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#12951

Lev Sverdlin

1901 - 1969 (68 years)

Lev Naumovich Sverdlin was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1936 to 1969. Filmography External links

#12952

Edward Danforth Hale

1859 - 1945 (86 years)

Edward Danforth Hale was a music school pedagogue in piano, music harmony, and composition and a collegiate music school dean. Hale was well known during his tenure at Colorado College as a proponent of standardized music education in public schoolss. He argued that curricular music in primary and secondary schools enhanced students' performance in classic core academics and made the classical core more comprehensive.

#12953

Karl Graedener

1812 - 1883 (71 years)

Karl Graedener was a German composer. Biography He was born in Rostock. From 1835 to 1838 he was a cellist in Helsinki. Then, he was musical director of the Kiel University for ten years. In 1851 he founded a singing school in Hamburg, which he directed until 1861. From 1862 to 1865 he taught singing and music theory at the Vienna Conservatory and then at the Hamburg Conservatory until his death.

#12954

Joe Smith

1902 - 1937 (35 years)

Joe "Fox" Smith was an American jazz trumpeter. Career Known throughout his childhood as "Toots", Smith originally started as a drummer but was convinced by Ethel Waters that he was far better as a trumpet player. It has been said that when he reached New York in 1920 he already had a fully formed style, which achieved "the vocalized sound, the blues spirit and the swing which makes for convincing jazz performance".

#12955

William Macready the Elder

William Macready the Elder

1755 - 1829 (74 years)

William Macready the Elder was an Irish actor-manager. Early life The son of a Dublin upholsterer, Macready started his career playing in Irish country towns. He joined the Capel Street Theatre in Dublin in 1782, and the Crow Street Theatre later during the 1782–3 season. The next season, he was brought to the Mill Gate Theatre, by Michael Atkins. He was in 1785 a member of the company at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

#12956

Hermann Scholtz

Hermann Scholtz

1845 - 1918 (73 years)

Hermann Scholtz was a German pianist and composer. Life Born in Breslau, Scholtz first studied with Moritz Brosig in Breslau and in 1865 went to the Leipzig conservatory, where he continued his studies with Louis Plaidy , Carl Riedel and Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen . On the recommendation of Franz Liszt, he moved to Munich in 1867 and completed his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich there with Hans von Bülow and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger .

#12957

Stanisław Łempicki

Stanisław Łempicki

1886 - 1947 (61 years)

Stanisław Łempicki was a Polish cultural historian, university professor, linguist and writer. He is considered a member of the Lwów–Warsaw school of thought.

#12958

Edward Goll

1884 - 1949 (65 years)

Edward Goll was a Bohemian pianist who settled in Australia in the 1910s and became a noted piano teacher at the Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music. His students included Margaret Sutherland, Waldemar Seidel and Dot Mendoza. He was also the target of anti-German feeling during World War I, despite having become a British subject at the start of the war.

#12959

Olga Steeb

1886 - 1941 (55 years)

Olga Steeb was an American pianist and music educator, based in Los Angeles, California. Early life Olga Steeb was the daughter of Carl Egon Steeb and Sophie S. Steeb, both German immigrants living in Los Angeles. Her father, a French horn player, was said to have taught his daughter to memorize hundreds of compositions as a child, and she was performing in concerts by 1904. She studied piano with Thilo Becker.

#12960

Max Miller

1911 - 1985 (74 years)

Edward Maxwell Miller was an American jazz pianist and vibraphone player. He had a forty year career that peaked in the 1940s and '50s. Many of his compositions use extended chord harmonies, polyphony, and polytonality and were influenced by Stravinsky, Bartók, and Hindemith.

#12961

Carl Schlesinger

1813 - 1871 (58 years)

Carl Schlesinger was a cellist. He originally played the violin. From 1838 onwards, he worked as a solo cellist successively for the Pesth National Theatre in Budapest and the Imperial Opera orchestra in Vienna. He was a member of the Hellmesberger Quartet, which was formed in 1849.

#12962

Samuel S. Losh

1884 - 1943 (59 years)

Samuel S. Losh was a vocalist, composer and music educator in Fort Worth, Texas. Biography Early life and education Samuel S. Losh was born in the community of Lebo in Perry County, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1884. His middle initial has been said to stand for various names including Stephen, Simpson, and even Socrates. He was one of five children born to Charles Silverius Losh and Alice Tamar Wagner Losh , both natives of Pennsylvania. The family moved to Hagerstown, Maryland, where Losh graduated from high school in 1902. As a baritone and pianist, Losh moved to Germany to study at the Le...

