played a prominent role in the musical life of his country in the first quarter of the 20th century. Biography Borgstrøm was born Hjalmar Jensen on 23 March 1864 in Christiania (now Oslo). His father, Carl Christian Jensen, was a civil servant and the family were keen amateur musicians. Borgstrøm showed an early aptitude for music and by the age of fifteen was a talented violinist. After studying composition and music theory in Oslo with Johan Svendsen and Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, he went to the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany for two years. On his return to Norway in 1889, he worked as a music critic for several newspapers and successfully premiered his cantata, Hvæm er du med de tusene navne (Who are you with a thousand names). However, in 1890, he left Norway and was to live for the next thirteen years in Leipzig and Berlin, where he became a friend of the Italian composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni whose musical philosophy he shared. Borgstrøm returned to Norway in 1903, the year in which his symphonic poem for piano and orchestra, Hamlet, premiered to great acclaim in Oslo. The so

Hope Temple

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Hope Temple, born as Alice Maude Davis (27 December 1859 – 10 May 1938) was an Irish songwriter and composer. She was also known as Mrs André Messager. Life Alice Davis was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was known professionally as Hope Temple. She moved with her family to England aged 12 and began composing ballads at the age of 14. Initially she studied music with the idea of becoming a pianist, but an injury in a riding accident caused her to give up her ambitions. Her teachers in London included John Francis Barnett (piano) and Edouard Silas (harmony and counterpoint). In the early 1890s she continued her studies in Paris with André Wormser and André Messager. In 1892, her operetta The Wooden Spoon was produced in London (also in New York, 1893), but she was known primarily for her songs, some of which became very popular. Her song My Lady’s Bower is sung by Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In 1892, a reproduction of a photograph of her taken by Alex Bassano of Old Bond Street, London, was published in the Strand Magazine, as part of a series called “Types of English Beauty”. In 1894, she assisted Messager in writing the opera Mirette, and then became his second wife in 1895

Horatio Parker

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Horatio William Parker (September 15, 1863 – December 18, 1919) was an American composer, organist and teacher. He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is best remembered as the undergraduate teacher of Charles Ives while the composer attended Yale University. Biography He was born in Auburndale, Massachusetts. His earliest lessons were with his mother. He then studied in Boston with George Whitefield Chadwick, Stephen A. Emery, and John Orth. His first professional position was playing the organ at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Dedham, Massachusetts. He was paid a salary of roughly $300 a year from September 1880 to January 1882. included Arthur Whiting and H. H. Huss. In Munich Parker composed his first significant works, including a symphony and a dramatic cantata. He also premiered Joseph Rheinberger’s Organ Concerto No. 1 in F Major from 1884 there. After his return to the United States in 1885, he was for two years professor of music in the Cathedral School of St. Paul in Garden City, Long Island. From 1888 to 1893, he was organist of Trinity Church, New York City, and from 1893 to 1901 organist of Trinity Church, Bosto

Howard Ellis Carr

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Howard Ellis Carr (26 December 1880 - 16 November 1960) was a British composer and conductor who worked in both Britain and Australia during his career. He was a prolific composer of theatre, operetta and light orchestral music, as well as orchestral works. In his early career Carr worked as a conductor and musical director in theatres and touring productions, including working for two years in Australia. After returning to England in late 1909 he established a reputation as a specialist in theatrical orchestration. During World War I and afterwards his orchestral compositions were performed at the promenade concerts at Queen’s Hall. In the 1920s he was conductor of the Municipal Orchestra at Harrogate in North Yorkshire. Carr returned to Australia in 1928. After several years as musical director in theatrical productions, he took on roles such as teaching at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and a conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Society. In the mid-1930s he worked on orchestration for radio broadcasts. Carr returned to England in 1938 where he worked for the BBC. Biography Early years Howard Ellis Carr was born on 26 December 1880 in Manchester, the eldest son of Edward Ca

Hubert Bath

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Hubert Charles Bath (6 November 188324 April 1945) was an English film composer, music director, and conductor. His credits include the music to the Oscar-winning documentary Wings Over Everest (1934), as well as to the films Tudor Rose (1936), A Yank at Oxford (1938) and Love Story (1944). His composition “Out of the Blue” has been used as the theme music of BBC Radio’s Sports Report since the programme started in 1948. Biography Bath was born in Barnstaple, Devon. He sang in the local church choir and in 1899 attended the Royal Academy of Music, studying piano with Oscar Beringer and composition with Frederick Corder. In 1913-14 he conducted Thomas Quinlan’s opera troupe on its world tour, also acting as chorus master. He conducted Madame Butterfly at the London Opera House in July 1915, in a performance that starred Tamaki Miura. After that he established himself as a composer of light operas, including Young England (Birmingham, 1915) and Bubbole (Milan, 1920), extending the genre towards grand opera with Trilby. He went on to compose many film scores (including part of the soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail in 1929), marches for brass bands, orchestral suites, theatre

Hugo Alfvén

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Hugo Emil Alfvén (; 1 May 18728 May 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Alfvén was one of Sweden’s principal composers. His “Swedish Rhapsody No. 1”, written when he was 31, is still one of the best-known pieces of Swedish music. After extensive European travels to develop his musical skills, Alfvén taught composition, before conducting choirs and orchestras. In 1954, he made the first Swedish classical stereo recordings. Hugo Alfvén’s extensive musical archive is held at Uppsala University, where he was music director for twenty-nine years. Career Violinist Alfvén was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and studied at the Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan) from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument while receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan Lindegren, a leading counterpoint expert. At the same time he played the violin at the Royal Opera in Stockholm 1890-1892. Conductor Starting in 1897, Alfvén travelled much of the next ten years in Europe. He studied violin technique in Brussels with César Thomson and learned conducting in Dresden with Hermann Ludwig Kutzschbach. In 1903-4, h

Hugo Becker

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Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker; 13 February 1863 – 30 July 1941) was a German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. Biography He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg (then part of France, but transferred to the German Empire in 1871); his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist. His father tried teaching him violin at the age of six, but the young Becker loved cello, and switched over at the age of nine. By age fifteen he was touring with a string quartet made up of him, his father, sister, and brother. He had also become a leading cellist in the court orchestra in Mannheim. among his students was George Georgescu, who would replace him as cellist in the Marteau Quartet before forsaking the cello for the conductor’s podium on account of a hand injury. Later, Georgescu would remark, “All I know, I learned from Hugo Becker.” Becker also gave finishing lessons to Beatrice Harrison. Selected works *Andante religioso *Three Pieces for Cello with Piano Accompaniment *Scènes d’amour, duo *Deux Morceaux: Romance, Duo *Deux Morceaux: Valse gracieuse, Duo *Cello Concerto, Op.10 in A major (pu

Hugo Kaun

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Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (21 March 1863 – 2 April 1932) was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher. Biography Kaun was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia and completed his musical training in his native city. In 1886 (or 1887), he left Germany for the United States and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was home to a well-established German immigrant community. As the conductor of local choral societies, such as the Milwaukee Liederkranz and the Milwaukee Men’s Choir, Kaun quickly acquired an important influence in the city’s musical life. He also taught at the conservatory, where his colleagues included Wilhelm Middelschulte. Kaun’s eldest son, Bernhard Kaun, later became a composer of film scores in Hollywood. At the turn of the century, Kaun returned to Germany and continued his teaching in Berlin. Although he received numerous lucrative offers of employment from abroad, these inducements could not persuade him to leave Berlin a second time. In 1912, he was appointed to the Prussian Academy of Arts. He chronicled his eventful life in his autobiography Aus meinem Leben (From My Life). He died in Berlin. Music Kaun composed in a Romantic style for a wide range of genr

Hugo Leichtentritt

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Hugo Leichtentritt (1 January 1874, Pleschen, , nearby Posen, Province of Posen13 November 1951, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg. Early life Leichtentritt was born to a family of Jewish merchants in Pleschen, German Empire. His German father, Gerson Leichtentritt, was a successful distillery owner. Leichtentritt was a thesis reader for Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein had cited Leichtentritt in his reasons to attend Harvard, writing, “I would probably attempt a Harvard training because of the superb musical department there. Several German professors, such as Leichtentritt, who have left their native land for obvious reasons, are now giving instruction there.” However, Leichtentritt was displeased with Bernstein’s senior thesis, writing of its “arrogant attitude and air of superiority.” With his retirement looming, Leichtentritt branched out into other musical-related endeavors. He edited Oscar Thompson’s The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (New York, 1939), wrote for The Musical Quarterly, and had four books published by

Hugo Rüter

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Hugo Rüter (7 September 1859 – 25 December 1949) was a German composer. Born in Hamburg, he studied at the Conservatory of his hometown and later settled down in Wandsbek as director of choral societies, being appointed in 1897 as a teacher of Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium. He died in Mieste. His father Christian was a foreman in a sailmaker’s shop at the port. He had come into contact with music from early childhood through the nearby Michaeliskirche. The family later moved to Wandsbek, where Hugo attended school. Then Rüter went to the middle school at the Lärmberg. After confirmation in 1873, he left school and, on the advice of his teacher Scheibler, began training for the teaching profession. At the age of 15, he got a job as a preparatory at the Protestant church school in the neighbouring town of Hamm. At the age of 15 he learned to play the piano, but his talent was singing. At the age of 17 he passed the entrance exam at the Bernuthsche Konservatorium in Hamburg-Hamm. There he studied from 1876 to 1882 with Carl Georg Peter Graedener, Hugo Riemann, Karl F. Armbrust, Carl Louis Bargheer and Heinrich Degenhardt. In 1880 he wrote his 1st symphony in C sharp minor. Hugo Rüter’s

Hugo Wolf

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Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (; ; 13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique. Though he had several bursts of extraordinary productivity, particularly in 1888 and 1889, depression frequently interrupted his creative periods, and his last composition was written in 1898, before he suffered a mental collapse caused by syphilis. Life Early life (1860–1887) Hugo Wolf was born in Windischgrätz in the Duchy of Styria (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia), then a part of the Austrian Empire. His baptismal entry records him as Hugo Philip. Jacob. Wolf, the son of Filip Wolf and Katharina (née Nußbaumer) Wolf. Herbert von Karajan was related to him on his maternal side. He spent most of his life in Vienna, becoming a representative of a “New German” trend in Lieder, a trend which followed from the expressive, chromatic and dramatic musical innovations of Richard Wagner. A child prodigy, Wolf was taught piano and violin by his father begi

Humfrey Anger

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Joseph Humfrey Anger (3 June 186211 June 1913) was a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output consists mainly of church music and works for solo piano and organ. Some of his more well known works are A Concert Overture for organ (1895), the patriotic song Hail Canada (1911), and Tintamarre, Morceau de Salon (1911), all of which were published by Whaley, Royce & Co. The latter piece was notably the first published classical composition to thoroughly integrate true tone clusters. He also wrote the textbooks Form in Music and A Treatise on Harmony, both of which were widely used in music schools in North America. Life and career Born at Ashbury in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Anger studied at New College, Oxford where he earned a Bachelor of Music. He began his career as a school teacher and a church organist-choirmaster in his native country. He was notably the conductor of the Ludlow Choral and Orchestral Society for several years. In 1897 his cantata A Song of Thanksgiving was awarded the Jubilee Prize by the Bath Philharmonic Society. In 1890 his madrigal Bonnie Belle won the London Madrigal Society Prize. In 18

Ida Moberg

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Ida Georgina Moberg (13 February 1859 – 2 August 1947) was a Finnish composer and conductor who particularly focused on choirs and orchestras. She was also heavily influenced by anthroposophy and theosophy, and was active in those circles in Finland. Early life and education Ida Georgina Moberg was born on 13 February 1859 in Helsinki. Her father was an instrument maker. She attended the Svenska fruntimmersskolan i Helsingfors, an alternative Swedish-language girls’ school from 1870 to 1877. Composer and teacher Anna Blomqvist worked at the school, and became a lifelong mentor of Moberg. She also studied with pianist Alie Lindberg and singer Marie Collan. Moberg then studied composition from 1901 to 1905 under Felix Draeseke at Dresden Conservatory, before finishing her musical education at the Dalcroze Institute in Berlin, which she attended from 1911 to 1912. !! Instrumentation - Symphony 1905 Orchestra (lost) - Kalevala fantasy n/a Orchestra (lost) - Awaken / Vaknen! 1900? Male choir and orchestra - Before the struggle / Före striden n/a Choir and strings - Life’s struggle / Lifskamp n/a Male choir and orchestra - Amor mortis n/a Voice and organ - Asiens ljus 1910–1945 Opera (un

Idabelle Smith Firestone

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Idabelle Smith Firestone (November 10, 1874 July 7, 1954) was an American composer and songwriter. Biography She was born in Minnesota City, Minnesota, to Eliza B. Allen (18431923) and George T. Smith (18411921), the youngest of five children. Her father was the inventor of a flour milling process that turns out “Patent” and “Half Patent” flour. She learned to play piano and organ as a girl and studied music at Alma College, Ontario. On 20 November 1895, she married Harvey S. Firestone, who had begun the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company five years earlier. She was the mother of Harvey S. Firestone Jr., and Leonard Firestone, the grandmother of Brooks Firestone, and the great-grandmother of William Clay Ford Jr., Andrew Firestone, and Nick Firestone. She was not the only composer in the Firestone family. Her granddaughter Elizabeth Firestone (b. 1922) composed music for the film Once More, My Darling (1949), which starred Robert Montgomery and Ann Blyth. She died in her sleep at her home, Harbel Manor, after a long illness on July 7, 1954, at age 79 in Akron, Ohio. Musical career She became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1948. Her

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski (; 6 November 1860 or 1859 – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman. As a politician and diplomat, Paderewski was vital to securing international recognition of the newly formed Second Polish Republic in 1919. A musical virtuoso, he rose to prominence as a musician and composer in the late 1880s and toured widely in Europe and the United States. He wrote orchestral, instrumental, and vocal works and an opera, Manru (premiered 1901), which remains the only opera by a Polish composer performed by the Metropolitan Opera. Paderewski’s renown allowed access to influential political and cultural circles in the West. During World War I, he largely suspended concert touring to focus on political advocacy and fundraising, working with organizations such as the Polish National Committee in Paris and relief initiatives in Britain and the United States. In the United States, he met President Woodrow Wilson and contributed to efforts that helped make an independent Poland part of the postwar settlement. In newly independent Poland, Józef Piłsudski appointed Paderewski prime minister and minister of foreign affairs (January–December 191

Ignatius de Orellana

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Ignatius Antonio de Orellana (October 14, 1860 – March 19, 1931) was a British violinist and composer. He became a conductor of theatre orchestras and an arranger of music for the theatre. Life Orellana was born in St Helier in Jersey, where his grandfather Ignacio de Orellana, originally from Spain, had settled by 1841. He studied the violin in London. Early compositions He composed a string quartet and a string trio, which were published in 1888. In the same year his Six Melodic Studies for Pianoforte were published; a reviewer in The Musical World commented that they “are an attempt to combine tuneful interest with the pursuit of various technical objects, and in this the composer has been in great measure successful.” In 1890 his Twenty-four Melodic Studies for Pianoforte were published; a reviewer in The Musical World commented, “The term ‘melodic’ is justified by the tunefulness of each of the numbers…. All are pleasingly distinctive in character and well harmonised, and they should attract tolerably advanced players.” Orchestral leader and conductor Orellana became lead violinist of London theatre orchestras, and from about 1900 was a conductor of operettas and an orchestr

Ildebrando Pizzetti

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Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, as well as a musicologist and a music critic. Biography Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the “Generation of 1880” along with Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Alfredo Casella. They were among the first Italian composers in some time whose primary contributions were not in opera. The instrumental and a cappella traditions had never died in Italian music and had produced, for instance, the string quartets of Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922) and the works of Respighi’s teacher Giuseppe Martucci; but with the “Generation of 1880” these traditions became stronger. Ildebrando Pizzetti was the son of Odoardo Pizzetti, a pianist and piano teacher who was his son’s first teacher. At first Pizzetti seemed headed for a career as a playwright—he had written several plays, two of which had been produced—before he decided in 1895 on a career in music and entered the Parma Conservatory. There he was taught from 1897 by Giovanni Tebaldini and gained the beginnings of his lifelong interest in the early music of Italy, reflected in his own music and his writings. He ta

Ilya Shatrov

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Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov (Russian: Илья Алексеевич Шатров; April 1, 1879 (or 1885) – May 2, 1952) was a Russian military musician, conductor and composer. He is known for composing the waltz On the Hills of Manchuria in 1906. The waltz recounts his experiences at the Battle of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War, and he dedicated it to one of his comrades who was killed in the battle. Biography Shatrov was born in Zemlyansk, Semilukskiy, Voronezh Oblast, Russia, on 1 April 1879 to Aleksei Mikhailovich Shatrov, a retired non-commissioned officer of the Lithuanian Life Guards Regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard. In 1905, Shatrov became the bandmaster of the Mokshansky Regimental Orchestra and served in the Russo-Japanese War. In February 1905, the 214th Reserve Mokshan Infantry Regiment took part in the Battle of Mukden and Liaoyang. In one of the battles the regiment was surrounded by the Japanese and was constantly attacked by the enemy. At a critical moment, when the ammunition was already spent, the regiment commander Colonel Pavel Pobyvanets gave the order: “The banner and the orchestra will go ahead!” Kapellmeister Shatrov led the orchestra to the parapet of the trenches, g

Ion Vidu

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Ion Vidu ( – 7 February 1931), was a Romanian composer and choral conductor. Under his influence the small town of Lugoj, which up until that time had not that much in the way of artistic institutions, became a well-known center of choral music in Romania. Vidu was born in Mânerău, Arad County, Austrian Empire, where he initially studied music at the Arad Conservatory (1880–1881) and later at Caransebeș in the Banat region just south of Arad (1885). From 1890 to 1891 he attended the Conservatory of Music and Declamation in Iași (in the historical region of Moldavia, very near the northeastern border of modern Romania), studying harmony and choral conducting with Gavriil Musicescu. He subsequently moved back to Banat, obtaining a post in Lugoj (midway between Caransebeș and Timișoara), where he stayed for the rest of his life. Almost all of his compositions are for chorus. In 1922 he organized the Banat Choral and Brass Band Society, which at one time included more than 10,000 peasant singers. Like his friends and fellow composers Gavriil Musicescu, Béla Bartók, and Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, he was an avid collector of folk music. Vidu based most of his music on Romanian folk tunes,

Iosif Kotek

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Iosif Iosifovich Kotek, also seen as Josef or Yosif (, Iosif Iosifovič Kotek; 6 November 18554 January 1885), was a Russian violinist and composer remembered for his association with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He assisted Tchaikovsky with technical difficulties in the writing of the solo part in his Violin Concerto in D. Biography Iosif Kotek was born in Kamenets-Podolsk, Russian Empire, in 1855, the son of a Czech father and a Russian mother. He studied violin under Jan Hřímalý at the Moscow Conservatory, where he was also a composition student of Tchaikovsky. From the outset, their attraction was mutual. He held Tchaikovsky’s music in the highest regard, and he was the composer’s favourite pupil. Tchaikovsky was infatuated with his student—he called him “Kotik”, Russian for little tomcat —and it has been conjectured by some (and asserted unambiguously by others) that they became lovers. They certainly became physically very affectionate, as demonstrated in Tchaikovsky’s 1876 letter to his brother Modest about Kotek: “When he caresses me with his hand, when he lies with his head inclined on my breast, and I run my hand through his hair and secretly kiss it … passion rages within

Ira B. Arnstein

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Ira B. Arnstein (born Itzig Arenstein April 12, 1879 – September 13, 1956) was a musical composer, songwriter, and “chronic litigator”. Arnstein was born in Litzingen, Russia (now Letychiv Ukraine), the son of Bernard Solomon Arnstein and Sophia (Sophie) Kozovoc. He emigrated to the United States when he was eleven. Litigation It was noted that Arnstein experienced “copyright infringement persecution mania”, always certain that others were stealing his work. He picketed ASCAP after being rejected by them for membership. In 1937, he launched a major lawsuit against twenty-three composers and publishers simultaneously and lost them all. The jurors were directed that in order to find infringement, a “two-pronged test” must be used. # a plaintiff had to show that the defendant had copied him (using charts or other diagrams) # the plaintiff had to show that the copying was so extensive that it counted as infringement; a layperson must be able to hear the copied songs as essentially similar Arnstein lost that lawsuit and had to pay Porter’s legal fees. He never won any of the many cases he filed. References External links * Unfair to Genius - book about Arnstein’s career by Gary Rosen

Irène Fuerison

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Irène Fuerison, née Van Santen, (8 January 1875 - 26 June 1931) was a Belgian composer. Biography Irène Van Santen was born in Ghent to a tradesman, August Van Santen, and a contralto singer, Florine Lepla, who was a graduate of the conservatoire of Ghent (class of Louis Cabel, 1867) and who performed in public at least until 1878. Irène learned to play piano and maybe to sing as well. In 1893, she married the lawyer Joseph Fuerison and assumed his name. They had one daughter in 1899, named Madeleine. The Fuerisons lived in a mansion in Ghent and, while being fluent in Flemish, belonged to the French-speaking middleclass. They spent the First World War in Ghent. Fuerison was widowed in 1921 after her husband suffered a stroke. She had been visually impaired for several years by then. Fuerison died at her home in Ghent in 1931. She bequeathed a fund for a prize to encourage promising young Belgian composers; the Irène Fuerison-prize is being awarded every two years since 1934. Work Fuerison’s music compositions include over 70 songs for voice and piano, but also a couple of pieces for piano solo and for chamber music, some orchestra works and one music theatre work. Her vocal work i

Irénée Berge

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Irénée Bergé (February 1, 1867 – July 30, 1926) was a French composer, conductor and instructor who lived in the United States. In spite of confusions between his given name and “Irène”, Bergé was male. Early life and career According to one source he was born in Toulouse although other sources say Paris. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois. Although not mentioned in his obituaries, Berge apparently also was a tenor. In an 1897 performance of Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, a reviewer noted “Irénée Bergé, a young tenor of excellent schooling, whose voice—though not too powerful—had a very agreeable timbre, and a very distinguished performance . He and that of the orchestra….had a grand success.” Before immigrating to the United States he was an assistant conductor at Covent Garden. to teach at the National Conservatory of Music of America. Corsica was written to a libretto by Frederick F. Schrader. It had its premiere in the week prior to November 13, 1910 on a bill with Joseph Carl Breil’s opera Love Laughs at Locksmiths (also with a libretto by Schrader) in Kingston, New York, as part of Breil’s touring opera company. A

Isaac Albéniz

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Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso composer, conductor, and pianist. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also exerted a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works that incorporate Spanish folk music idioms and elements. His compositions, particularly his suite Iberia (1905–1908), are considered masterpieces and have influenced both European classical music and Spanish nationalism. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of ‘98. Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Córdoba, Cataluña, Mallorca, and Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the guitar. Some of Albéniz’s personal papers are held in the Library of Catalonia. Biography In 1860, Albéniz was born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz (a customs official) and his wife, Maria de los Dolores Pascual. He was a child prodigy, first performing at the age of 4. His sister claimed that by the age of three Albéniz knew “his scales and arpeggios, and would play full of expressi

Isabel Güell i López

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Isabel María Francisca de Paula Luisa Clementina Güell y López (Barcelona, November 23, 1872 - Barcelona, May 8, 1956), Marquess of Castelldosrius, was a Spanish composer of religious works, as well as a pianist and organist. She composed approximately 34 works. Early life and education Isabel María Francisca de Paula Luisa Clementina Güell y López was born in Barcelona on November 23, 1872. Her mother was Isabel López Bru, born in Cuba (daughter of the first Marquess of Comillas, Antonio López y López); her father was Eusebi Güell, first Count of Güell. Isabel had a cousin, Sister Eulalia Anzizu. She began her studies with Josep García Robles, composer of her father’s court. She studied with her aunt, Josefa Bacigalupi, and later studied piano and organ in Barcelona and Paris. Her main dedication was charity and benevolence, as befitted a woman of her social class in that era. Personal life Isabel’s father, a patron of Antoni Gaudí, commissioned works such as the Palau Güell and Park Güell. From 1939 onwards, she devoted herself to her grandchildren, giving them music and French lessons. She died in Barcelona on May 8, 1956, and was buried in the family pantheon of Dosrius (Mataró

Isaiah Burnell

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Isaiah Burnell (1871–1951) was a British music teacher and composer whose musical activities were mostly centred around his adopted home town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Burnell was born in Yorkshire. He become a member of the Royal College of Organists at the age of 18. By the turn of the century he was living and working in Bromsgrove, where he stayed for the following fifty years until his death. He was Director of Music and mathematics at Bromsgrove School from 1907 for 25 years and musical director and conductor of the Bromsgrove Musical Club. Burnell began corresponding with Edward Elgar from 1914 and on several occasions Elgar attended concerts organized by him. Burnell put on performances of Elgar’s Caractacus in 1914 and King Olaf in 1929 at the Bromsgrove Town Hall. Adrian Boult conducted a piece by Burnell with the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1928. His compositions include the Passiontide cantata For Us Men (1939) for soloists, chorus and organ, advertised by his publishers Novello as an alternative to John Stainer’s Crucifixion, and written in much the same simple, popular and direct style. His best known work was the anthem Surely the Lord is in this place, writ

Isidor Bajić

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Isidor Bajić () (16 August 1878 – 15 September 1915) was a Serbian composer, teacher, and publisher. Biography He was born in Kula, Austro-Hungarian Empire. A pupil of Hans von Koessler in Budapest, he taught at the Novi Sad High School, where he founded a music school and initiated the publication of the Serbian Music Magazine and the Serbian Music Library (an occasional edition of Serbian compositions). He was also interested in the melograph. He died in Novi Sad. His most important work is a romantic national opera Knez Ivo od Semberije (Prince Ivo of Semberia), based on folklore, the subject matter being about Ivan Knežević and the First Serbian Uprising against the Turks at the beginning of the 19th century, in 1804. In addition, he wrote a large number of plays and songs, and light operas as well, a symphony Miloš Obilić (which was lost), an overture Mena, piano pieces (Serbian Rhapsody, An Album of Compositions), songs with piano (the cycle Songs of Love), choral music, and music for tamburica bands. Being romantically sentimental, melodically inventive, frequently almost identical with folk music, these works made him extremely popular within the region of his origin in his

Isidore Lillian

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Isidore Lillian (Yiddish: איזידאָר ליליען Izidor Lilien) (c. 1882 - 1960) was an actor, songwriter, playwright, and composer who was a leading figure in the New York Yiddish Theatre for the first half of the twentieth century. He wrote hundreds of songs for the theatre which were performed by such actors as Boris Thomashefsky, David Kessler, and Jacob Adler, as well as by Lillian himself. His exact birthdate is unclear; on many government documents he said September 14, 1883 but the Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre and other documents give the date as September 7, 1882. In New York, he soon became interested in the Yiddish Theatre and joined it very young, becoming a member of the Dramatist Union at 16 and joining a Vaudeville troupe by age 17. In that troupe, he wrote and performed his own sketches and songs. Music and theatre career Lillian started to write full-length plays, and lyrics for other plays and operettas in the Yiddish theatre starting in 1905. His lyrical contributions to Isidore Solotarefsky’s Yesoymim fun der velt (Orphans of the World) in 1916 were regarded as some of the best work of his career, even decades later. In the early 1930s Lillian attempted to move from thea

Israel Goldfarb

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Israel Goldfarb (; c. 1879 – February 13, 1967) was a Galician-born American rabbi, cantor, and composer. He led Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn for more than fifty years, and was a founder of and instructor at the Cantor’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He published numerous collections of melodies for synagogue, school, and home use. Goldfarb has been celebrated as the “father of congregational singing” in synagogues, and many of his musical settings became so ubiquitous that they came to be regarded as traditional. He is perhaps best known for his popular setting of Shalom Aleichem. Early life and education Israel Goldfarb was born in Sieniawa, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary), the second of eleven children of Nathaniel David and Malye Goldfarb. He immigrated to the United States in 1892 or 1893. As a youth he sang in synagogue choirs and studied music privately. Goldfarb later pursued rabbinic studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, from which he was ordained in 1902. He also studied musical education at Columbia University and music at the Institute of Musical Art (today the Juilliard School). Career While still

Italo Montemezzi

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Italo Montemezzi (August 4, 1875 – May 15, 1952) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his opera L’amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings), once part of the standard repertoire. It is now seldom performed. Biography Montemezzi was born in Vigasio, near Verona. He studied music at the Milan Conservatory and subsequently taught harmony there for one year. His opera L’amore dei tre re, written in 1913, launched his career and enabled him to devote himself to composition. His opera La nave had its world premiere in Milan in 1918. In 1919 he visited the United States, conducting the American premiere of La nave at the Chicago Opera Association on November 18. He lived in California from 1939 and commemorated Italy’s surrender with Italia mia (1944), but later made frequent trips to Italy. He returned permanently in 1949 and died in Vigasio three years later. Other non-operatic works include the symphonic poem Paolo e Virginia (after Paul et Virginie) and the cantata The Song of Songs. As a composer, Montemezzi was admired for combining traditional Italian lyricism with a Wagnerian approach to the use of the orchestra in opera, with instrumental color influenced by the wor

Iver Holter

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Iver Paul Fredrik Holter (13 December 1850 – 27 January 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He was conductor and music director of the Oslo Philharmonic for a quarter century. Biography Iver Paul Fredrik Holter was born in Gausdal, Oppland, Norway. His parents were Caspar Georg Holter (1812–1880), a minister, and Caroline Theodora Børresen (1818–1857). He spent his adolescence at Gjerpen in Skien, where he received violin lessons from the German-born organist Friederich Wilhelm Rojahn (1820-1886). Holter had originally studied medicine but by 1876, he changed career paths to become a musician. He first studied music with Johan Svendsen and afterward in Leipzig (1876–79). He continued his music studies in Berlin (1879–1881). In the autumn of 1882, he followed Edvard Grieg as conductor for the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. In autumn 1886, he became music director and conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, a position he held for 25 years. Holter suggested the founding of a city orchestra which could play at municipal festivities, concerts and in the theatre, and as a result of this, the orchestra gained municipal support from 1889. Holter became a central figure in the city’s musical life.

Iwan Knorr

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Iwan Otto Armand Knorr (3 January 1853 – 22 January 1916) was a German composer and music teacher. Life A native of Gniew, Knorr was taken to southern Russia at the age of four, where he was surrounded by Russian folk music. His mother taught him piano. The family settled in Leipzig in 1868, where Knorr attended the Leipzig Conservatory, studying with Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Friedrich Richter and Carl Reinecke. In 1874, he became a teacher and in 1878 director of music theory instruction at the Imperial Kharkiv Conservatory, in what is now Ukraine. In 1883, he settled in Frankfurt, where he joined the faculty of the Hoch Conservatory. In 1908, he became director of the school. As a teacher he exerted great influence. Among his pupils were Bernhard Sekles, Ernest Bloch, Vladimir Sokalskyi, Ernst Toch and Hans Pfitzner, as well as the English-speaking composers such as William Beatton Moonie and friends that become known as the Frankfurt Group: Balfour Gardiner, Percy Grainger, Norman O’Neill, Roger Quilter and Cyril Scott. His compositions include three operas, a symphony, a piano quartet and several sets of variations and suites, as well as pedagogical works of counterpoint and fugu

J. A. Raynes

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John Arthur Raynes, more commonly referred to as J. A. Raynes, (born 1870 – died sometime after 1916) There he married his first wife Martha Irene Beazeall on 7 July 1892. He later married the actress Marta Golden in 1910 in San Jose, California. They divorced in 1915. Raynes first came to prominence as a composer writing the score to the musical burlesque Little Casino which premiered at the roof performance space of Broadway’s Casino Theatre on 2 August 1897. He then was hired by Bob Cole to work as the musical director and arranger for his musical At Jolly Coon-ey Island; beginning an international tour of that work in March 1898. He continued to tour nationally as conductor and composer with Kolb and Dill through 1912; also writing the score to the musical The Politicians (1912) for the pair. His song output included “The Suburban: Characteristic March and Two-Step” (1902, music by Raynes); “Helen of Helena” (1906, music by Raynes, lyrics by Howard Herrick), “The Feegee Man” (1907, words and music by Raynes), “Easy Money” (1908, words and music by Raynes), “I Only Thought I’d Ask You” (music by Raynes, lyrics by Edward Boltwood), “Flirting” (music by Raynes and lyrics by Leo Cu

J. Bodewalt Lampe

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Jens Bodewalt Lampe (November 8, 1869 – May 26, 1929) was a Danish-born American composer, arranger, performer and band-leader of ragtime and syncopated dance music. Lampe was born in Ribe, Denmark to Christian and Sophia Lampe. In 1873, his family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father took over leadership of the Great Western Band. Lampe was a child prodigy on the violin and became the first chair violinist for the Minneapolis Symphony at age 16. He met and married his wife, Josephine, while receiving tuition in Chicago in 1888. In the early 1890s, he and his wife moved to Buffalo, where they had four children, Walter, Petra, Dorothy and Joseph Dell (known later as “Dell”). At this time, he began composing and publishing his own music and led a dance orchestra. In 1900, a year after the success of Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag”, he published his most successful and enduring song “Creole Belles”, a rag or cakewalk that sold more than a million copies in sheet music. The song was recorded by Sousa’s Band in 1902 and has been a staple of jazz bands and ragtime pianists into the 21st century. He also collected, and may possibly have composed, Mysterioso Pizzicato, the piece of pho

J. E. P. Aldous

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John Edmund Paul Aldous (8 December 1853 – 23 January 1934) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output includes many short pieces for piano, organ, choir, and voice. He also composed four operettas: Ptarmigan or A Canadian Carnival (published 1895), A Golden Catch, Nancy or All for Love, and The Poster Girl (published 1902). Some of his better-known works are Prelude and Fugue for organ, the choral works Grant, We Beseech Thee, Merciful Lord and Blessed Are the Dead That Die in the Lord, and the hymn Egypt, all of which have been reprinted several times. Life and career Born in Sheffield, Aldous began his career as the organist at the chapel of the British Embassy in Paris. In 1876, he earned his BA in Trinity College. He emigrated to Canada in 1877 at the age of 23 to assume the post of organist-choirmaster at Central Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. He left there a few years later to assume a succession of similar church posts, first in St. Thomas, Ontario and then in Hamilton at St Mark’s and St Thomas’ churches. In 1884 he returned to Central Presbyterian where he remained for several years. Aldous founde

J. Emory Shaw

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J. Emory D. Shaw (1863 – June 10, 1943) was an American musician, educator, and academic administrator. He served as the musical director of Wilson College, president of Kee Mar College, and director of fine arts at Southwestern University. Early life and education J. Emory Shaw was born in Baltimore in 1863, the son of Greenbury Washington Shaw, a sailmaker, and Ann Eliza Travers. He began to study the piano at the age of 15, and at 19 he took up vocal instruction for which he had the strongest predilection. At his parents’ request, he continued studying piano and theory. Shaw received private instruction at home and abroad. In 1906, Shaw became president of Kee Mar College. By November 1906, he reported issues with nervous prostration. Shaw resigned in April 1907 due to his health issues. Shaw was the head master and teacher of voice and organ in the Paris Texas School of Singing and Organ Instruction. In 1912, Shaw became director of fine arts at Southwestern University. He was also the director of the choir of the First Methodist church in Georgetown, Texas. Shaw was a vocalist specialized in voice culture, conductor, and organist. He was experienced in orchestra and the art of

J. Ord Hume

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Lieutenant James Ord Hume (14 September 1864 – 25 November 1932) was an English musician, remembered as a composer and arranger for brass bands, but in his time noted as a conductor and judge in brass band competitions. History Hume was born in Edinburgh and joined the Royal Scots Guards in 1877. He played solo cornet with the Scots Greys in 1881, and left the army in 1887. While in the services he composed at least a hundred marches for military band, He returned to Australia in 1924, when he was accompanied by his wife. He has been credited as the greatest single influence on the standard of Australian brass band performance. He had a home in North London, where he died. His remains were carried to Edmonton cemetery, accompanied by a massed band playing the “Dead March” from Saul and “Abide with Me”, and interred to the strains of the hymns “Deep Harmony” and “The Angels’ Song”, Hume’s last composition. Instrumentalist, composer, arranger, adjudicator, he will for ever be remembered as the greatest figure ever known in the brass band world. References

J. P. Harrington (lyricist)

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John Patrick Harrington (1 May 1865 – 19 August 1939) was an English lyricist of music hall songs, and writer. He was born in Holborn, London, and started work at the age of 12 as an assistant to songwriter Joseph Tabrar, who tutored him as a lyricist. He attempted to go it alone, writing music as well as lyrics, but had little success as a songwriter until he joined forces with composer George Le Brunn in about 1885. They worked together in partnership for some twenty years, until Le Brunn’s early death in 1905, writing such songs as “The Seven Ages of Man” (sung by Charles Godfrey, 1888) and “Ev’rything In The Garden’s Lovely!” (1894; popularised by Marie Lloyd). Harrington also worked as a writer on popular magazines such as Funny Folks. He became a partner of James W. Tate in a theatrical agency, and moved into publishing, writing numerous music hall sketches and monologues for popular music hall performers of the day, including Marie Lloyd and Vesta Tilley. He also continued to write songs, such as “I Know Where the Flies Go (On a Cold and Frosty Morning)”, written with Sam Mayo in 1920. He is said to have written over one thousand published songs. He became relatively prosper

J. Rosamond Johnson

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John Rosamond Johnson (August 11, 1873 – November 11, 1954; usually referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson) was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, much of his music career was in New York City. Johnson is hailed well over a century later as the music composer of the civic anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” first performed live by 500 Black American students from racially-segregated Jacksonville, Florida’s First Baptist Academy, in the pivotal year of 1900. The song was published by Joseph W. Stern & Co., Manhattan, New York (later the Edward B. Marks Music Company). J. Rosamond Johnson was the younger brother of poet and activist James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing”. The two also worked together in causes related to the NAACP. Biography J. Rosamond Johnson was born on August 11, 1873, to Helen Louise Dillet, a native of Nassau, Bahamas, and James Johnson. His maternal great-grandmother, Hester Argo, had escaped from Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) during the revolutionary upheaval in 1802, along with her three young children, including Johnson’s grandfather, Stephen Dillet (1797–1880). Although

Jacob Gade

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Jacob Thune Hansen Gade (29 November 1879 – 20 February 1963) was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music. He is remembered today for a single tune, Jalousie (also known as Jalousie “Tango Tzigane” and Tango Jalousie). Early life Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was born in Vejle, Denmark on 29 November 1879 and died on 20 February 1963. He belonged to a family of musicians. His grandfather and his father used to go around the nearby villages to play at all kinds of parties. And it was natural that, from an early age, he also began to play and was another member of the musical group. He was nine when he made his debut as trumpeter. He might have been an attraction because only a year later he was invited to Copenhagen to become a soloist in the orchestra of the Tivoli Garden, a famous amusement park. It was only at age 12 when he began to study violin, firstly with his father and later with teachers of greater knowledge. Soon he evidenced his ambition, he wanted to be recognized and for that he decided to move to the capital. Note that there’s no family connection with the composer Niels W. Gade. Music composer He began to compose country music, polkas and simila

Jacob Weinberg

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Jacob Weinberg (1 July 1879 – 2 November 1956) was a Russian-born American Jewish composer and pianist who composed over 135 works for piano and other instruments. He was one of the founders of the Jewish National Conservatory in Jerusalem before immigrating to the U.S. where he became “an influential voice in the promotion of American Jewish music” from the 1940s until his death. Life and career Weinberg was born in Odessa in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) to Dora and Wolf (Zev) Weinberg. His family was middle class and his father was a merchant who died when Jacob was only 12. Jacob wrote an essay about how he had been sent to a synagogue to say the Kaddish prayer in mourning for his father. He wrote that he had not been raised in an Orthodox home and he was not familiar with the sounds of the Hebrew language in the prayer but he fell in love with the music of the language and the rhythm of the prayer. This sparked his interest in Jewish religion and Jewish music. One of his uncles was Peter (or Pyotr) Isaevich Weinberg (or “Veinberg”). (Peter was a very prominent translator of Shakespeare, Goethe, Heine and other luminaries into Russian. Peter was a friend of Anton Che

Jacques Durand (publisher)

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Marie-Jacques Massacrié-Durand (22 February 1865 – 22 August 1928) was a French music publisher and composer, sometimes under the pseudonym J. Samm. The family’s publishing house, Éditions Durand, published works by many of Durand’s contemporaries, including Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Gabriel Fauré, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns. Life Born in Paris, Durand was a fellow student of Paul Dukas and Claude Debussy at the Conservatoire de Paris, where his only reward was an honourable mention (2 e accessit) in harmony in 1884. Jacques Durand was first associated with his father Auguste Durand in 1886 as director of the music publishing house Durand-Schönewerk & Cie at 4, Place de la Madeleine in Paris. On 19 November 1891, the company changed its name to Éditions A. Durand & Fils. In 1909, after his father’s death, he took over the management of the publishing house. On 23 November of that year, the company changed its name again to Éditions Durand & Cie. From then on, Durand was associated with his cousin Gaston Choisnel (1857–1921) and then, from April 1921, with another cousin, . Among the main composers published under the direction of Jacques

Jadwiga Sarnecka

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Jadwiga Sarnecka (1877 or 1883 – 29 December 1913) was a Polish composer and pianist whose composition Ballade for piano won second place in a 1910 competition in Lviv (today in Ukraine) commemorating Chopin’s centenary. She also composed works for voice and piano. Biography Sarnecka was born in Slavuta, Volhynia (today in Ukraine). She studied piano with Felicjan Szopski and Władysław Żeleński in Krakow, Poland; Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski and Aleksander Michalowski in Warsaw; and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna. She presented piano recitals throughout Austria, Germany and Poland. Sarnecka’s compositions were not always favorably reviewed. She self-published her initial works. Arts patron Feliks Jasienski (pseudonym “Manggha”) (1861-1929) funded the publication of subsequent works. Eventually, Sarnecka’s compositions received favorable reviews from Polish music critics Adolf Chybinski, Zdzislaw Jachimecki, and Jozef Wladyslaw Reiss, and A. Piwarski & Company began publishing them. After winning second prize at the Lwów (Lviv) competition in 1910, Sarnecka was the only woman asked to present a paper at the first Congress of Polish Musicians later that year. She wrote about Creativity v

Jaime Teixidor

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Jaume Teixidor Dalmau (; ) was born in Barcelona on April 16, 1884, and died in Barakaldo on February 23, 1957. He was a Spanish musician, conductor, publisher, and composer. After studying composition and conducting in Barcelona he joined the army in 1906 as a musician, performing on the saxophone. He became the director of the 68th “Africa” Regiment band (Banda Música del regimiento 68) in the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla on the Moroccan coast. He retired from military service in 1920 after thirteen years with this band. In 1924, he directed the Banda de Música Primitiva in Carlet and also taught piano and violin. He resided in Carlet for only a couple of years and then moved to Manises, Valencia, to lead the Banda del Círculo Instructivo Musical. In 1928 he won a competition to direct the municipal band of Barakaldo, which he did until the end of his life. One source indicates he gave up the direction of the band for political reasons during the Spanish Civil War. In Barakaldo he also set up a music publishing firm, which published his compositions and others. His daughter, María Teresa Tico Texidor (1907–1993), was also a composer, including Paz Eterna and Rosa Evangélica

James G. Ellis (composer)

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James Garfield Ellis (February 12, 1880 Dayton, Ohio – April 1, 1966 Los Angeles) was an American violinist, silent film theater pioneer, composer, lyricist, and music publisher. Early life Ellis was the only male of eight children born to Jay Bartlett Ellis (born 1852), and Antonette Roberts (née Hall; 1856–1896), who were married in Elkhart, Indiana, May 28, 1875. Between 9 and 16 years of age, James G. Ellis lost six of his siblings—Pauline (died 1892), Jennie (1876–1889), Maud (1878–1896), Clara (1885–1888), Mary Winnifred (1887–1888), Mabel (1889–1991)—and also lost his mother, all to complications from diphtheria. His father became a homeopathic physician in 1891. His only surviving sister, Helen became a nurse. He lived during his childhood at 1212 Wayne Street, Dayton, Ohio. Ellis served in U.S. Army in the Spanish–American War (1898). Personal life James G. Ellis was married three times. He first married Edna Lenore Roberts (1884–1987) in Merced County, California, November 27, 1902. They had two daughters. Edna and James lived in Los Banos, California in 1903. Sometime between January 7, 1920, and 1930, James G. Ellis married Anna G. Long (born 1876). When Ellis died in 1

James Kwast

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James Kwast (23 November 185231 October 1927) was a Dutch-German pianist and renowned teacher of many other notable pianists. He was also a minor composer and editor. Biography Jacob James Kwast was born in Nijkerk, Netherlands, in 1852. After studies with his father and Ferdinand Böhme in his home country, he became a student of Carl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory, and had later studies in Berlin under Theodor Kullak, and Brussels under Louis Brassin and François-Auguste Gevaert. He settled in Germany in 1883, initially as a teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, and later at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and the Klindworth-Scharwenka (1903–06) and Stern conservatories in Berlin. His students included Else Schmitz-Gohr and Walter Braunfels. He participated in the first performance in England of Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor, with Carl Fuchs and Carl Deichmann. Clara Schumann played her last public concert in Frankfurt on 12 March 1891. The last work she played was Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn, in the piano-duet version, with Kwast as her partner. He died in Berlin in 1927, aged 74. Teacher His reputation as a teacher reached far and wide. The list of his stude

James Simon (composer)

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James Simon (29 September 1880 – 12/14 October 1944) was a German composer, pianist and musicologist. Timeline * Born on 29 September 1880 in Berlin * Married on 1 May 1907 to Anna Levy in Berlin * Birth of his son, Jörn Martin Simon on 14 September 1910 in Berlin * Birth of his son, Ulrich Ernst Simon on 21 September 1913 in Berlin * Emigration: 1 April 1933, via Zürich to Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Death of his son, Jörn in 1937 in Russia during the purge of the Moscow Trials * Deported from Westerbork 5 April 1944 to Theresienstadt, ghetto * Transferred 12 October 1944, to Auschwitz, extermination camp * Death: 14 October 1944, Auschwitz, extermination camp – officially declared dead, age 64 Biography James Simon was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 following his internment at Theresienstadt. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Berlin piano (Conrad Ansorge) and composition (Max Bruch). In 1934 he was forced to leave Germany to Zurich, later Amsterdam where he was arrested and deported to Theresienstadt. From there, on 12 October 1944, James Simon boarded the transport to Auschwitz and was murdered in a gas chamber shortly after his arrival

James W. Tate

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James William Tate (30 July 1875 – 5 February 1922) was an English songwriter, accompanist, composer and producer of revues and pantomimes in the early years of the 20th century. After working in the United States for five years, he returned to London in 1897 where he became Musical Director at the Carl Rosa Opera Company and then at Wyndham’s Theatre. In 1898 he toured as the conductor for Lottie Collins, whom he married in 1902. After Collins’s death in 1910, Tate married Clarice Mayne in 1912; he had been her accompanist since 1906. He composed numerous music hall songs during these years, and had songs interpolated in shows. Julian Wylie formed a partnership with Tate, creating and producing pantomimes and revues just before the First World War, as well as musicals such as High Jinks (1916). He continued to write the music for popular songs, including several in The Maid of the Mountains and sometimes full scores for shows such as The Beauty Spot (1917). Wylie and Tate continued to produce revues and pantomimes, while Tate continued to write songs. The Wylie-Tate company continued through the 1920s and into the 1930s despite Tate’s death, and Wylie continued to use Tate’s music

Jan Blockx

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Jan Blockx (25 January 1851 – 26 May 1912) was a Belgian composer, pianist and teacher. He was a leader of the Flemish nationalist school in music. Biography Born in Antwerp, Blockx studied the piano with Frans Aerts, the organ with Joseph Callaerts and composition with Peter Benoît at the Antwerp Conservatory. When he was still a student he wrote some songs, in Flemish, which became popular. However, his musical education studies were quite irregular, and he was essentially self-taught. Later he studied with Carl Reinecke at Leipzig. Despite the fact that he was Benoit’s favorite pupil, Blockx wanted to make his own way in life, independent of his teacher and the Flemish Movement. Unlike Benoit, Blockx never intended his works to have the educational, uplifting effect that was typical for the Flemish Movement. This caused tensions between student and master: despite the fact that Blockx’s work helped to spread Flemish music across the Belgian borders and even saved the Vlaamse Opera from bankruptcy, Blockx received a lot of complaints from his fellow Flemish composers for publishing his works in French and through the Parisian music publisher Heugel. In 1886 Blockx became a teache

Jan Brandts Buys

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Jan Willem Frans Brandts Buys (Zutphen, 12 September 1868 – Salzburg, 7 December 1933) was a Dutch-Austrian composer who came from a long line of Dutch organists and composers of protestant church music. His father was an organ player in the town of Zutphen in the Netherlands, where Jan was born. He studied at the Raff Conservatory in Frankfurt and in 1892 settled in Vienna, where he got to know Johannes Brahms, who, along with Edvard Grieg, praised his early works. His piano concerto won an important international prize and such famous artists as Lilli Lehmann often included his songs on the same program with those of Franz Schubert. Work Brandts Buys’ oeuvre comprises piano pieces, organ pieces, chamber music, orchestral music, songs, pieces for choir and cantatas, operas and many arrangements - such as piano arrangements of all the symphonies of Schubert and Beethoven). However, his reputation today mainly rests on his comic operas and operettas, such as The Tailors of Schönau 1916 and The Man in the Moon 1922 , which gained considerable international acclaim. These two operas, along with Glockenspiel 1913 and Der Eroberer 1918 were first performed at the Dresden Hofoper, with c

Jan Ingenhoven

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Johannes Theodorus (Jan) Ingenhoven (Breda, 19 May 1876 – Hoenderloo, 20 May 1951), was a Dutch composer and conductor. He was one of the first to introduce new influences shaping twentieth century European music into the Netherlands before World War 1, and also took contemporary Dutch music into Germany. Career Jan Ingenhoven was born into a family of gifted amateur musicians: his father (a baker) played oboe and violin and an uncle played the saxophone. He learned the clarinet at an early age, sang in a choir and was soon conducting local choirs in Breda and Dordrecht. From 1902 he studied harmony and composition with Ludwig Felix Brandts Buys (1847–1917). After his marriage to Johanna Hermine Frantzmann in 1905 he settled in Munich and continued his studies with the Austrian conductor Felix Mottl. Ingenhoven promoted Dutch music abroad, organizing a Dutch Music Festival in Munich in 1906 that included his own music and pieces by his contemporaries Alphons Diepenbrock, Johan Wagenaar and Carl Smulders (1863–1934). The following year he put on a similar festival in Berlin, introducing music by Anna Cramer, Kor Kuiler (1877–1951) and Cornélie van Oosterzee. The vocal quartet ‘Nous

Jan van Gilse

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Jan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse (11 May 1881 – 8 September 1944) was a Dutch conductor and composer. Among his works are five symphonies and the Dutch-language opera Thijl (1940). Life Coming from a family of theologians, Jan van Gilse showed an early aptitude for piano playing and composing. From 1897 onwards, he studied at the Cologne Conservatory. After his teacher, Franz Wüllner, died in 1902, he continued his studies with Engelbert Humperdinck in Berlin. From 1909 to 1911, he studied in Italy. In 1901, van Gilse received the Beethoven-Haus Prize in Bonn for his (First) Symphony in F major; in 1906, the Michael Beer Prize was awarded to him for his Third Symphony, ‘Erhebung’ (‘Elevation’; for solo soprano and orchestra). In addition to composing, van Gilse soon developed an interest in conducting. He started out with the Bremen Opera, a post which was followed by appointments in Munich and Amsterdam. After the outbreak of the First World War made travel difficult, he moved back to the Netherlands. From 1917 until 1922, he was the conductor of the Utrecht Municipal Orchestra (). In 1921, van Gilse resigned from the position after a conflict with the orchestra’s board of directors.

Jane Vieu

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Jeanne Élisabeth Marie Vieu, also known as Jane Vieu, (15 July 1871, in Béziers – 8 April 1955, in Paris), was a French composer who also published works under the pseudonym Pierre Valette. Biography Vieu was born as Jeanne Fabre at Béziers. Vieu was the daughter of pianist Marie-Élodie Fabre, who taught music. She started composing at the age of 11. Vieu studied composition with Jules Massenet, singing with Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, and counterpoint and fugue with André Gedalge. She gained recognition thanks to her operetta Madame Tallien (1902), and because of her fairy tale La belle au bois dormant (1902), the first performance of which took place at the Théâtre des Mathurins. Other successful titles of her hand are Au bal de Flore, Les Petites entravées (1911), and Aladin, ombres chinoises (1904). Vieu published about 100 works, some under her pseudonym Pierre Valette, including orchestral, chamber, piano, and operas. She operated a publishing company with her presumed husband They opened a publishing house in Paris called Maurice Vieu and Jane Vieu. She died in Paris in 1955. Works Selected works include: *Puisque c’est l’été (text: Robert de la Villehervé) *Madame Talli

Jaroslav Kocian

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Jaroslav Kocian (22 February 1883 – 8 March 1950) was a Czech violinist, classical composer and teacher. Together with Jan Kubelík he is considered as the most important representative of “Ševčík’s school”. He was celebrated as an interpreter of violin compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. As a composer he is especially noted for his compositions for the violin, which have been recorded most often by his student Josef Suk. Life Kocian was born in Ústí nad Orlicí on 22 February 1883. His father, Julius Kocian, was a violinist, teacher and a former classmate of famous virtuoso Otakar Ševčík. Kocian’s three sisters were also gifted, but he surpassed them with his exceptional talent. He received his first violin at the age of four. He made his first public appearance in 1887 at the annual music festival in Ústí nad Orlicí. His first teacher after his father was Josef Zábrodský, who also prepared him for the conservatory exams. In 1893 Kocian went to Prague to take the exams for the Prague Conservatory, which he passed, but was not accepted to study due to his poor health and small stature. Only in 1897 he was accepted into Otakar Ševčík’s class. He also studied piano and composition w

Jaroslav Křička

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Jaroslav Křička (; 27 August 1882 – 23 January 1969) was a Czech composer, conductor and music teacher. He was the brother of poet . Life Jaroslav Křička was born on 27 August 1882 in Kelč, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He was born into the family of the Kelč village cantor and headmaster František Křička (1848–1891) as the oldest of three siblings. His mother was Františka Křičková (1861-1936). His brother Petr Křička (1884–1949) later became a well-known poet, and his sister Pavla Křičková (1886–1972) became a writer. Their father enthusiastically supported the musical education of his children; Jaroslav received violin, piano, and voice lessons as a child. He attended high school in Havlíčkův Brod and graduated in 1900. As a high school student, he founded his own vocal quartet, string quartet, and student orchestra and began to compose. After graduating from high school, he moved to Prague and studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1902 to 1905. Under the tutelage of Josef Klička, he studied organ, orchestration, and harmony. He studied conducting with and composition with Karel Stecker cs . His musical role models were the famous Czech composers Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, a

Jāzeps Vītols

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Jāzeps Vītols (; 26 July 1863 – 24 April 1948) was a Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic. He is considered one of the fathers of Latvian classical music. Biography Vītols, born in Valmiera the son of a schoolteacher, began his studies in composition in 1880 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduating in 1886, he remained at the Conservatory to teach composition and reached the rank of Professor in 1901. Celebration and remembrance Jāzeps Vītols music days in Gaujiena started soon after 1922, when he spent summers in Gaujiena “Anniņas” with his wife. Celebrating his birthday, different choirs from all over the country started coming to Gaujiena for July 26 to celebrate Vītols’ birthday with music. In 2003, a summer camp for children from music schools was started around this celebration, creating an orchestra and a choir to celebrate music and have fun as well as practice their instruments. Notes References * *Braun, Joachim and Klotiņš, Arnold. “Vītols, Jāzeps”. Grove Music Online (subscription required). ed. L. Macy. Retrieved on March 8, 2007. External links *Homepage of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music *Homepage of Music

Jean Cras

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Jean Émile Paul Cras (; 22 May 1879 – 14 September 1932) was a 20th-century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages. As a naval commander he served with distinction in the Adriatic Campaign during World War I. Biography Life and naval career Cras was born and died in Brest. His father was a naval medical officer. He was accepted into the navy at the age of seventeen. As a midshipman cadet on the French cruiser Iphigénie, he travelled in the Americas, the West Indies and Senegal. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1908. His mathematical skills led to his proposing a number of innovations in technical practices which were adopted by the navy, including his invention of an electrical selector and a navigational plotter protractor known as (aka Cras ruler, Cras protractor, Cras plotter). (However, it was difficult to operate by some, which inspired the later development of the Breton plotter by Yvonnick Gueret.) With the outbreak of war in 1914 Cras was appointed as adjutant to Admiral Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère. He later worked in the Submarine Defense Service. In

Jean E. Williams

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Jean Elizabeth Williams (20 January 1876 – July 1965) was a composer. She was born in Wednesbury, England, then moved to Toronto, Canada. After graduating from the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto, she returned to England and studied to be a concert pianist. Williams changed her career plans from performance to teaching after breaking her wrist. She returned to the University of Toronto to teach voice and piano. She later taught in Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Louis, Missouri, before moving to Portland, Oregon, in 1932. Williams served as president of the National Music Teachers Association and as president of Mu Phi Epsilon, a professional music fraternity. She collaborated on two music education books with Nellie Tholen, who later donated Williams’ papers to the University of Oregon, where they are archived. Williams’ compositions include: Chamber *Gavotte (violin and piano) *Valse (violin and piano) Orchestra *Concertina for Piano and String Orchestra *Junior Piano Concerto No. 6 *Piano Concerto in a minor *Piano Concerto in C *Piano Concerto in F Major *(Second) Piano Concerto in C Piano *Bolero (for two pianos) *Dresden China Figures (Minuet V) *Fairy Piper

Jean Gabriel-Marie

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Jean Gabriel Prosper Marie (8 January 1852 – 29 August 1928), known professionally as Gabriel-Marie, * Adagio for violin and piano * Cassandre, Bouffonnerie * Chanson Capriceuse for various instrumentations: cello or violin and piano; cello and orchestra * Chant Pastoral for oboe and piano or orchestra * En rêve, Esquisse symphonique for orchestra, or piano solo * Frais minois (“Fresh Face”) * Furtivement, Impression musicale * Impressions - Six Morceaux pour Violion et and Piano (1894, Schott Frères, Bruxelles) # Simplicité # Insouciance # Quiétude # Souvenir # Mélancolie # Allègresse * Impromptu-valse for piano * Intermezzo for various instrumentations: cello or violin and piano; cello and orchestra; piano solo * La Soixantaine, Chers souvenirs * 4 Morceaux for Cello and Piano # Dans le calme du soir, Mélodie # Fleur novelle, Romance # Radotages # Douce Rencontre * Pasquinade for various instrumentations: cello (or violin, or viola, or mandolin, or flute, or oboe, or clarinet, or alto saxophone) and piano; cello and orchestra; piano solo; piano 4-hands * 2 Pieces for cello and piano # Lamento (1887) for various instrumentations: cello (or violin, or viola, or flute, or clarinet)

Jean Gilbert

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Jean Gilbert (11 February 1879 – 20 December 1942), born Max Winterfeld, was a German operetta composer and conductor. Life and career Gilbert was born in Hamburg into a family of musicians; his ancestors were cantors of the Jewish community, his cousin Paul Dessau became a famous composer and conductor. He attended composition lessons held by Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin and studied at the conservatories in Sondershausen and Weimar. After first public appearances as a pianist, the 18-year-old obtained an appointment as Kapellmeister in Bremerhaven. Soon after he moved to the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg and, at the age of 20, succeeded Leo Fall as musical director of the theatre on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. He adopted the name of Jean Gilbert for the production of his first operetta Das Jungfernstift in 1901. He continued to work as a Kapellmeister at the Berlin on Friedrichstraße, where he conducted operettas by Paul Lincke. In 1908, Gilbert moved to Düsseldorf and again turned to composing. Back in Berlin by 1910, he composed more than 50 operettas before and after World War I. His most successful work was Die keusche Susanne (1910), which was also popular in an English adaptati

Jean Huré

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Jean-Louis Charles Huré (17 September 1877 – 27 January 1930) was a French composer and organist. Though educated in music at a monastery in Angers, he was mostly self-taught. Life Born in Gien, Loiret, France, on 17 September 1877, Huré studied anthropology, composition, improvisation and medieval music at the École Saint-Maurille in Angers and served as organist at the cathedral in the city. In 1895, he moved to Paris, where he was advised by Charles-Marie Widor and Charles Koechlin to study at the Conservatory. Huré preferred to live an independent life. From 1910, he taught at the École Normale Supérieure, where Yves Nat and Manuel Rosenthal were among his students. In 1911, Huré helped found the Paris Mozart Society; he was also a member of the short-lived Association des Compositeurs Bretons during 1912–14. He worked as organist at the churches of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, Saint-Martin-des-Champs and Saint-Séverin between 1911 and 1914. From 1924, he was appointed successor to Lucien Grandjany at Sacré-Cœur and from 1926, as the successor to Eugene Gigout at Saint-Augustin. Between 1924 and 1926, Huré edited and published a monthly journal called L’Orgue et les Organist

Jean Pietrapertosa

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Jean Pietrapertosa (1855–1940) was a composer and virtuoso of the mandolin who performed in Paris in the 1880s. He taught the mandolin and wrote a two-volume mandolin method book, Méthode de mandolin, published in Paris in 1892. He also organized a mandolin orchestra. Name confusion There is confusion about the identity of some works by Pietrapertosa. There are works by “J. Pietrapertosa” that may not have been Jean’s but Janvier’s. It has not been cleared up as to whether these are two different men or if “Janvier Pietrapertosa Fils” is a different person, possibly his son. Works Books *Methode complete de mandoline ou banjoline *Methode de mandoline Compositions *Ada-berceuse / transcription par Giuseppe Bellenghi; J. Pietrapertosa (Firenze : A. Forlivesi e C., dep.1889) *Au bord du Gange de Felix Mendelssohn: transcription pour mandoline (ou violon) et piano : Op. 87 (Paris : G. Ricordi & C 1893) *Deux transcription pour mandoline et piano (London: Schott) *Frais minois, Op.217 *Gavotte Stephanie Op. 120, transcription del Alphons Czibulka; transcription pour Mandoline et Piano (Brussels: Schott Frères, 1889) Dedicated to Eduardo Mezzacapo. *Jolis yeux noirs: valse pour Mandolin

Jean Roger-Ducasse

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Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Biography Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré. He succeeded Fauré as professor of composition, and in 1935 he succeeded Paul Dukas as professor of orchestration. His personal style was firmly rooted in the French school of orchestration, in an unbroken tradition from Hector Berlioz through Camille Saint-Saëns. Among his notable pupils were Jehan Alain, Claude Arrieu, Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk, Jean-Louis Martinet, and Francis George Scott. Compositions Roger-Ducasse wrote music in nearly all classical forms, and was particularly known for his operatic stage works and orchestral compositions. These include: *Au Jardin de Marguerite, 1901–05 Based on an episode in Goethe’s Faust *Sarabande, 1907 Symphonic poem with chorus. *Suite française, Concerts Calonne, Paris, 1907 *Pastorale pour orgue, 1909 *Marche française, 1914 *Nocturne de printemps, 1920 *Nocturne d’hiver, 1921 *Epithalame for orchestra, 1923 *Orphée mimodrame lyrique, Opéra Garnier, 19

Jean Rogister

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Jean François Toussaint Rogister (25 October 1879 in Liège – 20 March 1964 in Liège) was a Belgian virtuoso violist, teacher and composer. Life and career Jean Rogister came from a family of musicians; his father was a flautist and his brothers Fernand Rogister (1872–1954), a horn player and composer, Chrétien Rogister (pseudonym Caludi) (1884–1941), a violinist and composer, and Hubert Rogister, a cellist. A musically gifted child, Rogister studied violin, viola, horn and composition at the Liège Conservatory. Rogister studied composition with Jean-Théodore Radoux, and viola with Désiré Heynberg (1831–1898) and Oscar Englebert. He emerged a virtuoso viola player, and at the age of twenty-one, he was appointed Professor of Viola (1900–1945) at the Liège Conservatory. Rogister performed in chamber ensembles and made his debut in 1902 as violist of the Charlier Quartet led by Léopold Charlier. It was also at this time that Rogister completed his String Quartet No. 1. He continued to study composition and play in chamber music ensembles including Cercle Ad Artem, the Chaumont Quartet, and Piano et Archets. Rogister, like his composition teacher Radoux, composed largely in the neo-roma

Jean Schwartz

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Jean Schwartz (November 4, 1878 – November 30, 1956) was a Hungarian-born Jewish American composer and pianist. He is best known for his work writing the scores for more than 30 Broadway musicals, and for his creation of more than 1,000 popular songs with the lyricist William Jerome. At the age of 13, he immigrated with his family to the United States and settled with them in New York City. and he studied the piano under his older sister, Rosa, who had trained as a pianist under Franz Liszt. After working for a time as an office boy at a cigar factory and as an attendant at a Turkish bath house, Schwartz obtained employment in the sheet music department of the Siegel-Cooper Company, where his job was to play songs on the piano for customers in order to sell the sheet music. Other music jobs he held in his early years included working as a pianist with an orchestra at Coney Island and as a song-plugger for the Shapiro-Bernstein Publishing House of Tin Pan Alley. In 1914, he was one of the twelve founding members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Work with William Jerome Schwartz remained at the Siegel-Cooper Company until 1901 when he took a job as the on

Jean Sibelius

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Early years#

Sibelius was born on 8 December 1865 in Hämeenlinna () in the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous state within the Russian Empire. He was the son of the Swedish-speaking medical doctor Christian Gustaf Sibelius and Maria Charlotta Sibelius (née Borg). The family name stems from the Sibbe estate in Eastern Uusimaa, which his paternal great-grandfather owned. Sibelius’s father died of typhoid in July 1868, leaving substantial debts. As a result, his mother—who was again pregnant—had to sell their property and move the family into the home of Katarina Borg, her widowed mother, who also lived in Hämeenlinna. Sibelius was therefore brought up in a decidedly female environment, the only male influence coming from his uncle, Pehr Ferdinand Sibelius, who was interested in music, especially the violin. Pehr Ferdinand gave the boy a violin when he was ten years old and later encouraged him to maintain his interest in composition. For Sibelius, Uncle Pehr not only took the place of a father but acted as a musical adviser. From an early age, Sibelius showed a strong interest in nature, frequently walking around the countryside when the family moved to Loviisa on the coast for the summer months. In his own words: “For me, Loviisa represented sun and happiness. Hämeenlinna was where I went to school; Loviisa was freedom.” In Hämeenlinna, when he was seven, Sibelius’s aunt Julia was brought in to give him piano lessons on the family’s upright instrument, rapping him on the knuckles whenever he played a wrong note. He progressed by improvising on his own, but still learned to read music. He later turned to the violin, which he preferred. He participated in trios with his elder sister Linda on piano, and his younger brother Christian on the cello. (Christian Sibelius was to become a psychiatrist, still remembered for his contributions to modern psychiatry in Finland.) Sibelius soon began playing in quartets with neighbouring families, furthering his experience performing chamber music. Fragments survive of his early compositions of the period, a trio, a piano quartet and a Suite in D Minor for violin and piano. Around 1881, he transcribed a short pizzicato piece Vattendroppar (Water Drops) for violin, possibly as an etude or musical exercise. The first reference he made to himself composing is in a letter from August 1883 in which he writes that he composed a trio and was working on another: “They are rather poor, but it is nice to have something to do on rainy days.” Despite having to repeat a year, he passed the school’s final examination in 1885, which allowed him to enter a university. As a boy he was known as Janne, a colloquial form of Johan. However, during his student years, he adopted the French form Jean, inspired by the business card of his deceased seafaring uncle. Thereafter he became known as Jean Sibelius.

Jean-Baptiste Lemire

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Jean-Baptiste Lemire (8 June 1867 – 2 March 1945) was a French composer. He joined the French army in 1888 as a musician as Quarter-Major Musician Second-Class and later served as a drummer in a navy regiment. In all, he would served in the military for 25 years. He enrolled in the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon in 1893. After retiring from the army, he served as the conductor of a number of concert bands across France. Lemire retired from conducting in the 1930s. In 1935, he was awarded the Colonial Medal of Madagascar and elevated to the rank of Knight of the Medal of Anjouan of the Comores. Biography Lemire was born in Colmar, in the Haut-Rhin department of France. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste (1844–1909), a mason, and Anne-Marie Sarter (1848–1924), a dressmaker. In 1871, France was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War, and his family was forced to flee their home and take refuge in Montbéliard, on the other side of the new border. Although the family regarded it as a temporary stay, Lemire resided in Montbéliard for 11 years. In April 1883, he began work as a locksmith in Belfort, where he remained until 1888. Military career On 7 March 1888, Lemire entered

Jeanne Blancard

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Jeanne Blancard (1884–1972) was a French composer and pianist. Early life In 1884, Blancard was born in France. Blancard’s mother was Célestine Blancard, a composer. Career Blancard was a child prodigy. Before Blancard was 8 years old, she had already composed the Six pièces pour le piano. In 1894, when Blancard was 10 years old, the Pastorale pour le piano, the Première valse, the Marche nuptiale were published. Blancard’s fame crossed the Atlantic. At twenty, Blancard gave concerts at the Salle Pleyel, a concert hall in Paris, France. Blancard was a professor at the École Normale de Musique de Paris; among her pupils were Éric Gaudibert, Françoise Deslogères, and Jacques Greys. Works *Pastorale pour le piano Op. 8; illustrated by H. Viollet (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Première valse (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Six pièces pour le piano (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Fileuse (Maquet 1897) Score on Gallica *Marche nuptiale pour le piano (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Principes élémentaires de la technique pianistique: d’après la méthode Alfred Cortot (Salabert 1938) References External links * List of compositions by Jeanne Blancard at worldcat.org

Jenő Hubay

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Jenő Hubay de Szalatnya ( ; 15 September 1858 – 12 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber (), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. Early life Hubay was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary. He adopted the Hungarian version of his name, Jenő Hubay, in his twenties, while living in the French-speaking world. Hubay was trained in violin and music by his father, (Károly Huber, later ) from Varjas (), concertmaster of the Hungarian Royal Opera House and a teacher at the Budapest College of Music. His mother was of Italian descent. He gave his début public performance playing a concerto at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen, Hubay began his studies in Berlin. He remained there for five years, receiving instruction from Joseph Joachim. In 1878, following the advice of Franz Liszt, he made his début in Paris, which was a great success. Sitting in the audience was Henri Vieuxtemps, with whom Hubay formed an intimate friendship and from whom he received instruction. In 1882 Hubay was employed at the Brussels music institute as the head of the department of violin studies. Returning to Hungary in 1886, he succeeded his father as head

Jenő Huszka

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Jenő Huszka (a.k.a. ; 24 April 1875, Szeged – 2 February 1960, Budapest) was a Hungarian composer of operettas. Life At the age of 5, he had his first performance – nicely played violin. He studied composition at the Academy of Music (Zeneakadémia) in Budapest. As a young man (in 1896) he was a member of the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris. He also had to study law (this was the wish of his parents). After finishing his studies, he worked in the Ministry of Education in Budapest, in the department of art. His friend Ferenc Martos (1875–1938), a distinguished Hungarian librettist, worked in the same department and wrote all the librettos for his operettas. The music of Jenő Huszka is considered fresh, sweet and romantic. It is inspired by Hungarian folk music and the waltzes of Vienna. List of works (all to libretti by Ferenc Martos unless otherwise indicated) * Tilos a bemenet (No Entry) libretto by Adolf Mérei (1899) * Prince Bob (Bob herceg) (1902) * Aranyvirág (Golden Flower) (1903) * Gül Baba (1905) * Tündérszerelem (Fairy love) 1907 * Rébusz báró (Baron Rebus) 1909 * Nemtudomka (Night-club Girl) 1914 * Baroness Lili (Lili bárónő) (1919) * Hajtóvadászat (Riding to Hounds) 1926 * E

Jessie Gaynor

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Jesse L. Smith Gaynor (February 17, 1863 - February 20, 1921) was an American composer of children’s music. She wrote the music for the well-known children’s lullaby “The Slumber Boat”, in collaboration with the children’s author, Alice C.D. Riley, who wrote the lyrics. Her daughter, Rose Gaynor Barrett (1884-1954), was an American visual artist as well as songwriter under her maiden name, Rose Fenimore Gaynor. Biography Jessie L. Smith was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a prominent businessman of that city and Susan Fenimore Taylor, from whom she inherited her love and talent for music and who was related to James Fenimore Cooper. As a child, Mrs. Gaynor sang correctly before she could talk. She was early placed under instruction, first in instrumental and later in vocal music, and continued her musical studies while in school and college. Aside from her piano study she became somewhat familiar with the cornet, double bass, and violin, and later studied the violin for two years. While at school, she played these various instruments in an amateur orchestra. She later studied piano and theory under Dr. Louis Maas of Boston. Afterward she studied voice under John Dennis Mehan, theory

Joachim Neergaard

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Joachim Bruun Neergaard (27 April 1877 – 31 October 1920) was a Danish composer and pianist. As a composer he wrote works for violin, piano, and orchestral pieces. Neergaard produced fewer than 30 works in his short lifetime. Early life and education Joachim Bruun Neergaard was born on 27 April 1877 in Stubberup to Sophie Louise Bardenfleth (1855–1947) and Vilhelm Peter Christian Bruun Neergaard (1846–1912). His family was part of the aristocracy and his father, Vilhelm Peter, was a hofjægermester and chamberlain. His maternal grandfather, Carl Emil Bardenfleth, had been a politician and Governor of Iceland. As a child, Neergaard received piano lessons from Tekla Gähler. Following in his family’s political and aristocratic legacy, he began formal schooling in 1895 and was awarded a law degree in 1901. However, Neergaard continued to pursue his passion between 1895 and 1908 by studying the piano with Ove Christiansen, music theory with Orla Rosenhoff, and instrumentation with Johan Svendsen. Career Neergaard made his debut as a composer in 1906 with orchestral arrangements (op. 4) which were performed at Tivoli’s concert hall. That year, he also gave a performance on the piano which

Joaquín Turina

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Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 188214 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Biography Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while in Paris he familiarized himself with the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, whose music had a profound influence on his compositional practice. On 10 December 1908 he married Obdulia Garzón In the early months of 1929, he visited Havana, Cuba, where he gave a series of seven lectures at the Hispanic-Cuban Institute of Culture. Works :See: List of compositions by Joaquín Turina His works include the operas Margot (1914) and Jardín de Oriente (1923), the Danzas fantásticas (1919, versions for piano and orchestra), La oración del torero (written first for a lute quartet, then string quartet, then string orchestra), chamber music, piano works, guitar pieces and songs. Much of his work shows the influence of traditional Andalusian music. He also wrote a short one-move

Joe Slater (composer)

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John Joseph Slater (1872- 16 May 1926) was an Australian composer of popular and light classical works. He operated a music publishing company in Leichardt and blended his product with sheet music from other sources in Haymarket, Sydney. He wrote under several alias names and is commonly known as Felix Le Roy. Slater was active in variety theatre, particularly the company of Harry Rickards His mature works include a series of favourably mentioned impressions for cornet, violin and piano trio - Bells of Peace, Spring Morning and Day Dreams. Slater’s song A Faded Leaf of Shamrock sold six editions. Slater’s more popular variety theatre pieces enjoyed larger reprints, especially One of these Days ran to a hundred and seventy five editions. Works Seventy published titles are preserved in Australian libraries. * 1916 Melody of Peace * Spring Morning * Day Dreams * 1917 One of these days * 1914 Somebody’s calling the cooee call * 1916 I’d Like to Call You Sweetheart * 1913 Your eyes are the light of my world Recordings * 2001 We’d fly the green above us, A bird with a broken wing (Heritage Singers) * 2013 Why can’t each nation be at peace?, Lonely (Wirripang) References

Joel Engel (composer)

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Joel Engel (also Yoel or Yury; ; 28 April 1868 – 11 February 1927) was a Russian music critic, composer and one of the leading figures in the Jewish art music movement. Born in the Russian Empire, and later moving to Berlin and then to Mandatory Palestine, Engel has been called “the true founding father of the modern renaissance of Jewish music.” As a composer, teacher, and organizer, Engel inspired a generation of Jewish classical musicians to rediscover their ethnic roots and create a new style of nationalist Jewish music, modelled after the national music movements of Russia, Slovakia, Hungary and elsewhere in Europe. This style—developed by composers Alexander Krein, Lazare Saminsky, Mikhail Gnesin, Solomon Rosowsky, and others—was an important influence on the music of many twentieth-century composers, as well as on the folk music of Israel. His work in preserving the musical tradition of the shtetl—the 19th-century Jewish village of eastern Europe—made possible the revival of klezmer music today. Early life and work Engel was born Yuliy Dmitrievich Engel in Berdyansk (present-day Ukraine). Unlike most Jewish families of the period, he grew up outside of the Pale of Settlement

Johan Halvorsen

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Johan Halvorsen (15 March 1864 – 4 December 1935) was a Norwegian composer, conductor, and violinist. Life Born in Drammen, he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life. He received his musical education in (now Oslo) and Stockholm, and was a concertmaster in Bergen before joining the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He was a concertmaster in Aberdeen, then a professor of music in Helsinki, and finally became a student once again in Saint Petersburg, Leipzig (with Adolph Brodsky), Berlin, (with Adolf Becker), and Liège (with César Thomson). Returning to Norway in 1893, he worked as conductor of the theatre orchestra at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen and of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He became concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic in 1885, and principal conductor in 1893. In 1899 he was appointed conductor of the orchestra at the newly opened National Theatre in Kristiania, a position he held for 30 years until his retirement in 1929. In early 2016, librarians at the University of Toronto announced that they had located the manuscript score of his violin concerto, performed only three times in 1909 and consider

Johan Wagenaar

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Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862 – 17 June 1941) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born in Utrecht, out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar. Wagenaar’s parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins. For this reason, Wagenaar’s parents were not married, and thus Wagenaar received his mother’s name as his family name. While Wagenaar resented that his parents never got married, he was by no means neglected by his father. Wagenaar evidenced a talent for music as a child. However, he did not begin to receive a formal education in music until age 13, with subsequent instruction in piano, organ, violin, theory, and composition. He was under the tutelage of the composer Richard Hol and the organist Samuel de Lange, Jr. In 1892, he studied with Brahms’ friend Heinrich von Herzogenberg in Berlin, specifically taking lessons in counterpoint. In 1888, he succeeded Richard Hol as organist of Utrecht Cathedral, and earned fame for his skills at organ performances. In Utrecht, Wagenaar became a teacher at the music school in 1896, and the school’s director in 1904. He also re

Johann Strauss III

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Johann Maria Eduard Strauss III (; ; 16 February 18669 January 1939) was an Austrian composer whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose uncles were Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and whose grandfather was Johann Strauss I. Born in Vienna, he was unofficially entrusted with the task of upholding his family’s tradition after the dissolution of the Strauss Orchestra by his father in 1901. His talents were not fully realized during his lifetime as musical tastes had changed in the Silver Age with more popular composers such as Franz Lehár and Oscar Straus dominating the Viennese musical scene with their operettas, although his uncle, Johann Strauss II, supervised his development as a musician, a fact disputed by Eduard Strauss. Despite Strauss’ keen interest in composing, he was better remembered as a conductor. His only stage work, the three-act operetta Katze und Maus, composed in 1898, premiered in Vienna on 23 December 1898, at the Theater an der Wien. Its public reaction bordered on utter dislike, and music critics called for the distraught composer to reassess himself and to appear under a pseudonym, in order not to tarnish the name of his famous relatives. He salvaged the mus

Johanna Müller-Hermann

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Johanna Müller-Hermann (15 January 1868 – 19 April 1941) was an Austrian composer and pedagogue. Life Johanna Hermann began to receive music lessons at an early age, together with her two siblings. This was in keeping with the middle-class ideal of education; her father was a section head in the Austrian Ministry of Culture and Education in Vienna, and thus belonged to the upper echelons of the civil service. In accordance with the circumstances of the time, however, she was unable to pursue her musical ambitions; instead she graduated from a teacher training college and taught for several years at a public education school in Vienna. When she married Otto Müller-Martini, a transport expert, in 1893, she was no longer required to work and continued her musical studies. This was followed by piano and violin lessons, and instruction in music theory. She studied under Guido Adler, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Josef Bohuslav Foerster According to Dr. Carola Darwin, “The contribution of women to Vienna’s creative life at this period has been largely forgotten as the result of Nazi ideology, as well as the general destruction of the Second World War… Johanna Müller-Hermann’s works deserve

Johanna Senfter

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Johanna Senfter ( 27 November 1879 – 11 August 1961) was a German composer. Family background Johanna Senfter was born in 1879 as the youngest of the six children of Elise and Georg Senfter. Her maternal grandfather was the Oppenheim pharmacist and quinine manufacturer (1786-1865), who succeeded in extracting an antipyretic and anti-infective agent from cinchona bark to combat malaria, which was rampant in Oppenheim at the time. To produce this quinine, he set up his own pharmaceutical factory. The successful production of the drug enabled the Koch family’s social and financial upswing. The son of company founder, , eventually became mayor and, thanks to his achievements in this office, an honorary citizen of the town. Johanna’s father, Georg Senfter, owner of a brickworks, coal and timber business, was also considered wealthy. He married Elise, Carl Koch’s sister, and acquired the imposing , an old aristocratic residence, including the vineyard, which had previously belonged to the von Cronberg family. In 1864, he joined Carl Koch’s quinine company as managing director, co-entrepreneur and financier. Both families belonged to the upper social class, led a prosperous life and owned

