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#14051

Lev Tseitlin

1881 - 1952 (71 years)

Lev Tseitlin , was a violinist and a professor. Biography Tseitlin started to study violin in Tbilisi under Evgeny Kolchin. In 1901 he graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied with Leopold Auer. He then went to study with Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels, and worked as a concertmaster in Orchestre Collone in Paris before returning to Russia in 1906. There in Moscow he first worked as an orchestra leader in Zimin Opera, and from 1908 till 1917 as a concertmaster in Serge Koussevitzky’s symphony orchestra. From 1918 to 1920 he taught at the Institute of Music and Drama, and from 19...

#14052

Gertrude Foster Brown

1867 - 1956 (89 years)

Gertrude Foster Brown was a concert pianist, teacher, and suffragist. Following the passage of women suffrage in New York State in 1917, and pending passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Brown wrote Your Vote and How to Use It, published in 1918. She was Director-General of the Women's Overseas Hospitals in France, founded by suffragists, in 1918. In addition to her work in the New York suffrage movement, she helped to found the National League of Women Voters. She was the Managing Director of the Woman's Journal from 1921-1931.

#14053

Carl Ueter

1900 - 1985 (85 years)

Carl Ueter was a German composer of classical music. From 1950 to his retirement in 1965 he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Life and work Ueter was born in Münster, where he studied Christian music at the Bischöfliche Kirchenmusikschule from 1915 to 1918. During these years he was also organist at different churches in Münster. He worked as a teacher for Gregorian musicology, music theory and violin at the Bischöfliche Kirchenmusikschule after the completion of his studies, but attended the composition class of Fritz Volbach at the University of Münster further on.

#14054

Hanuš Schwaiger

Hanuš Schwaiger

1854 - 1912 (58 years)

Hanuš Johann Peter Paul Schwaiger was a Czech painter, designer, graphic artist and professor, best known for his fairy-tale illustrations. Biography He was the only son of six children born to a German-speaking ironmonger, but was baptized as a Catholic. In 1865, he was enrolled at the local gymnasium, but failed his courses and transferred to the Realschule in České Budějovice, where he met a teacher who encouraged his artistic interests. In 1873, despite this, he followed his father's wishes and entered the Vienna Business School. He soon ignored his studies and spent more time at the local art schools, prompting his parents to bring him home to work in the family business.

#14055

Joseph Colborne-Veel

Joseph Colborne-Veel

1831 - 1895 (64 years)

Joseph Veel Colborne-Veel was a journalist and educator in Christchurch, New Zealand. Early life Colborne-Veel was born in 1831 in Gloucester, England and received his early education at Kidderminster. Sources differ whether he graduated in 1856 with honours from Magdalen College, Oxford, or from the adjacent but unrelated Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He once won an essay competition, beating Stopford Brooke to second place. Brooke later made a career as a writer, but in the essay competition, his style was marked "too flowery", whilst Veel was judged having used "good, straight-forward, sensible E...

#14056

James Higgs

1829 - 1902 (73 years)

James Higgs was an English organist and teacher, and the uncle of Henry Marcellus Higgs. Life and career James Higgs was born in Lambeth in 1829. He studied under his father, an amateur of ability. He succeeded the late Dr. Wylde as organist of Eaton Chapel in 1844 and in the following year, on the secession of his brother Marcellus Higgs, he became organist of St. Benet and St.Peter, Paul's Wharf. His successive organ appointments were St. Mark's, Kennington, 1852–64, St.Michael's, Stockwell, 1864-7 and for twenty-eight years of St. Andrews, Holborn, 1867 to 1895, when he retired from playin...

#14057

Harold Triggs

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Harold Melvin Triggs was an American composer and pianist. A native of Denver, where his father directed a company which sold musical instruments, Triggs studied at the Bush Conservatory under Julie Rivé-King, and also had lessons with Josef Lhévinne. He had a long career as a teacher, beginning at his alma mater and continuing at the Juilliard School and Columbia University. Concurrently he appeared as a concert pianist, both alone and as a duo with Vera Brodsky. Most of his music is for piano; other works include the orchestral The Bright Land, which was taken up by Leopold Stokowski and Howard Hanson among others, and recorded by the latter.