#12963

Kurt Leimer

1920 - 1974 (54 years)

Kurt Leimer was a German concert pianist, composer and piano instructor. Life Kurt Leimer demonstrated musical talent from a young age. His great-uncle, Karl Leimer, was instructor to educator Walter Gieseking who together published several piano textbooks. His talent was recognized by Gieseking, Carl Schuricht, and Wilhelm Furtwängler who helped launch his career as a concert pianist. At the age of 18, he received a scholarship to the Berlin Conservatory, where he studied alongside Vladimir Horbowski and Winfried Wolf. The same year, 1938, Leimer made his concert debut in Berlin. In 19...

#12964

Nikolai Orlov

1892 - 1964 (72 years)

Nikolai Andreyevich Orlov was a Russian pianist who was appreciated especially for his interpretations of Frédéric Chopin. Nikolai Orlov studied piano at Moscow and graduated from Moscow Conservatory on 1910. He also studied privately composition and counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev. His first public concert was held in 1912, and he gave the première of the first piano concerto of Alexander Glazunov in the same year.

#12965

Osceola Macarthy Adams

Osceola Macarthy Adams

1890 - 1983 (93 years)

Osceola Macarthy Adams was an American actress, drama teacher, director, and clothing designer. She was one of the 22 founders of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Born to a life insurance executive in Albany, Georgia, Macarthy was mixed with European, Native American, and African-American heritage. She attended schools in Albany, Georgia including Albany Normal School, a predecessor to Albany State University, and then attended Fisk University’s Preparatory School. Later, she attended Howard University, where she studied ancient Greek and philosophy. After graduating from Howard, Osceola marrie...

#12966

Ed Brady

1889 - 1942 (53 years)

Edwin J. Brady was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 350 films between 1911 and 1942. On Broadway, he appeared in The Spy . Filmography The Heart of a Cracksman The Test A Child of the Prairie - The GamblerNeal of the Navy - HernandezSpellbound - Katti HabThe Twin Triangle - MarcoThe Sultana - Count StrelitsoThe Mainspring - JervissThe Double Room Mystery - Bill GreelyGod's Crucible - WilkinsMutiny - Eben WiggsThe Flame of Youth - McCoolThe Reed Case - 'Red'The Stolen Paradise - LerouxThe Spindle of Life - JasonWild Sumac - John LewisaIndiscreet Corinne - P.A. Br...

#12967

Joseph Fischhof

Joseph Fischhof

1804 - 1857 (53 years)

Joseph Fischhof was a Czech-Austrian pianist, composer and professor at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, belonging to the Romantic school. Life and career Fischhof was born into a Jewish family in Bučovice, Moravia. He planned to become a medical doctor, but later studied music and composition under Ignaz von Seyfried, and in 1833 became Professor of Piano at the Vienna Conservatory. He was the uncle of composer Robert Fischhof.

#12968

Edmund Burke

1809 - 1882 (73 years)

Edmund Burke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician. He served as the United States Commissioner of Patents and as a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire in the 1840s. Early life and career Born in Westminster, Vermont, Burke was the son of Elijah and Grace Burke. He attended the public schools and studied law with Henry Adams Bellows, future Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Burke was admitted to the bar in 1826. He began practicing law in Colebrook, New Hampshire before moving to Claremont, New Hampshire in 1833.

#12969

Sara Cahier

1875 - 1951 (76 years)

Sara Charles-Cahier or Madame Charles Cahier was an American-born Swedish mezzo-soprano or contralto singer in opera and lieder, singing primarily in Europe. The American-born Cahier later acquired Swedish citizenship. She was associated with Gustav Mahler, and was one of the soloists in the posthumous premiere of his Das Lied von der Erde in 1911. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and was a teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her students included Marian Anderson.

#12970

Krikor Peshtimaldjian

1778 - 1839 (61 years)

Krikor Peshtimaldjian was a prominent ethnic Armenian philosopher, educator, translator, and linguist. He was a key figure in the Armenian reawakening and reformist movement in the 19th century.

#12971

George Sidney

1877 - 1945 (68 years)

George Sidney was a Hungarian-born American film actor and comedian. He starred in The Cohens and Kellys film series. Early years Born in Nagynichal, Hungary, Sidney was the son of Lewis K. Sidney, an executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He was the uncle of the film director George Sidney.