Johannes Helstone

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Johannes Helstone, born Nicodemus Johannes Helstone (11 January 1853 – 24 April 1927), was a Surinamese composer, pianist and writer. He is best known for his 1906 opera Het Pand der Goden. Biography Helstone was born on the Moravian mission Berg en Dal on 11 January 1853 to Proserpina Ulm and Doris Nicolaas Helstone. He was born enslaved and was granted freedom at age ten, when the Dutch abolished slavery. Professionally, Helstone was a teacher, and a church organist. Other musical works include psalms, a mazurka brillante (1889), a toccata, Prinses Juliana Mars (1903) in honour of the birth of Princess Juliana, Emancipatie Mars (1913) and many songs in Dutch and German. The book is slightly controversial, because Helstone encouraged the Creole population to learn Dutch. In 1924 and 1925, Helstone wrote a five parts series about proverbs in Sranan Tongo. because Helstone had been the organist of the church for many years. In 1959, Trefossa wrote God zij met ons Suriname, a new national anthem for Suriname. Originally Trefossa used a melody by Helstone. The lyrics were accepted, however the national anthem uses the 1867 melody. In 2006, the art exhibition hall of the was named afte

Johannes Pache

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Johannes Johann Fürchtegott Pache (9 December 1857, Bischofswerda – 24 December 1897, Limbach) was a German composer and organist. Life Pache was born in Bischofswerda, Upper Lusatia, as son of a teacher. It was his father wish that Johannes should become a theologian as his two elder brothers did. Pache attended the school in Zittau, where his love to music awoke. He played piano, sang in a chorus and accomplished the first compositions. However, he neglected his school duties and stayed down. The father tried to convince him to become a teacher, all in vain. Pache resumed school in Bautzen, where he gave some music lectures and composed his first known pieces. Finally he convinced the father to let him study music in Dresden. In 1879 Pache got in Herisau his first appointment as organist and music director. Two years later he returned to Dresden, where he earned his money with casual engagements. In 1884 he moved to Leipzig, where he became known as concert pianist and composer. In Naumburg he was appointed music director and founded a widely known chorus. In these years Pache achieved material prosperity, especially after music publishers in Leipzig engaged him as advisor. Pache

Johannes Palaschko

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Johannes Palaschko (13 July 1877 in Berlin – 21 October 1932 in Berlin) was a German composer, violinist and violist who wrote numerous works for both violin and viola. He became a violin student of Joseph Joachim in 1891, concurrently studying music theory with Ernst Eduard Taubert and composition with Heinrich von Herzogenberg. In 1899 he graduated from the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. In 1913 he became Director of the Böttscher Conservatory in Berlin; that same year he married Martha Jürgens. Many of his viola etudes are still in print; he published 480 violin etudes and 217 viola etudes. He also published 178 works for violin and piano. Works A listing by opus number is found in the German version of this article. Keyboard *Op. 29: Postludium. C moll Postludium. C Minor . Organ. Leipzig: C. F. Kahnt, ca. 1901. *Op. 60: Ballet Music. Piano. Philadelphia: T. Presser, 1923. *Op. 67: Rondoletto. Piano. London: Alfred Lengnick & Co., 1924. Viola Etudes *Op. 36: 20 Etüden für Viola zur Förderung der Technik und des Vortrags 20 Etudes for Viola for Developing Technic and Artistry . Viola. Leipzig: Kistner, 1905. *Op. 44: 10 Künstler Etüden 10 Artist Studies . Viola. Leipzig: Zimmerman

John Adam Hugo

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John Adam Hugo (1873–1945) was an American composer and pianist. A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Hugo studied from 1888 until 1897 at the Stuttgart Conservatory; his instructors there included , Immanuel Faisst, Árpád Doppler, and Hermann Zumpe. He embarked on a career as a concert pianist, appearing in Germany, England, and Italy before returning to his native country in 1899. That year he became an instructor of piano at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where he remained for only one year before becoming the director of the European Conservatory and director of the music department of its Woman’s College, in which positions he worked from 1901 until 1906. Beginning in the latter year he became a private teacher of piano in Baltimore. Hugo later returned to the city of his birth, where he died. References

John Albert Delany

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John Albert Delany (6 July 185211 May 1907), He has been called “Australia’s greatest musician” and “The Australian Gounod”. then studied with the Benedictine monks at Lyndhurst College, Sydney, and had music lessons from William Cordner, organist of St Mary’s pro-Cathedral. After Cordner’s death, in 1870, he was taken on as a student by Charles S. Packer. His first musical appointment was as violinist in the orchestra of the Victoria Theatre. was appointed choirmaster at St Mary’s Cathedral, and followed John Hill as choirmaster and organist in 1873. There could have been no pipe organ in the brick building that served as the cathedral since the fire of 1868, but a harmonium would have been adequate for the purpose. He joined the Lyster Opera Company as conductor and chorus master in 1877, and was musical director for Nellie Melba’s Sydney debut. He later filled similar functions with Martin Simonsen’s company. Delany composed the march that was performed at the opening and closing ceremonies. Thomas P. Banks was the organist. Notable performances *He was one of three conductors, with Alfred Hill and Hugo Alpen, of the mass choirs at the Federation celebration on New Year’s Day 19

John Alden Carpenter

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John Alden Carpenter (February 28, 1876 – April 26, 1951) was an American composer. Carpenter’s compositional style was considered to be mainly “mildly modernistic and impressionistic”; many of his works strive to encompass the spirit of America, including the patriotic The Home Road and several other jazz-inspired works. He was among the first classical composers to incorporate elements of jazz and ragtime in their pieces. Biography Carpenter was born in Park Ridge, Illinois on February 28, 1876 as a son of an American industrialist, and raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, later returning to the United States to study under Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago through 1912. possibly his best-known is Skyscrapers (1926), set in New York (it premiered at the Metropolitan Opera), but equally inspired by his native Chicago. One of his most famous works was 1914’s impressionistic orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator. It was recorded in stereo in 1956 by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra for Mercury Records, which initially released it on LP; Philips later reissued the recording on CD. In 1932, Carpenter completed Song of Faith for the Geo

John Blackwood McEwen

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Sir John Blackwood McEwen (13 April 1868 – 14 June 1948) was a Scottish classical composer and educator. He was professor of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1898 to 1924, and principal from 1924 to 1936. He was a prolific composer, but made few efforts to bring his music to the notice of the general public. Life and career Early years John Blackwood McEwen was born in Hawick in 1868, the son of James McEwen and his first wife, Jane, née Blackwood. James McEwen was a Presbyterian minister; he moved to a church in Glasgow, where his son grew up. McEwen gained an MA degree from Glasgow University in 1888, between then and 1891 he studied music while working as a choirmaster, first in Glasgow and later at Lanark parish church. In 1891 he moved to London to gain wider musical experience, and by 1893 he had composed two string quartets, three symphonies, a Mass and other works. In that year he entered the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he studied with Ebenezer Prout, Frederick Corder and Tobias Matthay. While a student at the RAM McEwen won the Charles Lucas medal, and had his First String Quartet played at one of the academy’s concerts. Two years

John David Davis

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John David Davis (22 October 1867 – 20 November 1942), often known as J D Davis, was an English composer, born in Edgbaston, near Birmingham. Career Although born into a musical family, Davis was sent to Frankfurt to train for an intended commercial career, but instead began studying music under Hans von Bulow. Davis completed his education in Germany a decade ahead of the more famous Frankfurt Group of English-speaking composers, who studied with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. He later continued his music studies in Brussels under Léopold Wallner, Arthur De Greef and Maurice Kufferath. He returned to Birmingham in 1889 to teach, and from 1893 to 1904 taught music at the Birmingham and Midland Institute (most of that in the pre Granville Bantock era). From 1905 he was a professor of harmony and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and was also Professor of Solfège at the International Conservatoire in London. Personal life Davis married Helen Winifred Juta (born 1886), daughter of the South African judge Henry Juta, in 1919. They lived at 26 Trebovir Road, Earls Court until 1936, when they sailed for Lisbon. He died in Estoril, Portugal six years lat

John Foulds

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John Herbert Foulds (; 2 November 1880 – 25 April 1939) was an English cellist and composer of classical music. He was largely self-taught as a composer, and belongs among the figures of the English Musical Renaissance. A successful composer of light music and theatre scores, he directed his principal creative energies into more ambitious and exploratory works that were particularly influenced by Indian music. Suffering a setback after the decline in popularity of his World Requiem (1919–1921), he left London for Paris in 1927, and eventually travelled to India in 1935 where, among other things, he collected folk music, composed pieces for traditional Indian instrument ensembles, and worked in radio and became Director of All India Radio in Delhi in 1937. Foulds was an adventurous figure of great innate musicality and superb technical skill. Among his best-known works are Three Mantras for orchestra and wordless chorus (1919–1930), Essays in the Modes for piano (1920–1927), the piano concerto Dynamic Triptych (1927–1929), and his ninth string quartet Quartetto Intimo (1931–1932). Biography John Foulds was born in Hulme, Manchester, England, on 2 November 1880, the son of a bassooni

John Francis Larchet

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John Francis Larchet (13 July 1884 – 10 August 1967) was an Irish composer and teacher. He studied at Trinity College Dublin (MusB 1915, MusD 1917), also at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) with Michele Esposito. Larchet was music director at the Abbey Theatre from 1908 to 1935 and was therefore responsible for the stage music accompanying many of the pivotal plays of the Irish Literary Renaissance, in particular those of William Butler Yeats, and also had his ballet Bluebeard performed there (in 1932), including the dancer Ninette de Valois. Although a prolific composer and arranger, his main contribution to Irish music was as a teacher: He taught harmony and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music between 1920 and 1955 and was Professor of Music at University College Dublin between 1921 and 1958. Among his pupils were Frank Ll. Harrison (1905–1987), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), Michael Bowles (1909–1998), Frederick May (1911–1985), Walter Beckett (1914–1996), Joan Trimble (1915–2000), Brian Boydell (1917–2000), T.C. Kelly (1917–1985), Havelock Nelson (1917–1996), Gerard Victory (1921–1995), and Seóirse Bodley (1933–2023). Larchet was primarily a composer of min

John Henry Mee

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John Henry Mee (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1918) was an Oxford academic, clergyman, composer and author on musical subjects. Life and career Mee was born at Riddings Vicarage in Derbyshire, the son of vicar John Mee, and studied at Queen’s College, Oxford from 1871, where he gained his B.A in 1875. He became a Fellow, Merton College in 1875, completing his M.A in 1878 and a B.Mus. in 1882, and was appointed succentor (1876-81) and lecturer (1877-82). He was ordained by John Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford, in 1877. He married Alice Ann Marten at Holy Trinity Church, Ventnor on 26 April 1878. At Worcester College he was appointed lecturer of ancient history in 1882. From 1884 until 1898 he was the tenant of Kettell Hall on Broad Street - the stone house then attached to the western side of Blackwell’s Local Bookshop, now part of Trinity College. Under John Stainer he was Coryphaeus Precentor of Music, University of Oxford from 1890 until 1899. His wife died 20 years before him. There was one daughter. Musical activities Mee devoted much of his time to music. According to his obituarist: “having ample means, he was able to indulge in his tastes”. He completed his B.Mus degree in 1882 a

John Henry Thomas

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John Henry Thomas (born 24 November 1854, in Truro, Cornwall, died 22 February 1928, in Moonta) was an Australian composer, editor, and conductor. He is known for composing several Cornish Christmas Carols and the 1897 publication of his book The Christmas Welcome, was engraved in Germany by C.G. Röder, Leipzig. John Henry Thomas’ father, John Thomas, was a miner in Cornwall and arrived in South Australia in 1885 with his wife, Catherine Jacka after the mining boom had occurred due to the discovery of copper in 1861 in Moonta. The mine became prosperous and many Cornish miners followed after an advertisement by the South Australian Government. In 1875 Moonta was the second largest town after the capital, Adelaide, with a population of 12,000 people. Thus the miners made an important contribution to the Australian economy and were crucial to the prospering of Moonta and the surrounding district. They brought their culture and traditions with them including their music which was pivotal in keeping their Cornish culture alive. This area became a virtual Cornish enclave and was named “Little Cornwall”. John Henry Thomas helped to maintain the Cornish culture through his compositions an

John Ireland (composer)

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John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 187912 June 1962) Ireland entered the Royal College of Music in 1893, studying piano with Frederic Cliffe, From 1897 he studied composition under Charles Villiers Stanford. In 1896 Ireland was appointed sub-organist at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London SW1, and later, from 1904 until 1926, was organist and choirmaster at St Luke’s Church, Chelsea. Ireland began to make his name in the early 1900s as a composer of songs and chamber music. His Violin Sonata No. 1 of 1909 won first prize in the Cobbett Competition. Even more successful was his Violin Sonata No. 2: completed in January 1917, he submitted this to a competition organised to assist musicians in wartime. The jury included the violinist Albert Sammons and the pianist William Murdoch, who together gave the work its first performance at Aeolian Hall in New Bond Street on 6 March that year. As Ireland recalled, “It was probably the first and only occasion when a British composer was lifted from relative obscurity in a single night by a work cast in a chamber-music medium.” The work was enthusiastically reviewed, and the publisher Winthrop Rogers offered immediate publication (the first editi

John Ivimey

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John William Ivimey (12 September 1868 – 16 April 1961) was an English organist and composer who specialized in comic operas. He also worked as director of music in schools and churches. Ivimey was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music by the University of Oxford in 1916. His grandfather, another John Ivimey (1790–1874), was a younger brother of Joseph Ivimey (1773–1834) a Particular Baptist minister and historian, both being sons of Charles Ivimey, tailor, of Ringwood, Hampshire. He was a cousin of the New Zealand rugby footballer Fred Ivimey (1880–1961). Career Ivimey was only twenty when he was appointed as assistant to Alan Gray at Wellington College in 1888. While composing about twenty comic operas, as well as a symphony, a grand opera, cantatas and other songs, and much organ music, Ivimey was successively organist at St Peter’s, Norbiton, and St Paul’s, Onslow Square. He also wrote articles for magazines and journals and edited hymn books and books of songs. After Wellington, Ivimey worked at Harrow School, the Chelsea Polytechnic, Dulwich College, and Cheltenham College, before being appointed as Director of Music at Marlborough College in 1915, continuing in post for twen

John N. Klohr

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John Nicholas Klohr (July 27, 1869 – February 17, 1956) was a composer of band music. Klohr was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A graduate of the Cincinnati public schools, Klohr set upon a career in music, especially vaudeville. He was a vaudeville trombonist by trade, but also performed as a member of Cincinnati’s musical life. He played in the Syrian Temple Shrine Band, led by fellow composer Henry Fillmore. From 1921 to 1926, Klohr was a trombonist in Henry Fillmore’s concert band. He was a member of the Syrian Temple for over 50 years, as well as a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Klohr was also an early member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and worked as editor of the band and orchestra department of the John Church Company, a music publisher in Cincinnati. Klohr died of a heart attack in 1956, and was buried at St. Joseph Cemetery in Cincinnati. Compositions Names in parentheses are publishers and copyright dates * Arch of Steel March (Fillmore 1935) * The Billboard March (Church 1901) (His most famous march) * Blanchester March (Fillmore 1938) * Blazing the Trail March ( Fillmore 1938 ) * Breezing Along March (Fill

John Philip Sousa

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John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for US military marches. He is known as “The March King” (or the “American March King” to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford). Among Sousa’s best-known marches are “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (national march of the US), “Semper Fidelis” (official march of the United States Marine Corps), “The Liberty Bell”, “The Thunderer”, and “The Washington Post”. Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition under John Esputa and George Felix Benkert. In 1868, Sousa’s father enlisted him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice. Sousa left the band in 1875, and over the next five years, he performed as a violinist and learned to conduct. In 1880, Sousa rejoined the Marine Band and served there for 12 years as director. In 1892, he left the Marine Band and organized the civilian Sousa Band. From 1880 until his death, Sousa focused exclusively on conducting and writing music. He aided in the development of the sousaphone, a large brass instrument similar to the helicon and tuba. Upon the US j

John Prindle Scott

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John Prindle Scott (August 16, 1877 – December 2, 1932) was an American author, lecturer, educator and composer of art songs. Biography He was born in Norwich, New York, and was educated with private tutors in New York City Later he was a voice teacher in Saginaw, Michigan. He was also known as a singer (baritone) and concert soloist. For his 1916 setting of “Hymn to Nebraska,” the state of Nebraska awarded him a prize in composition. He also won a composition prize from Ohio University. He became a member of ASCAP in 1928. A couple of his songs and poems refer to the town, including “The Old Road” and “The Hills O’ McDonough”. He spent time with relatives in Syracuse, New York, where he died in December 1932. Scott’s song for high soprano, “The Wind’s in the South”, is considered a “good teaching piece for young coloratura sopranos “. His songs are typical of their time: dramatic, harmonically rich, and with full accompaniments. They often feature contrasting sections and a return to earlier musical material. Musical compositions Sacred songs for voice and piano *Arise, Shine, Sacred Song (Biblical Book of Isaiah), R. L. Huntzinger, 1923 *Christ Is Risen, Easter Song (unknown auth

John Stepan Zamecnik

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John Stepan Zamecnik (May 14, 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio – June 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) was an American composer and conductor. He is best known for the “photoplay music” he composed for use during silent films by pianists, organists, and orchestras. Zamecnik used many pseudonyms, including Dorothy Lee, Lionel Baxter, R.L. (Robert) Creighton, Arturo de Castro, “Josh and Ted”, J. (Jane) Hathaway, Kathryn Hawthorne, Roberta Hudson, Ioane Kawelo, J. Edgar Lowell, Jules Reynard, F. (Frederick) Van Norman, Hal Vinton and Grant Wellesley. Early life John Zamecnik was born in Cleveland to Czech immigrants Josef Zámečník (1832-1915) and Kateřina Hrubecká (1838-1908). Josef was born in Budičovice and Kateřina was born in the nearby Skály. The couple married in Heřmaň in 1862. Josef’s brother Jan later married Kateřina’s sister Konstancie in the same place in 1869. Both couples immigrated to Ohio bringing Josef’s daughters and perhaps other relatives. Jan’s grandson was the geneticist Paul Zamecnik. Career Zamecnik studied at the Prague Conservatory of Music under Antonín Dvořák in the mid-1890s, completing his classes there in 1897. In 1899 Zamecnik finally returned to the United

Jonny Heykens

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Jonny Heykens, Johannes Jacobus Heijkens (24 September 1884 – 28 June 1945) was a Dutch composer of light classical music, best known for his jaunty Ständchen (Serenade) No.1 Opus 21. Heykens was born at Groningen, Netherlands. He was taught violin by Eugène Ysaÿe at the Brussels Conservatory. He played in various orchestras before founding his own orchestra in Groningen in 1914. After the First World War, he toured Europe and achieved immense popularity, especially in Germany. Heykens composed pieces for his orchestra, in addition to songs and musical comedies. His records sold widely. In the Second World War, he continued touring throughout Europe. He joined the NSB, the fascist National Socialist Party of the Netherlands. He expressed racist opinions about Jews and black people and he performed at the parties of important Nazi officials. Resistance groups broadcast his famous tune with words: Sells his people and homeland for six loose cents. After the war, Heykens was arrested as a suspected collaborator. He died in prison in Hilversum several weeks later. In Japan the Serenade became a popular song, and so it was selected in 1943 by NHK, The Broadcasting Corporation of Japan a

José de la Cruz Mena

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José de la Cruz Mena (3 May 187422 September 1907) was a Nicaraguan composer. When he was twenty-one years old he contracted leprosy, but continued to compose until his death twelve years later. Mena is considered to have been one of the most prominent Nicaraguan composers of his time and one of the most important composers from that country. Biography Mena was born in León, Nicaragua, on 3 May 1874, to a family which included a number of musicians. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Música in Managua as a child, and played trumpet in bands in the city, composing several famous waltzes. He fell ill with leprosy when he was twenty-one years old, but was not sent to the nation’s leper colony after writing three items of music that he dedicated to José Santos Zelaya, the President of Nicaragua. He was completely blind after five years, by 1896, and rarely appeared in public due to his disease. Regardless, his entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians described Mena as “the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time”. He died twelve years after contracting leprosy, near the Chiquito River in León, on 22 September 1907. He is sometimes known as “the divine leper” and a

José Marín Varona

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José Marín Varona (Camagüey, March 10, 1859Havana, September 17, 1912) was a Cuban composer, conductor, pianist and professor. Biographical note José Marín Varona was born on March 10, 1859, in the city of Camagüey, where he began his musical studies with professor Mariano Agüero. At a later time, Varona established his residence in Havana. In 1896, the composer included in his zarzuela “El Brujo” the first Cuban guajira which has been historically documented. Shortly after the premiere of “El Brujo”, Marín Varona travelled to the United States because of threats received from the Spanish government because of his support of the Cuban independence movement. During his exile, he continued his musical activity and offered presentations with the purpose of collaborating with the national independence cause. In Key West, he contributed to the local media with news articles and musical critique. Upon returning to Cuba, Marín Varona was married to the Spanish singer Amalia Rodríguez and travelled through the Americas with zarzuela and operetta companies. In 1913, Cuban composer José Mauri offered a lecture about his work at the National Academy of Arts and Literature; and in 1916, the In

José Vianna da Motta

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José Vianna da Motta (modern spelling as Viana da Mota; 22 April 1868 – 1 June 1948) was a Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt. The José Vianna da Motta Music Competition was founded in 1957 in his honor. Life José Vianna da Motta was born on São Tomé Island, a Portuguese territory at the time where his father, also a great amateur musician, had opened a pharmacy. Moving with his family to Continental Portugal, he settled in Colares, near Sintra, where he soon showed his unusual skills in music, and in playing and composing works for the piano. In Berlin he had lessons from Xaver Scharwenka and Philipp Scharwenka before studying with Franz Liszt at Weimar in 1885 and with Hans von Bülow two years later. In the following years he undertook many concert tours all round the world. His professional career began in 1886 and continued uninterruptedly until 1945. He made his first European tour in 1888, accompanying violinist Pablo de Sarasate in Copenhagen and Helsinki and violinist Tivadar Nachéz in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Motta made his first American tour in 1892, the year he visited New York and where he met Ferruccio Busoni, and

Josef Bohuslav Foerster

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Josef Bohuslav Foerster (30 December 1859 – 29 May 1951) was a Czech composer and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster. Life Foerster was born in Prague. His ancestors were of Bohemian German ethnicity, but had assimilated into the Czech community. The family normally lived in Prague and was musical. His father, a composer also named Josef Foerster, taught at the Conservatory. (His father’s students included Franz Lehár. ) His brother was artist Viktor Foerster. Josef was educated accordingly, and duly studied there. He also showed an early interest in the theatre, and thought of becoming an actor. He taught music; one of his early students was composer and Stuttgart court pianist Anna Sick. From 1884 Foerster worked as a critic, and he would prove to be a writer of distinction. In 1893 he married the leading Czech soprano Berta Lautererová (Bertha Lauterer) in Hamburg, during ten years making his living there as a critic, and she was engaged at the Hamburg Staatsoper. In 1901 he became a teacher at the Hamburg Conservatory. In 1903 Berta went to sing at the Vienna Hofoper, and so Josef moved there with her, continuin

Josef Karl Richter

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Josef Karl Richter (16 March 1880 in Podersam22 September 1933 in Vienna) was a Bohemian composer and military bandmaster. Richter was the son of a court official. He studied music and graduated in 1898. In the same year he joined the military band of the Infantry Regiment No. 74 and stayed there until 1901. During World War I he served as a medical orderly in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was promoted to sergeant major in 1916. From 1918 to 1920 he was conductor of the “Volkswehr battalion no. 6” in Vienna. From 1920 to 1924 he was conductor of the “Brigade-Musik” in Vienna. In 1924 was appointed bandmaster of the Infantry Regiment No. 4. He remained in this position until 1932. He was a close friend of Franz Lehár and adapted many of his works for concert band. Works Richter composed mostly marches, dance and light music for concert band. * Heimkehr, march * Heldentotenlied, in five movements for baritone and concert band * Jung Deutschmeister, march * Requiem, for male choir and concert band * Romanze nr. 2, for concert band * Romanze nr. 3, for concert band * Sangesbrüder, march * Semendria, march * Treue Kameraden, march * Zum Ausmarsch bereit, march References * Wolfgang Supp

Josef Matthias Hauer

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Josef Matthias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is best known for developing, independent of and a year or two before Arnold Schoenberg, a method for composing with all 12 notes of the chromatic scale. Hauer was also an important early theorist of twelve-tone music and composition. Hauer believed that “the influence of the material world” interfered with “rais ing music to its highest, most spiritual level”, and disapproved of expression of “ideas, programmes or feelings” in art, instead favoring “spiritual, supersensual music composed according to impersonal rules”. Many of his compositions reflect this in their direct, often athematic, ‘cerebral’ approach. Hauer’s music is diverse, however, and not all of it embraces this aesthetic position. Life Hauer was born in Wiener Neustadt and died in Vienna. He had an early musical training in cello, choral conducting, and organ, and claimed to have been self-taught in theory and composition. This interpretation seems largely drawn from Hauer’s theoretical writing of the early to mid-1920s in which he outlines these techniques. But a closer look at Hauer’s compositional output rev

Josef Suk (composer)

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Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer, violinist, and Olympic silver medalist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married. Biography From a young age, Josef Suk (born in Křečovice, Bohemia) was deeply involved and well trained in music. He learned organ, violin, and piano from his father, Josef Suk Sr., and was trained further in violin by the Czech violinist Antonín Bennewitz. His theory studies were conducted with several other composers including Josef Bohuslav Foerster, , and . He later focused his writing on chamber works under the teachings of Hanuš Wihan. Despite extensive musical training, his musical skill was often said to be largely inherited. Though he continued his lessons with Wihan another year after the completion of his schooling, Suk’s greatest inspiration came from another of his teachers, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. Known as one of Dvořák’s favorite pupils, Suk also became personally close to his mentor. Underlying this was Dvořák’s respect for Suk, reflected in Suk’s 1898 marriage to Dvořák’s daughter, Otilie, marking some of the happiest times in the composer’s life and music. However, the last portion of Suk’s life w

Josef Szulc

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Josef Zygmunt Szulc (4 April 1875, Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Russian Empire – 10 April 1956, Paris, France) was a composer and conductor. He also used the pseudonym Jan Sulima. Life Szulc was born in Poland to a musical family. His first cousins were the conductor and composer Ignatz Waghalter and the renowned cellist Henryk Waghalter. Szulc began his formal training as a pianist at the Warszawa Conservatory under Moszkowski. He also lived in Berlin briefly (using the name Joseph Schultz) and later moved to Paris to complete his studies in conducting and composition in 1899, converting the spelling of his first name to Joseph. At the conservatoire he trained under Jules Massenet. In 1903 he moved to Brussels, where he was made chief conductor at the Théâtre de la Monnaie and saw instant success with his ballet Ispahan and several tunes. His wife, Suzy Delsart, was an operetta star (operette divette) and sang the title role of The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár and also influenced her husband into writing lighter and more popular tunes. In 1907 he completed the music for Marcel Gerbidon’s operetta, Flossie or Je m’appelle Flossie. In 1908 he adapted Pierre Veber’s comedy Loute, then i

Josef Venantius von Wöss

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Josef Venantius von Wöss (13 June 1863 – 22 October 1943) was a Viennese church musician, composer, teacher of harmony and music publishing lector. He is known for piano transcriptions of large-scale works by Gustav Mahler for Universal Edition. Life and career Wöss was born in Cattaro, Kingdom of Dalmatia (now Montenegro), External links *

Josef Wagner (composer)

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Josef Franz Wagner (20 March 1856 – 5 June 1908) was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer. He is sometimes referred to as “The Austrian March King”. Hailing from Vienna, which remained a key location in his life, Wagner joined a military band early on following his education. Between 1874 and 1899, Wagner would remain a member of the military band of different infantry regiments of the Austro-Hungarian army, becoming a successful bandmaster from 1878 to his death. Among his most famous work is Unter dem Doppeladler (Under the Double Eagle). Wagner died in 1908 following an accumulation of debt. Early life and education Josef Franz Wagner was born on 20 March 1856 in Vienna, Austrian Empire, to Josef Wagner, a doctor, and Maria Anna Wagner (née Oberthanner). Wagner (the doctor) had migrated to Vienna from Bohemia, while Anna had migrated from Moravia. Their son completed his primary education in Henriette Kumenecker’s singing school in Vienna, and his secondary education at the Stiftsgymnasium in Seitenstetten between 1869 and 1873. As a boy, Wagner excelled as a soprano in a church choir. After completing his secondary education, he was privately taught at the Austro-Hungar

Josef Weiss

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Josef Weiss (also Weiß, 5 November 1864 – 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He began his career as a concert pianist in 1877 at the age of 13. He performed in concert halls internationally through 1924, and was particularly admired for his performances of the works of Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, and Franz Liszt; the latter of whom was his teacher. He made several recordings for Berlin-based and Berlin music publisher Carl Simon published a number of his compositions. He was notably the first composer to write a film score for a German language film, writing music that accompanied the premiere of The Student of Prague in 1913. His piano score for that film was later orchestrated for presentations of that film at music festivals internationally in 2013. A victim of the Holocaust, he died while interned in the Budapest Ghetto in 1945. Weiss was a gifted concert pianist who played best when in lower pressure situations. High stress environments had a negative impact on both his playing, and temperament. His other teachers there included Ferenc Erkel and Robert Volkmann. He then studied music composition at the Vienna Conservatory where one of his classmates and friends

Josefine Winter

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Josefine Winter (since 1914 Winter Edle von Wigmar; born 21 December 1873 in Vienna; died 20 January 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto) was an Austrian painter, composer and writer. Life Josefine, or Josephine, was born in Vienna, the daughter of Rudolf Auspitz (1837-1906) and Helene Lieben (1838-1896). In 1879, her mother fell ill with depression and was put in the Préfargier psychiatric hospital near Neuchâtel. The children were placed in the care of a governess, Marie Heidenhain from Dresden, who became the father’s new wife after the mother’s death in 1896 Josefine was educated by private tutors, but as a girl was not allowed to study. Like her mother, she began to paint. Her teachers were Emanuel Stöckler and Ludwig Michalek. Although both parents were patrons of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, they did not notice her musical talent. She received only the piano lessons customary at the time for children from “good homes.” Through visits to performances of the Vienna Court Opera, Josefine became enthusiastic about Georges Bizet’s Carmen and began to play the melodies she heard on the piano. The pianist Lili Michalek became her first teacher before she became a stud

Joseph Allard (fiddler)

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Joseph Allard (February 1, 1873 – November 14, 1947) was a Canadian fiddler and composer. He occasionally recorded under the pseudonym Maxime Toupin. Allard made many popular recordings, including Reel de l’Aveugle, Reel de Chateauguay, Reel de Jacques Cartier, and Reel du voyageur. During most of his life he was rarely in the public eye, and worked much of his life as a fisherman. Childhood Allard’s birthplace is reported both as 1 February 1873 in Woodland now Lery, Quebec and as 1 July 1873 in Châteauguay, Quebec. His family was living in Quebec when he was quite young. Allard’s father was a fiddler, and when Allard reached the age of nine he was instructed in fiddling. Allard remained in Quebec until the age of sixteen, when he moved back to the United States, where he began to enter fiddling competitions. Fiddling Allard entered fiddling competitions throughout the New England, winning competitions in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut. While in the United States, he met and married Alexina Couillard. Scottish and Irish musicians he met there taught him a number of Reels and Gigues. He continued to travel and play in the United States until 1917, when h

Joseph Bonnet

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Joseph Élie Georges-Marie Bonnet (17 March 1884 – 2 August 1944) was a French composer and organist. Biography One of the major French pipe organists, Joseph Bonnet was born in Bordeaux. He first studied with his father, an organist at St. Eulalie. At the age of 14, he became official organist, first at St. Nicholas and almost immediately at St. Michael. Bonnet also attended classes with Alexandre Guilmant at the Conservatoire de Paris. A few years later he finished with a first prize and, in 1906 was selected to become the organist at St. Eustache, Paris. In 1911 he had the privilege of succeeding Guilmant as concert organist at the conservatoire. He was actively teaching at this time and one of his notable students from his earlier years was Canadian organist Henri Gagnon. On 28 January 1917 he moved to the United States, where he gave more than 100 concerts around the country until 1919. He was elected an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity in June 1917. Bonnet founded the organ department of the Eastman School of Music in 1921. He composed a large number of organ pieces and compiled the six-volume Historical Organ Recitals. A few years later, Bonnet return

Joseph Boulnois

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Joseph Boulnois (28 January 1884 – 20 October 1918) was a French organist and composer. Biography Boulnois attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied counterpoint with Georges Caussade and organ with Louis Vierne. In 1906, he married the pianist Jane Chevalier, and they had a son the following year, Michel Boulnois, who also became a composer and organist. In 1908, he was appointed to the organ of the , in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. He stayed there a short time and was appointed to the organ of the in the 9th arrondissement. In 1909, he was singing conductor at the Opéra-Comique. He remained very active as a soloist, notably as co-founder with Marc de Ranse, of the Concerts spirituels de Saint-Louis d’Antin. He also played in the Opéra-Comique and performed in the church in the 14th arrondissement. After the beginning of the First World War, Boulnois was mobilised at the Février Hospital of Châlons-sur-Marne, where he was a nurse from 1 January 1915. Appointed a corporal on 26 March 1915, he became a sergeant on 19 October 1916. * 1905: First Prize of organ (class of Alexandre Guilmant) * 1908: Second Prize in fugue (class of Charles Lenepveu) * 1910: First Prize o

Joseph Brody

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Joseph Brody ( ) (1876/1877 – 1937) was an American Jewish composer who wrote for the Yiddish theatre as well as liturgical Jewish works. He taught George Gershwin and was a friend of Yossele Rosenblatt. His daughter, Estelle Brody, was an actress. Early life Brody was born on March 12, 1877, according to his gravestone, in Lyakhavichy, Minsk Governorate, in the Russian Empire, although the Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre gives the date as February 12, and in own his naturalization application he stated his birthday was January 22, 1876. His father, Harris Brody, was a tailor and sent Joseph to a Cheder for his early education. His father emigrated to the United States in 1887, at which point Joseph entered a Yeshiva in Slonim, where he stayed for six years. During that time he developed an aptitude for music, and was greatly impressed by the military orchestras which regularly played in the park in Slonim during the summers. It was when he was hired by David Kessler from the Thalia Theatre in New York City that his career as a Jewish American composer began in earnest. His partnership with Kessler would last for several decades. Kessler, Bertha Kalich, and Sigmund Mogulesko starred in

Joseph Canteloube

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Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (; 21 October 18794 November 1957) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region, Chants d’Auvergne. Biography Canteloube was born in Annonay, Ardèche, into a family with deep roots in the Auvergne region of France. He studied piano from the age of six with Amélie Doetzer, a friend of Frédéric Chopin. After earning his baccalauréat, he worked at a bank in Bordeaux. Upon his father’s death in 1896, he returned to his family home in Malaret (Annonay), remaining there until his mother’s death in 1899, and then beyond as sole owner of the estate. In 1901, after a period of silence and mourning, Canteloube married Charlotte Marthe Calaret, who gave birth to twins Pierre and Guy in 1903. He began studying with Vincent d’Indy via correspondence in 1901, reluctant to leave Malaret. With d’Indy’s constant urging, he finally entered the Schola Cantorum in 1907 in Paris, where he remained until the beginning of World War I in 1914. At the Schola, Canteloube became close friends with fellow composer and student Déodat de Séverac. In 1907, he wrote a suite in four movements for

Joseph Carl Breil

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Joseph Carl Breil (29 June 1870 – 23 January 1926) was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures. His first film was Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt. He later composed and arranged scores for several other early motion pictures, including such epics as D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), as well as scoring the preview version of The Phantom of the Opera (1925), a score that is now lost. His love theme for “Birth of a Nation”, titled “The Perfect Song”, was published by Chappell & Co. in an arrangement for voice and keyboard. It was later used as the theme for the radio show Amos ’n’ Andy. Life Joseph was the first of four children born to Joseph and Margaret Breil of Pittsburgh. (Joseph Sr., a lawyer, was an immigrant from Prussia and his wife was born in Pennsylvania.) Breil graduated from Duquesne University (then the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost) in 1888. He later composed the alma mater for the university, which was first performed in October 1920. He also pursued studies at St Fide

Joseph Engleman

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Joseph Engleman (1881–1949), born Josef, was an English light music composer and viola player, active in Birmingham, England. His son Harry was also a professional musician, initially in his father’s orchestra. Career He was born in Birmingham, the son of the trombonist at the old Grand Theatre, Birmingham, and was largely self-taught. Engleman played viola in the City of Birmingham Orchestra, and played in cinemas as an accompanist for silent films. As a composer he produced many light orchestral suites, and a ballet conducted by Adrian Boult in 1928. He also wrote library music, sometimes using the name John Harbury, and helped to found Bosworth’s mood music library in 1937. His film scores include Olympia St. Moritz (1948) and Kuckelikaka (1949). His entry in Who’s Who in Music also lists a Symphony in E. Engleman married Gertrude Owen, and there were two children, a son and a daughter. They lived at 43 Harbury Road, Cannon Hill, Birmingham. Harry Engleman composed mostly songs and syncopated piano solos such as Cannon off the Cushion (1936), Chase the Ace (1936), Finger Prints (1936, a piece popularised by Billy Mayerl and the American Zez Confrey), Golden Chain, Snakes and Lad

Joseph Erskine Agnew

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Joseph Erskine Agnew (1868/69 – December 1, 1949 ) was a musician, arranger, music store proprietor, and music publisher in Des Moines, Iowa and later Newton, Iowa briefly. He played the mandolin. He became a nationally prominent band music publisher. Sheet music published by his Agnew Music Publishing Company is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and the University of Rochester. He was born in Ohio. He copyrighted a valse by Myron A. Bickford. He also copyrighted an arrangement of a work by J. Offenbach. He copyrighted an arrangement of concert waltzes by Guy Sterling (musician) for the mandolin. He wrote “The 20th Century Method for Guitar” (1901, 1907). He published “Musical Novelties for Mandolin Orchestra: The Cleveland Two Step”. In 1917 he advertised various compositions of New Band Music in the Musical Messenger. He moved his business to Newton, Iowa where he was a band leader. He sold his store to the Volkwein Brothers of Pittsburgh in 1939. References

Joseph Hellmesberger Jr.

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Joseph Heinrich Georg Hellmesberger Jr. (9 April 1855 – 26 April 1907), also known as Pepi Hellmesberger, was an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor. Biography Hellmesberger was born in Vienna and was the son of violinist and conductor Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1828–1893), who was his first teacher. Among his family of notable musicians were: grandfather, Georg Hellmesberger Sr. (1800–1873); uncle, Georg Hellmesberger Jr. (1830–1852); and brother, Ferdinand Hellmesberger (1863–1940). In 1875 Hellmesberger became a member of his father’s Hellmesberger Quartet, while in 1891 he became leader. In 1878 Hellmesberger became solo violinist of the Vienna Court Chapel and professor at the Vienna Conservatory. In 1890 he was the first hofkapellmeister at the Vienna Court Opera, and from 1901 to 1903 he was principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic. In 1904 and 1905 he was Kapellmeister at the Stuttgarter Hoftheater His compositions include 22 operettas, 6 ballets, dance music and lieder. Hellmesberger died of kidney failure, in Vienna at age 52. References * *Josef Hellmesberger Jr. biography at the Tribal Smile Music Encyclopedia *Josef Hellmesberger Jr. biography at aeiou Ency

Joseph Hinton

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Joseph Harold Hinton (1 January 1862 – 4 January 1941) was a British composer and organist. Hinton was born in Claydon, Buckinghamshire. His teachers included Frederick Bridge of Westminster Abbey. In 1882 Hinton was appointed resident music-master at Blairlodge School in Polmont, Scotland, moving then in 1885 to be organist at Hyndland Church, Hillhead, Glasgow. His published compositions include a setting of De Profundis, a song titled Eldorado, and some anthems. In 1908 he published L’allegro, his op. 5, for string orchestra, with timpani ad lib. He was honorary secretary of the Glasgow Society of Musicians in 1909. At least briefly from 1909 he lived at 7 Striven Gardens in Glasgow. In May 1910 he went to Canada, and worked in Ontario before heading west, to British Columbia. He died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1941. References

Joseph Hofmeister

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Joseph C. Hofmeister (March 29, 1867 – October 1, 1933) was a Czech American bandleader, composer and music educator. An immigrant from Bohemia, he was based in southern Minnesota. He was best known as the longtime director of the Second Regiment Band of the Minnesota National Guard and as the patriarch of the Hofmeister musical family, who were later inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in 1994. Early life and immigration Joseph C. Hofmeister was born on March 29, 1867, near the town of Cheb, Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic), to Ignatz Hofmeister and Maria Keim. Career Hofmeister became one of the most prominent musicians in southern Minnesota during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He directed several ensembles, including the Second Regiment Band of the Minnesota National Guard, which earned distinction from the regiment’s headquarters during the Mexican Border Expedition of 1916–1917. He also led the Hofmeister Band in New Ulm and later directed the Springfield Orpheus Band beginning in 1923. Hofmeister was recognized as a skilled composer and arranger, writing numerous works for concert orchestra, military band, and vocal performance. His most famous composi

Joseph Jongen

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Joseph Marie Alphonse Nicolas Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953) was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Biography Jongen was born in Liège, where his parents had moved from Flanders. He was the elder brother of Léon Jongen. Because of his precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at age of seven and spent the next sixteen years there. Jongen studied composition with Jean-Théodore Radoux. In 1892 he was awarded the gold medal in the piano competition, and later that same year he joined the organ class of Charles-Marie Danneels. He won a First Prize for Fugue in 1895, an honors diploma in piano the next year, and another for organ in 1896. In 1902 he returned to Belgium, and in 1903 he was named a professor of harmony and counterpoint at his old Liège college. With the outbreak of World War I, he and his family moved to England, where he founded a piano quartet with violinist Désiré Defauw, violist Lionel Tertis, and cellist Émile Doehaerd. His String Quartet No 2, op. 50, was composed there in 1916. After the end of the war, he returned to Belgium and was named professor of fugue at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. From 1925 until 1939,

Joseph Marx

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Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx (11 May 1882 – 3 September 1964) was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic. He is best known for his 150 lieder, most accompanied by piano, with some scored for orchestra. Life and career Marx was born in Graz and pursued studies in philosophy, art history, German studies, and music at Graz University, earning several degrees including a doctorate in 1909. His thesis was an expansion of a 1907 scholarly study of tonality, in which he coined the term “atonality”. He began composing seriously in 1908 and over the next four years he produced around 120 songs. In 1914 he joined the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy, later becoming the institution’s director in 1922. When the school was reorganized as the Hochschule für Musik in 1924 he was appointed to the position of rector, holding that post for three years. Some of his notable students include Johann Nepomuk David, Richard Flury, Ivana Lang, Alois Melichar, Hisatada Otaka, Florica Racovitză-Flondor, Lucijan Marija Škerjanc, Paul Ulanowsky, Ludovit Rajter, Georg Tintner, Jenő Takács, Kurt Schwertsik, and Clara Wildschut. From 1931 to 1938 he was music critic for the Neues Wiener Journal and following Wo

Joseph Redding

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Joseph Deighn Redding (September 13, 1859 – November 21, 1932) was an American composer, librettist, lyricist, lawyer, and civil servant. He is best known for arguing the United States Supreme Court legal case United States v. Kagama and for his contributions to American opera which include writing the libretto to Victor Herbert’s Natoma (1911) and composing the score to Fay Yen Fah (1925). The latter work was the first grand opera composed by an American to have its premiere in Europe, an achievement for which Redding was awarded the Legion of Honour by the government of France. He served terms as president of the San Francisco Arts Administration and San Francisco’s Bohemian Club, and also served a term as commissioner of the California Department of Fish and Game. A talented chess polymath, he was an amateur chess player who won several games against recognized chess masters, including Johannes Zukertort and George H. D. Gossip. and the Central Pacific Railroad. He also was a regent for California State University and served a term as president of the board of the California Academy of Sciences. At the time of Benjamin Redding’s death in 1882 he was serving a term as commissione

Joseph Rumshinsky

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Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956) was a Jewish composer born near Vilna, Lithuania (then part of Russian Poland). Along with Sholom Secunda, Alexander Olshanetsky and Abraham Ellstein, he is considered one of the “big four” composers and conductors of American Yiddish theater. Biography Joseph Rumshinsky’s mother taught singing to local singers and badkhonim (wedding entertainers). As a child, he studied with a cantor. At the age of eight he was called “Yoshke der notn-freser” at the music school where he studied piano. He traveled until 1894 with various Hazzanim. In Grodno he first saw Yiddish theater (Abraham Goldfaden’s operetta Shulamis); In 1897 he became choir director for Borisov’s Russian opera/operetta; in 1888 he conducted a full production of Goldfaden’s Bar Kokhba. In 1899, in Łódź, he was hired as conductor of the new Hazomir Choral Society, studying and arranging folksongs as well as Haydn, Handel, and Mendelsohn oratorios. He studied with the Polish musician Henryk Meltzer and at the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1903 he left for London to avoid conscription in the czar’s army. At the time, many American Yiddish productions were deemed shund (trash) “that encompassed a world

Joseph Ryelandt

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Joseph Ryelandt (7 April 1870 – 29 June 1965) was a Belgian classical composer. He is known for sacred vocal music, including several oratorios and masses. His oeuvre catalog, which lists 133 opus numbers, includes symphonies, masses, an opera, numerous works for piano solo, chamber works and songs, and also five oratorios, which Ryelandt himself considered his most important works. Life Joseph Victor Marie Ryelandt was born in Bruges, into a wealthy bourgeois family, for whom culture, tradition, and the Roman Catholic religion mattered. So did music, which, like many such families, the Ryelandts practiced a lot. From his childhood on he enjoyed private lessons in piano and violin. He studied assiduously, up to 2½ hours per day, but he gave up the violin after a mere two years. Even as an adolescent he realized that his real destiny was music. But at the insistence of his mother, he first went to college, to study philosophy and later law—his father, who had died when Joseph was only seven, had been a lawyer. While at university, however, he continued his musical activities, including composition, although he had had only a few lessons in harmony. Eventually he persuaded his mother

Joseph-Ermend Bonnal

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Joseph-Ermend Bonnal (1 July 1880 – 14 August 1944); also Ermend-Bonnal, alias Guy Marylis) was a French composer and organist. Ermend-Bonnal received initial musical instruction from his father, a violinist. He then studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris under Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, harmony under Antoine Taudou, composition under Gabriel Fauré and organ under Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne. He also assisted Charles-Marie Widor at Saint-Sulpice, Albert Périlhou at Saint-Séverin and Charles Tournemire at the Basilica of St. Clotilde. In 1901, Ermend-Bonnal was appointed Organist at Saint-Médard, and subsequently at Notre Dame in Boulogne-sur-Seine. In 1920, he was offered a professorship in organ at the University of Strasbourg. However, he decided instead to accept a position as director of the Bayonne Conservatory, which he held until 1941. His most famous student was the composer Maurice Ohana. In 1942, he succeeded his teacher Tournemire at the Cavaillé-Coll Organ at Basilica of St. Clotilde. The focus of Ermend-Bonnal’s musical output is organ music (Paysages Euskariens, 1930; Media Vita, organ symphony, 1932). However, he also wrote in all other musical genres, r

Joséphine Boulay

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Joséphine Pauline Boulay (22 May 1869 – 5 August 1925) was a French organist, composer and professor. Career Born in Paris, she became blind at age three. She began her studies with the Blind Sisters of St. Paul and then with the National Institution for the Blind. She was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1887 and studied with César Franck and Jules Massenet. In 1888, she became the first blind woman to win a first prize in organ at the Conservatoire. Appointed a professor at the National Institution for the Blind, she took charge of the organ and composition classes there while continuing her musical apprenticeship at the Conservatoire. There, she went on to win a second prize for harmony in the class of Charles Lenepveu in 1890, a second prize for counterpoint and fugue in 1895 in the class of Jules Massenet, and finally a first prize in 1897 in the composition class of Gabriel Fauré. For thirty-seven years she taught piano, organ, composition and harmony for young blind students at the institute. She was decorated with the Palmes académiques in 1899 for her work. She died in Paris at 56 years of age. Works Selected works include: * Petit Carillon * Andante in E * 1896 *

Josephine Trott

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Josephine Augusta Trott (December 24, 1874 - March 2, 1950) was an American author, composer, and music educator who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Colin Shepherd. Her violin pedagogy books are still in use today. Trott was born in Wilmington, Illinois, to Dr. Stenson E. and Augusta J. Trott. Although she never married, she adopted a daughter, Riccarda McQuie, who went on to play violin in the Denver Symphony for 29 years. Trott’s book, On Demande une Maman, published under her pseudonym Colin Shepherd, was actually a fictionalized version of McQuie’s story. During this time, Trott helped established the Civic Symphony, which then became the Denver Symphony and today is the Colorado Symphony. The Denver Symphony gave its first performance on May 4, 1922. In 1932, Trott published an English translation of a French book on William the Conqueror by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus. She left the royalties from her publications to the Josephine Trott Memorial Scholarship Fund of the National Federation of Music Clubs. Her music was published by G. Schirmer Inc., Clayton F. Summy Co., and Weekes & Co. *Studies in Shifting *Two Tuneful Sketches (violin and piano) References External links * Dow

Josephine Troup

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Emily Josephine Troup (7 July 1853, Woodberry Down, London – 11 April 1913, Saltwood, Kent) was an English composer of songs and works for piano and violin. She founded a scholarship for female students studying orchestral composition at the Royal Academy of Music, in London, in 1905. Family and early life Josephine was the youngest daughter of Susanna and John Troup, a jeweller and watchmaker, of Essex Lodge, Clapton, England. According to her obituary, Her early years were spent among Unitarian surroundings where it is thought she probably acquired the habit of industry that led her to develop so fully her exceptional musical and literary gifts, and the keen sense of duty that made her ever anxious to use them as a means of social service. Career Troup was an active member of the South Place Ethical Society, contributing to its newsletters and participating in fundraising activities, and among the earliest members of the West London Ethical Society. Selected works Orchestral * ‘March of the Workers’ for soprano, bass solo, chorus and orchestra. Chamber * Romanza in C for string quartet Six sketches for violin and piano pub. by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd *Kleines Wiegenlied (1

Josiah Ransome-Kuti

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Josiah Jesse “J.J.” Ransome-Kuti (1 June 1855 – 4 September 1930) was a Nigerian clergyman and music composer. He was known for setting Christian hymns to indigenous music, and for writing Christian hymns in Yoruba. Early life and career Josiah Jesse Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was born on June 1, 1855, in Igbein, Abeokuta, Ogun State. His family were of Egba origin and his parents, Kuti (c. 1820 – 1863) and Anne Ekidan Efupeyin (c. 1830 – July 1877), were both born in Abeokuta as well. Josiah’s paternal grandparents, Jamo and Orukoluku, were originally from the town of Orile Igbein in the Egba forest, but had nevertheless been two of the earliest inhabitants of Abeokuta when it was founded in 1830. Josiah Ransome-Kuti was baptized in 1859. He had one sister, Eruwe Lousia Kuti. While his mother, Anne, was an early convert to Christianity, his father, Kuti, was a follower of the traditional Yoruba religion, and rejected Christianity and European influence in Abeokuta. He was dismayed by his wife’s conversion and frequently opposed her in her attempts to influence their son. However, in 1863, Kuti died of guineaworm disease, leaving Anne to raise him as a pious Christian. Shortly after comp

Josif Marinković

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Josif Marinković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосиф Маринковић; Vranjevo, near Novi Bečej, 15 September 1851 – Belgrade, 13 May 1931) was a Serbian composer and choral director. Like his younger contemporary Stevan St. Mokranjac, he was devoted to mainly vocal genres—lied and choral. Marinković was a romanticist with a pronounced affinity for melodic expression. He invested exceptional attention to the text declamation, which represented a rather novel quality in Serbian music at the time. Biography Marinković graduated at the Prague Organ School (1873–81) and attended specialized studies in Vienna (1886–87). He acted as choral director of the Belgrade Singing Society (1881–87), Academic Singing Society Obilić (1889–1900), as well as other choral ensembles (The Laborers’ Singing Society and Serbian-Jewish Singing Society, among others). He also taught music at the Serbian Orthodox Seminary, Teachers’ Preparatory School, and The Second Men’s Gymnasium. Marinković was inducted into the Serbian Royal Academy (today Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) in 1907. As a composer of a distinct romanticist expression, Marinković often utilized folk melodies. He composed patriotic songs for men’s choi

Josip Hatze

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Joseph Hatze (1879–1959) was one of the first and most prominent Croatian composers at the beginning of the 20th century. Hatze was born in Split (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia) to a family of craftsmen from Split. Whilst still at school he attended musical events, especially of sacred music and folk songs. Upon discovering his musicality, and with family support, he attended all the performances in the newly opened Municipal Theater in Split. His strong response to orchestral and choir performances in the Split theater encouraged the 16-year-old Hatze to sing at Chapel Mass. During that time he wrote “Misa a Kapela” (in Croatian text), which was performed with great success. Later other Dalmatian school choirs started performing his musical work. He completed his studies in composition in 1902 at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro in Italy with the operatic composer Pietro Mascagni. Returning home to Split, he worked as a choir teacher at the Central Technical School in Split and was the choirmaster at the choral society Zvonimir. During World War I, he was at the front, away from home, and was not aware that his wife Gilda had died of the Spanish flu. Gilda was from t

Josipina Eleonora Hudovernik

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Josipina Hudovernik, sister Marija Eleonora, (March 25, 1863 – March 1, 1945) was a Slovenian music teacher, headmistress and composer. She wrote and composed the popular Slovenian Christmas carol “Dete rajsko, Dete sveto” (Heavenly Child, Holy Child). Early life Josipina Eleonora was born on March 25, 1863 in Radovljica into a religious Slovene family. Her mother was an innkeeper, Lucija Oman, Career She studied music privately, piano with conservatory teacher Valentine Karinger and organ with Anton Foerster. She later studied singing with Berta de Pop-Stockert. She passed the special examination in singing, piano and organ with distinction in 1893. Due to her talent, she soon became a recognized organist and composer. She first worked as a music teacher at a school for girls, and later was its headmistress between 1903 and 1923, when she retired. She is credited with over 120 choral compositions, mostly written for the monastery choir and for the girls’ school. She died on March 1, 1945, in Ljubljana. Awards In 1937 she received an award for her artistic work: the Order of the Yugoslav Crown, Fifth Class. Legacy Her Christmas carol “Dete rajsko, Dete sveto” (Heavenly Child, Holy

Juan Manén

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Juan Manén (or Joan Manén; 14 March 1883 – 26 June 1971) was a Spanish violinist and composer, born in Barcelona. As a child, his progress in music was so rapid that his father exhibited him as a piano prodigy. Then, having studied the violin under Clemente Ibarguren, he debuted as a violinist, and met with such success that in Germany he was compared to his famous countryman Sarasate. Likewise he attracted much attention as a composer, not only in Spain, but perhaps to even a greater degree in Germany, where he resided at different times for protracted periods. His works comprise: the operas Giovanni di Napoli (1903), Der Fackeltanz (1909) and Neró i Acté (1928) with his own libretto; the symphonic poem Nova Catalonia; at least three violin concertos; “Fantasia - Sonata” for guitar; a suite for violin and piano; a piano quartet, a string quartet, and a number of exquisite miniatures for violin and orchestra. He also made a completion-cum-arrangement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in C, which otherwise only survives in its first 259 measures. Life Joan Manén was born in Barcelona, Catalonia. Precociously gifted, he learnt solfège and piano with his father from the age of three, and

Juan Morel Campos

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Juan Morel Campos (16 May 1857 – 12 May 1896), sometimes erroneously spelled Juan Morell Campos, was a Puerto Rican composer, considered by many to be responsible for taking the genre of danza to its highest level. He composed over 550 musical works before he died unexpectedly at age 38. Early years Morel Campos (full name: Juan Nepomuceno Morel Campos ) was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to Manuel Morel Araujo, from the Dominican Republic, and Juana de Dios Campos Collazo, from Venezuela. He began to study music at the young age of eight in his hometown under the guidance of Antonio Egipciaco. Morel Campos was a student of Puerto Rican composer and pianist Gonzalo de J. Núñez (1850 - 1915 ), whose students also included the internationally known musicians and composers Manuel Gregorio Tavárez and Arístides Chavier Arévalo. Morel Campos learned to play practically every brass instrument and eventually became one of the founders and directors of the “Ponce Firemen’s Band” (La Banda de Bomberos del Parque de Bombas de Ponce). The legendary band was later renamed the Ponce Municipal Band. First composition Later, Morel Campos became a student of the composer Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, “The

Jules Auguste Wiernsberger

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Jean Jules Auguste Wiernsberger (5 July 1857 – 15 December 1925) was a French composer from Alsace. Life and music Wiernsberger was born in Mulhouse. He received his first music lessons from his father Jean Wiernsberger (1833–1890) and left Alsace following the annexation of 1871 with his family to settle in Paris. He then entered the Paris Conservatory where he was a pupil of Émile Durand, Napoléon Henri Reber and Antoine Marmontel. He obtained a second prize for piano in 1876 and continued his studies in Basel. On his return to France in 1878, he settled in Reims, taking an active part in local musical life. He was a music teacher, directed the choir Alsace-Lorraine Orphéon, and from 1884 the choirs of the Reims Philharmonic Society. His opera Rioval was premiered at the Opéra de Reims on 18 February 1886. His lyrical drama Rosemonde was created in Tournai on 25 February 1892. His Violin Sonata, Op. 32 was awarded first prize by the Société des Compositeurs de Musique in 1896. From 1897 to 1899, he was editor of the Revue musicale Sainte-Cécile. In 1899, he won the Chartier Prize of the Institut de France for his chamber music production and was awarded the “Palmes académiques” (

Jules Cottin

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Jules Cottin (1868–1922) was a mandolin virtuoso who played in Paris from the 1890s. A pupil of the guitarist Jacques Bosch, he became part of the mandolin revival, which revitalized the instrument after its long decline in the 19th century. He was part of a group of virtuosi mandolinists, including Giuseppe Silvestri, Ferdinando de Cristofaro, and Jean Pietrapertosa, who played before enthusiastic Paris audiences. He was also a composer and author, writing the 1891 mandolin method book, Celèbre Méthode Complète Theoretique et Pratique de Mandoline. Cottin played in Paris with his brother Alfred (1863–1923), who played guitar, and his sister Madeleine (1876 – d. after 1952). His siblings were also composers and, like Jules, his sister wrote a mandolin method book. *Succès-Mandoline. Morceaux pour mandoline seule (Paris: J. Hamelle, 1900) *Contemplation. Romance sans paroles (Paris: E. Weilter, 1902) *Études mélodiques d’agilité pour mandoline (Paris, 1907; also: Paris: M. Jumade, 1914) Method *Méthode élémentaire de mandoline (Paris: A. Leduc, 1903). English edition: Complete Theoretical and Practical Method for the Mandoline (Paris: A. Leduc, 1896-1906) References External links *

Jules Jordan (composer)

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Julius “Jules” Jordan (November 10, 1850 – March 5, 1927) was an American composer, operatic tenor, vocal instructor and conductor. Jordan took the leading part in two important American premieres: Berlioz’s La’ Damnation de Faust produced in 1880 at Steinway Hall, New York, under the direction of Leopold Damrosch, by the New York Oratorio Society in conjunction with the New York Arion Society and the Philharmonic Orchestra; and Gounod’s “Redemption,” produced in Boston in 1882 by the Boston Oratorio Society. In 1880, he formed The Arion Club in Providence, RI., a mass choir that he conducted for more than 40 years. The activities of Jordan and the Arion Club cover a significant period of musical development in America, and Rhode Island shared in this activity with great interest. In 1897, The New York Times included him in a “Famous Conductors” article, adding “Mr. Jordan is a talented composer, and many of his songs have attained widespread popularity.” Jordan’s most notable works include his musical setting of Whittier’s poem, Barbara Frietchie, his dramatic scene, Jael, debuted by Lillian Nordica, and his opera, Rip Van Winkle. His twin brother, Julian Jordan was also a compose

Julián Carrillo

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Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist, famous for developing a theory of microtonal music which he dubbed “The Thirteenth Sound” (Sonido 13). Biography Carrillo was born on January 28, 1875, in Ahualulco, a village in the state of San Luis Potosí. He was the last of the 19 children of Nabor Carrillo and Antonia Trujillo. Early education Carrillo sang in the children’s choir of Ahualulco’s church. The choir’s conductor, Flavio F. Carlos, encouraged him to study music in the state capital, San Luis Potosí. He planned to study for two years, then return to Ahualulco as the church’s singer, but problems prevented this plan. He arrived to San Luis Potosí City in 1885 and began to study with Flavio F. Carlos, teacher to several generations of San Luis Potosí’s composers. Carrillo also began to work in his teacher’s orchestra where he was a percussionist and later, violinist. He composed his first small works for this group. Because of his family’s financial situation, Carrillo left his primary school studies early, but continued working in the orchestra and studying music with Carlos. In 1894, Carri

Julian Clifford

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Julian Seymour Clifford (London, 28 September 1877 – Hastings, 27 December 1921) was an English conductor, composer and pianist particularly associated with the orchestras at Harrogate and Hastings, which he carried to a high level of accomplishment, introducing new works by English composers and encouraging soloists of national standing to perform in the provinces. His wife was a soprano singer. After his early death his example was followed by their son, also Julian Clifford (born 1903), who was a composer and a conductor working for Decca Records in early days, and championed works by English composers. Julian Clifford senior Clifford (the son of Thomas Clifford of Tonbridge, Kent ) was educated at Ardingly College, Tonbridge School, the Leipzig Conservatory (under Józef Śliwiński and Sir Walter Parratt) and the Royal College of Music. After terms as conductor of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Yorkshire Permanent Orchestra in Leeds, he became musical director to the Corporations of Harrogate (Yorkshire) and Hastings (Sussex). He frequently conducted in London, and was considered a particularly fine conductor of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s music. Clifford performed his

Julian Edwards

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Julian Edwards (December 11, 1855 - September 5, 1910) was an English composer of light operatic music, who composed many successful Broadway shows in the Progressive Era. He attempted to introduce new levels of musical sophistication to the genre. Some of his songs achieved popularity at the time. Early life Edwards was born in Manchester, England, and studied in Edinburgh and London. He became conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He also conducted at the Royal English Opera House, where he met his wife, prima donna Philippine Siedle. He composed a grand opera entitled Victorian, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Sheffield on 6 April 1883, which was also performed at Covent Garden Opera House on 19 January 1884. The libretto, by J F Reynolds-Anderson, was based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s play The Spanish Student. Broadway career He soon turned his attention to lighter music, moving to New York at the invitation of Broadway producer James C. Duff, and creating a number of Broadway shows, beginning with Jupiter (1892), to a libretto by Harry B. Smith. He followed it with 17 more musicals. His first big success was Madeleine, or the Magic Kiss (1893). This was his first

Julian Jordan (composer)

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Julian Jordan (November 10, 1850 – October 13, 1929) was an American composer, vocal instructor and singer. He worked with Willis Woodward & Co., a publisher in New York City’s Tin Pan Alley. In 1887, he wrote his most successful composition, “The Song That Reached My Heart.” The Song That Reached My Heart “Mr. Jordan tells the following story of how he came to write “The Song that Reached My Heart.” “Mr. Sayres, manager of the minstrel company, chanced to hear at one of the New York theaters a song entitled “The Song for Me,” which introduced “Home! Sweet Home!” as a finish. The following day Mr. Sayres and I met. He spoke of the song he had heard and said that he would like to have me get it for use in this minstrel company. Naturally I objected to taking the composition of another man, being a song writer myself, and so I told Mr. Sayres that if he was desirous of having a song which would introduce the melody of “Home, Sweet Home” I believed that I could compose one which would be as effective as the one he wished me to obtain. The idea was favorable to him, and Mr. Sayres at once suggested as a title for the song that I was to compose, “The Song That Reached My Heart.” “Take t

Julie Rivé-King

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Julie Rivé-King (October 30, 1854 July 28, 1937) was an American pianist and composer. Biography Julie Rivé-King was born on October 30, 1854, in Cincinnati, Ohio, of parents Caroline Staub Rivé and Léon Rivé. Her mother was a singer, teacher and composer who studied with Manuel Garcia in France, and her father was an artist and teacher. After a cholera epidemic that took three of their children in New Orleans, the couple moved to Baton Rouge, Louisville and then to Cincinnati where they found teaching positions and where Julie was born. Jullie took music lessons from her mother and appeared in recitals at age eight. She studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory with Henry Andrès and in 1870 in New York with Sebastian Bach Mills, William Mason, Francis Korbay and Dionys Pruckner. She also studied in Europe with Franz Liszt and Carl Reinecke and made her debut in Leipzig in 1873. She began a concert tour of Europe, but returned to the US when her father was killed in a railroad accident. She made a debut in Cincinnati in 1874, officially debuted the next year with the New York Philharmonic and then toured the Eastern and Midwestern US. In 1876 she married Frank H. King, her manager, an

Juliette Toutain

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Marie Juliette Toutain (July 22, 1877 – 1948) was a French pianist, organist, and composer. Early life and education Toutain was born in Trouville-sur-Mer in Normandy, the daughter of Jules Toutain and Théodorine Poret. Her father was a naval administrator; her mother was a piano builder who knew many musicians in Paris. Marie Juliette trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she studied composition with Gabriel Fauré and Auguste Chapuis, and was a prize-winning piano student of Raoul Pugno and Paul Vidal, and a top organ student of Alexandre Guilmant. She completed her studies at the Conservatoire in 1902. That year an American publication reported that “to a sufficient technic this young lady adds a charm and individuality of her own,” adding that she was “the cause of a great deal of discussion at present. Although quite young, she has gained at the Conservatoire the first prizes for piano, organ, accompaniment, and harmony.” Career Despite her impressive training and international reputation, Toutain faced significant barriers on the basis of gender. Her family disapproved, and major competitions, such as the Prix de Rome, either did not accept women entrants, or made no pr

Julius Bittner

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Julius Bittner (born Vienna, 9 April 1874; died Vienna, 9 January 1939) was an Austrian composer. Life The son of a judge, Bittner also initially pursued a career in law. Until 1920 he was a judge in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel, in Lower Austria. From 1920 to 1922 or 1923 he was an official in the Austrian Department of Justice. In addition, Julius Bittner became one of the best-known and most performed Austrian opera composers in the first half of the 20th century. Many of his operas deal with Austrian-Alpine themes. He usually wrote his own libretti. After the Second World War, however, as a typical representative of late Romantic opera in the tradition of Richard Wagner, he was gradually forgotten. As a leading member of Vienna’s judiciary and close friend of Gustav Mahler, he assessed Mahler’s estate for probate after his death. He later won the Mahler Prize in 1915. He composed many operas, two symphonies and many songs and was helped and promoted by Mahler and Bruno Walter. He was also a close friend of Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Franz Schmidt. He was for a while editor of the Austrian music journal Der Merker Awards * 1915 Gustav Mahler Prize * 1918 Raimund Prize * 1925 City

Julius Buths

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Julius Buths (7 May 185112 March 1920) was a German pianist, conductor and minor composer. He was particularly notable in his early championing of the works of Edward Elgar in Germany. He conducted the continental European premieres of both the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius. He also had notable associations with Frederick Delius and Gustav Mahler. Early career Julius Emil Martin Buths was born in Wiesbaden, the son of an oboist. He studied music at Cologne under Ferdinand Hiller and others, in Berlin under Friedrich Kiel, in Italy and in Paris. He worked as a conductor in Breslau from 1875 to 1879, then in Elberfeld until 1890. That year he was appointed musical director for the city of Düsseldorf, and he played an important role in the Lower Rhenish Music Festivals for a number of years. In 1890, he was co-director with Hans Richter; in 1893 he was sole director; in 1896, he shared the role with Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss; 1902 co-director with Strauss; and sole director in 1905. In Düsseldorf he frequently played chamber music with Max Reger and Joseph Joachim. Elgar Buths was present in Birmingham at the premiere of Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius i

Julius Conus

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Julius or Jules Conus (, Yuliy Eduardovich Konyus; 1 February 1869 3 January 1942) was a Russian violinist and composer. Early life and education Conus was born in Moscow, the son of Eduard Conus, a pianist, composer and teacher of French descent born in Saratov. His mother, Klotilda (sometimes Clothilde) Adolfovna, née Tambroni, was of Italian parentage and born in St Petersburg. His brothers were the musicians Georgi Conus and Lev Conus. All three brothers studied in the Moscow Conservatory; among their teachers were Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. Following in the footsteps of his brother Georgi Conus, Julius entered the Moscow Conservatory. Here he studied composition under Sergei Taneyev, Music encyclopediaunder Anton Arensky, and violin under Jan Hřímalý. He graduated in 1888, receiving a gold medal. Within a year, and through the personal recommendation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, he was sent to Paris to further develop his violin skills at the Conservatoire de Paris under Lambert Massart. Tours and concerts During his time at the Conservatoire de Paris, Conus began a successful career, playing first with the Paris National Academy of Music (Paris Opera) as first chair vi

Julius Fučík (composer)

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Julius Ernst Wilhelm Fučík (, ; 18 July 1872 – 25 September 1916) was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 400 marches, polkas and waltzes to his name. As most of his works were for military bands, Fučík is sometimes known as the “Bohemian Sousa”. Today, Fučík’s marches are still played as patriotic music in the Czech Republic. His worldwide reputation rests primarily on two works: “Florentiner Marsch”, popular throughout much of Europe and the United States, and the “Entrance of the Gladiators” (Vjezd gladiátorů), which is widely recognised, often under the title “Thunder and Blazes”, as popular entrance music for circus clowns. Early life and education Julius Ernst Wilhelm Fučík was born on 18 July 1872 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. As a student, he learned how to play the bassoon with Ludwig Milde, the violin with Antonín Bennewitz, and various percussion instruments, later studying composition under Antonín Dvořák. Career In 1891, Fučík joined the 49th Austro-Hungarian Regiment as a military musician. He initially played in Krems by the Danube under Josef Wagner. Three years later, Fučík left the army to take up a pos

Julius Klengel

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Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig at fifteen, he toured extensively throughout Europe as cellist and soloist of the Gewandhaus Quartet. His pupils include Guilhermina Suggia, Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky and Alexandre Barjansky. Biography Klengel was born in Leipzig, and studied with Emil Hegar in his youth. His father was a lawyer and an amateur musician, and was a friend of Mendelssohn. After his 15th birthday, Klengel joined the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra where Klengel played first cello, and began touring in Europe and Russia. Klengel also became a soloist at that point, frequently giving solo performances. Klengel rose to become principal cellist of the orchestra, aged 22, in 1881. and began composing. He ultimately composed hundreds of pieces for the cello, including four cello concertos, two double cello concertos, cello quartets, a cello sonata, as well as numerous caprices, etudes and other technical pieces. Of his music, the two volumes of etudes (“Technical Studi

Julius Röntgen

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Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg. Early life and education Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, the Dutch-born Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, an aunt of the renowned cellist Julius Klengel, born in 1859. Julius was a gifted child. Neither he nor his sisters attended school; he was taught music by his parents and grandparents, and other subjects by private tutors. His first piano teacher was Carl Reinecke, the director of the Gewandhaus orchestra, while his early compositions were influenced by Reinecke, but also by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. In 1870, at the age of 14, Julius Röntgen visited Liszt in Weimar; after playing piano for him he was invited to a soiree at Liszt’s house. In Leipzig, he and his parents were part of the musical circle around Heinrich von Herzogenberg, and it was at their house that he first met Brahms. Later Röntgen moved to Munich, where he studied piano under Franz Lachner, a friend of

Juliusz Zarębski

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Juliusz Zarębski (3 March 185415 September 1885) was a Polish composer and pianist active in the Russian Empire. Some of his manuscripts have been found in the National Library of Poland (BN). Life Juliusz Zarębski was born on March 3, 1854, in Zhytomyr, (now Ukraine; then former lands of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Polish Kingdom). He would die in the same city in 1885. His mother was his first piano teacher. Later, he studied with Lucja Rucinska. In 1870, he completed his education at the gymnasium with honors and moved to Vienna to study composition with Franz Krenn and piano with Josef Dachs. Two years later, he graduated with two gold medals, even though his curriculum indicated a musical training of six years. The following year he moved to St. Petersburg and studied there for three more years, passed his examination and obtained his diploma of “free artist.” A year later, he moved to Rome and stayed there until 1875. In Rome, he studied piano with Franz Liszt, his friend for some time. The Hungarian composer, who would orchestrate his Danses Galiciennes in 1881, greatly helped Zarębski, appearing with him in concerts and using his contacts to publicize the wor

Jurgis Karnavičius (composer)

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Jurgis Karnavičius (23 April 1884 – 22 December 1941) was a Lithuanian composer of classical music and a forerunner of the development of Lithuanian operatic works. Biography Karnavičius was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, which at the time was a part of the Russian Empire. After completing his basic education in his homeland, he began the study of Law in St. Petersburg, Russia. Karnavičius’s son, also named Jurgis Karnavičius (1912–2001), was a pianist and the long-time rector of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. His grandson, Jurgis Karnavičius (born 1957), is a concert pianist. Music had always been his main interest, and he began to simultaneously study music theory and composition. This soon superseded his pursuit of a career in the legal profession. His primary instrument was the viola. Eventually he became a professor at the Conservatory of Music in the now renamed city of Leningrad. During this period he began experimenting with his own theories of musical composition and began writing his own works. In 1927, Karnavičius returned to Lithuania, which had only regained its independence as a sovereign nation less than ten years earlier. In addition to teaching at the Conservatory of

Justin Elie

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Justin Elie (1 September 1883 – 2 December 1931) was a Haitian composer and pianist. He is one of the best-known composers outside of Haiti. Biography Justin Elie was born in Cap-Haïtien. Return to the Americas In 1905 he returned to Haiti, where he met his colleague Ludovic Lamothe, composer and musician like himself, with which he will play and make a tour of major cities. In 1925, he composed the frames of silent films, including The Phantom of the Opera (Somers), and in 1931, the generic of a New York radio show, The Lure of the Tropics. Death Elie died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on 3 December 1931 when he was composing Fantaisie Tropicale in New York City. His body was returned to Haiti. Notable works *Suite Babylon: 1. Pas des Odalisques (orchestre). Arrangement: C. J. Roberts. Edition: Carl Fischer (1925) *Suite Babylon: 2. Bayaderes (orchestre). Arrangement: C. J. Roberts. Edition: Carl Fischer (1925) *Suite Babylon: 3. La reine de la nuit (orchestre). Arrangement: C. J. Roberts. Edition: Carl Fischer (1925) *Suite Babylon: 4. Orgie (orchestre). Arrangement: C. J. Roberts. Edition: Carl Fischer (1925) *Firefly Fancies (orchestre). Edition: Carl Fischer (1929) *La Nui

Justus Hermann Wetzel

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Justus Hermann Wetzel (11 March 1879 – 6 December 1973) was a German composer, writer and music educator. Life Wetzel was born in Kyritz, Brandenburg, the son of a postal clerk. After his Abitur, which he passed in Potsdam in 1897, he studied biology in Berlin, Marburg and Munich from 1897 to 1901. In Marburg he also studied philosophy with Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp. In 1901 he received his doctorate there with a zoological thesis. He then turned to music and deepened his knowledge with private studies in Berlin. The Friedrich-Kiel-Gesellschaft recorded him as a student of Friedrich Kiel. He made his living as a music consultant for various daily newspapers. From 1905 to 1907 he taught at the Riemann Conservatory in Stettin. In 1910 he finally moved to Berlin, where he first taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium and in 1926 he moved to the Royal Music Institute of Berlin in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Although Wetzel lived a relatively secluded life and was hardly committed to his work, a large circle of friends and admirers surrounded him. These included not only musicians, but also visual artists such as Emil Orlik and his pupil Gunter Böhmer, the poet Hermann Hesse a

Justus Weinreich

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Justus Weinreich (May 24, 1858, Kassel - January 19, 1927, Baden-Baden) was a German composer and musician (violinist and violist). He probably received his first lessons from his father Johann Georg Weinreich, an oboist serving in the Elector’s personal bodyguard regiment. After 1873, Weinreich worked as second violin in Kassel’s court theater orchestra. Years of traveling followed. From 1876 to 1878 he worked as 1st violinist in Bonn and in 1879–1880 in Königsberg. Weinreich then moved to Baden-Baden. At the beginning of 1883 he joined the Karlsruhe court orchestra as a viola player, rising in 1885 to court musician, in 1893 to 3rd solo viola, and in 1914 to chamber musician. From 1890 to 1923 was solo violist of Badische Staatskapelle, Karlsruhe (Baden State Symphony Orchestra; founded in 1662). Vision problems and a chronic neuralgic complaint forced him to quit his post in 1917. He returned to Baden-Baden where he died on January 19, 1927. Compositions His compositions include: * 3 Duets (G/C/d), op. 5, for 2 Violas * 3 Suites (Es/F/G), for Solo Viola (Premier recording by Roland Glassl) * Serenade in D for Violin and Viola * 2 string quartets * 18 Etudes for Viola *“Major and

Juventino Rosas

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José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 18689 July 1894) was a Mexican composer and violinist, known worldwide for the waltz “Sobre las olas” (“Over the Waves”). Life and career Rosas was born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato, later renamed Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, and still later into Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas. Rosas began his musical career as a street musician, playing with dance music bands in Mexico City. In 1884-85 and 1888 he enrolled into the conservatory, both times leaving it without taking any examination. Most of Rosas’s compositions—among them “Sobre las Olas” (“Over the Waves”)—were issued by Wagner y Levien and Nagel Sucesores in Mexico City. In the late 1880s, Rosas is reported to have been a member of a military band, and in 1891 he worked in Michoacán. In 1892–93 Rosas lived near Monterrey before joining an orchestra in 1893 for a tour through the USA. During this tour, the group performed at the World Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago, Illinois. In 1894, Rosas went for a several-month tour to Cuba with an Italian-Mexican ensemble, where he came down with major health problems, having to stay behind in Surgidero de Batabanó. As a resul

Kalle Nämdeman

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Kalle Nämdeman (31 December 1883 – 28 June 1945) was the stage name of Karl Gustafsson, a Swedish songwriter, performer and recording artist. Life and legacy As a young man Kalle Nämdeman apprenticed as a goldsmith, but he eventually began working as an entertainer. He “discovered” the military conscript as a comic type, appearing as such on stage or in top hat and tails. Although he never dressed the part of a bondkomiker (rustic comic), his songs had a similar appeal. One of the first artists booked on the folk park circuit, by the 1930s Nämdeman was no longer welcome at such venues because of his sometimes improper conduct. His last public appearance was in 1941. He moved to Virserum, Småland, where he lived out his days in straitened circumstances. His statue now stands in Eskilstuna’s Folk Park. In America, his humorous songs were recorded by Olle i Skratthult, who also published them in his songbooks. The most popular of these was Flickan på Bellmansro (The Girl at Bellmansro), a story of unrequited love in Stockholm’s Djurgården park. References Gallery File:Kalle Nämndeman-2.jpg Kalle Nämdeman in military uniform File:Kalle nämndeman, av Marita Norin 1983.JPG Kalle Nämdeman

Karel Komzák II

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Karel Komzák II (8 November 1850 – 23 April 1905) was a Bohemian-born Viennese composer famous for his dances and marches. He composed the Erzherzog-Albrecht-Marsch. Komzák was born in Prague in 1850. After training under his father, Karel Komzák I, he studied violin, musical theory, and conducting at the Prague Conservatory between 1861 and 1867. In March 1869, he joined his father’s 11th Regiment band at Linz, playing violin and baritone. When the position of bandmaster to the 7th Infantry Regiment became vacant in 1871, Komzák applied and was successful, taking up his new post at Innsbruck at the age of 21. During this period the so-called Bohemian musician became familiar with the folk music of Tyrol, and this showed its influence in the choruses he wrote for the Innsbruck Liedertafel Choir, of which he was also choirmaster. Komzák’s long-standing desire to come to Vienna was eventually fulfilled in 1882, when he was called to the capital to take over the duties of bandmaster to the 84th Infantry Regiment. It was while he was with this regiment that his fame gradually spread throughout the Austrian Empire. His congenial appearance, friendly nature and energetic conducting soon

Karel Kovařovic

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Karel Kovařovic (9 December 1862 6 December 1920) was a Czech composer and conductor from Prague. Life From 1873 to 1879 he studied clarinet, harp and piano at the Prague Conservatory. He began his career as a harpist. In 1900 Kovařovic became the conductor of the national theatre in Prague, due mostly to the success of his opera Psohlavci (The Dogheads), after the novel of the same name (about Jan Sladký Kozina) by Alois Jirásek. His engagement at the National Theatre lasted twenty years, until 1920. * 1892 Předehra dramatická (Dramatic overture) * 1900 Fantasie from the opera “Prodaná nevěsta” of Bedřich Smetana * Deux suites de ballet * Gavotta, for violin and string quartet, op. 4 * Havířská polka (Miners’ polka) from play Mr Brouček’s excursion to the Exhibition (1894) * Valčík (waltz), for chamber orchestra Works for wind band * 1911 Lustspiel Ouverture * 1914 Vzpomínky * Havířská polka Theatre Operas Ballet Incidental music * 1918 Loutkářův sirotek, melodrama – text: Svatopluk Čech “Ve stínu lípy” * Zlatý kolovrat, melodrama – text: Karel Jaromír Erben Vocal music Works for choir * 1890 Královničky; staré obřadné tance moravské se zpěvy, for women (SSAA) en piano (of harmoni

Karel Navrátil

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Karel Navrátil (24 April 1867 – 23 December 1936) was a Czech violinist, composer and music educator. He was born in Prague, and studied in Vienna under Guido Adler and František Ondříček, afterward working as a composer and music teacher in Prague. Notable students include composers Helen Hopekirk, Arthur Hinton and John Powell. He died in Prague. Some sources have confused him with Karl Nawratil (1836–1914), attributing to him a substantial output of chamber music actually composed by the latter. Selected works Navrátil’s compositions include opera, symphonies and symphonic poems, piano and violin concertos, chamber music and piano pieces, songs and choral works. ;Opera * Heřman, Op. 21 * Herman a Dorothea * Salambo ;Orchestral * Symphony in G minor, Op. 4 sic (manuscript score dated 1902) * Koncertní ouvertura (Concert Overture), Op. 5 (1872) * Jan Hus, Symphonic Poem * Žižka, Symphonic Poem * Bílá hora (White Mountain; Blanche montagne), Symphonic Poem * Indianerlegende for string orchestra with harp ;Concertante * Piano Concerto in F minor * Violin Concerto in E major ;Piano * Variace na norské lidové písně (Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song; Variationen über ein norwegische

Karl August Hermann

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Karl August Hermann (23 September 1851 – 11 January 1909) was an Estonian writer, publicist, linguist and composer. Biography Hermann was born in Võhmanõmme, Põltsamaa Parish, Kreis Fellin in 1851. He died in 1909 in Tartu, and is buried in Tartu Raadi Cemetery. References

Karl Bleyle

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Karl Bleyle (7 May 1880 – 5 June 1969) was an Austrian composer and musician, who also lived and worked in Germany. Life Bleyle was born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg. In the parental home of the young Karl - his father was the textile manufacturer - music was played diligently and the joy of music was awakened in him at an early age. He received his first music lessons on the violin from the Feldkirch music director Karl Linke, who came from Barthfeld in Hungary and was appointed teacher at the newly established music school in Feldkirch in 1888. Karl moved to Stuttgart with his parents at the age of nine. At the conservatory there, he had his first lessons in music theory and counterpoint with Hugo Wehrle and Samuel de Lange from 1894 to 1897 and from 1897 to 1899 with Edmund Singer. After his military service, he studied music from 1904 to 1907 with Ludwig Thuille in Munich, where he lived as a composer until 1919. Already in his first year of study in Munich Bleyle composed his 1st Symphony in C minor, which was premiered by the Hofkapelle in Stuttgart on 7 December 1905 and was highly praised by the press. On 25 February 1910 the Munich concertmaster Bruno Ahner played his Violin C

Karl Klingler

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Karl Klingler (7 December 1879 – 18 March 1971) was a German violinist, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and lecturer. Life Early years Karl Klingler was born in Strasbourg, at that time in Germany, the fifth of his parents’ six recorded children. His father, Theodor Klingler (1845–1905), was a professional viola player who taught at the conservatory there. Klingler began giving concerts at five years of age. In 1897, when he concluded his schooling in Strasbourg, he relocated to Berlin where he was a student at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK) where, now aged 17, he studied the violin with Joseph Joachim, an inspiring teacher and, very soon, a close personal friend. During the years before the war, he was receiving glowing reviews from the critics, notably in the United States in 1911 for a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Welsh cellist Arthur Williams and the Galician pianist Artur Schnabel. His career was interrupted in July 1914 by the outbreak of the First World War: he was called up to fight as a soldier. Towards the end of the war he was able to transfer to musical work in support of the troops. He arranged regul

Karl Weigl

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Karl Ignaz Weigl (6 February 1881 – 11 August 1949) was a Jewish Austrian composer and pianist, who later became a naturalized American citizen in 1943. Biography Weigl was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a bank official who was also a keen amateur musician. Alexander Zemlinsky took him as a private pupil in 1896. Weigl went to school at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium and graduated from there in 1899. After that, he continued his studies at the Vienna Music Academy, where he became a composition pupil of Robert Fuchs, and also enrolled at the University of Vienna, studying musicology under Guido Adler, with Anton Webern as his classmate. At the Vienna Hofoper between 1904 and 1906 he served as a rehearsal conductor for Gustav Mahler. In 1930 he was appointed professor of theory and composition at the University of Vienna, where he succeeded Hans Gal and taught composer Mimi Wagensonner. Weigl often appeared as a soloist and also played four-handed with his wife. He died in New York after a prolonged battle with bone marrow cancer. Weigl’s music, which was admired by Mahler, Schoenberg and Strauss, shows the influence of Brahms, with an emphasis on polyphony. several concertos, cham

Karol Szymanowski

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Karol Maciej Szymanowski (; 3 October 188229 March 1937) Since musical opportunities in Congress Poland were quite limited, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa. Career In Berlin, Szymanowski founded the Young Polish Composers’ Publishing Company (1905–1912), whose primary aim was to publish new works by his countrymen. During his stay in Vienna (1911–1914), he wrote the opera Hagith and two song cycles, The Love Songs of Hafiz, which represent a transition between his first and second stylistic periods. Being lame in one knee made Szymanowski unsuitable for military service in World War I, and between 1914 and 1917, he composed many works and devoted himself to studying Islamic culture, ancient Greek drama, and philosophy. His works from this period, such as Mity (1914; Myths), Metopy (1915; Métopes), and Maski (1916; Masques), are characterized by great originality and diversity of style. The dynamic extremes in Szymanowski’s music lessened, and the composer started to employ coloristic orchestration and use polytonal and atonal material while preserving the expressive melodic style of his previous works. In 1918, Szymanowski completed the manuscript of a two-volume nov

Károly Aggházy

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Károly Aggházy (30 October 1855, Budapest – 8 October 1918, Budapest) was a Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer. Aggházy was a pupil of Robert Volkmann, Anton Bruckner, and Franz Liszt. He later taught at the National Conservatory in Budapest. Besides several operas, most notably Maritta (1895), he chiefly wrote chamber music and pieces for piano. He died in Budapest at age 62. Works (selection) Discography * 2021: Acte Préalable AP0511 – Károly Aggházy - Works for Piano (Sławomir P. Dobrzański) References *Entry in the Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon External links * List of operas by Aggházy *

Kate Vanderpoel

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Cornelia Townsend (born 11 August 1851) was an American song composer who published most of her music under the name Kate Vanderpoel. Biography Townsend was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Horace Gilbert and Eliza Ann Thornton Townsend, one of nine children. Her siblings included her twin brother George who built the Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway, and her brother Edward, a writer, journalist, and U.S. Congressman. She studied with Achille Errani in New York. In 1891 she moved to Chicago, Illinois and lived on Calumet Ave. By 1912 she lived in Milwaukee (as did her sister Anna); several of her publications have ended up in Milwaukee Public Library’s Historical Sheet Music Collection. In 1896, the Republican National Committee sponsored the publication of 20,000 copies of three of Townsend’s self-published songs: “Flag Song”, “That Man from O-Hi-O” about President William McKinley, and “On To Victory”. Her music was published by S. Brainard Sons, Orpheus Publishing Company, Clayton F. Summy Company, and herself. She took a particular interest in the frontispiece design of her published music, going so far as to commission a cover for her Florimella Waltz from J. C. Lyndec

Kateřina Emingerová

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Kateřina Emingerová (13 July 1856 – 9 September 1934) was a Czech composer, pianist and music educator. She was also a prolific music writer and journalist, producing numerous books, essays, reviews and articles on music. Biography Emingerová was born on 13 July 1856 in Prague, the daughter of lawyer Jan Eminger and his wife Julie Emingerová. Kateřina’s sister Helena (1858–1943) became known as a painter and graphic artist. Kateřina completed early studies under František Škroup, Bedřich Smetana, Adolf Čech, František Zdeněk Skuherský, Ludevít Procházka, Vojtěch Hřímalý, Jan Hřímalý, Josef Paleček and Viennese tenor Gustav Walter. She then studied with Josef Jiránek, Karel ze Slavkovských, Ludevít Procházka, and Jindřich Kaan. In Berlin her teacher was Karl-Heinrich Barth at the Hochschule für Musik (1882–1883). She studied composition privately with Zdeněk Fibich and Vítězslav Novák and began composing at the age of thirteen. Emingerová performed her first solo concert at age nineteen in the Konvikt concert hall. In the 1870s Emingerová began composing dances, especially polkas, which were popular at the Prague balls. She also composed for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir and s

Katharine Emily Eggar

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Katherine Emily Eggar (5 January 1874 – 15 August 1961) was an English pianist and composer. Eggar was born and died in London, England, the daughter of Thomas Eggar and Katherine MacDonald. Eggar was active member of the feminist movement especially in terms of opportunities for women in music. At the inaugural meeting of the Society of Women Musicians, Eggar stated, “The conventions of music must be challenged. Women are already challenging conventions in all kinds of ways… We believe in a great future for women composers.” (Katherine Emily Eggar, at the inaugural meeting in 1911 of the Society of Women Musicians which she helped found) Life She studied piano in Berlin at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory with Klindworth, Brussels at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique with De Greef, and London, and studied composition with Frederick Corder at the Royal Academy of Music, Graduating in 1895. At 19 she became the first woman to perform her own chamber works at a London public concert. With singer Gertrude Eaton and musicologist Marion M. Scott, she co-founded the Society of Women Musicians in London in 1911 and served as its president in 1914–1915. Eggar ran fortnightly meeting

Katherine Ruth Heyman

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Katherine Ruth Willoughby Heyman (1877 – September 28, 1944), nicknamed “Kitty”, was an American pianist and composer. She was a proponent of the music of Alexander Scriabin, and she gave several recitals consisting solely of his music. Biography Early life Heyman was born in 1877, in Sacramento, California. Her father was violinist Arnold Heyman, a student of Louis Spohr. She studied in Berlin from 1881 to 1894, including piano with Karl Heinrich Barth. She later studied in Vienna and later London before returning to the United States for further studies. Career Heyman made her professional debut as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 13, 1899. In 1905, she moved to London and often toured European cities, especially in Russia. During this time, she toured together with singers Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Marcella Sembrich. She met Ezra Pound, who dedicated the 1906 poem “Scriptor ignotus” to her, during this time. In addition to her performing activities, she also gave lectures about music. The Relation of Ultramodern to Archaic Music, a collection of her lectures was published in 1921 by Small, Maynard & Company. She was a noted proponent of Scriabin, and ga

Kenneth J. Alford

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Frederick Joseph Ricketts (21 February 1881 – 15 May 1945) was an English composer of marches for band. Under the pen name Kenneth J. Alford, he composed marches which are considered to be great examples of the art. He was a bandmaster in the British Army, and Royal Marines director of music. Conductor Vivian Dunn called him “The British March King”. Alford’s frequent use of the saxophone contributed to its permanent inclusion in military bands. His best known work is the “Colonel Bogey March”. Early life and education Ricketts was born on 21 February 1881, the fourth child of Robert and Louisa (née Alford) Ricketts in the Thameside hamlet of Ratcliff, within the parish of Shadwell in London’s East End. Born within the sound of Bow Bells (the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside), Ricketts had Cockney birthright. His London ancestry can be traced back to the early 18th century: his father was a coal merchant in Ratcliff on the north side of the Thames near Limehouse. On 9 December 1884, a fifth child, Randolph Robjent, was born to the Ricketts family, who, like his elder brother, was to become well known in military musical circles, under the pseudonym Leo Stanley. Ricketts’s fat

Klaus Pringsheim Sr.