#14058

Caspar Othmayr

1515 - 1553 (38 years)

Caspar Othmayr was a German Lutheran pastor and composer. Othmayr was born in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, and studied in Heidelberg as a pupil of Lorenz Lemlin, among others. Later, he became rector of the monastery school of Heilsbronn near Ansbach. From 1548 on he was provost in Ansbach, but soon lost the position because of theological differences.

#14059

Benjamin Carl Unseld

Benjamin Carl Unseld

1843 - 1923 (80 years)

Benjamin Carl Unseld , better known as B. C. Unseld, was a gospel music teacher, composer, and publisher. Biography Unseld was born October 18, 1843, in Shepherdstown, Virginia. In the early 1860s, he moved to Pennsylvania. Though mostly self-taught, he sang in the choir and accepted a position as organist at the Methodist Church in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He studied music under Eben Tourjée and Theodore F. Seward. B. C. Unseld taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the school's first secretary. Later he taught at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and was the first principal of the Virginia Normal School of Music.

#14060

Jimmy Liggins

1922 - 1983 (61 years)

Jimmy Liggins was an American R&B guitarist and bandleader. His brother was the more commercially successful R&B/blues pianist, Joe Liggins. Career The son of Harriett and Elijah Elliott, he was born in Newby, Oklahoma, United States, and adopted his stepfather's surname, Liggins, as a child. He moved with his family to San Diego, California in 1932, and graduated from Hoover High School. He fought under the name of Kid Zulu as a professional boxer until age 18, when he began as a driver for his brother Joe's band, the Honeydrippers.

#14061

Hermann Ambrosius

1897 - 1983 (86 years)

Hermann Ambrosius was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Hamburg, Ambrosius came via Magdeburg, Berlin and Chemnitz to Leipzig, where he received his musical education. He was a master student of Hans Pfitzner at the Prussian Academy of Arts. From 1925 to 1942, Ambrosius was Tonmeister at the and since 1926 teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.

#14062

Richard Burmeister

1860 - 1944 (84 years)

Richard Burmeister was a German-American composer and pianist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Burmeister studied with Franz Liszt . He made concert tours through Europe in 1883-85, and in 1885 he married fellow Liszt pupil Dory Petersen.

#14063

Ferdinand Sorenson

1882 - 1966 (84 years)

Ferdinand Sorenson was a prominent music educator in the U.S. state of Oregon as well as a conductor, composer, dance instructor and performer. Originally from Grenaa , Denmark, Sorenson came to the United States as an infant with his parents, Lars and Matilda Sorenson.

#14064

Carl Riedel

1827 - 1888 (61 years)

Carl Riedel was a German conductor and composer. Born in Cronenberg, Wuppertal, he initially worked as a dyer of silk before conductor Karl Wilhelm discovered his musical talent and encouraged him to pursue a music career. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and after graduating from the school joined the conservatory's faculty as a professor of piano and music theory, teaching there for several decades. He was notably one of Julius Reubke's teachers, and Reubke dedicated his Sonata on the 94th Psalm to him. He was a highly respected choral conductor in his native country and was one of the founders of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein.

#14065

Kirk Stuart

1934 - 1982 (48 years)

Charles Kincheloe "Kirk" Stuart was an American jazz pianist and educator. Stuart studied at a conservatory before accompanying singers such as Billie Holiday , Della Reese , and Sarah Vaughan . He also arranged and conducted for these singers. He led his own unit in Los Angeles later in the 1960s, and recorded with Al Grey in 1965 and once more with Reese in 1967. In later years he taught at Howard University and the Texas Southern University Jazz Ensemble, led ensembles in Las Vegas, and accompanied Joe Williams at the Smithsonian Institution in 1982. Later that year he died during surgery ...

#14066

Knocky Parker

1918 - 1986 (68 years)

Knocky Parker , born John William Parker, II, was an American jazz pianist. He played primarily ragtime and Dixieland jazz. A native of Texas, Parker played in the Western swing bands The Wanderers and the Light Crust Doughboys before serving in the military during World War II.

#14067

Anatoly Alexandrov

1888 - 1982 (94 years)

Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov was a Soviet and Russian composer of works for piano and for other instruments, and pianist. His initial works had a mystical element, but he downplayed this to better fit socialist realism. He led a somewhat retiring life, but received several honors.