#12972

John Lynch

1825 - 1892 (67 years)

John Lynch was a nineteenth-century politician, merchant, manufacturer and newspaper publisher from Maine. Born in Portland, Maine, Lynch attended public schools as a child and graduated from Portland High School in 1842. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, was manager of the Portland Daily Press in 1862 and was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864. He was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1864, serving from 1865 to 1873. There, Lynch served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy from 1869 to 1871 and of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury from 1871 to 1873.

#12973

Eric Emerson

1945 - 1975 (30 years)

Eric Emerson was an American musician, dancer, and actor. Emerson is best known for his roles in films by pop artist Andy Warhol, and as a member of the seminal glam punk group the Magic Tramps. Career Growing up in New Jersey, Emerson trained as a classic ballet dancer. It was this talent that caught the eye of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol. After seeing Emerson dancing at The Dom in April 1966, Warhol asked Emerson to be in one of his underground films. Emerson made his film debut in 1967's Chelsea Girls, and soon became a Factory regular. Emerson starred in other Warhol films, most notably Lonesome Cowboys, San Diego Surf, and Heat.

#12974

Hans Winderstein

1856 - 1925 (69 years)

Hans Wilhelm Gustav Winderstein was a German conductor and composer. Winderstein studied from 1877 to 1880 at Leipzig Conservatoire, under Henry Schradieck and Fr. Hermann , E. Fr. Richter and W. Rust . He also played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1880 to 1884, he led Baron von Derwies' private orchestra at Nice after which he was violin teacher at the Winterthur Conservatoire in Switzerland until 1887. He then conducted an orchestra at Nuremberg for three years. From 1890 to 1893 he conducted the concerts of the Philharmonic Societies of Nuremberg and Fürth. Between 1893 and 1896 Winderstein directed the newly established Kaim Orchestra.

#12975

Emelie Hooke

1912 - 1974 (62 years)

Emelie Victoria Georgina Hooke was an Australian soprano who was notable in opera, oratorio and concert, and sang in Australia, England, Europe and South Africa. Early life Hooke was born in 1912 in Melbourne, where she was schooled. Her advanced musical training was at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. She sang frequently in opera and oratorio in Australia, and for two years was engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In 1931 and 1932 she sang in Handel's Messiah with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic; the latter performance was with John Brownlee, the orchestra being conducted by Bernard Heinze.

#12976

Carol Brice

1918 - 1985 (67 years)

Carol Brice was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute and later at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she received a Bachelor of Music in 1939. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music from 1939 to 1943. She attracted considerable attention for her role in a 1939 production of The Hot Mikado at the New York World's Fair, where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice.

#12977

Emiliana de Zubeldia

Emiliana de Zubeldia

1888 - 1987 (99 years)

Emiliana de Zubeldía Inda was a Spanish pianist and composer. She is known for her piano, choral, and solo voice compositions. Biography Emiliana de Zubeldia was born in Salinas de Oro, Navarre, in Northern Spain, and emigrated to Latin America prior to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. She began her musical studies at Pamplona and in 1904 continued at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where she studied composition with Vincent d'Indy and piano with Blanche Selva.

#12978

Viktor Kalinnikov

1870 - 1927 (57 years)

Viktor Sergeevich Kalinnikov, also Victor , was a Soviet choral composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was the younger brother of the better-known symphonic composer Vasily Kalinnikov . 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.

#12979

Kenneth Elloway

1916 - 1980 (64 years)

Captain Kenneth Albert Elloway was a British teacher, trombonist, double-bassist, cornetist, and conductor of many orchestras. External links Kenneth Elloway at The Canadian Encyclopedia

#12980

Roslyn Brogue

1919 - 1981 (62 years)

Roslyn Brogue was an American pianist, violinist, music educator, classics scholar, poet, author and composer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1937, from Radcliffe College in 1943 and from Harvard University in 1947 with a Ph.D.

#12981

Maria Rodrigo

1888 - 1967 (79 years)

María Rodrigo was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was the daughter of Pantaléon Rodrigo, and studied music at the Madrid Conservatorium under José Tragó for piano, Valentín Arín for harmony and Emilio Serrano for composition. Maria was the first woman to have her opera performed in Spain. Her sister Mercedes Rodrigo was equally intelligent, being the first woman from Spain to obtain a degree in psychology from the Rousseau Institute in Geneva. The two left Spain for Switzerland during the Spanish Civil War, moved in 1939 to Bogota, Colombia, at the invitation of rector Agustín Nieto Caballero, and in 1950 to Puerto Rico at the invitation of José María García Madrid.