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Klaus Pringsheim Sr. (24 July 1883 – 7 December 1972) was a German-born composer, conductor, music-educator and the twin brother of Katharina “Katia” Pringsheim, who married Thomas Mann in 1905. Biography Pringsheim was the son of mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Dohm Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her marriage. His son, historian (23 May 1923 – 6 February 2001), attended Bunce Court School, a German Jewish refugee school in Kent, England during World War II. A former pupil of Gustav Mahler, Pringsheim Sr. was invited to Tokyo in 1931 to become professor of music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Known for establishing and propagating Western classical music in Japan, Pringsheim had a great influence on many later Japanese musicians. Among his famous students are Kōmei Abe, Kozaburo Hirai and Isotaro Sugata. See also *Dohm–Mann family tree References

Komitas

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Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas (; 8 October 186922 October 1935), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology. Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to Etchmiadzin, Armenia’s religious center, where he received education at the Gevorgian Seminary. Following his ordination as vardapet (celibate priest) in 1895, he studied music at the Frederick William University in Berlin. He thereafter “used his Western training to build a national tradition”. He collected and transcribed over 3,000 pieces of Armenian folk music, more than half of which were subsequently lost with only around 1,200 now extant. Besides Armenian folk songs, he also showed interest in other cultures and in 1903 published the first-ever collection of Kurdish folk songs titled Kurdish melodies. His choir presented Armenian music in many European cities, earning the praise of Claude Debussy, among others. Komitas settled in Constantinople in 1910 to escape mistreatment by ultra-conservative clergymen at Etchmia

Konstantin Eiges

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Konstantin Romanovich Eiges (surname sometimes spelt Eyges; ; 5 June 1875 – 2 December 1950) was a Russian composer, teacher, and pianist. Early life Eiges was born in Bogodukhov (now Bohodukhiv in Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents, the doctor Ruvim Manasiyevich (also known as Roman Mikhailovich) Eiges (born Vilnius, 1840) and his wife Sofiya (Shifra) Iosifovna, née Eltsin. He was one of ten children, many of whom went on to artistic or academic careers; Vladimir Eiges (1877-1949) was a professor of mathematics, Aleksandr (1880-1943), also a mathematician, was an authority on Anton Chekhov, Veniamin (1888-1956) was an artist, Yekaterina (1890-1958) was a poet and sometime girlfriend of Sergei Esenin. Career Eiges attended Moscow Conservatory between 1900 and 1905, where his teachers included Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (composition), Sergei Taneyev (counterpoint) and Adolf Yaroshevsky (piano). He was a colleague of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner. His pupils included Alexei Stanchinsky. Most of his compositions are for piano solo, though he also wrote songs and chamber works, a cantata The Song of Oleg the Wise, and a symphonic poem, The Snowstorm. Eiges wrote numero

Konstantin Türnpu

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Konstantin Jakob Türnpu (August 13, 1865 – April 16, 1927) was an Estonian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the most important figures in Estonian choral music. Türnpu was born in Klooga, Estonia, on August 13, 1865. He studied music independently at first, but in 1886, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied organ with Louis Homilius and composition with Julius Johannsen. He graduated from the conservatory in 1891. After graduating from the conservatory, Türnpu returned to Estonia and worked as an organist and choir conductor. He was also a music teacher at several schools in Tallinn. In 1892, he became the organist of the Niguliste Church in Tallinn, a position he held until his death. In 1916, Türnpu became the conductor of the Tallinn Male Song Society’s male choir. He conducted the choir for the next 11 years, and during that time he helped to raise the choir to a high level of artistry. He also served as the general conductor of the V and VI Estonian Song Festivals. Türnpu’s compositions are mostly choral works, but he also wrote a few solo songs and organ pieces. His choral music is characterized by its lyrical melodies, rich harmonies,

Konstanty Gorski

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Konstanty Antoni Gorski () (Lida, 13 June 1859 – 31 May 1924, Poznań) was a Polish composer, violinist, organist and music teacher. Life Gorski began attending school in Grodno and continued at the First Philological Gymnasium in Wilno. He obtained his musical education at the Musical Institute in Warsaw (then under the direction of Apolinary Kątski) and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1881 he graduated from the great Hungarian violinist and pedagogue Leopold Auer class and received large silver medal and “free artist” status. Next year he spent studying composition and instrumentation in class of famous Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In year 1890 after eight-years-trip over Russia and Georgia – through Penza, Saratov and Tiflis (Tbilisi nowadays) Konstanty Gorski arrived to Ukrainian city of Kharkov to stay there for 29 years. He spent those years teaching youth in Kharkov Musical Secondary School, performing public work (he was one of the “Polish House” culture organization founders), working as conductor of symphonic orchestra and Polish and Church Chorus that was created due to his efforts, and staying beloved by publicity violinist and highly valued by other

Kurt Schindler

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Kurt Schindler (17 February 1882 – 16 November 1935) was a German-born American composer and conductor. Biography He was born on 17 February 1882. He came to the United States in 1905 to serve as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, and founded the MacDowell Chorus. He was married to the singer, writer and editor Ursula Greville. He died on 16 November 1935. Legacy Much of his choral output consisted of folksong arrangements, though he composed original pieces as well. Folk Music and Poetry of Spain and Portugal/Música Y Poesía Popular De España Y Portugal by Kurt Schindler was published by the New York Hispanic Institute in the US in 1941. Inline references Sources * *Israel J. Katz: “In the Footsteps of Kurt Schindler: Ballad Collecting in Soria,” in A. Sánchez Romeralo, D. Catalán, and S.G. Armistead, eds., El romancero hoy: Nuevas fronteras (Madrid: Cátedra-Seminario Menéndez Pidal - Univ. of California Press, 1979), pp. 257–66 (with Samuel G.Armistead). *_____: “Melodic Survivals? Kurt Schindler and the Tune of Alfonso’s Cantiga ‘Rosa das rosas’ in Oral Tradition,” in Robert I. Burns, ed., Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth- Ce

Kyrylo Stetsenko

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Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko (; May 12, 1882 – April 29, 1922) was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became a Ukrainian Orthodox priest and head of the Music section at the Ministry of Education of the short-lived Ukrainian People’s Republic. Biography Early life and education Kyrylo Stetsenko was born in Kvitky, in the land of Cherkashchyna, in Ukraine. His father, Hryhoriy, was a painter of icons and was known around for painting churches in nearby villages. His mother, Mariia, was the daughter of a deacon in the same village. Kyrylo was eighth of eleven children. When Kyrylo Stetsenko was aged 10, his maternal uncle Danylo Horyanskyi took him to study at the Saint Sophia Church School, where the boy was enrolled for five years, from 1892 to 1897. The young boy lived with his uncle in Kyiv, only returning home to his parents during the summer. However, since his family was poor, the boy had to work during this “vacation”, and his mother would spend the money that he earned on new clothes for him. During his studies at the school, Stetsenko sang in the school choir and after three years, he already conducted the group. The boy also

Landon Ronald

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Sir Landon Ronald (born Landon Ronald Russell) (7 June 1873 – 14 August 1938) was an English conductor, composer, pianist, teacher and administrator. In his early career he gained work as an accompanist and répétiteur, but struggled to make his way as a conductor. In the absence of operatic or symphonic work he made his living as a conductor and composer in West End shows in the late 19th and early 20th century. With the foundation of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1904 his career began to flourish, and by 1908 he was well-enough established to be chosen to succeed Thomas Beecham as conductor of the New Symphony Orchestra in London. Ronald was an early enthusiast for recording, and was associated with the Gramophone Company (later part of EMI) from 1900 for the rest of his life. From 1910 until shortly before his death, Ronald was principal of the Guildhall School of Music in London. He modernised the curriculum and raised its standards to compete with the leading musical training establishments the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. Life and career Early years Ronald was born in Kensington, London, the illegitimate son of Henry Russell, singer, songwriter and

Laura Lemon

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Laura Gertrude Lemon (15 October 1866 – 18 August 1924) was a Canadian composer and songwriter who lived and worked in England. She also used the pseudonyms Austin Fleming and Ian Macdonald. Lemon was mostly known for composing pieces for violin and piano such as “Three Moravian Dances”, which was dedicated to the Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow. However she also noted for her songs. was at one time one of the best-known songs by a Canadian composer. Early life Lemon was born in Guelph, Ontario. Her father was Andrew Lemon, Queen’s Counsel, with a job as a partner in the law firm Lemon and Peterson. Her mother was Laura Armstrong, after whom she was named. In 1881, when she was five years old, the family moved from their Arthur Street home to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lemon grew up there with an appreciation and skill for music. In her early 20s Lemon moved to England, enrolling in the Royal Academy of Music in London. Musical career Lemon was a skilled pianist and many of her early works were written for piano. In the 1890s, her compositions began to be published as on sheet music. These titles included “Slumber Songs” and “Three Moravian Dances”. Her works were performed by local si

Laura Sedgwick Collins

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Laura Sedgwick Collins (c. 1859 – April 20, 1927) was an American musician, composer, lyricist, and actress. Born in Poughkeepsie, she was active as a music educator and composer in New York. While she composed a wide range of works, she was most productive in creating music for the stage and as a composer of art songs. She is remembered for being the first American woman to study music composition with Antonín Dvořák. and Emily L. Collins, Laura Collins was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, c. 1859. Her mother was a painter and her father was a civil servant. Her initial music studies were with her mother, followed by studies under W. H. B. Matthews, Henry Wolfgang Amadeus Beale, Oscar Coon, and Carl Bergstein. She belonged to the Music Teachers National Association, and was a prolific writer of songs for children for use in music education. an organization credited as providing opportunities for women composers at a time when opportunities were rarely available elsewhere. Laura Sedgwick Collins died on April 20, 1927, aged 68, at the Knickerbocker Hospital in Manhattan. Resurgence of her music In the early 1990s, there was a brief resurgence of interest in Collins’s music in the Ne

Lazare Saminsky

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Lazare Saminsky (born Lazar Semyonovich Saminsky; ; 8 November 1882 – 30 June 1959) was a Russian-American performer, conductor and composer, especially of Jewish music. Life Born to a merchant family in Valehotsulove (now ), near Odessa, Saminsky received a broad education in the arts, sciences and languages. He studied music at the Odessa Conservatoire from 1903–1905, and then went to Moscow, where he studied mathematics and philosophy as well as music. Expelled for his participation in the student protests of 1905, he went to St.Petersburg, where he studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov, and Nikolai Tcherepnin. While still a student he became a founder member, with Mikhail Gnesin, Lyubov Streicher, and others, of the ‘Society for Jewish Folk Music’. He wrote music for the Society and helped organise its earliest publication. He continued an active member, even though from 1911 to 1918 he lived in Tbilisi, where he also interested himself in Georgian and Armenian music, and from 1917 to 1918 he was head of the conservatory. During this period he also wrote an opera Tsar Yulian (Emperor Julian) (which he later destroyed), and researched Jewish music of the Caucasian

Lazare-Auguste Maquaire

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Lazare-Auguste Maquaire (25 October 1872 – 16 August 1906) was a French organist and composer. A student of Charles-Marie Widor, he is known for a few works for the organ, most notably his First Organ Symphony in E-flat major, Op.20, his only published work. Life Maquaire was born in Lyon on 25 October 1872 to a family of embroiderers. At Paris Conservatory he studied under Charles-Marie Widor, and subsequently became his assistant at Saint-Sulpice. In 1905, he composed his most well-known work, Première Symphonie pour Orgue, Op. 20, better known as the First Organ Symphony in English. He dedicated the work to his teacher. His other works include the Fugue in G minor, composed in 1901, which was neither published nor given an Opus number. Its manuscript is currently stored at the Bibliothèque nationale. Shortly after writing his First Organ Symphony, Maquaire died in 1906. References

Leandro Campanari

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Leandro Campanari (October 20, 1859 – April 22, 1939) was an Italian violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher, At 15, he entered the Conservatory of Music in Milan and studied the violin, harmony, counterpoint and conducting with the most eminent teachers of that institution. He graduated at 19 to go to England with an orchestra, where he had a very successful season. He then toured Italy and France as a virtuoso before establishing his role as a conductor. They married in 1880. Boston Symphony Orchestra In 1881, he moved to America as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and featured in many concerts throughout the United States. He returned to Europe, but then back to America, where he remained for three years as the head of the Violin School at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He also assumed the direction of the music at the Church of the Immaculate Conception and brought out many important sacred works for the first time in that city. Campanari String Quartet After his service in Boston, Campanari returned to Italy in 1886 and formed the Campanari String Quartet, which toured with great success for two years. During that time many notable compo

Lena Stein-Schneider

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Helene Meyerstein (5 January 1874 – 17 June 1958) was a German composer, singer, and pianist who toured throughout the United States during the 1920s and was interned in the Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia) concentration camp during World War II. She performed and published her music under the name Lena Stein-Schneider. Life Stein-Schneider was born in Leipzig to Pauline and Moritz Meyerstein. She studied piano and voice at the Leipzig Conservatory, then married Alfred Schneider, a merchant in Berlin. They had four children. Stein-Schneider composed several patriotic pieces during World War I and dedicated them to the socially-prominent people who attended her musical salons in Berlin. She wrote both the music and libretti for several operas, and presented concerts throughout the United States in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1928. Her opera Composer’s Dream was performed at RKO Keith’s Theater in New York. Inspired by the Rubenstein Choir she saw in New York, Stein-Schneider founded a Rubenstein Club in Berlin, Stein-Schneider was Jewish and therefore banned from performing in public after the Nazis came to power. In 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where sh

Leo Ascher

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Leo Ascher (17 August 1880 – 25 February 1942) was an Austrian composer of operettas, popular songs and film scores. Biography Ascher was born in Vienna. His father, Moritz Ascher, was a local umbrella manufacturer. Leo wrote his first composition, a waltz, at the age of 13 in 1893. He studied law at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1904. He also attended the Vienna Conservatory from 1898 and studied composition under Robert Fuchs and Franz Schmidt. He married Luise Frankl and they had one daughter, the writer Franzi Ascher-Nash, who was born in Vienna on 28 November 1910 and died in Millersville, Pennsylvania, on 1 September 1991. Ascher was briefly arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938; once released, he left Austria forever. Via France and England he emigrated to the US, where he lived from December 1939 until his death in New York City in 1942. His artistic estate is kept at the Leo Ascher Centre of Operetta Music at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, which also provides the Leo Ascher Music Award of up to $1000 to undergraduates. The (Ascher Lane) in Vienna Hitzing is named after him. Career Ascher began his career as a composer wit

Leo Blech

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Leo Blech (21 April 1871 – 25 August 1958) was a German opera composer and conductor who is perhaps most famous for his work at the Königliches Opernhaus (later the Berlin State Opera / Staatsoper Unter den Linden) from 1906 to 1937, and later as the conductor of Berlin’s Städtische Oper from 1949 to 1953. Blech was known for his reliable, clear, and elegant performances, especially of works by Wagner, Verdi, and Bizet’s Carmen (which he conducted over 600 times), and for his sensitivity as an accompanist. Early life and education Blech was born to a Jewish family in Aachen, Rhenish Prussia. After attending the Hochschule in Berlin where he studied piano with Ernst Rudorff and composition from Woldemar Bargiel, he studied privately with Engelbert Humperdinck. Career After working briefly in sales, he landed a position conducting at the Stadttheater Aachen in 1893. From 1899 to 1906, he conducted at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague before moving to the Königliches Opernhaus in Berlin. In 1913, he was promoted to General Music Director. Between 1923 and 1926, he took various positions at opera houses in Berlin and Vienna, including the Deutsches Opernhaus, the Volksoper Berlin a

Léo Daniderff

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Léo Daniderff (Gaston-Ferdinand Niquet; 16 February 1878 in Angers, France – 24 October 1943 in Rosny-sous-Bois, France) was a French composer of the pre-World War II era. His 1917 comical song, a foxtrot-shimmy named “Je cherche après Titine” (lyrics by Louis Maubon and Marcel Bertal), became world-famous due to Charlie Chaplin’s singing it in gibberish in Modern Times (1936), especially because it was the first time his character ever spoke in the movies and Chaplin did not want The Tramp to use any particular language. The title means “I am looking for Titine”, and Titine is the diminutive of some feminine first names such as Martine and Clémentine. In the United States this song appeared in 1925 in the Broadway musical Puzzles of 1925, and was recorded by tenor Billy Jones. In Poland, the song was initially sung as a cabaret number by Eugeniusz Bodo with original lyrics by Andrzej Włast (signing as “Willy” on the music sheet), to a major success. A few years later, in 1939, the song was adapted again, into the “Wąsik, ach ten wąsik” (“Oh, what a moustache!”) number and performed by Ludwik Sempoliński. This time the lyrics tried to “decide” who was funnier and who brought more t

Leo Fall

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Leopold Fall (2 February 187316 September 1925) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas. Life Born in Olmütz, Leo (or Leopold) Fall was taught by his father Moritz Fall (1848–1922), a bandmaster and composer, who settled in Berlin. The younger Fall studied at the Vienna Conservatory before rejoining his father in Berlin. His teachers in Vienna were Robert Fuchs and Johann Nepomuk Fuchs. In 1895, he began a new career as an operetta conductor in Hamburg and started to compose. From 1904 onwards, he devoted himself to composition. While less successful than his contemporary Franz Lehár, he was nevertheless capable of producing melodious and well-orchestrated work. After working in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne, he settled in Vienna in 1906, where he died. He is buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery. His brothers and Richard were also composers; both were murdered in the Nazi concentration camps. His best-known operettas in the English-speaking world are The Dollar Princess and Madame Pompadour, which had successful runs in London and New York and remained in the repertory in Germany and Austria throughout the 20th century. (1912; Princess Caprice in London) is reported

Leo Rich Lewis

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Leo Rich Lewis (February 11, 1865 – September 8, 1945) was an American composer. Biography Leo Rich Lewis was born in Woodstock, Vermont on February 11, 1865. He graduated from Tufts College in Massachusetts in 1887, and earned two degrees from Harvard University in 1888 and 1889. Among Lewis’s notable students was Alan Hovhaness. He was also instrumental in securing the acceptance of the African American composer Jester Hairston to Tufts in 1927. Lewis died at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts on September 8, 1945. References External links *

Leo Schulz

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Leo Schulz (March 28, 1865 – August 12, 1944 ) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American cellist. Biography Schulz was born in Poznań, the then Kingdom of Prussia, currently Poland. His grandfather, a bandmaster in the Prussian army, was originally named Soltys but was obliged to adopt the German name Schultz. As a child he toured Germany as a pianist along with his sister, a violinist. At 13 attended the Royal Academic High School of Music in Berlin, where he studied under Robert Hausmann, Richard Barth, Woldermar Bargiel, Friedrich Kiel, and Joseph Joachim. He was a principal cellist in Berlin as well as in the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig from 1886 to 1889. In 1889 Schulz moved to Boston to take the post of principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was professor of the New England Conservatory. He became a United States citizen in 1893. He was succeeded by Alfred Wallenstein. While in New York, he was also president of the New York Tonkünstler, played in the Mannes String Quartet and the Margulies Trio. He taught at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York and at Yale University. In 1906 he started his own Leo Schulz Quartet. In the 1920s, with Mikh

Leo Smith (composer)

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Joseph Leopold Smith (26 November 1881 – 18 April 1952) was an English composer, writer, music critic, music educator, and cellist who was primarily active in Canada. His compositional output consists of works for cello, piano, choir and orchestra (most notably An Ancient Song and A Summer Idyll) and a considerable amount of chamber music (most notably String Quartet in D, Sonata in E Minor and A Horse Race Ballad). Early life in the UK Smith was born in Birmingham. A child prodigy, he began studying cello at a very young age with W.H. Priestley in Birmingham and then later with Carl Fuchs in Manchester. His first professional cello recital was given at the Birmingham Town Hall in 1890 when he was just 8 years old as part of the Harrison Concert series. Since then he performed actively in concerts as both a soloist and a chamber musician. Eventually he pursued further training at the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester (UM) where he was a pupil of Henry Hiles. While at the UM, he became a member of the Hallé Orchestra and eventually played in the orchestra at the Royal Opera House for five years. He notably performed under the batons of Béla Bartók, Cla

Leo Zeitlin

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Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin (, “Leyb Tseytlin”, born 1884, in Pinsk – July 8, 1930, in New York City), known as Leo Zeitlin, was a Russian-Jewish composer. In 1923, he emigrated to the United States. His best-known work is Eli Zion, a paraphrase for piano and cello “on a folk theme and trope of ‘Song of Songs’”. Life Zeitlin was a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario who was active in Saint Petersburg’s Society for Jewish Folk Music. In 1923, shortly after he arrived in New York City with his wife Esther from the Free City of Danzig, he became the violist and arranger for the Capitol Theatre. In 1925, he began arranging orchestral and small ensemble pieces for the Capitol’s radio program on WEAF, which in 1926 became the flagship station of the NBC Red Network. Beginning in 1926, the series of light classical concerts titled Capitol Theatre was broadcast by the NBC Red Network on Sunday evenings from 7:20pm to 9:15pm. This series continued until 1929, not long before Zeitlin’s death. In an article written by Paula Eisenstein Baker and published in Pro Musica Hebraica, Zeitlin is described as “one of the most important Russian Jewish composers to resurface, after decades of ne

Leokadiya Kashperova

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Leokadiya Aleksandrovna Kashperova (; 16 May 1872 – 3 December 1940) was a Russian pianist and Romantic composer. She was the piano teacher of composer Igor Stravinsky. She graduated first in 1893 from the St Petersburg Conservatoire at the culmination of her studies in Anton Rubinstein’s piano class, Professional musical life Over the following years, she composed works which included a symphony, a piano concerto, choral works, chamber music, piano solos and art-songs. In 1907 she undertook concert tours, to Berlin and twice to London. Selected compositions * 2 Sonatas for piano & cello Op 1 (in G, op 1 no 1, and in E minor, op 1 no 2) * Evening & night chorus a cappella * Sredi prirody * Songs of Love: 12 Romances soprano and piano Legacy In January 1910 Kashperova recorded seven piano rolls for the reproducing piano Welte-Mignon, six pieces by Mily Balakirev and one with own piano pieces. In 2002, while doing his Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford, Graham Griffiths found Kaspherova’s name while researching Stravinsky. Soon, she became his main focus of research. Kashperova’s symphony was subsequently published by Boosey & Hawkes. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of her birth day

Léon Boëllmann

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Léon Boëllmann (; 25 September 1862 – 11 October 1897) was a French composer, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is Suite gothique (1895), which is a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its concluding Toccata. Life Boëllmann was born in Ensisheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, the son of a pharmacist. In 1871, at the age of nine, he entered the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse (L’École Niedermeyer) in Paris, where he studied with its director, Gustave Lefèvre, and with Eugène Gigout. There, Boëllmann won first prizes in piano, organ, counterpoint, fugue, plainsong, and composition. After his graduation in 1881, Boëllmann was appointed “organiste de choeur” at the Church of St. Vincent de Paul in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, and six years later he became cantor and organiste titulaire, a position he held until his early death, probably from tuberculosis. In 1885, Boëllmann married Louise, the daughter of Gustave Lefèvre and the niece of Eugène Gigout, into whose house the couple moved (having no children of his own, Gigout adopted Boëllmann). Boëllmann then taught in Gigout’s school of organ playing and improvisation. As a student

Léon de Saint-Réquier

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Léon de Saint-Réquier, born Léon-Edgard de Saint-Réquier (8 August 1872 – 1 October 1964) viscount of Saint-Réquier, was a French organist, composer, choir conductor, maître de chapelle and music educator. Biography Born in Rouen, Léon de Saint-Réquier was a disciple of Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d’Indy, his music teachers at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. He became in turn a teacher at the Schola Cantorum and had Louis Durey as student, with whom he worked solfège, harmony, counterpoint and fugue. Among his other pupils were Celestino Piaggio, Marc de Ranse and Marcel Mihalovici. Léon de Saint-Réquier was also maître de chapelle of the in Paris. He was an organist and choir conductor of the Société des Chanteurs de Saint-Gervais founded by Charles Bordes. Léon de Saint-Réquier held these two positions at Saint-Gervais from 1925 to 1939, when he was replaced by Paul Le Flem. Léon de Saint-Réquier composed many works for organ and harmonium, as well as other sacred music pieces, for choir, including masses and a Requiem. The cartoonist , also an accordionist, said about him: “It sounds like a joke but this aristocrat whose name is also that of a village in Normandy was also a com

Léon Delafosse

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Léon Delafosse (1874 1951) was a French composer and pianist. His musical works included études, arabesques, waltzes and nocturnes. It has been claimed that he was the model for the character of Charles Morel, a violinist portrayed in Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. Delafosse was also painted as the subject of a portrait by John Singer Sargent. The portrait currently resides in the Seattle Art Museum. Sargent had also dedicated “The Grand Canal Venice” to Delafosse, writing in the inscription “à Léon Delafosse en toute admiration et amitié”. Delafosse became a student of Antoine François Marmontel (1850-1907) at the Conservatoire de Paris. He gave his first recital at the age of seven, and won first prize at the Conservatoire at age 13. He subsequently became the protégé of the poet Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921), the countess Metternich and the princess Rachel de Brancovan. He gave recitals, but also wrote compositions for piano, including Soirée d’amour (1895), Quintette des fleurs (1896), Mandolines à la Passante and Cinq Fantaisies, and a Concerto (1898) and a Konzertstück for piano and orchestra. In 1894 he came into contact with Marcel Proust; they became fri

Léon Garnier

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Léon Garnier (1856 in Lyon – 1905 in Meung-sur-Loire (Loiret)) was a French 19th-century composer and lyricist. Garnier wrote numerous songs with , and particularly two songs, created by Paulus, which were met with enormous success in their time, and Le Père la Victoire. Works (selection) * Le Lendemain matin, chansonnette, lyrics and music by Delormel and Garnier, 1884 * À trente-cinq ans, chansonnette, lyrics and music by Delormel and Garnier, 1885 * De c’côté-ci, de c’côté-là !, chansonnette, lyrics and music by Delormel and Garnier, 1885 * En v’nant de Montmorency, chanson, lyrics and music by Delormel and Garnier, 1885 * La Montre en argent, chansonnette, lyrics and music by Delormel and Garnier, 1885 * Exploits d’huissier, monologue by Garnier and Charles-Albert d’Appy, 1885 * Le Signe de la croix and Ah ! qu’j’ai mal au pied, 2 monologues comiques by Garnier and d’Appy, 1885 * Briscard et Pitou, duo-bouffe, lyrics by Garnier and d’Appy, music by Léopold Gangloff, 1886 * , lyrics by Delormel and Garnier, music by Louis-César Desormes, 1886 * Je vends du Kina-Tarascon, monologue, lyrics by Delormel and Garnier, répertoire Paulus, 1887 * Le Père la Victoire, lyrics by Delormel

Léon Jehin

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Léon Jehin (17 July 1853 – 14 February 1928) was a conductor and composer, especially associated with the opera house in Monte Carlo. Jehin composed the national anthem of Monaco. Life and career Jehin was born in Spa, Belgium. He studied at the conservatoire in Liege and then in Brussels. He was a violinist at La Monnaie in the Belgian capital and conducted at Anvers, Aix-les-Bains, and the Royal Opera House. In addition to conducting the main repertoire at the Monte Carlo opera, he conducted the premieres of the following operas: * Hulda (Franck) 8 March 1894 * La jacquerie (Édouard Lalo and Arthur Coquard) 9 May 1895 * Ghiselle (Franck) 30 March 1896 * Messaline (Isidore de Lara) 21 March 1899 * Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (Massenet) 18 February 1902 * Chérubin (Massenet) 14 February 1905 * L’ancêtre (Saint-Saëns) 24 February 1906 * Don Procopio (Bizet) 10 March 1906 * Thérèse (Massenet) 7 February 1907 * Don Quichotte (Massenet) 19 February 1910 * Déjanire (Saint-Saëns) 14 March 1911 * Roma (Massenet) 17 February 1912 * Pénélope (Fauré) 4 March 1913 * Cléopâtre (Massenet) 23 February 1914 * Béatrice (Messager) 21 March 1914 * Amadis (Massenet) 1 April 1922 In 1889 he married the

Leon Jessel

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Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel (22 January 1871 – 4 January 1942), was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march The Parade of the Tin Soldiers, also known as The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. Jessel was a prolific composer who wrote hundreds of light orchestral pieces, piano pieces, songs, waltzes, mazurkas, marches, choruses, and other salon music. He achieved considerable acclaim with a number of his operettas — in particular Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl), which remains popular to this day. Because Jessel was a Jew by birth (he converted to Christianity at the age of 23), with the rise of Nazism in the late 1920s, his composing virtually came to an end, and his musical works, which had been very popular, were suppressed and nearly forgotten. Early life and family Leon Jessel was born in the eastern German city of Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), in 1871, the son of Jewish merchant Samuel Jessel and his American wife Mary. Leon converted to Christianity in 1894 — the same year he premiered his first operetta Die Brautwerbung (The Courtship) — in order to marry Clara Louis

Leonard N. Fowles

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Leonard Nowell Fowles (6 October 1870 – 18 January 1939) was an English organist and choirmaster, classical music composer, arranger, teacher, adjudicator and conductor, best remembered for his hymn tunes “Golders Green” and “Phoenix”. Early years and education Fowles was born on 6 October 1870, at Portsea Island near Southsea, Hampshire, to Helen Nowell and Albert Godwin Fowles. His father, a native of the Isle of Wight, was a highly regarded professor of music and a free church organist; his mother was born on Jersey, the Channel Islands. His was a musical family. Fowles’ paternal aunt, Miss Margaret Fowles, was organist and choir director at the important post of St. Michael’s Church, Hyde, the Isle of Wight, and thereafter served as the conductor of the Letchworth Orchestral Society, Letchworth Garden City. His younger brother Bernard Fowles was also a noted musician. Fowles was raised in comfortable circumstances. Having mastered the keyboard and the violin, at the age of fourteen Fowles went to study at the Brussels Conservatory. In 1887, he was awarded the Whitcomb Scholarship for solo violin at the Royal College of Music. He studied at Oxford in the years 1896-1899. In Nove

Leonardo De Lorenzo

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Leonardo De Lorenzo (29 August 1875 – 29 July 1962) was an Italian virtuoso flautist and music educator. He served as the principal flautist at the New York Philharmonic under Gustav Mahler. Included among his pupils at the Eastman School of Music was the flautist Julius Baker. Biography Born at Viggiano, in the province of Potenza, De Lorenzo started playing the flute at the age of 8 and went to Naples to attend the Music conservatory “San Pietro a Majella”. At 16, he moved to the United States, working at a hotel in Cerulean, Kentucky, but in 1896 he returned to Italy for military service in Alessandria, becoming a member of a military band directed by Giovanni Moranzoni. Subsequently, he began his own career and toured in Italy, Germany, England and South Africa. He joined an orchestra in Cape Town at 25. In 1907, he returned to Naples to complete his studies, then he went to America again, becoming the first flautist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Gustav Mahler, and played with the New York Symphony Orchestra, in substitution of Georges Barrère. He was also a flautist of the orchestras of Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Rochester. In 1914, during his collabora

Leone Sinigaglia

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Leone Sinigaglia (14 August 1868 – 16 May 1944) was an Italian composer and mountaineer. Biography Born in Turin in 1868 to upper-middle-class Jewish parents, Sinigaglia studied music at its conservatory of music with Giovanni Bolzoni. Sinigaglia knew the leading figures of thought, arts and science in the city, such as Galileo Ferraris, Cesare Lombroso, and Leonardo Bistolfi. A lover of literature and mountaineering from an early age, the young Sinigaglia spent many holidays in or near Cavoretto, just outside the city, which would provide him with much inspiration. Among the works composed in these years are the Romanza opus 3 for horn and string quartet. This has been recorded in an arrangement for horn and string orchestra. In 1888 Sinigaglia began to travel: after spells in several European cities, he lived from 1894 in Vienna, where he associated with Johannes Brahms from whom he developed a taste for so-called absolute music, studying with Eusebius Mandyczewski. In these years, he wrote several Lieder and the Concerto for violin and orchestra, opus 20. From 1900 he worked in Prague with Antonín Dvořák (whom he possibly met through his friendship with the Bohemian Quartet in V

Leonid Sabaneyev

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Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev (also spelled Sabaneyeff or Sabaneev; ; 1 October 18813 May 1968) was a Russian musicologist, music critic, composer and scientist. He was the son of Leonid Pavlovich Sabaneyev, a famous hunting expert, and his brother Boris was also a musician. Biography Leonid Sabaneyev was born in Moscow in 1881 and his musical studies were under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Zverev and Paul de Schlözer at the Moscow Conservatory. piano pieces (including a Piano Sonata, Op. 15), and hoped to create a “Laboratory of the Exact Science of Music”. Sabaneyev left Russia in 1926, after publishing Scriabin (1916, 2/1923), History of Russian Music (1924), The General History of Music (1925), and Music After October (on post-revolution music in Russia). History of Russian Music was translated into German (1926) and received very positive reviews from critics such as Maurice Cauchie. In his later years he lived in Paris, London, the United States, and Nice, where he is buried. His musicological works from this period include Modern Russian Composers (1927), a monograph on Taneyev (1930), and Music for the Films (1935). His students in Paris included the Swed

Leopold Reichwein

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Leopold Reichwein (16 May 1878 – 8 April 1945) was a German conductor and composer. Life Born in Breslau, Reichwein was court Kapellmeister of the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe from 1909 to 1913. In 1913 he succeeded Bruno Walter as conductor of the Vienna Court Opera. With Wilhelm Furtwängler he was concert director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna from 1921 to 1927. From 1926 to 1938 he conducted the Bochumer Symphoniker. Under his direction, the modern compositions of Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Erwin Schulhoff and Anton Webern, which had been cultivated by this orchestra until then, took a back seat to the repertoire in favour of classical-romantic music. When in 1932 he published the article Die Juden in der deutschen Musik in the party newspaper of the NSDAP Völkischer Beobachter, which was based on Richard Wagner’s antisemitic pamphlet Das Judenthum in der Musik, he drew the wrath of the Bochum citizens, who were still willing to resist. Reichwein was a convinced Nazi and belonged to the NSDAP as early as 1932 (number 1.009.765) and the völkisch minded, antisemitic Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur. He published among other things heated tirades in the Völkisc

Leopold van der Pals

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Leopold van der Pals (St. Petersburg 4 July 1884 – Dornach 7 February 1966) was a Danish/Dutch modernist composer who developed a personal and lyrical style in composing by involving elements of late romanticism, expressionism and impressionism. From an early age, Van der Pals expressed himself as a composer, writing at least 50 works before the age of 18. He studied with Professor (Van der Pals’ grand father), Alexander Denéréas (Lausanne) and Reinhold Gliere (Berlin). Van der Pals also studied piano under Alexander Siloti and cello under Tom Canivez. Leopold van der Pals debut as a composer took place in 1909 with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Symphony nr. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 4) and an extensive tour of performances throughout Europe and America followed until WWII. The main part of his 252 works consists of music for singers (8 operas, 9 cantatas and 650 lieder), but it also includes orchestral works and chamber music. He was in close contact with authors, musicians, artists and poets his whole life. Among them were Rudolf Steiner, Andrei Belyj, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Lienhard, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Serge Koussevitzky and Alexander Scriabin. Biography St. Petersburg 1

Leopoldo Mugnone

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Leopoldo Mugnone (29 September 1858 in Naples – 22 December 1941 in Capodichino, Naples) was an Italian conductor, especially of opera, whose most famous work was done in the period 1890–1920, both in Europe and South America. He conducted various operatic premieres, and was also a composer of operas. Training The son of Antonio Mugnone, principal double-bass in the orchestra of the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, Mugnone studied from an early age at the Royal Conservatorio of San Pietro a Maiella under Paolo Serrao and Beniamino Cesi. He composed his first theatre work, a little opera buffa Il Dottor Bartolo Salsapariglia, at the age of 12, in which he wished to take part in the basso comico role, though he had then only an alto voice. At 16 he began conducting. A year later he was recruited as a chorus director for an operetta troupe at the Teatro Nuovo, run by F. Sadowsky. From there he went on to the Garibaldi Theatre, first as chorus master and later as concertatore. Two other early operettas by him, Don Bizzarro e le sue figlie (1 act), and Mamma Angot al serraglio di Costantinopoli (3 acts) were produced during the later 1870s at Naples. Mugnone was himself the teacher of the c

Leoš Janáček

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Leoš Janáček, son of schoolmaster Jiří Janacek and Amálie Janáčková (née Grulichová), was born in Hukvaldy, Moravia (then part of the Austrian Empire) on 3 July 1854. He was born with six surviving siblings, and baptised as Leo Eugen. He was a gifted child in a family of limited means, and showed an early musical talent in choral singing. His father wanted him to follow the family tradition and become a teacher, but he deferred to Janáček’s obvious musical abilities. In 1865, young Janáček enrolled as a ward of the foundation of the St Thomas’s Abbey, Brno, where he took part in choral singing under Pavel Křížkovský and occasionally played the organ. One of his classmates, František Neumann, later described Janáček as an “excellent pianist, who played Beethoven symphonies perfectly in a piano duet with a classmate, under Křížkovský’s supervision”. Křížkovský found him a problematic and wayward student but recommended his entry to the Prague Organ School. Janáček later remembered Křížkovský as a great conductor and teacher.

Lev Pulver

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Lev Mikhailovich Pulver (Yiddish pronunciation: Leib Pulver, , European spelling: Leo Pulver, ; 18 December 1883, Verkhnodniprovsk – 18 March 1970, Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian-Jewish composer and musician. Early life He was an offspring of a renowned klezmorim’s family. Pulver studied violin since early childhood, at first with his father; later on, he studied with his brother-in-law, a disciple of Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík. Pulver graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied violin and composition under Anatoly Lyadov. Initially, he was a violinist and composer in a wandering Ukrainian theatre group. Later on, he was a symphonic concert-master and conductor, a founding member of the Stradivari Quartet. He was the musical director of the State Jewish Theatre in Moscow (the GOSET). Compositions Pulver composed incidental music for works including Shakespeare’s King Lear; Sholem Aleichem’s 200.000 and The Man of the Air; Adventures of Benjamin the Third after Mendele Mocher Sforim; Abraham Goldfaden’s The Sorceress (in collaboration with Joseph Achron); and Zalman Shneyer’s Freylekhs (in collaboration with Maximilian Steinberg). He also composed operettas

Licinio Refice

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Licinio Refice (Patrica, February 12, 1883 – Rio de Janeiro, September 11, 1954) was an Italian composer and priest. With Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi he represented the new direction taken by Italian church music in the twentieth century, and he left the popular song Ombra di nube (1935) as well as two completed operas. His first opera Cecilia, about the legend of Saint Cecilia, created a sensation with its premiere in 1934 in Rome at the Teatro Reale dell’Opera, with Marcello Govoni as Opera Director; Claudia Muzio took the title role. His second opera, Margherita da Cortona, appeared in 1938. A third opera, Il Mago (1954), was left incomplete (within the first act). Refice died in 1954 during morning rehearsals of Cecilia in Rio de Janeiro; Renata Tebaldi was singing the title role. Selected filmography * Cardinal Messias (1939) Recordings of Cecilia At least five recordings exist of Cecilia (role key: conductor/Cecilia/Cieca/Valeriano/Amachio/Tiburzio/Urbano). * Refice/Tebaldi/Ulisse/Misciano/Meletti/Panerai/Neri - 1953, live in Naples – House of Opera (casting inaccurate on their site) * de Fabritiis/Pedrini/Marini/Misciano/Meletti/Dadò/Clabassi - 1954, live in Milan – Melodram (t

Lico Jiménez

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José Manuel Jiménez Berroa (7 December 1851 – 15 January 1917), known as Lico Jiménez, was a Cuban pianist and composer. Early years José Manuel “Lico” Jiménez Berroa was born in Trinidad, Cuba, Las Villas province into a musical family. He was the son of Maria Andrea Berroa and violinist Jose Julian Jiménez and was baptized in 1852 at the Parochial Church of the Santísima Trinidad. His grandfather was Francisco Nicasio Jiménez, orchestra and band leader. Jiménez studied music as a child with his father and grandparents and his aunt, Cuban musician and composer Catalina Berroa, and at the age of 15 was hired as an accompanist for a concert at Palacio Brunet by visiting German violinist Karl Werner. At the recommendation of Werner, Lico’s father, Jose Julian Jiménez, who was the first Black musician in the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, concertized to raise the funds to send his two sons, Lico and Nicasio Jiménez to Europe in 1867, where Lico studied piano with the Carl Armbrust in Hamburg, Carl Reinecke and Ignaz Moscheles at the Leipzig Conservatory and in Paris with Antoine Marmontel. Jiménez fathered a son, Angel Zambrana, in Trinidad, Cuba, whose many descendants currently th

Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl

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Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl (October 7, 1882 - April 22, 1942) was an Austrian composer and member of the Nazi party, known by the pseudonym Lio Hans. Her opera Maria von Magdala was performed at the Vienna Volksoper on December 22, 1919, and was the only musical stage work by a female composer to be performed in Austria in the 20th century until Olga Neuwirth’s Bählamms Fest in 1999. Life and career Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl grew up in an upper-middle-class environment. In 1909 she married the general staff Doctor Hans Scheidl. In 1912 their daughter Amelia Christiane was born and in 1917 their second daughter Eleonore. Her house in the Viennese Cottage district () became a meeting place for the Viennese theater and music scene. From 1905 her works, most of which were composed in the late Romantic style, were performed under the pseudonym Lio Hans in the Bösendorfer-Saal and in the , amongst others. The contemporary critic Max Springer found it understandable that the composer had chosen a male pseudonym in view of prejudice against women at the time. The socio musicologist Ursula Simek suggests that Hutterstrasser-Scheidl was able to create a surprise effect when appearing at t

Lillian Tait Sheldon

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Lillian Alison Tait Sheldon (10 September 1865 – 10 January 1925) was an American composer and organist who composed many hymns. Sheldon was born in Gouverneur, New York to Lucretia Maria and George Peter Tait. She married James Otis Sheldon and they had two children. Little is known about Sheldon’s education. She was the organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Gouverneur from 1885 until her death in 1925. Although most of her compositions were hymns, her “Rock-a-By Baby Lullaby” was published in the January 1897 edition of Ladies’ Home Journal. Sheldon’s music was also published by B.F. Woods Music Co., J. Fischer & Brother, and Oliver Ditson Co. Her compositions, all for voice and piano, included: *“Around the Great White Throne” *“He Knows” *“Hear, Forgive and Save” (text by Eliza Morris) *“Hosanna We Sing” (text by Rev George S. Hodges) *“Jesus, Shepherd of the Sheep” (text by Henry Book) *“Lord, Within Thy Temple Fair” *“More Love to Thee, O Christ” *“Through Peace to Light” References

Lily Reiff

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Lily Sertorius Bamberger Reiff (21 June 1866 - 8 May 1958) was a German composer and pianist who spent much of her life in Switzerland. A patron of the arts as well as a musician, she helped found Switzerland’s first chamber orchestra. Her music was composed under the name Lily Bamberger Sertorius through opus 11 and later under the name Lily Reiff. Biography Reiff was born in Bamberg, Germany. She studied at the Music Academy in Munich for two years before moving to Weimar in 1883 to study with Franz Liszt for a year. She also studied with Ludwig Thuille in Munich and with Max Conrad and Friedrich Hegar in Zurich. As a student, Reiff presented concerts for charity with the violinist Adolf Busch, who was a friend of her family. Reiff toured as a concert pianist from 1885 to 1888, when she married professor Eugen Bamberger. In 1891, she married the manufacturer and cellist Hermann Reiff. The Reiffs hosted weekly tea recitals at their home, where young musicians performed and networked. They also managed a concert series at the Lilienberg retirement home in Affoltern am Albis, sometimes performing themselves. A 1951 Zürcher Woche magazine profile of Reiff focused on her patronage of

Lily Strickland

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Lily Strickland (January 28, 1884 – June 6, 1958) was an American composer, painter and writer. Biography Lily Strickland was born on January 28, 1884, in Anderson, South Carolina. Her father was Charlton Hines Strickland and her mother was Teresa Hammond Reed. She had two brothers and was the only daughter. When her father died, the family moved into the home of her grandparents, Judge and Mr. J. Pinckney Reed. Strickland began studying piano at age six and was encouraged by her parents to continue composing throughout her life. She studied piano and composition at Converse College and in 1905 received a scholarship to study at the Institute of Musical Arts (later Juilliard) in New York City. In 1912, she married Joseph Courtenay Anderson, an English teacher at Columbia University. She followed Joseph around and compose, write, and paint wherever he went. They never had children due to both of their dreams of traveling and exploring the world. When Anderson became manager for an American company in 1920, the couple moved to Calcutta, and spent the next ten years in India. Strickland traveled in Africa and Asia, painted and published articles in American magazines. She received an

Lipa Feingold

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Lipa Feingold (, 1878–1945) was a Russian-born American songwriter, pianist, composer, and jeweler. The peak of his popularity as a composer was in the 1920s and 1930s; his pieces were performed by many well-known New York Jewish music figures such as Abe Ellstein, Yossele Rosenblatt and Alexander Olshanetsky, and later by Theodore Bikel and Leibele Waldman. His father was a jeweler. As a youth, Lipa was interested in music and took lessons from the cantor and composer Nissan Spivak who was at that time living in Berdychiv. They had a second child, Charles, in New York in 1906. When Bessa contracted tuberculosis in 1907, a doctor recommended that they leave the city and they ended up settling in Denver, Colorado. Feingold also acted on stage in Denver Yiddish theatre productions, and had a solo singing and comedy act where he was occasionally accompanied by his wife who could play violin. Starting in around 1919 he also led a Zionist girls’ choir called Hatikvah. He became interested in children’s education and became a Sunday school music teacher at B’nai Israel. In 1923, after being invited as a guest soloist (Baritone) at Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph during the High Holida

Liza Lehmann

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Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann (11 July 1862 – 19 September 1918) was an English soprano and composer, known for her vocal compositions. Her father was the German painter Rudolf Lehmann, and her mother was Amelia (A.L.) Chambers, a music teacher, composer and arranger. Lehmann “grew up in an intellectual and artistic atmosphere” The same year, she wrote a voice study text, Practical Hints for Students of Singing. Leslie was the father of the conductor Steuart Bedford and the composer David Bedford. Lehmann completed her memoirs in 1918 and died, shortly after completing them, Music After her performing career ended in 1894, Lehmann concentrated on composing music for the rest of her life. and Bird Songs (1907), with words attributed to “A.S.”, thought to have been Alice Sayers, the family nurse. She became known for her art songs, parlour songs and other works in the following years. Many of her songs are for children, ranging from the sweet and trivial “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden” to the melodically and harmonically passionate “Stars” in The Daisy-Chain. Her tenor song “Ah, moon of my delight” from In a Persian Garden has been recorded through the years

Lluís Millet

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Lluís Millet i Pagès (18 April 1867 in El Masnou – 7 December 1941 in Barcelona) was a Spanish Catalan composer, musician and co-founder of Orfeó Català in 1891. A student of Felip Pedrell, from 1896 he taught choral music at Barcelona’s Escuela Municipal de Musica where he later succeeded Nicolau as director. He died in 1941 and is interred in the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona. Education and training Lluís Millet’s family moved to Barcelona to escape the threats posed by the Third Carlist War. The family wanted Lluís to become a merchant, but he followed the musical career by enrolling at the Conservatory of the Liceu of Barcelona. There he trained under Miquel Font and Josep Rodoreda, and Carles G. Vidiella. Early career Lluís Millet was early attracted to choir songs, and aged just 17 he became conductor of the Chorus the “La Lira de Sant Cugat del Vallès.” He also had a job at the Cafè Inglés in Barcelona, first as pianist and later as a member of a trio with Josep Badia, the violinist, and Lluís Pamies, who played the harmonium. Selected works * Egloga for orchestra * Catalanesques for orchestra * Cant de la Senyera References

Lodewijk Mortelmans

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miniatuur Lodewijk Mortelmans (5 February 1868, Antwerp – 24 June 1952, Antwerp) was a Belgian composer and conductor of Flemish ancestry. Sometimes called de Vlaamse Brahms (“the Flemish Brahms”), Mortelmans composed in a number of forms, including piano music and orchestral works, but he was most celebrated in his day for his art songs. Beginning in 1899, he often set the poetry of the priest Guido Gezelle. His opera De Kinderen der Zee (The Children of the Sea) was first produced in 1920 at the Vlaamse Opera. Biography Family Mortelmans was from a family of six surviving children born to Isabella and Karel Mortelmans. His father was a printer, and his elder brother Frans a painter. He was married twice. With Gabriella Mortelmans (d. 3 May 1917) he had seven children, two of which (Frits, d. 22 July 1917 and Guido, d. 10 January 1917) died with her in 1917. Mortelmans composed In Memoriam in her honour. His second wife was the pianist and teacher Gabrielle Radoux. Career Mortelmans studied music at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, where his teachers included Peter Benoit, Joseph Tilborghs, and Jan Blockx, as well as Arthur De Greef (piano) and Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath

Lord Berners

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Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 188319 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord Berners. Biography Early life and education Berners was born in Apley Hall, Stockton, Shropshire, in 1883, as Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt, son of The Honorable Hugh Tyrwhitt (1856–1907) and his wife Julia Mary (1861–1931), daughter of William Orme Foster, Apley’s owner. His father, a Royal Navy officer, and aide- dewas rarely home. house near Wrexham. Berners was educated by the local curate. in spite of her own artistic inclinations . Berners later wrote, “My father was worldly, cynical, intolerant of any kind of inferiority, reserved and self-possessed. My mother was unworldly, naïve, impulsive and undecided, and in my father’s presence she was always at her worst”. Berners father became ill in 1906 , and died in 1907 Berners never got along with his step-father. Berners was first educated at home by governesses and then enrolled at the boarding school Cheam School His inheritance included Faringdon House, in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, which he initially gave to his mother and her second husband;

Lorenzo Perosi

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Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 – 12 October 1956) was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his twenties, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios. Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland wrote, “It’s not easy to give you an exact idea of how popular Lorenzo Perosi is in his native country.” Perosi’s fame was not restricted to Europe. A 19 March 1899 New York Times article entitled “The Genius of Don Perosi” began, “The great and ever-increasing success which has greeted the four new oratorios of Don Lorenzo Perosi has placed this young priest-composer on a pedestal of fame which can only be compared with that which has been accorded of late years to the idolized Pietro Mascagni by his fellow-countrymen.” Gianandrea Gavazzeni made the same comparison: “The sudden clamors of applause, at the end of the 19th century, were just like those a decade earlier for Mascagni.” Perosi worked for five Popes, including Pope Pius X who greatly fostered his rise. Biography Early years and education Lorenzo Perosi was born a

Louis Andlauer

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Louis Andlauer (7 September 1876 – 18 July 1915) ) Louis Andlauer won a First prize of organ in the classes of Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in 1901. Louis Andlauer wrote organ and harmonium pieces, three masses, a cantata, religious motets and several songs. Organist and director of music at the Parisian church of Saint-Éloi, he was also a substitute for Louis Vierne from 1912 to 1914 at the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris. During the Great War he became a sergeant in the , and was killed at the front line on 18 July 1915 at Marœuil (Pas-de-Calais). Bibliography * Biographical notes in Joseph Joubert, Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue, Paris, Senart, 1912, vol. 1, (p. 1) References External links * * Deux Pieces Breves No.1 - Louis Andlauer on YouTube

Louis Aubert

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Louis François Marie Aubert (19 February 1877 – 9 January 1968) was a French composer. Biography Born in Paramé, Ille-et-Vilaine, Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son’s musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age. He became recognised for his voice, primarily for his renditions of the Pie Jesu from Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem at the Église de la Madeleine. The young Aubert met Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire, and he regularly attended at his composition classes, which greatly influenced his development. Aubert became an excellent pianist. In 1911, he premiered Maurice Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, which were written for and dedicated to him. He also worked as a piano and composition teacher, both privately and on the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris. He counted among his students Henry Barraud, Jean-Marie Beaudet, Jean Berger, Marinus Flipse, and Georges Savaria. He composed music for the church, several ballets, mélodies, and incidental music for the stage. Although Breton by birth at a time of intense Breton nationalism, he was little inspired by his home region, although he was a founding member in 1912 of the A

Louis Cahuzac

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Louis (Jean Baptiste) Cahuzac (12 July 1880 – 9 August 1960) was a French clarinetist and composer. Cahuzac was an outstanding performer and one of the few clarinetists who made a career as a soloist in the first part of the 20th century. Life and career Louis Cahuzac was born in Quarante, in Languedoc, in the south of France. His teachers were Felix Pagès in Toulouse conservatoire and Cyrille Rose in the Paris Conservatory. Cahuzac made the first recording of Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto, a piece originally written for the Danish clarinetist Aage Oxenvad. On 22 November 1956, at the age of 76, he recorded the Clarinet Concerto in A major by Paul Hindemith for the EMI music label under the composer’s baton. He was a great teacher also and many students became famous like Eduard Brunner (Munich’s Bavarian Radio Symphony), Yona Ettlinger, Hans Rudolph Stalder, Gervase de Peyer, André Boutard (Paris Opera) or Gilbert Voisin (Geneva international prize winner in 1950) and Palle Nehammer (Royal Danish Orchestra). Cahuzac died at Bagnères-de-Luchon. Compositions His compositions were mainly for the clarinet and all are inspired by his native region in Southern France: *In the Fantais

Louis Émile Gratia

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Louis Émile Georges Gratia (17 September 1878 – 31 October 1962) was a French musician, composer, musicologist, musical editor and arranger. Life Gratia was born in Lunéville, (Meurthe-et-Moselle). His father was the painter Charles Louis Gratia (1815–1911) who, after his return to France in 1867, settled for a time in Lunéville and remarried. Gratia specialized in music education, making editions of piano music and arrangements for effective piano pedagogy and acquisition of music theory. His work won the attention and support of important French musicians and teachers like organist Charles-Marie Widor and pianist Isidor Philipp. He died in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), in the suburbs of Paris. Works Writings * Étude du piano: Comment réaliser un maximum de progrès à l’aide d’un minimum de travail (Piano study: how to make the most progress with the least work). Preface by Charles-Marie Widor (Paris: Delagrave 1914). * Instruments de musique du XXe siècle: Les conséquences pédagogiques, professionnelles, sociales, artistiques (Musical instruments of the 20th century; pedagogical, professional, social, and artistic consequences) (Paris: Heugel, 1931). * Répertoire pratique du pianiste:

Louis Ganne

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Louis-Gaston Ganne (5 April 1862 in Buxières-les-Mines (Allier) – 13/14 July 1923 in Paris) was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Biography Ganne was born in the Auvergne region of France and grew up in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris. He studied under César Franck and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. He conducted at the Nouveau Théâtre de la Rue Blanche and at the Folies-Bergère, and later led a concert series at the Monte Carlo Casino. Ganne is most recognized today for his popular patriotic marches, Le père la victoire and La marche Lorraine. He also composed for the ballet, including the 1902 ballet “In Japan”. He is less well known outside his native France, and his many operettas are now rarely performed. His most successful light opera is the circus musical Les saltimbanques (The Acrobats), from 1899. Selected operas and operettas *Ophélia (1887) *Tout Paris (1891) *L’Heureuse rencontre (1892) *Rabelais, opera in 4 acts (1892) *Les colles des femmes (1893) *Le Réveil d’une parisienne (1894) *La Puce (1894) *Raseur (1895) *Qui veut de l’amour? (1899) *Les saltimbanques, opera in 3 acts (1899) *Miss Bouton d’O

Louis Glass

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Louis Christian August Glass (23 March 1864 – 22 January 1936) was a Danish composer. Glass, born in Copenhagen, was an almost exact contemporary of Carl Nielsen and, like Nielsen, was a student of Niels Gade. However, Glass also studied at the Brussels Conservatory, where he became enamored of the music of César Franck and Anton Bruckner, both of whom stylistically influenced his writing. For several years, he was one of Denmark’s leading concert pianists until a paralysis in one arm made him retire from the stage. He then devoted himself primarily to composing. He composed in most genres and wrote several chamber music works of worth, including four string quartets, a string sextet, a piano trio, a piano quintet and several instrumental sonatas. He wrote six symphonies (1893–1926), which have been recorded on the Danacord and CPO record labels, while some chamber music has been recorded on Da Capo. Glass died in Copenhagen. Symphonies * Symphony No. 1 in E-major, Op. 17 (1894) * Symphony No. 2 in C-minor, Op. 28 (1899) * Symphony No. 3 in D-major, Op. 30 “Forest symphony” (1901) * Symphony No. 4 in E-minor, Op. 43 (1911) * Symphony No. 5 in C-major, Op. 57 “Sinfonia Svastika” (19

Louis Gruenberg

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Louis Gruenberg ( ; June 9, 1964) was a Russian-born American pianist and prolific composer, especially of operas. An early champion of Schoenberg and other contemporary composers, he was also a highly respected Oscar-nominated film composer in Hollywood in the 1940s. Life and career Louis Theodor Gruenberg was born near Brest-Litovsk (now in Belarus but then in Russia), to Abe Gruenberg and Klara Kantarovitch. His family emigrated to the United States when he was a few months old. His father worked as a violinist in New York City. Young Louis had a talent for the piano, and by the age of eight Gruenberg was taking piano lessons with Adele Margulies at the National Conservatory in New York (then headed by Antonín Dvořák). Gruenberg played both solo concerts and in ensembles from the beginning, and in his early twenties he went to study in Europe with Ferruccio Busoni at the Vienna Conservatory. Before World War I, Gruenberg taught students and toured, both as an accompanist and soloist. In 1919, Gruenberg wrote The Hill of Dreams for orchestra, which gained him the highly acclaimed Flagler Prize and enabled him to devote himself more completely to composition. As Gruenberg began to

Louis Lavater

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Louis Isidore Lavater (2 March 1867 – 22 May 1953) was an Australian composer and author born in Victoria, of Swiss-Swedish extraction. Henry Lawson and Mary Gilmore. He was a leading proponent of the Australian bush ballad as a vehicle for music education. In 1938, Alfred Hill composed a musical setting of Lavater’s verse Mopoke. Lavater’s words were also set by Australian composers Doctor Ruby Davy and Fanny Turbayne. Early life Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Lavater was the eldest child of Emily Challinor (née Swindells) and Swiss-born George Theodore Adams Lavater, a civil servant who had migrated to Victoria after the 1851 gold rush. He attended Grammar School in St Kilda and Wesley College. At the University of Melbourne from 1884 he began to study medicine. He later changed his enrolment to study music though did not finish the degree. While at the University Lavater joined the bohemian Buonarotti Club (1883–87), was active in its musical section and accompanied the artists on their painting camps. Much later he recalled lively experiences with the Club in a 1929 Argus interview. Notability Lavater was regarded as a gifted leader of music in rural Victoria. He was fondly known

Louis N. Parker

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Louis Napoleon Parker (21 October 1852 – 21 September 1944) was an English dramatist, composer and translator. Parker wrote many plays, developing a reputation for historical works. His 1911 play Disraeli is one of his best known, written as a vehicle for the actor George Arliss who later won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1929 film adaptation, itself based on his earlier 1921 silent film version. In the 1900s, he staged a series of historical pageants: Sherborne Pageant (1905), the Warwick Pageant (1906) and the Bury Pageant (1907), huge productions involving 800–900 participants. Their success inspired a wave of “pageantitis” in England, including several more by Parker. Biography He was born in Calvados, France, the son of the American Charles Albert Parker, who was a grandson of American congressman and judge Isaac Parker, and the Englishwoman Elizabeth Moray. The father was absent at his birth, and the attending French neighbours were so convinced the newborn would not survive that they christened the child immediately. Parker grew up in several continental European countries. As an adult, he was fluent in Italian, French, and German. He was educated at Freiburg a

Louis Raffy

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Antoine Louis Raffy (1868 in Laroque-Timbaut, Lot-et-Garonne – died in March 1931 in Nérac) was a French composer of church music and organist. Biography Raffy was organist at the which has an organ of 23 stops built by the Magen company of Agen (1862). Works Organ and harmonium * L’Orgue, 3 booklets, Paris: Loret fils and H. Freytag, (1899–1901). * Pieces in Échos jubilaires des maîtres de l’orgue, published by abbott Henri Delépine, Procure de musique religieuse (1908 and 1929). * Pieces in the Archives de l’Organiste, 8 vol. published by H. Delépine, Procure de musique religieuse. * École d’Orgue, Méthode complète pour harmonium, 2 vol., Saint-Leu-la-Forêt: Procure de musique religieuse (1908). * Célèbres et Grands Organistes Célèbres et Grands Maîtres Classiques, collection of pieces for organ or harmonium, for the use of the divine service, chosen and annotated by Louis Raffy, 6 vol, Op. 57-62. Arras: Procure générale de musique religieuse (1910–13). * 10 Pieces for organ or harmonium, St-Laurent-sur-Sèvre: L.-J. Biton, (1913). * 200 Versets, préludes, antiennes, etc. dans les tons majeurs et mineurs les plus usités, extraits des œuvres des maîtres anciens, choisis ou transcri

Louis Urgel

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Louis Urgel (23 September 1857 – 17 August 1942) was the male name under which Louise Legru, née L’Henoret, published her musical compositions. She was one of the few French female composers of light music in the 1920s. Her Vieux Garçons! was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Gaîte-Lyrique on February 21, 1931. She was married to Hector Legru. Works Selected works include: * 1911: Aux petits Enfants, poem by Alphonse Daudet. * 1920: Les Chagrins, for singing and piano. * 1922: Monsieur Dumollet, three-act operetta, libretto by Victor Jannet, lyrics by Hugues Delorme * 1923: Amour de princesse, three-act operetta, libretto by Victor Jeannet and Hugues Delorme * 1925: Qu’en dit l’abbé?, opérette galante in three acts, libretto by Jacques Battaille-Henri * 1928: Une nuit au Louvre, three-act operetta, libretto by Henri Duvernois, lyrics by René Dorin * 1931: Vieux Garçons, conducted by Jules Gressier References External links * Louis Urgel on data.bnf.fr *

Louis Vierne

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Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output was organ music, including six symphonies and four suites, and works for choir and organ, including a Messe solennelle for choir and two organs. He toured Europe and the United States as a concert organist. His students included Nadia Boulanger and Maurice Duruflé. When Vierne’s mother died on 25 March 1902, he moved to a larger flat on Rue ses Saints-Pères. A second son, André, was born on 6 January 1903, and a daughter, Collette, was born on 5 January 1907. In 1906, a street accident in Paris caused him to badly fracture his leg, and it was briefly thought that his leg would need to be amputated. The leg was saved, but his recovery, and the task of completely re-learning his pedal technique, took a half a year. *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: Martin Jean; Loft Recordings *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: David Sanger; Meridian Recordings *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: Günther Kaunzinger; Koch-Schwann *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: Jeremy Filsell; Signum Classics *Second Symphony for Organ: Christopher

Louis Vuillemin

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Charles Louis Joseph Vuillemin (19 December 1879 – 2 April 1929) was a French composer and music critic who strongly identified with his Breton heritage in his music. Life Vuillemin was born in Nantes, his grandfather was the piano manufacturer Louis Didion. He studied cello and composition at the conservatory of Nantes and continued at the Conservatoire de Paris, 1899–1904, with Gabriel Fauré (composition) and Xavier Leroux (harmony). He married young; his wife Lucy was a renowned singer at the time, and he collaborated with her in writing his vocal music. In 1912, he was one of the founding members of the Paris-based Association de Compositeurs Bretons. Drafted to World War I, he was severely wounded in a gas attack which was said to have cut short his life. As a music critic, Vuillemin wrote numerous reviews for Comœdia, Musica, Le Courrier musical, Paris-Soir, La Lanterne, etc. He also wrote biographies of Gabriel Fauré (1914), Louis Aubert (1921), and Albert Roussel (1924). Music Vuillemin wrote in many genres including two operas, orchestral and chamber music, vocal and piano music. He attracted some attention for the Breton-influenced Soir armoricains for piano, one of many

Louise Brown Verrill

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Louise Shurtleff Brown Verrill (23 March 187017 February 1948) was an American composer and pianist. Verrill was born in Portland, Maine to Lewis F. and Mary Alice Abbott Brown. She studied piano and composition in Berlin and Dresden, then married Harry Mighels Verrill in 1895. They had five children. In 1897 she was elected to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Verrill’s music was published by Louis H. Ross & Co. Her works include: Piano *Alone *Birch Tree *Chaconne *Du bist wie eine Blume *Exultation *Four Moods of a Gnome *Ghosts on Parade *It Happened in Spain *It is Spring *Jennie Kissed Me *Lonely Pine *March of the Patriot *Reverie *Rumpelstiltskin *Slumber Song *Tenderness *Tone Pictures *Tone Poem *Walhalla *Waltz *When Shadows Fall *Yellow Moon Vocal *“Pleasant Dreams” *Winter Joy (solo and chorus) *“You Came Like the Dawn” (music by Ivan McScod; text by Louise Brown Verrill) External links *Download free sheet music by Louise Brown Verrill References

Louise Robyn

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Margaret Louise Robyn (23 April 1878 - 10 June 1949) was an American composer, music educator, and pianist who taught for many years at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, serving as director for at least one year. Her piano pedagogy methods and books are still in use today. She published and taught as Louise Robyn. Robyn was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Mary Ann O’Reilly and William Robyn, a merchant. Little is known about her education. She began working at the American Conservatory of Music in 1901, where she taught advanced piano and teacher training. She also chaired the children’s department and in 1937 served as Director of the conservatory. Storm Bull, Jack Fascinato, Irwin Fischer, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. In 1939, Music Clubs Magazine reported at least one Louise Robyn Club in Detroit, Michigan. Robyn collaborated on some publications with Howard Hanks, Louise Johnson, Mildred Ross, and Florence White Williams. She produced many works, all for piano or early childhood music education, which were published by Clayton F. Summy Co., Lyon & Healy, Inc., Oliver Ditson, Robyn Teaching Service, Theodore Presser Company, and Winthrop Rogers Ltd., and include: *Brok

Louise Tunison

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Clara Louise Tunison (September 22, 1872 – May 21, 1899) was an American composer and organist, who is best known for composing songs which she published under the name Louise Tunison. Tunison was born in New Jersey to Edward and Emily A. Tunison. at the Herald Square Theatre. The same year, the music and lyrics to “Forget Me Not,” “Memories,” and “‘Twas But a Dream” were published in the New York Journal newspaper. “Twas But a Dream” was performed in vaudeville shows. “Dying Rose” and “Song of a Heart” were produced on piano rolls by the Aeolian Company, and “Song of a Heart” was recorded on Victor 31692. Discography Her songs were published by T. B. Harms & Co. *“Forget Me Not” *“Next Summer” *“Song of a Heart” *"‘Twas But a Dream" Death Tunison died of heart disease at age 26 in New York City on May 21, 1899. References External links * * Hear the Victor 31692 recording of “Song of a Heart”

Louise V. Gustin

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Louise V. Moore Gustin Taylor (December 23, 1868 – August 29, 1949) was an American composer of popular music. Early life Louise Vivian Moore was born in Jackson, Michigan, the daughter of Francis B. Moore and Louisa Rawlings Moore. Both of her parents were immigrants from Great Britain. Her father worked for the railroad, and her mother was a shopkeeper. Career Louise V. Gustin was a music teacher and piano demonstrator in Detroit when she began publishing her compositions with her colleague, Frederick E. Belcher (husband of composer Henriette Blanke-Belcher). Belcher’s catalog was soon acquired by Whitney-Warner Publishing, and then Jerome H. Remick, giving Gustin a wider potential audience beyond Detroit. “Janice Meredith: Waltzes” (1900), “When Knighthood Was in Flower: Waltzes” (1900), “X-N-Tric: Two Step” (1900), “Soldier of Fortune March” (1901), “Mistress Nell: Waltzes” (1901), “Viola Waltzes” (1901), “Lindy” (1902), “Neome: Waltzes (1903), “In Love’s Garden” (1904), “MM and MCB March Two-Step” (1905), “Let’s Trot” (1915), and “Waltz with Me: Waltzes” (1915). Some of Gustin’s music was available for player pianos. Writer and composer Monroe Rosenfeld mentioned her as an exa

Lucia Contini Anselmi

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Lucia Contini Anselmi (15 October 1876 – after 1913) was an Italian pianist and composer. Life She was born on 15 October 1876 in Vercelli, Piedmont. was an Italian pianist and composer. She studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Alessandro Parisotti at the Conservatory in Rome. Contini Anselmi composed more than thirty works, mostly for piano but also eight for orchestra, three for violin and piano. She also composed a ballet, Driadi e satiri (Dryads and Satyrs), and an operetta, La Sponda Magica (The Magic Shore), a fairy opera in three acts. Her death date is unknown, although it is generally agree that she died after 1913. Some of her works were performed at the University of Melbourne in 2020. Works Anselmi’s works include compositions for orchestra, solo piano, violin and cello. Selected works include: *Prelude *Gavotte *Minuet *Sonata for Piano in C minor *Sibylla Cumaea *Ludentia *Inno guerresco References

