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#13201

Pavel Pabst

1854 - 1897 (43 years)

Paul or Pavel Avgustovich Pabst was a pianist, composer, and Professor of Piano at Moscow Conservatory. Life and career Pabst was born Christian Georg Paul Pabst in 1854, into a family of musicians in the capital of East Prussia, Königsberg . 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.

#13202

Placido Mandanici

1799 - 1852 (53 years)

Placido Mandanici was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas. He graduated from the Music Lyceum in Palermo , and then studied at Naples with Pietro Raimondi. In 1829 his first opera, L'isola disabitata, premiered in Naples.

#13203

Herbert Elwell

1898 - 1974 (76 years)

Herbert Elwell was an American composer and music critic. A native of Minneapolis, he was among the first Americans to study in France with Nadia Boulanger. While in Paris his Quintet for Piano and Strings garnered more praise than George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was premiered at the same concert. He began his studies in music at the University of Minnesota, and went on to work with Ernest Bloch prior to his sojourn in France. He also attended the American Academy in Rome during which time he composed his most frequently performed work, the ballet The Happy Hypocrite .

#13204

Arbee Stidham

1917 - 1988 (71 years)

Arbee William Stidham was an American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist. According to the authors of the book All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Stidham was "exactly the sort of singer that thrived in the R&B or 'race' market after World War II; although essentially a bluesman, he wasn't a blues purist... his mixture of blues, jazz and gospel made him quite popular... in the '40s and '50s".

#13205

Georgi Conus

1862 - 1933 (71 years)

Georgi Eduardovich Conus was a Russian music theorist and composer of French descent. He was the eldest of the three Conus brothers, of whom the others were Julius and Lev. He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow.

#13206

Mamie Smith

1883 - 1946 (63 years)

Mamie Smith was an American singer. As a vaudeville singer, she performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African-American artist to make vocal blues recordings. Willie "The Lion" Smith described the background of these recordings in his autobiography Music on My Mind .

#13207

Rezső Sugár

1919 - 1988 (69 years)

Rezső Sugár was a Hungarian composer. Rezső Sugár was born in Budapest. He studied musical composition under Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1937 to 1942. He was a teacher of composition at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music from 1949 to 1968 and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1968 to 1979.

#13208

Emory Johnson

1894 - 1960 (66 years)

Alfred Emory Johnson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. As a teenager, he started acting in silent films. Early in his career, Carl Laemmle chose Emory to become a Universal Studio leading man. He also became part of one of the early Hollywood celebrity marriages when he wed Ella Hall.

#13209

John Mehegan

1916 - 1984 (68 years)

John Francis Mehegan was an American jazz pianist, lecturer and critic. Early life Mehegan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 6, 1916, although he sometimes gave the year as 1920. He began playing the violin in 1926 and played for seven years without enjoying it. He initially taught himself to play the piano by matching his fingers to the notes played on a player piano. He went on to study at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford. He had gigs in the Massachusetts area, and then moved to New York in 1941.

#13210

Margarete Kupfer

1881 - 1953 (72 years)

Margarete Kupfer was a German actress. Partial filmography The Canned Bride Frau Eva The Queen's Secretary When Four Do the Same The Ballet Girl I Don't Want to Be a Man The Foreign Prince The Rosentopf Case The Seeds of Life Carmen Prince Cuckoo The Loves of Käthe Keller The Dancer Sumurun Wibbel the Tailor The Head of Janus Countess Walewska Judith Trachtenberg Waves of Life and Love A Woman's Revenge The Devil and Circe The Hunt for the Truth The Story of a Maid Children of Darkness The Devil's Chains Nathan the Wise Bigamy Only One Night Gold and Luck Nanon Girls You Don't Marry Debit and...