#12982

Gerhard Puchelt

Gerhard Puchelt

1913 - 1987 (74 years)

Gerhard Puchelt was a German pianist. Life Born in Stettin, Puchelt studied from 1931 to 1935 at the Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik with Else C. Kraus and Eduard Erdmann and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Afterwards, he worked as a concert pianist and accompanist for well-known singers, instrumentalists and chamber music ensembles. After the Second World War, he continued his career as a piano virtuoso and gave his first concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker as early as September 1945, Schumann, piano concerto op. 54. In 1949, he was appointed professor for piano at the Hochs...

#12983

John Ralston

1882 - 1933 (51 years)

John Morgan Ralston was an Australian baritone singer noted for his work in musical comedies and Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Biography Ralston was born in Brisbane, the second son of John Ralston , a marine pilot. He began singing as a boy soprano at St Mary's Church, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane in 1894

#12984

Herbert Collum

1914 - 1982 (68 years)

Herbert Collum was a German organist, harpsichordist, composer and conductor. Life Born in Leipzig, Collum received high school education between 1921 and 1929. He continued from 1930 to 1934 at the Church Music Institute in Leipzig, where he studied organ with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin, piano with Carl Adolf Martienssen, choral conducting with Kurt Thomas, and musical composition with Johann Nepomuk David and Fritz Reuter. Already by 1927 he had become deputy organist at the St. Matthäikirche Leipzig. From 1932 to 1935 he served as assistant to Ramin, Thomaskantor at the Thomaskirche. H...

#12985

Karl Clausen

1904 - 1972 (68 years)

Karl Søren Clausen was a Danish pianist, conductor, composer and musicologist. In addition to his work as a high school teacher in German and Music, he composed several instrumental and choral works, as well as songs. He became increasingly involved in work with amateur choirs and school singing, and he became a very popular choir conductor, who led several choirs to many musical successes, often with his own choir arrangements, based on folk melodies.

#12986

Sebastián de Vivanco

1551 - 1622 (71 years)

Sebastián de Vivanco was a Spanish priest and composer of the Renaissance. Life Vivanco was born in Ávila, like Tomás Luis de Victoria; however, the exact date of his birth is unknown. It is hypothesized that he was born a few years after Victoria and that they both knew each other as children and sang together at the chapel of the Cathedral of Ávila. During the time that Vivanco sang in the chorus, the maestri di cappella were Gerónimo de Espinar, Bernardino de Ribera and Juan Navarro Hispalensis . This last composer had the most profound influence on Vivanco. After 1566, with the change in...

#12987

Kurt Roger

1895 - 1966 (71 years)

Kurt George Roger was an Austrian–American composer. Roger was born in Austria on 3 May 1895 to Viennese parents and studied in Vienna with Guido Adler, and in class with Arnold Schoenberg - though not following Schoenberg's 12-tone system. He taught at the Vienna Conservatoire from 1923 to 1938 and his works were receiving high-profile performances until the Nazi Anschluss forced his emigration to the United States via London. He became an American citizen in 1945 and held teaching positions in New York and Washington DC, lecturing at several universities and giving radio talks, notably on...

#12988

Arno Hilf

1858 - 1909 (51 years)

Franz Arno Hilf was a German violin virtuoso. Among others, he was Konzertmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and primarius of the Gewandhaus Quartet. Life Hilf came from a family of musicians. He was born in 1858 as the son of a musician in Bad Elster. His brother Robert Hilf , his uncles Christian Adam Arno Hilf and Christoph Wolfgang Hilf and his cousins Oskar Korndörfer and Ernst Korndörfer were also musicians and all played in the Gewandhaus Orchestra.

#12989

Thomas Täglichsbeck

1799 - 1867 (68 years)

Thomas Täglichsbeck was a German violinist and composer. Täglichsbeck was born in Ansbach. His family settled in the region of the Vogtland between Bavaria, Thuringia and Saxony, in 1800. Following violin lessons from his father, Johann Täglichsbeck, young Thomas moved to Munich where he studied with Pietro Rovelli. In 1817 a mass of his, written under the supervision of Josef Gratz, was performed in Munich. That same year, Täglichsbeck became a violinist in the Isarthortheater orchestra. Two years later, at the age of 20, he succeeded Lindpaintner as music director, making him one of the youngest conductors of the theater orchestra in Lower Saxony.