Lucien Capet

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Lucien Louis Capet (8 January 1873 – 18 December 1928) was a French violinist, pedagogue and composer. Career Capet came from the Paris proletariat. By the age of fifteen, he had to maintain himself by playing in bistros and cafes. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Maurin and later appeared as soloist with French orchestras. Between 1896 and 1899, he was the concertmaster of the orchestra of the Concerts Lamoureux. He also taught violin at the Société Sainte-Cécile de Bordeaux (1899–1903). His notable students include Jascha Brodsky and Ivan Galamian, both of whom became influential violin teachers of the latter part of the twentieth century. Lucien Capet had a successful career as a soloist and chamber musician, forming the Capet Quartet in 1893. The quartet went through many changes of personnel and made several recordings of Beethoven string quartets and Romantic and Classical works. Capet was also a well-regarded teacher, known especially for his bow technique. With the violinist and chamber musician Suzanne Chaigneau, Capet founded the Institut moderne du violin in 1924. Capet wrote a book on “Superior Bowing Technique” which is an es

Lucien Durosoir

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Lucien Durosoir (1878 – 5 December 1955) was a French composer and violinist whose works were rediscovered thanks to manuscripts found by his son Luc. Durosoir studied the violin with Joseph Joachim and Hugo Heermann in Germany before his first tour as a young virtuoso in 1899. In addition to giving the first performances of French music in Austria-Hungary and Germany (Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Lalo, Widor, Bruneau), he also gave the French premiere of the Strauss violin concerto in 1901. His career as a violinist was cut short by World War I. Durosoir served in the Fifth Division, which took part in some of the bloodiest battles of the war (Douaumont, the Chemin des Dames, and Eparges). At the encouragement of General Mangin, Durosoir formed a string quartet with his fellow soldiers Henri Lemoine (second violin), André Caplet (viola), and Maurice Maréchal (cello). After his demobilization in February, 1919, he began to compose at his home in southwest France. For the next thirty years he composed a host of works, including three string quartets, (1920, 1922 and 1933–34) a large piano sonata (Le Lys, 1921), a piano quintet (1925), an orchestral suite (Funérailles, 1930), and about twenty

Lucien Garban

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Lucien Garban (1877–1959) was a French composer, music arranger and editor who wrote transcriptions still performed in the modern repertoire. The Bibliothèque nationale de France lists about twenty original works by Garban and a large number of transcriptions by other composers. He also transcribed a few scenes from the opera L’enfant et les sortilèges for piano or piano four hands. The four hand piano duet version of La valse frequently is performed. Other Garban transcriptions include L’apprenti sorcier by Paul Dukas and Saint-Saëns’s Le carnaval des animaux for solo piano. Around 1900, Garban along with Maurice Ravel and a number of young artists, poets, critics, and musicians joined together in an informal group; they came to be known as Les Apaches (“The Hooligans”), a name coined by Ricardo Viñes to represent their status as “artistic outcasts”. Notable recordings * The duo Sergio Tempo - Karin Lechner, for example, recorded his version of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, suite No. 2 transcribed for two pianos in 2007. * Leon Fleisher recorded Garban’s La valse piano transcription as a duet with his wife – pianist Katherine Jacobson – on the 2015 album Four Hands References

Lucien Haudebert

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Lucien Haudebert (10 April 1877 – 24 February 1963) was a French composer who strongly identified with his Breton heritage. Life Haudebert was born in Fougères, Département Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. He received his first music lessons at age 5 from the local organist at the Catholic church of Saint Léonard and was able to play his first Bach prelude at age 7. He studied philosophy at a college in Laval and subsequently received a degree in business studies (Diplôme des Hautes Études Commerciales), following his father’s wishes. He spent his military service at Vitré until September 1900. Musically largely self-taught, against his parents’ wishes he then went to Paris where he made the acquaintance of Gabriel Fauré, then organist at the Eglise de la Madeleine, and received private lessons from him, cut short by his suffering from anemia. Roman Catholic himself, he married his Protestant wife Mary (1879–1958) in Paris in 1907, a poet who often provided the words for Haudebert’s songs and choral pieces. He participated in World War I, leaving the army as lieutenant. He spent his life mainly in Paris where he died. Music The strength of Haudebert’s music lay in his melodic inventivene

Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert

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Lucien-Leon Guillaume Lambert or Lucien Lambert, Jr. (1858–1945) was a French pianist and composer of African-American Creole descent. His family was noted for talent in music and gained international acclaim. Life and career Lucien-Leon Lambert was the son of New Orleans composer Charles Lucien Lambert, who married a French woman and emigrated from the U.S. in 1854. Lambert, Jr. was born in France and studied music with his father. After growing up in Brazil, where his father was employed, Lambert, Jr. went to France to study at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet. After completing his studies, he worked as a musician and composer. His Prométhée enchaîné won the Prix Rossini in 1885. After a successful career in France, Lambert relocated to Portugal where he worked as pianist in the Royal Court, along with his uncle Sidney Lambert. In the 1870s he was recognized by the Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil (where his father had stayed until his death in 1896) for innovations in music. In 1905 he recorded three wax cylinders for the Pathe Company in Lisbon, thought to be the first classical music recordings made by a performer of African descent. Lambert is som

Ludolf Nielsen

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Karl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen (29 January 1876 – 16 October 1939) was a Danish composer, violinist, conductor, and pianist. Today he is considered one of the most important Danish composers of the early 1900s (together with the more famous Carl Nielsen). Life Nielsen was born in Nørre Tvede, Denmark. Although his family lacked any musicians, Ludolf took to music at a very young age. After a few years of violin lessons from local fiddlers, at eight he was playing at local festivals and other country occasions. In his mid-teens, he moved to Copenhagen, which exposed him to a much broader musical milieu. At 19, he won a scholarship to the Danish Royal Academy of Music. There, he studied violin, piano, and music theory. His composing talents were apparently self-developed. When about 20, Nielsen started composing, at the same time as Tivoli Orchestra hired him as a violinist. Some of his works were performed in 1899, but his first major success was with the symphonic poem Regnar Lodbrog, which gained him an additional scholarship that gave him the opportunity to spend time in the musically rich city of Leipzig, where he composed a few string quartets and had them published. He returned to

Ludomir Różycki

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Ludomir Różycki (; 18 September 1883 Warsaw – 1 January 1953 Katowice) was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as Young Poland, the intention of which was to invigorate the musical culture of their generation in their mother country. Life He was a son of a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition. He completed his studies with distinction, and then continued his studies in Berlin at the Academy of Music under Engelbert Humperdinck. He began his musical career as a conductor of opera and professor of piano in Lwów in 1907. It was while in Lwów that he began to compose. Subsequently, he moved to Warsaw but had to flee during the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, he lived and taught in Katowice. Music Różycki’s ballet Pan Twardowski (1920) was the first Polish large-scale ballet to be performed abroad, being seen in Copenhagen, Prague, Brno, Zagreb, Belgrade and Vienna, and being performed over 800 times in Warsaw. His eight operas included Casanova and Eros i Psyche (Eros and Psyche, to the libretto of Jerzy Żuławski), the lat

Ludovic Lamothe

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Ludovic Lamothe (12 May 1882 - 4 April 1953) was a Haitian composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of Haiti’s most important classical composers. Biography Early life A native of Port-au-Prince, he was born into a distinguished literary family, and both his parents were pianists. His grandfather, Joseph Lamothe, was also a noted instrumentalist. Lamothe had his first lessons from his mother and studied the piano and clarinet at the Institution Saint Louis de Gonzague in his native Port-au-Prince where he exhibited exceptional technical and compositional abilities from a young age. Lamothe’s repertoire included a range of méringue, from the most formal, elite-oriented forms to the méringue of the low orders. Another musical scholar, Claude Carré of the online magazine Boutoures has described Lamothe as “representing the nationalist movement in Haitian classical music” and being “an emblematic figure, a piano virtuoso and a performer of Chopin, who left us a number of important compositions for piano.” In 2001, a CD recording titled A Vision of Ludovic Lamothe was published on the IFA Music Records label, featuring some of his pieces, including the Ballade in A Minor, Dan

Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský

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Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský () (17 July 1870 in Vienna – 27 October 1931 in Prague) was a Czech conductor and composer. He was founder and first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Biography Jan Čelanský, Ludvík’s father, worked as a kapellmeister in Horní Krupá (Havlíčkův Brod district). Ludvík studied at the gymnasium in Havlíčkův Brod, and from 1887 to 1891 at the teaching institute in Kutná Hora. He worked as a teacher in Dolní Krupá for one year before devoting himself exclusively to music. From 1892 to 1894 he studied composition with K. Stecker at the Prague Conservatory, then at the dramatic school of the National Theatre and at Pivoda Operatic School. Orchestra *Premiéra na vsi (Premiere in the Countryside), Overture (1900) *Vzkříšení Polsky (Resurrection of Poland), Overture (1904) * Symphony “From My Life” in five movements *Duchovní vývoj člověka dle starého zákona (The Spiritual Evolution of Man According to Ancient Law), Symphonic Trilogy (1915–1918) :# Adam :# Noe (Noah) :# Mojžíš (Moses) *Hymnus slunci (Hymn to the Sun), Symphonic Poem (1919) Songs *Nálady (Moods) (1895); words by the composer *Melancholické písně (Melancholic Songs) (1895); words

Ludwig Engländer

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Ludwig Engländer (October 20, 1853 Vienna, Austrian Empire – September 13, 1914) was an Austrian Empire-born American composer of more than 30 musicals. He was born in Vienna, Austrian Empire. According to his obituary in The New York Times, he had studied with Jacques Offenbach. He immigrated to New York City on October 13, 1882, and became a naturalized American citizen on February 13, 1891. By the 1890s Engländer was composing prolifically, either for the New York stage, or popular songs (many of which were interpolated into various other productions including A Trip to Chinatown. Already by 1903 he had come in for criticism of his Teutonic sound. Perhaps for that reason he occasionally returned to Vienna near the end of his life to write musicals for that audience. The year before he died he is listed as having residence in Vienna. At the time of his death he was living in Far Rockaway, Queens, with his sister. Works *Der Prinzgemahl (1883); revised and translated into English as The Prince Consort (1883) *The Seven Ravens (1884) *1776 (1884) *Madelaine, oder Die Rose der Champagne (1888) *The Passing Show (1894) *A Daughter of the Revolution *The Twentieth Century Girl (1895)

Ludwig Rottenberg

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Ludwig Rottenberg (11 October 1865 – 6 May 1932) was an Austrian/German composer and conductor. Biography Rottenberg came from a German-speaking Jewish family in Czernowitz, the then-capital of Bukovina, which was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy at the time. He studied music in his birthplace, and later at the Vienna Conservatory. He conducted an amateur orchestra and worked as a Lieder accompanist during his studies. He started his professional conducting career at the Brno opera house. In 1892 he succeeded Felix Dessoff as Erster Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera. He was recommended for the position by Johannes Brahms and Hans von Bülow, being preferred to two other famous applicants, Richard Strauss and Felix Mottl. He held this position until 1926. During his tenure he worked with six different artistic directors, and helped establish the Frankfurt Opera as one of the leading opera houses of its time. Numerous contemporary operas were staged there during this period, among others the world premiere performances of Der ferne Klang (1912), Die Gezeichneten (1918) and Der Schatzgräber (1920) by Franz Schreker. Other important performances, partly German premieres, inclu

Ludwig Thuille

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Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (30 November 1861 – 5 February 1907) was an Austrian composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the so-called Munich School of composers, whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss. Biography Thuille was born in Bozen, then part of Tyrol, now in Italy. He lost both his parents in 1872 when he was 11, and moved in with his step-uncle in Kremsmünster, Austria. There he sang in the Benedictine choir and studied organ, piano, and violin. His musical abilities were exceptional, so in 1876 the widow of a composer/ conductor, Matthaus Nagiller, took him to Innsbruck for more advanced musical training. There, in the summer of 1877, he met the young Richard Strauss, whose family was visiting the town; the two became lifelong friends. His Innsbruck teacher of organ and theory recommended him to the distinguished composer Josef Rheinberger in Munich, who took him as a pupil in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, from where he graduated with honors in 1882. A year later he became a teacher, and few years thereafter a professor of theory and composition. His many pupils included Hermann Abendroth, E

Luisa Casagemas

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Lluïsa Casagemas i Coll (b. 13 Dec 1873, d. ? after 1930; one source says c. 1942) was a Catalan violinist, singer and composer. She was born in Barcelona and studied composition with Francesc de Paula Sánchez i Gavagnach and violin with Agustí Torelló. She began composing at an early age and made her debut as a composer in 1893 with a symphonic poem. Casagemas’ opera Schiava e regina won a prize at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892; it has to be performed in 1893 at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; it would be the first opera by a woman performed there. However, an anarchist attack with a bomb interrupted the opera season and the theatre was closed for months. So, the opera was not performed; as a compensation for the author, several fragments were performed before the Spanish royal family in Madrid in 1894. After, it was forgotten and never performed nor recorded. Afterward Casagemas sang her own compositions at the salon of novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán, and he introduced her to musical and literary society. Works Casagemas composed over than 300 works, solo and chamber music and songs with piano. Selected works include: *Crepusculo for orchestra (1893) *Schiava e

Luise Adolpha Le Beau

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Luise Adolpha Le Beau (25 April 1850 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 17 July 1927 in Baden-Baden) was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instructor was Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. Like many other 19th century female composers, Le Beau began her career in music as a pianist, and later earned her living teaching, critiquing, and performing music. She studied languages from 1863 through 1866 as a guest at the local girls’ school. At age sixteen, she completed her education with a degree from a private institution for girls, and from then on devoted herself to music. Education Following her confirmation on Easter of 1865, Le Beau began to take piano lessons from Hofkapellmeister William Kalliwoda in Karlsruhe. She also received singing lessons from Anton Haizinger. In 1868 she made her debut as a pianist, playing the E-flat major Concerto of Beethoven and the G minor Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn in Karlsruhe. In 1870, she met Franz Lachner and Anton Rubinstein. Le Beau applied for piano lessons with Clara Schumann in 1873 to be taken in Baden-Baden. Her studies with Schumann lasted for one summer,

Luise Greger

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Luise Sumpf Greger (27 December 1862 – 25 January 1944 ) was a German composer and pianist. Life Greger took lessons at five and at nine she played for the Tsar. She began composing at 11. While still in Berlin in the 1890s, Richard Strauss proclaimed her to be a composer. She continued composing into her seventies and in 1933-34 her musical Christmas fairytale “Goose Girl” was performed 13 times to much acclaim. At an old age she was a resident of a nursing home. On December 2, 1943, she was taken to the Merxhausen State Institution because of “gradually increasing senile mental disorder”. There she died on January 25, 1944, from hunger as a victim of National Socialist euthanasia. Decades later her family found some of her songs in a trunk and she has since been honored in many forums in Germany and the US. Some of her descendants are American and it was through her music that they connected with their German family. The “Luise Greger International Women in Music Festival” started in Langley, on Whidbey Island, WA, celebrating her works and those of other talented local and international female composers from Washington state. The “father of Langley” Jacob Anthes was from Hesse,

Mabel Batten

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Mabel Veronica “Ladye” Hatch Batten (née Hatch; 1856–1916) was a British composer and singer of lieder. Life and career Early life and education Mabel Hatch was born in Calcutta to a well-connected military family. She was of Anglo-Irish descent, but spent much of her childhood in India due to the British occupation. She studied harmony and composition in Dresden, Germany, and Bruges, Belgium. She was an accomplished singer, pianist and guitar player. They had one daughter, the painter and film maker Lady Cara Harris. She was also friends with composer Ethel Smyth and fellow patroness Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac. After Batten was widowed, she went to live with Hall in Cadogan Square. Batten is credited with nurturing Hall’s writing career and with recognizing her talent “even in the egg.” In 1915 Hall met Batten’s cousin Una Troubridge (1887–1963). When Batten died the following year, Troubridge took care of a defeated Hall and in 1917 they went to live together. Batten is buried in a vault in the Circle of Lebanon on the western side of Highgate Cemetery in London, and Hall chose to be buried at the entrance of the crypt. Portraits Mabel Batten’s portraits were taken

Maewa Kaihau

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Erima Maewa Kaihau (; 1879 – 27 February 1941) was a New Zealand composer, pianist and music teacher, sometimes known as Louisa Maewa Molesworth. She is best known for her contributions to the song “Now Is the Hour”, and composed several other popular songs in both Māori and English. Life and career Kaihau was born Louisa Flavell in Whangaroa to a French father and a Māori mother of Ngā Puhi descent. On her mother’s side she was a descendent of Hōne Heke. In 1893, the family moved to Waiuku. In the late 1890s, she entered a customary marriage with Henare Kaihau, the Ngāti Te Ata leader and politician; their marriage was formalised in 1903. They had six daughters and two sons. After his death in 1920, she married Charles Molesworth. During their marriage she taught music and played the piano. She is best-known for the song “Haere Ra” or “Po Atarau”, known in English as “Now Is the Hour”. The song was adapted from an existing piano tune, “Swiss Cradle Song”, published under the name of Clement Scott (thought to be Albert Bokhare Saunders). “Swiss Cradle Song” became popular in New Zealand through its use as a Māori farewell song titled “Po Atarau” during World War I. Kaihau refined t

Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure

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Madeleine Thérèse Marie Boucherit Le Faure (; 13 May 1879 – 14 October 1960) was a French pianist and composer. A teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris, she authored several pieces for piano, specifically for children, gave conducting lessons to young students, and directed the chamber orchestra the petits concerts Mozart that she established. Her brother, violinist Jules Boucherit, was two years younger than Madeleine and they often concertized together. She married writer Georges Le Faure on 2 January 1906. Works *Legende for Violin and Viola, copyright 1933 *Impressions. Suite for Violin, Viola and Cello. Paris: Éditions Salabert, 1933. *La journée de Suzy, Histoire d’une poupée, ten easy pieces for piano, specially written for children by Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure, illustrated by R. de la Nézière. Text by G. Le Faure. * Les Enfants. Divertissement chorégraphique tiré des Caractères. Text by G. Le Faure. Illustrations by Ch. Gir. Score sheet for piano, 1932. *La journée de Goudou “L’ours” for violin & piano, Paris : J. Tallandier, 1954 References

Manuel Penella

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Manuel Penella Moreno (31 July 1880 in Valencia – 14 January 1939 in Cuernavaca) was a Spanish composer. His father was the composer Manuel Penella Raga. His daughter Magdalena Penella Silva married the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso; through her, he was the grandfather of actresses Emma Penella, Elisa Montés and Terele Pávez. Although his most popular work at home and abroad is the oft-revived opera española El gato montés (a special favourite of Plácido Domingo, who revived it several times and recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon), several of his other works still enjoy popularity in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, notably the chamber opera Don Gil de Alcalá (scored in Mexican style for strings and harp), some of his revues and the ambitious, late zarzuela La malquerida (1935), based on the masterpiece by Jacinto Benavente. Works (not exhaustive) Operas * 1893 El queso de bola, sainete lírico, Valencia * 1906 Las niñas alegres, entremés lírico, Barcelona * 1907 Amor ciego, zarzuela * 1907 El dinero, sainete lírico, Barcelona * 1907 El día de reyes “apropósito en un acto” * 1908 El padre cura, entremés lírico, Valencia * 1908 La perra chica, parody of La Patria chica by Rupert

Marc de Ranse

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François-Marie Dieudonné Marc, Baron de Ranse (20 April 1881 – 12 February 1951) was a French pianist, organist, maître de chapelle, choral conductor and composer. Biographie Born in Aiguillon in Aquitaine, Ranse was a student of Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. His artistic vocation began at the Collège Saint-Caprais of Agen, where he met Joseph Schluty (1829-1920), organist at the Saint-Caprais Agen Cathedral. In 1897, Ranse left for Paris to study music. He was a student for nearly ten years (1897-1907) at the Schola Cantorum with an interruption between 1902 and 1905 due to military service). Among his professors were Vincent d’Indy (music composition), Léon de Saint-Réquier then Fernand de La Tombelle (harmony), Albert Roussel (counterpoint), Gabriel Grovlez (piano), Charles Bordes (vocal ensemble), Abel Decaux (organ (1st degree), Alexandre Guilmant (orgue supérieur), Amédée Gastoué (Gregorian studies). After his musical training, he began a career as a church musician. He composed pieces for organ and harmonium. He was co-founder with Joseph Boulnois of the Spiritual Concerts of Saint-Louis d’Antin. During the First World War, he joined the front. He was wound

Marcel Chadeigne

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Alexis Marcel Félicien Chadeigne (2 January 1876 – 2 January 1926 ) was a French classical pianist and composer. He was composer Alain Bernaud’s grandfather. Life Born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, son of the composer Félicien Chadeigne, he was a student of Charles de Bériot at the Conservatoire de Paris where he became a friend and fellow student of Ravel and Ricardo Viñes. After winning a first piano prize in 1895 and a second piano accompaniment prize in 1899, Chadeigne became a pianist, singing conductor (1901-1904), then assistant conductor and choir director at the Opéra de Paris (1909-1925), piano teacher at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and professor of solfège at the Conservatoire in 1919, a position from which he resigned in December 1924 for health reasons. Chadeigne died one year later on his fiftieth birthday and was buried in the strictest privacy in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery Career Apart from a few piano transcriptions of works for orchestra, there are no known original creations by Marcel Chadeigne or, at least, they have not been preserved. Between 1895 and 1925, he divided his time between a career as a concert performer, a singing master at the Opera, a pr

Marco Anzoletti

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Marco Anzoletti (Trento, 4 June 1867 – Mesiano, 23 January 1929) was an Italian violinist and composer. He wrote a vast amount of music and made significant contributions to musicological research. Biography Marco Anzoletti was born in Trento on 4 June 1867, into a musical family. His father Luigi, a cellist, laid the foundation for their musical pursuits. Other family members were also musicians: Francesco, a pianist, organist, and composer; Giovanni, a violinist; Giuseppe, a violinist and composer; and Luisa, a poet and writer who collaborated with him on piano. After receiving initial musical education at home, Anzoletti enrolled at the Milan Conservatory in 1879 to deepen his violin skills under Gerolamo de Angelis and study composition with Gaetano Coronaro. His career was dedicated to promoting chamber and symphonic music in Italy. Anzoletti’s compositions include the acclaimed “24 Variations for violin and piano on a theme by Brahms” (1894), which garnered praise from the German master. Two years later Anzoletti won first prize with a Sonata in C minor for violin and piano in Milan. Anzoletti composed numerous works for the violin, with piano or organ accompaniment: sonatas,

Marco Enrico Bossi

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Marco Enrico Bossi (25 April 1861 – 20 February 1925) was an Italian organist, composer, improviser and teacher. Life Bossi was born in Salò, a town in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, into a family of musicians. His father, Pietro, was organist at Salò Cathedral, which has a one-manual organ built by Fratelli Serassi from 1865 (opus 684), which was restored in 2000/2001. He had two brothers, Costante Adolfo Bossi and Pietro Bossi. He received his musical training at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna and the Milan Conservatory, where his teachers included Amintore Galli (counterpoint and musical aesthetics), Francesco Sangalli (piano), Amilcare Ponchielli (composition) and Polibio Fumagalli (organ). In 1881, Bossi became director of music and organist at Como Cathedral. Nine years later, he was appointed professor of organ and harmony at the Naples Conservatory. In addition, he held directorships at conservatories in Venice (1895–1901), Bologna (1902–1911) and Rome (1916–1923), where he established and implemented the standards of organ studies that are still used in Italy today. His notable pupils included Giulio Bas, Giacomo Benvenuti, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, and Gian Francesco M

Margaret Ruthven Lang

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Margaret Ruthven Lang (November 27, 1867 – May 29, 1972) was an American composer and violinist primarily active in Boston. Lang is often considered the first woman composer to have a composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra, when her now-lost Dramatic Overture was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1893. Life Early life and education Margaret Lang was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1867. She was the eldest child of Frances Morse Burrage Lang, an amateur singer, and Benjamin Johnson “B. J.” Lang, active as a conductor, pianist, organist and composer. Her father was a central figure in Boston’s musical life, and as the city’s leading choral conductor, he founded two choral societies: the Apollo Club and Boston Cecilia; as an organist he was closely associated with the Handel and Haydn Society and a number of city churches. These connections through B.J. permitted Margaret’s music to be regularly included in the programs of these ensembles. The Lang family home was a center of cosmopolitan music-making, hosting many of the period’s most eminent musical figures, including Hans von Bülow, Antonín Dvořák and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. As B.J. wa

Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt

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Marguerite Béclard d’Harcourt (24 February 1884 – 2 August 1964) was a French composer and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Paris and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux, Vincent d’Indy and Maurice Emmanuel. She married ethnologist Raoul d’Harcourt and afterward researched South American and Canadian folk music, publishing texts in collaboration with him. She also collected and published folk melodies from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and other countries in standard European notation. She died in Paris. Life Marguerite Béclard was born in Paris in 1884, the third child of Marie-Louise Simonard and Jules Béclard, dean of the Faculté de Médecine. She studied at the Schola Cantorum de Paris: the organ under Abel Decaux, composition under Vincent D’Indy, a co-founder of the school, and counterpoint under Maurice Emmanuel, who helped grow her interest in the music of Ancient Greece and in popular music. In 1908 she married Raoul D’Harcourt, and subsequently followed him to Peru for business in 1912, and again in 1918. In 1925 they published an ethnomusicology book from their travels to Peru, titled La Musique des Incas et ses survivances. This research would partly

Marguerite de Pachmann

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Marguerite de Pachmann Labori (14 December 1864 – 3 July 1952), born Anna Louisa Margaret Okey, was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and music educator. She married two famous men, Russian pianist Vladimir de Pachmann and French lawyer Fernand Labori. Early life Anna Louisa Margaret Okey (or Oakey, or O’Key) was born in Pipeclay Diggings, New South Wales, the daughter of William Okey and Anna Maria King Blade Okey. She began learning to play the piano in Australia, but focused her training in England, while still a young child. She studied with Henry Wylde and Ferdinand Praeger at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1882, she heard Vladimir de Pachmann play in concert, and went to Germany to study with him. They married in London in 1884. Career Okey began her professional music career in London, and touring in Britain. After marriage, she returned to performing in 1887, in Berlin. She toured in the United States in 1890, and again in 1892. In widowhood after her second husband’s death in 1917, she wrote and taught piano, and gave a rare recital in 1930 in London. Personal life Okey married Vladimir de Pachmann in 1884; they had two sons together, Adrian and Leonide, befo

Marguerite Melville Liszniewska

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Marguerite Melville Liszniewska (April 17, 1879 – March 7, 1935) was an American pianist, teacher, and composer. Early life and education Melville was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Charles W. Melville and Mary Theresa Hughes Melville. Her parents were both musical; her father, an organist, was born in Scotland, and her mother, a singer, was born in Canada. Her parents were also both opera singers, and her father was also a well known theatrical composer who later in life was an “advance man” for other well known opera performers. Her paternal grandfather Francis Melville was a pianoforte maker in Glasgow, Scotland. Her brother Frederick (b. 1864 d. 1944) was also an accomplished musician and multi instrumentalist who could play “any instrument he could pick up.” Frederick built his own violin, and family lore has it that he used to play organ concerts at St Patrick’s Cathedral for a dollar admission. She went to study piano and composition in Berlin at age 15, with Ernst Jedliczka and O. B. Boise, and later in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky. “It is such a beautiful thing to study music,” she said in an interview, “Artistic things get so easily crowded to the wall or

Maria Chefaliady-Taban

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Maria Chefaliady-Taban (4 November 186311 June 1932) was a Romanian pianist, music educator and composer. She composed romantic-style works with folk elements, typified by her choral composition Hora carturarului Urechia (Scholar Urechia’s Ring Dance). She performed Bach, Schumann, Beethoven and Greig as a concert pianist, and taught singing. Students of Chefaliady-Taban include Mircea Stefanescu. Life Chefaliady-Taban was born in Iaşi and studied at the Iaşi Conservatory, studying piano with Anetta Boscoff and theory and solfege with Enrico Mezetti. Chefaliady-Taban was offered a scholarship to stay another year in Vienna, but was homesick for Romania. On her return to Bucharest she married Vasile Taban, a cashier at the Ministry of Finance, but the couple divorced after five years. After completing her studies, Chefaliady-Taban performed as a concert pianist, debuting on 11 November 1880, and performing works by Bach, Schumann, Beethoven and Greig. Works Chefaliady-Taban’s style has been called romantic, and she incorporated folk-lore into her compositions. She composed choral works and songs. Selected works include: *Hora carturarului Urechia (Scholar Urechia’s Ring Dance) chora

María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui

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María Emma de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui (24 September 1873 – 20 October 1957) was a Cuban pianist and composer who lived and worked in Spain. She was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and moved to Spain with her family when she was nine years old. She studied with Joaquin Zuazagoitia in Santiago de Compostela and continued her studies in the Conservatorio Real in Madrid. She studied with Louis Diemer and Jules Massenet in Paris and with Vincent d’Indy. After completing her education, she worked as a composer and pianist, giving concerts with Pablo Casals. Her music was performed in Paris and in Cuba. She died in Madrid. Works Selected works include: *Serenata Española *La Peregrinacion de Childe Harold *Poemo sinfonico *En el Campo de Waterloo *La vida de sueño, opera *La infancia *Danzas Cubanas *Seranata andaluza *Ballade guerriere ecossaise (text: Sir Walter Scott) *A une femme for voice and cello She also published an essay La etica y la estitica en la obra musical. References

María Luisa Sepúlveda

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Maira María Luisa Sepúlveda (14 August 18984 April 1958) was a Chilean composer and music educator. Biography María Luisa Sepúlveda was born in Chillán, the daughter of Bernardo Sepúlveda, professor of philosophy and languages at the Lyceum, and poet Maira Mercedes. She graduated from secondary studies at the Lyceum for Girls. She went on to study at the National Conservatory of Music with Bindo Paoli for piano, José Varalla for violin and Luis Esteban Giarda and Domingo Brescia for harmony, counterpoint and composition. She graduated with a piano degree in 1905, and in composition in 1918, then took a position as professor of piano at the National Conservatory where she worked until 1931. After leaving the Conservatory, she taught harmony and folklore at the Vocational School for Arts Education in Santiago. She died in Santiago. Works Sepúlveda composed many works based on Chilean folk music, and also texts for use in music education including “Método de Guitarra” and “El amigo del niño” for beginning piano students. Selected works include: *La Voz del Pasado *Cancionero Chileno * Estudio Sinfónico y Greca for orchestra (1932) *Canción de las Corhuillas y Trutruka for orchestra (1

Marian Arkwright

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Marian Ursula Arkwright (25 January 1863 – 23 March 1922) was an English composer, pianist and string player (viola and double bass). She was one of the first women in England to earn a Bachelor of Music degree (in 1895), and the first woman to earn a doctorate in music, which she gained in 1913. Arkwright worked as an orchestral musician, composer and conductor, and received a prize for an orchestral work from The Gentlewoman. Life Marian Arkwright was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England on 25 January 1863, a descendent of Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the Spinning Jenny. Her brother was the musicologist Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright. Arkwright studied piano with Bernhard Althaus (1831–1917) and also took piano lessons from Charles Hallé. She also studied double bass with Charles Henry Winterbottom and composition with J.S. Liddle, organist at Newbury. She was awarded the L.R.A.M. in 1891, earned a Bachelor of Arts in music at Durham University in 1895, and a doctorate in music at the same university in 1913, After completing her studies, she worked as an orchestral musician and composer and conducted orchestras including the Newbury Amateur Orchestral Union. In 1906 she rece

Marie Prestat

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Marie Joséphine Claire Prestat (1862–1933) was a French organist, pianist, composer and teacher. She was a native of Paris where she spent her entire life. She is known principally as a composer of organ and piano music, vocal works, and pedagogical texts. Training Marie Prestat began advanced musical studies at a young age at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1876 - at the age of 14 - she was awarded the Conservatoire’s highest diploma (Premier Prix) in Solfège. Among her teachers at the Conservatoire were: for harmony: Charles Lenepveu, gaining Premier Prix in 1885. Organist By 1912 Prestat was organist of the Association des Concerts Spirituels at the Sorbonne. References External links Details of works by Marie Prestat, including some public domain scores and texts, can be found online at: * Biblioteque Nationale de Framce (Online resource, accessed 15 May 2021). * IMSLP Petrucci Music Library. (Online resource, accessed 15 May 2021). * Marie Prestat. Offrande a la Vierge: Alma redemptoris mater (1914). Andrew Pink (2021) Exordia ad missam.

Mario Pasquale Costa

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Mario Pasquale Costa (24 July 1858 –27 September 1933) was a prolific Italian composer primarily known for his art songs, Neapolitan songs, and operettas. Costa was born in Taranto to Angelo and Maria Giuseppa née Malagisi. His father was a customs official, but the Costa family numbered several notable composers and musicians, including Costa’s uncle Michael Costa and his great-grandfather Giacomo Tritto. Costa studied composition, piano and singing at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory in Naples under another uncle Carlo Costa, Paolo Serrao, and Giuseppe Martucci. By the age of 17, Costa had already published numerous art songs. Possessed of an attractive tenor voice, he often performed them himself for the first time. Between 1881 and 1884 he lived and worked in London where Italian songs were very much in vogue. On his return to Naples, he became very active in the revival of the Neapolitan musical tradition. After 1920 he concentrated on composing operettas, pantomimes, and ballets. Costa died in Monte Carlo in 1933. The following year his remains were brought to Taranto and placed in a monumental tomb erected by the city. References External links *Scores by Mario Pasquale

Marion Bauer

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Marion Eugénie Bauer (15 August 1882 – 9 August 1955) was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century. As a composer, Bauer wrote for piano, chamber ensembles, symphonic orchestra, solo voice, and vocal ensembles. She gained prominence as a teacher, serving on the faculty of Washington Square College of New York University, where she taught music history and composition from 1926 to 1951. In addition to her position at NYU, Bauer was affiliated with the Juilliard School as a guest lecturer from 1940 until her death in 1955. Bauer also wrote extensively about music: she was the editor for the Chicago-based Musical Leader and authored and co-authored several books including her 1933 text Twentieth Century Music. Throughout her life, Bauer promoted not only her own work but new music in general. Bauer helped found the American Music Guild, the American Music Center, and the American Composers Alliance, serving as a board member of the latter. Bauer also held leadership roles in both the League of Composers and the Society for the Publication of American Music as a boa

Marion Osgood

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Marion Gilman Osgood (January 4, 1859 – November 1, 1957) was an American violinist, composer, and orchestra conductor. She established her own company, the Marion Osgood’s Ladies Orchestra, which was the first women’s orchestra organized for professional work in the United States. She was one of the leading solo violinists in the country. Biography Marion G. Osgood was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Her father was associated as a teacher with Lowell Mason, and her mother, Mary A. Osgood, was an author and music composer. George L. Osgood, a Boston musician, was her cousin, and her brother was Professor Fletcher Osgood, elocutionist. She began her musical life as a child, coming from a musical and scholarly family. Osgood worked as a violin teacher in Boston and was one of the leading solo violinists in the US. She composed and published a number of vocal and instrumental pieces, was a scholarly writer regarding art, and met with local success as a writer of short stories in romantic fiction. Osgood organized and conducted the ladies’ orchestra which bore her name. This company was established by her in 1884, was composed wholly of women artists, numbered 30 pieces, and was thorou

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1 October 1857 – 22 November 1930) was a Scottish singer, composer and music teacher and supporter of women’s suffrage and pacifism. According to Ray Perman, Kennedy-Fraser “made a career of collecting Gaelic songs in the Hebrides and singing her own Anglicized versions of them.” Biography Marjory Kennedy was born in Perth to a well-known Scottish singer, David Kennedy and his second wife, Elizabeth Fraser. As a child she used to accompany her father on his tours in Scotland and abroad, playing the piano while he sang. Various of her siblings were also professional musicians, and three of them —Lizzie (soprano), Kate (contralto) and James (baritone) — died in the fire that burnt down the Théâtre municipal of Nice, France, in 1881. Her youngest sister Jessie married the pianist and teacher Tobias Matthay. Their father David Kennedy died aged 61 in 1886 in Ontario, Canada, while on a tour. She became an extra-academical student at the University of Edinburgh school of Music, gathering a collection of Breton and Gaelic folksongs from 1882 onwards, which were later published. In 1887, she married her mother’s younger cousin, the mathematician Alexander Yule Fras

Marmaduke Barton

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Marmaduke Barton FRCM (29 December 186524 July 1938) was an English pianist, composer and teacher at the Royal College of Music for almost 50 years. Career Marmaduke Miller Barton was born in Manchester, the son of a United Methodist Free Church minister, He was educated at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London under one of the first 50 scholarships. His teachers were John Francis Barnett (piano) and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He met Hamish MacCunn at this time and the two became lifelong friends. He made piano duet arrangements of two of MacCunn’s orchestral works, and some smaller works were dedicated to him. He and MacCunn played piano duets in some student concerts. In 1888 he was awarded a travelling scholarship, enabling him to study with the Franz Liszt pupil Bernhard Stavenhagen in Weimar. and also appeared at the Albert Hall, the Proms (he played the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor on 11 October 1911 under Sir Henry Wood), and in the provinces. He gave frequent solo recitals in London, and he toured South Africa and the Netherlands. and some piano pieces. His students included: Marion Scott, Cyril Rootham, Clara Butt, Lloyd Powell, and the entertainer Anna Russ

Marthe Servine

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Marthe Servine (1862 in Paris – 1960 ) was a French-American composer and pianist, primarily known for her works for solo piano, and songs. Biography Marthe Servine was born in Paris to French parents. She was brought to the U.S. at the age of 10 and became an American citizen. and made her debut at the age of 12. At her debut she played the Mendelssohn G Minor Concerto, under Xaver Scharwenka. At this concert, she performed exclusively her compositions, After 1919, but before 1924, Servine moved back to Europe, where the captions on her manuscripts show that she spent some time in France and some in Britain. The performers included the Roth Quartet and herself at the piano. The concert was well received, garnering several positive reviews from major New York newspapers. In the New York Sun review, she was described as a “vigorous person of middle years”. F. D. Perkins, writing in the New-York Tribune shortly after the concert, described her music as showing “solid and well-schooled musicianship and knowledge of form and generosity regarding melody”. Her style was “pervaded by the atmosphere of late nineteenth-century romanticism… it occasionally called to mind Brahms and Cesar Fra

Martin Karl Hasse

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Martin Karl Woldemar Hasse (20 March 1883 – 31 July 1960) was a German university lecturer, composer and music writer. Life Born in Dohna, Hasse was the son of the pastor Martin Hasse (1852-1915) and his wife Cora († 1922), née Wittich. In 1910 in Heidelberg, he married Aline (1881-1936), a daughter of (1854-1907), pastor and writer. Together with his wife he had three daughters. Of these is known by name: Ruth Hasse (1913-2009), violinist, married to Wilhelm Stross (1907-1966), professor at the Munich Academy of Music. Hasse received his first musical instruction as Thomaner-Alumni in Leipzig. This was followed by practical musical training at the Leipzig Conservatory with Stephan Krehl, Adolf Ruthardt, Karl Straube and Arthur Nikisch. On Karl Straube’s recommendation, he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Max Reger and Felix Mottl; at the university there he listened to musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and Hugo Riemann as well as lectures on history, philosophy and German studies. After a temporary activity as assistant to Philipp Wolfrum in Heidelberg and in Chemnitz as cantor, he became municipal music director in Bielefeld in 1910; in

Martin Röder

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Martin Röder, sometimes as Martin Roeder, (7 April 1851 – 10 June 1895) was a German composer, conductor, voice teacher, music journalist, and writer on music. Born and educated as a musician in Berlin, he began his career as the chorus master at the Teatro Dal Verme (1873-1880). There he also worked as an editor for the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano; also writing for that publication under the pseudonym Raro Miedtner. He worked as an opera conductor in various European cities before embarking as a teacher of singing at conservatories in Berlin, Dublin, and Boston. He died in Boston in 1895. Life and career Martin Röder was born in Berlin, Germany on 7 April 1851. He studied composition with Friedrich Kiel and violin with Joseph Joachim. a post he gained through the assistance of Casa Ricordi. He founded the Società del Quartetto Corale in Milan in 1875 which became well known from performances of vocal quartets. He simultaneously worked as an opera conductor in the 1870s in Bologna, Turin, and the Azores. also working for that publication as an editor. References Citations Bibliography * *

Martin Shaw (composer)

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Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (9 March 1875 – 24 October 1958) was an English composer, conductor, and (in his early life) theatre producer. His over 300 published works include songs, hymns, carols, oratorios, several instrumental works, a congregational mass setting (the Anglican Folk Mass), and four operas including a ballad opera. Biography Shaw delighted in describing himself as a cockney, a title he could claim under Samuel Rowlands’ definition of one born within the sound of the Bow Bells. Born 9 March 1875, he was the eldest of nine children, son of the Bohemian and eccentric James Fallas Shaw (1842–1907), composer of church music and organist of Hampstead parish church and Charlotte Elizabeth Shaw, née James (1850–1912). He was the elder brother of the composer and influential educator Geoffrey Shaw and the actor Julius “Jules” Brinkley Shaw (born in 1882, Clapham, Surrey now South West London), whose career was cut short by the First World War – he was killed in March 1918. He studied under Charles Villiers Stanford at the Royal College of Music, together with a generation of composers that included Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Samuel Coleridge-Taylo

Martinus Sieveking

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Martinus Sieveking (March 24, 1867 – November 26, 1950) was a Dutch virtuoso pianist, composer, teacher and inventor born in Amsterdam. Also known as Martin Sieveking, he performed as a soloist around Europe and the United States during his active career and taught in France and the U.S. after he retired from performing. He is sometimes referred to as The Flying Dutchman due to his Dutch heritage and extremely flighty nature. At the peak of his career, he was pronounced by the New York and Boston critics as one of the four greatest living pianists of that time along with Ignace Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal and Rafael Joseffy. He was also an inventor of both musical and non-musical devices that he had patented in various countries. Early life Sieveking came from an old and aristocratic family, which dated its ancestry back to the fifteenth century. He grew up in a musical atmosphere, as his mother Johanna De Jong was a well-known opera singer and his father, also named Martinus, was a trained musician, choral conductor and a composer with published works in the Netherlands. He was the second in a family of four; his older sibling was named Johanna like his mother, and Martinus was fo

Mary Augusta Wakefield

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Mary Augusta Wakefield (19 August 1853 – 16 September 1910) was a British composer, contralto, festival organiser, and writer. Biography Early life Wakefield was born in Kendal, where her paternal ancestors had been members of the Quaker community before converting to Anglicanism. Her parents William Henry Wakefield and Augusta Hagarty Wakefield had four sons (including the cricketer William Wakefield) and two other daughters. Her mother was from an Irish-American background. In the 1860s her father took over the family business, which included a bank and a gunpowder mill. In 1868, he built Sedgwick House a few miles outside Kendal. (The family gunpowder mill started in Sedgwick in the 18th century, but production had moved to a new site in 1850). As a child, Wakefield learned traditional border folksongs from her nurses, which she later included in her collection Northern Songs. As a teenager she was sent to a finishing school in Brighton. She studied music in London with Alberto Randegger and George Henschel, and in Rome with Giovanni Sgambati. Later life Wakefield corresponded with and visited many musicians and writers, including Lucy Broadwood, J. A. Fuller Maitland, Herbert O

Mary Carr Moore

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Mary Carr Moore (6 August 1873 – 9 January 1957) was an American composer, conductor, vocalist, and music educator of the twentieth century. She is best remembered today for her association with the musical life of the West Coast. Early life Moore was born Mary Louise Carr on August 6, 1873, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Unitarian minister Sarah Pratt Carr and her husband Byron Oscar Carr. She passed her childhood in Memphis and Louisville, Kentucky, until the age of ten, when her family moved to the West Coast. Here she would live for the rest of her life. Gifted musically from an early age, Moore began her studies in San Francisco, taking composition lessons from J. H. Pratt and studying singing with H. B. Pasmore. She had begun teaching and composing by 1889; a song she wrote that year was later published. In 1894 she took the lead in her first operetta, The Oracle, when it was premiered by an amateur group in San Francisco. The following year, she gave up singing to devote herself fully to teaching and composition. In 1895 she began teaching in Lemoore, California, moving to Seattle in 1901. Narcissa While in Seattle, Moore began work on her second, and most ambitious, stage work.

Mary Dickenson-Auner

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Mary Dickenson-Auner (24 October 1880 – 25 May 1965) was an Irish violinist, composer, and music teacher. She wrote symphonies, oratorios, operas, and chamber works, with some of her early works appearing under the pseudonym Frank Donnell. During her career as a professional violinist, she performed the world premiere of Béla Bartók’s Violin Sonata No. 1 and also worked with Arnold Schoenberg. Early life and education Mary Frances Dorothea Dickenson was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a well-connected Irish family. Her mother was Mary Frances MacDonnell, the daughter of Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell, a rector of Trinity College and cofounder of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. * Dreyfus, Kay, Margarethe Engelhardt-Krajanek, and Barbara Bold: Die Geige war ihr Leben. Drei Geigerinnen im Portrait (Strasshof: Vier Viertel Verlag, 2000), pp. 99–231.

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

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Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (15 March 1856 – 12 September 1938 ) was an American soprano and composer. Life Early life and education Mary Elizabeth Turner was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner, who had just moved to the midwest from Maine. After her birth, the Turners moved to Oquwakwa. Turner learned music from both of her parents, who were musically inclined, but it was her mother who gave her initial piano lessons. Turner Salter was also a member of the League of American Pen Women alongside such composers as Amy Beach, Gena Branscombe, and Phyllis Fergus. Reception and legacy A 1907 review of tenor John Braun’s recital in The New York Times described three of her songs as showing “cleverness and brilliancy.” A 1930 issue of The Musical Courier noted that Turner Salter was “frequently called one of the foremost song composers of America.” Her music was described by D.A. Clippinger, singer and author from Chicago, as being of the highest quality, stating, I often wondered what manner of person it was that had this peculiar gift for vocal writing, who could write songs without dreary spots in them, with no padding, with no evidence that i

Mary Knight Wood

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Mary Knight Wood Mason (17 April 1857 – 20 December 1944) was an American pianist, music educator, and composer. She was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Lieutenant-governor, manufacturer and philanthropist Horatio G. Knight and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut, where she studied music with Karl Klauser. She continued her education at the Charlier Institute in New York, and then went to Boston to study under Benjamin Johnson Lang. She had further studies in New York under Albert Ross Parsons, John Henry Cornell, and Henry Holden Huss. Knight married Charles Greenleaf Wood of Boston in 1879. Her husband was a merchant and officer for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. They lived in Boston until 1885, when they returned to Easthampton and soon settled into high society in New York City, living in an apartment in Washington Square. She became an early member of the Manuscript Society of New York, and saw several of her compositions performed during their concerts. She began summering in Onteora Park, where in 1890 she met Mark Twain. In 1891 the Woods built a summer cottage named “Witchwood” at Onteora Park;

Mary Lucas

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Mary Lucas (born Mary Anderson Juler, 24 May 1882–14 January 1952), sometimes referred to as Mary Anderson Lucas, was an English composer and pianist. Biography Her father Henry Juler (1842-1921) was a doctor, and her mother Amy Margaret Churchill Anderson (1860-1922). She was one of five children, growing up in London and (from 1891) Chipstead in Surrey. In 1899 she studied piano at the Dresden Conservatory with Carlo Albanesi, then (1900-1903) at the Royal Academy of Music, and later in life, during the 1920s, she returned to education, studying composition at the Royal College of Music with Herbert Howells and R.O. Morris. She married entrepreneur and inventor Ralph Lucas in 1903, and their son Colin became a noted architect. During the 1920s and 1930s they were living a 10, St Germans Place, Blackheath, London SE13. They later moved to Cookham in Berkshire. Music Lucas gave up composition for over 25 years after she married in 1903 and had a family (two sons and a daughter), but returned in the late 1920s, when the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra performed her Rhapsody (1928) and Fugue (1929). The Stratton String Quartet championed her music, performing her quartets for the Lon

Mary Rosselli Nissim

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Mary Rosselli Nissim (9 June 1864 - 26 September 1937) was an Italian composer, designer and pianist who composed four operas and many songs. She won at least two major awards. Life and career Rosselli Nissim was born in Florence to Janet Nathan and Pellegrino Rosselli. She married Cesare Nissim and they had three children. She studied music with her mother and with Giuseppe Menichetti. In 1896, Rosselli Nissim’s opera Nephta won Honorable Mention at the Vienna Steiner contest. Her work in industrial design won a prize at the 1911 Turin International, an exhibition of industry and work. She died in Viareggio, Italy, in 1937. *Nephta Orchestra *Canzone Anacreontica (bass soloist, chorus, and orchestra) Vocal *“Avventuroso Augello” (madrigal) *“Barcarola” *“Canzonetta” *“Cavallino, Scherzetto” *“Dolce Aprile” *“Gira la Ruota Come l’Amor” *“L’homme Beau” *“Le Gaga” *“Le Petit Homme Gres” *“Le Petit Japonais” *“Voglio Rubare” (madrigal) References

Mary Wurm

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Mary J. A. Wurm (her surname was originally Würm) (18 May 1860 in Southampton – 21 January 1938 in Munich) was an English pianist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Wurm was born as Mary Josephine Agnes Würm in England, the sister of Alice Verne-Bredt, Mathilde Verne, and Adela Verne. She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied music in Frankfurt am Main at the Hoch Conservatory, where she joined Olga Radecki in the first composition class the Conservatory opened to women. Her teachers included Clara Schumann, Joachim Raff, Elisabeth Caland and Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women’s orchestra in Berlin. She wrote a piano school according to Caland´s teachings. Her nephew was John Vallier. In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover. Works Selected works include: *Mag auch heiss das Scheiden brennen *Christkindleins Wiegenlied aus des Knaben Wunderhorn (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn) *Wiegenlied im Sommer (Text: Robert Reinick) *Praktische Vorschule zur Caland-Lehre, Hannover 1914 Further reading Caland, Elis

Mathilde Kralik

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Mathilde Aloisia Kralik von Meyrswalden (3 December 1857, in Linz – 8 March 1944) was an Austrian composer. Biography Mathilde Kralik was the daughter of Bohemian glass industrialist Wilhelm Kralik von Meyrswalden (1807–1877) from Eleonorenhain. After the death of his first wife Anna Maria Pinhak (1814–1850), he married Louise Lobmeyr (1832–1905) on 28 May 1851. Mathilde was the fourth of five children from his second marriage to Louise née Lobmeyr. Her brother was Richard Kralik von Meyrswalden, the poet philosopher, historian and arts administrator. Kralik was born in Linz, and her first compositions were lyrical poems and hymns based on her brother’s works. The family regularly had music in the house, as her father William played the violin and her mother Louise played piano. In this way the musically gifted children not only learned the milieu of classical chamber music, but also string orchestra furnished music of the time by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Early on the parents recognized the musical gifts of their daughter, and the financial circumstances of her father allowed Mathilde the best music teachers of her time. Kralik took piano lessons from her mother, and later was

Matteo Marangoni

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Matteo Marangoni (12 July 1876 – 1 June 1958) was an Italian art historian, art critic and composer. Marangoni’s art criticism aimed at identifying pure figurative values, in which an artwork’s poetic values are identified. His books are positively influenced by the school of Benedetto Croce and Heinrich Wölfflin, clarifying their concepts on the basis of observation and following logic as a science of pure concept. Life Born in Florence, Italy, to Maria Augusta Malvisi and her physics-teacher husband Carlo Marangoni, he took his secondary school diploma in 1896 but did not continue with his studies straight away, instead moving to London to indulge his passion for music. There he performed as a pianist and composed short pieces for voice and piano – Barcarola in 1897, Serenata in 1900, Le pastorelle montanine di Franco Sacchetti in 1901, Tre canti di Giacomo Leopardi in 1902 and Gavotta, also in 1902. He later returned to Florence and attended the Facoltà di scienze, graduating in 1905 in anthropology. He then moved to Paris and back to London as well as travelling in Germany, becoming interested in the figurative arts. On his second return to Italy in 1909 he took an art history

Maude Valérie White

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Maude Valérie White (1855 – 1937) was a French-born English composer who became one of the most successful songwriters of the Victorian period. Early years Although born near Dieppe in Normandy to upper middle-class parents, White and her family moved to England when she was only one year old. She spent her childhood in Heidelberg, Paris, and England, and played the piano from an early age. At seventeen she had already composed her first song. She studied composition with Oliver May while in London, and counterpoint and harmony with W. S. Rockstro while living in Torquay. In 1876 White went to the Royal Academy of Music after she finally persuaded her reluctant mother to allow her to pursue music as a career. While at the academy she studied composition with George Alexander Macfarren, and set poems written in English, German, and French. White was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Mendelssohn Scholarship, which she received in 1879. Her father died while she was a child, but when White’s mother died in 1881, White was devastated, and went to Chile to be with her sister and to recuperate and recover her health. Upon returning to London in 1882, she thrust herself into a

Maurice Delage

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Maurice Charles Delage (13 November 1879 – 19 or 21 September 1961) was a French composer and pianist. Life and career Maurice Charles Delage was born and died in Paris. He first worked as a clerk for a maritime agency in Paris, and later as a fishmonger in Boulogne. He also served for a time in the French army, before embarking on a music career in his twenties. A student of Ravel, who proclaimed him one of the supreme French composers of his day, and member of Les Apaches, he was influenced by travels to India and Japan in 1912, when he accompanied his father on a business trip. Ravel’s “La vallée des cloches” from Miroirs was dedicated to Delage. Delage’s best known piece is Quatre poèmes hindous (1912–1913). His Ragamalika (1912–1922), based on the classical music of India, is significant in that it calls for prepared piano; the score specifies that a piece of cardboard be placed under the strings of the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum. Selected works ;Poèmes symphoniques * Conté par la mer (1908) * Les Bâtisseurs de ponts (1913) after Rudyard Kipling * Overture to Ballet de l’avenir (1923) * Contrerimes (193

Maurice Duhamel

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Maurice Duhamel (23 February 1884 – 5 February 1940) was the pen-name of Maurice Bourgeaux, a Breton musician, writer and activist who was a leading figure in Breton nationalism and federalist politics in the years before World War II. Early life The son of a coal merchant, Duhamel was born in Rennes. From his youth, he displayed great musical talent, composing his own original works and collecting and arranging traditional Breton songs. He also worked as a journalist for music magazines. Meanwhile, he learned the Breton language and studied Breton literature. At the age of 19, he reported for a local newspaper on the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, which took place in the premises of his high school in Rennes. Like his father he was a Dreyfusard and a Freemason. However, he left Freemasonry because he was shocked by the Affaire Des Fiches in 1905. Political activity He joined the Breton Regionalist Union (Union Régionaliste Bretonne) and composed the piano score for Bro Gozh ma Zadoù, the song chosen by the Union to be the Breton national anthem. In 1912, he resigned from the Union, along with Emile Masson, Camille Le Mercier d’Erm, François Vallée and Loeiz Herrieu, to found the more le

Maurice Emmanuel

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Marie François Maurice Emmanuel (2 May 1862 – 14 December 1938) was a French composer of classical music and musicologist born in Bar-sur-Aube, a small town in the Champagne-Ardenne region of northeastern France. It was there where he first heard his grandfather’s printing press which according to his granddaughter, Anne Eichner-Emmanuel, first gave him the feeling of rhythm. Brought up in Dijon, Maurice Emmanuel became a chorister at Beaune cathedral after his family moved to the city in 1869. According to his granddaughter, Anne Eichner-Emmanuel, he was influenced by the brass bands on the streets of Beaune and by the “songs of the grape pickers which imprinted melodies in his memory so different from all the classical music he was taught in the academy of music.” Subsequently, he went to Paris, and in 1880 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where his composition teacher was Léo Delibes. His other teachers included Théodore Dubois (harmony) and Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (history). Emmanuel also studied classics, poetics, philology and art history at the Sorbonne and École du Louvre. Delibes’ strong disapproval of his early modal compositions (Cello Sonata, Op. 2, Sonatina

Maurice Le Boucher

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Maurice Georges Eugène Le Boucher (25 May 1882 – 9 September 1964), was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a student of Gabriel Fauré. In 1907, Le Boucher won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. Later, he became professor at the École Niedermeyer and organist at St. Germain-l’Auxerrois in Paris. He wrote an Organ Symphony in E major, which was published in 1917 by Éditions Leduc, Paris. He wrote a drama on Oscar Wilde la Duchesse de Padoue which was published by Salabert in 1931. In 1920, he was appointed as director of the Montpellier Conservatory, a post he held for 22 years. His students included André David. Le Boucher died in 1964 in Paris. Works * Symphonie pour orgue en Mi Majeur (1917) * Ballade en Ré Mineur, clarinet and orchestra (clarinet and piano) * La Duchesse de Padoue (libretto by P. Grosfil after Wilde) (1931) References External links * Musimen

Maurice Ravel

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Early years#

Ravel was born in the Basque town of Ciboure, France, near Biarritz, 18 km mi from the Spanish border. His father, Pierre-Joseph Ravel, was an educated and successful engineer, inventor and manufacturer, born in Versoix near the Franco-Swiss border. His mother, Marie, née Delouart, was Basque but had grown up in Madrid. In 19th-century terms, Joseph had married beneath his status – Marie was illegitimate and barely literate – but the marriage was a happy one. Some of Joseph’s inventions were successful, including an early internal combustion engine and a notorious circus machine, the “Whirlwind of Death”, an automotive loop-the-loop that was a major attraction until a fatal accident at Barnum and Bailey’s Circus in 1903. Both Ravel’s parents were Roman Catholics; Marie was also something of a free-thinker, a trait inherited by her elder son. He was baptised in the Ciboure parish church six days after he was born. The family moved to Paris three months later, and there a younger son, Édouard, was born. (He was close to his father, whom he eventually followed into the engineering profession.) Among his earliest memories were folk songs she sang to him. The household was not rich, but the family was comfortable, and the two boys had happy childhoods. Ravel senior delighted in taking his sons to factories to see the latest mechanical devices, but he also had a keen interest in music and culture in general. In later life, Ravel recalled, “Throughout my childhood I was sensitive to music. My father, much better educated in this art than most amateurs are, knew how to develop my taste and to stimulate my enthusiasm at an early age.” There is no record that Ravel received any formal general schooling in his early years; his biographer Roger Nichols suggests that the boy may have been chiefly educated by his father. Without being anything of a child prodigy, he was a highly musical boy. Charles-René found that Ravel’s conception of music was natural to him “and not, as in the case of so many others, the result of effort”. Ravel’s earliest known compositions date from this period: variations on a chorale by Schumann, variations on a theme by Grieg and a single movement of a piano sonata. They survive only in fragmentary form. In 1888 Ravel met the young pianist Ricardo Viñes, who became not only a lifelong friend, but also one of the foremost interpreters of his works, and an important link between Ravel and Spanish music. The two shared an appreciation of Wagner, Russian music, and the writings of Poe, Baudelaire and Mallarmé. At the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, Ravel was much struck by the new Russian works conducted by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This music had a lasting effect on both Ravel and his older contemporary Claude Debussy, as did the exotic sound of the Javanese gamelan, also heard during the Exposition. Aged fourteen, he took part in a concert at the Salle Érard along with other pupils of Decombes, including Reynaldo Hahn and Alfred Cortot.

Max Brod

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Max Brod (; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was an Israeli author, music critic, composer, and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka and composer Leoš Janáček. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka. Kafka named Brod as his literary executor, instructing Brod to burn his unpublished work upon his death. Brod refused and had Kafka’s works published instead. In 1939, as the Nazis occupied Prague, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, taking with him a suitcase of Kafka’s papers, many of them unpublished notes, diaries, and sketches. Biography Max Brod was born in Prague in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic). At the age of four, Brod was diagnosed with a severe spinal curvature and spent a year in corrective harness; despite this he would be a hunchback his entire life. He would later pass stewardship of the Kafka materials in his possession to Esther in his will. Another close companion was Felix Weltsch. Their friendship lasted 75 years, from the elementary school of the Piarists in Prague to Weltsch’s death in 1964. He incre

Max d'Ollone

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Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d’Ollone (13 June 1875 – 15 May 1959) was a 20th-century French composer. Life and career Born in Besançon, d’Ollone started composing very early, entering the Paris Conservatoire at 6, winning many prizes, receiving the encouragement of Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Thomas and Delibes. His teachers at the Conservatoire were Lavignac, Massenet, Gédalge and Lenepveu; he won the Prix de Rome in 1897. He was director of music in Angers, professor at the Paris Conservatoire and director of the Opéra-Comique. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he wrote three important articles for Le Ménestrel (29 July, 9 and 16 December) arguing for a more populist approach to composition. At the time of the German occupation of France during World War II, d’Ollone was a member of the Groupe Collaboration. In addition to the works listed below, d’Ollone produced a number of song cycles (including “Les Chants d’Ailleurs”; " Les Chants d’Exil"; “Impressions d’Automne”), which demonstrate a considerable mastery of the French mélodie. There are several works for orchestra, solo instrument and orchestra, and piano wor

Max Donner

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Max Donner (22 May 1883/4 – 30 May 1962) was an American violinist, composer, conductor, and teacher of violin, chamber music, and composition. Life and career The son of Adolph and Bertha Donner, he grew up in New York City and studied violin with Henry Schradieck. At age fifteen, Donner traveled to Europe and studied at Berlin’s Stern Conservatory under Gustav Hollaender (violin) and Hans Pfitzner (composition). At Stern, Donner was the first American to be awarded the Gustav Hollaender Medal. He then studied with César Thomson and Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels, where he won first prize in violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Following a tour of Europe as a violin soloist, Donner returned to the United States, where he continued to give recitals, including with Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Donner served as the concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony under the direction of conductor Henry Kimball Hadley. He then moved to California, where he joined the violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and taught violin, at one time heading the violin department of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. As a conductor, Donner worked with Los Angeles’ WPA Fe

Max Ettinger

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Max Ettinger (27 December 1874 – 19 July 1951) was an Austrian-German-Swiss composer and conductor. Life Born in Lemberg, Ettinger was the grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Lemberg and the son of the landowner Herz Ettinger. His mother, Ernestine Landau, gave him his first musical education. He was taught by tutors on his parents’ estate and took his school-leaving examination at the old German-Polish grammar school in Lemberg. In Berlin, he tried to get accepted at the Hochschule für Musik, but was not admitted. He received private lessons there in 1899 from Heinrich von Herzogenberg and Heinrich van Eyken in harmony and composition. From 1900 to 1903, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Viktor Gluth and Ludwig Thuille, with the latter privately until 1905. In 1906, he worked as a bandmaster in Saarbrücken and in 1910 in Lübeck, but he gave up this job because of health reasons. From 1911, he lived again in Munich as a composer, where he married Josephine Krisack in 1913. In the 1920s, Ettinger was very successful as a composer, his literary operas were performed in Nuremberg, Hamburg, Munich, Kiel and Leipzig. He also worked aga

Max Fiedler

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August Max Fiedler (21 December 1859, Zittau – 1 December 1939, Stockholm) was a German conductor and composer, He was noted as an interpreter of Brahms. He first studied the piano with his father, who conducted the accompanying orchestra when Max made his first public appearance at the age of ten in 1870, playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A, K.488. Continuing his musical studies in Zittau with the organist Gustav Albrecht, who had been a pupil of Mendelssohn, Fiedler then entered the Leipzig Conservatory in 1877, where the director, Carl Reinecke, was his piano teacher. He graduated in 1882, with exceptional honours, alongside his friend and colleague Karl Muck. Fiedler also studied composition and was active in the city’s musical life, developing a close relationship with Julius Spengel, a friend of Brahms. Fiedler himself knew Brahms sufficiently well for the composer to ask him to substitute for him in a performance of his Piano Concerto No. 2, an invitation which Fiedler politely declined. He almost certainly heard Brahms conduct the first Leipzig performances of his Symphony No. 2 early in 1878 (though Ethel Smyth later wrote that Brahms “had the knack of rubbing orchestras

Max Josef Beer

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Max Josef Beer (25 August 1851 – 25 November 1908 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer. Max Josef Beer studied with Felix Otto Dessoff and at a very young age received a commission from the Austrian government for the compositions Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Auferweckung des Lazarus, and a number of songs. On 15 February 1871, his opera seria in four acts, Elizabeth of Hungary, premiered at Milan’s La Scala, starring Elisabetta Sternberg (soprano), Louis Auguste Arsandaux (tenor), Jean-Louis Lasalle (baritone) and Joseph-Victor Warot (bass). Beer also wrote Der Streik der Schmiede, a verismo one-act opera, which unsuccessfully premiered at Augsburg, 1897. He died in Vienna at age 57 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery. Other compositions *Fünf Minnelieder for pianoforte *Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme for voice with piano accompaniment *Eichendorffiana, 9 piano pieces *Ghazals, 6 piano pieces *Lyrisches Intermezzo, four impressions for piano *Sturm und Stille, 6 songs based on poems by C. Stögmann, Oskar von Redwitz, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Rückert *Des Sängers Fluch, after Ludwig Uhland, for declamation with piano accompaniment *Ein Fastnachtsmärchen, 8 Carnival pieces for

Max Meyer-Olbersleben

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Max Meyer-Olbersleben (5 April 1850 in Olbersleben – 31 December 1927 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist. Biography Meyer-Olbersleben studied with Carl Müllerhartung and Franz Liszt at the Weimar Orchestra School, and with Josef Rheinberger, Franz Wüllner, and Peter Cornelius at the Munich Conservatory. After graduation, he became Professor of piano and theory in Weimar. Later, he was Professor of counterpoint and composition at the Bavarian State Conservatory of Music in Würzburg, and became its director from 1907 to 1920. Some notable students were Adolf Sandberger, Heinrich Steinbeck, Bernard Homola and Marc Roland. In addition, he conducted the Würzburg Liedertafel from 1879 and was Court Kapellmeister of Prince-Bishop of Würzburg. Meyer-Olberleben became known primarily as a composer of songs and choral works. His son is the composer Ernst Ludwig Meyer-Olbersleben. Selected works ;Stage * Clare Dettin, Opera in 3 acts, Op. 41 (1894) ;Orchestral * Feierklänge, Concert Overture, Op. 18 (1884) * Fest-Ouverture, Op. 30 (1888) * Sonnenhymnus, Tone Poem, Op. 90 ;Concertante * Concerto in D major for viola and orchestra, Op. 112 ;Chamber music * Piano Trio in E major, Op.

Max Reger

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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as Gesang der Verklärten (1903), (1909), Der Einsiedler and the Hebbel Requiem (both 1915). Biography Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger was the first child of Josef Reger, a school teacher and amateur musician, and his wife Katharina Philomena. The devout Catholic family moved to Weiden in 1874. Max had only one sister, Emma, after three other siblings died in childhood. When he turned five, Reger learned organ, violin and cello from his father and piano from his mother. From 1884 to 1889, Reger took piano and organ lessons from Adalbert Lindner, one of his father’s students. During this time, he f

Max von Schillings

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Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was the chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schillings’ opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was performed at the Metropolitan Opera. The composer married Barbara Kemp, the soprano who sang the title role. Before Mona Lisa, Schillings had already written three operas: Ingwelde (1894), Der Pfeifertag (1899) and Der Moloch (1906). Biography Born in Düren, Max von Schillings was brother to the photographer Carl Georg Schillings. He received his first musical training in violin, piano and theory at the same time as his formal education in Bonn. His teachers were Caspar Joseph Brambach and Otto von Königslow. Schillings later studied jurisprudence, philosophy, literature and art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. On October 1, 1892, he married his cousin Caroline Josefa Peill in Römlinghoven. They were divorced in 1923, and on June 11, 1923, he married the opera singer Barbara Kemp in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Max Schillings was given a professorship by the Royal Bavarian Ministry of the Interior (Königliches Bayeris

Max Wagenknecht

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Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht (14 August 1857 – 7 May 1922) was a German composer of organ and piano music. Biography He was born in Woldisch Tychow, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia and spent most of his life in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region where he was music teacher at the Franzburg Teachers’ College and in his later life organist and composer in Anklam. He is most well known for his Opus 5, 58 Vor- und Nachspiele (“58 Preludes and Postludes”), completed in July 1889 in Franzburg. The work demonstrates a remarkable gift for melodic organ compositions, bridging traditional church music and the late 19th-century romantic music era. Works Wagenknecht published an unknown number of musical works. The following have been preserved: * Three Polkas, Op. 1, for piano. This work was most likely composed while he was studying at the conservatory in Berlin * Rheinländer, Op. 2, for violin or flute with piano accompaniment (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn) * Three Songs, Op. 3, with texts by Schanz, Kletke and Reinick, with piano accompaniment (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn) * 58 Vor- und Nachspiele, Op. 5, for organ (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn, 1889) * Opus 10, 13 and 14: songs with

Max Weil

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Max Weil (November 21, 1869 — February 18, 1944) was an American violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He is chiefly remembered for his contributions to music in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada. His parents were Samuel Weil and Bertha Weil (née Simon). His family was Jewish. There he was a pupil of violinists Adolf Brodsky and Hans Sitt. After returning to the United States, Weil gave his first public performance at the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (RCKI) in Philadelphia where he played as a soloist during religious services in September 1890. and that same month performed violin duo works with Harry Herzberg in the RCKI’s chamber music concert series. He continued to perform regularly during concerts, religious services, and public events such as funerals and weddings at the RCKI in 1891. On March 12, 1891, Weil made his New York recital debut at Steinway Hall. His repertoire in that concert included violin concertos by Louis Spohr and the Polonaise de Concert, Op. 4 by Henryk Wieniawski. He also performed songs with tenor Henry Duzensi in that concert and with pianist Max Liebling. In June 1891 he was the violin soloist in a concert given at Philad

Maximilian Steinberg

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Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg (; – 6 December 1946) was a Russian composer of classical music. Though once considered the hope of Russian music, Steinberg is far less well known today than his mentor (and father-in-law) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his rival Igor Stravinsky, or his student protege Dmitri Shostakovich. In 2014, Steinberg’s choral concerto Passion Week was rediscovered and performed for the first time. It was instantly praised as a masterpiece by both lovers and performers of Classical music. This has triggered a revival of interest in the life and music of Maximilian Steinberg. Life Steinberg was born into a Lithuanian Jewish family in Vilna, Russian Empire (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania). His father, Osey (Hosea) Steinberg (Joshua Steinberg), was a leading scholar of Hebrew. In 1901, he went to Saint Petersburg, to study biology at the university there. He graduated in 1906. In the meantime he also started studying at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He entered Anatoly Lyadov’s harmony class, moving on to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s harmony class and Alexander Glazunov’s counterpoint class. His considerable talent in composition soon became clear, encouraged especia

May Brahe

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Mary Hannah (May) Brahe (née Dickson) (6 November 188414 August 1956) was an Australian composer, best known for her songs and ballads. Her most famous song by far is “Bless This House”, recorded by John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, Lesley Garrett and Bryn Terfel. According to Move.com.au: “She was the only Australian woman composer to win local an international recognition before World War II,” having “290 of her 500 songs published. Of these, 248 were written under her own name, the remainder under aliases. Biography Mary Hannah Dickson was born in East Melbourne in 1884. She was known as May from an early age. Her father was native born and her mother Scottish. She studied piano with her mother, then at Stratherne Girls’ School, Hawthorn, and later with Mona McBurney and the singer Alice Rebotarro. In 1903 she married Frederick Brahe, the couple had two sons and a daughter. By 1910 she was playing in a trio with George W. L. Marshall-Hall, and accompanying singers. In 1912 she left for London to establish herself as a composer, leaving her children behind in the care of family. Her first success was the 1915 song “Down Here,” beginning “It’s Quiet Down Here” with lyrics by P.J. O

Mel Bonis

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Mélanie Hélène “Mel” Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937) was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. She attended the Paris Conservatoire, where her teachers included César Franck, Ernest Guiraud, and Auguste Bazille. Life Bonis was born to a Parisian lower-middle-class family and was educated according to the strict norms of Catholic morality. Endowed with great talent and musical sensitivity, she taught herself to play the piano. Initially, her parents did not encourage her music, but when she was twelve they were persuaded by a professor at the Conservatoire to allow her to receive formal music lessons. In 1874, at the age of sixteen, she began her studies at the Conservatoire, and attended classes in accompaniment, harmony, and composition, where she shared the benches with Claude Debussy and Gabriel Pierné and received tuition from César Franck. At the Conservatoire, she met and fell in love with Amédée Landély Hettich (5 February 1856 – 5 April 1937), a student, poet, and singer, setting some of his poems to

Michele Esposito

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Michele Esposito (29 September 1855 – 19 November 1929) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist who spent most of his professional life in Dublin, Ireland. Training Esposito was born at Castellamare di Stabia, near Sorrento. As a boy, he entered the conservatory of Naples as a piano pupil of Beniamino Cesi (1845–1907, himself a favourite pupil of Thalberg), and studied composition there for 8 years under Paolo Serrao (1830–1907, teacher of Francesco Cilea and others). He was a near-contemporary of Giuseppe Martucci, and a few years the senior of Alessandro Longo, both taught by these teachers. In 1878, he went to Paris for several years. In 1879, he married Natalia Klebnikoff (1857–1944), who hailed from St Petersburg. They had four children, including the noted scholar Mario Esposito. Teacher, pianist and conductor Esposito became chief pianoforte professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 1882, and remained there for more than forty years, devoting himself to the encouragement of classical music in Dublin. He inaugurated the Royal Dublin Society chamber-music recitals, with great success, and gave piano recitals for the Society every year. He established the Dublin O

Mieczysław Karłowicz

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Mieczysław Karłowicz (, 11 December 18768 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. Life Mieczysław Karłowicz was born in Vishneva, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) into a noble family belonging to Clan Ostoja. His father Jan was a Polish linguist, lexicographer, and musician. As a child, Karłowicz studied violin, for which he later composed his only concerto. Karłowicz studied in Warsaw with Zygmunt Noskowski, Stanisław Barcewicz, Piotr Maszyński, and Gustaw Roguski. He later studied in Berlin with Heinrich Urban, to whom he dedicated his Serenade for Strings, which he composed and performed while Urban’s student. From 1906 to 1907 he studied conducting with Arthur Nikisch. Career Karłowicz’s music is of a late Romantic character. He was a great admirer of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky whose Symphony No. 6 he praised. Tchaikovsky’s influence can be heard in Karłowicz’s earlier works, most notably the E minor symphony and the Violin Concerto. Like most of the late Romantics he also fell under the considerable influence of Richard Wagner, especially with Tristan und Isolde. Nevertheless, he managed to develop an original musical language expressed

Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (composer)

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Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (September 29, 1869 in Morelia – May 25, 1941) was a Mexican composer/songwriter, pianist, and conductor. Lerdo de Tejada studied in Morelia and Mexico City. One of his most popular pieces was a song Perjura, with text by Fernando Luna y Drusina. His zarzuelas were also very popular in Mexico. He took his Orchesta Típica Lerdo (Carlo Curti’s Mexican Typical Orchestra remade) and toured the United States; one of his performances was at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He continued to tour with his own ensemble in the U.S., Cuba, and South America until his death. His compositions are classed as “Light classical.” He has been described as the first “popular composer” in Mexico. His works included many arrangements of traditional songs in addition to original works. Selected works *Las luces de los ángeles, zarzuela *Las dormilonas, zarzuela *Esther, song (1895) *Perjura, song (1901) *Consentida, song (1901) *Amparo, dedicated to Ramón Corral (1921) *Paloma blanca, song (1921) *Las golondrinas, song *El faisan, waltz *Tlálpam, intermezzo-two step, dedicated to the borough of Tlalpan, D.F. (1911) Web sources External links * Miguel Lerdo de Tejad

Miina Härma

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Miina Härma (; 9 February 1864 – 16 November 1941) was an Estonian composer, organist, choir director, and music teacher, known for being Estonia’s first professional female composer and organist. Early life and education Miina Hermann was born on 9 February 1864 at the schoolhouse of in Kõrveküla, Governorate of Livonia (present-day Estonia). Härma’s father was a schoolteacher. Personal life In 1935, Härma changed her surname from Hermann to Härma. Legacy Her greatest contribution is perhaps the fact that she took organ music to the countryside, as virtually no skilled organists gave concerts outside of towns. During Estonia SSR the in Tartu district was named after Härma. In 1965, the by was erected on Härma’s grave. The memorial monument was declared an Estonian cultural heritage monument in 1997. References

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (; 22 September 1875 – 10 April 1911) was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and Art Nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe. During his short life, he composed about 400 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings, as well as many literary works and poems. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture. Biography Childhood and early music studies Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born in Senoji Varėna, a town in southeastern Lithuania which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. His mother Adelė (Adelaidė) Ona Marija Magdalena née Radmanaitė (Radmann) (1854-1919) came from a Lutheran family of Bavarian origin, born in Vileikiai village (Lazdijai region). She finished elementary school in Seirijai. Orphaned at the age of 14, she worked as a nanny in Count Oppermann’s estate in Aniškis. His father, Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1851-1914, born

Mikhail Gnessin

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Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin (or Gnesin; ; 2 February 18835 May 1957) was a Russian Jewish composer and teacher. His grandfather Y’shayah was also a famous singer and Badchen (wedding entertainer) in Vilnius. Each of the Gnessin children appears to have possessed musical talent, and Gnessin’s three elder sisters, Evgenia, Elena and Maria, all graduated with distinction from the Moscow Conservatory. His sisters went on to found the Gnessin State Musical College (now the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music), an elite music school in Moscow in 1895. and others, the Society for Jewish Folk Music. During this period Gnessin continued to take part in Socialist activities, teaching music to factory workers at workmen’s clubs. Just prior to the Revolution, Jewish music and musicians in Russia were experiencing a nationalist boom. Figures such as Rimsky-Korsakov and Stasov were actively encouraging the establishment of such a school…both Tsarist and Soviet authorities were not too happy about this development, and gave grudging permission for the folk side of Jewish culture to be established, rather than an openly Jewish nationalist compositional movement. Paradoxically, the number of Jewish

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (; born Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov; 19 November 185928 January 1935) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and teacher. His music ranged from the late-Romantic era into the 20th century era. Biography Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov was born in 1859 at Gatchina, near St. Petersburg, where his father was a mechanic employed at the palace. He later added the name Ippolitov, his mother’s maiden name, to distinguish himself from a composer and music critic with an identical name. He studied music at home and was a choirboy at the cathedral of St. Isaac, where he also had musical instruction, before entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1875. In 1882 he completed his studies as a composition pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, whose influence was to remain strong. Ippolitov-Ivanov’s first appointment was to the position of director of the music academy and conductor of the orchestra in Tiflis, the principal city of Georgia, where he was to spend the next seven years. This period allowed him to develop an interest in the music of the region, a reflection of the general interest taken in the music of non-Slav minorities and more exotic neighbours that

Mikuláš Moyzes

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Mikuláš Moyzes (born December 6, 1872; died April 2, 1944) was a Slovak composer, organist and pedagogue. As a young man, he worked in various parts of Transleithania, in what is now Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. At the age of twenty he became an organist in Eger and two years later an organist and music teacher in Oradea. Later he became a professor of music at the teacher training institute in Čurgov, in Kláštor pod Znievom and in Prešov. He was active in the cultural and social sphere of Prešov for 36 years, from his arrival in 1908 until his death in 1944. A marble monument in the shape of a lyre was erected in his memory in Prešov. He is considered a direct predecessor of Slovak musical modernity. Life Moyzes was born into a family of teachers in Zvolenská Slatina in 1872. At the age of three, he relocated with his family to Divín, where he was first introduced to music. Later on, he completed his high school education in Banská Bystrica and Revúcá, and upon finishing high school, he opted for a teacher training institute in Kláštor pod Znievom. In 1895, the age of twenty, he became an organist in Eger. In 1908, Moyzes moved to Prešov to study at the State Teachers’ Institute

Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský

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Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský KSG (24 May 1881, Trnava – 28 May 1958, Bratislava) was a Slovak composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was popular mostly because of his songs, some becoming traditional. Life In 1900, he passed his maturita exam in Trnava. From 1900 to 1901, he studied composition at the Budapestian conservatory with Hans von Koessler. From 1901 to 1903, he studied at the conservatory in Vienna with Hermann Graedener. Finally, from 1903 to 1905, he studied organ playing in Prague with Josef Klička and composition with Carl Stecker. After his studies, he became regenschori in Zrenjanin, Serbia. In 1908, he performed together with Czech barytonist Bohumír Nepomucký on the concert tour through Europe. After returning to Trnava, in 1909, he became regenschori at the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Trnava and remained at this post until his death. Works His most known achievement is a compilation of Catholic songs Jednotný katolícky spevník (Standard Catholic hymnbook) created on demand by Spolok svätého Vojtecha (St. Vojtech Society). It was published in 1937 after about fifteen years of work and contains over 500 songs, nearly half of them auctorial. Some of the songs were take

Miloje Milojević

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Miloje Milojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милоје Милојевић; 27 October 1884 in Belgrade – 16 June 1946 in Belgrade) was a Serbian composer, musicologist, music critic, folklorist, music pedagogue, and music promoter. Biography The father of Miloje Milojević, Dimitrije, an apparel merchant, was born in the village of Dedina near the town of Kruševac. His last name was in fact Đorđević, but according to the custom at the time, he adopted a surname based on his father’s first name. Dimitrije Milojević was rather musically gifted, being self-taught in playing the flute. The mother of Miloje Milojević, Angelina, was born in Belgrade, in the Matić clerk’s family. She was also musically gifted and took private piano lessons. Miloje Milojević had a sister Vladislava, and brothers Vojislav, Vladislav, Branko, Milorad, and Borivoje, a renowned biologist. Miloje Milojević began private violin lessons at the age of five, with Karlo Mertl, an orchestra member of the National Theatre in Belgrade. His first piano teacher was his mother, Angelina. His father’s sudden death turned the family life upside-down. The changed financial situation made his mother, now a widow, move to Novi Sad where life was mo