#13211

George Frederick Boyle

1886 - 1948 (62 years)

George Frederick Boyle was an Australian, and later American pianist, composer and pedagogue. He moved to the United States in 1910 and remained there until his death in 1948. Biography Boyle was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on June 29, 1886. He was taught the piano by his mother and later by Sydney Moss. In 1901, aged 14 or 15, he made a concert tour of more than 280 towns and cities in Australia and New Zealand; this was the first of a number of tours. In 1904, the visiting Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski met Boyle and suggested that he study with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin. Boyle...

#13212

Guan Pinghu

1895 - 1967 (72 years)

Guan Pinghu , was a leading player of the guqin , a Chinese 7-string bridgeless zither. Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Guan came from an artistic family, and started to learn the guqin from his father, Guan Nianci. After the death of his father when he was thirteen, Guan continued with his father's friend Ye Shimeng and Zhang Xiangtao. He also studied with the leading players of three different schools; Yang Zongji , the leading player in Beijing, the Daoist Qin Heming, and the Buddhist monk Wucheng.

#13213

William Scott

1893 - 1967 (74 years)

William Scott was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 90 films between 1913 and 1934. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley The Still Alarm The City of Purple Dreams Thieves Who's Your Servant? The Mother of His Children Jackie Hickville to Broadway A Voice in the Dark Deserted at the Altar Alias Julius Caesar Only a Shop Girl His Last Race The Fourth Musketeer Yesterday's Wife Innocence Not a Drum Was Heard Against All Odds Dante's Inferno Beyond the Border After Business Hours The Light ...

#13214

Stanisław Rospond

Stanisław Rospond

1906 - 1982 (76 years)

Stanisław Rospond was a Polish linguist, and professor at the University of Wroclaw.

#13215

Anthony Young

1683 - 1747 (64 years)

Anthony Young was an English organist and composer. He was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the 17th and 18th centuries.

#13216

Fredrik Wulff

1845 - 1930 (85 years)

Fredrik Amadeus Wulff was a Swedish phonetician and philologist.

#13217

Frederick Crowe

1862 - 1931 (69 years)

Frederick Joseph William Crowe was an English organist. Frederick Crowe was a chorister and then Assistant Organist of Wells Cathedral. He became Organist of St. Mary Magdelene, Torquay, in 1890. A man of wide and varied interests, Crowe taught at Bishop Otter College of Education and at Chichester School in the Pallants. He was a committed Freemason; astronomy and billiards also occupied his time.

#13218

James Bell

1891 - 1973 (82 years)

James Harlee Bell was an American film and stage actor who appeared in about 150 films and television shows through 1964. Bell was born in Suffolk, Virginia, and graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1911 with a degree in electrical engineering. In 1920, he made his theatrical debut as Venustiano in The Bad Man. He worked steadily on Broadway through 1941.

#13219

Arthur Jones

1892 - 1976 (84 years)

Arthur Jones was a shearer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born at Lower Barnes, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. Early days Murphy was born at Worcestershire, England, to Thomas Jones and his wife Mary Anne and was educated in Wolverley. As a child he moved to Canada but returned to England. He then travelled alone to Australia arriving in March 1911 where he became a "gun" shearer in the Hunter Valley and in January 1916 arrived in Queensland. In 1924–25 he demonstrated his shearing abilities at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in England and ...

#13220

Aleksandr Lokshin

Aleksandr Lokshin

1920 - 1987 (67 years)

Aleksandr Lazarevich Lokshin was a Soviet composer of classical music. He was born on 19 September 1920 in the town of Biysk, in the Altai Region, Western Siberia, and died in Moscow on 11 June 1987.

#13221

Willis Jackson

1932 - 1987 (55 years)

Willis "Gator" Jackson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Biography Born in Miami, Florida, and educated at the University of Miami, Jackson joined Cootie Williams's band in 1948 as a teenager, and was part of it on and off until 1955.

#13222

Edith Farnadi

1911 - 1973 (62 years)

Edith Farnadi was a Hungarian pianist. She was born in Budapest and began her studies at the age of 7 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. She studied with Professor Arnold Székely . At the age of 9, she made her musical debut as a child prodigy. At the age of 12, she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, directing the orchestra from the piano. She received her diploma from the Musical Academy in Budapest when she was 17 years old. During her studies at the Music Academy she won the Franz Liszt Prize twice. She became a professor at the Budapest Franz Liszt Academy where she remained until 1942.