#12990

Hans Schläger

1820 - 1885 (65 years)

Hans Schläger was an Austrian conductor and composer, important in the musical life of Salzburg in the 1860s. He was particularly involved in choral music. Life Schläger was born in Feldkirchen an der Donau, Upper Austria, in 1810. His father Johann Schläger, a teacher, gave him early music lessons, and he was a choirboy at St. Florian Monastery, where he received violin lessons. In Linz he trained from 1836 to 1838 to be a teacher; he became an assistant teacher in Regau, and afterwards in Sankt Florian, where he was the predecessor of Anton Bruckner. .

#12991

Sergei Rozanov

1870 - 1937 (67 years)

Sergei Vasilievich Rozanov was a Russian Empire clarinetist and teacher, considered to be the founder of modern Russian clarinet school. In 1886, he entered Moscow Conservatory, where his teacher was Franz Zimmermann , solo clarinet of Bolshoi theatre. After graduating in 1890, Rozanov began his career as an orchestral musician in different opera theatres of Moscow. In 1894 he was engaged as a second clarinet in Bolshoi theatre, and three years later became the solo clarinet. He kept this place up to 1929. Rozanov also performed frequently as a soloist and chamber musician, he was the first R...

#12992

Gusztáv Szerémi

1877 - 1952 (75 years)

Gusztáv Szerémi was a Hungarian violinist, violist and composer. Szerémi was professor of violin and viola at the Royal National Hungarian 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.

#12993

Sergei Tolstoy

1863 - 1947 (84 years)

Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy was a composer and ethnomusicologist who was among the first Europeans to make an in-depth study of the music of India. He was also an associate of the Sufi mystic, Inayat Khan, and participated in helping the Doukhobors move to Canada.

#12994

Joshua Whatmough

1897 - 1964 (67 years)

Joshua Whatmough was an English linguist, professor, and writer from Rochdale, Lancashire who served as the president of the Linguistics Society of America in 1951. He was also the chairman of the department of linguistics at Harvard University from 1926 to his retirement in 1963. He studied comparative philology and classics at the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge.

#12995

Uriel Weinreich

1926 - 1967 (41 years)

Uriel Weinreich was a Jewish–American linguist. Life Uriel Weinreich was born in Wilno, Poland , the first child of Max Weinreich and Regina Szabad, to a family that paternally hailed from Courland in Latvia and maternally came from a well-respected and established Wilno Jewish family. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University and went on to teach there, specializing in Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics, and dialectology. He advocated the increased acceptance of semantics and compiled the iconic Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, published shortly after his death...

#12996

Eric Lenneberg

1921 - 1975 (54 years)

Eric Heinz Lenneberg was a linguist and neurologist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness. Life and career He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ethnically Jewish, he left Nazi Germany because of rising Nazi persecution. He initially fled to Brazil with his family and then to the United States where he attended the University of Chicago and Harvard University. A professor of psychology and neurobiology, he taught at the Harvard Medical School, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Cornell University and Med...

#12997

Jonathan Bobaljik

Jonathan David Bobaljik is a Canadian linguist specializing in morphology, syntax, and typology. Bobaljik received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 with a thesis titled Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection advised by Noam Chomsky and David Pesetsky. He is currently a professor at Harvard University and has previously held positions at McGill University and University of Connecticut. He is a leading scholar in the area of Distributed Morphology.

#12998

Raymond Aron

1905 - 1983 (78 years)

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people; he argues that Marxism was the opium of the intellectuals in post-war France. In the book, Aron chastised French intellectuals for what he described as their harsh criticism of capitalism and democracy and their simultaneous defense of the actions of the communist governments of the East.

#12999

John C. Merrill

John Calhoun Merrill was an American author and professor of journalism. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and taught at a number of other colleges and universities, and was the author of 30 books and over 100 articles in journals, and has been considered one of the leading scholars in journalism during his time. In 2007, a festschrift, Freedom Fighter, was issued in his honor.

#13000

Roland Grubb Kent

1877 - 1952 (75 years)

Roland Grubb Kent was an American educator and a founder of the Linguistic Society of America . He was the first person to translate Marcus Terentius Varro's De Lingua Latina into English. Ken's 1903 doctoral thesis on the history of Thessaly traces the history of the country with particular attention to the times between 600 and 300 BC. Unfortunately, only Chapter V and two appendices were published, and the bulk of his dissertation is currently lost. His Old Persian: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon is one of the seminal works on the subject.

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