Modest Altschuler

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Modest (Moisei Isaacovich) Altschuler (February 15, 1873 – September 12, 1963) was a cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer. He was born in Mogilev, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Belarus, into a Jewish family. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and emigrated to the United States in 1893. that soloists in the Orchestra included Mischa Elman, Josef Lhevinne, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Vassily Safanov. Shilkret also noted that the Orchestra “played for the great ballerina Pavlova and her partner Mordkin 1910 .” After disbanding the orchestra on the eve of the first World War, Altschuler moved to California, where he built a notable reputation as a teacher and performer. With help from his cousin, film executive Joe Aller, he composed and performed in film scores, including The Sea Hawk (1924), Dawn to Dawn (1933), It’s All in Your mind (1938), Buffalo Bill Rides Again (1947), and Song of My Heart (1948), He was also active in southern California’s musical community. In 1926, he organized the Glendale Symphony Orchestra. Altschuler founded a musical dynasty which includes his niece Eleanor Aller, his grand-nephew symphony conductor Leonard Slatkin, violinist Judith Aller,

Mon Schjelderup

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Mon Schjelderup (16 June 187021 November 1934) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Biography Maria Gustava Schjelderup was born in Fredrikshald (now Halden), Østfold, of parents Captain Christian Bernhard Koren Schjelderup (1819–1889) and Anne Sofie Preus Berg (1831–1898). She was also the cousin of composer Gerhard Schjelderup (1859–1933). Schjelderup grew up in a musical home, and wrote her first composition at age 14. She studied piano with Agathe Backer Grøndahl. Later she continued her studies in piano and theory at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin, and in composition at the Conservatory in Paris with Jules Massenet. In 1894 she made her public debut as pianist and composer in Christiania. She continued her study with Massenet and began working as a composer and a piano teacher at the Music Conservatory in Christiania. Mon Schjelderup never married and retired at the age of 34 due to disabling mental illness. She died in 1934 in Asker, Akershus. Works Schjelderup composed about forty songs, piano pieces, violin pieces, a sonata for violin and piano and orchestral works. Selected compositions include: For Orchestra: *Prelude to 5 Act II of The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen *Fe

Mona McBurney

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Mona Margaret McBurney (29 July 18624 December 1932) was a British pianist, teacher and composer who lived and worked in Australia. Life Mona McBurney was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, the youngest of six children of teacher and scholar Isaiah McBurney and art and music teacher Margaret McBurney. Mona studied music in Edinburgh with Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who was later a principal of the Royal Academy of Music. The family emigrated to Victoria, Australia, in 1881, and settled in Geelong. McBurney attended the Ladies’ College where her brother Samuel was principal and the University of Melbourne in 1881. In 1892 she continued her studies at the University of Melbourne as a music student with G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, graduating in 1896. After ending her studies, McBurney worked as a composer and educator. In 1907 she conducted a women’s orchestra in her Northern Ballad which was a commission for the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work Works McBurney composed an opera, a concerto for piano and orchestra, a string quartet, two choral odes, a number of piano works and about thirty songs. Selected works include: * “Ode to Dante”, 1902 * The Dalmatian, opera, libretto adapted from a popu

Monroe Rosenfeld

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Monroe H. “Rosey” Rosenfeld (died December 13, 1918) was an American songwriter and journalist. In 1895, he was described by Ernest Jarrold in Munsey’s Magazine as being in the “front rank” of successful popular song writers, with a reputation as a “graceful, prolific, and versatile composer”. Biography Rosenfeld was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Jewish German immigrants. By the early 1880s, he was working in New York City as a songwriter, often using pseudonyms such as E. Heiser and F. Belasco. He started having success around 1884 with such songs as “Climbing Up the Golden Stairs”, and “Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back”, written with Scottish-born composer Felix McGlennon and recorded by Dan Quinn. His other successes as a songwriter included “Johnny Get Your Gun” (1886, credited as F. Belasco), and his most famous work, “With All Her Faults I Love Her Still” (1888), which sold more than 100,000 copies in piano sheet music. The latter song was based on an earlier tune by Theodore Metz, but Rosenfeld was notorious for making use of lax copyright laws to claim publishing rights in his own name, and sometimes bragged that he stole some of his best tunes. Rosenfeld

Monte Carlo (composer)

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Hans von Holstein, better known as Monte Carlo (14 July 1883 — 9 June 1967), was a Danish-born American Broadway composer and author. Life Von Holstein was born in Skamlingsbanken, He came to the U.S. in 1906 to avoid studying medicine. They collaborated on a number of shows and a large number of songs. In 1930, he was living with his wife at 10 Williams Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York. In 1942, he was living at 145 West 55th Street, New York. After the death of his wife in 1956, he moved to Houston, Texas. There he became vice-president of Carsen Music Publishing, founded by his step-son, Edward C. Benjamin Sr. Songs with music or lyrics by Monte Carlo “Little Town in the old County Down” “Dinny Danny; The Irish Yacki Hula” “That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone” “Every Tear Is a Smile in an Irishman’s Heart” “By the waters of Killarney” “Just a bit of Irish lace” “Two Blue Eyes, One Little Green Isle” “My Home in the County Mayo” “The Hills of Connemara” “The Old Wooden Bridge in Athlone” Several songs became very popular after being recorded by John McCormack in the early 1920s. Shows *The Voice of McConnell by George M. Cohan, (1918; supplied songs) *Tangerine (1921) *Elsie (1923)

Moritz Moszkowski

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Moritz Moszkowski (; 23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German-Polish composer, pianist, and teacher. His brother Alexander Moszkowski was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin. Ignacy Paderewski said: “After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique.” Although less known today, Moszkowski was well respected and popular during the late nineteenth century. Life and career He was born in Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland), into a wealthy Polish-Jewish family whose parents had come to Breslau from Pilica, near Zawiercie, in 1854. He was an ardent Jew at a time when many Jews downplayed their Jewishness. He showed early talent while very young, beginning his musical training at home until 1865, when his family moved to Dresden. There he continued his piano studies at the conservatory. He moved to Berlin in 1869 to continue his studies first at the Julius Stern Conservatory, where he studied piano with Eduard Franck and composition with Friedrich Kiel, and then at Theodor Kullak’s Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, where he studied composition with Richard Wüerst and orchestration with Heinrich Dor

Mortimer Wilson

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Mortimer Wilson (August 6, 1876 – January 27, 1932) was an American composer of classical music. He also scored several musical and dramatic films in the 1920s. Wilson was born in Chariton, Iowa in Lucas County, a rural area in the south-central portion of the state. He studied organ, violin and composition with Frederick Grant Gleason at the Chicago Music College. He then studied in Leipzig, Germany with Max Reger. Upon return to the USA in 1911 he taught composition at the Atlanta Conservatory and conducted the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1916, he moved to Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia. The suite for piano trio From My Youth Op. 5 was published in 1911 (in two books of four pieces each) and premiered by the Sitting Trio. It has been recorded by the Rawlins Piano Trio. The short piano suite Silhouettes from the Screen, Op. 55 (1919) includes miniature musical portraits of William S. Hart, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Theda Bara (who is portrayed in an atonal, expressionistic style) and Douglas Fairbanks). For the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad. Douglas Fairbanks encouraged Wilson to provide a fully-fledged classical score, unusual at the time. Wilson composed lei

Mykola Leontovych

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Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych (, ; 13 December 187723 January 1921) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, and teacher. His music was inspired by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko and the Ukrainian National Music School. Leontovych specialised in a cappella choral music, ranging from original compositions to church music to elaborate arrangements of folk music. Leontovych was born and raised in Monastyrok in the Podolia province of the Russian Empire (now in Vinnytsia Oblast, west of Ukraine). He was educated as a priest in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological Seminary. With the independence of the Ukrainian State in the 1917 revolution, he moved to Kyiv, where he worked at the Kyiv Conservatory and the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama. He composed “Shchedryk” in 1914 (premiered in 1916), now known to the English-speaking world as “Carol of the Bells”. He was murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921 and is known as a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian Church, where he is also remembered for his liturgy, the first composed in the vernacular, specifically in the modern Ukrainian language. During his lifetime, Leontovych’s compositions and arrangements be

Nancy Dalberg

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Nancy Dalberg (born Nancy Hansen, 6 July 1881 – 28 September 1949) was a Danish composer. Born into a wealthy family, she studied under notable composers such as Johan Svendsen and Carl Nielsen, the latter becoming a good friend and a significant figure in her life. In addition to the orchestral works mentioned, she wrote around fifty songs, including three for voice and orchestra. Life Nancy Dalberg was born at the estate on the Danish island of Funen (Fyn), where she was raised in a manor house. Her father, Christian D. A. Hansen, was a well-off manufacturer as the founder of Chr. Hansen, a factory for chemical products for the food industry, which is still one of Denmark’s leading companies. The family was always well-off financially, which meant that Nancy didn’t have to worry about her income, which her music most of the time couldn’t promise. From a young age she was steered toward a musical career, partly due to her acquaintance with the composer Hilda Sehested, who was twenty years her senior and from the nearby Broholm estate. As was customary, she received private piano instruction from Ove Christensen, making her debut in 1907. Unfortunately her father refused her wish t

Nannie Louise Wright

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Nannie Louise Wright (June 30, 1879 March 16, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator born in Fayette, Missouri. She graduated from Howard-Payne Junior College in Fayette and the Columbia School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Wright studied piano with Mary Wood Chase in Chicago and with Josef Lhévinne in Berlin. She returned to Fayette to become the Director of Music at Howard- Payne College in 1909. Later, she served as President of the Missouri State Music Teachers’ Association and as Dean of Music at Central Methodist University’s Swinney Conservatory of Music in Fayette, where one of her students was William Gillock. Early life Wright was one of five children of Dr. Uriel Sebree Wright and Carrie Shafroth Wright. At the age of five, she started piano lessons from her mother. At the age of ten, her piano skills were advanced enough that she succeeded her late mother as organist at the First Baptist Church of Fayette. Career After graduations, Wright returned to Howard-Payne to teach. She eventually succeeded Marion Eloise Lasher as director of instrumental music in 1906. In this position, the music department at Howard-Payne expanded to include more music his

Narcisa Freixas

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Narcisa Freixas i Cruells (13 December 1859 – 20 December 1926) was a Catalan sculptor, painter and composer. She was born in Sabadell, Barcelona, the daughter of Pere Freixas Sabater, and first studied painting and sculpture with Modest Urgell i de Torcuato Tasso. However, she developed an interest in music and began the study of piano with Juan Bautista Pujol. She married Miquel Petit, a doctor who died soon afterward, and also lost her daughter at a young age. After 1900 Freixas published collections of Catalan songs and nursery rhymes, and helped foster musical education for school children in Barcelona. She died in Barcelona in 1926. Works Freixas composed for voice and instruments and was known for children’s songs. Selected compositions include: *La font del romaní for voice and piano *L’ametller (‘A mig aire de la serra veig un ametller florit’), for voice and piano *La barca (‘La doncella baixa al riu al trenc de l’alba’), for voice and piano *La son soneta, for voice and piano *Primaveral (‘On va el Sol de març revestit de festa?’), for voice and piano *L’ombra de Natzaret (‘Sentadeta va filant la Natsarena Maria’), for voice and piano *Dolorosa (‘Rient les penes fugen de

Natalia Janotha

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Natalia Janotha (8 June 18569 June 1932) was a Polish pianist and composer. Biography Natalia Janotha was born in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Juliusz Janotha, who was a composer and teacher at the Music Institute in Warsaw. She started piano lessons with her father at a young age and later studied music in Berlin with Ernst Rudorff, Woldemar Bargiel, and Clara Schumann. She also may have had lessons from Johannes Brahms. She performed her first recital in 1868 and toured Europe as a concert pianist. She was known as an interpreter of the music of Chopin, whose sister was a very close friend of her mother’s; and she received advice from Chopin’s pupil Princess Czartoryska née Radziwill. In 1885 she became the Imperial Court pianist in Berlin. She also won notoriety as a mountain climber, sometimes wearing men’s trousers. In 1883 she became the first woman to ascend Gerlach, the highest mountain in the Carpathians. She lived in London for a few years, but was deported in 1915 owing to the political circumstances of World War I, because she was the German court pianist. Then, she emigrated to The Hague, where she served as accompanist to the dancer Angèle Sydow. She died in The Ha

Nellie von Gerichten Smith

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Nellie von Gerichten Smith (April 24, 1871 – May 15, 1952) was an American composer, pianist, violinist, and writer who composed two operas. Smith was born in Sierra County, California, to Cecelia Meta Horeis and Philip Gerichten. Little is known about her education. She married Barnaby Hathaway Smith in 1893 and they moved to Prescott, Arizona, where Barnaby managed the Palace Saloon. During her time in Arizona, Smith made several quilts which remain in Arizona collections today. which was included in Women of the West, a book edited by Max Binheim and published in 1928. Smith’s musical compositions include: Operas *Lily of the Mohawks: Kateri Tekakwitha (text by Edward C. La More) *Twins of Bistritz Piano *“Calizona” *“Montezuma” *“Wait, My Little Darling” References

Niccola Spinelli

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Niccola Spinelli (29 July 1865 – 17 October 1909) was an Italian composer of operas. Born in Turin, the son of a jurist, he studied composition at the Naples Conservatory under Paolo Serrao. His opera Labilia won the second-place prize in an 1890 opera competition organized by Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno, and premiered in Rome on 9 May 1890; A basso porto was first performed in England by the Carl Rosa Co. in March 1899 at Brighton, and by the Queen’s Hall Orchestra on 11 October 1900, under Henry Wood. The opera focuses on the slums of Naples, where Spinelli used mandolins and guitars in several places in his orchestral score. The mandolinists were Florimond and Cesare Costers. The mandolins were an important part of the opera, accompanying the tenor song of the second act, and the finale of the third act. More importantly, Spinelli composed an intermezzo for mandolins and orchestra, as a prelude to the third and last act, a departure from the customary instrumentation. Philip J. Bone said that the audience reaction to the intermezzo “was extraordinary”. Bone, a music historian, added more detail about the use of mandolins by Spinelli, saying, “Spinelli makes good us

Nicola Montani

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Nicola Aloysius Montani, KCSS (6 November 1880 in Utica, New York – 11 January 1948 in Philadelphia ) was a conductor, composer, arranger, and publisher of sacred music. His earliest musical studies were in Indianapolis with his brother Gaetano, Charles Schultze, composition with H. D. Beissenherz, organ with W. H. Donley, and Leslie E. Peck. In Indianapolis he formed part of the Montani Brothers Orchestra, and was also a member of the early Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Karl Schneider. In 1903 he studied in Rome at the Conservatory of St. Cecilia, studying voice with Clara Bretschneider and future wife Catherine Sherwood, organ with Filippo Capocci, Gregorian chant with Rodolfo Kanzler and Antonio Rella. Further personal studies were pursued in Rome with Don Lorenzo Perosi, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir. In 1906 he studied Gregorian chant with the Benedictine Solesmes monks exiled on the Isle of Wight in Appuldurcombe House, including with Dom André Mocquereau and Dom Eudine. Upon his return to New York, he was music director of Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, and professor of music at the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Mahwah, NJ. He moved to Ph

Nicola van Westerhout

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Nicola van Westerhout (also Niccolò; 17 December 1857 – 21 August 1898) was an Italian composer. Biography Early life and education Of Flemish origin, the family van Westerhout settled in Apulia in the seventeenth century, first in Bari and then in Monopoli. Nicola van Westerhout, grandfather of Niccolò, moved to Mola di Bari, where the composer himself and his father, Onofrio Augustine, were both born. At the age of 13, van Westerhout composed an opera on the subject of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, showing remarkable musical talent. He was then helped, by the City Council of Mola di Bari, to move to Naples and attend the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella, where he studied composition with Nicola De Giosa, Nicola D’Arienzo and Lauro Rossi. Career and musical style Westerhout spent the rest of his life in Naples, where he established himself as a pianist and composer. In 1897, one year before his death, he returned to the Naples Conservatory as harmony teacher. While the majority of Westerhout’s compositions are instrumental and vocal chamber music, he is perhaps best known for his operatic works. His operas include: Tilde, which has been lost; Cimbelino, which was first performe

Nikolai Medtner

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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (; 5 January 1880 – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist. A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include 14 piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, two works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, a few shorter works for violin and piano, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise. His 38 Skazki (generally known as “Fairy Tales” in English but more correctly translated as “Tales”) for piano solo contain some of his most original music. Biography Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow on 24 December 1879, according to the Julian calendar, or 5 January 1880 by the Gregorian calendar. He was the son of Karl Petrovich Medtner (1846–1921) and Alexandra Karlovna Goedicke (1843–1918), and the fifth of their six children. Both of them were of German origin. Medtner took piano lessons from his mother until the age of ten. He also had lessons from his mother’s brother, Fyodor Goedicke (the father of his more famous cousin Alexander Goedicke). He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1

Nikolai Myaskovsky

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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (; ; 20 April 18818 August 1950) was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the “Father of the Soviet Symphony”. Myaskovsky was awarded the Stalin Prize five times. Early years Myaskovsky was born in Nowogieorgiewsk, near Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, the son of an engineer officer in the Russian army. After the death of his mother the family was brought up by his father’s sister, Yelikonida Konstantinovna Myaskovskaya, who had been a singer at the Saint Petersburg Opera. The family moved to Saint Petersburg in his teens. Though he learned piano and violin, he was discouraged from pursuing a musical career, and entered the military. However, a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony conducted by Arthur Nikisch in 1896 inspired him to become a composer. In 1902 he completed his training as an engineer, like his father. As a young subaltern with a Sappers Battalion in Moscow, he took some private lessons with Reinhold Glière and when he was posted to Saint Petersburg he studied with Ivan Krizhanovsky as preparation for entry into the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he enrolled in 1906 and became a student

Nikolai Roslavets

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Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets ( 23 August 1944, also Mykola Andriiovych Roslavets) was a modernist composer active in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. Roslavets was a convinced modernist and cosmopolitan thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards. Among his works are five symphonic poems (three of them are lost), two violin concertos, five string quartets, two viola sonatas, two cello sonatas, six violin sonatas, and five piano trios. Life Roslavets was born in Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire. There are three autobiographies by Roslavets that differ considerably from one another. In one of them, published 1924, the composer deliberately misrepresented his biography in order to prevent the attacks by the “Proletarian Musician” faction. There are differing accounts of Roslavets’ birthplace, some indicating that he was born in Dushatyn to a peasant family, In 1902 Roslavets was accepted as a student at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied violin under Jan Hřímalý, free composition under Sergei Vasilenko, and counterpoint, fugue and musical form under Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Alexander Ilyinsky. He graduated in 1912 with a silver m

Nikolai Tcherepnin

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Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin or Cherepnin (; May 15 1873 – 26 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Life Nikolai Tcherepnin was born in 1873 to a well-known and wealthy physician of the same name. The elder Nikolai moved in elite circles of artists including Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Modest Mussorgsky. Young Nikolai’s mother died when he was a baby, and when his father remarried, was replaced by an ambivalent stepmother. As a child, Nikolai’s father beat him regularly and enforced a general code of strict discipline. At his father’s insistence, Nikolai earned a law degree, though during this time he composed steadily. In 1895 he graduated with his degree in law from the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1898, he earned a degree in composition under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and a degree in piano under Karel van Ark. His talents and high family status earned him a job as the orchestral teacher at the Court Chapel in 1899. For six years he taught there before returning to the S

Nikolay Kedrov Sr.

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Nikolay Nikolayevich Kedrov Sr. (; 28 October 1871 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian composer of liturgical music. His setting of Otche Nash (The Lord’s Prayer) is one of the best-known in the repertoire. Family Kedrov was born in Saint Petersburg, in the Russian Empire, into the family of a Russian Orthodox archpriest. His wife was Sofia Gladkaya (Kedrova; ru: Софья Николаевна Гладкая; 1874–1965), a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre. His elder daughter was soprano Irina Kedrova and his younger daughter was Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress Lila Kedrova. His son was Nikolay Kedrov Jr. Career From 1894 to 1897, he studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, becoming an operatic baritone who performed at various theaters, including the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1897, he organized a men’s vocal quartet (Saint Petersburg Russian vocal quartet). Their first concert was held in 1898 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The repertoire of the quartet included Russian folk songs, ballads, opera music, then gradually liturgical music appeared. The quartet each year successfully toured Europe, including participation in Diaghilev’s seasons. In 1913-14, Feodor Chaliapin and

Nikolay Sokolov (composer)

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Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov (; 26 March 185927 March 1922) was a Russian composer of classical music and a member of the circle that grew around the publisher Mitrofan Belyayev. Career Sokolov was born in Saint Petersburg in 1859. A student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he taught Alexander Tcherepnin, Dmitri Shostakovich and Yuri Shaporin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the posthumous dedicatee of Shostakovich’s Theme and Variations in B-flat major for orchestra, Op. 3. Sokolov’s recorded works include his contributions to several collaborative projects of the “Belyayev circle”, including the set of character pieces for string quartet known as Les Vendredis as well as a set of variations for piano and orchestra on a Russian theme. Other works include a Quintet, Op. 3, also arranged for string orchestra as a serenade; final chorus from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s Don Juan, Op. 5; choruses for women’s voices, Op. 12 (published 1892); piano variations, Op. 25; Variations on a popular Russian theme for string quartet (published 1899). There are also three string quartets, in F major, A major and D minor, and a string trio in D minor, his Op. 45 (published in 1916). A

Nobu Kōda

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Nobu Kōda 幸田延 (1870–1946) was a Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher. She was one of the first Japanese women to study music overseas. She studied at the New England Conservatory. She later studied in Europe. She was the sister of Kōda Rohan. Early life Nobu Kōda was born on 19 April 1870. Both her and her sister Andō Kōko studied at the Tokyo Music School (now known as Tokyo University of the Arts). As a child she studied the koto and studied western music with Nakamura Sen. She graduated from the Institute in 1885 as part of the first graduating class. Her brother Rohan Koda was one of the most highly respected authors of the time. His daughter Aya, granddaughter Tama, and great-granddaughter Nao were all award-winning authors. They all wrote personal accounts of their family’s history & often mentioned Nobu, preventing her from falling into obscurity. References External links * 幸田延: ヴァイオリンソナタ第2番ニ短調/ Nobu Koda: Violin Sonata No.2 d-minor, recording of Violin Sonata No. 2

Norman O'Neill (composer)

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Norman Houston O’Neill (14 March 1875 – 3 March 1934) was an English composer and conductor of Irish background who specialised largely in works for the theatre. Life O’Neill was born at 16 Young Street in Kensington, London, the youngest son of the Irish painter George Bernard O’Neill and Emma Stuart Callcott, the daughter of organist and glee composer William Hutchins Callcott. He studied in London with Arthur Somervell and with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt from 1893 to 1897. His studies there were facilitated by Eric Stenbock. He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at Hoch’s Conservatory in the late 1890s. He married Adine Berthe Maria Ruckert (29 July 1875 – 17 February 1947) on 2 July 1899 in Paris. Adine was a celebrated pianist (a pupil of Clara Schumann) and music teacher in her own right – she later became head music mistress at St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith. O’Neill began to have some success with concert music, including a 1901 performance of his overture In Autumn given at the Henry Wood Proms. In 1904 he composed the incidental music to John Martin-Harvey’s production of Hamlet at the Lyric Theatre, London. In

Occide Jeanty

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Occide Jeanty (1860–1936) was a Haitian composer, trumpeter, pianist and music director. Biography Occide Jeanty was born in 1860 in Port-au-Prince He was educated at Alexandre Pétion High School in Port-au-Prince. His father, Occilius Jeanty (1830–1882), was both director of the Central School of Music in Port-au-Prince, professor of mathematics at Alexandre Pétion High School, and director of the Military Music Corps attached to the National Palace. After attending music classes at his father’s Central School of Music, he obtained a scholarship to study at Paris with Jean-Baptiste Arban and Antoine François Marmontel. In 1885, back in Haiti, the Haitian President, Lysius Salomon, appointed him on recommendation to the National Palace’s Military Music Corps. He composes mainly for the National Palace. In 1915, during the occupation of Haiti by American forces, he left the army with the rank of general. He became a music teacher at Alexandre Pétion High School in Port-au-Prince. In 1922, he was recalled by the president Louis Borno. He became the conductor of the National Guard until his death in 1936. He had about twenty children, including Lydia Occide Jeanty, Haiti’s first femal

Ole Hjellemo

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Ole Hjellemo (March 22, 1873 – September 18, 1938) was a Norwegian musician and composer. Hjellemo was born in Dovre Municipality in Christians amt (county), Norway. He studied under Gudbrand Bøhn and Iver Holter. From 1919 to 1932 he taught violin, harmony, and composition at the Oslo Conservatory of Music, and at the same time was a military musician with the rank of lieutenant in the military band. As a composer, he wrote five symphonies, several other symphonic works and rhapsodies, an award-winning quartet, a violin concerto, and many works for choir. His composition Slått was played by the Norwegian Royal Guards band and drill company in 2002. He also released some roundels from the Gudbrandsdalen valley that he recorded himself. Hjellemo died in Oslo. References

Olga Radecki

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Olga Mathilde Agnes von Radecki (23 August 1858 - 2 February 1933) was a Russian composer, conductor, and pianist who studied with Clara Schumann and performed with the Boston Symphony several times. Radecki was born in Riga (today in Latvia), the eleventh of twelve children born to Mathilde Haarmann and Ottokar Heinrich von Radecki. She studied music in Riga, then in Stuttgart at the Royal Conservatory of Music (today the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart), and in Frankfurt am Main at the Hoch Conservatory, where she joined Mary Wurm in the first composition class the Conservatory opened to women. In addition to Clara Schumann, her teachers included Sigmund Lebert, Dionys Pruckner, Joachim Raff, Julius Ruthardt, and Ludwig Stark. where on November 4, 1882, she debuted as a pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by George Henschel. She appeared with the orchestra twice more during that concert season and again in 1886 and 1907. In 1886, Radecki returned to Europe and gave several concerts in Riga. While there, she received the Mendelssohn Scholarship for performing musicians. In December 1886, Radecki returned to Boston and appeared at Bumstead H

Oliphant Chuckerbutty

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Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (6 October 1884 – 5 September 1960), also known as Wilson Oliphant, was an English organist and composer, who was equally well known as a church organist and a cinema organist. He was the grandson of the Indian medical professor Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (c.1826–1874). Life and career Chuckerbutty was born in Paddington, London. He began playing the piano at six, and was composing by 14. From 1908 to 1914 he was deputy to E. T. Cook as organist of Southwark Cathedral. In the same year he became organist and choirmaster of Holy Trinity, Paddington, a post that he held until 1948. In the early 1930s Chuckerbutty made Holy Trinity a well-known centre of music, with frequent performances of choral and orchestral music, both old and new. He and guest organists gave regular recitals on what The Musical Times described as “the fine Norman and Beard organ” there. Writings Chuckerbutty contributed several articles and letters to The Musical Times. Among his subjects were the orchestration of light classical music, the ignorance among music critics about good or bad organ playing, and – spread across three issues – a wide-rang

Oliver King (composer)

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Oliver Arthur King (5 July 1855, Islington, London - 23 August 1923, Hammersmith, London) was a British composer, pianist, organist and conductor. Oliver King started learning piano at 6-years old, he was noticed by Joseph Barnby for his talent, and made King a choirboy in the St. Andrew’s Church which he excelled in the role. He learned the organ and became a deputy organ and assistant to Joseph Barnby until 1874 when he moved to Leipzig to study at the Conservatory. After Leipzig, King moved back to London as a skilled pianist and was appointed the pianist to Princess Louise in 1879. During her trip to Ottawa, King played in several performances, touring across Canada and America as a pianist and composer. After his stay in North America from 1879 to 1883, King moved back to London, with his reputation of being the pianist to Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, he became the organist of the Novello Oratarios and a popular composer of chants and anthems. He wrote a concert-overture “Among the Pines” which won a prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society. His popularity was only in England and he wasn’t able to achieve much fame in the rest of Europe. His performance activity died d

Oluf Ring

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Oluf Ring (24 December 1884-26 April 1946) was a Danish composer, known for his folk music work. He composed around 300 melodies, as well as one opera, and was affiliated with prominent Danish composer Carl Nielsen. Biography Ring was born 24 December 1884 in Jelling. His father, Marius Sørensen, taught history and Danish at Jelling State Seminary. In 1911, Ring became a teacher in Ribe’s educator’s college. Ring’s other works included Svinedregen, an operatic adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. He also edited the Arbejdermelodibogen, a book of folk songs written for workers and popular in Denmark’s Social Democrat labour movement. Ring died on 26 April 1946 in Skårup, Funen. See also *List of Danish composers References

Oreste Ravanello

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Oreste Ravanello (25 August 1871 in Venice – 2 July 1938 in Padua) was an Italian composer and organist. Ravanello studied organ and composition at the Liceo Musicale in Venice before he was appointed organist of the San Marco Cathedral at the age of seventeen. He also taught at the (now Benedetto Marcello) Conservatory of Music in Venice, and then became director of Istituto Musicale in Padua (now the “Cesare Pollini” Conservatory of Music). Activity He became a well-known recitalist well known for his improvisations. He was above all remembered for his compositions which are especially intended for the church: ca. 30 Masses, Te Deums etc. but also numerous works for organ and piano. His language is late romantic and melodious. Works *CORALE FANTASIA, OP. 7 *QUATTRO PEZZI FACILI, OP. 12 ** 1. Preludio ** 2. Pastorale ** 3. Fughetta dorica ** 4. Elevazione *SETTE TRII, OP. 25 ** 1. O crux, ave ** 2. Qui odit animam suam ** 3. Lucis creator optime ** 4. Corale ** 5. Corale ** 6. Corale ** 7. Larghetto pastorale * SEI PEZZI, OP. 27 ** 1. Praeludium super Agnus Dei ** 2. Praeludium super Te Lucis ** 3. Meditazione super Ave Regina Cœlorum ** 4. Elevazione o Comunione super Alma Redemp

Orion R. Farrar

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Orion R Farrar was a marching band director and composer. Farrar was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1866, son of an English shoemaker and an Indiana woman. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Warren, Ohio. At the age of 19, Farrar enrolled in the famous Dana Musical Institute in Warren, studying theory, composition, and cornet playing. Following graduation, he taught brass instruments and conducted the Institute band for 7 years. He resigned from Dana in 1896 to organize the Indiana State Band, which he led for two years. He then returned to Ohio to form the Ohio State Band (unrelated to Ohio State University). He moved to Youngstown, Ohio in 1901, where he led the Youngstown Military Band. In 1915, he conducted the Lima, Ohio Municipal Band. He became a member of Old Erie Masonic Lodge No 3 in 1894 and was active until 1904, when he was expelled for non-payment of dues. The final years of Farrar’s life remain a mystery. He was purported to have died in California in 1929, but this is undocumented. As a march composer, Farrar is most remembered for “Bombasto”, “Indiana State Band”, and “Hi Henry’s Triumphal”. “Bombasto” found an enduring place in the circus band repertoire,

Oscar Borg

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Oscar Borg (11 June 1851 – 29 December 1930) was a Norwegian composer and conductor. He is best known for his compositions of marches for wind bands. Alfred Oscar Johannessen Borg was born in Halden, Norway. His father, Ole Peter Johannesen (1816–1890), was from the Borg farm in Solør, from which the family name originated. His father was music sergeant in the 1st Brigades Band of Fredriksten Fortress in Halden. Oscar Borg attended the Royal College of Music (Musikaliska Akademien) in Stockholm, under the sponsorship of the Crown Prince of Sweden, later King Oscar II of Sweden. He entered the academy in 1869 and took the music director exam with top marks in the spring of 1872. He had a contractual obligation to return to his old band. He gave his first concert in his hometown as flautist and violinist during October 1872. When in 1881, conductor Friedrich August Reissiger resigned as director of the 1st Brigades Band, Oscar Borg was his replacement. Borg remained the director of the 1st Brigades Band in Halden until he resigned 11 June 1918. Borg’s compositions are characterized by good melodies, euphonious harmonies and skillful instrumentation. Oscar Borg composed 60 marches for

Oscar Fetrás

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Oscar Fetrás (16 February 1854 – 10 January 1931) was a German composer of popular dance music, military marches, piano pieces and arrangements. Fetrás had over 200 compositions to his name. His best known work is his waltz “Mondnacht auf der Alster” Op. 60 which is still immensely popular to the present day. Biography Fetrás was born as Otto Kaufmann Faster in 1854 in Hamburg. His father Matthias Faster was an Hamburgian editor of a stock-exchange magazine. The Faster family originally came from Bützfleth, a locality of today’s Stade near Hamburg. Fetrás’s grandfather, a sea captain, died in the sinking of his ship Ceres. His mother Amalie Margarethe, born Decker, had ancestral origins from the island of Sylt. Early in his career Fetrás worked for , founder of the Flying P-Liner. Once he became widely regarded as being on the same level as the revered Viennese waltz kings, he departed to conduct his own orchestra. At the age of 26 Fetrás’s compositions attracted the attention of a Hamburg publisher. He changed his name to Fetrás, an anagram of his surname Faster. Fetrás soon rose to the position of conductor of the Uhlenhorster Fährhaus, a famous restaurant with ballrooms in Hambu

Oscar Straus (composer)

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Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final ’s’. He wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre. The son of a Jewish family, he studied music in Berlin under Max Bruch, and became an orchestral conductor, working at the Überbrettl cabaret. He went back to Vienna and began writing operettas, becoming a serious rival to Franz Lehár. When Lehár’s popular The Merry Widow premiered in 1905, Straus was said to have remarked “Das kann ich auch!” (I can also do that!). In 1939, after the Anschluss, he fled to Paris, where he received the honour of a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur. In 1940 he fled via Portugal to the United States, where he settled in Hollywood. After the war he returned to Europe, and settled at Bad Ischl, wher

Oskar Böhme

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Oskar Böhme (February 24, 1870 – October 3, 1938 ) was a German composer and trumpeter. Life Oskar Böhme, a son of Wilhelm Böhme, also a trumpeter, was born in Potschappel, a small town near Dresden, Germany, which is now part of Freital. For much of his early career, after studying trumpet and composition in the Leipzig Conservatory of Music until graduating in 1888, it is unknown what Böhme’s musical activities were, though it is probable he concertized, playing in smaller orchestras around Germany. From 1894-1896 he played in the Budapest Opera Orchestra and then moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1897. Böhme played cornet for 24 years in the Mariinsky Theatre, turned to teaching at a music school on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg for nine further years, and at the Central Music College on Mokhovaya Street, from 1921-1930, and then returned to opera with the Leningrad Drama Theatre until 1934. All his life in St. Petersburg, he lived on Vasilievsky Island, 3rd line, 26 In 1934, however, the Great Terror began under Joseph Stalin and in 1936 a committee was established to oversee the arts in Soviet Russia. According to Russia’s anti-foreign policies, Böhme was exiled to Or

Oskar Fried

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Oskar Fried (1 August 1871 – 5 July 1941) was a German conductor and composer. He was known as a great admirer of Gustav Mahler, whose works he performed many times throughout his life. Fried was also the first conductor to record a Mahler symphony. He held the distinction of being the first foreign conductor to perform in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution (1922). He eventually left his homeland in 1933 to work in the Soviet Union after the political rise of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party, and became a Soviet citizen in 1940. In 1899, Fried married the amateur poet Augusta (Gusti) Rathgeber (1872–1926) and had two daughters with her, Monika and Emerentia (dates are unknown). From 1892, Gusti Rathgeber had been married to German poet Otto Julius Bierbaum but left him when she and Fried met, and fell in love with each other. Biography Born in Berlin, the son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he worked as a clown, a stable boy and a dog trainer before studying composition with Iwan Knorr (1891–92, Hoch’sche Conservatory) and Engelbert Humperdinck (as private student) in Frankfurt. He later moved to Düsseldorf to study painting and art history. The meeting resulted in the second complete performa

Oskar Merikanto

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Oskar Merikanto (; born Frans Oskar Ala-Kanto; 5 August 186817 February 1924) was a Finnish composer, music critic, pianist, and organist. As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a miniaturist, and includes songs and piano pieces (he wrote over 100 of each). Of the latter, he is best remembered for: Summer Evening Waltz (, Op. 1), Romance (, Op. 12), Summer Evening Idyll (, Op. 16/2), (Op. 33), and Idyll (, Op. 73/1). He studied for some time at the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany, where his teachers were Carl Reinecke, Theodor Coccius, Robert Papperitz, Willy Rechenberg and Gustav Schreck. He was notable for his variety of talents – he gave concerts all around Finland, performing on the piano and organ, conducting orchestras, and composing original music. Some of his most beloved compositions are Där björkarna susa, the waltz Kesäilta (Summer Evening Waltz) and the Valse lente, Op. 33. Merikanto’s style is reminiscent of Finnish folk songs, but has its basis in Italian bel canto. He died in Hausjärvi-Oitti. Personal life He married Elise “Liisa” Häyrynen in 1892. They had one son, Aarre Merikanto, a noted Finnish composer. Works Source Piano * Concert-Walzer OM 018 * Erinnerung OM

Oskar Nedbal

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Oskar Nedbal (26 March 1874 – 24 December 1930) was a Czech violist, composer and conductor of classical music. Early life Nedbal was born in Tábor in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatory under Antonín Bennewitz, theory under and , and composition with Antonín Dvořák. Career In 1891 he founded the Bohemian String Quartet, later known as the Czech Quartet, which disbanded in 1933. The original members, alongside Nedbal on viola, were Karel Hoffmann, Josef Suk and . He was principal conductor with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1896 to 1906. From 1907 until 1917 he lived in Vienna and conducted the Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester. In recent years, Nedbal’s haunting Valse Triste featured in his ballet Der Faule Hans (The Tale of Simple Johnny) has been a favorite stand-alone encore piece of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The waltz is also played on the piano at a key moment by one of the characters in Heimito von Doderer’s novel of the inter-war years in Vienna, The Demons (Die Dämonen) (1956). Since 2019, the Oskar Nedbal International Viola Competition has commemorated Nedbal’s name. Selected works ;Opera * Sedlák Jakub (Jakub the Peasant

Ossip Gabrilowitsch

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Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch (also Gabrilowitsch; ; 7 February 187814 September 1936) was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer. Biography Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born into a Jewish family in Saint Petersburg. His parents were Salomon Gabrilowitsch and Rose Segall. Nina, the last known lineal descendant of Mark Twain, died on 16 January 1966 in a Los Angeles hotel. She had been a heavy drinker, and bottles of pills and alcohol were found in her room. Her death was ruled a suicide. From 1910 to 1914, he was conductor of the Munich Konzertverein (later known as the Munich Philharmonic). At the outbreak of World War I, he was arrested as an enemy national. Through the intervention of the nuncio to Bavaria, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), Gabrilowitsch was freed from jail, and then he headed to the United States via Zürich in August 1914. He settled in the US, and was offered the post of conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In declining, he recommended that the Boston board appoint the recently arrived Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1918 he was appointed the founding director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, while still maintaining his life as a con

Otakar Ostrčil

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Otakar Ostrčil (25 February 1879 in Prague – 20 August 1935 in Prague) was a Czech composer and conductor. He is noted for symphonic works Impromptu, Suite in C Minor, and Symfonietta, and in his opera compositions Poupě and Honzovo království. Compositional career Ostrčil was born, and spent his entire life, in Prague, the center of the Czech musical community of his generation. He studied philosophy at Charles University, attending the classes of Otakar Hostinský, and simultaneously studied composition and music theory privately under Zdeněk Fibich. From his early student days he was a close friend of Zdeněk Nejedlý, whose outspoken voice in musicology formed Ostrčil’s greatest critical support. He worked as a conductor at the Vinohrady Theater (1914–1919) and later at the National Theatre (Prague) (1920–1935), which was one of the most influential positions in Czech musical life. He also worked as a pedagogue at the Prague Conservatory, teaching conducting. Ostrčil wrote six operas: Jan Zhořelecký (written as a student under Fibich, 1898, unperformed), Vlasty skon (Vlasta’s passing, premiered 1904, to a libretto previously considered by Smetana and Fibich), Kunálovy oči (Kunál’s

Otakar Zich

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Otakar Zich (25 March 1879 – 9 July 1934) was a Czech composer and aesthetician. Biography Zich was born on 25 March 1879 in Městec Králové. In his music education he studied as a self-taught man. Years later, he became a pupil of the prominent nineteenth-century Czech aesthetician Otakar Hostinský, and a protégé of the iconoclastic musicologist and critic Zdeněk Nejedlý. In the years 1903–1906 he taught physics and mathematics at the High School in Domažlice. In the years leading up to the First World War Zich lived in Prague, actively participating in musical life as a critic. In this capacity he supported the efforts of Nejedlý’s pro-Smetana faction against the intellectual descendants of Antonín Dvořák, especially during the so-called Dvořák Affair of 1911–1914, when he called into question the artistic integrity of Dvořák’s compositional language. These activities firmly allied Zich with Nejedlý’s academic circle at Charles University, where, in 1924, he was appointed professor of Aesthetics. He held this position until his death. He died on 9 July 1934 in Ouběnice (today part of Bystřice). Style As a composer, Zich was largely self-taught, although he can be said to belong to

Otilie Suková

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Otilie Suková, also known as Otilie Suková-Dvořáková (née Otilie Dvořáková; 6 June 1878 – 5 July 1905), was a Czech pianist and composer. She was the daughter of composer Antonín Dvořák and the wife of violinist and Dvořák’s pupil Josef Suk the Elder. Life Youth Otilie Dvořáková was born on 6 June 1878 in New Town quarter of Prague, into the Dvořák family: Antonín Dvořák and his wife Anna Dvořáková, a musician and Dvořák’s former pupil. She had siblings Otakar and Magdalena, a talented opera singer. Already in her childhood, she was an excellent pianist with her father’s support, and she graduated from a girls’ high school in Prague. She also attended his family’s stays in the United States and England from 1892 to 1894, growing up in an exceptionally rich cultural and artistic environment of her time. She also composed several short piano pieces. Marriage to Josef Suk After returning to Bohemia, she met and eventually developed a deep emotional relationship with one of her father’s students, Josef Suk, whom she married in Prague on 17 November 1898. He dedicated several of his compositions to her and she also inspired him to create the scenic fairy tale Radúz and Mahulena to a lib

Otto Floersheim

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Otto Floersheim last name pronounced Flairs-hime (born in Aix-la-Chapelle, 2 March 1853; died 30 November 1917) was an American composer, critic and editor. Career He received his musical education under Ferdinand Hiller in Cologne, and emigrated to the United States in 1875. There he became an editor of the Musical Courier in 1880. From 1894 to 1904, he was in charge of its Berlin bureau. James Huneker describes him as “fat, rather pompous, good-humoured and perspiring.” He is remembered for a damning review of an early performance of Richard Strauss’s A Hero’s Life: “… alleged symphony … revolutionary in every sense of the word. The climax of everything that is ugly, cacophonous, blatant and erratic, the most perverse music I ever heard in all my life, is reached in the chapter ‘The Hero’s Battlefield.’ The man who wrote this outrageously hideous noise, no longer deserving of the word music, is either a lunatic, or he is rapidly approaching idiocy.” (Musical Courier, April 19, 1899) Works His orchestral compositions include a “Prelude and Fugue,” which was played in New York City under the direction of Theodore Thomas; “Alla Marcia,” which was produced under Frank van der Stu

Otto Mahler

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Otto Mahler (18 June 1873 – 6 February 1895) was a Bohemian-Austrian musician and composer who died by suicide at the age of 21. Otto was the younger brother of Gustav Mahler, a fellow musician. Otto was orphaned in 1889 with the death of both his parents, and Gustav became financially responsible for him. By that time, Otto had already begun attending the Vienna Conservatory. Though he was initially considered a talented student, his academic performance was increasingly poor. In April 1892, Otto left the Conservatory without a diploma. He was able to secure work in minor musical posts, but he tended to drift from job to job. On 6 February 1895, Otto shot himself with a revolver while in the house of his and Mahler’s friend Nina Hoffmann-Matscheko; a lock of his mother’s hair was found in his pocket. According to Gustav’s widow Alma, Otto’s suicide note stated that life no longer pleased him, so he ‘handed back his ticket’. Otto’s known work as a composer included two completed symphonies, an incomplete third symphony, and some lieder with orchestra and piano. His music remains unpublished and is apparently uncatalogued. No recent performances are known; and some of his music may

Otto Neitzel

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Otto Neitzel (6 July 1852 – 10 March 1920) was a German composer, pianist, writer on music, and lecturer. Neitzel was born in the town of Falkenburg in Farther Pomerania (modern Złocieniec, Poland). His father, Gottfried Neitzel was a teacher and his mother, Louise (née Messerschmidt), was a housewife. Biography At the age of 8, Neitzel toured his neighbourhood and cities, giving performances. This “Wonderkid” was praised for his ability to play the piano and move people’s ears. Famous people promoted him for his abilities, mainly:- * Carl Loewe in Stettin * Eduard Grell in Berlin * Violinist Hubert Ries * Wilhelm Taubert (composer) His parents could not afford to pay for music lessons, but Bernhard Lösener, astonished by his music talent, sponsored him to finish his musical education. In 1865, he left home and joined the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin. While there, he continued to study music at the Neue Akademia der Tonkust by Theodore Kullak. From 1873 to 1875, he was a student of Franz Liszt. In 1875, he wrote his dissertation “Die ästhetische Grenze der Programmmusik” (The Aesthetic Limit of Programme Music). Later, he went on a tour with Pauline Lucca (a soprano singer) a

Otto Olsson

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Otto Emanuel Olsson (19 December 1879 – 1 September 1964) was a Swedish organist and classical music composer. Life and career Olsson, a native of Stockholm, was one of the most renowned organ virtuosos of his time. He studied organ with August Lagergren (1848−1908) and composition with Joseph Dente (1838−1905), both teachers having been employed at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Later Olsson himself joined the faculty there, becoming teacher of harmony (1908–24) and then organ (1924–45). Meanwhile he was also the organist at the Gustaf Vasa Church in Stockholm. He became a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in 1915. Olsson used his strong background in counterpoint, combined with an affinity for French organ music, to develop his late Romantic style of composition. He also had an interest in early music and, though not a Catholic but a Lutheran, used the plainchant techniques of Gregorian chant in his Gregorianska melodier. At times he explored polytonality in his output, an advancement not found in other Swedish compositions of the time. In addition to many fine pieces for the organ, he produced various choral works, the most often performed of which is his setting

Otto Schwarz

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Otto Schwarz (10 August 1876 – 1961) was a German travelling musician. He was the leader, or Kapellmeister, of a small band of mixed instruments and sometimes vocalists called the Bavarian String Band, which performed in England in the summer months between 1897 and 1914. The band performed mainly outdoors, and primarily in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, besides other towns. It played Victorian and Edwardian parlour music, as well as extracts from symphonies and operas. At certain charity events, Schwarz would donate the band’s collection of the day to local causes, such as hospitals. At the onset of the First World War, Schwarz and his players were interned and transported to the Isle of Man. Schwarz died in Hinzweiler in 1961. Background Otto Schwarz was born on 10 August 1876 in Hinzweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Before borders changed, Hinzweiler was in Bavaria, Germany. He was the son of bandleader Daniel Schwarz and Katharina Zink. On 20 November 1900 Schwarz married Amalia Merker, whom he had known from childhood in Hinzweiler. They had three children: Wilhelm, Berthold and Marianne. Career Schwarz was a wandermusikant, bandleader, composer, church organist, a

Ottokar Nováček

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Ottokar Eugen Nováček (13 May 1866 – 3 February 1900) was an Austro-Hungarian violinist, violist and composer of Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work Perpetuum Mobile (Perpetual Motion), written in 1895. Life Nováček was born at Weißkirchen (, ), southern Austrian Empire (today Serbia). He studied successfully with his father Martin Joseph Nováček, with Jakob Dont in Vienna (1880–83), and with Henry Schradieck and Brodsky at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1885. He played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the Brodsky Quartet, originally as second violin and later as viola. He subsequently immigrated to the United States, where he was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch (1891) and was appointed principal viola in the Damrosch Orchestra, New York (189293). He also played in the re-formed Brodsky Quartet. In 1899, after a heart condition forced him to retire from playing, he devoted himself to composition. His works include a piano concerto (1894, dedicated to, and first performed by, Ferruccio Busoni), Perpetuum mobile (Perpetual Motion) for violin and orchestra (1895), three string quartets (publishe

Ottorino Respighi

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Ottorino Respighi ( , ; ; 9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928). Respighi was born in Bologna to a musical and artistic family. He was encouraged by his father to pursue music at a young age, and took formal tuition in the violin and piano. In 1891, he enrolled at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, where he studied the violin, viola, and composition, was principal violinist at the Russian Imperial Theatre, and studied briefly with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He relocated to Rome in 1913 to become professor of composition at the Liceo Musicale di Santa Cecilia. During this period he married his pupil, singer Elsa Olivieri-Sangiacomo. In 1923, Respighi quit his professorship to dedicate time to tour and compose, but continue

P. G. Lowery

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Perry George Lowery (Topeka, October 11, 1869 – Cleveland, December 15, 1942) was an American composer, conductor, cornet player, and a circus sideshow manager of African American entertainment and musical ensembles. Early life Born October 11, 1870, P. G. Lowery came from a musical family. He played the drums in a family band, but later transitioned to cornet. Most African Americans worked in agriculture, domestic work, or unskilled labor. The following year he played with the Wallace Circus. Next Lowery became a cornetist with the Original Nashville Students and P. T. Wright’s Colored Comedy Company. In 1897 or 1899 he studied at the Boston Conservatory under the direction of Henry C. Brown. In the summer of 1898 he played solo cornet at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska with the Original Nashville Students. And in 1899 he started the P.G. Lowery’s Famous Concert Band and P.G. Lowery’s Vaudeville Company, an important accomplishment because he was the first African American to bring his own vaudeville troupe to the circus. During the early 1900s he published a newspaper column, “The Cornet and Cornetists of Today” in The Freeman. Late career P.G. Lowery led and

Pablo Casals

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Pablo Casals (29 December 187622 October 1973), also known by his birth name, Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ), was a Catalan cellist, composer, and conductor, born in Spain. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, including some as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings he made of the Cello Suites by Bach. Casals had an international career and traveled and performed widely. With the fall of Republican Spain to the Nationalist forces of Francisco Franco in 1939, Casals went into self-exile, refusing to return to Spain until democracy was restored. He lived in Prades, France from 1939 to 1956, and then in Ceiba, Puerto Rico from 1956 until his death in 1973. President John F. Kennedy awarded Casals the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, though the ceremony was presided over by President Johnson. One of his last compositions was the Hymn to the United Nations, which he conducted at the United Nations in 1971. At that event, he was awarded the U.N. Peace Medal in recognition of his stance for peace, justice and freedom. In accepting the award, he gave a short speech I Am a Catalan and performed the traditional

Pablo Luna

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Pablo Luna Carné (May 21, 1879 Alhama de Aragón – January 28, 1942 Madrid) was a Spanish composer. His best-known composition is the aria “De España vengo” from the zarzuela El niño judío. Life Pablo Luna received his first lessons in music theory from an organist at a church in his birthplace, Alhama de Aragón. His father, Pablo Luna Ferrer, who was a member of the Civil Guard, had moved with his family to the valley of the Ebro. He studied harmony with Teodoro Ballo and composition with Miguel Arnaudas. As a violinist, Luna would make money in hotels, cafes, churches and a small chamber orchestra, as well as in theaters. In 1903 he wrote his first operetta, Lolilla, la Petenera which was followed in 1904 by La Escalera de los Duendes (The Ladder of the Elves). In 1905, he moved to Madrid to learn more about the world of zarzuela. In particular, he contacted Ruperto Chapí, the second director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela, and Tomás Barrera Saavedra, a later director of the orchestra, Jerónimo Giménez y Bellido and others. He also knew the librettist Luis Pascual Frutos, who wrote the libretto for the operetta Mussetta, which premiered successfully in 1908. This operetta was follow

Palokë Kurti

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Palokë Kurti (1858–1920) was an Albanian composer, performer, and singer. A native of Shkodër, he was a musical amateur who composed the Unity of Albania March (Bashkimi Shqipnis) in 1881. Kurti took his first piano lessons from the Italian musician Giovanni Canale. During his youth he was in contact with the aheng groups from which he learned their way of singing and also how to compose verses in the bejtexhi style. He joined the Shkodra band in 1878 and two years later became its bandmaster. After the Bashkimi Shqipnis March he also composed several marches, polkas and mazurkas in the Mittel-Europa tradition. However the compositions related to national music are the ones that will make him important in the history of the music of Albania. Kurti composed two potpourris on Shkodrane urban popular songs called “The Musical Entertainment of our Forefathers”, the second of which is in F Major. In this potpourri he uses an entirely diatonic modal language and a tonal harmony (unlike in Potpourri 1 which uses non-diatonic modes of the makam type). According to Koço he is doing this on purpose so that the local music was purged of Oriental sounds, but sounded more Western. Kurti compose

Paolino Vassallo

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Paolino Vassallo (born 24 July 1856 in Cospicua - deceased 20 January 1923 in Valletta) was a Maltese composer. Biography Paolino Vassallo was the son of Salvatore Vassallo and Victoria Xicluna. At the age of 19, he moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire Royal with Massenet and Guiraud. He performed as first violin, and later conductor, of the Opéra-Comique. He founded his Musical Institute in Valletta in 1885 Carlo Diacono and Josie Mallia Pulvirenti. Vassallo wrote three operas; Amor Fatale, Frazir and Edith Cavell. He refused the Grand Prix de Rome to keep his British nationality, and returned to Malta in 1888; here, he met his wife Marianna. In 1905, he was appointed Maestro di cappella of the Mdina Cathedral and the Co-Catheral of St. John in Valletta. During this position he enforced the application of the Motu Proprio decreed in 1910. Vassallo died on 30 January 1923. Works Orchestral * Scherzo, Andante e Finale for orchestra (sometimes referred to as a symphony) * Malta, overture * Ad Gloriam, overture * Les Astres, Valses de Concert * Andante for Strings * Marcia Religiosa e Fuga per Grande Orchestra Concertante * Andante for Violin and Orchestra (written as the seco

Paolo Litta

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Paolo Litta (7 May 1871, Stockholm – 8 May 1931, Fiesole ) was an Italian composer. He was of mixed Italian and Swedish heritage. He was married to the Italian opera singer, Ida Isori, and dedicated the work, Le Lac d’Amour, to her. Litta was known for having a dispute with Valentine de Saint-Point on the possibility that some ideas in de Saint-Point’s La Métachorie were copied from his work, la Déesse Nue. Relatively unknown even in Italian records such as the supplementary material for Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti by Carlo Schmidl, La Morte di Cleopatra was his noticeable work to the public until his death. Compositions * La Déesse Nue (in addition to a separate book describing the musical work) * Le Lac d’Amour * La Morte di Cleopatra * Der Tod als Fiedler Notes Further reading * References External links *

Patty Stair

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Patty Stair (November 12, 1869 – April 26, 1926 ) was an American organist and composer. Biography Patty Stair was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the niece of tenor Edwin Stair. She studied with music teachers including Franklin Bassett and at Hathaway Brown school for girls. She taught organ at the Cleveland Conservatory of Music from about 1889 to 1921 and served as organist for several churches in the Cleveland area. She was the first woman member and served as dean of the Ohio Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and directed the chorus of the Forthnightly Musical Club. She also served as president of the Women’s Music Teachers association of Cleveland. Stair never married, and died of pneumonia in Cleveland in 1926. Later that year as part of Cleveland Music Week celebrations, along with other recently deceased Cleveland musicians Johann Beck and Fanny Snow Knowlton, she was honored with a prominent exhibit at the Cleveland Public Library. Works Stair composed for orchestra, songs and sacred anthems, and produced two light operas. Selected works include: *Intermezzo for orchestra *Six songs (“If I could take your tears, love,” “Madrigal,” “Love song,” “When daisies bloom,” Da

Paul Ambrose

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Paul Ambrose (11 October 1868 – 1 July 1941) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator who was primarily active in the United States. His compositional output includes more than 200 songs, choral pieces, and works for solo piano and organ. He is particularly remembered for his anthems, which have been performed widely in North America. Some of his better-known works include the anthems Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing, O Little Town of Bethlehem, and Come unto Me; and the song Rose-Bud. Life and career Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Ambrose was the son of composer and organist Robert Ambrose and the grandson of organist Charles Ambrose. His cousin, pianist Ellen Ambrose, founded the Duet Club of Hamilton in 1889. He began his musical training in the piano and the organ as a young child with his father. In 1886, at the age of 18, Ambrose moved to New York City to assume the post of organist-choirmaster at Madison Ave Methodist Episcopal Church where he remained for nearly 5 years. While in New York he pursued further musical studies with Dudley Buck (orchestration), Kate Sara Chittenden (piano), Bruno Oscar Klein (composition), and Albert Ross Parsons (piano).

Paul Bastide

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Paul Adrien Bastide (6 April 1879 – 18 August 1962) was a French conductor and composer. Career Paul Bastide was born at Quimper and studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the Paris Conservatoire (with Pessard and Massenet), winning a first prize in harmony. His first professional work was as chorus master in Marseille from 1898, and gained early conducting experience also in Cairo and the Hague. He also conducted the premiere of the three-act version of Les Armaillis by Gustave Doret at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva in 1913. From 1919–38 Bastide was the musical director of the opera house in Strasbourg, conducting Samson et Dalila at the reopening on 8 March 1919 after the German occupation of Alsace. He returned again after the Second World War, from 1945–48, reopening with Carmen on 16 November 1945 and conducting notable productions of Béatrice et Bénédict, and Martine by Henri Rabaud (premiere). From 1945 to 1950 he was also music director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Bastide was music director at Vichy from the 1920s, and at the Opéra de Marseille from 1941–45. Bastide was Director of Music at the Opéra-Comique in Paris from 1932–36, making his debut with

Paul Büttner

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Paul Büttner (10 December 1870 – 15 October 1943) was a German choir director, music critic, music educator and composer of the late Romantic period. Biography Born in Dresden, Paul Büttner’s parents originally came from the Eastern Ore Mountains. The father worked in a glass factory in Löbtau. Büttner wrote his first smaller compositions at the age of eight. After school he was given a place at the Dresden Conservatory. He first studied oboe and then took composition lessons from Felix Draeseke, whose most prominent pupil he became. His father’s death made him responsible for the upkeep of his family. Büttner earned the money he needed by playing as an oboist in various smaller dance orchestras. After Paul Büttner became head of various workers’ choirs, he worked from 1896 to 1907 as a choir conductor at the Dresden Conservatory. From 1905 he was given the post of federal conductor of the Dresden Workers’ Association. In 1909, he married the journalist Eva Malzmann. He worked for 21 years from 1912 as a music critic for the social democratic Dresdner Volkszeitung. In 1917 he received the title of professor, and was finally appointed artistic director of the Dresden Conservatory in

Paul Corder

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Paul Walford Corder (14 December 1879 - 6 August 1942) was an English composer and music professor. Corder was born at Pimlico, London, the son of musician Frederick Corder and his wife Henrietta Walford. He was baptised at St Gabriel’s, Warwick Square, London, on 1 March 1880. He studied under his father at the Royal Academy of Music and won the Goring Thomas scholarship for composition in 1901. In 1907 he joined the staff of the Academy as Professor of Composition and Harmony. His aunt Rosa Corder painted a portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Corder was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He composed operas, ballets, cantatas and piano works. Many of his orchestral works remain unpublished and unknown but some of his keyboard pieces were published and achieved some public attention. He was a close friend of Arnold Bax with whom he spent holidays in Cornwall. Bax dedicated the song “Aspiration” (1909) and his Fourth Symphony (1931) to Corder. Paul and his sister Dolly moved to Looe Island, Cornwall in 1921, the island being bought with the proceeds of the sale of Frederick Corder’s collection of first editions. It is said that Dolly was so distraught at Paul’s d

Paul de Wailly

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Paul Louis Auguste Warnier de Wailly (May 16, 1854 – June 18, 1933) was a French composer. Life Paul de Wailly grew up in Château de Bagatelle in Abbeville. He lost his father, a naval officer, when he was seven. He started composing at the age of 17 and became a student of César Franck at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1900, he married Marthe de Maricourt (1870–1918). At the beginning of the 20th century, de Wailly held regular concerts at Château de Bagatelle. During the First World War, he took over the administration of the Abbeville Hospital. In 1921, along with Albert Laurent (1885–1978), he founded the “Society of Friends of Music” in Abbeville to present lectures and organize concerts. De Wailly created orchestral works (including several symphonies), chamber music (including a piano quintet in F minor, op. 15 from 1895), organ works, and vocal compositions. The majority of his compositions display characteristics of the late romantic tradition of César Franck. Firmly devoted to absolute music in the classical style, he opposed contemporary trends at the beginning of the 20th century. However, he still maintained friendships with modern composers, including Erik Satie, who he

Paul Dukas

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Paul Abraham Dukas ( 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (L’apprenti sorcier), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works, largely due to its usage in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau (for solo piano), and a ballet, La Péri. At a time when French musicians were divided into conservative and progressive factions, Dukas adhered to neither but retained the admiration of both. His compositions were influenced by composers including Beethoven, Berlioz, Franck, d’Indy and Debussy. In tandem with his composing career, Dukas worked as a music critic, contributing regular reviews to at least five French journals. Later in his life he was appointed professor of composition at the Conservatoire de Paris and the École normale de musique de Paris; his pupils included Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messia

Paul Fauchet

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Paul Robert Marcel Fauchet (27 June 1881 – 12 November 1937 ) was a French composer and organist. Life Born in Paris, the son of the organist of the same name, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Alexandre Guilmant and Paul Vidal and won first prizes in counterpoint and fugue, piano accompaniment and harmony. He worked as a coach in the class of Louis Vierne, who dedicated the song from the Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre to him and was organist at the Église Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot. From 1927, he taught harmony at the Conservatoire. Among his students were Jacques de La Presle, Georges Taconet and Lucien Caillet Fauchet composed a symphonic piece for organ and orchestra, a solennelle mass for four-part choir and orchestra, a mass for three-part choir and string quartet, Ecce sacerdos magnus for soloists, choir and orchestra, motets and other choral works as well as songs. His symphony for Concert band is still in the repertoire of wind orchestras today. Paul Fauchet died in Paris on 12 November 1937 at the age of 56. Works Work for orchestra * Pièce symphoníque, for organ and orchestra Works for harmony orchestra * 1926 Symphonie en si bemol pour orchestre d’harmonie

Paul Gilson

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Paul Gilson (Brussels, 15 June 1865 – Brussels, 3 April 1942) was a Belgian musician and composer. Biography Paul Gilson was born in Brussels. In 1866, his family moved to Ruisbroek in the Belgian province of Brabant. There he studied theory with the organist and choir director Auguste Cantillon, and began writing works for orchestra and choir. His first official training came from 1887 to 1889 under François-Auguste Gevaert in composition and under Charles Duyck in harmony and counterpoint at the Brussels Conservatory, and in 1889, he was awarded the Belgian Prix de Rome for a cantata, Sinaï, which was very well received. As the winner of the prize he was able to spend time in Bayreuth (1892), Paris (1893–4) and Italy (1895). A large orchestral work, La mer, which was first performed in Brussels on 20 March 1892, established Gilson as a national musical figure and also gave him success abroad, though not in Paris. In 1925, a group of Gilson’s students who called themselves Les Synthétistes (including René Bernier, Francis de Bourguignon, Théo De Joncker, Marcel Poot, Maurice Schoemaker, Jules Strens and Robert Otlet) first formed, declaring allegiance to Gilson’s ideas about music

Paul Graener

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Paul Graener (11 January 1872 – 13 November 1944) was a German composer and conductor. He composed numerous operas and orchestral works in the style of late Romanticism. Biography Graener was born in Berlin and orphaned as a young child. A boy soprano, he taught himself composition and in 1896 moved to London, where he gave private lessons and served briefly as conductor at the Haymarket Theatre. Before the move, he had married Maria Elisabeth Hauschild, who bore him three children in London. Graener is recorded in the United Kingdom Census of 1901 as a “musical director (theatre)” living at 3 Poplar Grove in Hammersmith together with Maria (born in Kiel), their first two children (Heinz and Paul, aged 4 and 2) and Graener’s author cousin, George. In around 1910, Graener moved to Vienna, where he took up a teaching post at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium. He moved several times in the 1910s, living in Salzburg, Dresden and Munich, eventually accepting the position of professor of composition at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre which had previously been held by Max Reger. In 1925, he left in order to focus on composition. Returning to Berlin in 1930, he directed the Stern

Paul Hillemacher

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Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (25 November 1852 – 13 August 1933) was a French composer and pianist. Life Born in Paris, Hillemacher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in François Bazin’s class. He received a Deuxième Prix for harmony in 1870, and a “1er accessit” in fugue two years later. He won, in 1873, a Second Prix de Rome then, in 1876, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Judith. He composed many stage works, operas, symphonies and art songs. Most of his works were composed in collaboration with his brother Lucien Hillemacher (1860–1909). Their first collaboration began in 1879 with two songs, Le Dernier banquet and Barcarolle. By 1881, they signed their works, “P. L. Hillemacher”, adopting the name Paul-Lucien Hillemacher. In 1882, they published a collection of Vingt mélodies as well as the symphonic poem Loreley, which won the prize of the City of Paris. One of their songs, Ici-bas, was published by mistake under Debussy’s name, which testifies to their fame. Lucien Hillemacher won a Second Prix de Rome in 1879 and the First Grand Prix de Rome in 1880 with his Scène lyrique Fingal after Charles Dancours. There is also a piece for organ in G sharp minor (

Paul Juon

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Paul Juon (, Pavel Fyodorovich Yuon; 6 March 1872 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian composer of Swiss origin. Life Juon was born in Moscow on 6 March 1872, the son of Theodor Friedrich Juon (1842–1912), an insurance official, and Emilie Gottwalt. His father was born in Goldingen, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kuldīga, Latvia), into a Swiss family originally from Masein, Grisons, while his mother was of Irish descent. Juon entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and Sergei Taneyev. The CD set “The Dawn of Recording: The Julius Block Cylinders,” issued by Marston Records, includes recordings, dating from 1911, 1914 and 1915, of five brief excerpts from Juon’s music: one selection for piano solo played by Juon, two selections for piano duet played by Juon and Leonid Kreutzer, one selection for piano solo played by Leonid Kreutzer, and one selection for violin and piano played by Eddy Brown and Julius Block. Personal life Juon married his first wife, Katharina Schalchalova, in 1896; they had three children: Ina, Aja, and Ralf. Katharina died in 1911. In 1912, he married Marie Hegner-Günthert (called Armande), with whom he also had thr

Paul Klengel

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Paul Klengel (13 May 1854 – 24 April 1935) was a German violinist, violist, pianist, conductor, composer, editor and arranger. He was the brother of cellist Julius Klengel. Biography Klengel was born and died in Leipzig, where he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music and the University of Leipzig receiving his doctorate in 1886 with the dissertation Zur Ästhetik der Tonkunst (The Aesthetic of Music). From 1881 to 1886 he was choral conductor for the Euterpe Music Society in Leipzig and from 1888 to 1891 he worked at the Hofkapelle Stuttgart. He conducted for the German choral societies in New York City from 1898 to 1902. Klengel then returned to Leipzig to conduct the Arion Society and later joined the Leipzig Conservatory as professor of violin and piano. Klengel was a versatile musician; he was an accomplished violinist and pianist who sought a career as a concert musician and soloist. He composed works for violin, viola, and piano, as well as many songs and choral works. Klengel was a “house arranger” for Simrock publishing house. He is noted for his artistic arrangements for violin and viola, Original compositions ;Chamber music * Fünf Stücke (5 Pieces) for 2 violins, Op

Paul Ladmirault

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Paul Émile Ladmirault (8 December 1877 – 30 October 1944) was a French composer and music critic whose music expressed his devotion to Brittany. Claude Debussy wrote that his work possessed a “fine dreamy musicality”, commenting on its characteristically hesitant character by suggesting that it sounded as if it was “afraid of expressing itself too much”. He died in Kerbili en Kamoel, St. Nagoire, France. In 1912, Ladmirault was one of the founding members of the short-lived Association des Compositeurs Breton. He composed music on Celtic themes, such as the ballet La Prêtesse de Korydwenn and the symphonic poem he wrote as musical accompaniment for the film La Brière. He worked on translations of ancient Gallic texts. In 1928, Ladmirault published a manifesto of Breton music in the first issue of the Celticist journal Kornog. He argued that Breton composers should follow the example of the Mighty Handful, the Russian nationalist musical group, by rejecting German and Italian musical models and relying on folk traditions and pentatonic scales. Nevertheless, he took the view that Breton folk music was cruder than its “civilised” Irish and Scottish counterparts. He justified his use o

Paul Le Flem

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Marie-Paul Achille Auguste Le Flem (18 March 1881 – 31 July 1984) was a French composer and music critic. Biography Born in Radon, Orne, of Breton parentage, and living most of his life in Lézardrieux, Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d’Indy and Albert Roussel, later teaching at the same establishment, where his pupils included Erik Satie (as a mature student) and André Jolivet. His music is strongly influenced by his native Brittany, the landscape of which is reflected in most of his work. He spoke Breton and remained strongly attached to Breton culture throughout his life. In September 1902, he departed for Russia to take up a teaching position, during which he learned Russian. Nevertheless, he soon grew homesick and returned to Brittany after turning down another job opportunity in the Crimea. Before World War I, Le Flem produced several major works, including his First Symphony, a Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, and an opera. The war temporarily put an end to his compositional activities. Le Flem was mobilised as a stretcher-bearer during the war, and his knowledge of Russian enabled him to be assigned to the Russian Expeditionary Force in France, where he

Paul Lincke

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Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 – 3 September 1946) was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the “father” of the Berlin operetta. His well-known compositions include “Berliner Luft” (“Berlin Air”), the unofficial anthem of Berlin, from his operetta Frau Luna; and “The Glow-Worm”, from his operetta Lysistrata. Early life Lincke was born on 7 November 1866 in the Jungfernbrücke district of Berlin. He was the son of magistrate August Lincke and his wife Emilie. His father played the violin in several small orchestras. When Paul was only five years old his father died. Emilie moved with her three children to Adalbertstraße, and later to Eisenbahnstraße, near Lausitzer Platz. Lincke’s early musical inclinations were towards military music. His mother sent him after the completion of secondary school education to Wittenberge. Here he was trained in the Wittenberg City Band under Rudolf Kleinow as a bassoonist. He also learned to play the tenor horn, the drums, the piano and the violin. Career Performance and early compositions Instead of pursuing a career as a military musician, Lincke secured employment as a bassoonist at Berlin’s Central Theatre, under Adolf

Paul McSwiney

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Paul McSwiney or Paul Mac Swiney (March 1856 – 17 November 1889 ) was an Irish composer and dramatist who emigrated to the United States. A talented artist with a number of pioneering performances in both Cork and New York, he unsuccessfully tried to save the Irish language among the New York Irish. Life and work McSwiney was born in Cork and was baptised at St Finbarr’s Catholic Church on 6 March 1856. His father, Terence McSwiney, ran a grocery shop at 119 Patrick’s Street, and was later a town councillor. He performed as a pianist in amateur circles during his twenties, including at concerts given by the Catholic Young Men’s Society, but seems to have written nothing of any substance before the first performance of his opera Amergen in the Cork Opera House on 23 February 1881. A significant event in local music history, the opera to his libretto was praised for its drama and melodic content, but less so for its musical craftsmanship. It is also an important work in the development of Celticist influences in Irish opera and classical music generally. Soon after the week of performances, McSwiney went to London and in 1883 to New York, where he became the musical director of the N

Paul Scheinpflug

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Paul Scheinpflug (10 September 1875 near Dresden – 11 March 1937) was a German conductor and composer. Born in Loschwitz, Scheinpflug studied at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden from 1890 to 1894, among others with Felix Draeseke. After a short stay in 1897/1898 as a private tutor in Kiev, he moved to Bremen in 1898, where he worked as concert master of the Philharmonic Orchestra and director of several choirs. From 1909 to 1914 he was conductor of the Musikverein in Königsberg and from 1914 to 1920 conductor of the Blüthner Orchestra in Berlin. From 1920 to 1928 he was General Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic and from 1929 to 1932 Chief Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic. After that he often travelled to the countries of Northern and Eastern Europe as a guest conductor. As a conductor he preferred the composers of the late romantic period and was particularly committed to the dissemination of Richard Strauss’s works. As a composer, he created chamber music, smaller orchestral works (Overture to a comedy by Shakespeare, op. 15) and the opera Das Hofkonzert, whereby in his late compositions he distanced himself from the emotional burden of his prev

Paul Vidal

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Paul Antonin Vidal (16 June 1863 – 9 April 1931) was a French composer, conductor and music teacher mainly active in Paris. Life and career Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse, and studied at the conservatoires there and in Paris, under Jules Massenet at the latter. He won the Prix de Rome in 1883, one year before Claude Debussy. On 8 January 1886, in Rome, Vidal and Debussy performed Franz Liszt’s Faust Symphony at two pianos for Liszt himself, an after-dinner performance that Liszt apparently slept through. The following day they played Emmanuel Chabrier’s Trois valses romantiques for Liszt. Vidal conducted at the Opéra National de Paris where he made his first appearance directing Gwendoline in 1894 (he had coached the singers for the Paris premiere in 1893 ), and later conducted the first performance of Ariane and the Paris premieres of Roma by Massenet, and L’étranger by d’Indy. He co-founded the Concerts de l’Opera with Georges Marty. He taught at the Conservatoire de Paris, where his students included composers Lili Boulanger, Marc Delmas, Jacques Ibert and Vladimir Fédorov. He died in Paris, aged 67. His brother Joseph Bernard Vidal (1859-1924) was also a composer. Compositions

Paul von Klenau

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Paul August von Klenau (11 February 1883 – 31 August 1946) was a Danish-born composer who worked primarily in Germany and Austria. Biography Klenau was born in Copenhagen, where he studied under Otto Malling. Already as a young man he left his native country to study and work in Germany and Austria, among others with Max Bruch, Ludwig Thuille and Max von Schillings. His first, Bruckner-influenced symphony was premiered successfully in 1908 at a Tonkünstlerfest in Munich. Within just five years the three additional large-scale symphonies followed. Later influences include French music, Richard Strauss, and Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique. Klenau was among Schoenberg’s advocates during the 1920s, and Schoenberg attended a concert of his music conducted by Klenau in 1923 in Freiburg. Reputation Klenau’s role under National Socialism has been the subject of discussion. Fred Prieberg characterizes Klenau’s relationship with the Nazis as one of mutual opportunism: for the régime, he could be useful as a campaigner for cultural ties between Germany and Denmark; for Klenau this attitude opened doors that remained closed to others. By way of example, Prieberg cites the seemingly u

Pauline Gilmour Hatch

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Pauline Gilmour Hatch (; 1871–1955) was an American composer and hymnwriter. Life Pauline Gilmour Hatch, only daughter of Henry Lake Gilmour, was born at either Cape May, or Wenonah, New Jersey, on April 3, 1871. She manifested a great love for music at an early age, which was encouraged and cultivated in a musical atmosphere, William J. Kirkpatrick being her first instrumental teacher. Later she received a diploma from the South Jersey Institute, Bridgeton, New Jersey, and also took a course at Richard Zeckwer’s Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia. References Sources * Showalter, A. J. (1904). The Best Gospel Songs and Their Composers. Dalton, GA: The A. J. Showalter Co.; Dallas, TX: The Showalter-Patton Co. p. 276. * “Obituaries: Mrs. Pauline G. Hatch”. Courier-Post. Camden, New Jersey. Thursday, November 10, 1955. p. 4. * “Pauline Gilmour Hatch”. Hymnary.org. Accessed July 12, 2022. * “Pauline Gilmour Hatch”. Hymntime.com. Accessed July 12, 2022.

Pavel Chesnokov

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Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Пáвел Григóрьевич Чеснокóв) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow, also transliterated Tschesnokoff, Tchesnokov, Tchesnokoff, and Chesnokoff) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred choral works, over four hundred of which are sacred. Today, he is most known for his piece Salvation is Created as well as works such as Do Not Reject Me in Old Age (solo for basso profundo) and movements from various settings of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. Life Chesnokov was born in Vladimir, near Moscow, on 24 October 1877. While attending the Moscow Conservatory, he received extensive training in both instrumental and vocal music including nine years of solfège, and seven years training for both the piano and violin. His studies in composition included four years of harmony, counterpoint, and form. During his years at the school, he had the opportunity to study with prominent Russian composers like Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, who greatly influenced his style of liturgy-driven choral composition. At an early age,

Pavel Pabst

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Paul or Pavel Avgustovich Pabst (; born Christian Georg Paul Pabst; 15 May 1854 – 9 June 1897) was a pianist, composer, and Professor of Piano at Moscow Conservatory. Life and career Pabst was born Christian Georg Paul Pabst (Христиан Георг Пауль Пабст) in 1854, into a family of musicians in the capital of East Prussia, Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). He studied piano with his father and then in Vienna with Anton Door and in Weimar with Franz Liszt. The young Pabst had a fortuitous meeting with Anton Rubinstein when he travelled to Königsberg as overseer of cultural programmes there. Pabst moved to Riga, then in the Russian Empire, as an accomplished pianist in 1875. has issued, as part of its CD set “The Dawn of Recording: The Julius Block Cylinders,” more than 26 minutes of recordings of Paul Pabst as a performer, both on solo piano and as part of a piano duet (with Sergei Taneyev). These are the only known recordings of Pabst as a performer, and were made in 1892 and 1895. They include music by Chopin and Schumann, parts of Arensky’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 23, and Pabst’s arrangements of music by Chopin and Tchaikovsky, as well as a composition by Pabst. Original composit

Pavel Weymarn

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Pavel Platonovich Weymarn (; 1857 – ) was a Russian writer on music and composer. Weymarn was born in Saint Petersburg and studied at the First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium. He served in the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment and left the army in 1888. He studied piano with Karel van Ark and theory with Konstantin Galler and Andrey Kazbiryuk at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. From 1888 to 1890, Weymarn edited the music journal Bayan. He was a music critic for various publications.