#13223

Gerrit Hendrik Kersten

1882 - 1948 (66 years)

Gerrit Hendrik Kersten was a Dutch Calvinist minister and politician. After briefly working as a primary school teacher Kersten was inducted into his first pastorate in Meliskerke in 1905 without formal theological training. In 1907 Kersten was instrumental in achieving a union of two groups of disparate, low-church groups of small secessional congregations, resulting in the formation of the Reformed Congregations . Eleven years later, in 1918, he established the Reformed Political Party to realize his vision of "a Calvinist Netherlands ruled on a biblical basis without cinema, sports, vaccination and social security".

#13224

Luca Fumagalli

1837 - 1908 (71 years)

Luca Fumagalli was an Italian composer, pianist, and music educator. Fumagalli studied at the Milan Conservatory before traveling to Paris in 1860. He taught piano at the Philadelphia Conservatory and, later, in Milan. His opera Luigi XI was premiered at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in 1875; he also composed a symphony titled Sinfonia Marinaresca and a number of virtuosic piano works.

#13225

Fu Ssu-nien

1896 - 1950 (54 years)

Fu Ssu-nien , was a Chinese historian, linguist, and writer. He was one of the leaders of the May Fourth Movement in 1919. He was also one of the creators of the Academia Sinica, and was named director of the Institute of History and Philology upon its founding in 1928.

#13226

Dionys Pruckner

Dionys Pruckner

1834 - 1896 (62 years)

Dionys Pruckner was a noted pianist and music teacher at Stuttgart. He was a student of Franz Liszt from 1852 until about 1855 who did concert tours throughout Europe. In 1859 he was appointed to the faculty of the Stuttgart Conservatory. Pruckner was a member of the masonic lodge Wilhelm zur aufgehenden Sonne in Stuttgart.

#13227

Vasily Zolotarev

1873 - 1964 (91 years)

Vasily Andreyevich Zolotarev, also romanized as Zolotaryov , was a Russian composer and music teacher. Biography Vasily Zolotarev was born to a Greek family named Kuyumzhi 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 in the class of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , graduating in 1900. Zolotarev lectured at Moscow Conservatory , at the Belarus State Academy of Music in 1933–1941, and other conservatories. Among his students in Minsk was Mieczys...

#13228

Johnny Lee

1898 - 1965 (67 years)

John Dotson Lee Jr. was an American singer, dancer and actor known for voicing the role of Br'er Rabbit in Disney's Song of the South and as the clownish, cringing, tremulous-voiced shyster pseudo-lawyer Algonquin J. Calhoun in the CBS Amos 'n' Andy TV and radio comedy series in the early 1950s. His comedic portrayal of Calhoun was a highlight of a brilliant ensemble cast whose storylines remain eternally funny. Much of his career was spent in vaudeville, but he also performed in motion pictures, on recordings and in television. He released a record in July 1949 called "You Can't Lose A Broken Heart" , with backup vocals by The Ebonaires.

#13229

Hermann Schroeder

1904 - 1984 (80 years)

Hermann Schroeder was a German composer and a Catholic church musician. Life Schroeder was born in Bernkastel and spent the greatest part of his life’s work in the Rheinland. His mother's family had common ancestry with Beethoven. He studied from 1926 to 1930 at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, where his most important teachers were Heinrich Lemacher and Walter Braunfels , Hermann Abendroth , and Hans Bachem .

#13230

Jonas Švedas

1908 - 1971 (63 years)

Jonas Švedas was a Lithuanian and Soviet composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1954. He was the co-composer of the Anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic along with Balys Dvarionas.