Percy Buck

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Sir Percy Carter Buck (25 March 1871 – 3 October 1947) was an English music educator, writer, organist, and composer. Early life and education Percy Buck was born in West Ham, London, and studied at Merchant Taylors’ School, the Guildhall School of Music under Charles Joseph Frost (1848-1918) and Francis Davenport, and then at Royal College of Music, where his teachers were Walter Parratt, C.H. Lloyd, Hubert Parry and John Arthur St. Oswald Dykes. Career From 1891 until 1894 he was organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, where he became friends with William Henry Hadow, Classics Tutor there at the time, who became the first editor of the Oxford History of Music in 1896. Buck was appointed organist at Wells Cathedral (1896–99), then Bristol Cathedral (1899–1901). He became director of music at Harrow School in 1901 and held that post until 1927. While at Harrow, Buck served on the editorial board of the ten-volume anthology Tudor Church Music. In 1919 Sir Hugh Allen invited him to join the staff of the Royal College of Music, where he set up a teacher’s training course, contributing his own lectures on psychology. In 1925, Buck became the King Edward Professor of Music in the Un

Percy French

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William Percy French (1 May 1854 – 24 January 1920) was an Irish songwriter, author, poet, entertainer and painter. Life French was born at Clooneyquinn House, near Tulsk, County Roscommon, the son of an Anglo-Irish landlord, Christopher French, and Susan Emma French (née Percy). He was the third of nine children. His younger sister, Emily later Emily de Burgh Daly was also a writer. He was educated in England at Kirk Langley and Windermere College before going to Foyle College in Derry and wrote his first successful song while studying at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1877 for a smoking concert. The song, “Abdul Abulbul Amir”, was published in 200 copies for £5 and French sold each copy for 2s6d, making a small fortune. However, he omitted to register the copyright on the song and lost all the subsequent income from the royalties as it was re-published without his name. The royalties were restored to his widow and daughters after his death. Although he lost copyright, French always claimed authorship and did so on the sleeve of his song “Slattery’s Mounted Fut” (1889) and in every issue of the weekly The Jarvey. Brendan O’Dowda claimed to have discovered, via the popularity of v

Percy Godfrey (composer)

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NOTOC Percy Godfrey (16 August 1859 – 30 January 1945) was an English composer, organist and music teacher, mostly active in the county of Kent. Education and career Born in Croxall, Derbyshire, he studied at the University of Durham and the Royal Academy of Music, where his teachers included Sir George Macfarren and Ebenezer Prout. The Dutch violinist and composer Berthold Tours, who became a friend, was also an important early influence. After graduating he became a schoolmaster in Bengeo, Hertford before being appointed music-master and organist at The King’s School, Canterbury. He conducted the East Kent Orchestra. Music Godfrey’s compositions extend up to 50 opus numbers. His prize-winning Coronation March, composed for Edward VII in 1902, was by far the best known of his works. It was the subject of extensive national press coverage at the time. The march was adapted as a hymn tune by Sir Frederick Bridge, and was also used at the overture for Leopold Wenzel’s Our Crown, an imperial ballet staged at the Empire Theatre in May 1902. There is a modern recording. Godfrey’s Symphony No. 1 in G minor was composed in 1903 and later performed by Dan Godfrey (no relation) in Bourn

Percy Grainger

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Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune “Country Gardens”. Grainger left Australia at the age of 13 to attend the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Between 1901 and 1914 he was based in London, where he established himself first as a society pianist and later as a concert performer, composer, and collector of original folk melodies. As his reputation grew he met many of the significant figures in European music, forming important friendships with Frederick Delius and Edvard Grieg. He became a champion of Nordic music and culture, his enthusiasm for which he often expressed in private letters, sometimes in crudely racist or antisemitic terms. In 1914 Grainger moved to the United States, where he live

Percy Kahn

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Percival (Percy) Benedict Kahn (9 December 18802 May 1966) was an English composer and pianist. His most noted composition was the song Ave Maria with accompaniment by piano, and violin obbligato. Kahn was born in London in 1880. He was a boy soprano, and at the age of 15 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he studied for four years under the organist and composer Walter Parratt. He also studied piano with Marmaduke Barton, and theory with Charles Wood and Walford Davies. Kahn accompanied some of the great musicians of the day, including violinists Mischa Elman and Fritz Kreisler; sopranos Dame Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Florence Austral and Oda Slobodskaya, tenors Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Richard Tauber, Vladimir Rosing, Joseph Hislop and Beniamino Gigli; and baritones Titta Ruffo and John Brownlee. Of all these artists, he was most closely associated with Richard Tauber, whom he accompanied regularly for 14 years, from 1933 up until Tauber’s death. Tauber recorded four of his songs for Parlophone, and sang others in broadcasts. His Ave Maria was recorded in 1913 by Enrico Caruso and Mischa Elman, with the composer at the piano. Percy Kahn was married

Percy Sherwood

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Percy Sherwood (23 May 1866 - 15 May 1939) was a German-born composer and pianist of English nationality. He was born in Dresden, the son of a lecturer in English at Dresden University, John Sherwood, and a German mother Auguste Koch, who had been a successful soprano. After his studies with Theodor Kirchner, Felix Draeseke and Herman Scholtz, Sherwood became a major figure in the music life of Dresden before the First World War. In 1889 he won the Mendelssohn Prize for his Requiem. He was first a teacher, then professor, at the Dresden Conservatory from 1893 and 1911 respectively. His own students included Dora Pejačević. Shortly before war broke out in 1914 he and his wife abandoned their Dresden villa and returned to England, where he was almost unknown. Thereafter he made a living as a private teacher in London and travelling weekly to Oxford and Cambridge. He died in London. Sherwood’s compositions come from the classic German tradition. They include five symphonies (Nos. 4 and 5 are lost) and several concertos (two each for cello, piano and violin), as well as chamber music (including two cello sonatas and at least six string quartets) and solo piano works. Modern recordings

Percy William Pilcher

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Percy William Pilcher (5 July 1866 – 3 May 1937), ARCO, was an organist, composer, and a railway photographer, who was one of the first in Britain to capture images of moving trains. 250 of his glass plate negatives from the F. Burtt collection are held by the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, the earliest of which has been dated to around 1881–2. Pilcher sold much of his work to F. Moore’s Railway Photographs (later the Locomotive Publishing Company), who published them as uncredited prints and postcards. The corresponding negatives are also now in the possession of the NRM. Biography Pilcher was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 5 July 1866, the son of Margaret (née Westland) and William John Pilcher, FRCS, LRCP. He was educated at Bath College from 1879 to 1884, before moving on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he changed subjects from medicine to music. Graduating with a B.A. in 1888 and an M.A. four years later, In Shrewsbury, Pilcher is reported to have been on the committee of the local motorcycle club in 1910. He became a member of staff at Shrewsbury School in 1918 and remained there until his retirement in 1935. The couple had four sons, the eldest of wh

Pere-Enric de Ferran i de Rocabruna

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Pere-Enric de Ferran i de Rocabruna (, Barcelona, 1865 – Brussels, 1919) was a Catalan-Spanish music composer. He received his first composition lessons from in Barcelona, completing his studies with Enric Morera. He was considered one of the budding young musician of the modernist period. In the works he produced, he distinguished himself in his handling of instrumentation. Among his works are an Andante premiered in Barcelona by the orchestra Crikboom; the stage works La Bodas de Camacho (libretto by Jacint Grau and Adrià Gual) and La Cegueta (libretto by Modest Urgell); the symphonic poem Le Soir (lyrics by the Belgian painter and poet Jean Delville); and Primavera, a work premiered in Brussels in 1914. His published songs include Primavera, Berceuse, Au Rosignol; Ofrena, and Praeterita. Few remained unfinished after his death: Les amantes de Palerme, opera in three acts; Barnum, operetta and El Silfo, symphonic poem. His documentary collection, with scores of more than 80 works, is archived and cataloged in the Library of Catalonia. Biography Personal life Pere-Enric de Ferran i de Rocabruna (Spanish: Pedro-Enrique, French: Pierre-Henri) was born in Barcelona on June 2, 1865 in

Petar Stojanović (composer)

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Petar Stojanović (7 September 1877 – 11 September 1957) was a Serbian violinist and composer of operettas, ballets and orchestral music. (His birthday is also variously given as 6 September and 25 August.) Life He was born in Budapest and studied the violin there with Jenő Hubay. At the Vienna Conservatory, he studied violin with Jakob Grün and composition with Robert Fuchs and Richard Heuberger. In 1925, he became professor of violin in Belgrade, where he lived until his death. A music college in the town of Ub is named after him. Selected works ;Stage *Tigar (The Tiger; Der Tiger), comic opera; libretto by R. von Perger, Budapest, 14 November 1905 *Devojka na Mansardi (The Girl from the Garrett; Liebchen am Dach); libretto by Viktor Léon, 1917 *Vojvoda od Rajhštata (The Duke of Reichstadt; Die Herzog von Reichstadt); libretto by Viktor Léon and , Vienna, 1921 *Mirjana, ballet (1942) *Devet čiraka (Nine Candlesticks), ballet (1944) ;Orchestral *Smrt junaka (The Hero’s Death), symphonic poem (1918) *Sava, symphonic poem (1935) ;Concertante *Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor, op. 1 (1904) *Violin Concerto No. 2 (Prague, 1916) *Violin Concerto No. 3 *Violin Concerto No. 4 *Violin Conc

Peter Lange-Müller

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Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1 December 1850 – 26 February 1926) was a Danish composer and pianist. His compositional style was influenced by Danish folk music and by the work of Robert Schumann; Johannes Brahms; and his Danish countrymen, including J.P.E. Hartmann. Early years Lange-Müller was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark to an affluent family with a background in politics. He spent his childhood painting, reading poetry, and studying music with prominent teachers, including G. Matthison-Hansen. Poor health prevented him from attending school until 1871, when he entered conservatory to study composition. After a year, however, his father decided that he should follow his professional path and enrolled him in Copenhagen University to study political science. He was not suited for a life in politics though, and by 1874 he had become fully immersed in his compositional career. It was at this time that he and several colleagues founded Copenhagen’s Concert Society. Middle years For the next quarter of a century, Lange-Müller produced a huge quantity of music, comprising some seventy-seven opus numbers. And, for several years, he conducted the Concert Society he helped to establish. H

Philipp Wolfrum

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Philipp Julius Wolfrum (17 December 1854 – 8 May 1919) was a German conductor, musicologist, composer, organist and academic teacher. He was influential to university education in church music in Heidelberg, and in 1907 became the town’s Generalmusikdirektor. Career Born in Schwarzenbach am Wald, Philipp Wolfrum was the son of Johann Heinrich Wolfrum, a teacher and church musician (Kantor). He first also worked as a teacher. On a scholarship, he studied from 1876 at the Königliche Musikschule in München organ and composition with Joseph Rheinberger, piano with Karl Bärmann, and choral singing and conducting with Franz Wüllner. From 1878 he was conductor, soloist and composer in Bamberg. In 1884 he was appointed an assistant teacher for music at the theology seminary of Heidelberg University. There, he installed formal education in church music, and initiated public musical events in the town. In 1885 he founded the choirs Akademischer Gesangverein and Bach-Verein (now: ). In 1888 he was appointed Außerordentlicher Professor. In 1890 he published Die Entstehung und erste Entwicklung des deutschen evangelischen Kirchenliedes in musikalischer Beziehung (The origins and initial develop

Philippe Gaubert

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Philippe Gaubert (5 July 1879 – 8 July 1941) was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute. He was a respected conductor and a composer, primarily for the flute. Biography Gaubert – commonly referred to as Gauberto – was born in Cahors but moved to Paris with his parents when he was six. His mother, who worked as a housekeeper, occasionally cleaned the apartment of Paul Taffanel, who began teaching Philippe the flute. Taffanel was Professor of Flute at the Paris Conservatoire, and Gaubert began studying there in 1893, aged 13. He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars. After a prominent career as a flautist with the Paris Opéra, he was appointed in 1919, at the age of forty, to three positions that placed him at the very centre of French musical life: * Professor of flute in the Conservatoire de Paris (teacher of Marcel Moyse) * Principal conductor of the Paris Opéra * Principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire In 1907, he participated in the first performance of Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet. Among his recordings as conductor, o

Pierantonio Tasca

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Pierantonio Tasca (1858–1934) was an Italian opera composer. His first opera, Bianca, premiered in 1885, to a libretto by Enrico Golisciani. Eva Tetrazzini, elder sister of the famous Luisa Tetrazzini participated in the premiere. His next operas, A Santa Lucia (1892) and Pergolesi (1898), had successful premieres in Berlin. The score was published by Galletti e Cocci (Florence) in 1892. Pergolesi was based on a libretto by Eugenio Chécchi (Livorno 1838 - Roma 1932). In 1901, an operetta by Tasca called Studenti e sartine premiered in Tasca’s hometown of Noto, in Sicily. but had its premiere in Noto in 1932. Two additional operatic works composed by Tasca, La madre and Scongiuro, were never performed. Tasca also wrote a Messa da Requiem, a death elegy to Edmondo De Amicis, as well as symphonic and chamber music. References

Pierre de Bréville

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Pierre Eugène Onfroy de Bréville (21 February 1861 – 24 September 1949) was a French composer. Biography Pierre de Bréville was born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse. Following the wishes of his parents, he studied law with the goal of becoming a diplomat. However, he abandoned his plans after a few years and entered the Conservatoire de Paris. He began his musical studies with Théodore Dubois (1880–1882), later taking courses under the direction of César Franck. He became a professor, teaching counterpoint at the Schola Cantorum in Paris (1898–1902). Following a twelve-year break, he taught classes in chamber music composition at the Conservatoire de Paris (1914–1918). He established himself as a music critic and wrote reviews and commentary in Mercure de France, Le Courrier musical and La Revue blanche. He died in Paris. Although de Bréville was not prolific, he lavished attention to his own compositions. He also completed the orchestration of César Franck’s unfinished opera Ghiselle with Vincent d’Indy and Ernest Chausson. Selected compositions ;Stage * L’anneau de Çakuntala (The Ring of Shakuntala), Incidental Music for the play Abhijñānaśākuntalam by Kālidāsa * Le Pays des fées, Incidenta

Pietro Floridia

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Pietro Floridia (5 May 1860 in Modica – 16 August 1932 in New York City) was an Italian composer of classical music. According to David Johnson (quoting the notes, by Luigi della Croce, to the Bongiovanni recording of Floridia’s Symphony and other works), Floridia was born in Modica, Sicily, and studied in Naples, where he created his first opera, Carlotta Clepier. He later destroyed the score of this work and entered further studies. He wrote a symphony (his only one) in 1888, taught at the Palermo Conservatory of Music, and wrote operas Maruzza (produced in Venice in 1894) and La Colonia Libera with libretto by Luigi Illica (produced in Rome in 1899). Floridia died in Harkness Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1932. Notes Sources * External links * * *

Pietro Mascagni

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Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Ruggero Leoncavallo, was a “one-opera man” who could never repeat his first success, L’amico Fritz and Iris have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres. Mascagni wrote fifteen operas, an operetta, several orchestral and vocal works, and also songs and piano music. He enjoyed immense success during his lifetime, both as a composer and conductor of his own and other people’s music and created a variety of styles in his operas. Biography Early life and education Mascagni was born on 7 December 1863 in Livorno, Tuscany, the second son of Domenico and Emilia Mascagni. His father owned and operated a bakery. Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (“Nanni”) was born the same year in the same city and became Mascagni’s lifelong friend and collaborator. In 1876, at the age of 13, Mascagni began musical studies with Alfredo Soffredini, who found

Pinhas Minkowsky

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Pinhas Minkowsky (; April 5, 1859 – January 18, 1924) was a Russian hazzan and composer. Biography Phinehas Minkovsky was born in Bila Tserkva in April 1859. His father, Mordecai, a descendant of Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, was cantor in the city’s Great Synagogue, and he himself was a singer in his father’s choir. After having studied the Tanakh and Talmud under different teachers, Minkovsky continued his Talmudical studies alone in the bet hamidrash of his native town. At the age of eighteen he began to study Russian and German, and he mastered these two languages. His first teacher in vocal music was his father; later he studied it under Nissan Spivak, whom he succeeded as chief cantor of the in Kishinev. Minkovsky thereafter went to Vienna, where he continued his studies under Robert Fuchs, from whom he obtained a diploma as singer. He was afterwards successively cantor in Kherson and Lemberg. In 1881 he became cantor in Odessa (in the great synagogue), but soon departed for New York to work at the Kahal Adath Jeshurun synagogue. In 1892 he was called back to Odessa, where he served as cantor of the Broder Synagogue for thirty years until its closure by the Bolsheviks in 1922. He r

Poldowski

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Poldowski was the professional pseudonym of a Belgian-born British composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski (16 May 187928 January 1932), daughter of the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Some of her early works were published under the name Irène Wieniawska. She married Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, 5th Bt (1869–1961), becoming Lady Dean Paul. Her name appears in a number of forms: * Régine Wieniawski * Irène Wieniawska * Irene Regina Wieniawski or Wieniawska * Lady Dean Paul * Lady Irene Dean Paul * Lady Irene Poldowski Paul * (Madame) Poldowski, Poldowsky or Poldowska. Biography Régine Wieniawski was born on 16 May 1879 in Ixelles, Brussels, where her father, the Polish virtuoso violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski, had earlier settled on his appointment as a professor of the Brussels Conservatory. Her mother was an Englishwoman, Isabelle Bessie Wieniawski (née Hampton), the niece of Irish pianist and composer George Alexander Osborne (who studied under Johann Peter Pixis, François-Joseph Fétis and Friedrich Kalkbrenner and was a close friend of Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz) and a member of a London family that had had associations with Rossini, Meyerbeer, Je

Preston Ware Orem

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Preston Ware Orem (April 20, 1865 – December 20, 1938) was an American composer, pianist, and writer on music. He is frequently grouped with other composers as part of the Indianist movement in American music. Early life Born in Philadelphia, Orem received his secondary education at the Eastburn Academy, and did his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his degree in music. He studied organ and music theory with Hugh Archibald Clarke, and was instructed in piano by Charles H. Jarvis. Career From 1889 until 1895 he served as the organist of St. Paul’s Procathedral in Los Angeles; after this he returned home, teaching for one year at the Philadelphia Conservatory. From 1896 until 1905 he taught at the Combs Conservatory of Music. In 1900 Orem began a long association with Theodore Presser, serving as a music critic and editor for the publisher while conducting the Presser Choral Society. From 1901 until 1910 he again worked as an organist, this time at the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church. Orem also wrote theory books, including 1919’s Harmony Book for Beginners, and compiled nine books of musical exercises. It is for these that he is chiefly rememb

Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia

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Prince Joachim of Prussia (27 September 1876 – 24 October 1939) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern. He was the second eldest son of Prince Albert of Prussia and his wife Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. He is notable for composing music, in particular military waltzes. Family and early life Prince Joachim’s paternal grandparents were Prince Albert of Prussia and Princess Marianne of the Netherlands. His maternal grandparents were Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau. Joachim had two brothers: Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht (1874–1940) and Friedrich Wilhelm (1880–1925). In 1885, Joachim’s father Prince Albert was chosen as regent for the Duchy of Brunswick. Like all male Hohenzollerns, Joachim and his brothers entered the army and became officers. Music always appealed to him however, and he soon made a name for himself composing. In 1898, he presented a military waltz he wrote to a family gathering at the Neues Palais in Potsdam. In 1920, Joachim was ordered under arrest by the German Minister of Defense Gustav Noske after he got into a fight with some French military officers. The dispute apparently began after a few of the aforementioned officers failed

Princess Anna of Montenegro

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Princess Anna of Montenegro (18 August 1874 – 22 April 1971) was the seventh child and sixth daughter of Nicholas I of Montenegro and his wife Queen Milena. Family and early life Anna was born on 18 August 1874 to Nicholas, Prince of Montenegro and his consort Princess Milena; on 28 August 1910, Nicholas would become King of Montenegro. Anna’s sisters were particularly noted for achieving marriages with powerful royal figures, causing their father, like the contemporary Christian IX of Denmark, to earn the sobriquet “father-in-law of Europe”; one source declared that these advantageous marriages “had done more for Montenegro than all the brave deeds of this nation of warriors”. For instance, Princesses Zorka, Milica, Anastasia and Elena all made important marriages into the royal families of Serbia, Russia and Italy, respectively. Like all her sisters, Anna was educated in Russia at the expense of the Russian imperial family, and upon each of their marriages, were given dowries by the Russian emperor. Marriage Background Anna met Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg at Cimiez, France, where the prince was a guest of the visiting Queen Victoria and Anna was visiting her sister Prince

Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen

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Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (23 September 1853 – 22 February 1923) was the only daughter of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, by his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia. She was notable as a musician and composer. One of her most famous works is Romanze in F major for clarinet and piano. Early life Princess Marie Elisabeth was born on 23 September 1853 in Potsdam. She was the third child and only daughter of Georg, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, by his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and had one surviving brother, Hereditary Prince Bernhard. Her parents’ marriage was very happy, as it was the rare instance of a love match rather than a marriage of state. In 1855, tragedy struck with the death of their younger infant brother; Charlotte died three months later of complications after childbirth of a baby son, two months earlier. This youngest brother died, one day old. Georg was inconsolable, but remarried several years later to Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in order to provide a mother for his remaining young children. Marie Elisabeth’s father succeeded as Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen in 1866. His second marriage was unhappy; it pr

Pyotr Shchurovsky

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Pyotr Andreyevich Shchurovsky (; 12/24 February 1850 – 14/27 September 1908) was a Russian conductor and composer known for composing the music of Sansoen Phra Barami. Life Shchurovsky was born on 12 February 1850, in Zolotonoshsky Uyezd, Poltava Governorate into a noble family. He spent his early life in Moscow and was interested in instruments and music when he was young. He studied piano and music theory at the Moscow Conservatory, whose director at the time was Nikolai Rubinstein. During that time he also befriended Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his teacher. After finishing, he began conducting at the Imperial Theatres in Moscow and organised concerts and musical lectures. He was the organizer of musical education in Poltava, where he also tutored Ukrainian composer . In 1870, he became an opera band leader in Kharkiv. Later, he became the head of the Bolshoi Theatre, one of the most famous music theatres in Russia but then resigned to continue giving lectures on music. He dedicated his romance “To You, My Friend” to his long-time friend, , a famous Bolshoi Theatre soloist and baritone in Russia. Shchurovsky, Khokhlov, and Tchaikovsky were, according to his wife’s memoirs, reported

Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful” poetry of Gitanjali. Tagore’s poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”, At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha (“Sun Lion”), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dram

Rafael Joseffy

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Rafael Joseffy (July 3, 1852 – June 25, 1915) was a Hungarian Jewish pianist, teacher and composer. Life Rafael Joseffy was born in Hunfalu, Szepes County (now Huncovce, Slovakia) in 1852. His youth was spent in Miskolc, and he began his study of the piano there at the age of eight. He studied in Budapest with Friedrich Brauer, the teacher of Stephen Heller. In 1866, he went to Leipzig, where his teachers were Ignaz Moscheles and Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel. In 1868, he became a pupil of Karl Tausig in Berlin, remaining with him for two years. Later he spent two summers with Franz Liszt in Weimar. He made his debut in Berlin in 1872 and was immediately acclaimed as a master pianist of great brilliance. He moved to the United States in 1879, where he lived in New York City. Joseffy made his American debut in New York in 1879, with an orchestra under Leopold Damrosch. He soon after played with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and subsequently made many appearances in New York and other American cities with Theodore Thomas and the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. In December 1889 he was a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch for the grand opening of Lincoln Music H

Raffaello Squarise

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Raffaello Squarise (13 November 1856—15 April 1945), also known as Raphael Squarise, was an Italian violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer, who settled in Adelaide, South Australia, and Dunedin, New Zealand. He was a pioneer in the establishment of classical music in New Zealand. Biography Early years in Italy Raffaello Squarise was born in Vicenza, then part of the Austrian Empire, where his father, Antonio Squarise, worked as a sculptor. He attended the Istituto Musicale, Turin, for six years, studying violin under Francesco Bianchi and Pietro Bertuzzi, and composition under Carlo Pedrotti. Around this time he played in the orchestra of the Teatro Regio. Squarise graduated in 1875, completing a miniature Symphony in C Minor for his final examination. On returning to Vicenza he completed further study under Francesco Canneti. He afterwards served as military bandmaster at Contarina and municipal bandmaster at Arzignano. Australian years Squarise left Italy for Australia in 1882, arriving in Melbourne in August that year. He spent much of the next year as a violinist in the touring opera orchestras of the Williamson, Garner and Musgrove Company, and the Cagli and Paoli Opera C

Raimund Kull

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Raimund Kull (3 October 1882 – 10 October 1942) was an Estonian conductor and composer. Born in Narva, at the time part of the Russian Empire, Kull studied trombone at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1900 until 1906. He then worked as an orchestra conductor in St. Petersburg, Kazan, and Rostov. Selected works ;works for orchestra * 1920: “The Battle of Kriusha” (‘Kriuša lahing’) * “Homeland” (‘Kodumaa’) * “Naughty Maiden” (‘Vallatu neiu’) Acknowledgements *Order of the Cross of the Eagle, 3rd class (1932) *Order of the White Star, 3rd class (1937) References

Raimund Pechotsch

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Raimund Leo Pechotsch (23 July 1864 – 20 January 1941) was a composer of romantic and incidental musical theatre pieces. He was a Roman Catholic who also conducted liturgical music. Life Pechotsch was born in Vienna, his father Adalbert Pechotsch being a composer of some note. The band had been contracted to perform at the Melbourne Exhibition of 1881. He remained in Australia, but moved to Sydney. He was in Brisbane then left for New Zealand 1889. Pechotsch was musical director for Australian stage producer Oscar Asche. Raimund also worked for music publisher Palings and taught violin and piano in Sydney for many years. Pechotsch wrote incidental music for Walter Howard’s 1910 play The Prince and the Beggar Maid which was very successful in London and Australia. He also wrote music (orchestrated for ensemble of twenty) to accompany “Pete” a Lewis Parker stage adaptation of Hall Caine’s novel The Manxman. Later in life he remarried Alice McCarthy, the daughter of fellow Australian composer Dr William Charles MacCarthy. Works * The cycling schottische * A lost love with words by Frederick Augustus Packer * Emu waltz (1896) * For thee : song with violin obligato with words by Ernest

Ralph Benatzky

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Ralph Benatzky (5 June 1884 – 16 October 1957) was a Czech-Austrian composer. He composed operas and operettas, such as Casanova (1928), Die drei Musketiere (1929), The White Horse Inn (1930) and Meine Schwester und ich (1930). Life He was born Rudolf Josef František (Rudolph Josef Franz) Benatzky on 5 June 1884 in Moravské Budějovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He was born to a Czech mother and ethnically German father, who taught at a German school. From 1899, he studied at a real school in Litoměřice, but was soon expelled. He continued his studies in Vienna. He graduated from German studies at the University of Vienna and received a doctorate in music at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák. His first job after his studies was as a conductor and kapellmeister in Munich, and in the following years he worked in several small cabarets, for which he wrote songs, lyrics and smaller operettas. In 1914, he became the director of the Rideamus cabaret in Vienna. In 1913, his first full-length operetta Der lachende Dreibund premiered in Berlin, but it was not until the operetta Liebe im Schnee, which premiered in Vienna in 1916, that he achie

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Ralph Vaughan Williams ( ; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–1908 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music and free it from Teutonic influences. Vaughan Williams is among the best-known British symphonists, noted for his very wide range of moods, from stormy and impassioned to tranquil, from mysterious to exuberant. Among the most familiar of his other concert works are Fantasia on a Theme b

Raoul Koczalski

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Raoul Armand Jerzy (von) Koczalski (3 January 1884 – 24 November 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski. Biography Early years Born in Warsaw, Koczalski was taught first by his mother, then by Julian Gadomski (1888–1890). Having made his first public appearance in 1888 (aged 4), his parents took him to play for Anton Rubinstein, who foresaw the possibility of a performing career. He never studied at a conservatory but had further private lesson on the piano and in composition with Ludwig Marek (1891–1892), Karol Mikuli (1821–1897) (Chopin’s favorite Polish student and composer) and instrumentation with Henryk Jarecki (1893–1894). At the age of 7 he gave concerts, and at 9 he was playing in major European cities as a virtuoso. His thousandth concert was given in Leipzig in 1896, and by the age of 12 he had received awards such as the Order of the Lion and Sun (from the Shah of Persia), the title of Court Pianist (from the King of Spain), and a medal from the Turkish Sultan. Already as a child he had a very extensive repertoire. During World War I he was interned in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Iranian king Naser al-Din Shah Qajar descr

Raoul Laparra

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Raoul Laparra (13 May 1876 – 4 April 1943) was a French composer. Life Born in Bordeaux, Laparra studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Gedalge, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré and Albert Lavignac. In 1903 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Alyssa. Laparra worked as a music critic for the magazines Le Ménestrel and Le Matin and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his students were Claude Champagne and Cemal Reşit Rey. His compositions are often influenced by Spanish and Basque folk music. He remains one of the masters of French Hispanism without remaining locked up in this speciality. He was the brother of the painter William Laparra. He died during the bombing of Boulogne-Billancourt in 1943 and is buried in Chézy-sur-Marne. Selected works * Peau d’âne, Opera, 1899 * La Habanera, Drame lyrique, 1900–1903 * Amphitryon, stage music for the play by Molière, 1904–1907 * La Jota, Conte lyrique, 1908–1911 * Suite ancienne en marge de Don Quichotte for violin or viola and piano, 1921 * Le Joueur de viole, Conte lyrique, 1925 * Le Livre de l’aurore, Suite for flute and piano, 1926 * Las Toreras, Zarzuela after Tirso de Molina, 1929 * L’Illustre Frégona,

Raymond Rôze

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Raymond Rôze (14 July 1873 – 30 March 1920) was an English composer and conductor. Biography He was born in London and the son of the French soprano Marie Rôze, and the natural son of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (and therefore the grandson of Queen Victoria). He studied in Brussels with Arthur De Greef before first working in England at the Lyceum Theatre where he was Musical Director. He also established a singing school in London in 1899 and was Musical Director for various theatre companies. His output consisted mainly of incidental music for plays including a number at His Majesty’s Theatre under Sir Herbert Tree, including Trilby in 1895. His music was twice performed in London’s Promenade concerts (in 1901 and 1911). Rôze was Musical Director of the Royal Opera House and his three-act opera Joan of Arc was premiered there on 1 November 1913. A review in The Times was very critical of the opera’s disjointed nature and warned that “a drama with the characters singing and an orchestra to accompany them is not necessarily an opera.” Later in the same month he engaged Frank Bridge to conduct Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser. Joan of Arc received a further performance in Pari

Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab

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Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (16 January 1881 – 14 April 1971) was a Dutch composer. Osorio-Swaab was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to a wealthy and devout Jewish family. Jewish observances were strictly followed in the household and young Reine was, in her own words, very devout. She developed an interest in composing music after her children were grown and her husband had died, and studied with Ernest W. Mulder for composition and Henk Badings for melody. In the 1930s she wrote a number of songs with Dutch text, and after World War II she composed Monument in 1946 in honor of her son John who was murdered in Dachau. In the 1920s she translated the work of Martin Buber into Dutch. She died in Amsterdam. Works Colaço Osorio-Swaab composed chamber works, songs, overture for orchestra, duets and declamatoria. Among theses: *Aus den knospen quellen sachte (in Sänge eines fahrenden Spielmanns) (Text: Stefan George) *Avond (Text: Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema) *Das Roseninnere (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) *Dorpsdans (Text: Jacques Fabrice Herman Perk) *En sourdine (Text: Paul Verlaine) *Fêtes galantes (Text: Paul Verlaine) *Heisst es viel dich bitten (from Sänge eines fahrenden Spielmann

Reinhard Oppel

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Julius Reinhard Oppel (1878 in Grünberg, Hesse – 1941 in Leipzig) was a German composer. He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt 1903–1909, was briefly an organist in Bonn, then from 1911 professor of composition at the Kiel Conservatory of Music, and from 1928 professor of music theory at the Leipzig Conservatory. Oppel was a student, correspondent, and friend of Heinrich Schenker, the famous Viennese Jewish music theorist, and made efforts to disseminate Schenkerian theory while a professor at Leipzig. Oppel was an outspoken critic of the Nazis. Until 1938, Oppel often played the organ not only in Protestant and Catholic churches, but also in synagogues in Leipzig. Works For a complete list of works, see the University of Hamburg link given below. *Piano pieces: 5 Stücke op. 21, Suite op. 26 and 4 Preludes op. 27. *String Quartet No.4 in F minor Op.33 (published 1928 by Edition Peters) (nos.2 and 3 are in manuscript at the Oppel Memorial Collection.) *Sonata in D minor for Solo Violin, op. 12 (self-published 1910). *Suite in E minor for Solo Violin, op. 19 (self-published 1913). *Books and articles on Johann Sebastian Bach, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (mostly or wholly arti

Reinhold Glière

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Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (born Reinhold Ernest Glier; 23 June 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. He was awarded the titles of People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1935) and People’s Artist of the USSR (1938). Biography Glière was born in the city of Kiev. He was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier (1834–1896) from Saxony (Klingenthal in the Vogtland region), who emigrated to the Russia and married Józefa (Josephine) Korczak (1849–1935), the daughter of his master, from Warsaw. His original name, as given in his baptism certificate, was Reinhold Ernest Glier. About 1900, he changed the spelling and pronunciation of his surname to Glière, which gave rise to the legend, stated by Leonid Sabaneyev for the first time (1927), of his French or Belgian descent. He entered the Kiev school of music in 1891, where he was taught violin by Otakar Ševčík, among others. In 1894, Glière entered the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Sergei Taneyev (counterpoint), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (composition), and Jan Hřímalý (violin; he dedicated his Octet for Strings, Op. 5, to Hřímalý), Anton Arensky and Georgi Conus (both harmony). He gr

Rentarō Taki

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was a Japanese pianist and composer of the Meiji era. Taki was born in Tokyo, but moved to many places during his childhood owing to his father’s job. He went to Tokyo Music School (now known as Tokyo University of the Arts) and was taught by Nobu Koda, graduating in 1901. One of his famous pieces is “Kōjō no Tsuki” (Moon Over the Ruined Castle), which was included in the songbook for junior high school students, along with the “Hakone-Hachiri” (箱根八里). “Hana” (花, “Flower”) is also a well-known song. In the same year, Taki went to the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany for further studies, but fell seriously ill with pulmonary tuberculosis and therefore returned to Japan. He lived quietly in the country afterwards, but soon died at the age of 23. His posthumous work is a solo piano piece called “Urami” (憾, “Regret”), which he wrote four months before he died. Recordings *“Kōjō no Tsuki” performed by Jean-Pierre Rampal and Ensemble Lunaire, Japanese Folk Melodies. transcribed by Akio Yashiro, CBS Records, 1978. *“Kōjō no Tsuki” performed by New Kyoto Ensemble, Distant Winds: The Music of Japan. Intersound, 1992. (no composers are credited on this album) References External links * – Koj

Reynaldo Hahn

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Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100. Hahn was born in Caracas but his family moved to Paris when he was a child, and he lived most of his life there. Following the success of his song “Si mes vers avaient des ailes” (If my verses had wings), written when he was aged 14, he became a prominent member of fin de siècle French society. Among his closest friends were Sarah Bernhardt and Marcel Proust. After the First World War, in which he served in the army, Hahn adapted to new musical and theatrical trends and enjoyed successes with his first opérette, Ciboulette (1923) and a collaboration with Sacha Guitry, the musical comedy Mozart (1926). During the Second World War Hahn, who was of Jewish descent, took refuge in Monaco, returning to Paris in 1945 where he was appointed director of the Opéra. He died in Paris in 1947, aged 72. Hahn was a prolific composer. His vocal works include secular and sacred pieces, lyric scenes, cantatas, oratorios, operas, comic operas, and operettas. Orchestral works include concertos ballets, to

Rhené-Baton

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René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton (5 September 1879 – 23 September 1940), was a French conductor and composer. Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany. He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area. He also had close relationships with composers of the Breton cultural renaissance, notably Guy Ropartz, Paul Le Flem, Paul Ladmirault and Louis Aubert. A founding member of the Association des Compositeurs Bretons in 1912, he composed many works using a Breton folk idiom. In July 2019 Brilliant Classics released a double CD album dedicated to Rhené-Baton’s chamber music for strings and piano, performed by the Wolferl Trio, which includes three premier recordings of the Violin Sonatas No. 1 and 2, the Suite ancienne, the Cello Sonata and the Piano Trio. Works Symphonic and Operatic *Variations, for piano and orchestra on a theme in the aeolian mode (1904) *Menuet pour Monsieur, frère du roi (1909) *Poème élégiaque, for violon et orchestre (1924) *Danses paysannes (1924) *En vacances (1924) *Pour les funérailles d’un marin (1925) *Fantaisie orientale, for violin an

Ricardo Castro (composer)

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Ricardo Rafael de la Santísima Trinidad Castro Herrera (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz. Life Castro was born at the Hacienda de Santa Bárbara, in the municipality of Nazas, Durango. His father, Vicente Castro, was a federal deputy; his mother was María de Jesús Herrera. Castro began his music education with Pedro H. Ceniseros. In 1879, his family moved to Mexico City, where the boy entered the National Conservatory of Music and studied piano with Juan Salvatierra and . He studied harmony and counterpoint with Melesio Morales. He finished all his studies in just five years, half of the usual ten. He graduated in 1883. Castro began his musical career as a concert pianist and composer before finishing his studies. In 1882, he won two prizes. At 19, Castro finished his First Symphony in C Minor; the symphony was premiered in 1988, 81 years after his death. In 1883, the Government of Mexico chose some of Castro’s works to send to Venezuela for the centenary of Simón Bolívar’s birth and later in 1884 he made a concert tour through the United States. 1896 was the year of the first pr

Richard Burmeister

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Richard Burmeister (1860 in Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – 1944) He made concert tours through Europe in 1883-85, and in 1885 he married fellow Liszt pupil Dory Petersen. From 1885 to 1897 was the head of the piano department of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Along with fellow composers Joseph Pache, Asger Hamerik, Fritz Finke and Otto Sutro, Burmeister played a sizeable role in the 1890s musical culture of Baltimore. From 1897 to 1899 he was director of the Scharwenka Conservatory of Music’s New York City branch. Burmeister returned to Europe and taught at the Royal Conservatory of Dresden and at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. He died in Berlin in 1944. a ballade for pianoforte, and “The Chase After Fortune” (described as a “symphonic fantasy”) for orchestra. He also published several arrangements, including an arrangement for pianoforte and orchestra of Liszt’s Concerto Pathétique for two pianofortes, a reorchestration of Chopin’s F-minor Piano Concerto, and a piano arrangement of Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in E-Flat Minor BWV 853. References External links *

Richard Fall

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Richard Fall (3 April 1882 – January 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish descent. One of his most famous compositions is the popular Was machst du mit dem Knie lieber Hans. Life Born in Jevíčko, Österreich-Ungarn, Fall grew up in a family of musicians. His two brothers Leo and Siegfried as well as his father were also composers and conductors. Fall worked as operettas conductor in Berlin and Vienna and as film composer in Hollywood. After the Anschluss (1938), he fled National Socialism to France. On 20 November 1943 he was deported from the Drancy internment camp to the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he died early in January 1945, before the liberation of the concentration camp. Works Stage plays *Goldreifchen. Fairy tale in 3 acts. Libretto: and Mia Ewers. UA 1909 Vienna *Das Damenparadies. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. UA 1911 Vienna *Wiener Fratz. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Ernst Klein and . UA 1912 Vienna *Arms and the Girl. Operetta in 2 scenes, Libretto: Austen Hurgon. UA 1912 London *Leute vom Stand. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Robert Bodanzky and Fritz Grünbaum. UA 1913 Vienna *Der Weltenbummler. Operetta in one

Richard Franck

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Richard Franck (3 January 1858 – 22 January 1938) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. Life He was born in Cologne and was the son of the German composer, pianist and teacher Eduard Franck. His father, who had studied with Felix Mendelssohn and knew the value of good instruction, sent Richard to the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied with two of the leading teachers of the day, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn. During the course of a long career, Franck held teaching positions at conservatories in both Germany (Kassel, Berlin, Heidelberg) and in Switzerland (Basle). Although he did not reach the front rank amongst his contemporaries, he was nevertheless well respected as a concert artist and as a composer. His conservative style was influenced by Reinecke and by his friend, the Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852–1921). Franck was firmly in the tradition of Mendelssohn and Schumann though it’s clear that he was not immune from the influence of Wagner, Grieg and Reger also. Critics who were familiar with his compositions and his piano playing regularly lavished praise upon them. For example, the Schweizerische Musikzeitung (Swiss Musical Journal), writing about his First P

Richard Hageman

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Richard Hageman (9 July 1881 – 6 March 1966) was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer. Biography Richard Hageman was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. He was the son of Maurits Hageman of Zutphen, a violinist, pianist and conductor, and of Hester Westerhoven of Amsterdam, a singer who performed under the name Francisca Stoetz. A child prodigy, he was a concert pianist by the age of six. He studied at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Brussels. For a short time Hageman was accompanist to Mathilde Marchesi in Paris. He travelled to the United States in 1906 to accompany Yvette Guilbert on a national tour. He stayed and eventually became an American citizen in 1925. Rosina sang at the Metropolitan Opera, but the couple had an acrimonious divorce in 1916. His second and third wives were also sopranosRenee Thornton and Eleanore Rogers. He was a conductor and pianist for the Metropolitan Opera between 1908 and 1922, and 1935-1936, coach of the opera department at the Curtis Institute from 1925 to 1930, and music director of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Ravinia Park Opera for seven years. Hageman was a coach in voice and collaborative at the Chicago Musica

Richard Heinrich Stein

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Richard Heinrich Stein (28 February 1882 – 11 August 1942) was a German composer and musicographer. He is best known for the symbols he developed to notate quarter-tones, which Stein first used in his Op. 26 pieces, the Zwei Konzertstücke für Violoncello und Klavier. Three of the symbols Stein uses in these pieces have become part of the standard system of quarter-tone notation known as the Stein-Zimmermann accidentals. The Zwei Konzertstücke are among the earliest pieces of music published in Europe to incorporate quarter-tones. From 1891 through 1898, Stein attended the Hallenser Städtische Gymnasium in Halle. He later attended schools in Wernigerode and Merseburg before graduating from the Königliche Domgymnasium in Magdeburg. Stein received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen in 1911 after completing his dissertation on psychologist Wilhelm Wundt. Stein left Germany during World War I and lived in the Canary Islands between 1914 and 1919. After returning to Berlin, Stein directed his own music school in Nikolassee from 1920 to 1922, served as the musical director at the Urania Theater, and directed the Berliner Rundfunk for a short time. Stein was an advocate for quar

Richard Henry Walthew

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Richard Henry Walthew, often known as Richard H. Walthew (4 November 187214 November 1951) was an English composer and pianist, and an important figure in English chamber music during the first half of the 20th century. Life Richard Henry Walthew was born in Islington in Middlesex, the only son of Richard Frederick Walthew (1833-1910) and his wife Emily Jeffreys (1842-1930), and was educated at Islington Proprietary School. William Heath Robinson was also at the school and he remained a lifelong friend. Walthew was a pupil of Hubert Parry for four years at the Royal College of Music (1890–1894). A contemporary at the RCM was Ralph Vaughan Williams. Recognition as a composer came early, with the success of his cantata The Pied Piper (performed by the Highbury Philharmonic Society on March 20, 1893, and published by Novello) and the Piano Concerto (first performed at Queen’s Hall on 3 May 1894 by the Strolling Players´ Amateur Orchestral Society with the composer as soloist). From 1900 until 1904, Walthew was music director of Passmore Edwards Settlement. He taught the opera class at the Guildhall School of Music and was for a time conductor of the University of London Musical Societ

Richard Heuberger

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Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger (18 June 1850 in Graz, Austria – 28 October 1914 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher. Heuberger was born in Graz, the son of a bandage manufacturer. He initially studied engineering, but gave it up in 1876, and turned to music. He studied at the Graz Conservatory (where he studied with Robert Fuchs), and later transferred to Vienna, where he eventually became the chorus master of the Wiener Akademischer Gesangverein, conductor of the Wiener Singakademie, director of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein (Vienna Men’s Choral Association), and a teacher at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien. Although Heuberger wrote many operas, ballets, choral works, and songs, he is best known today for his operetta Der Opernball, composed in 1898. He taught at the Vienna Conservatory from 1902. Among his pupils was Clemens Krauss. Selected works Operettas *Der Opernball (1898) *Ihre Excellenz (1899), revised as Eine entzückende Frau *Der Sechsuhrzug (1900) *Das Baby (1902) *Der Fürst von Düsterstein (1909) *Don Quixote (1910) Operas *Abenteuer einer Neujahrsnacht (1886) *Manuel Venegas (1889), revised as Mirjam, o

Richard Sahla

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Richard Sahla (17 September 1855 in Graz – 30 April 1931 in Bückeburg) was a concert violinist, conductor and composer. Biography Richard Sahla grew up in his hometown Graz, where he quickly acquired a reputation as child prodigy. He excelled on the violin and the piano. Aged 13 he started studying the violin as a pupil of Ferdinand David at the Conservatory in Leipzig, University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, today the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig. He finished as one of the most outstanding students of this world-famous institution. He played his debut concert aged eighteen at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig to rapturous applause for his “technically mature and musically exhilarating play”. His friend Wilhelm Kienzl describes Sahla’s next steps in his autobiography. Both had studied composition under Wilhelm Mayer (also known as W. A. Rémy), whose students included the composers Ferruccio Busoni, Josef Gauby, Richard Heuberger, Emil von Reznicek and Felix Weingartner. Having received his diploma at the Conservatory in Leipzig, the Mecca of violinists, the eighteen-year-old Sahla embarked on an impressive career as violin virtuoso. He quickly gai

Richard Stöhr

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Richard Franz Stöhr (; 11 June 1874 – 11 December 1967) was an Austrian composer and music educator. In 1900 Stöhr studied composition with Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory working as a répétiteur and choral instructor. Between 1903 and 1938, Stöhr taught music theory, including harmony, counterpoint, and form at the conservatory. He became a professor at the same institution in 1915. His students there included prominent conductors, composers, and performers such as Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Serkin, Erich Leinsdorf, and Samuel Barber, among others. During the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, he was dismissed from the Vienna Conservatory due to his Jewish heritage. He went to the United States the following year and began teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His students there included Leonard Bernstein and Eugene Bossart. He died in Montpelier on 11 December 1967 at the age of 93. Early life and education Stöhr was born as Richard Stern in Vienna in 1874 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Hungary. His father, Samuel Stern, was a professor of medicine at the University of Vienna. His mother, Mathilde, was a member of the Porges family; her brother—

Richard Strauss

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Richard Georg Strauss (; ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, he combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style. His compositional output began when he was six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was Don Juan, and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. His first opera to achieve international fame was Salome. This was followed by Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Daphne, Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio. Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (especially the Four Last Songs), the Violin Concerto in D minor, the Horn Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, his Oboe Concerto, and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen. A prominent conductor in

Richard Trunk

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Richard Trunk (born Tauberbischofsheim, 10 February 1879 - died Herrsching, 2 June 1968) was a German composer, pianist, conductor, critic, and member of the Nazi Party. Life He studied in Frankfurt with Iwan Knorr before traveling to Munich for further studies with Josef Rheinberger. He accompanied numerous singers (including Eugen Gura), taught singing for a time, and served as music critic for the Münchener Post from 1907. He was invited to New York City and Newark, New Jersey to conduct the Arion Society in 1912; he returned home with the outbreak of World War I. He later became music critic for the Bayrische Staatszeitung, and taught singing in Cologne from 1920 until 1934. In 1925 he married the singer Maria Delbran. In 1934, through the involvement of Ernst Röhm, he returned to Munich as the president of the Akademie der Tonkunst. He retired to the Ammersee after World War II. Trunk was a member of the Nazi Party, having joined in Autumn 1931. In 1939, he was awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft by Adolf Hitler. His songs Op. 65 set to music texts by Baldur von Schirach and Hanns Johst. In 1948, a denazification court classified Trunk as a Mitläufer and iss

Richard Wetz

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Richard Wetz (26 February 1875 – 16 January 1935) was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies. In these works, he “seems to have aimed to be an immediate continuation of Bruckner, as a result of which he actually ended up on the margin of music history”. Biography 1875–1906: Youth Richard Wetz was born to a merchant family in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia (now Poland). During the following years, Wetz devoted himself to the music profession. He gave lessons in the Erfurt city conservatoire (in 1911–1921, composition and history of music), and honed his skills in conducting various choirs During Wetz’s lifetime, his works remained little known outside the circle of his devotees and music-lovers in his home region, to the point that he became nearly unknown after his death. Since that time, his compositions have continued to draw few fans despite the eagerness of his enthusiasts and his reputation as a great music pedagogue. Politically, Wetz made decisions towards the end of his life that may have had an effect on his standing after his death: after the end of the First World War, he became a confessed nationalist who saw the position of his vanquished Germany

Rita Strohl

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Rita Strohl (born Aimée Marie Marguerite Mercédès Larousse La Villette) (8 July 1865 – 27 March 1941) was a French composer and pianist. Early life Strohl was the daughter of the painter Élodie La Villette (1842–1917) and Jules La Rousse La Villette. She is also the niece of the painter Caroline Espinet. Musical career Born in Lorient, Morbihan, Strohl was a gifted student and entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 13, where she studied piano and solfège. She studied composition and voice privately. She was also a member of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique. In 1884, she started publishing her chamber music trios, and the following year her Messe pour six voix, orchestre, et orgue résonne. Notably honoured by Pierre Louÿs and Henri Duparc, her music has gained renewed interest in recent years. She created the short-lived La Grange Theatre in Bièvres, Essonne in 1912 with her second husband and with the financial support of Odilon Redon, Gustave Fayet and others, performing lyrical works filled with mysticism and symbolism. It closed at the beginning of World War I. Personal life In 1888, she married the sub lieutenant Émile Strohl (1863-1900), givin

Robert Browne Hall

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Robert Browne Hall (30 June 1858 Bowdoinham, Maine – 8 June 1907), usually known as R. B. Hall, was a leading composer of marches and other music for wind bands. Life and career A principal American composer of marching music, Hall was born in Bowdoinham, Maine and seldom left his native state during his lifetime, dying in Portland. His music though has traveled around the world. He is particularly popular in the United Kingdom, so much so that many lovers of brass band music there mistakenly imagine that Hall is an English composer. His celebrated “Tenth Regiment March”, written in 1895 and dedicated to the Tenth Regiment Band in Albany, New York, is a well-known staple of brass band concerts and competitions all over the UK, under the title “Death or Glory”. Hall was famous during his lifetime as a particularly fine player on the cornet and served for a time as conductor of the Bangor Band. As soloist, conductor, composer and teacher, Hall is still remembered in Maine. The last Saturday in June every year is officially Robert Browne Hall Day in the State of Maine. Hall suffered a stroke in 1902 from which he never recovered. He died in poverty in Portland as a result of nephritis

Robert Brydges Addison

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Robert Brydges Addison (16 August 1854 – 8 July 1920) was an English composer, choirmaster and teacher. Born in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, Addison was the son of clergyman William Fountaine Addison (1817-1893) - who had been Canon of Gibraltar Cathedral. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with George Alexander Macfarren. Following four years as sub-professor to Macfarren Addison was appointed professor of harmony and composition at the academy, a position he held between 1882 and 1892. From 1892 he taught at Trinity College London. His compositions include a Concert Allegro in G, the cantata A Vision (1880), the motet Save Me, O Lord, the anthem They that sow in tears, a Piano Sonata in A minor, and the Andante and Variations for piano. There are also many songs, including Rise! For the Day is Passing, which was performed at the BBC Proms in 1914, and several albums for children. While at the academy he composed a Symphony in G minor, of which two movements were performed on 15 December 1881. His brother was the Oxfordshire painter William Grylls Addison (1853-1904). List of works Orchestral * Symphony in G minor (1881) * Concert allegro in G major, f

Robert Fischhof

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Robert Fischhof (31 October 1856 – 31 March 1918 ) was a pianist, composer, and professor at the Vienna Music Conservatoire. Biography Robert Fischhof was born in Vienna to Julius Fischhof, a successful Austrian banker, and Louise Fischhof (née Strakosch), who had been trained as a pianist by Clara Schumann, the famous performer and wife of composer Robert Schumann. The Fischhof home in Vienna was a well-known center for celebrated musicians, composers and singers arriving from all over the world. Fischhof had musical uncles: his father was the youngest brother of Joseph Fischhof, who became Professor of Piano at the Vienna Conservatoire in 1833; and his mother’s brother was Maurice Strakosch, also an excellent pianist, who later became a vocal instructor and international impresario working with the soprano Adelina Patti. Fischhof started his piano studies at the age of five under the supervision of his mother. Later, at the Conservatoire of Vienna, he was taught piano technique by Anton Door and composition by Anton Bruckner and Franz Krenn. After completing his courses at the Conservatoire, he continued his piano studies with Theodor Leschetitzky and Franz Liszt. Fischhof made h

Robert Hood Bowers

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Robert Hood Bowers (24 May 1877 – 29 December 1941) was an American composer, conductor and musical director of operettas and stage musicals, and a conductor and musical director for radio. He composed the musical scores for some of the most popular silent movies, including Aloma of the South Seas and A Daughter of the Gods. Biography Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Robert Hood Bowers was the eldest son of Ellen Graham Heyser and Oliver C. Bowers (a district attorney of Franklin County, and nominee for the Democratic Party for Pennsylvania’s 17th congressional district for the 1904 elections). When Bowers was 14, he went to the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, graduating in 1896. He started working as head of the Musical Department of Cheltenham Military Academy. At the same time, he continued his musical studies first with Constantin von Sternberg and later with Frederick Grant Gleason at the Conservatory of Chicago, where he won the gold medal in 1902. He married Virginia Belving on September 16, 1905. Their only son was also called Robert Hood Bowers (born in 1906, he became a professor of English at the University of Florida. ) Working as a conductor for

Robert Kahn (composer)

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Robert Kahn (21 July 1865 – 29 May 1951) was a German composer, pianist, and music teacher. Life Kahn was born in Mannheim, the second son of and Emma Eberstadt. One of his seven siblings was the banker Otto Kahn, whose son Roger Wolfe Kahn was a jazz musician, composer and aviator. Khan’s parents belonged to a German-Jewish family of bankers and merchants. In 1882, Kahn entered the Königlichen Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he studied for the next three years. Between 1885 and 1886, he continued his musical education under Josef Rheinberger in Munich. On a visit to Vienna the following year, Kahn met and befriended composer Johannes Brahms, who offered to make Kahn his pupil. Although Kahn declined the invitation, Brahms’s music exerted a profound influence on his compositional style throughout his career. After finishing his military service, Kahn worked as a freelance composer in Berlin until 1890. For the next three years he was employed as a rehearsal pianist at the Stadttheater in Leipzig. Having been appointed lecturer in composition at his alma mater in 1894, Kahn trained some of the best-known musicians of the 20th century. His students include the pianists Arthur R

Robert Kajanus

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Robert Kajanus (2 December 1856 – 6 July 1933) was a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher. In 1882, he founded the Helsinki Orchestral Society, Finland’s first professional orchestra. As a conductor, he was also a notable champion and interpreter of the music of Jean Sibelius. Life Kajanus studied music theory with Richard Faltin, violin with Gustaf Niemann in Helsinki, with Hans Richter, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig and Johan Svendsen in Paris. His music drew on the folk legends of the Finnish people. He worked in Dresden in the years immediately after his graduation and returned to Helsinki in 1882. He founded the first permanent orchestra in Finland: the Helsinki Orchestral Society (later to become the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finland’s national orchestra). He was also the founder of the Nordic Music Festival in 1919. He received many decorations, including the French Légion d’honneur. Family Kajanus’s parents were Georg August Cajanus and Agnes Ottilia Flodin. Robert Kajanus was the father of harpists Lilly Kajanus-Blenner (1885–1963) and Aino Kajanus-Mangström (1888–1951), and violinist Kaj Kajanus (1908–1994); the grandfather of award-winning Fin

Robert Nathaniel Dett

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Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with his family and had most of his professional education and career there. During his lifetime he was a leading Black composer, known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions in the 19th century Romantic style of Classical music. He was among the first Black composers during the early years after the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was organized. His works often appeared among the programs of Will Marion Cook’s New York Syncopated Orchestra. Dett performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall as a pianist and choir director. Early life Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in 1882 in Drummondville, Ontario (now part of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada), to Charlotte (Washington) Dett and Robert T. Dett. Descended from previously enslaved people who had escaped and travelled North, his mother was a native of D

Robert O'Dwyer

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Robert O’Dwyer (in Irish: Riobárd Ó Duibhir) (27 January 1862 – 6 January 1949) was an Irish composer mainly known for having written one of the first operas in the Irish language. Biography Robert O’Dwyer was born to Irish parents in Bristol, England, where he received private musical education and acted as a chorister and assistant organist during the years 1872 to 1891. O’Dwyer’s interest in opera manifested itself initially by becoming the conductor of a local amateur opera company in 1889, before he became a conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Society (1891–97) and the Arthur Rousby Opera Company (1892–96), with which he undertook tours throughout the British Isles. After one such tour he settled in Dublin in 1897, where he held various positions as organist in the counties of Dublin and Wicklow. From 1899 he taught music at the Royal University of Ireland and from 1901 conducted the choir of the Gaelic League, for which he wrote numerous arrangements of Irish traditional music and Sean nos songs. He also wrote articles and concert reviews for The Leader, which became an outlet for his increasingly nationalist views. O’Dwyer completed his major composition, the three-act opera Ei

Robert Tempest (composer)

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Robert Tempest (1868, Philadelphia – March 21, 1955, Carlisle, Pennsylvania) was an American composer and concert pianist. He studied piano in his native city with Carl Von Amsburg and Edward Zerdebely. His papers are held in the collection of the Cumberland County Historical Society. He was known for his exceptional gift for memorization, with a July 1898 article in The Musician reporting he had more than 1800 works in his performance repertoire, all of which he could play from memory. As early as October 1887 Tempest was giving concerts at Philadelphia’s Assembly Hall. He played in concerts at other Philadelphia venues, such as Musical Fund Hall, Hermann’s Broad Street Theatre, and the Haseltine Galleries. With the violinist Edwin Brill he gave a recital at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in December 1889. In 1890 he performed in concerts with the soprano Marie Kunkel and pianist Max Weil. As part of the chamber group The Schumann Club, he performed in chamber music concerts at the New Century Club. In 1895 he gave a public recital sponsored by the Philadelphia piano manufacturer CJ Heppe & Son. In January 1896 Tempest was a soloist with the Germania Orchestra (precurso

Robert Winterberg

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Robert Anton Winterberg (27 February 1884 – 22 June 1930) was an Austrian composer, conductor, pianist, and theatre director. He is best known as a composer of German-language operettas, most of which he created during the 1910s and 1920s. Two of his operettas were adapted into English for Broadway: Die Dame in Rot (1911, Vienna) as The Lady in Red (1919, Lyric Theatre) and Die schöne Schwedin (1915, Vienna) as The Girl from Brazil (1916, 44th Street Theatre). Winterberg studied music privately with Gustav Mahler, Robert Fuchs, and Hermann Graedener. At the age of 15, he produced his first music compositions which included a piano sonata, a string quartet, and several art songs. A few years later, the first public concert of his music was given at Ehrbar Saal (English: Ehrbar Hall) inside the Palais Ehrbar by baritone Joseph Schwartz and soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn with Winterberg as pianist. In 1906, Türk-Rohn and Winterberg were invited to Peleș Castle in Sinaia by Elisabeth of Romania where they gave a concert of Winterberg’s music for the queen. Well received, the work enjoyed popularity both in Germany and abroad. American playwright Anne Caldwell adapted it into an English lan

Roger Harding (singer)

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Roger Harding (1858 – August 29, 1901) was an American singer, composer and music publisher active in the United States from 1890 to 1901. Biography Harding was born in Kentucky in 1858 to Roger Elias Harding, Sr. and Virginia Ford Harding. Per census records, the family moved to Saint Louis by 1870. In the mid-1880s, Harding married Charlotte Oakley. The Hardings had two children, Ethel and Roger, who were both born in New York City. In June 1890, Harding performed in the musical play Billie Taylor in New York City as part of the Ideal Opera Company. In March 1893, he played Nixey Weld in A Night at the Circus at the Harrigan’s Park Theatre in New York. Also in 1893 he joined the minstrel company of Sam Devere, author of “The Whistling Coon” made famous by George W. Johnson. In 1897, Harding began manufacturing phonograph records at 18 E. 22nd St., New York, and late in the year sold the operation to the Excelsior Phonograph Company (later Excelsior and Musical Phonograph Company). Harding continued managing recording for the Excelsior company until August of the following year, when he was replaced in that role by fellow recording artist William F. Hooley. He began recording arou

Roger Quilter

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Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition. Biography Quilter was born in Hove, Sussex; a commemorative blue plaque is on the house at 4 Brunswick Square. He was a younger son of Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet, a wealthy noted landowner, politician and art collector. Roger Quilter was educated first in the preparatory school at Farnborough. He then moved to Eton College and later became a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of composition Iwan Knorr. Quilter belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. As a gay man during the late 19th century, it was difficult to cope with the pressures that were imposed upon him by his hidden homosexuality, and he struggled with mental illness after the loss of his nephew Arnold Guy Vivian during World War II. H

Roland F. Seitz

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Roland Forrest Seitz (1867–1946) was an American composer, bandmaster, and music publisher. For his many march compositions he earned the sobriquet “The Parade Music Prince”. Early life and education He was born Roland Forrest Seitz on June 14, 1867, on a farm in Shrewsbury Township near Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of eight children of William and Magdalena Zeigler. Despite an early interest in music, Roland started work as a printer’s apprentice at the weekly Glen Rock Item. He joined the family band performing on the flute; and then the Glen Rock Band performing first on the euphonium and then the cornet. In 1894 at age 27, Seitz enrolled in the Dana Musical Institute in Warren, Ohio. (Dana is now part of Youngstown State University). Roland graduated from Dana in 1898. Career Seitz returned to Glen Rock to teach wind and percussion as well as perform in the town band and soon became their conductor. By 1901, under Seitz, the band was selected to perform at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Beginning with New York Journal published in 1897, Seitz composed nearly fifty marches. One of these marches, Grandioso (1901), is often featured in parades. G

Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale

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Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale (, September24, 1875 – January4, 1958) was an American pianist and composer, whose operettas were performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and New York. Cale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a musical family. Her parents were Rosalie T. Balmer (“Sally”) and Thaddeus Smith. Her mother composed several pieces for violin. Her maternal grandfather was Charles Balmer, head of the Balmer & Weber Music Company in St. Louis. Her paternal grandfather, the actor Sol Smith, owned and operated the St. Louis Theatre. She married the violinist Charles Allen Cale in 1897. Cale studied music first with her mother and grandparents, then with Abraham I. Epstein and Ernest R. Kroeger. She taught in St. Louis for over 30 years. Her papers are archived at the Missouri Historical Society. Compositions Cale’s music was published by Balmer & Weber. Her compositions include: Dance * Masque of Pandora (based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Operetta * Four Pecks or A Bushel of Fun (performed in New York as Cupid’s Halloween) * Love, Powder and Patches (text by Alice E. Hellmers) * Summer: A Flirtation (text by William C. Unger) Piano * “Idyl” Vocal * “Master and Pupil” (text by Wi

Rosalind Ellicott

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Rosalind Frances Ellicott (November 14, 1857 – April 5, 1924) was an English composer, considered one of the leading female composers of her generation. Her father had no interest in music and it was predominantly her mother, an amateur singer who had been involved with the founding both of London’s Handel Society (1882–1939) and of the Gloucester Philharmonic Society, who encouraged young Rosalind’s talent. At age six “she exhibited an extraordinary facility in music, singing, and harmonising correctly by ear”. She took lessons from Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the cathedral organist, from age 12, tried writing songs at 13 and then a sonata at 16. From 1874 to 1876, she studied piano with Frederick Westlake at the Royal Academy of Music. While at the Academy she discovered her voice and took soprano solo parts in oratorios and cantatas and was a frequent soloist at the Three Choirs Festival. She also studied composition for seven years from 1885 under Thomas Wingham of the Brompton Oratory. She was a member of the International Society of Musicians and the National Society of Professional Musicians, as well as an ARAM. But despite her relative success in the last two decades of the ce

Rosario Scalero

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Natale Rosario Scalero (24 December 1870 in Moncalieri - 25 December 1954 in Montestrutto) was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer. Life and career By the age of six, Scalero was under the tutelage of Pietro Bertazzi, a violinist, musical instrument maker and instructor at the Conservatorio St. Cecilia in Rome. Among his most successful students at Curtis were composers Samuel Barber, Nino Rota, Gian Carlo Menotti and George Walker. During that time he also taught Marc Blitzstein, Berenice Robinson and Mary Watson Weaver. In 1946 he returned to Montestrutto, near Ivrea, where he died in 1954. Works *A Suite for String Quartet and String Orchestra *La Divina Foresta, symphonic poem for large orchestra *Violin Sonata (Op.12, D minor, published 1910) Pupils References External links * Rosario Scalero, Retrieved 25 August 2010 * Music Is My Faith - An Autobiography. David Mannes, External links *

Ruben Liljefors

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Ruben Mattias Liljefors (30 September 1871 – 4 March 1936) was a Swedish composer and conductor, brother of the artist Bruno Liljefors. Life Liljefors was born and died in Uppsala. He also studied in Uppsala with Ivar Eggert Hedenblad until 1895, and subsequently in Leipzig with Salomon Jadassohn until 1899. Later he attended the Stockholm Conservatory. He completed his education with Felix Draeseke, Max Reger, and Hermann Ludwig Kutzschbach. From 1902 to 1911, he conducted the choir and orchestra of the Gothenburg Philharmonic Society. Afterwards, he moved to Gävle to conduct the Gävleborg County Orchestra between 1912 and 1931; he also served as a music teacher at the Gävle higher general secondary school during this time. He composed a symphony, a concert overture, a festival overture, an orchestral suite, a piano concerto, a violin sonata, many choral works and songs. One of his best-known pieces is the Swedish Christmas carol När det lider mot jul. His son, Ingemar Liljefors, was also a successful composer, and his grandson, Mats Liljefors, is a well known conductor and violinist. Works (selection) Orchestra * Overture in C Minor, WoO (1897) * Symphony in E flat Major, Op. 14

Rubin Goldmark

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Rubin Goldmark (August 15, 1872 – March 6, 1936) was an American composer, pianist, and educator. He is best known as the teacher of other important composers, including Aaron Copland and George Gershwin. Early life Rubin Goldmark was born in New York City in 1872, a nephew of composer Karl Goldmark, and of Jewish heritage. Return to the United States After the conclusion of his studies in Vienna, Goldmark returned to United States. From 1891 to 1893 he taught piano and music theory at the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. While in New York, Goldmark also studied composition with Antonín Dvořák and piano with Rafael Joseffy. Goldmark moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, hoping to improve his poor health, Upon Goldmark’s return to New York in 1902, he focused much of his energy on teaching. Over the 30-year period that Goldmark remained in New York he gave over 500 lectures on music, music theory, and composition, while continuing to compose. He was also the founder and frequent speaker at The Bohemians, a New York musicians’ club. In 1924, Goldmark became the head of composition at the recently opened Juilliard School of Music in New York City. Musical works Goldmark

Ruby Reynolds-Lewis

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Ruby Reynolds-Lewis (13 November 1881 – 13 December 1964) was an Australian composer. Her work “Foxhunt” was entered in the music event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. She was the only Australian artist to compete in the Olympic arts competitions held from 1912 to 1948. Reynolds-Lewis dedicated her 1919 composition “Cradle Song” to artist and musician George Hyde Pownall. Although named a “song”, it was described as a piano solo and no words were published. She was a member of the Austral Salon during the 1930s. Personal life Born in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, on 13 November 1881, In November 1901, she married Thomas Griffith Lewis at St Luke’s, South Melbourne. Her husband died in 1920, leaving her to provide for their four children, Hilary, Tom, and twins Valmai and Valerie. Selected compositions * “The Voice” * “Cradle Song”, 1919 * “Retrospection” * “Playing the Game”, 1923 * “Foxhunt”, 1924 * “Wattle Gold”, 1930 * “Honey Babe”, 1956 References External links * Sheet music for “The Voice” by Ruby Reynolds-Lewis from the National Library of Australia

Rudi Gfaller

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Rudi Gfaller (10 November 1882 – 11 February 1972) was an Austrian operetta composer and singer. Born in Vienna, he began his career as an actor and singer and appeared in various provincial theatres in Germany. In 1906, he composed the first of his twelve operettas. Gfaller was married to the operetta singer Therese Wiet and often appeared with her in Leipzig where the couple were based for most of their careers. In 1943 he retired to their house in Bad Ischl where he died at the age of 89. Life and career Gfaller was born in Vienna, the son of a restaurant proprietor. He began acting in children’s roles at the Carltheater in the suburbs of Vienna and then attended the Dorr’sche Theatre and Music School. As an adult he worked as an actor and tenor singer in musical theatre and operetta in various provincial theatres in Germany and in what is now the Czech Republic, including Rudolstadt, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Magdeburg, and Stralsund. In 1906, he composed his first operetta, Der Frühlingsonkel which premiered at the municipal theatre in Stralsund. He then relocated to Leipzig where he continued his career as an operetta singer. It was there that he met his future wife, the soprano

Rudolf Braun (composer)

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Rudolf Braun (21 October 186930 December 1925) was an Austrian pianist and composer who was born congenitally blind. He was born and died in Vienna. Very little is recorded of Braun’s early life. He was educated at the School for the Blind. He earned his living nearly exclusively from music and at the age of 12, he gave a performance as a pianist at a concert of the Vienna Men’s Choral Society. On 3 March 1896 he gave a concert of his own compositions. Gustav Mahler premiered Braun’s Marionettentreuse at the Vienna Court Opera on 17 October 1906, to excellent reviews. In 1925 the title of Professor was bestowed on him. In 1923 Arnold Schoenberg used his influence to obtain financial assistance for some struggling composers, including Braun, Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Josef Matthias Hauer. Braun wrote seven works for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, including a Piano Concerto in A minor for the Left Hand. This concerto was written in 1924 and was first performed on 12 December 1927, almost two years after his death, with Wittgenstein as soloist and Julius Lehnert conducting. The Concerto in A minor is the only concerto Braun wrote and is unique in the fact that the cadenza

Rudolf Dellinger

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Rudolf Dellinger (8 July 1857 – 24 September, 1910) was a German Bohemian composer and Kapellmeister. He almost exclusively composed operettas and was considered to be among the most outstanding composers of his time. Born into a family of Bohemian of instrument makers in Graslitz, Dellinger received musical tuition early in life. He studied at the School of Music in Prague between 1874 and 1879, and later at the Prague Conservatory, where he was taught piano by, among others, Julius Pisarowitz. After completing his musical education, he took a position as a clarinettist in Brno in 1880, then worked as a Kapellmeister in Passau, Eger, Prague and Salzburg. In 1883, Dellinger moved to Hamburg, where he worked at the Carl-Schultze-Theater. He wrote his first operettas there, which also premiered in Hamburg. On 2 February 1886, Dellinger married Anna Maria Eppich, an Austrian singer. In 1893, Dellinger was employed as Kapellmeister of the Residenztheater in Dresden, where he worked until his death at the age of 53. Works Dellinger’s oeuvre includes: * 1885: Don Cesar – libretto by Otto Walther, adapted from Don César de Bazan by Philippe Dumanoir and Adolphe d’Ennery * 1886: Lorraine –

Rudolf Karel

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Rudolf Karel (9 November 1880 – 6 March 1945) was a distinguished Czech composer. Biography Rudolf Karel was a son of a railway employee. He studied law at Charles University and then composition from 1899 to 1904 with Antonín Dvořák and organ with Josef Klička. When WWI started he was visiting Russia. He was arrested, but managed to escape. He joined Czechoslovak Legions and served as a conductor of their orchestra. In 1923 he became a professor at Prague Conservatory. During WWII he took part in the resistance and in March 1943 was arrested. After being interned and tortured at Pankrác prison for two years (1943–1945) Karel was sent to Theresienstadt prison. The conditions in the prison were dire and he became ill with dysentery and pneumonia. SS-Oberscharführer Stefan Rojko sent all ill prisoners outside in freezing cold to disinfect the cell. As a result Karel and 8 other prisoners died on 6 March 1945. Ih Pankrác and Theresienstadt he continued working. He composed five-act fairy-tale opera Three Hairs of the Wise Old Man, writing on toilet paper using pencil or medicinal charcoal. The 240 sheets containing a detailed sketch of the opera was secretly passed to a friendly warde

Rudolf Maria Breithaupt

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Rudolf Maria Breithaupt (11 August 1873 – 2 April 1945) was a German composer and music educator (piano). Life Born in Braunschweig, Breithaupt attended the grammar school in Braunschweig. He studied jurisprudence, then philosophy, psychology and art and musicology at the universities of Jena, Leipzig and Berlin. His teachers were the musicologists Hugo Riemann and Hermann Kretzschmar. At the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Breithaupt was a student of Robert Teichmüller, Salomon Jadassohn and Oscar Paul since 1897. Between 1904 and 1911 Breithaupt worked at the Humboldt University of Berlin and later, at least from 1919 to 1929, as piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Breithaupt died in Ballenstedt at age 71. The “natural piano technique” In its physiological foundations, Breithaupt’s “natural piano technique” depends, in its explicit recognition, on the almost contemporary work of the physician and physiologist Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen. Breithaupt’s formula “don’t think about your fingers, don’t want to play with your fingers” effectively summarizes the fundamental principle of the weight technique in antithesis to the digital technique. The latter prescr

Rudolf Nováček

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Rudolf Nováček (7 April 1860 – 11 August 1929) was a Czech composer, military conductor, and pedagogue. Life and career Rudolf Nováček was born to the conductor and Maria Hildebrand in the village of Bela Crkva (now Serbia). His younger brothers were the musicians Ottokar, and who with their father toured as the Nováček Family String Quartet. Rudolf Nováček studied at the Timișoara music school and then the Vienna Conservatory. He became conductor of 11th Battalion in the Austro-Hungarian Army and then a member of 12th Battalion. In 1884 he joined the Artistic Organization in Prague along with other significant Czech composers such as Antonín Dvořák, Zdeněk Fibich and Karel Bendl. In 1890 he became bandleader of the 1st Cavalry Regiment in Sofia and then from 1891 until 1895 in the Romanian Royal Guard in Bucharest. He worked as conductor and music teacher in many cities in Russia, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. After the creation of Czechoslovakia, he had to become the director of the military school of the Czechoslovak Army. He died in 1929 in Prague after an operation. Major works Marches * Pochod 74. pluku (74er Defilier Marsch) * Benedek Jubiläums Marsch, 1879 * Defilir-Mar

Rudolf Tobias

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Rudolf Tobias (29 May 1873 – 29 October 1918) was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an oratorio, Des Jona Sendung (Jonah’s Mission) (1908, revised and premiered 1909, later reconstructed by Vardo Rumessen). Early life Rudolf Tobias was born in Selja, Käina Parish, on the island of Hiiumaa. He was the son of local parish clerk Johannes Tobias and his wife Emilie. Tobias received his first musical training from his father. Under his father’s tutelage, he began musical training at an early age and composing his first composition exercises from 1882 when he was 9 years old. In 1885 he entered the Haapsalu school and studied piano under Catharina von Gernet, a local pianist. After he graduated, Tobias moved with his parents to Kullamaa, where his father had become the parish clerk. In 1889 Tobias entered Tallinn Nicolai High School, where he passed the tutor’s exam and studied both organ and music theory with Ernst Reinicke, the Tallinn Cathedral organist. Gallery File:Tobias.IMG 0843.jpg Monument to Tobias in Haapsalu. File:

Rudolph von Procházka

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Rudolph Freiherr von Procházka (23 February 1864 – 24 March 1936) was a Czech lawyer, composer and music writer. He wrote under the pseudonym Leon Elms. Life Born in Prague (where he also died), he was from an old noble and landed family from the Czech lands. Even as a child he showed talent for music and poetry. He studied composition, violin and law in Prague. After initially working from 1888 in Eger and Asch, he held a variety of official positions in his home town. He was the founder and first president of the German Musical Academy. In 1893 he married singer and singing teacher Tonia Baronin Procházka, with whom he had Roman von Procházka. In 1910 he was appointed state music officer, as well as becoming vice president of the Royal and Imperial Examination Commission for Secondary School Music Teaching., government representative on the working committee for German folk songs in Bohemia, member of the panel of music experts in Prague and an active member of the Association for the Promotion of Music (Verein zur Förderung der Tonkunst). He was also a ministerial counsellor, royal-imperial district captain, officer with stadtholder-decree and a commissioner of the Cheb district

Ruggero Leoncavallo

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Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs, but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success. Today Pagliacci continues to be his most famous opera and one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the operatic repertoire. His other notable compositions include the song “Mattinata”, popularized by Enrico Caruso, and, to a lesser extent, his version of La bohème which, however, was overshadowed by Puccini’s highly successful opera of the same name. Biography The son of Vincenzo Leoncavallo, a police magistrate and judge, Leoncavallo was born in Naples, at the time the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, on 23 April 1857. As a child, Leoncavallo moved with his father to the town of Montalto Uffugo in Calabria, where he lived during his adolescence. In 1868 he returned to Naples, where he eventually became a student at San Pietro a Majella Conservatory. From 1876 to 1877, he studied literature under the famed Italian poet Giosuè Carducci at the

Ruperto Chapí

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Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (27 March 1851 – 25 March 1909) was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers. Biography Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a local barber. At just nine years old, he joined the Música Nueva band (current Villena Municipal Band) where he would soon become a virtuoso and of which he would end up being director at only 15 years old. He would gain some fame as an interpreter in the surroundings of the Moors and Christians Festival of Villena, also being highly sought after in those of other nearby towns. In the Valencian-speaking towns, to the north and northeast of Villena, he was popularly known as “el xiquet de Villena” and they continually disputed hiring him, given his brilliance. He continued training in his home town and in Madrid when he was 16 years old. He wrote many symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuelas and operas, becoming, alongside Tomás Bretón, a fellow pupil of Emilio Arrieta at the Madrid Conservatory. He was one of the most popular and important composers of his time. He wrote zarzuelas in all shapes and sizes, including the three-act zarzuela grande and the one-act género

Russell Alexander

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Russell Alexander (February 26, 1877 – October 1, 1915) was an entertainer and composer, active primarily with vaudeville shows and musical comedy organizations. Alexander was born in Nevada, Missouri, and became a euphonium virtuoso who joined the circus band of Belford’s Carnival at the age of 18. At 20, he became arranger and euphonium soloist with the Barnum & Bailey Circus Band and toured Europe from 1897 to 1902. Following his tour with Barnum & Bailey, Alexander worked in a novelty musical vaudeville act with his brothers. Although his compositional output was relatively small, he is considered a great composer of marches. He wrote 33 marches, 6 galops, and several overtures, novelties, and other works. For part of his career he worked in acts with his brothers, Newton and Woodruff. On July 20, 2015, a memorial plaque honoring Alexander was unveiled on the Main Street Stage in Liberty, New York, just a short distance from the Old Town Cemetery in which Alexander is buried. The ceremony included a performance of seven Alexander works. Works Unless noted, his works were published by C. L. Barnhouse Co., to whom Alexander’s widow sold the rights to his music shortly after his d

Ruth Almén

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Ruth Sofia Almén (pen name Runar Alm; 24 September 1870 – 19 November 1945), was a Swedish composer, pianist, teacher, author and poet. She published a number of compositions, including nine songs, piano and violin sonatas, and a concerto for piano and orchestra. She also published a collection of poetry, journal articles, and children’s stories. Biography Almén was born in Solberga rectory, Kålltorp, Bohuslän on 24 September 1870. Her father was a vicar. She also studied piano with Richard Andersson in Stockholm, Knut Bäck in Gothenburg, Heinrich Barth in Berlin, and Robert Lortat in Paris. She published a collection of poems in 1895, Vid synranden, under the name Runar Alm, a pseudonym she continued to use until 1904. Almén also published children’s stories and articles. Almén died in Johanneberg, Gothenburg, in 1945. Musical work Almén’s compositions are in the late romantic style, and include two piano sonatas, a violin sonata, piano pieces and nine songs, as well as a concerto for piano and orchestra. Her piano sonata op. 2, violin sonata and a group of songs were performed in the Salle Pleyel in Paris on 8 June 1921, and at the Gothenburg Concert Hall on 20 January 1922. * So

S.R. Henry

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S.R. Henry (1874-1966), was an American composer of popular music, including marches and ragtime songs during the first half of the 20th century. His best known works included “The Colored Major”, “S.R. Henry’s Barn Dance”, “By Heck” and “Indianola”. He was later known as a theatre producer and musical contributor in New York City. Early life and education Henry (birth name, Henry Robert Stern) was born on June 23, 1874 in New York City, He received a Bachelor of Philosophy from Columbia in 1896. Career Following in the footsteps of his older brother, Joseph, as a publisher of music and salesman with lyricist Edward B. Marks, Henry began to publish his own compositions in the late 1890s. He adopted the title ‘S.R. Henry’ for his published works. One of his first known publications was “I’ll Be Your Friend Just the Same” with The Lyceum Publishing Co. in 1899. His first well known piece was the march and two-step, “The Colored Major”, published in 1900. This march was widely recorded in the early stages of the Victor Talking Machine Co. and competitor, Columbia Records. It was notably recorded by banjoist Sylvester “Vess” Ossman in 1901. It would be recorded by many other banjo play

Sadie Koninsky

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Sadie G. Koninsky (August 1879 – January 2, 1952) was an American composer, music publisher, and music teacher who lived most of her life in Troy, New York. A prolific composer, she is thought to have authored over 300 pieces of music, * “Belles of Andalusia” — Valse Espagnole (M. Witmark & Sons, New York City, 1894, republished in 1899) * “The Minstrel King” — March (Albany Music Publishing Company, Albany, New York, 1895) * “Eli Green’s Cake Walk” (song with lyrics by Dave Reed, Jr.) (Joseph W. Stern and Company, New York City, 1896 or 1898) * “Where Love is King” — Waltzes (Howley, Haviland and Company, New York City, 1898) * “I’ll Be Your Friend Through All” (song) (M. Witmark and Sons, New York City, 1898) * “Eli Green’s Cake Walk” — March and Two Step (Joseph W. Stern and Company, New York City, 1898) * “Boardin’ House Johnson” — Cake Walk (Joseph W. Stern, New York City, 1899) * “Phoebe Thompson’s Cake Walk” (Edward M. Koninsky and Brothers, New York City, 1899) * “When I Return We’ll Be Wed” (with lyrics by Stewart M. Washburn) (Edward M. Koninsky and Brothers, Troy, New York, 1899) * “Sing Me a Song of Other Days” (Edward M. Koninsky and Brothers, Brooklyn, New York, 1900)

Sakunosuke Koyama

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Sakunosuke Koyama (19 January 1864 – 27 June 1927) was a Japanese composer and music teacher. He was the founder and president of the Japanese Music Education Federation. Course of life Koyama left for Tokyo in 1880 without permission from his family and began studying English, mathematics and music at the University of Tsukiji. After obtaining his diplomas, he was appointed by the Ministry of Education as a researcher and teacher at a Music Research Center, which later changed to the Tokyo Music School. In the Ministry of Education, he was Izawa Shuji (1851–1917), the leader of the music research department, who within the so-called Dutch studies, Western natural sciences and had studied technology. In addition to his work at this institution, he composed and published a collection of folk songs. In 1897, he was appointed professor. Although he continued to support and guide his students, he left this institution in 1903. He mainly wrote school songs, which helped him to familiarize students with European music. Some songs also made Koyama known outside of Japan, particularly in China, which had begun to incorporate European music into the education system after the defeat in the

Salvator Léonardi

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Salvator Léonardi (2 July 1872, Catania – 23 February 1938, Paris) was a mandolin virtuoso, teacher and composer. He taught in Egypt, Malta, London and Paris for more than 20 years, and also toured as a performer. Léonardi learned mandolin and guitar from an uncle, but went on to become a professional musician, studying the violin at a Naples conservatory. He won awards as a solo mandolinist at international music competitions in Florence and Rome. Léonardi was the author of the Méthode pour Banjoline ou Mandoline-Banjo (Method for Banjolin and Mandolin-Banjo). The book was rare among texts teaching mandolin, because it taught his method in three languages at once, English, French and Spanish. In the third edition of his mandolin-banjo method (1921), he stated in the introduction that the mandolin had been declining in popularity from previous times. In writing his book, he noted the instrument was soaring in popularity in the shape of the banjo. He did not just recycle old material for his book, but also included his own compositions, including Souvenir de Malta, Caminando (a tango), Souvenir de Rome, Un Beso Por Teléfono, Qui-Pro-Quo, Rêverie, and Capriccio (a polka). As a music

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 18751 September 1912) was a British composer and conductor. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 23. Of mixed-race descent, Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white musicians in New York City as the “African Mahler” when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. He married an Englishwoman, Jessie Walmisley, and both their children had musical careers. Their son, Hiawatha, adapted his father’s music for a variety of performances. Their daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, became a composer and conductor. Early life and education Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born at 15 Theobalds Road in Holborn, London, to Alice Hare Martin (1856–1953), an Englishwoman, and Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, a Creole man from Sierra Leone who had studied medicine in London and later became an administrator in West Africa. They were not married, and Daniel had returned to Africa without learning that Alice was pregnant. (Alice’s parents had not been married at her birth,

Samuel Maykapar

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Samuel Moiseyevich Maykapar () (18 December 18678 May 1938) was a Russian romantic composer, pianist, professor of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and author of a number of piano practice pieces. Life Childhood Samuel Maykapar was born on 18 December 1867 in the city of Kherson, to Karaite parents. Maykapar spent his childhood in the city of Taganrog and in 1885 he graduated from the Boys Gymnasium where he studied with Anton Chekhov. He also took private music lessons from Gaetano Molla, director of the Italian Opera in Taganrog. Education In 1885, he enrolled into St. Petersburg Conservatory while also studying law at Saint Petersburg University, graduating in 1891. A pupil of Beniamino Cesi and Nicolai Soloviev, Maykapar received the St. Petersburg Conservatory’s diploma in 1893 and further improved his piano skills under the direction of Theodor Leschetizky until 1898. During this time he gave numerous concerts in Berlin, Leipzig, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Taganrog and other cities. Career Between 1898 and 1901, he gave concerts with Leopold Auer in Saint Petersburg and Ivan Grzhimali in Moscow. In 1901, he founded his own music school in the city of Tver. From 1903-1

Samuel Rousseau (composer)

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Samuel-Alexandre Rousseau (; Neuve-Maison, 11 June 1853 - Paris, 1 October 1904) was a French composer. Life His father made pump organs and Samuel entered the Paris Conservatoire when he was fourteen years old. He studied with Cesar Franck, and Francois Bazin He was choirmaster at Sainte-Clotilde, Paris. He composed the comic opera, Leone. He won the Prix de Rome in 1878, for his cantata ‘La Fille de Jephté’, and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1900. Family He was Marcel Samuel-Rousseau’s father. References External links * Samuel Rousseau at musicalics.com

Samuel Siegel

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Samuel Siegel (born 1875, Des Moines, Iowa — died January 14, 1948, Los Angeles, California) was an American mandolin virtuoso and composer who played mandolin on 29 records for Victor Records, including 9 pieces of his own composition and two that he arranged. Siegel was the first mandolinist to record on Emile Berliner’s phonograph disk-records. Recording partners Siegel recorded with Roy Butin in 1908 on four Victor records, the tunes: Southern Fantasy, Estellita Waltz, American Valor March, and In Fairyland. He recorded Edison Diamond Disk record Ragtime Echoes in 1918 with Marie Caveny, with her on ukulele, and also Dance, Mouse Dance, and Medley. Marie and her husband James Frank Caveny lived with Siegel as lodgers in Chicago during the 1910 United States Census. They were performers or lecturers in the Lyceum movement. James Franklin was a cartoonist and Marie sang soprano in their performance. Gold Molded * Home, sweet home (1902), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * Manzanilo (c. 1902), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * The story teller waltz (1903), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * My Old Kentucky Home (1903), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * Just One Girl (1904), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) (Music wri

Sandra Droucker

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Sandra Droucker (Drouker or Droucher) (7 May 18751 April 1944) was a Russian concert pianist, composer and music pedagogue. Life and career Sandra Droucker was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of a Jewish German father and a mother who was a member of the Russian nobility. She studied music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Anton Rubinstein, and made her debut in 1894. She toured Europe and Russia, quickly developing her own style as a pianist. In 1896 Droucker made her debut in Berlin to positive reviews. During the 1880s she lived in Berlin, continuing her career as a concert pianist. Between 1904 and 1906 she taught in Berlin at Petersen’s Academy of Music and at the Stern Conservatory. Notable students included the Norwegian composer and pianist Anne-Marie Ørbeck (1911–1996), Hilde Lange, Leni Dilthey, Marie Silbermann, Delli Georges and Gerda Paucksch. In 1905 Droucker taught music to Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. Droucker married the Austrian pianist Gottfried Galston in 1910 and changed her name to Droucker-Galston. The couple took up residence in Munich, and the marriage lasted until 1918. In 1926 Droucker returned to Berlin; however, after 1933, sh

Scott Joplin

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Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the “King of Ragtime”, he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet (original version of “The Ragtime Dance”, 1899/1902), and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the “Maple Leaf Rag”, became the genre’s first and most influential hit, later being recognized as the quintessential rag. Joplin considered ragtime to be a form of classical music meant to be played in concert halls and largely disdained the performance of ragtime as honky tonk music most common in saloons. Joplin grew up in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Texas. During the late 1880s, he traveled the American South as a musician. He went to Chicago for the World’s Fair of 1893, which helped make ragtime a national craze by 1897. Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and worked as a piano teacher. He began publishing music in 1895, and his “Maple Leaf Rag” in 1899 brought him fame and a steady income. In 1901, Joplin moved to St. Louis and two years later scored his first opera, A Guest of Honor. It was confiscated—along with his belongings—for non-payment of bills and is n

Selim Palmgren

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Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren (16 February 1878 – 13 December 1951 ) was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge, Wilhelm Berger and Ferruccio Busoni. He conducted choral and orchestral societies in his own country and made several very successful concert tours as a pianist in the principal cities of Finland and Scandinavia, appearing also as a visiting conductor. In 1921, he went to the United States, where he taught composition at the Eastman School of Music, later returning to Finland, where he died in Helsinki, aged 73. Palmgren was married to the opera singer Maikki Järnefelt, who had been divorced from her first husband, Armas Järnefelt, in 1908, from 1910 to her death in 1929. Works listed by opus number An incomplete works list (elaborated by Joel Valkila): *Op. 1 - Prelude, Illusion, & Etude and Valse-Caprice for Piano (1898?’ Illusion later arranged for orchestra) *Op. 2(a) - Two Songs (reference: T. Tommila) (1898?) *Op. 2(b) - 3 Pieces for Piano (1898?) *Op. 3 - Suite for Piano (1899?) *Op.

Sem Dresden

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Samuel “Sem” Dresden (April 20, 1881 in Amsterdam – July 30, 1957 at The Hague) was a Dutch conductor, composer, and teacher. Life Dresden was born into a Jewish diamond-broking family and initially studied musical theory with Fred Roeske and composition with Bernard Zweers. He studied violin with Johannes Cornelis Dudok and Felice Togni. On the strength of a promising piano piece, he was sent to study composition and conducting under Hans Pfitzner at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin between 1903–5 and was there encouraged to take an interest in Impressionist music. After returning to the Netherlands, he was until 1914 a choral conductor, as choirmaster at Laren, Amsterdam and Tiel. It was during this period that he married the noted alto Jacoba Dhont, by whom he was to have two sons. Then until 1926 he directed the nine-member Madrigal Society, which earned an international reputation for its painstaking performances of Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary choral music, and afterwards, from 1928 to 1940, a larger chamber choir in Haarlem. To the repertoire of all of these he contributed compositions and arrangements of his own. From 1915 he lectured on musical subjects, both in t

Sergei Bortkiewicz

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Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz ( – 25 October 1952) was a Romantic composer and pianist. He moved to Vienna in 1922 and became a naturalized Austrian citizen in 1926. Life Early life and origins Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkov in the Russian Empire (present-day Kharkiv, Ukraine), on 28 February 1877 to parents Edward and Zofia () Bortkiewicz, who were Polish nobility. He spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Artiomovka, near Kharkov. Bortkiewicz received his musical training from Anatoly Lyadov and Karel van Ark at the Imperial Conservatory of Music in Saint Petersburg. In 1900, he left Saint Petersburg and travelled to Leipzig, where he became a student of Alfred Reisenauer and Salomon Jadassohn, both pupils of Franz Liszt. In July 1902, Bortkiewicz completed his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory and was awarded the Schumann Prize on graduation. On his return to the Russian Empire in 1904, he married Elisabeth Geraklitowa, a friend of his sister, and then returned to Germany, where he settled in Berlin. It was there that he started to compose seriously. From 1904 until 1914, Bortkiewicz continued to live in Berlin but spent his summers visiting h

Sergei Lyapunov

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Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (or Liapunov; , ; 30 November 18598 November 1924) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. Life Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers (one of them was Aleksandr Lyapunov, later a notable mathematician) went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod. There he attended the grammar school along with classes of the newly formed local branch of the Russian Musical Society. On the recommendation of Nikolai Rubinstein, the Director of the Moscow Conservatory of Music, he enrolled in that institution in 1878. His main teachers were Karl Klindworth (piano; a former pupil of Franz Liszt), and Sergei Taneyev (composition; a former pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his successor at the Conservatory). He graduated in 1883, more attracted by the nationalist elements in music of the New Russian School than by the more cosmopolitan approach of Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. He went to St. Petersburg in 1885 to seek Mily Balakirev, becoming the most important member of Balakirev’s latter-day circle. Balakirev, who had himself been born and bred i

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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1873–1885: Ancestry and early years#

Rachmaninoff was born on 1 April 1873 into a family of Russian aristocracy. The family tradition claims descent from a legendary Vasily, nicknamed “Rachman”, a supposed grandson of Stephen III of Moldavia. Rachmaninoff’s family had strong musical and military leanings. His paternal grandfather, Arkady Alexandrovich, was a musician who had taken lessons from Irish composer John Field. His father, Vasily Arkadievich Rachmaninoff (1841–1916), was a retired army officer and amateur pianist who married Lyubov Petrovna Butakova (1853–1929), the daughter of a wealthy army general who gave him five estates as part of her dowry. The couple had three sons: Vladimir, Sergei and Arkady and three daughters; Yelena, Sofia and Barbara; Sergei being their third child. Rachmaninoff was born in the family estate in the village of Semyonovo, near Staraya Russa, Novgorod Governorate. His birth was registered in the Semyonovo church book. After Sergei turned four, the family moved to their estate in Oneg, about 110 mi km north of Semyonovo, where he was raised until the age of nine. He mistakenly cited it as his birthplace in his adult life. Rachmaninoff began piano and music lessons organized by his mother at age four. She noticed his ability to correctly reproduce passages from memory and upon hearing news of the boy’s gift, Arkady suggested she hire Anna Ornatskaya, a piano teacher and recent graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, to live with the family and give the young Sergei formal piano lessons. Rachmaninoff dedicated his famous romance for voice and piano “Spring Waters” from 12 Romances, Op. 14, to Ornatskaya. Rachmaninoff’s father wanted him to be trained by the Page Corps and then join the military, but financial incompetence forced him to sell the family’s five estates to pay off debts and therefore could not afford his expensive military career. His older brother Vladimir was sent to an ordinary military college. The last estate in Oneg was auctioned off in 1882, and the family moved to a small flat in Saint Petersburg. In 1883, Ornatskaya arranged for Rachmaninoff, then 10, to study music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under her former teacher, Gustav Kross. Later that year, his sister Sofia died at the age of 13 of diphtheria, and his father, described by Rachmaninoff as a “compulsive gambler, a pathological liar and a skirt chaser”, left the family for Moscow. His maternal grandmother, Sofia Litvikova Butakova, a widow of General Butakov, stepped in to help raise the children, covered household expenses, and, with particular focus on their religious life, regularly took Rachmaninoff to Russian Orthodox Church services, where he first encountered liturgical chants and church bells, two features he would incorporate in his compositions. In 1885, Rachmaninoff suffered a further loss when his sister Yelena died at age 18 of pernicious anaemia. She was an important musical influence on Rachmaninoff and had introduced him to the works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. As a respite, his grandmother took him to a farm retreat by the Volkhov River. At the Conservatory, however, he had adopted a relaxed attitude, played truant, failed his general education classes and purposely altered his report cards. Rachmaninoff performed at events held at the Moscow Conservatory during this time, including those attended by the Grand Duke Konstantin and other notable figures. However, upon his failing his spring exams, Ornatskaya notified his mother that his admission to further education might be revoked. His mother then sought advice from Alexander Siloti, her nephew, who was an accomplished pianist and a former student of Franz Liszt. He recommended that Rachmaninoff transfer to the Moscow Conservatory to study under his former piano teacher, the stricter Nikolai Zverev, which lasted until 1888.

Sergei Taneyev

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Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (, ; 25 November 1856 – 19 June 1915) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. Life Taneyev was born in Vladimir, to a cultured and literary family of Russian nobility. A distant cousin, Alexander Taneyev, was also a composer, whose daughter, Anna Vyrubova, was highly influential at court. Alexander was drawn closely to the nationalist school of music exemplified by The Five, while Sergei would gravitate toward a more cosmopolitan outlook, as did Tchaikovsky. He began taking piano lessons at the age of five with a private teacher. His family moved to Moscow in 1865. The following year, the nine-year-old Taneyev entered the Moscow Conservatory. His first piano teacher at the Conservatory was Edward Langer. After a year’s interruption in his studies, Taneyev studied again with Langer. He also joined the theory class of Nikolai Hubert and, most importantly, the composition class of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Taneyev graduated in 1875, the first student in the history of the Conservatory to win the gold medal both for composition and for performing (piano). He was also the first person to be awarded the Conservatory’s G

Sergei Vasilenko

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Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko (; 30 March 1872 – 11 March 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism. Vasilenko was born in Moscow and originally studied law at Moscow State University, but then changed direction and studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1896 to 1901 as a pupil of Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. From 1903 to 1904 he was the conductor of a private opera house in Moscow. For several years he was the organiser and conductor of the Historic Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. He then became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Aram Khachaturian, Nikolai Roslavets, Nikolai Rakov and Aarre Merikanto. Vasilenko was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour as well as the title People’s Artist of the RSFSR. In 1947, he was awarded the Stalin Prize. He died in Moscow in 1956. Selected works Opera *Skazaniye o grade velikom Kitezhe i tikhom ozere Svetoyare (Tale of the Great City of Kitezh and the Quiet Lake Svetoyar) (1902; originally a cantata, Op. 5) *Sïn solntsa (The Son of the Sun), Op. 63 (1929) *Khristofor Kolumb (Christopher

Sergei Yuferov

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Sergei Vladimirovich Yuferov (; also Sergei Iuferov, Serge Youferoff, Sergej Wladimirowich Juferow; born 1865 in Odessa) was a Russian (Ukrainian) composer and pianist. Yuferov studied with Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Klenovsky (Николай Семёнович Кленовский) (1857–1915) in Saint Petersburg, and with Nikolai Hubert (Николай Альбертович Губерт) (1840–1888) and Herman Laroche in Moscow. Yuferov was active in Switzerland in 1906. Yuferov died in 1927 at the age of 61 or 62. Selected works ;Opera * Myrrha (Мирра), Opera in 4 acts, Op. 21 (1891); libretto by the composer * Yolande (Иоланда), Opera in 2 acts, Op. 22 (1893); libretto by Prince Dm. Goletsin * Antoine et Cléopatre (Антоний и Клеопатра), Opera in 4 acts with prologue, Op. 24 (1899–1900); libretto by the composer after the play by William Shakespeare ;Orchestral * Marche funèbre, Op. 7 No. 4; original version for piano solo * Moussia s’amuse, Suite de scènes d’enfant, Op. 18; also for piano solo * Scènes et danses, Op. 27 * Rêverie orientale, Fantaisie, Op. 28 No. 1 (published 1901) * Barcarolle “Sur l’eau”, Op. 28 No. 2 * Symphoniette in C major, Op. 29 (published 1901) * Fantaisie algérienne (Алжирская фантазия), Op. 40;

Seth Weeks

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Silas Seth Weeks (September 8, 1868 – December 1953) was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar. Although he played many instruments he concentrated professionally on the mandolin. A review of his music by Lyon and Healy of Chicago indicated success, saying that he had included harmony with the melody in most of his arrangements. Recordings which have survived include: (Record companies and dates come from a list of lost music published by the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board, and not from the Black Europe compact disk set.) * Poet And Peasant * Concert Polka (Pioneer/Columbia/Edison) (1901/1903/1904) * Handicap March (Pioneer/Edison Bell/Pathe) (1901/1903/1904) * Georgia Camp Meeting (Pioneer/Columbia) (1901/1903) * Hungarian Dance (Pathe) (1904) * Poet And Peasant * Soldiers In The Park (Pioneer) (1903), (Pathe) (1904) List by the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board of recordings feared lost: * Allegro (Pioneer/Columbia/Edison) (1901/1903) * The Charlatan March (Berliner) (1900) * Donauwellen (Pioneer) (1903) * Jeunesse Doree (Nicole) (1904) * Laburnum Gavotte (Pioneer/Columbia) (1903) * Lumbrin’ Luke (Col

Severo Muguerza

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Severo Muguerza (1883–1952) was a composer of Spanish, Basque, and Neapolitan zarzuelas and operettas. He was born in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain, and lived his later years in Cuba, Venezuela, and Mexico. Career In 1911 Severo Muguerza and his orchestra accompanied the great Mexican soprano diva and actress, Esperanza Iris (1884–1962), known as the “Queen of Operetta” of zarzuelas and operettas, on one of the earliest phonographic recordings in the twentieth century, Aires De Primavera. Muguerza’s orchestra played La Cuarta Plana (1911), La Poupe (1911), Aires de Primavera (1911), Los Tres Deseos (1911), La Princesa del Dólar (1911), Vals de Amor (1911), Cura de Amor (1911), Maniobras de Otoño (1911), La Princesa de los Balkanes (1911), and La Hija del Príncipe (1911). Iris later built the Teatro Esperanza Iris in 1918, now called Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, and is one of Mexico City’s oldest public venues for cultural events. At Madrid’s Teatro de la Latina in 1921, Severo Muguerza conducted the music for the one-act comic play La melindrosa (lyrics by Enrique F. Gutiérrez-Roig and Luis Gabaldón and music by Severo Muguerza) on April 15 and Noche de ronda,

Seymour Furth

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Seymour Furth (1876, New York City − May 22, 1932, Boston) was an American songwriter, composer, and librettist active from the late 1890s until his death in 1932. He wrote popular songs for Broadway musicals, vaudeville, tin pan alley, and minstrel shows; notably creating the opening musical number for the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. He most frequently worked as a composer with another collaborator serving as his lyricist, but sometimes he created both music and lyrics, and at other times just words with other composers. He composed piano works in popular styles of his day, including ragtime. His best known songs were comedic, including “Nothing Like That in Our Family” (1906) and “No Wedding Bells For Me” (1907). He began his career writing songs for vaudeville and minstrel shows in the late 1890s; often with a humorous character. He published two ragtime compositions for piano, That Spanish Rag and Pinochle Rag (1911, Joseph Morris publisher). Furth contributed music to The Follies of 1907, the first Ziegfeld Follies. Concurrently, Furth contributed the music to the song “Dixie Dan” for the Broadway show The Gay White Way (1907); a song which became a hit for singer Blanche

Sidney Homer

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Sidney Homer Sr. (December 9, 1864 – July 10, 1953) was a classical composer, primarily of songs. Biography Homer was the youngest child born to deaf parents in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 9, 1864 (some sources use 1865). He attended the 1884 class of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, but did not attend college, although he studied composition with George Whitefield Chadwick and with Josef Rheinberger in Munich. He married contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty in 1895. Sidney and Louise had six children, including twin daughters Anne Homer and Kathryn Homer, son Sidney Homer, Jr. (economist and author), and daughter Louise Homer. Sidney Homer died on July 10, 1953, in Winter Park, Florida. Legacy Sidney Homer’s influence included his mentoring and supporting his nephew, the composer Samuel Barber. Scholarship on Homer was a particular focus of musicologist Harry Colin Thorpe. Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are “A Banjo Song” (Weeden), “Requiem” (Stevenson), “Casey at the Bat” (Thayer), and “The House that Jack Built” (“Mother Goose.”) Homer’s memoir, My Wife and I, was published by Macmillan in 193

Siegfried Alkan

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Siegfried Alkan (30 March 1858 – 24 December 1941) was a German composer from Saarland in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was assaulted and his musical business was looted during the Kristallnacht. Biography Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland, within the Kingdom of Prussia to prominent Jewish piano businessman Johannes Alkan and his wife Johanna . His grandfather and two of his nephews were also musicians. He had three siblings. He was a distant relative of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy through his mother’s relationship to the Oppenheim family. and his piano looted by the Nazis. He refused to seek treatment at a Christian hospital, he tried to seek help at his synagogue, unaware it had been set ablaze. * "" (English: “Oh, if only you knew”; Op. 39) * "" (English: “Proto-Great-grandmother”; Op. 80) * "" (English: “The fog rolls through the valley”; Op. 92) References

Siegfried Ochs

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Siegfried Ochs (19 April 1858 – 6 February 1929) was a German choral conductor and composer. Life Born in Frankfurt, Ochs first studied medicine and chemistry at the Polytechnikum Darmstadt (today the Technische Universität Darmstadt) and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He later devoted himself entirely to music, studying at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, under Schultze and Ernst Rudorff, and later privately under Friedrich Kiel and Heinrich Urban. In 1882, Ochs founded the Philharmonischer Chor Berlin (Philharmonic Choral Society of Berlin), which he would lead until 1920. At first an obscure organization, it became prominent through numerous performances given by Hans von Bülow, an intimate friend of Ochs. It arguably became the greatest choral society in Berlin and was distinguished for its helpful patronage of young musicians, whose compositions were performed for the first time. The choral society continues operations to present day. Ochs died in Berlin. Works Ochs was noted for humorous or parodic compositions. He wrote both the libretto and music of the three-act comic opera Im Namen des Gesetzes (Hamburg, 1888), two operettas, duets for soprano

Siegfried Translateur

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NOTOC Salo Siegfried Translateur, or Siegfried “Salo” Translateur, (19 June 1875 – 1 March 1944) was a German conductor and composer of waltzes, marches, and other light dance music. Today he is most famous for his waltz, which became popular as Sportpalastwalzer in 1920s Berlin. Biography Siegfried Translateur was born in Carlsruhe in Upper Silesia, in the Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (Pokój in Poland), the natural son of Rosaline Translateur (1858 in Lublin, Lublin Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire 1934, Moravský Krumlov) and an unknown father, and adopted child of her later husband, the ḥazzān Salomon Lagodzinsky (1857, ? 1915). He started his music studies in Breslau, Vienna, and Leipzig, and also learned from a French composer of dance music, Émile Waldteufel. Translateur’s entertainment music became increasingly popular; his orchestra played on international tours and even in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1911, he founded the “Lyra” music publishing company in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. It mostly published his own works, but also compositions by José Armándola, Marc Roland, Franz von Blon and Paul Lincke, among others. Translateur’s

Siegfried Wagner

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Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner (6 June 18694 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Life Siegfried Wagner was born in 1869 to Richard Wagner and his future wife Cosima (née Liszt), at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Franz Liszt, from whom he received some instruction in harmony. Some youthful compositions date from about 1882. After he completed his secondary education in 1889, he studied with Wagner’s assistant Engelbert Humperdinck, but was more strongly drawn to a career as an architect and studied architecture in Berlin and Karlsruhe. In 1892 he undertook a trip to Asia with a friend, the English composer Clement Harris. During the voyage he decided to abandon architecture and commit himself to music. Reputedly, it was also Harris who first aroused his homoerotic impulses. While on board, he sketched his first official work, the symphonic poem Sehnsucht, inspired by the poem of the same name by Friedrich Schiller. This piece was not completed until just before the concert in which Wagner condu

Siegmund von Hausegger

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Siegmund von Hausegger (16 August 1872 – 10 October 1948) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Early life Siegmund was born in Graz, the son of Friedrich von Hausegger (1837-1899), a lawyer and writer on music. According to Siegmund’s own account, Friedrich was “one of the first in Austria to recognize the greatness of Richard Wagner and to exert himself to the utmost in propagating his music and his ideas”. According to one account, the young von Hausegger may have been made the vehicle of his critic-father’s ideals. Siegmund studied music initially under his father, and a strong Wagnerian tinge is found in his own compositions, which included masses, operas and symphonic poems as well as many choruses and songs. At the age of nineteen, von Hausegger composed a Mass for chorus and orchestra that he described as “my first serious composition”. Conducting career Hausegger conducted orchestras in many German and Austrian cities including Graz; Munich, where he shared the conductorship of the Kaim Orchestra with Felix Weingartner; Frankfurt (1904-6); Berlin (Blüthner Orchestra, 1910–15); and Hamburg (1910-20). After the First World War he served as conductor of the Scottish Orchest

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

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Sigfrid Theodor Karg-Elert (né Karg; 21 November 18779 April 1933) was a German composer and organist who wrote prolifically for pipe and reed organs. Biography Karg-Elert was born Siegfried Theodor Karg in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany, the youngest of the twelve children of Johann Jacob Karg, a book dealer, and his wife Marie Auguste Karg, born Ehlert (sic). According to another account, however, his father was a newspaper editor and publisher . The family finally settled in Leipzig in 1882, where Siegfried received his first musical training and private piano instruction. At a gathering of composers in Leipzig, he presented his first attempts at composition to the composer Emil von Reznicek, who arranged a three-year tuition-free scholarship at the Leipzig Conservatory. This enabled the young man to study with Salomon Jadassohn, Carl Reinecke, Alfred Reisenauer and Robert Teichmüller. From August 1901 to September 1902 he worked as a piano teacher in Magdeburg. It was during this period that he changed his name to Sigfrid Karg-Elert, adding a variant of his mother’s maiden name to his surname, and adopting the Swedish spelling of his first name. Having returned to Leipzig, he sta

Sigfús Einarsson

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Sigfús Einarsson (30 January 1877 – 10 May 1939) was an Icelandic composer, organist, and music critic. He was a pioneer in Icelandic music in the early twentieth century and is particularly well known for his songs, many of which remain highly popular. Career Sigfús Einarsson was born at Skúmsstaðir in Eyrarbakki in Southern Iceland. The son of a merchant, he was raised in a musical household and at age 12 was already a member of the Báran choir, one of Iceland’s earliest mixed choirs. At age 15, he went to Reykjavík to study at the local Latin School (Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík), where he also founded and established a student choir. He went to Copenhagen to study law, but quit his studies to focus on music, which would be his main profession in life. In Copenhagen, he studied composition and music theory with August Enna, and met his future wife, the Danish singer and pianist Valborg Hellemann (later Valborg Einarsson). Sigfús and his wife moved back to Iceland in 1906 and would become instrumental in Reykjavík’s growing musical life for the next decades. He taught singing in several schools, and in 1911 he established the choral society Söngfélagið 17. júní, which he conducted f

Signe Lund

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Signe Lund-Skabo (15 April 1868 – 6 April 1950) was a Norwegian composer and music teacher. Biography Signe Lund was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Henrik Louis Bull Lund (1838–1891), and pianist Birgitte Theodora Carlsen (1843–1913), and was the sister of the artist Henrik Lund (1879–1935) and the aunt of the sculptor Knut Henrik Lund (1909-1991). She studied with Erika Nilsson, Per Winge and Iver Holter at the Oslo Conservatory of Music (Musikkonservatoriet i Oslo). After encouragement and praise from Edvard Grieg, she studied in Berlin with Wilhelm Berger and also in Copenhagen and Paris. After completing her studies she worked as a teacher in Norway. She married Jørgen Skabo and later French architect George Robards. Lund emigrated to the United States about 1900 and took a position teaching at Mayville State Normal School in Mayville, North Dakota. She became active in the North Dakota Socialist party and Nonpartisan League and circulated petitions for the release of anti-war activist Kate Richards O’Hare from state prison in Missouri, which led to her dismissal from the Mayville teaching position. She later worked in New Yor

Sigurd Islandsmoen

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Sigurd Islandsmoen (August 27, 1881 – July 1, 1964) was a Norwegian composer. Sigurd Islandsmoen made significant contributions to the music of the Church of Norway. In all he wrote some 70 opuses, among these five feature-length works for orchestra, choir and soloists. He is perhaps best known for his composition Requiem written between 1935 and 1936 and first premiered in 1943. Background Sigurd Islandsmoen was born in Bagn (Sør-Aurdal Municipality), in Oppland county, Norway. He grew up on the family farm, the youngest of nine siblings. He was the brother of Norwegian educator and politician, Olaus Islandsmoen. He studied at the music academy of Oslo, later as well in Leipzig, where amongst others Max Reger was his teacher. The time in Leipzig is believed to have had a great influence on his musical development, and especially the organist Karl Straube (1873–1950) and conductor Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922). He took an exam at Elverum Teacher Academy in 1904 and worked as a teacher from 1904 to 1916. First he worked as a teacher and organist for some years in his home village of Bagn, and later he worked for the six years as music teacher in Gjøvik. From 1916 to 1961 he was church

Sigvaldi Kaldalóns

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Sigvaldi Kaldalóns (Stefánsson) (13 January 1881 – 28 July 1946) * * * * * * * *

Silvio Hein

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Silvio Hein (March 15, 1879 – December 19, 1928) was an American composer, songwriter, conductor, and theatrical producer. He was a songwriter for Tin Pan Alley and composed the scores to fourteen Broadway musicals. Early life and education Born in New York City, Silvio Hein was the son of immigrant parents. His father was from Hungary and his mother from Italy. Sources vary over his music education background, with some claiming he studied music in Trieste and Vienna, or that he had piano instruction from his mother but no other formal training. Hein himself did not describe his training in either of these manners. In a 1927 interview in The Musical Observer, he named several teachers he studied under in Boston, New York, and Italy. These included a Professor Cosmo in Trieste, brass player and conductor John M. Flockton and New York music critic and piano teacher James Huneker. It was created as a starring vehicle for Marie Cahill, and the production later toured nationally under the new title Molly Moonshine after the Broadway run ended in January 1906. With the lyricist Matt Woodward he wrote the song “I Want to be a Drummer Boy” which was used as the Act I finale in Florenz Zie

Simon Bucharoff

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Simon Bucharoff (April 20, 1881 – November 24, 1955, born Simon Buchhalter) was an American pianist, composer and educator. Bucharoff was born in Berdychiv, Russian Empire. His father was a cantor. His brother Isadore Buchhalter was also a pianist and educator who settled in Chicago. His family emigrated to New York when he was 11, where he began his piano studies with Paolo Gallico and Leopold Kramer. He returned to Europe and graduated from the Vienna Conservatory in 1902, having studied piano with Julius Epstein and Emil Sauer and composition with Stephen Stocker and Robert Fuchs. He married Jennie G. Bluestone in 1902, and became a US citizen in 1904. He joined the Wichita College of Music in 1907, and in 1911 moved to Chicago and began focusing on composition. future US Vice President Charles Dawes was a patron, In 1919, he changed his last name from Buchhalter to Bucharoff and moved to Europe in an attempt to further his composition career. After failing to produce an opera based on André Geiger’s La Reine amoureuse with Pierre Maudru, he moved to Germany and succeeded in producing his next opera Sakhara in 1924. Upon returning to America in the 1920s, his works received promine

Sixto María Durán Cárdenas

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Sixto María Durán Cárdenas (August 6, 1875 – January 13, 1947) was an Ecuadorian pianist, composer, and lawyer. He served as a judge, composed more than one hundred musical works, and was director of the National Conservatory of Music on three occasions. He also composed hymns for various institutions and military marches. Personal life and death Durán Cárdenas was born in Quito on August 6, 1875, the same day when the President Gabriel García Moreno was murdered. His parents were Domingo Durán, aide-de-camp of President Gabriel García Moreno, and Emperatriz Cárdenas, his first music teacher, a singer and notable harpist. After completing his elementary education and having lost his father, he entered the San Luis Minor Seminary in Quito. Julio Troncoso, director of the publication El año ecuatoriano, indicates that at the Seminary, Durán had a great music teacher in the priest Ditte, a Dutch Lazarist; however, another brief biography, unpublished and without a signature of responsibility, indicates that it was with the German priest Jausen, with whom he carried out his musical studies. At this time, the young artist had to teach mathematics privately to finance his studies. He ear

Sjur Helgeland

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Sjur Larsson Helgeland (19 August 1858 − 12 April 1924) was a Norwegian hardingfele fiddler and composer. Biography He was born in Voss Municipality in Søndre Bergenhus county, Norway. His parents were Lars Olsson Hirt (1823–1908) and Brita Helgeland (1820–98). He grew up in the rural valley of Myrkdalen in the parish of Vossestrand (later part of Vossestrand Municipality). He received musical training from local Hardanger fiddle players including Ola Mosafinn (1828–1912). In 1896, he won the first annual Norwegian folk music and dance competition (Vest landskappleiken) conducted at Bergen. Among his best-known airs is Budeiene på Vikafjell, a composition reflecting the different moods of three dairymaids; sorrow, joy and happiness, combined with cattle call, lows, wind and bird singing. Helgeland died in 1924 and was buried at Vinje Church (). A stone memorial to Sjur Helgeland was raised in his home village during 1958. References

Sofie Rohnstock

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Sofie Rohnstock (25 December 1875 – 26 December 1964) was an Austrian composer who is best remembered for her String Trio in G Major (for violin, viola and cello), apparently the only one of her compositions to survive World War II. Biography Rohnstock was born in Vienna. She studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory (today the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig) with Max Reger and Carl Reinecke. She also made a living as a piano teacher. Unfortunately, her apartment was bombed during World War II, and most of her manuscripts were destroyed, including the piano trio, two symphonies, and quartets for woodwinds and strings. In 1960, Rohnstock wrote Memories of Max Reger, which was published by the Max-Reger-Institute. She died in Leipzig in 1964. String Trio in G Major In 1935, she entered a chamber music competition within the Music Department of the Prussian Academy of Arts (now the Academy of Arts, Berlin). The competition received over 200 entries. In addition to the four main prizes, the committee awarded six additional compositions an unplanned prize of 100 Reichsmarks, of which Rohnstock received for her string trio. She was the only women of the 10 named winners. The str

Srećko Albini

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Srećko (Felix) Albini (10 December 1869 – 18 April 1933) was a Croatian composer, conductor, and music publisher. He was primarily known for his operettas, some of which were adapted into English and performed in London and New York. Life and career Albini was born in Županja. He trained in music in Vienna and in Graz, but at the wishes of his family also graduated from a business college. His first engagement as a conductor was for the municipal theatres in Graz, where he worked from 1893 to 1895. He then became a conductor at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, where he remained for the next eight years and composed his first stage work, the three-act opera Maričon. Set to a libretto by Milan Smrekar, it had a nationalistic theme and incorporated traditional Croatian folk music and dances. Maričon premiered at the Croatian National Theatre in 1901 and received a very favourable review from Die Musik. The National Theatre’s resident opera company suspended its activities between 1903 and 1909, and Albini moved to Vienna, where he continued composing and conducting. He returned to the National Theatre in 1909, serving there as both a conductor and a stage director until 1919.

Stanislao Gastaldon

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Martino Stanislao Luigi Gastaldon (8 April 18616 March 1939) was an Italian composer, primarily of salon songs for solo voice and piano. However, he also composed instrumental music, two choral works, and four operas. Today, he is remembered almost exclusively for his 1881 song “Musica proibita” (“Forbidden Music”), still one of the most popular pieces of music in Italy. Gastaldon also wrote the lyrics for some of his songs, including “Musica proibita”, under the pseudonym Flick-Flock. He was born in Turin and after a peripatetic childhood studied music there and in Florence. By 1900, he had settled permanently in Florence, where he died at the age of 77. In his later years, he also worked as a voice teacher, music critic, and art dealer. Life and career Gastaldon was born in Turin on 8 April 1861 to Luigi Gastaldon and Luigia Grazioli. His father was an engineer from Lerino, a village near Torri di Quartesolo in the Veneto region of Italy. His mother was a Roman noblewoman who had married a wealthy landowner, Count Bernardo Genardini, at the age of 16. She met Luigi Gastaldon in 1854 when she was 23 and shortly thereafter abandoned her husband and four children to live with him. T

Stanislav Binički

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Stanislav Binički (, ; 27 July 1872 – 15 February 1942) was a Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue. A student of German composer Josef Rheinberger, he became the first director of the Opera Sector of the National Theatre in Belgrade in 1889 and began working with the Belgrade Military Orchestra a decade later. He composed the first Serbian opera, At Dawn (), in 1903. In 1911, Binički established the second Serbian Music School. He joined the Serbian Army following the outbreak of World War I and composed one of his most famous works, March on the Drina, following the Serbian victory at the Battle of Cer. He retired as head of the Opera Sector of the National Theatre in 1920 and died in Belgrade in 1942. He is considered one of the leading Serbian composers of the Generation of the 1870s. Life and career Stanislav Binički was born on 27 July 1872 in the village of Jasika, near Kruševac, Principality of Serbia. He studied in Belgrade and Munich with German composer Josef Rheinberger. Binički became the first director of the Opera Sector of the National Theatre in Belgrade in 1889. In 1899, he began collaborating with the Belgrade Military Orchestra. He enriched the orchestra’s

Stanislav Lyudkevych

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Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych (, , ; 24 January 1879 – 10 September 1979 ) was a Ukrainian and Soviet composer, theorist, teacher and musical activist. He was a People’s Artist of the USSR (1969) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1979). Biography Lyudkevych was born in 1879 in Jarosław, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). From 1897 to 1901 Lyudkevych studied philosophy at Lviv University. During this time he also studied on his own at the Conservatory of Galician Music Society in Lviv under Mieczysław Sołtys. Starting in 1901, Lyudkevych worked as a teacher in Lviv and Przemyśl. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology in Vienna in 1908, learning from O. Tsemlinsky and H. Hredener. and from 1919, teacher of theoretical disciplines and inspector of legal entities. He worked with the choirs Boyan, Bandurist, Surma. In 1936, Lyudkevych became head of the musicological commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. From 1939 until 1972, he was a professor in the institute named after Mykola Lysenko. He died on September 10, 1979, in Lviv, aged 100. * 1949 – Order of the Red Banner of Labour * Lviv Art College is named after S. Ludkevych as well as streets in Lviv, Stryi, Pustomyty and

Stanley Hawley

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Harry Stanley Hawley (17 May 1867 – 13 June 1916) was an English pianist and a composer who specialised in recitation melodramas for speaker and piano. Education Hawley was born at 61 South Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, the son of a butcher, who died before his son’s first birthday. Stanley won a scholarship to attend Derby Grammar School. At the age of 15 he was appointed organist at the Independent Chapel in Pimlico, Ilkeston. In 1883 he began studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, supported by a further scholarship. His teachers there included Arthur O’Leary and Ebenezer Prout. Performer and composer Hawley rapidly established himself as an accompanist and soloist, making his debut at the St James’s Hall in 1887. According to Eric Coates Grieg, during one of his visits to London in the late 1880s, heard the student Hawley play his Piano Concerto and praised his performance, though the facts and exact date of this often repeated anecdote have since been disputed. In 1890 he was the first to receive the medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and in the same year he performed for Queen Victoria at Osborne House (her summer residence) on the Isle of Wight. He perfor

Stanley R. Avery

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Stanley R. Avery (1879 – September 17, 1967) was an American composer, choirmaster, and organist at St. Mark’s Church for 40 years. He was a member of the first class to register at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, in 1921. In Minneapolis, he was a member of the faculty of MacPhail School of Music from 1919 to 1966, and the director of music at Blake School for Boys (1934–43) and at the Hennepin County Library Minneapolis Central Library Special Collections department which also has biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, obituary, and scrapbooks. External links *Hennepin County Library Special Collections Personal Archives References *

Stella Stocker

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Stella Prince Stocker (3 April 1858 – 29 March 1925) was an American composer, choral conductor, and early ethnomusicologist of Ojibwe traditions. Life and career Stella Prince was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, to parents Dr. David and Lucy Manning Chandler Prince. Her father directed the David Prince Sanatorium in Jacksonville. She graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Jacksonville and the University of Michigan in 1880 with a B.A. degree, and continued her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. She studied but did not graduate from Wellesley College, but did give an address at a memorial for Wellesley founder Henry Fowle Durant in 1889. She studied piano with Xaver Scharwenka and counterpoint and composition with Bruno Oscar Klein in New York City, piano with Frau Gliemann in Dresden, and voice with Giovanni Sbriglia. After completing her studies, she worked as a musician, composer and lecturer in Europe and America. In 1885, Stocker married Samuel Marston Stocker, a Duluth physician who was working at her father’s hospital. and Edward MacDowell. In Minnesota, Stocker began in-depth studies of the music and traditions of the Ojibwe. She visited the Mille Lacs, Leech Lake, Nett

Stephen Vost Janssen

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Stephen Vost Janssen (or Vost-Janssen; November 1879 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Sydney, When he returned to Europe for further musical studies, he studied violin with Hans Becker Life Early years and studying The future violist came to Australia as a child among his teachers was G. Rivers Allpress (died 1918). In 1903 at a Sydney College of Music examination he received a silver medal as first prize for an original piano composition (Romance in F). In April 1903 he departed for Europe. The farewell concert was held in Newcastle King’s Hall and included some compositions of his own: the above-mentioned piano Romance and The Lifeboat (a song). In May Vost Janssen arrived in London and attended the Handel Festival. He then studied violin (with Hans Becker, brother of Hugo Becker), Among other famous musicians he attended three concerts by 12-years old Mischa Elman. Though he contracted scarlet fever and was a patient in a hospital for two months, While in Europe he published two articles in his native Newcastle newspaper describing musical life in England and Leipzig. A vast review of his non-musical impressions was published a year later, after his return to the homeland. After return to A

Stevan Mokranjac

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Stevan Stojanović (, ; 9 January 1856 – 28 September 1914), known as Stevan Mokranjac (, ) was a Serbian composer and music educator. Born in Negotin in 1856, Mokranjac studied music at the University of Belgrade, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sapienza University of Rome and Leipzig University while in his twenties. Later, he became the conductor of the Belgrade Choir Society and founder of the Serbian School of Music and the first Serbian string quartet, in which he played the cello. He left Belgrade at the beginning of World War I and moved to Skopje, where he died on 28 September 1914. Often called the “father of Serbian music” and the “most important figure of Serbian musical romanticism”, Mokranjac is well-regarded and much revered in Serbia. Following his death, the Serbian Music School was renamed the Mokranjac Music School in his honour. He has been featured on the country’s paper currency and that of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1964, the Mokranjac family home in Negotin was restored and turned into a museum and musical centre. Celebrations of Mokranjac’s life, known as “Mokranjac days”, have occurred annually in the town since 1965. In 1981, a larg

Suphi Ezgi

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Mehmet Suphi Ezgi (1869 – 12 April 1962) was an Ottoman-born Turkish military physician who specialized in neurology, and a musician, musicologist and composer. He is best known for his studies of Ottoman classical music. ,

Susan Hart Dyer

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Susan “Daisy” Hart Dyer ( – ) was an American composer, musician, poet, and music educator. Her best known work is the “Florida Night Song”, the second movement from her An Outlandish Suite for violin and piano. Life and career Susan Dyer was born on in Annapolis, Maryland, the daughter of US Navy Commodore George Leland Dyer and suffragist Susan Hart Palmer Dyer. Her schooling was frequently interrupted for trips abroad accompanying her parents to George Dyer’s various naval, diplomatic, and political posts. She kept a diary of her time in Madrid in 1897-1898 when her father was posted there as a naval attaché. When her father was Governor of Guam from 1904 to 1905, she worked in Guam as a school teacher. Dyer studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., from 1893 to 1895 and at the Art Students League of New York in 1896. However, music would be the focus of the rest of her education. The next year she began studying at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, under J. C. van Hulsteyn and Otis B. Bois. She graduated with a teaching certificate in violin in 1902. In 1909, Dyer began her long association with Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, w

Susan Spain-Dunk

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Susan Spain-Dunk FRAM (22 February 1880 Folkestone, England – 1 January 1962 London) was an English composer, conductor and violinist/violist. Life and career Susan was the third of four children (Ethel K Dunk b. 1876; John De Lanoy Dunk b. 1878; Susan Spain Dunk b. 1880; William Major b. 1882). Their father was a master plumber and house builder. Her second name, Spain, was added as the Dunk family were related to the Spain family. She studied violin and composition at The Royal Academy of Music, London with Alfred Gibson, Stewart Macpherson and Richard Walthew and later taught composition and harmony there. For a time she played the viola in a private quartet of Walter Cobbett. She also played (violin or viola) in the Winifred Small Quartet and Cobbett made suggestions for “Anthology” programmes for the quartet. She conducted some of her own works at the British Women’s Symphony Orchestra. She also conducted her own works at The London Promenade Concerts (1924-1927) and at Bournemouth, Folkestone, Eastbourne and Torquay. Susan Spain-Dunk also conducted work by other women composers, including Edith Swepstone’s tone poem, A Vision. and two grandchildren. In the mid-1930s she was l

Susie Frances Harrison

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Susie Frances Harrison née Riley (February 24, 1859 – May 5, 1935) (a.k.a. Seranus) was a Canadian poet, novelist, music critic and music composer who lived and worked in Ottawa and Toronto. Life Susie Frances Riley was born in Toronto of Irish-Canadian ancestry, the daughter of John Byron Riley. She studied music with Frederic Boscovitz, at a private school for girls in Toronto, and later in Montreal. who was the organist of St. George’s Church in Montreal. The couple had a son and a daughter. The Harrisons lived in Ottawa in 1883, when Susie Harrison composed the song “Address of Welcome to Lord Lansdowne” to celebrate the first public appearance of the new Governor General, the Marquess of Lansdowne. Her String Quartet on Ancient Irish Airs, is likely the first string quartet composed in Canada by a woman. In 1896 and 1897, she presented a series of well-received lectures in Toronto on “The Music of French Canada. During the 1900s she contributed to and edited the Conservatory’s publication Conservatory Monthly, and contributed to its successor Conservatory Quarterly Review. She wrote the article on “Canada” for the 1909 Imperial History and Encyclopedia of Music. The Dictionary

Sven Scholander

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Sven Scholander (21 April 1860 – 14 December 1936) was a Swedish musician, singer, composer and sculptor. His musical innovations led to a revival in Swedish lute playing whilst his solo performances of Carl Michael Bellman reintroduced the works in their original form. Sculptor Born into a large and musical family, Scholander was the son of Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, an architect whose avocations included painting, poetry and singing to his own guitar accompaniment. Businessman In addition to his artistic pursuits Scholander was a businessman, who opened a retail outlet for the Hasselblad Company in 1895, where he sold cameras and photographic equipment. He was also active in the publishing industry and in 1915 became the managing director of the AB Nordiska Musikförlaget. In fact, his concerts were often referred to as “Bellman evenings”. America Scholander’s younger brother Torkel Scholander (1871-1962) was likewise a singer and lute player. While touring the United States in 1911 he recorded twenty sides for Victor Records. Twelve years later the troubadour Gunnar Bohman (1882-1963) crossed the Atlantic and performed Bellman songs for Swedish-American audiences from coast to c

Swan Hennessy

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Edward Swan Hennessy (24 November 1866 – 26 October 1929) was an Irish-American composer and pianist who lived much of his life in Paris. In his pre-War piano music, he excelled as a miniaturist in descriptive, programmatic music. After joining a group of Breton composers, he developed a reputation as a “Celtic” composer, drawing on his Irish heritage, and writing in a style that was unique in a French as well as an Irish context. Even though he has been almost forgotten after 1950, his music was applauded by contemporary French music critics including Henri Collet, Louis Vuillemin, Émile Vuillermoz and Lucien Chevaillier. In some works, he used jazz elements and took inspiration from funfairs and industrial noise, anticipating trends associated with the group of “Les Six”. Biography Swan Hennessy was born in Rockford, Illinois, of Irish origin and grew up in Chicago. His father, Michael David Hennessy (1837–1919), was a Cork-born former President of the Chicago City Railway Company before he became a lawyer in 1874. Hennessy’s mother was Sarah J. Swan (c.1833–1880), a daughter of Joseph Rockwell Swan, an Ohio Supreme Court judge and founding member of the American Republican Party

Sylvain Dupuis

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Joseph Michel Sylvain Dupuis (; 9 October 1856 – 28 September 1931) was a Belgian conductor, composer, oboist, and music educator. Life Born in Liège, Dupuis was trained at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. After graduating in 1878, he was appointed to that school’s faculty as a professor of harmony. In 1911 he succeeded Jean-Théodore Radoux as the director of the conservatory. Among his notable pupils were Charles Houdret and Joseph Jongen. Dupuis worked actively as a composer during the early part of his career, but later became more heavily involved in his work as an opera conductor and music teacher. As a result, the majority of his works date from before 1900. In 1879 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Chant de la Création. In the 1880s he composed two operas, Moîna and Coûr d’ognon. His other compositions include several secular cantatas, the symphonic poem Macbeth, a concertino for oboe and orchestra, a number of choral works, and music for solo organ, piano, violin and cello. In 1890 Dupuis was appointed to the conducting staff at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, and in 1900 he assumed the role of principal conductor at that house. He notably conducted that o

Sylvio Lazzari

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Sylvio Lazzari (born Josef Fortunat Silvester Lazzari; 30 December 1857 – 10 June 1944) was a French composer of Austrian and Italian origin. Life Born in Bolzano – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – Lazzari came to Paris in 1882 after studying law in Austria. At the Paris Conservatory, he studied under Ernest Guiraud and César Franck. Encouraged by Ernest Chausson and Franck, Lazzari settled permanently in France and obtained French citizenship in 1896. He held several official positions in Paris, including president of the Wagner Society (from 1894) and choirmaster at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Because of dwindling eyesight, he later focused on composition only. Lazzari’s use of cyclic structures was indebted to Franck; he was also heavily influenced by Wagner (especially in his operas) and the impressionists. His best-known opera, La Lépreuse (first performed in 1912), was highly praised for its musical content, but frequently criticised for its naturalistic libretto. Three of his operas, including La Lépreuse, are inspired by Brittany, with Breton plots, also using Breton folksongs as local colour. Very few of his compositions have been performed since his death, but som

T. J. Crawford

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Thomas J. Crawford, known as T. J. Crawford, (11 June 1877 – 6 July 1955) was a Scottish-born Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He held organist posts in Germany and England prior to relocating to Canada in 1922. He held several organist posts in churches in Toronto, and was conductor of the Eaton Operatic Society. He served as president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in 1929, and taught on the faculty of The Royal Conservatory of Music from 1922 until his death in 1955. His compositional output included sacred music, orchestral music, works for organ and piano, songs, and two children’s operas. Life and career Thomas J. Crawford was born in Barrhead, Scotland on 11 June 1877. His parents had religious and political differences; with his Scottish businessman father supporting the Liberal Party and his English mother supporting the Tories. He began working as an organist in 1890 at the age of 13 at a Scottish congregational church. His early music studies were in Glasgow where he studied with organ and music theory with Harry Sandiford Turner and Otto Schweitzer. He served a term as president of the RCCO in 1929, and was known for his annual con

T. Mayo Geary

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Thomas Mayo Geary (September 1879 – 8 June 1945) was an American songwriter, composer, vaudeville performer, and music publishing executive. He formed a partnership with fellow Brooklyn native Harry Breen with whom he performed on the vaudeville stage in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Simultaneously, the pair worked as a song writing team with recordings of their tunes being made for the Victor Talking Machine Company and Columbia Records during the early years of the 20th century. These works are catalogued in the Discography of American Historical Recordings. Raised in Brooklyn, he was educated at the school of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy (demolished 1930). In his early career he worked on the vaudeville stage in a partnership with the actor and fellow Brooklyn resident Harry Breen (1878-1929). In December 1902 Geary served as the accompanist for an amateur minstrel show put on by the Cortelyou Club; a women’s group in Brooklyn. Geary and Breen began writing songs together for Tin Pan Alley in the late 1890s with Geary as composer and Breen as lyricist. One of their earliest tunes was “The Rag-Time Hymn” (1899). Their song “The Sons of Ham” was recorded by Dan W. Quinn for t

Tali Esen Morgan

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Tali Esen Morgan (28 October 1858 – June 1941), born Taliesen Morgan, was a Welsh-born American conductor, composer, and publisher. He was the musical director at Ocean Grove, a large Methodist summer resort on the New Jersey shore, for almost twenty years. Early life Taliesen Morgan was born at Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire, one of ten children of Thomas Llyfnwy Morgan and Gwenllian Beven Morgan. He attended schools in Maesteg, and held an apprenticeship with a printer. He settled with his family in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1876, for three years. Although he was very young, he published a Welsh-interest newspaper, The Cambro-American, while there. Career In 1897, Morgan directed choirs for a summer concert at Ocean Grove. The following year, he became the resort’s musical director. Conductor Walter Damrosch encouraged him to use “Tali Esen” rather than the original version of his first name. As musical director, he worked with visiting artists such as Enrico Caruso, John Philip Sousa, Lillian Nordica, and Louise Homer. He was responsible for a thousand-voice children’s chorus, and a 63-piece orchestra. He oversaw the purchase and installation of the Robert Hope-Jones organ in the Gr

Teiichi Okano

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Teiichi Okano ( Okano Teiichi; 16 February 1878, Tottori, Tottori, Japan – 29 December 1941) was a Japanese composer. Selected works ;Popular songs * “Furusato” (故郷) (1914) * “Haru ga kita” (春が来た) (1910) * “Haru no ogawa” (春の小川) (1912) * “Hinomaru no hata” (日の丸の旗) (1911) * “Momiji” (もみじ) (1911) * “Oborozuki yo” (朧月夜; “Dark Moon Night”) for soprano, flute and harp (1914) * Momotarō’s song (1911) Oborozuki yo Oborozuki yo (朧月夜; “Dark Moon Night”) is a song composed by Teiichi Okano with lyrics by . The song was written to pass down the Japanese landscape to posterity. In 1914, the song appeared in the list of " for 6th-grade," to be taught in the Japanese public school system. It is still sung to this day. Japanese Source: 1．菜の花畠に、入日薄れ、見わたす山の端、霞ふかし。春風そよふく、空を見れば、夕月かかりて、にほひ淡し。 2．里わの火影も、森の色も、田中の小路をたどる人も、蛙のなくねも、かねの音も、さながら霞める朧月夜。 Translation Source: 1. Evening sun goes down in a mustard field. When I look out over mountain ridges, they are veiled in dense mist. I feel the spring breeze and I look up at the sky. Then, the evening moon rises high and it is colored softly. 2. The lamps of a village, green of the forest, people who walk along a path between rice paddies, croaking of

Tekla Griebel-Wandall

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Tekla Griebel-Wandall (26 February 1866 – 28 June 1940) was a Danish composer and music educator. Biography Tekla Griebel was born in Randers, Denmark, the daughter of Theodor Johan Heinrich Griebel (1829–1900) and teacher Camilla Joachimine Andresen (1829–91). She began her musical studies at the age of seven, taking piano lessons from her father. Later she took singing lessons, and at the age of fifteen, she was admitted to Draw School for Women where she studied to be a figurative artist. However, she was more interested in music, and in 1886 she wrote her first opera Don Juan de Marana (eventually performed in 1931). At the age of sixteen, Tekla Griebel-Wandall began teaching piano, and from 1889 to 1891 she studied voice, piano, composition and theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Jørgen Malling and Orla Rosenhoff. In 1896 she studied in Dresden, financed by Nicole Leth. In 1902 she married theologian and author Hans Frederik Wandall and continued to support the family through teaching music. Prominent students included opera composer Peter Cornelius and pianist Ellen Gilberg. Working reduced the time Griebel-Wandall had for composition, but she wrote a total of 10

Teresa Carreño

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María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García (December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, soprano, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pianist and was often referred to as the “Valkyrie of the Piano”. Carreño was an early adopter of the works of one of her students, American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860–1908) and premiered several of his compositions across the globe. She also frequently performed the works of Norwegian composer and pianist Edvard Grieg (1843–1907). Carreño composed approximately 75 works for solo piano, voice and piano, choir and orchestra, and instrumental ensemble. Several composers dedicated their compositions to Carreño, including Amy Beach (Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor) and Edward MacDowell (Piano Concerto No. 2). Early life and education María Teresa Carreño García de Sena was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 22, 1853, to Manuel Antonio Carreño (1812–1874) and Clorinda García de Sena y Rodríguez del Toro (1816–1866). Her father was the son of (1773–1836) and came from a musical family. He gave her music lessons from an early age and ov

Teresa del Riego

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Teresa Clotilde del Riego, later Teresa Leadbitter (7 April 187623 January 1968) was an English violinist, pianist, singer and composer of Spanish ancestry. Biography Teresa Clotilde del Riego was born in Marylebone, central London to English mother Clara, from Devon, and Spanish father Miguel, a carpenter who had naturalised. She had a sister Agnes Manuela Teresa, a scoutmaster who founded the Women Signallers Territorial Corps, and a brother John Anthony, an actor under the stage name Philip Desborough. The family later moved to Cookham Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire. Del Riego began playing the piano aged five and wrote her first song at the age of 12. She studied piano, violin, singing and composition at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and the West Central College of Music in London with Sir Paolo Tosti and Marie Withrow, and in Paris. Del Riego was heavily involved in World War I charity concerts. She married her husband, Francis John Graham Leadbitter, in 1908; he died in action in 1917. They had one son. She was a member of the Society of Women Musicians and of the Cowdray Club in Cavendish Square. She also taught singing and accompanying. Her principal residence in later life

Théo Charlier

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Theophile Noel Charlier (17 July 1868 – 9 October 1944), more commonly known as Théo Charlier, was a Belgian trumpeter, composer, and teacher. He was notable for preferring the trumpet during a period when the cornet was more popular. Career Théo Charlier studied under Dieudonné Gérardy and Sylvain Dupuis at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. He played solo trumpet for the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and at La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium. On 17 April 1898, he performed Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach in Antwerp. This was the first performance of the piece on a modern piccolo trumpet. He was appointed as a trumpet teacher to the Liège Conservatory in 1901. He was the founder of the Schola Musicae institute for higher musical education. He frequently collaborated with Victor-Charles Mahillon to develop a sopranino trumpet in high G and a “Charlier model” B trumpet. Influence The Theo Charlier International Trumpet Solo Competition was held in 2005, 2015, and 2019 in Charlier’s home country of Belgium. Charlier wrote Solo de Concours in 1900, and it is still performed to this day. By far, his most famous work is 36 Études Transcendantes (Thirty-six Transcendental Etu

Theo Marzials

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Théophile-Jules-Henri “Theo” Marzials (20 December 1850 – 2 February 1920) was a British composer, singer and poet. Marzials was described in 1894 as a “poet and eccentric” by parodist Max Beerbohm, and, after writing and performing several popular songs, vanished into obscurity. His poetry is seen as an example of 19th-century aestheticism. Background Marzials’s father, Antoine-Theophile Marzials, was the pastor of the French Protestant Church of London and had been a clergyman before visiting London in 1839. While there he met Mary Ann Jackson (Marzials’ mother) and the couple married. Theo was the youngest of their five children. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School His brother, Frank Marzials, was a prolific author of poetry, essays, and biographies and an accountant general in the army; he was knighted in 1904. It also includes A Tragedy, an unusual poem that has often been called the worst ever written in the English language. However, Ford Madox Ford called the collection “by far the most exquisite … by any of the lesser Pre-Raphaelite poets”. Other poems by Marzials featured in The Yellow Book, an important literary periodical of the late 19th century. Gerard Manle

Théo Ysaÿe

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Théophile Ysaÿe (; 2 March 1865 – 24 March 1918) was a Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium. His brother was the violinist and conductor Eugène Ysaÿe. Biography Rather overshadowed throughout his life by the career of his elder brother Eugène, Théo Ysaÿe began amateur studies in music at the Liège Conservatory and, on Eugène’s advice, furthered his education in Berlin. In 1885, Ysaÿe returned to Paris, where he joined the Bande à Franck but also supported the growth of a new aesthetic movement represented by the impressionism of Claude Debussy. Ysaÿe helped promote the work of the new school of French musicians, in Brussels. In 1894, he and his brother found engagements with the La Libre Esthétique in Brussels, which offered the residents of the city the opportunity to experience a generous range of displays in both music and the plastic arts. Ysaÿe contributed his talents as a pianist and a répétiteur. Although Ysaÿe was an excellent pianist, his fragile health did not allow him to follow the hectic pace of his brother’s career and he instead became a professor at the Genève Conservatory of Music. In 1918, Théo Ysaÿe died in Nice, France, two days before Debussy

Theodor Albin Findeisen

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Theodor Albin Findeisen (October 1, 1881, in Zeitz – March 3, 1936, at his country house in Rasberg near Zeitz) was a German double bass player, composer and teacher. Life Little is known about Findeisen’s life and work. His 5 volumes of studies helped in the development of the bass technique. His works Schule Der Lehrer des Kontrabass-Spieles and other practice literature such as his 25 technische Studien are still in use. He wrote solo literature and chamber music for double bass, which, however, has largely been forgotten. Findeisen was the son of the businessman Theodor Findeisen and attended public school in Zeitz from 1888 to 1896. In Ronneburg he attended the music school until 1900 and then played in the Köthen city orchestra. In the following two years he received lessons from Hugo Keyl in Dresden and Franz Simandl in Vienna. He then did his military service from 1902 to 1904 with the music corps of the 96th Infantry Regiment in Gera. From 1904 to 1906 he worked with Oswald Schwabe in Leipzig, graduating with excellence. He then became solo bassist in Breslau, in 1907 he was second first double bass player in the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and in 1920 he was first do

Theodor Blumer

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Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931, he became the conductor of the Dresden Radio Orchestra and subsequently moved to Leipzig to head the Middle German Radio Orchestra there for eleven years. He spent the rest of his life in Berlin. These include a piano quintet, two violin sonatas, string trio (1928), a flute sonata, four woodwind quintets, a string quartet (in G minor, his opus 51), a comic opera Die Fünfuhrthee (The Five-o’Clock Tea) (produced in Berlin and Bremen in 1912) and a symphonic poem Erlösung. Some of his chamber music has been recorded on three CDs on the label Crystal Records. References External links *

Theodor Szántó

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Theodor Szántó, also seen as Tivadar Szántó (3 June 1877 7 January 1934) was a Hungarian Jewish He resided in Paris from 1905, Switzerland from 1914, and Budapest from 1921 until his death there in 1934. Szántó contributed substantially to the rewriting of the piano part of the third and final version of Frederick Delius’s Piano Concerto in C minor, and he introduced this version at a Prom Concert in London on 22 October 1907 under Henry Wood. For these services, Delius dedicated the Concerto to Szántó. This final version has become the standard version, but Delius’s original conception has also been recorded. Theodor Szántó was an early champion of the music of Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók. It was his playing of Bartók’s Romanian Dance in 1914 that introduced Arthur Hartmann to the music of that composer. For his part, however, Bartók had little respect for Szántó. He exhibited an interest in the music of Japan by writing at least three works using Japanese influences (an opera, an orchestral suite, and a piano suite). are recorded by the composer and virtuoso pianist Artur Cimirro for the CD label Acte Préalable Szanto was considered an important piano teacher. His students incl

Theodora Sturkow-Ryder

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Theodora Sturkow-Ryder (August 11, 1876 – August 3, 1958) was an American concert pianist, composer, music critic and piano teacher, based in Chicago. Early life Theodora Sturkow was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Chicago, the daughter of Ferdinand Louis Wilhelm Sturckow and Elizabeth Symington Sturckow. Her father was a baker and an amateur violinist who encouraged her musical interests. Her mother was a writer who used the pseudonym “Elizabeth Creighton”. Her sister was actress Elsie Esmond. Frederick Grant Gleason and Regina Watson were among her teachers and mentors. Career She was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1920, when one reviewer admired her as having “the strongest sort of rhythmic sense”, adding that “her search for beautiful quality and fineness of interpretation is constant, and she never allows for one moment either harshness or uncertainty to creep into her playing.” She was a music critic for the Pittsburgh Dispatch newspaper, toured as a concert pianist, and taught at the American Academy of Music in Chicago. She was a member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, the National League of American Pen Women, the Chicago Woman’s

Theodore Bendix

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Theodore Bendix or Theo. Bendix (July 25, 1862 – January 15, 1935) was an American composer, classical violinist, musical director, and opera conductor. He became a professional musician at the age of thirteen and was hired as a conductor for an opera company when he was sixteen. Before he was eighteen, he had written the music for the show, resulting in the hit song “My Sweetheart”. Bendix worked with numerous theaters and opera companies and was a musical director and composer with Florenz Ziegfeld, Henry Wilson Savage, Klaw and Erlanger. He was the musical director for several Broadway shows, including The Belle of New York, Ben-Hur, and Beauty and the Beast. He also established a music publishing firm, Theo Bendix Music Publishing Co. in New York City. In his time, Bendix was one of the best-known musical directors of popular music. Early life Bendix was born on July 25, 1863, in Detroit, Michigan. His mother was a cousin of the German composer Felix Mendelssohn and was an heir to his estate. When he was thirteen years old, Bendix played with his father’s orchestra at the Euclid Avenue Opera House. Bendix went on to compose many songs for the pianos and orchestras that were pop

Theodore Holland

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Theodore Samuel Holland, OBE (25 April 1878 – 29 October 1947), was a British composer and academic. Born in Wimbledon, Holland attended Westminster School and then the Royal College of Music, where his composition teacher was Frederick Corder. A further period of study followed at the Musikhochschule in Berlin under Joseph Joachim. War service (which earned him an OBE) interrupted his career in theatre music and afflicted him with shell-shock for the rest of his life. He was appointed Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at the Royal Academy of Music in 1927, a post he held until he died. His address in the 1930s was 10, Eldon Road, London W8. Among his students were the composer John Joubert, and also Iris du Pré, mother of cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Holland’s wife Isména, godmother to du Pré, bought the Davydov Cello in 1964 for $90,000 and presented it to her. Much younger than her husband, Isména survived him by nearly 60 years. She died in October 2004, aged 101. Composition Holland began as a composer of incidental music for the theatre. The orchestral Christmas Suite, based on music for a children’s play, Santa Claus (produced at the London Scala in 1912) remained popular

Thomas Bidgood

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Thomas Bidgood (7 October 1858 – 1 March 1925) was an English conductor, composer and arranger. Life Thomas Bidgood was born in Woolwich, Kent. His father was William John Bidgood, a master plumber, and his mother was Jane Bidgood, née Williams. His early musical training included learning the violin at the London Academy of Music, taught by Signor Erba, and singing in the church choir. He also learnt a number of wind instruments after going to concerts given by the band of the Royal Artillery. He played the E Tenor Horn (althorn) and E Bass in the band of the 9th Kent Artillery Volunteers. With his wife Emily, Bidgood had two children, but this marriage did not last. He set up home with Rosetta Butler (née Casselden), and they settled in West Ham under the surname of Barnard and had four sons. By 1911, they had moved to 162, Harringay Road, Tottenham, where they stayed until Bidgood’s death on 1 March 1925 at that same address. According to a coroner’s report written on 3 March 1925, Bidgood committed suicide by gas poisoning “while of unsound mind” and is buried in an unmarked grave in Tottenham Cemetery. He left an estate valued at £100, and his widow, Emily Louise, had the admi

Thomas Dunhill

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Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1 February 187713 March 1946) was a prolific English composer in many genres, though he is best known today for his light music and educational piano works. His compositions include much chamber music, a song cycle, The Wind Among the Reeds, and an operetta, Tantivy Towers, that had a successful London run in 1931. He was also a teacher, examiner and writer on musical subjects. Life and career Early years Dunhill was born in Hampstead, London, the fourth of five children of Henry Dunhill (1842–1901) and his wife Jane, née Styles (1843–1922). Henry Dunhill was a manufacturer of sacks, tarpaulin and ropes; Jane Dunhill ran a small music shop. Their eldest son, Alfred later founded a tobacco company that bears his name. Thomas was educated at the North London High School for Boys, and when the family moved to Kent, at Kent College, Canterbury. From 1899 to 1908 Dunhill was assistant music master at Eton. From 1905 he was also on the staff of the Royal College of Music as professor of harmony and counterpoint. It was used as the first song in the 1904 Yeats cycle The Wind Among the Reeds, which also includes Dunhill’s best known song, ‘The Cloths of Heaven’. T

Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips

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Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips (1884 – 10 July 1969) was a Nigerian organist, conductor, composer and teacher who has been described as the “father of Nigerian church music” Life Thomas Ekundayo Phillips was born in 1884. His father was Bishop Charles Phillips of Ondo. He attended the CMS Grammar School, Lagos, then went to the Government Training School for Dispensers, where he qualified as a chemist. He became an optician by profession. Phillips was encouraged to study music by the Archdeacon Nathaniel, his uncle. His uncle Johnson Phillips, an Anglican priest, gave him his first organ lessons. Solomon Moses Daniels, an organist at Saint Paul’s Church, Aroloya, gave him lessons in organ playing. He was assistant organist at Saint Paul’s Church, Lagos until 1914. Phillips attended Trinity College of Music in London from 1911 to 1914, where he studied organ, piano and violin. He was given the Fellowship of Trinity College of Music, London (FTCML) in organ playing, Phillips was the second Nigerian to obtain a baccalaureate degree in music. When he returned to Nigeria in 1914, Bishop Herbert Tugwell invited Phillips to become organist and master of the music at the Cathedral Church of

Thomas Laub

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Thomas Linnemann Laub (5 December 1852 – 4 February 1927) was a Danish organist and composer. He was associated with the 20th century revival of religious music in the country. Biography Thomas Laub was born on 5 December 1852. While he originally studied theology, he attended the Copenhagen Conservatory from 1873 to 1876 and was taught by music theorist Johann Christian Gebauer. He was an organist at Helligåndskirke in Copenhagen between 1884 and 1891, and became organist at Holmens Kirke in 1891. Laub would remain its organist for several decades. During his tenure, Laub set out to reform the Lutheran Church of Denmark’s hymn repertoire. He was opposed to the romanticized Danish hymns of the day and viewed medieval and Reformation singing as more proper. In particular, he viewed Gregorian chant as melodically superior, and chorales as the ideal form of devotional music. Laub also took an interest in Danish folk ballads, which at the time were available primarily as 19th-century copies, arranged in romantic style by contemporary Danish composers. Laub believed these rearrangements were overly ornamented and that they obscured some of the ballads’ origins in medieval music. He comp

Thomas O'Brien Butler

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Thomas O’Brien Butler (3 November 1861 – 7 May 1915; lost on the Lusitania), was an Irish composer who wrote the Irish-language opera Muirgheis (1903). Biography O’Brien Butler, as he was generally known, was born in Caherciveen, County Kerry, the youngest child of Pierce Butler (c.1804–1873), a shopkeeper in the village, and Ellen Webb (c.1818–1876). There is no source for his correct surname. Baker’s Dictionary indicates that his surname was Whitwell; when he registered at the Royal College of Music in London, his name was noted as Thomas Whitwell-Butler. He does not seem to have been directly related to another O’Brien Butler family from Ireland who lost three brothers in World War I. He does however claim heritage to Lady Margaret O’Brien in his collection Seven Original Irish Melodies dedicating the first song ‘Kincora; or the Lament for King Brian’ to “My Great Mother Lady Margaret O’Brien, daughter of Donough O’Brien, Earl of Thomond.” Before going to London he grew up in an environment steeped in traditional music. His musical education began in Italy, After around 1900 he mainly lived in Kilmashogue, in the mountains above Rathfarnham, Dublin, in a house he had called Muir

Thurlow Lieurance

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Thurlow Weed Lieurance (March 21, 1878 – October 9, 1963) was an American composer, known primarily for his song “By the Waters of Minnetonka”. He is frequently categorized with a number of his contemporaries, including Charles Wakefield Cadman, Arthur Nevin, Charles Sanford Skilton, Preston Ware Orem, and Arthur Farwell, as a member of the Indianist movement in American music. Life Lieurance was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, but his family relocated to Kansas when he was very young. Little is recorded about his early education; it is known that his father encouraged him to be a pharmacist, but that he preferred instead to follow a career in music. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish–American War he enlisted as a musician. With the cessation of hostilities, he moved to Ohio and enrolled in the College of Music of Cincinnati, studying there until his savings from military service ran out. He was able to continue studying with Herman Bellstedt, a cornetist and bandmaster under John Philip Sousa. During his time at the Cincinnati College of Music, he studied theory, orchestration, harmony and arranging. In 1900 he sang with the chorus of Castle Square Garden Opera Company to learn of opera an

Tivadar Nachéz

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Tivadar Nachéz (1 May 185929 May 1930) was a Hungarian violinist and composer for violin who had an international career, but made his home in London during his career. Tivadar Nachéz (he himself signed with Nachèz) was born in Budapest, where he studied under Sabathiel, the leader of the orchestra of the Budapest Opera. Franz Liszt heard him and gave his approval. Then he studied under Joseph Joachim in Berlin, and afterwards with Hubert Léonard in Paris. He performed at the foundation of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. He made a debut in Hamburg in 1881. His first appearance in the United Kingdom was at the Crystal Palace on 9 April 1881, and after that he gave continuous concerts and made tours in England and elsewhere. He performed twice at a private royal smoking concert held at the Queen’s Hall before its official opening in 1893. He performed his own 2nd Violin Concerto, op. 36 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on 17 April 1907, and repeated it with the New Symphony Orchestra under Landon Ronald on 27 January 1910. George Bernard Shaw, writing as an arts critic under the pseudonym Corno di Bassetto, saw him at Her Majesty’s Theatre in September 1889: ‘he plays some easy aff

Tobias Matthay

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Tobias Augustus Matthay (19 February 185815 December 1945) was an English pianist, teacher, and composer. Biography Matthay was born in Clapham, Surrey, in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and eventually became naturalised British subjects. He entered London’s Royal Academy of Music in 1871 and eight months later he received the first scholarship given to honour the knighthood of its principal, Sir William Sterndale Bennett. At the academy, Matthay studied composition under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and Arthur Sullivan, and piano with William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. He served as a sub-professor there from 1876 to 1880, and became an assistant professor of pianoforte in 1880, before being promoted to professor in 1884. With Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen, he co-founded the Society of British Composers in 1905. Matthay remained at the RAM until 1925, when he was forced to resign because McEwen—his former student who was then the academy’s Principal—publicly attacked his teaching. In 1903, after over a decade of observation, analysis, and experimentation, he published The Act of Touch, an encyclopedic volume that influenced piano pedagogy throug

Tom Lemonier

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Tom Lemonier (March 29, 1870 — March 14, 1945) was an actor and composer of popular music during the ragtime era, particularly active in Black Vaudeville. Some of his work was published by the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company. Early Life Thomas Lemonier was born on March 29th, 1869 in Manhattan, New York to parents William and Sarah. Lemonier has one brother, William. Lemonier’s grandfather, Augustus, was enslaved in Cuba before moving to New York City and falling in love with a woman. Augustus owned a tobacco shop in Hester Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood. Lemonier first got into music by playing the piano as a boy, but was well known in the city due to his harmonica skill. Career Numerous recordings of his songs were made including on Victor Records and Columbia Records. In 1909 he joined the staff of music publisher Rose & Snyder. Lemonier became one of the first African-American actors to perform in a Caucasian play when in 1910 he was hired to play a steward in William A. Brady’s production of Over Night. Previously these characters had been performed in blackface. In addition to the original production, he was part of a national tour of this show. In 1915 Le

Tomás Bretón

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Tomás Bretón y Hernández (29 December 1850 – 2 December 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer. Biography Tomás Bretón was born in Salamanca. He completed his musical studies at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown, where he earned his living playing the violin in small provincial orchestras, theaters and churches. At age 16, he moved to Madrid, where he played the violin in orchestras in zarzuela theatres. He also began his studies of the violin and piano at the Royal Conservatory under Emilio Arrieta. In 1872, Bretón received the first prize for composition at the Conservatory, together with Ruperto Chapi. After having worked in small theaters for several years, in 1882 he received a grant from the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando which enabled him to study in Rome, Milan, Vienna and Paris between 1881 and 1884. There, he found time to work on more ambitious works, such the oratorio El Apocalipsis and the opera Los amantes de Teruel. The premiere of this last work at the Teatro Real de Madrid cemented his name as one of the major composers of Spanish opera. Briton was also very active as a conductor, first in the Unión Artistical Musical (1878–81), which he founded, an

Tor Aulin

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Tor Aulin (10 September 1866 – 1 March 1914) was a Swedish violinist and a conductor and a composer. Biography Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1877-1883) under and then in the Conservatory of Berlin (1884-1886) with Émile Sauret and Philipp Scharwenka. From 1889 to 1892 Aulin served as concertmaster of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He went on to conduct the principal symphony orchestras of Stockholm and Gothenburg. In 1887 he formed the Aulin Quartet, the first full-time professional quartet in Sweden. It gained an excellent reputation. It disbanded in 1912. Along with Wilhelm Stenhammar, Aulin spearheaded a revival in interest in the work of Franz Berwald, and as soloist he premiered some of Stenhammar’s works for violin and orchestra. Aulin composed a number of orchestral and chamber music works, including a violin sonata, three violin concertos, an orchestral suite, and many small pieces for the violin. His sister, Laura Valborg Aulin, was a pianist and composer whose output included two string quartets, in F major and E minor, among other works. List of compositions With opus number *Violin Concerto Nº. 2, in A minor, Opus 11 (exists in t

Tsvetan Radoslavov

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Tsvetan Radoslavov Hadzhidenkov (; 1863–1931) was a Bulgarian educator, psychologist, public figure and the author of the song Gorda Stara Planina, which later became the current national anthem of Bulgaria, “Mila Rodino”. Biography Radoslavov was born in Svishtov in 1863. He came from families connected with the Bulgarian National Revival; his mother was related to the Pavlovich family, and he grew up in the household of Tsvyatko Radoslavov, whose surname he later used. He studied in Bulgaria before continuing his education abroad, including in Vienna and Leipzig. In 1885, while travelling back to Bulgaria to volunteer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War, Radoslavov wrote the song Gorda Stara Planina (“Proud Old Mountain”). Bulgarian National Radio states that he composed it spontaneously in 1885 aboard the Austrian ship Maria Theresia, while travelling from Vienna to Bulgaria to take part in the war. In 2004, a new digital recording of Mila Rodino was made at Bulgaria Hall in Sofia. The recording featured the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choral Chapel “Svetoslav Obretenov” and soloists Raina Kabaivanska, Nikola Ghiuselev, Roberta and Orlin Goranov, conducted by Nayden Todorov. The ar

Ture Rangström

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Anders Johan Ture Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who, in the first decade of the 20th century, introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing, Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor. Biography Rangström was born in Stockholm, where in his late teens he started to write songs. His music teacher suggested that he should “vary the harmonies a bit more, make it a bit wilder!” He followed this advice and soon gained the nickname among his colleagues of “Sturm-und-Drangström”. He travelled to Berlin where he studied under Hans Pfitzner for a while in 1905–6, and also studied singing with the Wagnerian Julius Hey, with whom he later went to Munich for further studies. He founded the Swedish Society of Composers in 1918, and he was employed to promote the works of the Royal Swedish Opera from 1931 to 1936. After this he worked freelance and spent the summers on the island of Törnsholmen which he had been given by the people of Sweden who raised the money to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Ett midsommarstycke (A midsummer piece) and En höstsång (An autumn song). Following the success of these poe

Ubaldo Pacchierotti

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Ubaldo Pacchierotti (1875/1876 – 21 April 1916) was an Italian composer who wrote several operas that were produced or published between 1899 and 1920. Pacchierotti’s second work, L’albatro: leggenda nordica, for at least one major reviewer established Pacchierotti as a young new composer of promise, although the work itself initially did not see many performances. L’albatro premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan in November 1905. In November 1907, extracts of the work were played as a prelude to a performance of Cavalleria Rusticana in Turin. The reviewer for La Stampa commented favorably on both the Milan premiere of the entire opera, and the extracts performed in Turin, stating that the pieces were: :“all notable for their elegance, beauty of form, and nobility of subject; we are reconfirmed in the hope of finding in Pacchierotti – who is young – the sort of refined, clever, and popular composer in the field of home-grown lyric opera of which young valiants we are in such need” (“tutte notevolie per eleganza, leggiadria di forme e nobilita’ de contenuto, ci siamo riconfermati nella speranza di ritrovare nel Pacchierotti – chi e’ giovane d’anni – il musicista colto e genial