#13231

Anton Torello

1884 - 1960 (76 years)

Anton Torello was a Catalan double bass player. He was Principal Bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1914 until 1948, and was the first bass professor at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. He taught what became the Philadelphia school of double bass playing, strongly influencing American bass playing.

#13232

Joe Gordon

1928 - 1963 (35 years)

Joseph Henry Gordon was an American jazz trumpeter. His first professional gigs were in Boston in 1947; he played with Georgie Auld, Charlie Mariano, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker , Art Blakey , and Don Redman.

#13233

Moissaye Boguslawski

Moissaye Boguslawski

1887 - 1944 (57 years)

Moissaye Boguslawski was an American pianist, composer, editor and teacher. Sometimes known as Bogie. Biography He was born in Chicago in 1887 to Russian immigrants with significant musical background. Despite the family's poverty, Boguslawski began piano lessons at age 4 and began playing in public at weddings at the age of 10. By age 15 he was performing at a dance hall in Chicago. He also studied briefly with Rudolph Ganz.

#13234

Peter Faber

1810 - 1877 (67 years)

Peter Christian Frederik Faber was a Danish telegraphy pioneer and song writer. In Denmark, he is remembered first and foremost for his songwriting. Faber was also an amateur photographer and is credited with the oldest photograph on record in Denmark.

#13235

Moritz Fürstenau

Moritz Fürstenau

1824 - 1889 (65 years)

Moritz Ludwig Carl Ignaz Franz August Fürstenau was a German flautist and music historian. He left only a few works that gained little significance, but was extremely helpful as a theater historian.

#13236

Joseph Douglass

Joseph Douglass

1871 - 1935 (64 years)

Joseph Henry Douglass was an American concert violinist, the son of Charles Remond Douglass and Mary Elizabeth Murphy, and grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Early life and influence During the time following the Civil War, many African-American musicians began to break into the art music genre. Joseph Douglass, a concert violinist, was one of the first African-American performers to be nationally and internationally renowned. His influence came at an early age from his father and grandfather, famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who were both amateur violin players. He studied v...

#13237

Edgar Wollgandt

Edgar Wollgandt

1880 - 1949 (69 years)

Edgar Wollgandt was a German violinist. Life His father was the bassoonist and royal chamber musician Adelhardt Wollgandt. After attending a secondary school in Wiesbaden, Wollgandt first did his military service as a one-year volunteer. He studied at the Wiesbaden Conservatory until 1897, then from 1897 to 1900 he studied violin at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt with Hugo Heermann. At the same time he played in the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester.

#13238

Philippine Schick

1893 - 1970 (77 years)

Ida Philippine Eleanor Rosa Schick, married name Philippine von Waltershausen, was a German composer, pianist, conductor and university lecturer. She was one of the few female composers whose works were performed in Nazi Germany.

#13239

Steven De Groote

Steven De Groote

1953 - 1989 (36 years)

Steven De Groote was a South African classical pianist. Steven De Groote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a Belgian family in which, for three generations, almost every member had been a professional musician. His grandmother was a recipient of the Prix de Rome in Belgium, and his father the conductor of the Cape Town University Symphony. As a youngster, De Groote toured South Africa performing trios with his father on violin and brother on cello.

#13240

Heinrich Kaspar Schmid

Heinrich Kaspar Schmid

1874 - 1953 (79 years)

Heinrich Kaspar Schmid was a German composer. Biography Schmid was born at Landau. As a boy he studied music with his father who was a school teacher and choral conductor. He also sang in the boys choir at Regensburg Cathedral for several years. He entered the Munich Akademie der Tonkunst where he studied composition with Ludwig Thuille. In 1905 he was appointed to teach at the Munich Academy and in 1919 was promoted to a full professor. After World War I, Schmid entered a highly successful part of his career both as a performer and composer. He toured throughout Austria, Scandinavia, and Russia.