Ulderico Marcelli

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Ulderico Marcelli, also known as Rico Marcelli (October 3, 1882 – August 17, 1962), was a 20th-century Italian composer who became known in the United States for writing operas and musical accompaniment for dramatic performances, and for his skill as an orchestra conductor. Called “Rico” by his friends, Marcelli was born in Rome, then was raised in Chile and educated at the conservatory in Santiago, the capital. Marcelli went to Ecuador in 1900 to teach at the conservatory in Quito, but was disliked by his students, many of whom transferred to study with conservatory Director Domenico Brescia. Marcelli married a woman named Clementina (1879–1956); the couple had two daughters, Aida and Gloria Emma, the second born in 1906. On January 26, 1910, Marcelli and his family, accompanied by his sister Julia Marcelli, arrived in San Francisco. By 1913, Marcelli was a member of the French horn section at the San Francisco Symphony as well as concert master for “Demetrio’s Venetian Orchestra of Soloists”, a well-regarded “cafe orchestra.” Grauman used Marcelli in his various Los Angeles, California, theaters until the advent of sound in the movies in the late 1920s removed a great number of m

Umberto Giordano

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Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 186712 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chenier (1896). He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, Marina, was written for a competition promoted by the music publishers Casa Sonzogno for the best one-act opera, remembered today because it marked the beginning of Italian verismo. The winner was Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. Giordano, the youngest contestant, was placed sixth among seventy-three entries with his Marina, a work which generated enough interest for Sonzogno to commission the staging of an opera based on it in the 1891–92 season. The result was Mala vita, a gritty verismo opera about a labourer who vows to reform a prostitute if he is cured of his tuberculosis. This work caused something of a scandal when performed at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, in February 1892. It played successfully in Vienna, Prague and Berlin and was re-written as Il Voto a few years later, in an attempt to raise interest in the work again. Giordano tried a more romantic topic with his next opera, Reg

Una Mabel Bourne

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Una Mabel Bourne (23 October 1882 – 15 November 1974) was an Australian pianist and composer. Early life Una Mabel Bourne was born at Mudgee, New South Wales, the daughter of James George Bourne and Margaret Webber Bourne. Her father was a shopkeeper. She was raised in Melbourne. Una Bourne’s musical abilities were evident early in life; she performed on piano in professional venues before her teens. She studied with Benno Scherek in Australia, and in several European cities as a young woman. Career “Miss Bourne has an excellent technique and plays with refinement and distinction,” an English critic wrote of a performance at London’s Bechstein Hall in 1906. Bourne joined Nellie Melba’s touring entourage in Australia in 1907, 1909, and 1912, both as an accompanist and performing solo. In 1915 she began making recordings with the English Gramophone Company. She also made player-piano rolls in the United States, and gave performances for women’s clubs and radio audiences. During World War II she was based in Melbourne again, where she performed and opened a conservatory. Personal life Una Mabel Bourne lived for many years with her friend and colleague, soprano Mona McCaughey, who died

Václav Suk

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Václav Suk (16 November 186112 January 1933) was an Austrian-born violinist, conductor and composer who operated in the Russian Empire. He was also known as Váša Suk, Vyacheslav Suk, Vyacheslav Ivanovich (Вячеслав Иванович Сук) and Vjačeslav Ivanovič Suk. Biography Suk was born in Kladno, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He is said to have been related to the composer Joseph Suk. From 1873 to 1879 Suk studied violin at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Antonín Bennewitz. Concurrently he studied also counterpoint with Josef Krejčí, and, privately, composition with Zdeněk Fibich. In 1880 he went to Warsaw as a violinist in the Warsaw Philharmonic, but a short while later he was already engaged as a concert master in the Imperial Orchestra of Kiev (from 1880 to 1882). In 1885 his career as an opera conductor began with the Philharmonic Society in Moscow, where from 1882 he had served as a violinist with the Bolshoi orchestra, but he proved his abilities as kapellmeister of the opera in Kharkiv (1885–1886). Tchaikovsky recommended him to Saint Petersburg, but Suk went to Taganrog instead, where he began to also conduct symphonic works. His later employment with a private opera orchestra i

Václav Vačkář

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Václav Vačkář (12 August 1881 – 4 February 1954) was a Czech composer and conductor of the late romantic era. He is well known for his marches, especially for his march “Šohaj”. Vačkář is also a very prolific composer with over 300 original pieces of music. Biography Vačkář received military training in Przemyśl, Poland, from 1895 to 1898 during which he began learning about music through a military program. After his time in Poland Váckář began to play and conduct in various local orchestras including the Czech Philharmonic. In 1952 he wrote the book Instrumentace symfonického orchestru a hudby dechové (“Instrumentation for the Symphony Orchestra and Wind Music”) with his aforementioned son Dalibor C. Vačkář which is still taught in Czech conservatories. Influences Vaćkář’s predecessor Bedřich Smetana innovated the Czech nationalistic style. A style that embodied the desire many Czechs felt to secede from the Austrian Empire and was also adopted by many Czech composers — including Vaćkář. Another significant influence on Vačkář was Antonín Dvořák who was also a champion of Czech nationalism. Dvořak composed a series of Bohemian dances called the Slavonic Dances which impart inspir

Valborg Aulin

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Laura Valborg Aulin (9 January 1860 – 13 March 1928) was a Swedish pianist and composer. Aulin’s String Quartet in E minor, Op. 17 and String Quartet in F minor are the most important Swedish music compositions in that genre from the 1880s. Her mother, Edla Aulin had hoped for a career as a singer, but bad health had stopped her career. Aulin’s father was a classics scholar, holding a doctorate in Greek, on the poet Callimachus. He also held a position at a Stockholm secondary school, where he taught classical languages. As a teacher, she supplemented her income by teaching piano, counterpoint, composition and harmony. Mixed choir a cappella * Three songs for mixed choir a cappella opus 5 * Two choirs a cappella for mixed voices opus 24 Mixed choir and instruments * Christmas song for mixed choir and organ accompaniment opus 23 Mixed choir and orchestra * Pie Jesu Domine, Missa sollemnis opus 13 * Veni sanctu spiritus sic , hymn (Veni sancte spiritus) opus 32 Mixed choir with solo voice(s) and orchestra * Herr Olof (‘På ängen under det mörka fjället’, Carl David af Wirsén), ballad for tenor solo, choir and orchestra op. 3, 1880 * Procul este (‘Gå stum, ja stum’, Carl David af Wirsé

Vasily Kalinnikov

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Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (; 13 January 1866 – 11 January 1901 ) was a Russian composer. His body of work consists of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works, and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particularly the First, were frequently performed in the early 20th century. Kalinnikov’s musical style was inspired by composers like Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, and is notable for its expressive melodies and lush orchestration. His younger brother Viktor Kalinnikov (1870–1927) was also a composer, mainly of choral music. Biography Kalinnikov was a police official’s son. He studied at the seminary at Oryol, becoming director of the choir there at fourteen. Later he went to the Moscow Conservatory but could not afford the tuition fees. On a scholarship, he went to the Moscow Philharmonic Society School, where he received bassoon and composition lessons from Alexander Ilyinsky. He played bassoon, timpani and violin in theater orchestras and supplemented his income working as a music copyist. In 1892, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky recommended Kalinnikov for the position of main conductor of the Maly Theatre, and later that s

Vasily Zolotarev

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Vasily Andreyevich Zolotarev, also romanized as Zolotaryov (; February 24, 1872 in Taganrog – May 25, 1964 in Moscow), was a Russian (Soviet) composer and music teacher of Greek ancestry. Biography Vasily Zolotarev was born to a Greek family named Kuyumzhi (Куюмжи) or Kouyoumtzis in the city of Taganrog in 1872. The family name was later changed to the more Russian Zolotarev. He studied music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under direction of Mily Balakirev (1893–1898) in the class of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1898–1900), graduating in 1900. Zolotarev lectured at Moscow Conservatory (1909–1918), at the Belarus State Academy of Music (Белорусская государственная консерватория им. А. В. Луначарского) in 1933–1941, and other conservatories. Among his students in Minsk was Mieczysław Weinberg. Zolotaryov was a prolific composer and left behind a large body of works: three operas, ballets, seven symphonies (1902-1962), three concerti, cantatas, romances, six string quartets, and other works. Among his stage works are: The Decembrists, revised as Kondraty Ryleyev, libretto by Yasinovsky,1957 (presented in a concert performance on 29.08.1857, Moscow), Khvestko Andyber, 1928 (written d

Vassily Brandt

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Karl Wilhelm (Vasily Georgievich) Brandt (Willy Brandt) (1869 – 2 February 1923) was a German-Russian trumpeter, pedagogue, and composer. He is the founder of the Russian trumpet school. Life Karl Wilhelm Brandt was born and educated in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, now part of Germany. Between 1887 and 1890, he worked alternatively in the spa orchestra in Bad Oeynhausen and in Helsinki. He was active in the Helsinki Philharmonic Society, now the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, under Robert Kajanus. In 1890, he changed his name to Vassily Georgyevich and moved to Moscow, Russia. The opening of the Saratov Conservatory in September 1912 drew Vassily Brandt to Saratov for the remainder of his life. He spoke Russian quite poorly, often relying on demonstration for musical instruction. He died on 2 February 1923, purportedly as the result of a vaccination. Career Vassily Brandt became principal trumpet of the Bolshoi Theatre in 1890 and became first cornet in 1903. He succeeded Theodor Richter (1826–1901) as the second ever trumpet professor of the Moscow Conservatory in 1900, and also taught band orchestration there. In Moscow, he was part of the Russian Musical Society and toured a

Verdi Karns

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Verdi Karns (April 30, 1882 – April 5, 1925), after 1908 Verdi Karns Sturgis, was an American composer of popular tunes. Early life Verdi Karns was born in Bluffton, Indiana, the daughter of Lewis Henry Karns and Olive Covert Karns. She was named for the composer Giuseppe Verdi. Her father was a marble cutter. Her mother died in 1884, when Verdi Karns was a small child. She was raised by an aunt and uncle after her father remarried and moved to Kansas. Karns graduated from Bluffton High School in 1901. She attended a music conservatory in Indianapolis; she played piano and violin. Career Karns began publishing her own compositions while she was still in high school. Works by Karns included “Giuseppe March” (1898), “Kentucky Rag” (1898), “Bluffton Carnival Rag” (1899), “Ragamuffin” (1899), “Blufftonian Waltzes” (1900), and “Yo’ Got to Hab a License or Yo’ Can’t Get In” (1905, lyrics by Laverne Brown). Personal life Verdi Karns married her neighbor, lawyer Raymond R. Sturgis, in 1908. They had a daughter Olive Diana Sturgis, born in 1912. The couple moved to the American Southwest for health reasons, settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and then in Phoenix, Arizona. Verdi Karns Sturg

Victor Bendix

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Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen – January 1926) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist, who came from a Jewish family. His teachers included Niels Gade. He studied at the conservatory of music at Copenhagen, then newly founded, from 1867 to 1869. He studied piano under August Winding and composition under Niels W. Gade. He visited Germany and other countries abroad; his compositions show the influence of modern German romanticism. He was also a friend of Carl Nielsen, who dedicated his Symphonic Suite for piano (1894) to Bendix. In 1879, he married the writer and philanthropist Baroness Rigmor Stampe. Selected works *Symphonies **Symphony no. 1, op. 16, “Fjældstigning” in C major (1882) *Concertante works **Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 17 (1884) *Orchestral works **Dance suite in A, op. 29 (1903) **Piano Sonata in G minor, op. 26 (published 1901) **Intermezzo for piano (published 1916) Further reading * Cornelius, Jens: Victor Bendix – nøglefigur og paria i dansk musikliv, Rambam (2020) * Salmonsen, Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon (Kjøbenhavn, Brødrene Salmonsen (J. Salmonsen)) * C. F. Bricka, Dansk Biografisk Lexikon pp 47, 48 Notes References *Sm

Victor Herbert

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Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the Tin Pan Alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music. In the early 1880s, Herbert began a career as a cellist in Vienna and Stuttgart, during which he began to compose orchestral music. Herbert and his opera singer wife, Therese Förster, moved to the U.S. in 1886 when both were engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. In the U.S., Herbert continued his performing career, while also teaching at t

Victor Roger

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Victor Roger (22 July 1853 – 2 December 1903) was a French composer. He is best known for his operettas, particularly the lighter kind known as the “vaudeville-opérette”. His thirty theatre works, composed between 1880 and 1902, also include pantomimes and ballets. His best-known piece, Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette, has remained in the repertory of French companies. Biography Roger was born in Montpellier, in the south of France, the son of a musician. After studying at the École Niedermeyer he began his career composing songs and operettas for the Eldorado music hall. In 1886, he had a success with Joséphine vendue par ses soeurs, a parody of Méhul’s biblical opera, Joseph et ses frères. He followed this with Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette (1892), an operetta on a military theme, in the tradition of the earlier operetta composer Hervé. It ran initially for 236 performances and was revived in 1900, 1901, 1903, 1908, 1914, 1920, 1921 and 1925, Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette was by far Roger’s greatest success, and so it has tended to eclipse his other works, some of which enjoyed considerable popularity initially. L’auberge du Tohu-Bohu, which followed in 1897, was anothe

Victor von Herzfeld

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Victor Emmerich Ritter von Herzfeld (October 8, 1856 – February 19, 1919) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. Born in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Herzfeld studied law at the University of Vienna and music at the Music Academy of Vienna where he won first prize for both composition and violin playing. In 1884, he was awarded the Beethoven Prize of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of the Friends of Music). He studied in Berlin with Eduard Grell and in 1886 went to Budapest as professor in the Music Academy. He was second violin in the original Budapest Quartet established by David Popper and Jenő Hubay. Ernst von Dohnányi dedicated his Sonata in C minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 21 (1912) to Herzfeld. While serving as the music critic of the Neue Pester Journal, he wrote a negative review of his friend and colleague Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. He is the author of a 1915 article on Robert Volkmann. He died in Budapest and was buried there at the Kerepesi Cemetery. Notes References External links * *

Viggo Bielefeldt

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Viggo Emil Bielefeldt (16 October 1851 – 17 December 1909) was a Danish composer, singer, cantor and music teacher. His father Heinrich Hellmuth Bielefeldt was an immigrant from Mecklenburg, Germany. Life and career Bielefeldt was educated at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music from 1867 to 1869 in among other things, singing and piano with Carl Helsted and August Winding respectively as teachers. He debuted as a romance singer on 2 March 1872 and was thereafter a well-known and valued singer in this field In addition, he was a singing teacher at Horneman’s music school and from 1883 at the Conservatory of Music. From 1880 he was cantor at Trinitatis Kirke and from 1887 at Holmens Kirke. For a time, shortly after Gade’s death, he was also organist at the same church. In 1900 he was appointed titular professor. In 1892 he became a Knight of the Dannebrog and in 1905 a Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn. He is buried at Hellerup Kirkegård, with a gravestone made by J. Schannongs Granit-Industri. Works *A Honeymoon (mixed choir) *David’s 8th Psalme (male choir, tenor solo and brass instruments – 1883) *Singing exercises (together with Emil Horneman) *Melodies for the Book of Psalms for C

Viktor Kalinnikov

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Viktor Sergeevich Kalinnikov, also Victor (; 2 March 1870 – 23 February 1927), was a Soviet choral composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was the younger brother of the better-known symphonic composer Vasily Kalinnikov (1866–1901). He studied at the seminary in Oryol, then at the Moscow Philharmonic School, taking oboe and music theory. He played in various theatre orchestras, and taught singing at schools in Moscow. From 1899 to 1901 he headed the orchestra of the Moscow Art Theatre. Victor attended then taught at the Moscow Synodal School of Russian Orthodox Church music, where he composed 24 sacred choral settings for the Russian Orthodox All-Night Vigil and Divine Liturgy. From 1922 to 1926 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. His compositions were popular and well received by critics. He died in Saltykovka, a suburb of Balashikha near Moscow. Selected works References External links *

Viktor Widqvist

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Viktor Widkvist (1881–1952) was a Swedish military musician and composer. Career He was born Viktor Magnus Widkvist in Stockholm in the Jakob och Johannes parish on 27 December 1881. Viktor was the son of Johan Viktor Widkvist, a piano maker and tuner for Bergquist & Nilssons Pianofabrik and mother Albertina Dalqvist. As a child he learned to play the violin and the tuba. In 1898 at the age of seventeen Viktor began his military career by enlisting in the Svea Engineer Battalion (Ing 1) band in Stockholm performing on the tuba and flute under music director Adolf Johnsson. He began his study at the Stockholms Musikkonservatorium in 1901 graduating in 1908. His professors included Magnus Ahlbergm (violin) and Ernst Henrik Ellberg (counterpoint). He also studied violin with Sven Kjellström after the violinist’s return to Sweden from Paris in 1909. He was promoted to music sergeant in 1903. Between 1910-1918 while serving in military bands he was also concertmaster in several Stockholm orchestras. He served as bandmaster of the Boden Engineer Regiment (Ing 3) (Third Engineer Regiment) band in Boden from 1918 and the Göta Engineer Regiment (Ing 2) (Second Engineer Regiment) in Karlsbor

Vincent d'Indy

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Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d’Indy (; 27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. His students included Albéric Magnard, Albert Roussel, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Yvonne Rokseth, and Erik Satie, as well as Cole Porter. D’Indy studied under composer César Franck, and was strongly influenced by Franck’s admiration for German music. At a time when nationalist feelings were high in both countries (circa the Franco-Prussian War of 1871), this brought Franck into conflict with other musicians who wished to separate French music from German influence. Life Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d’Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. His great-grandfather was the politician . He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and Louis Diémer. From the age of 14 d’Indy studied harmony with Albert Lavignac. When he was 16 an uncle introduced him to Berlioz’s treatise on orchestration, which inspired him

Vincent Frank Safranek

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Vincent Frank “V.F.” Safranek (March 24, 1867 – September 7, 1955) was a Czech American musician. Safranek emigrated to the United States at an early age. His father John was Chief Musician in the 34th Infantry in 1899. Safranek studied at the Conservatory of Music in Prague. After graduation he applied for a bandmaster position and was selected for training and sent to the 25th Infantry band at Fort Missoula, Montana. Safranek served in the Spanish American War and World War I. He developed ideas on the concept of the military band and added such instruments as alto and bass clarinets, oboes, French horns and flugelhorns to his band. Previously, many military band arrangements had been designed for brass bands with extra reed parts added in without regard for the ensemble. As a result of his work combining and balancing the instrumentation of the military band, Safranek became the chief band arranger for the Carl Fischer publishing house. He made contributions to the band repertoires including marches, overtures and novelty numbers. He composed two popular suites for band, the Atlantis (1913) and Don Quixote (1914) suites. In 1916 he published a book on military music, Complete In

Vincent O'Brien (composer)

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Vincent O’Brien (9 May 1871 – 21 June 1948) was an Irish organist, music teacher and composer. O’Brien was an important figure in early 20th-century Irish music. For some, he is mainly known as the first teacher of singers such as John McCormack, Margaret Burke-Sheridan and the writer James Joyce. Life O’Brien was born in Dublin, the eldest child of Roman Catholic church musician Richard Vincent O’Brien. In 1885, he first appeared in a public piano recital, and later in the year became the organist of Rathmines parish church (until 1888). He held another organist’s position at the Dublin Carmelite church (1897–99), but was chiefly known as organist and choir director of Dublin’s largest Roman Catholic Church, St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, between 1903 and 1946. He was the founder (in 1898) and first director of the Palestrina Choir, originally all-male, which is still active, and which was financed for many years by Edward Martyn. O’Brien studied with Robert Prescott Stewart at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he was the first winner of the Coulson Scholarship (1888–90) and frequently performed as both tenor singer, piano accompanist, and organist in many public concerts during t

Vincent Scotto

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Vincent Scotto (21 April 1874 – 15 November 1952) was a French composer. Biography Early life Vincent Scotto was born on 21 April 1874 in Marseille to Pasquale Scotto d’Aniello and Antonia Intartaglia, from the island of Procida, north of the Gulf of Naples. Career He started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris. Over the course of a lifetime, he wrote 4,000 songs as well as 60 operettas. He was friends with Marcel Pagnol and wrote music for his films. Over time, he wrote music for about fifty films in the 1940s and 1950s, and he sometimes appeared in them as an actor. In 1973, a biographical TV film was broadcast, La Vie rêvée de Vincent Scotto. Death He died on 15 November 1952 in Paris. Legacy *A bust of Vincent Scotto by sculptor André Arbus (1903-1969) can be found facing the Vieux Port in Place aux Huiles, Marseille. *The Square Vincent Scotto in Aix-en-Provence is named for him. Selected filmography * The Sweetness of Loving (1930) * The Adventurer of Tunis (1931) * Kiss Me (1932) * To the Polls, Citizens (1932) * Clochard (1932) * Bach the Millionaire (1933) * The Agony of the Eagles (1933) * Three Sailors (1934) * In the Land of the Sun (1934) * Merluss

Vincenza Garelli della Morea

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Vincenza Garelli della Morea née Valeggio (Countess de Cardenas; 1859 – after 1924) was an Italian pianist and composer. She also used the pseudonym Centa della Morea. She played in a salon with notable composers such as Arrigo Boito, Franco Faccio and Gaetano Coronaro. Her compositions include three pantomimes, operettas, orchestral works and a string quartet, as well as songs and piano pieces. An Ave Maria written by Della Morea at a young age was performed at the Carignano Theatre in Turin, and then again later in Catania and Rome in 1888. Biography Vincenza Garelli della Morea was born in Valeggio, in the province of Pavia, in 1859. She married the Count de Cardenas and lived in Milan. Della Morea wrote an Ave Maria for four voices and an orchestra when she was very young, which was performed at the Carignano Theatre in Turin, and then again later in Catania and Rome in 1888. In Rome she became acquainted with writers Gabriele D’Annunzio and Matilde Serao. Her songs were performed at other salons. Works Della Morea composed three pantomimes, an opera, Le nozze di Leporello, operettas, orchestral works, a string quartet and a number of songs and piano pieces. Selected compositio

Vítězslav Novák

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Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important example of Czech modernism. He worked towards a strong Czech identity in culture after the country became independent in 1918. His compositions include operas and orchestral works. Biography Early years Novák (baptized Viktor Novák) was born in Kamenice nad Lipou, a small town in Southern Bohemia. In 1872 the family moved to Počátky, where Novák first studied the violin with Antonín Šilhan and the piano with Marie Krejčová. After the death of his father in 1882, the family moved to Jindřichův Hradec, where Novák continued his studies at grammar school . An elementary school in the town is named after Novák today. In his late teens, he moved to Prague to study at the Prague Conservatory, changing his name to Vítězslav to identify more closely with his Czech identity, as many of those of his generation had already done. At the conservatory, he studied piano and attended Antonín Dvořák’s masterclasses in composition where his fellow students included Jose

Vittorio Gnecchi

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Vittorio Gnecchi (17 July 1876 – 5 February 1954) was an Italian composer. Life Vittorio Gnecchi Ruscone was the son of a wealthy industrialist. Thanks to his solid financial position, he was able to take private lessons, and had among his teachers Michele Saladino (who was also the teacher of Pietro Mascagni and Victor de Sabata), Tullio Serafin, Gaetano Coronaro and Carlo Gatti. As soon as he was nineteen years old, he achieved success with the pastoral action Virtù d’amore, which allowed him to publish his work with the prestigious publisher Ricordi. The next work was the opera Cassandra, whose libretto, taken from Oresteia by Aeschylus, was first set by Gnecchi himself, then entrusted to the librettist Luigi Illica. Cassandra was completed in 1903 and premiered on 5 December 1905 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the direction of Arturo Toscanini with Solomiya Krushelnytska and Giuseppe Borgatti. Shortly after the first performance of Elektra by Richard Strauss (25 January 1909), an article appeared in Italy by musicologist Giovanni Tebaldini, entitled “Telepatia Musicale”. In this article, Cassandra and Elektra were compared, and the author concluded that Strauss must ha

Vittorio Monti

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Vittorio Monti (Naples, Italy, 6 January 1868 Naples, 20 June 1922) was an Italian composer, violinist, mandolinist and conductor. His most famous work is his Csárdás, written around 1904. Life and career Monti was born in Naples, where he studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella. Around 1900 he received an assignment as the conductor for the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris, where he wrote several ballets and operettas, for example, Noël de Pierrot. He also wrote a method for mandolin Petite Méthode pour Mandoline, 98049, in which he included some of his works, Perle Brillante, Dans Una Gondola, and Au Petit Jour. There were also works by F. Paolo Tosti. In Paris, Monti was a significant figure in the Mandolin community, he created the La Stella, a group based around mandolin and guitar works and compositions. This group (under the name of “V. Monti”) written several pieces and techniques for mandolin students, and started performances in 1908 to 1910. In 1910, Monti created a music journal called Le Mediator, the journal gave news and instructional guidance to help new mandolin and guitar players. However, this journal dissolved in 1913. He died in

Vladimir Rebikov

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Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (, ); born May 31 OS May 19 1866 - Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia — died October 1, 1920 - Yalta, Crimea) was a late romantic 20th-century Russian composer and pianist. Biography Born into a family of distant Tatar ancestry, Rebikov began studying the piano with his mother. His sisters also were pianists. He graduated from the Moscow University faculty of philology. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Klenovsky, a pupil of Tchaikovsky, and then for three years in Berlin and Vienna with K. Mayrberger (music theory), O. Jasch (instrumentation), and T. Müller (piano). Rebikov taught and also held successful concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where he met Claude Debussy, Oskar Nedbal, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and others. Rebikov settled in Yalta in 1909. Works and style Early works suggest the influence of Peter Tchaikovsky and Grieg. and Divine Art Recordings, and are widely accessible on Spotify, bringing his music to new audiences. In academic circles, Dr. Ivan Hurd’s 2023 presentation at the MTNA National Conference examined Rebikov’s evol

Vladimir Sokalsky

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Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky (; , 1863 - 1919) was a composer, musical critic, and lawyer. Biography Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky was born in the family of Ivan Petrovich Sokalsky, a Russian writer. He was born on 24 April 1863 at Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. He graduated from Kharkiv musical school, a branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Community, where studied music from Peter Petrovich Sokalsky, and compositions from Iwan Knorr. He also graduated from Kharkiv University (the faculty of law). He was a conductor of an orchestra in opera-enterprise of Vasily Nikolaevich Andreev-Burlak. Since 1882 contributed as a musical reviewer of the “South country” newspaper, under a pseudonym Don-Diez. At meetings of the Kharkov branch of Russian musical society its products were executed, and the opera “Repka” was performed in Poltave, Smolensk, Tiflis and Kharkov. In 1902 he was a prosecutor at the Ust-Medveditsa district court. In the autumn of 1911, he became the Chairman of the Vologda district Court. In 1918 in Vologda, he performed several lectures and concerts devoted to creativity of Beethoven and Grieg with his daughter Lydia, and son-in-law Ilya Ginetsinsky. In 1919, he

W. H. Anderson

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William Henry Anderson (21 April 1882 – 12 April 1955) was a composer, choir director, tenor, and voice teacher of English birth. He produced a large amount of vocal music, including more than 150 songs and 40 anthems as well as a significant amount of carols and other choral works. He also produced a large number of choral arrangements of Ukrainian, Czech, and Icelandic folksongs; mainly written for Winnipeg choir director Walter Bohonos and his choirs. He used the pseudonyms Hugh Garland and Michael Bilencko for some of his published ballads and folksong arrangements, however, most of his works were published under the name W.H. Anderson. 1982 Some of his more well known compositions include the anthem Come, I Pray Thee; the songs Hospitality and To Immortality; the trio for female voices Sea Blue Gardens; and the Christmas pieces Ane Song for the Birth of Christ, Lullaby of the Little Angels and The World’s Desire. Life and career Born in London, Anderson studied singing privately in his native city with Mattia Battistini and Manuel García and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He served as a lay tenor at several notable churches in London, including St Paul’s Cathedral

W. H. Grattan Flood

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Chevalier William Henry Grattan Flood (baptised 1 November 1857 – 6 August 1928) was an Irish author, composer, musicologist and historian. As a writer and ecclesiastical composer, his personal contributions to Irish music produced enduring works, although he is regarded today as controversial due to the inaccuracy of some of his work. As a historian, his output was prolific on topics of local and national historical or biographical interest. In 1917, Flood was awarded the papal cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope Benedict XV and in 1922 was elevated by Pope Leo XIII to the Order of St Gregory with the title Chevalier, thereafter he was often called “Chevalier Flood”. Biography Flood was born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. His family had a great influence on his education. He was born to William and Catherine (FitzSimon) Flood, the Master and Matron of the Lismore Union Workhouse. He had one older sister (Maria), and five brothers (Francis (his twin brother), Patrick, Frederick, George and James (who died in infancy). Flood received his elementary education at his grandfather’s (Andrew FitzSimon) boys academy in Lismore, and was given music lessons by his aunt, Elizabet

W. H. Hewlett

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William Henry Hewlett (16 January 1873 – 13 June 1940) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. Early life and education Born in Batheaston, Hewlett was a treble in the choir at Bath Abbey as a boy. In 1884, at the age of 11, he emigrated to Canada where his family ultimately settled in Toronto, Ontario. As a teenager he studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (TCM) where he graduated with the gold medal for organ performance in 1893. Among his teachers were Francesco D’Auria (orchestration), Arthur Elwell Fisher (music theory), Albert Ham (music theory), and A. S. Vogt (piano and organ). He later went to Europe to pursue advanced studies with pianist Ernst Jedliczka and composer Hans Pfitzner in Berlin, and in London with pianist Vladimir Cernikoff. In 1907 he, along with J. E. P. Aldous and Bruce Carey, became co-director of the Royal Hamilton College of Music. He became sole director in 1918, a position he held until 1939. often leading the ensemble in performances with the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1927 he conducted a concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation with a 1000-voice choir. In 1928 to 1929 he wa

W. H. Jude

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William Herbert Jude (1851– 8 August 1922), usually credited as W.H. Jude, was an English composer and organist. Born in Westleton, Suffolk, in September 1851, his parents later moved to Norfolk. He was a precocious child, and attended Wisbech Grammar School where records note that by the age of eight he was composing incidental music for school plays. He later attended Liverpool Organ School and Liverpool College of Music, also becoming college principal for a while. By 1881, Jude was listed in the census as living at 33 Oxford Street, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, with his wife Catherine. At this time, he was organist for the Blue Coat Hospital and Stretford Town Hall, near Manchester, as well as being a lecturer and teacher. Christian texts and topics appear frequently in Jude’s compositions. He was an admirer of the British evangelist Rodney “Gipsy” Smith, and published a collection of Gipsy Smith’s Favourite Solos in 1903. Jude appears to have supported the temperance movement; “Fight the Drink”, a song by Jude with lyrics by A. Sargant, appears in a collection of his music with the note that it was “sung at the Crystal Palace Festival by 5000 people”. Between 1890 and 1894, Jude

W. H. Neidlinger

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William Harold Neidlinger (July 20, 1863 – December 5, 1924 ) was an American music pedagogue and composer. He was well known for his musical compositions spanning from religious topics to children’s entertainment and was active as a choral conductor and organist. Biography Neidlinger was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a student of Dudley Buck, He became the founder of a school for children with Intellectual disability. of multiple songs for Camp Fire Girls of America that were used for the social rituals at that time. His most famous composition is The Birthday of a King. He was a member of the Manuscript Society of New York. He died in 1924 in East Orange, New Jersey. References External links *

W. O. Forsyth

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Wesley Octavius Forsyth (January 26, 1859 – May 7, 1937) was a Canadian pianist, composer and music educator based in Toronto, Ontario. Most of his compositions were written for the piano and voice. Early life and education Forsyth was born in Markham Township, York County, Canada West. As a child Forsyth studied piano with Edward Fisher (musician). As a young man he studied at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig He made his debut that year as a solo pianist, but did not achieve success as an instrumental performer, and returned to Toronto to teach. In 1892 he travelled to Vienna and Ischl to study with Julius Epstein In the 1890s he wrote music reviews and other articles for the publications The Musician and The Week. By 1913 his compositions had been published internationally, By 1923, his pupils had formed a “Forsyth Club”, and a number of his works were performed on the radio. Select works *“Love took me softly by the hand” : op. 30, no. 2 *“Showers are falling” *“The homelight” *Prelude and fugue : no. 1 in C minor : for the organ", op. 18 *“No. 2 : Song of the silver night (romance)” *‘Frülingsabend = Spring evening : Alt oder Mezzo-Sopran mit Pianofortebegleitung", o

W. Paris Chambers

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William Paris Chambers (November 1, 1854 – November 13, 1913) was an American composer, cornet soloist, and bandmaster of the late 19th century. Life and career William Paris Chambers was born in Newport, Pennsylvania but spent most of his early years in Newville, Pennsylvania. It was in Newville that he studied music, quickly becoming a proficient performer on the cornet, which he began to study around age thirteen. By the age of eighteen he was conducting the Keystone Cornet Band. At the age of twenty-five, he conducted the Capital City Band of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was also given credit for bringing the Chambersburg and Martinsburg bands into statewide fame. Between 1887 and 1893 he conducted the Great-Southern Band of Baltimore, Maryland. While on a tour with the Great-Southern in 1892 Chambers demonstrated his stamina and skill with the cornet with a solo performed from the 14,500 foot summit of Pike’s Peak. At the turn of the century, Chambers managed the C.G. Conn store in the city of New York, performing impromptu on the cornet for the customers, including fellow cornet virtuosi. His forte was a phenomenally high register ascending to the third high C. He liked to te

Wadia Sabra

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Wadia (Wadih) Sabra ( ; 23 February 1876 – 11 April 1952) was a Lebanese composer and founder of the Conservatoire Libanais. Life Wadia (Wadih) Sabra was born in 1876 in the village of Ain el Jdideh and died in Beirut in 1952. He married Adèle Misk in 1921 and had no children. He was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Sodeco Beirut. As a composer, his music is characterized as a blend of Western and Eastern musical languages, incorporating the strengths and charms of both traditions. He is best known today as the composer of the Lebanese National Anthem, popularly known as Kulluna lil Watan (words by Rashid Nakhle), which was officially adopted by the Lebanese Government through a presidential decree on 12 July 1927. He is considered the founding father of classical music in Lebanon. After studying at the American University of Beirut, he left for Paris in 1892, with a scholarship from the French Embassy to study at the Conservatoire de Paris. He stayed for 7 years where he studied with the musicologist Albert Lavignac. He took a job as the principal organist of the Evangelical Church of the Holy Spirit. He then returned to Beirut, where he founded, in 1910, the first School of

Waldemar von Baußnern

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Waldemar Edler von Baußnern (also Baussnern or Bausznern; 29 November 1866 – 20 August 1931) was a German composer and music teacher. Life Born in Berlin, and descended from Transylvanian Saxons, Baußnern was the son of a financial official. He grew up in both Transylvania and Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in present-day Romania and Hungary respectively). Between 1882–1886 he was a student of Friedrich Kiel and Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Musical Academy (Berliner Musikhochschule). He then conducted various choirs; after 1909 he became director of the Großherzoglichen Musikschule in Weimar. From 1916 to 1923 he served as director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. In 1923, he became undersecretary of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He died in Potsdam. Music Baußnern’s extensive catalogue of compositions includes almost all musical genres, yet it displays an emphasis on both choral symphonic and orchestral composition. As a composer, Baußnern found stimulation from poetry, for not only his vocal music, but also his instrumental music; the poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe emerged as an especial source of inspiration. This compositional impetus is reflected

Walford Davies

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Major Sir Henry Walford Davies (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was a renowned English composer, organist, and educator who was Master of the King’s Music from 1934 until 1941. He was also a music adviser to the British Broadcasting Corporation, for which he gave commended talks on music between 1924 and 1941. His most widely known works are the Royal Air Force March Past, God Be In My Head, and Solemn Melody. Life and career Early years Henry Walford Davies was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. He was the seventh of nine children of John Whitridge Davies and Susan, née Gregory, and the youngest of four surviving sons. His father, although an accountant by profession, was an amateur musician who founded and conducted a choral society at Oswestry and was choirmaster of Christ Church Congregational church: at which Walford was a chorister, and at which Walford’s siblings, Charlie and Harold, later held the post of organist. Harold Davies was professor of music at the University of Adelaide from 1919 to 1947. In 1882 Walford was accepted as a chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, by the organist, Sir George Elvey. When his voice broke in 1885 Davies left the choir and was app

Wallace Arthur Sabin

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Wallace Arthur Sabin (December 15, 1869 – December 8, 1937) was a composer and organist, born in Culworth, Northamptonshire, England. He played organ from the age of 13 at various schools and churches in Oxford. He trained in music at Banbury and Oxford, and graduated from the Royal College of Organists in 1888. In 1890, he became a fellow of that college. In 1904, he played organ recitals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1905 until his death, he played the organ for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in San Francisco, and at Temple Emanu-El. He was president of the San Francisco Chapter of AGO from 1911 to 1913, then again from 1923 to 1926. He was the chapter’s first dean. Sabin was married on April 1, 1913 to Kathryn Wells Bader, daughter of the pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church. They had one daughter, Patricia. In 1915, Sabin was the official organist of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. In one concert, he directed the 400-voice Exposition Chorus while playing organ accompaniment, as Camille Saint-Saëns conducted the 80-member orchestra. Sabin joined the Bohemian Club, served twice on the board of directors, and wrote music for

Walter Braunfels

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Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator. Life Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr. He continued his piano studies in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory with James Kwast. Braunfels studied law and economics at the university in Munich until after a performance of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde he decided on music. He went to Vienna in 1902 to study with the pianist and teacher Theodor Leschetizky. He then returned to Munich to study composition with Felix Mottl and Ludwig Thuille. In February 1918 he was wounded at the front and in June 1918 on his return to Frankfurt converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, composing his Te Deum of 1920–21 “not as music for musicians but as a personal expression of faith”. He achieved early success with the melodious opera Die Vögel (The Birds, 1920), such that Adolf Hitler, not realising that Braunfels had a Jewish parent, in 1923 invited Braunfels to write an anthem for the Nazi Party, which Braunfels “indignantly turned down”. Braunfels performed as a professional pianist for many years

Walter Courvoisier

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Walter Courvoisier (7 February 1875 – 27 December 1931) was a Swiss composer. Life Born in Riehen, Courvoisier was a son of the surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier. He initially studied medicine and worked as a doctor after obtaining his doctorate. In 1902 he went to Munich to study music. He was a student of Selmar Bagge and Ludwig Thuille - whose son-in-law he became - and then taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, first music theory, and later music composition. Courvoisier died in Locarno at the age of 66. Compositions Operas * Lanzelot und Elaine, musical drama in four acts; libretto: Berta Thiersch, pseudonym “Walter Bergh” (1910–12, first performance Munich 1917) * Die Krähen (The Crows), comedy in one act; libretto: Alois Wohlmuth (1919/20, first performance Munich 1920) * Der Sünde Zauberei (The Sin of Magic), opera in one prelude and two scenes; libretto: Joseph von Eichendorff after Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1929, unperformed) online Vocal works * The Muse, for baritone and orchestra op. 4; after Heinrich Leuthold (1903) * Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, ballad for mixed choir and orchestra Op. 5; after Friedrich Schiller (1904) * Der Dinurstrom, ballad for mix

Walter Damrosch

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Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a Prussian and American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aaron Copland’s Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F and An American in Paris, and Jean Sibelius’ Tapiola. Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the composer himself as soloist. Life and career Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, to Helene von Heimburg, a former opera singer, and the conductor Leopold Damrosch. His brother Frank Damrosch became a music conductor and sister Clara Mannes a music teacher. His parents were Lutheran, although his paternal grandfather was Jewish. He exhibited an interest in music at an early age and was instructed by his father in harmony, and also studied under Wilhelm Albert Rischbieter and Felix Draeseke at the Dresden Conservatory. He emigrated with his parents in 1871 to the United States. On May 17, 1890, he married Margaret Blaine (1867–1949), the daughter of Amer

Walter English

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Walter Paul “Woody” English (March 20, 1867 – June 4, 1916) was an American composer, conductor, and tubist. Life and career Walter Paul English was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory in 1867. He grew up in Dallas, Texas (Smith) playing tuba in various bands. In 1891 he joined the circus band on the Great New York Circus in Oakland, California (Smith). In 1892 he joined the band on the McMahon Circus (Smith). During the next three years he travelled with circus bands on Howe & Cushing, Sands & Astley and Harris Nickel Plate Shows (Smith). He played tuba in Carl Clair’s band for the European tour of Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth at the turn of the century (1897–1903). He took up the conducting baton from an ailing Carl Clair in 1907. In 1909 he played for Norris & Rowe (Smith). English spent three years with the Sells-Floto Circus. In 1913, he played tuba for The Girl of Eagle Ranch production, thereafter rejoining Sells Floto (under the baton of his friend Karl L. King). King and English subsequently co-authored a march, “Howdy Pap.” In contrast to the tall, thin King, Walter English was rather stout, and he wore a walrus mustache. King later recalled that the first

Walter Kollo

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Walter Kollo (28 January 1878 – 30 September 1940) was a German composer of operettas, Possen mit Gesang, and Singspiele as well as popular songs. He was also a conductor and a music publisher. Life and career Kollo was born in Neidenburg, East Prussia on 28 January 1878. Walter Kollo died in Berlin on 30 September 1940. List of operettas *1911 – Sein Herzensjunge (1 April 1911, Thalia-Theater, Wuppertal-Elberfeld) *1911 – Große Rosinen (31 December 1911, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1912 – Filmzauber (19 October 1912, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1912 – So wird’s gemacht (December 1912, Neues Theater, Hamburg) *1913 – (first version, 4 October 1913, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1913 – Der Juxbaron (14 November 1913, Carl Schultze-Theater, Hamburg) *1914 – Immer feste druff (1 October 1914, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin) *1915 – Wenn zwei Hochzeit machen (23 October 1915, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1916 – Der selige Balduin (31 March 1916, Montis Operetten-Theater, Berlin) *1916 – Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (9 September 1916, Berliner Theater, Berlin) *1917 – Drei alte Schachteln (6 October 1917, Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin) *1917 – Die tolle Komteß (21 February 1917, Berliner

Walter Niemann (composer)

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Walter Rudolph Niemann (10 October 1876 – 17 June 1953) was a German composer, arranger, and music critic. Life Born in Hamburg, Niemann was the son of composer and virtuoso pianist Rudolph Niemann (1838–1898). His uncle, Gustav Adolph Niemann (1843–1881) was a violinist and important musical figure in Helsinki. Walter Niemann studied with Engelbert Humperdinck as a youth in Leipzig. He then entered the Leipzig Conservatory where he was a pupil of Carl Reinecke. He pursued doctoral studies in musicology at the University of Leipzig under Hugo Riemann and Hermann Kretzschmar, earning a doctorate in 1901. His dissertation was on early ligatures and mensural music. Niemann first worked as a teacher in Hamburg then served as the editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in Leipzig from 1904 to 1906. From 1907 through 1917 he was a writer and critic for the Neueste Nachrichten in Leipzig. He also taught during those years on the faculty of the Hamburg Conservatory. In 1927, H. Abert in the Illustriertes Musiklexikon styled Niemann “The most important composer for piano today, who understands how to make music both fine and colored, although he often strays into the salon.” He died in Lei

Walter Rabl

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Walter Rabl (30 November 1873 in Vienna – 11 July 1940 in Klopein, Klopeiner See/Carinthia) was a Viennese composer, conductor, and teacher of vocal music. Largely forgotten today, Rabl left only a small number of works, all of them early ones, from the twilight of the Romantic era. At the age of 30 he stopped composing entirely and devoted himself to conducting and vocal coaching the rest of his life. Life Walter Rabl was born in Vienna and as a child became an excellent pianist. He attended the Institut Le Rosey, a boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland. He went to Salzburg and there studied music theory and composition with J. F. Hummel, director of the Mozarteum. He graduated with honours from the Kaiserlich und Königlich Staatsgymnasium (Royal and Imperial State School) in Salzburg in 1892. Rabl returned to Vienna to study with Karel Navrátil (1867 - 1936) and then enrolled in the doctoral program at the German University in Prague as a student of the musicologist Guido Adler. At 25, he completed his doctorate and soon after accepted a position at the Royal Opera of Dresden as coach and chorus master. Beginning in 1903 Rabl conducted throughout Germany and championed works by p

Wilfred Bendall

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Wilfred Ellington Bendall (22 April 1850–16 June 1920) was an English composer, pianist, conductor, arranger and teacher. After musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Leipzig Conservatoire, he pursued a varied career, based mainly in London. He composed several operettas, and a quantity of choral music and song. His other musical activities included conducting in the theatre and concert hall, playing piano accompaniments for recitals, serving as secretary to the composer Arthur Sullivan, and holding a professorship at the Guildhall School of Music. He died in London, aged seventy. Life and career Bendall was born at Watts’ Terrace, Old Kent Road, London, on 22 April 1850. He was the second son and fifth of nine children of Robert Smith Bendall and his wife, Elizabeth Kay, née Holmes. He was the only member of the family to pursue a musical career. and from January 1872 he spent two years at the Leipzig Conservatoire, where he was a student of Carl Reinecke, Oscar Paul and Salomon Jadassohn. After returning to London Bendall performed as accompanist to singers and instrumentalists, played in chamber ensembles, and conducted. By 1887 he was conducting for Ric

Wilfrid Sanderson

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Wilfrid Ernest Sanderson FRCO LRAM (23 December 1878 – 10 December 1935) was a composer and organist based in Doncaster. Life Sanderson was born in Ipswich. His father was Revd. Thomas Sanderson, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, born in Warrington in 1848. Wilfrid was one of eight children. His mother was Emily, born in Liverpool in 1848. Wilfrid was educated at St. Dunstan’s College, and the City of London School. He studied organ under Frederick Bridge as pupil and later assistant organist at Westminster Abbey from 1895 - 1904. During this time, Wilfrid was present in the organ loft during Queen Victoria’s funeral and memorial service held on 2 February 1901. He also sang tenor in the Westminster Abbey choir for the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on 26 June 1902. His musical studies gained him the Mus.Bac (Dunelm), FRCO and LRAM. His early appointments were: church organist at St Stephen’s, Walthamstow (1895 at the age of seventeen); organist at All Hallows’, Southwark (1897); organist at St James’s, West Hampstead (1899-1904). In 1904 he married Mary Elizabeth Petch and moved to Doncaster where he became organist of Doncaster Parish Church until 1923. He was als

Wilhelm Berger

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Wilhelm Reinhard Berger (9 August 1861 – 16 January 1911) was a German composer, pianist and conductor. Life Berger’s father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston (where Berger was born) as a music shopkeeper and made a name for himself as an author after the family had returned to Bremen in 1862. Early on, his son showed signs of musical interest and aptitude. By the time of his first concert, age fourteen, Wilhelm had already composed a large number of songs and works for the piano. Between 1878 and 1884, Berger studied at the Royal Conservatory in Berlin, under Ernst Rudorff (piano) and Friedrich Kiel (counterpoint). From 1888 to 1903, he was a teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, a function that he combined, from 1899, with the chief conductorship of the Berlin Musical Society. In addition, he was very active as a concert pianist. In 1903, Berger was made a member of the German Royal Academy of Arts, and in the same year he was appointed ‘Hofkapellmeister’ in Meiningen as successor of Fritz Steinbach. In 1911 he died at Jena, aged 49, due to complications after a stomach operation. Musical style Like most of the composers from the circle of the ‘Ber

Wilhelm Kienzl

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Wilhelm Kienzl (17 January 1857 – 3 October 1941) However, during the Nazi era there were calls for boycotting his music due to his part Jewish ancestry In 1936 he was placed in the black list of the RS Berlin. Kienzl’s first love was opera, then vocal music, and it was in these two genres that he made his name. For a while he was considered, along with Hugo Wolf, one of the finest composers of Lieder (art songs) since Schubert. His most famous work, Der Evangelimann, best known for its aria Selig sind, die Verfolgung leiden (Blessed are the persecuted), continues to be revived occasionally. It is a folk opera which has been compared to Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and contains elements of verismo. After Humperdinck and Siegfried Wagner, the composers of fairy-tale operas, Kienzl is the most important opera composer of the romantic post-Wagner era. However, Kienzl’s strengths actually lie in the depiction of everyday scenes. In his last years, his ample corpus of songs achieved prominence, though it has largely been neglected since then. Despite the fact that opera came first in his life, Kienzl by no means ignored instrumental music. He wrote three string quartets and a piano

Wilhelm Middelschulte

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Wilhelm Middelschulte (April 3, 1863, Werve, Kreis Hamm, now part of Kamen – May 4, 1943, Dortmund) was a German organist and composer who resided in America for most of his career. Life Middelschulte initially studied organ with August Knabe. He later attended the , where he studied organ and theory with August Haupt. After briefly holding a position at the Royal Institute and acquiring a post at the in Berlin, he moved to Chicago in 1891. In 1893, he gave three performances entirely from memory at the Columbian Exposition. From 1896 to 1918 he was organist for what would later become the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. During the 1920s, he regularly returned to his native Germany to give performances. He is regarded as one of the most significant organists of his time, and was critically acclaimed for his performances of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1939, after nearly fifty years in America, Middelschulte returned to Germany, where he died only four years later. His students included Virgil Fox and Cecilia Clare Bocard. Fox frequently used as an encore to his performances Middelschulte’s “Perpetuum Mobile”, an elaborate piece that builds from a subdued sound to, by the end, fortissimo a

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

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Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867 – 3 December 1942) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom. The composer Peterson-Berger was born in Ullånger. He studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1886 to 1889 and then in Dresden for a year. He is best known for three albums of national romantic piano pieces entitled Frösöblomster I, II and III (Flowers of Frösö), which include the often performed Vid Frösö kyrka (At Frösö Church) and Sommarsång (Summer Song). The sets, which were composed over a period of 18 years (1896–1914) and brought together afterwards as a collection have gained a reputation of representing a quintessential “Swedishness” in the romantic, nationalistic vein of their time. The most famous of the pieces, Sommarsång (Summer Song) recalls the warm, calm, harmonious and bright pre-summer evenings where the sun in the north almost never goes down; they were the great breakthrough for Wilhelm. Sommarsång is still known to most Swedes, even to people generally uninterested in music: the majority of young piano students in the Nordic countries have

Wilhelm Stenhammar

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Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927) was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. He is considered to be one of Sweden’s most important composers at the turn of the 20th century, and one of the finest Swedish pianists of his time, with a reputation as a fine interpreter of the piano music of Beethoven. Biography Wilhelm Stenhammar was born in Stockholm to and . His older brother was the architect Ernst Stenhammar. He demonstrated a talent for music at an early age, both as pianist and composer, writing piano sonatas and songs during his teenage years. The resultant critical acclaim led to invitations for concert performances in Denmark, England and Germany, effectively launching Stenhammar’s career as an internationally renowned concert pianist. He subsequently recorded five piano rolls for Welte-Mignon on 21 September 1905. As a composer, Stenhammar was initially influenced by German and Austrian music, especially that of Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner. Stenhammar himself described the style of his First Symphony in F major as “idyllic Bruckner”. He subsequently sought to liberate himself from this influence, with the goal of writing in a more

Will C. Macfarlane

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William Charles Macfarlane, generally referred to as Will C. Macfarlane, While he predominantly composed sacred music, he also wrote the music to the operettas Little Almond Eyes (1917) and Swords and Scissors (1918). Life and career The son of Duncan Macfarlane, He was a student of composer, conductor, and organist Samuel Prowse Warren who was his primary instructor in organ and music theory. Partial list of compositions *Three Pieces, Op. 27 (1888) *Hymns (1893) *Romanza (1905) *Scherzo (1905) *Cantilena in D (1907) *Reverie (1909) *Spring Song (1909) *Caprice (1910) *Meditation (1910) *Evening Bells (1912) *Cradle Song (1912) *Lullaby (1914) *Elegy (1915) *Scotch Fantasia on National Airs *Folk Songs (1915) *Serenade (1917) *March: America the Beautiful (1918) *In Memoriam (1923) *Chanson Joyeuse (1930) *Adoration (1934) *Ad ecclesiae gloriam *Fantasy (1945) *Marche Pontificale (1945) *Pastorale (1945) Source References Citations Bibliography * * * * External links *

Willem Kes

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Willem Kes (Dordrecht, 16 February 1856 – München, 22 February 1934, was a Dutch conductor, composer, violist, and violinist. He was the first principal conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, holding that position from 1888 to 1895. Life Early life and education Willem Kes was the son of the dairy trader Adrianus Stoffel Kes and Cornelia Maria Krekelenbrug. He received his initial training as a violist and composer in Dordrecht with Ferdinand Böhme (harmony), Theodorus Thijssens (violin) and Friedrich Wilhelm Nothdurft (piano). At the time, he also performed with the local orchestra. Admitted to the Leipzig conservatory, Kes studied with the composers Ferdinand David and Carl Reinecke. During his stay in Leipzig, he married Bertha Auguste Elise Koch. He completed his studies at the Brussels Conservatory with violinist-composer Henryk Wieniawski In 1877, he was appointed leader of the first Amsterdam Park Orchestra and the Amsterdamsche Orkest-Vereeniging. A year later, in 1878 he became director of the Dordrecht division of the Rotterdam Music Society (Maatschappij ter Bevordering der Toonkunst), followed by the conductorship of the newly formed Park Orchestra (Park

William Beatton Moonie

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William Beatton Moonie (1883–1961) was a British composer. He gives his name to the Moonie Collection, a collection of music held by Glasgow University. Life He was born somewhat prematurely at the station master’s house at Stobo railway station on 29 May 1883 while his parents were taking a brief holiday from their usual home in Edinburgh. His father James Anderson Moonie (d.1923) was a music teacher living at 33 Oxford Street, a flat in the Newington district of Edinburgh. His mother, Clementina Greenaway, had been a secretary. James was a member of the Hope Park United Presbyterian Church and founded the Hope Park Musical Association in 1886. He also ran several choirs, most famously “Mr Moonie’s Choir” founded in 1896. William was educated at Daniel Stewart’s College (where his father became Music Master in 1887) then studied History of Music at Edinburgh University. There he studied under Frederick Niecks and graduated BMus in 1902 also winning the Bucher Scholarship, which enabled him to do postgraduate studies at the University of Frankfurt under Iwan Knorr, Lazzaro Uzielli and Willi Rehberg (father of Walter Rehberg). On his return to Britain in 1908 he had further tuition

William Berwald

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William Henry Berwald (1864–1948) was an American composer and conductor of German origin. He published some 400 compositions and won numerous prizes, including the Manuscript Music Society in 1901, the Clemson Gold Medal in 1913, the Prosser Etude prize in 1915, and the Estey Organ Prize in 1928. Among his works are pedagogical pieces for piano. Biography Born in Schwerin, Mecklenburg on December 26, 1864, Berwald studied counterpoint with Josef Rheinberger. He worked as a teacher in Stuttgart before emigrating to the United States. He taught at Syracuse University for 52 years, and his papers are held in the school’s archives. From 1922 to 1925 he served as conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He died in Loma Linda, California on May 8, 1948. One of his notable pupils was Halsey Stevens. See also * List of music students by teacher: A to B § William Berwald References * External links *

William Dayas

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William Humphreys Dayas (12 September 1863, New York – 3 May 1903, Manchester) was an American pianist, pedagogue and composer, one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt. Dayas parents died when he was young. He took church organist appointments and piano pupils as a teen to earn a living, while also studying piano with S. B. Mills and Rafael Joseffy and organ with Samuel P. Warren. In 1881 he moved to Berlin to pursue musical education, studying with Franz Kullak, Ehrlich, and Haupt. He then travelled to Weimar, where he was among many in Liszt’s circle in the 1880s. From 1890 to 1893 he succeeded Busoni as professor of piano at the Helsinki conservatory. He subsequently taught in Wiesbaden and, at Franz Wüllner’s invitation, to the Cologne Conservatorium (where he was succeeded by Rudolph Niemann ). From 1896 until his death he taught at Royal Manchester College of Music, succeeding Charles Hallé, and succeeded by Arthur Friedheim. The Royal Northern College of Music awards a Dayas Prize for Composition. Personal life William Dayas was married to Margaret (Margarethe) Vocke, a fellow pupil of Liszt, in 1891. Their daughter Karin Dayas, a noted pianist and pedagogue, was born in Helsi

William Edwin Haesche

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William Edwin Haesche (April 11, 1867 – January 26, 1929 ) was an American composer. Haesche was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Henry W. Haesche, a German immigrant, and his wife, the former Rosian Gaffney, an Irish immigrant. In the 1894 New Haven city directory, he is listed as being a violin teacher. He wrote a number of works for orchestra, as well as some chamber music and songs; he also composed some pieces for choir. Haesche composed the piece “Marguerite Waltz” for viola and piano. His works include: As stated on his death certificate, Haesche died in Roanoke, Virginia, of carcinoma of the rectum after two operations. References * External links *

William Faulkes

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George William Henry Faulkes (1863–1933) – known professionally as William Faulkes – was an English musician now best known as the composer of organ music. Early life Faulkes was a native of Liverpool, where he spent most of his working life. His early general education was under the aegis of his mother and older sister assisted by William Dawson, another Liverpool organist. At the age of 10 William joined the choir of St Margaret’s church, Anfield, and his music education continued under the church’s organist Henry Ditton Newman. Church organist Faulkes’s first appointment as church organist was at St John the Baptist Tuebrook (1881–86). He then returned to St Margaret’s Anfield as organist in 1886, Some have been recorded on CD. Further resources CD:William Faulkes (1863–1933): An Edwardian concert with England’s organ composer, performed by Duncan Ferguson. CD: ‘William Faulkes: Rhapsodie on Old French Carols’. Die Welte-Philharmonie-Orgel/The Britannic Organ. William Faulkes. Idylll (1902). Andrew Pink (2021) Exordia ad missam. References

William Foden

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William Foden (23 March 1860 – 9 April 1947) was an American composer, musician, and teacher. Foden is considered America’s premiere classical guitarist during the 1890s and the first decades of the twentieth century. Life Foden was born in St. Louis, Missouri and initially started with the violin at age 7, changing from age 16 to the mandolin and classical guitar. He studied guitar with William O. Bateman (1825–1883), “a successful lawyer, music engraver, guitarist, and nationally recognized guitar composer” By the age of sixteen, he became the head of the local mandolin orchestra. His professional career began in the 1880s, gaining national notoriety from the early 1890s. “Having an aversion to traveling and leaving his family, he did not fully capitalize on his growing fame” near New York City, after a successful eight-month tour of the United States and British Columbia together with Giuseppe Pettine (mandolin) and Frederick Bacon (banjo), with newspapers referring to them as “The Big Trio”. However, he began ordering Martin guitars for himself and his students at the beginning of the century. “Foden Special” models were designed between the years of 1912 and 1917, through the

William G. Whittaker

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William Gillies Whittaker (Newcastle upon Tyne, July 23, 1876 – Orkney Islands, July 5, 1944) was an English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer. He spent his life promoting music. The University of Durham, where he once studied and taught, called him one of “Britain’s most influential musicians during the first half of the twentieth century”. An autodidact, he was a prodigious creator of Gebrauchsmusik. Early life and education in Newcastle Whittaker was born into a Methodist family in the Shieldfield district of Newcastle upon Tyne. His father, John Whittaker, the illegitimate son of a farm labourer’s daughter, came from Little Corby in Cumberland. His mother, Ellen Gillies, was an orphan from a respected family in Hexham in Northumberland. From an early age Whittaker showed an interest in music: he learnt to play the flute and his father bought him a piccolo; and he played as a schoolboy organist at St George’s Church in Jesmond. His father encouraged him to follow a career in science, which led to Whittaker initially studying mathematics—without great success—at Armstrong College, at that time part of the University of Durham (it lat

William Henry Bell

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William Henry Bell, known largely by his initials, W H Bell (20 August 1873 – 13 April 1946), was an English composer, conductor and lecturer. Biography Bell was born in St Albans and was a chorister at St Albans Cathedral. He studied organ, violin and piano in London at the Royal Academy of Music along with composition under Frederick Corder, and modal counterpoint privately with Charles Villiers Stanford. He won the Goss Scholarship in 1899. He mainly made his living as an organist and lecturer; he was Professor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of Music where he taught from 1909 to 1912. In 1912, Bell went to South Africa to direct the South African College of Music in Cape Town. He was Principal until 1935 and is credited with a significant expansion of the school. In 1920, Bell became Professor of Music at the University of Cape Town, where he held classes for degree courses. The South African College of Music was incorporated into the University in 1923 and Professor Bell became Dean of the Faculty of Music. Bell founded the Little Theatre, a training center for opera, and occasionally directed the Cape Town Music Society. He was also responsible for founding the Speech and Dra

William Henry Harris

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Sir William Henry Harris (28 March 1883 – 6 September 1973) was an English organist, choral trainer and composer. Early life and education Harris was born in Fulham, London and became a chorister at Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill. At the age of 14, he took up a “flexible” position as assistant organist at St David’s Cathedral in Wales under Herbert Morris, followed at 16 by a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where his teachers were Sir Walter Parratt, Charles Wood, and Henry Walford Davies. Career Harris was organist at St Augustine’s Church, Edgbaston from 1911 to 1919 and concurrently assistant organist at Lichfield Cathedral. During this time he also taught at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in collaboration with Granville Bantock. A move to Oxford in 1919 saw him take up organist positions successively at New College and in 1929 Christ Church, Oxford. While at Oxford, he conducted the Oxford Bach Choir (1925–1933) and was instrumental in founding and conducting the Opera Club, which put on the pioneering production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo staged by Jack Westrup in 1925. In 1933 he was appointed organist at St George’s Chapel, Windsor in succession to Charles Hylton Stewart

William Hurlstone

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William Yeates Hurlstone (7 January 1876 – 30 May 1906) was an English composer. Showing brilliant musical talent from an early age, he died young, before his full potential could be realized. Nevertheless, he left behind an exquisite, albeit small, body of work. His teacher Sir Charles Villiers Stanford considered him the most talented of his pupils, above Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Career Born at 12 Richmond Gardens (now Empress Place), Fulham, on 7 January 1876, Hurlstone was the grandson of Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, president of the Royal Society of British Artists, and only son of the four children of Martin de Galway Hurlstone, a surgeon, by his wife Maria Bessy Styche, a piano teacher. Hurlstone’s earliest musical education was with his mother. In 1883 the family moved to Bemerton, a village near Salisbury where he became chorister in the local church, until his asthma prevented him from carrying on singing. The vicar was so impressed with him that he invited Hubert Parry and George Grove from the Royal College of Music to meet him. Parry told his parents that he was taken more by their son’s grasp of the subject than by his abilities as an executant. Grove w

William J. Marsh

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William John Marsh (June 24, 1880 – February 1, 1971) was an American composer, organist, choir director, and educator most notable for composing “Texas, Our Texas,” the official state song for the U.S. state of Texas. He was a longtime figure in the Dallas–Fort Worth arts community, working as a composer, choir director, music professor, and music critic. He published over 100 original compositions, including the official mass of the Texas Centennial and The Flower Fair at Peking, the first opera written and produced in the state of Texas. a suburb of Liverpool, England. In the 1870s, Liverpool native James Marsh had worked for the Texas and Pacific Railway in Dallas, where he met Mary Cecilia McCormick, originally from Kentucky. James and Mary both met at Sacred Heart Cathedral, where they enjoyed singing. They married in 1877 and returned to Liverpool shortly afterward; James ultimately became the mayor of Woolton. Compositions During his career, Marsh composed over 100 original musical works, mostly religious in nature. He is best known for the following compositions: * “Sunset” (1913) – Marsh’s first published composition, for women’s chorus and violin, written for Fort Worth'

William Ralph Driffill

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William Ralph Driffill (8 December 1870, Dunstable – 24 April 1922, Barnet) was an English organist and composer. Personal life Driffill was the son of William Driffill, a plumber who ran his own business in Dunstable, and Maria (née Potter). In 1908 he married Kate Prior (1879–1947). Their first child was Helen Elsbeth (1914–96). Their second child was Kathleen Rosemary (1922–2008); she was born 6 months after her father’s sudden death from pneumonia in 1922. Student days In 1890, Driffill enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music. During his time there he gained prizes for his playing and composition. In 1891, he is recorded as gaining the status of ‘Certificated Pianist’ of Trinity College of Music in their ‘35th Half-Yearly Higher Examinations’. Performing Conductor * 1900: Barnet: Mr. W. R. Driffill’s Choral Society gave a highly satisfactory performance, on the 8th ult., of Franco Leoni’s “Gate of Life,” preceded by Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise” … The singing of the choir gave evidence of careful and efficient training, which reflected great credit on the conductor, Mr. Driffill. Organist * n.d.: organist at St. Mary the Virgin, in Monken Hadley, Hertfordshire. * 1896–? : org

William Rimmer (music)

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William Rimmer (1862–1936) was a Lancashire composer and conductor of brass band music who was particularly well known for his marches. Rimmer was born in Southport in 1862 into a musical family. His father was bandmaster of the Lancashire Volunteer Rifles and encouraged both Rimmer and his brother Robert in their musical studies. At the age of 15 Rimmer joined the Southport Rifle band as a side-drummer and then moved on to the cornet, eventually becoming the band’s principal cornet soloist. As a young man he made himself into one of the finest cornet players in the country under the eye of Alexander Owen at Besses o’ th’ Barn Band. His prowess on the instrument became well known, and he was engaged as a soloist by many of the best bands of the day. He eventually gave up playing to concentrate on training and conducting bands. He started his conducting career with the Skelmersdale Old Band and the Skelmersdale Temperance Band where he saw excellent success at local contests from 1891 to 1895. Then like most of the top brass band conductors of his generation, he became associated with many different bands in the Lancashire area. At the height of his fame conducted every winning band

William Rogers Chapman

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William Rogers Chapman (August 4, 1855 – March 27, 1935) was an American conductor, organist, pianist, composer, and music educator. He is best known as the founding director of two choruses in New York City (the men’s chorus Musurgia Society and the women’s chorus the Rubinstein Club), and for establishing the Maine Music Festival. Early life and education William Rogers Chapman was born August 4, 1855, in Hanover, Massachusetts. He was named after his father, the Reverend William Rogers Chapman, who died not long after his birth on October 25, 1855, at the age of 43. Chapman was christened on top of his father’s coffin when he was three months old. He grew up in Bethel, Maine, where he was raised by his mother, Emily Irene Bishop Chapman. He was educated at Gould Academy in Bethel. In 1868 William’s mother married a second time, to William Jacob Valentine, a New York banker, and the family moved to Fordham, New York. Soon after William was sent to a school in New York City operated by the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church with the aim of being trained as a minister. At the age of 14 he was sticken with sudden blindness and spent a year recuperating with bandaged eyes in

William Wolstenholme

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William Wolstenholme (24 February 186523 July 1931) was an English composer and organist. He was blind from birth. Biography William Wolstenholm was born in Blackburn, Lancashire on 24 February 1865. From the age of 9 he attended Worcester College for the Blind, where he first met and was encouraged by Edward Elgar. His primary musical training came from the organsist William Done. While in Worcester he played the Mendelssohn G minor piano concerto at a Worcester Philharmonic Society concert. At Oxford from 1877 he was the first blind musician to take the degree since John Stanley. In 1888, Wolstenholme returned to Blackburn as the organist of St Paul’s Church (closed in 1954 and demolished). He stayed until 1902 when he became the organist at the Congregationalist Chapel, King’s Weigh House in Mayfair, London. Wolstenholme was a close friend of the other noted blind organist Alfred Hollins and was also well known as a recitalist. His devoted sister Maud acted as his secretary and amanuensis for most of his life, accompanying him on an extensive and very successful tour of the US in 1908. This led to his popularity as a teacher for American students visiting London. In 1921 Wolsten

Wilson Marion Cooper

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Wilson Marion Cooper (December 17, 1850 – July 17, 1916) of Dothan, Alabama, was a notable musician and music teacher within the Sacred Harp tradition. Marion Cooper was born in Henry County, Alabama, the son of W. S. and Elizabeth Ann (Oates) Cooper. He was a cousin of Alabama governor William C. Oates. Overview W. M. Cooper prepared a revision of B. F. White’s tune book The Sacred Harp in 1902. In the revision, some songs were transposed to a different key, and some of the old tune names changed to descriptive titles based on the words of the hymns. Some old songs were removed and new songs added in their places. Perhaps the most significant contribution of his book was adding alto parts to the songs, the majority of which were originally written with three vocal lines (treble, tenor, bass). Cooper wrote most of the alto lines himself, though his daughter Anna Blackshear and other individuals made important contributions. Believing this was significant and unique, Cooper sued J. S. James after James in 1911 released an edition of The Sacred Harp also including alto parts. James’ alto parts (many of which were written by S. M. Denson) were very close to those supplied to the songs

Wintter Watts

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Wintter Haynes Watts (March 14, 1884 – November 1, 1962) was an American composer of art songs. Life and musical career Watts was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his early studies were in painting, architecture, voice, and organ. He later studied at the Academy of Musical Art in New York City and in Florence, Italy. He won the Morris Loeb Prize in 1919 for his symphony Young Blood and the Prix de Rome in 1923. He returned to Italy a few years later and stayed until 1931, when he returned to the United States. Watts died aged 78 in Brooklyn, New York. Musical works Watts composed around 70 songs for voice and piano in the years between 1906 and 1924. Most were published individually by Oliver Ditson or G. Schirmer. The songs were highly esteemed in their day, and Upton praised them for their distinctly ‘American’ sound. His most important song cycle is his Vignettes of Italy, nine songs from 1919, settings of poems by Sara Teasdale reflecting on various Italian locations and their associated emotional recollections. Many important singers performed his songs in concert, most notably Kirsten Flagstad and John McCormack, to whom Watts dedicated several songs. None of his other music was

Xaver Scharwenka

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Theophil Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 – 8 December 1924) was a German pianist, composer and teacher of Polish descent. He was the brother of Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917), who was also a composer and teacher of music. Life and career Scharwenka was born in 1850 in Samter, Prussia (Polish: Szamotuły; until 1793 and since 1919 part of Poland). His paternal ancestors originally came from Prague, then moved to Frankfurt on the Oder in 1696 - probably for reasons of faith - and settled thereafter in Samter. His father, August Wilhelm, was a gifted master-builder but decidedly did not have an ear for music. His mother, née Golisch, was an ethnic Pole from a family of some means, who was musically inclined and early on instilled in her children a love of music. Although he began learning to play the piano by ear when he was 3, Scharwenka did not start formal music studies until he was 15, when his family moved to Berlin and he enrolled at the Akademie der Tonkunst. Under Theodor Kullak, his pianistic skills developed rapidly, and he made his debut at the Singakademie in 1869. He taught at the academy until entering military service in 1873. Upon his discharge in 1874, Sc

Xavier Leroux

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Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (; 11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory. He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867–1942). Life Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois, and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion. From 1896 he taught harmony there. Notable students include Eugène Bigot, Georges Dandelot, Marc Delmas, Roger Désormière, Louis Fourestier, Henri Mulet, Paul Paray, Louis Vuillemin, and Albert Wolff. Leroux composed various orchestral and choral works, songs, and piano pieces, but he became known above all as a representative of naturalistic French opera. His masterpiece is the opera Le Chemineau, which was staged six times at the Opéra-Comique between 1907 and 1945. The music critic of Le Monde, Jacques-Emmanuel Fousnaquer, points out that “between 1907 (the year of its creation) and 1945, Le Chemineau was performed over a hundred times at the Opéra-Comique, with equal success.” It was revived at the Marseille Opera in January 1996, featu

Xiao Youmei

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Xiao Youmei (; formerly transliterated Shio Yiu-mei; 7 January 1884 – 31 December 1940) was a noted Chinese music educator and composer. He was also styled as and . Life Xiao was born in Zhongshan County, Guangdong to a musical family. From an early age in Macao he experienced firsthand Western music. In 1899, he enrolled at Guangzhou’s Shihmin Junior High School (). In 1901, he studied abroad in Japan, studying pedagogy, piano, and voice. In 1906, he joined the Tongmenghui. In 1910, he returned to China, where he achieved the degree “recommended man” (juren 擧人) on the imperial examination for students who studied abroad. Not long after, he studied abroad again, this time in Germany, at Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig (now the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig) and Leipzig University, where he completed the Ph.D. His doctoral thesis was “Eine geschichtliche Untersuchung über das chinesische Orchester bis zum 17. Jahrhundert (Historical Research on the Pre-Seventeenth Century Chinese Orchestra)” (1916); it was translated into Chinese only in 1990. Hugo Riemann was his supervisor. In October 1916, he entered the philosophy department of Berlin University where h

Yakiv Stepovy

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Yakiv Stepanovych Stepovy (; ; 20 October 18834 November 1921) was a Ukrainian composer, music teacher, and music critic. Biography Early life and education Stepovy was born on 20 October 1883 as Yakiv Yakymenko (Akimenko) in Kharkiv, in the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine). His older brother was also a composer. From 1895 to 1898, Yakiv sang as a boy chorister in the Imperial Court Chapel in Saint Petersburg. From 1898 to 1902, he attended chapel classes, learning to play the piano, and studying music theory and conducting. Stepovy attended the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1902 to 1909, where he studied with the Russian composers Anatoly Lyadov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Career Stepovy was a representative of the Ukrainian musical intelligentsia of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of the national school of composition and composed in the tradition of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. During World War I, Stepovy was recruited to the military, where he worked as a secretary on a hospital train. and the biography of Stepovy by V.L. Goshovsky in Musical Encyclopedia. Stepovy developed the traditions established by previous Ukrainian and Russian classical c

York Bowen

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Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer’s works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961. Bowen’s compositional style is widely considered ‘Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language. Biography Bowen was born in Crouch Hill, London, to a father who was the owner of the whisky distillers Bowen and McKechnie. The youngest of three sons, Bowen began piano and harmony lessons with his mother at an early age. His talent was recognised almost immediately and he soon began his musical education at the North Metropolitan College of Music. He subsequently went on to study at the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music with Alfred Izard. In 1898, at the age of fourteen, Bowen gained an Erard scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He studied there until 1905, learning composition with Frederick Corder

Yuliya Veysberg

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Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg (Yuliya Rimskaya-Korsakova) (Julia Weissberg) (b. 6 January 1880 , d. March 1, 1942) was a music critic and composer. Life and career Yuliya Veysberg was born in Orenburg, Russian Empire. She studied at the Women’s University, and in 1912 graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatory where she studied composition under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. From 1912 to 1914 she continued her studies in Berlin with Engelbert Humperdinck and Max Reger. She returned to St. Petersburg and subsequently married Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov, musicologist and son of Rimsky-Korsakov, and from 1915 to 1917 served on the editorial board of, and contributed reviews to, the first Russian music magazine, Muzïkal’nïy sovremennik, which the couple founded. She and her son, Vsevolod Rimsky-Korsakov, died in World War II during the Siege of Leningrad conducted by Nazi German troops. Works Veysberg’s compositions included vocal works, a symphony, a scherzo, and a fantasia. Selected works include: *At Night (symphonic poem for orchestra) *Chinese songs *Chanson d’automne: Les sanglots longs, op. 2 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Paul Verlaine) *Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, op. 2 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1

Zacharia Paliashvili

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Zacharia Petres dze Paliashvili (), also known by his Russian name Zachary Petrovich Paliashvili (; 3 August 1871 – 6 October 1933), was a Georgian composer. Regarded as one of the founders of Georgian classical music, his work is known for its eclectic fusion of folk songs and stories with 19th-century Romantic classical themes. He was the founder of the Georgian Philharmonic Society and later, the head of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. The Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theater of Tbilisi was named in his honor in 1937. Notably, Paliashvili’s music serves as the basis of the National Anthem of Georgia. Although Paliashvili has composed works for symphony orchestra (e.g., Georgian Suite on Folk Themes), he is probably best known for his vocal music, which includes operas Abesalom da Eteri (based on a folk tale “Eteriani”), Daisi (Twilight), and Latavra. Biography Family and youth Paliashvili was born on 16 August 1871 in Kutaisi in the family of Petre Ivanes dze Paliashvili (1838–1913), an elder at the Kutaisi Georgian Catholic Church, who was said to be a model father and husband. Zacharia’s mother was Maria Pavles asuli Mesarkishvili (1851–1916). Zacharia was the third chi

Zdeněk Fibich

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Zdeněk Fibich (, 21 December 1850 in Všebořice – 15 October 1900 in Prague) was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas (the most famous probably Šárka and The Bride of Messina), melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a mass – a missa brevis; and a large cycle (a total of 376 pieces, from the 1890s) of piano works called Moods, Impressions, and Reminiscences. The piano cycle served as a diary of sorts of his love for a piano pupil, and one of the pieces formed the basis for the short instrumental work Poème, for which Fibich is best remembered today. Early life and education That Fibich is far less known than either Antonín Dvořák or Bedřich Smetana can be explained by the fact that he lived during the rise of Czech nationalism within the Habsburg Empire. While Smetana and Dvořák gave themselves over entirely to the national cause, consciously writing Czech music with which the emerging nation strongly identified, Fibich’s position was more

Zenón Rolón

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Zenón Rolón (25 June 1856 – 13 May 1902) was an Afro Argentine musician and composer. Born in Buenos Aires, he composed approximately 80 works including operas, operettas, zarzuelas and sacred music. Rolón also founded a music publishing company which published numerous works by contemporary Argentine composers. Many of his manuscripts are now held by the Instituto Nacional de Estudios de Teatro, in Buenos Aires, and by the Museo Histórico de Morón, the city where he died at the age of 45. Biography Rolón was born in Buenos Aires to an Afro Argentine family and first studied music in his native city with Alfredo Quiroga, a fellow Afro Argentine and organist of the (Church of Our Lady of Mercy). In 1873, when he was only 17 years old, he went to Florence for further study and remained there until 1879. In 1877 he wrote (Two Words to my Caste Brothers), a political pamphlet on the role of Afro Argentines in wider Argentine culture. When it was published in , an Afro Argentine newspaper in Buenos Aires, he was severely criticised, but opinion changed in his favour upon his return from Italy. Once back in Buenos Aires, he continued to study music, this time with Basilio Basili, and com

Zoel Parenteau

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Zoel Parenteau (April 9, 1883 – September 13, 1972) was an American composer, arranger, and music director. He is best remembered for his work as a Broadway composer. Biography Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Parenteau studied music composition with Ernest Bloch. the name for a Pittsburgh band founded by its star clarinetist Danny Nirella who was also a composer of many popular marches. In 1915 his comic opera The Lady of Luzon premiered in Pittsburgh. His first work on Broadway was contributing music to the 1915 Charles Dillingham revue Hip! Hip! Hooray!. He also contributed the song “Someday I’ll Find Your Words” and incidental music to David Belasco’s 1928 play Kiki; a song which was briefly a popular standard. As an arranger, Parteneau worked for a variety of notable people, including Dillingham, Florence Ziegfeld, and Victor Herbert. He also worked as the longtime music director for Pittsburgh’s KDKA (AM). Parenteau died on September 13, 1972, at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey at the age of 89. He was married to Emma Parenteau (née Summersgill). References

Zoltán Gáty

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Zoltán Gáty ( Gáti, Gáthy Gáthy) (Ajka, 5 March 1856 - Pápa, 17 July 1928) was a Hungarian music teacher, conductor, and composer. Biography Zoltán Gáty attended a primary school in his hometown, while playing the violin. He went on to study at the Pápa high school in Calvin. From 1874 he studied philosophy in Budapest, interrupted by the military years (1877-1879). He later attended a year of music school, and later obtained a diploma from Ferenc Liszt University of Music in the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in 1884. His most important teachers were Sándor Nikolits and Ferenc Erkel. After graduation he taught in music school, from 1890 in the Calvinist Teacher Training College at Pápa, from 1909 in the Calvinist … institute. He was also a choral conductor, and a leading figure of Pápa’s musical life. He retired in 1926. He and his wife had several children. Gáty was the subject of a biography by the conductor and composer published in 2015. Selected compositions * Magyar nyitány (1884, for full symphony orchestra) * Álmaimban gyakran (1884, by poem by Sándor Petőfi * Magyar ünnepi nyitány (1900, for 2 pianos) * Csonka honvéd (1903, by a poem by János Arany) * Psalm (1915, for

Zoltán Kodály

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Zoltán Kodály (, ; , ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education. Life Born in Kecskemét, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. In 1900, he entered the Department of Languages at the University of Budapest and at the same time Hans von Kössler’s composition class at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music. After completing his studies, he studied in Paris with Charles-Marie Widor for a year. In 1905, he visited remote villages to collect songs, recording them on phonograph cylinders. In 1906, he wrote a thesis on Hungarian folk song, “Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong”. At around this time Kodály met fellow composer and compatriot Béla Bartók, whom he took under his wing and introduced to some of the methods involved in folk song collecting. The two became lifelong friends and champions of each other’s music. In 1919, Kodály was appointed alongside Béla Bartók to the Music Directory by the People’s Commissariat for Education and Culture in the short-lived Hungarian

Zygmunt Stojowski

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Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, 1870 – November 5, 1946) was a Polish pianist and composer. Life He was born on May 4, 1870, near the city of Kielce. Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński. In Kraków, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the local orchestra. At the age of eighteen he moved to Paris and studied piano with Louis Diémer and composition with Léo Delibes. Two years later at the Paris Conservatoire, he would win first prizes in piano performance, counterpoint and fugue. According to Stojowski, however, in a December 1901 interview that appeared in a Warsaw magazine, the teachers who had the most profound influence on him as a musician were the Polish violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Stojowski’s music was found worthy enough to be included in the first concert of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, on 5 November 1901. His Symphony in D minor, Op. 21, which was featured in that first concert conducted by Emil Młynarski, had won first prize (1000 rubles) in a Paderewski Musi