#13241

Lalmani Misra

1924 - 1979 (55 years)

Lalmani Misra was an Indian classical musician. Initiation into music Lalmani learnt Dhruvapada Dhamar in the tradition of Shankar Bhatt and Munshi Bhrigunath Lal. He learnt Khayal singing with Ustad Mehndi Hussain Khan, a disciple of Ustad Vazir Khan of Rampur Seni Gharana. He received training in Dhruvpad, Bhajan and Tabla from Swami Pramodanand; in sitar from Shri Shukdev Roy. Under the tutelage of Ustad Amir Ali Khan, he perfected several other musical instruments.

#13242

Otto Neitzel

1852 - 1920 (68 years)

Otto Neitzel was a German composer, pianist, writer on music, and lecturer. Neitzel was born in the town of Falkenburg in Farther Pomerania . His father, Gottfried Neitzel was a teacher and his mother, Louise , was a housewife.

#13243

Allan Arthur Willman

1909 - 1987 (78 years)

Allan Arthur Willman was an American classical pianist, composer, music pedagog at the collegiate level, and longtime chairman of the Department of Music at the University of Wyoming. Willman was a vanguard creator and influential exponent of twentieth-century contemporary music. As chairman of the music department at the University of Wyoming, he is credited with rapidly expanding music arts within the institution. He led the development of a more comprehensive Music Department for aspiring academicians and professionals in performance, composition, education, and musicology. Between 1940 and 1950, enrollment in the Music Department quadrupled.

#13244

Karel Höger

1909 - 1977 (68 years)

Karel Höger was a Czechoslovakian film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1939 and 1977. Selected filmography In the Still of the Night Enchanted Gabriela Fourteen at the Table Lost in the Suburbs Krakatit A Dead Man Among the Living Old Czech Legends Nástup Jan Hus Jan Žižka Vlacek Kolejacek The Fabulous Baron Munchausen Lucie I, Justice Noc na Karlštejně

#13245

Tom Adair

1913 - 1988 (75 years)

Thomas Montgomery Adair was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter. Biography Adair was born on 15 June 1913, in Newton, Kansas, where his father owned a clothing store: he was the only child of William Adair and Madge Cochran.

#13246

Wilhelm Stross

1907 - 1966 (59 years)

Wilhelm Stross was a German violinist and composer. He was professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln as well as first violin of the Stross Quartet.

#13247

Henry Lazarus

1815 - 1895 (80 years)

Henry Lazarus was the leading British clarinet virtuoso of the 19th century. George Bernard Shaw wrote of Henry Lazarus: He was the best clarionet [old spelling, now clarinet] player in England; when you were sitting behind Costa at the Opera you listened for certain phrases from the clarionet just as you did from the prima donna, except that you were much less likely to be disappointed in the former case.

#13248

Richard A. Rowland

Richard A. Rowland

1880 - 1947 (67 years)

Richard A. Rowland was an American studio executive and film producer. Career Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rowland was the head of Metro Pictures Corporation from 1915 to 1920, a studio he founded in 1915 along with Louis B. Mayer. Mayer left in 1918 to form his own studio. Metro did most of its productions in Los Angeles and in New York City, where it occasionally leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Among Metro's productions were: The Eternal Question with Olga Petrova, The Divorcée with Ethel Barrymore, and What People Will Say? directed by Alice Guy-Blache.

#13249

Rudolph Henzi

1794 - 1829 (35 years)

Samuel Gottlieb Rudolph Henzi , was a Swiss linguist, Professor at the University of Tartu on the Chair of Exegetics and Oriental languages, the Dean of the theological faculty; head of the Tartu Branch of Russian Bible Society.

#13250

Arman

1921 - 1980 (59 years)

Aramais Vardani Hovsepian , known as Arman Hovsepian was an Iranian Armenian actor. Biography He was born Aramais Vardan Hovsepian , on 21 February 1921 in Tabriz. He started performing in school theaters before he landed a major role in Namus in 1940 and entered nonprofessional theater. He moved to Tehran in 1954 and joined the theater group of Ararat Club and worked with celebrities like Joseph Vaezian, Samuel Khachikian, and Aramais Aghamalian.

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