#14068

Charles Sanford Skilton

1868 - 1941 (73 years)

Charles Sanford Skilton 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.

#14069

Paul Page

1903 - 1974 (71 years)

Paul Page was an American film actor. Born Campbell U. Hicks, he was the son of Robert C. Hicks and Laura Conant Hicks. Page attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis with a degree in engineering.

#14070

Hans Richter-Haaser

1912 - 1980 (68 years)

Hans Richter-Haaser was a noted German classical pianist, who was known for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. He was also a teacher, a conductor, and a composer. Hans Richter-Haaser was born in Dresden in 1912, and studied at the Dresden Conservatory. He made his debut in 1928, aged 16. During World War II, while fighting for the Nazis with an anti-aircraft unit, he had no opportunity to play for years on end, and his technique slipped. However, he regained it after the war. He conducted the Detmold Orchestra from 1945 to 1947. He was Professor of Piano at the North-West German Music Academy from 1947 to 1962.

#14071

John Wilson

1800 - 1849 (49 years)

John Wilson was a Scottish singer. Life The son of John Wilson, a coach-driver, he was born in Edinburgh on 25 December 1800. The family lived at 4 South Princes Street . At the age of ten he was apprenticed to a printing firm, and then engaged by the Ballantyne brothers, where he helped to set up typeface for the Waverley Novels. During the building of Abbotsford he was one of the armed messengers who had to ride weekly to fetch money to pay the workmen. He took up music, studied under John Mather and Benjamin Gleadhill of Edinburgh, and was a member of the choir of Duddingston parish churc...

#14072

Wilhelm Tank

1888 - 1967 (79 years)

Wilhelm Tank was a German professor of anatomy, artist and sculptor. His teaching activity over five decades combined with 14 books and more than a hundred articles on scientific and artistic subjects in academic journals, made him one of the more influential figures in his field during the middle part of the twentieth century.

#14073

Lil Johnson

1950 - 1950 (0 years)

#14074

Arthur Loft

1897 - 1947 (50 years)

Arthur Loft was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1932 and 1947. Biography He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

#14075

Hans Herter

1899 - 1984 (85 years)

Hans Herter was a German Classical philologist who was for many years Director of the Rheinischen Museum für Philologie, Bonn. His main interests lay in the works of Thucydides and Plato. Among his prominent students is Heinz-Günther Nesselrath.

#14076

Dorothy James

1901 - 1982 (81 years)

Dorothy James was an American music educator and composer. James was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the Chicago Musical College and the American Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Louis Gruenberg for composition and Adolph Weidig for counterpoint. She continued her studies with Howard Hanson at Eastman School of Music, Healey Willan at the Toronto Conservatory, and Ernst Krenek at the University of Michigan. After completing her studies, she took a position in 1927 teaching music at Eastern Michigan University, then Michigan State Normal College, where she worked until retiring in 1968.

#14077

Paul Homeyer

1853 - 1908 (55 years)

Paul Homeyer was a German organist who had an active international concert career during the late 19th century and early 20th century. His repertoire encompassed works from a variety of musical periods from ancient to contemporary works. He was particularly admired for his performances of the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. In 1903 he was given special recognition for his work by King George of Saxony.

#14078

Karel Lamač

1897 - 1952 (55 years)

Karel Lamač was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. He directed more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Life Lamač was born 27 January 1897 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. His parents were Karel Lamač sr. , opera singer and a pharmacist, and Františka Lamačová . In his childhood Lamač was interested in pharmacy, electrical engineering, stage magic and acting. Before WWI he went to apprentice in camera manufacturer company Ernemann in Dresden. During the war he was a combat cameraman. After the war he became a technical director of film laboratory in Excelsiorfilm.

#14079

Nándor Zsolt

1887 - 1936 (49 years)

Nándor Zsolt was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and the professor of violin at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He was born in a professional musician family; his father was a conductor and music teacher. After graduating at Esztergom, he entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, taking violin studies with Jenő Hubay and composition with Hans von Koessler.

#14080

Walter Kraft

1905 - 1977 (72 years)

Walter Kraft was a German organist and composer, best known for his remarkably long tenure at the Marienkirche, Lübeck. Biography Kraft studied piano and organ in Hamburg with Hanneman, and studied composition in Berlin with Paul Hindemith. After his studies, his first professional organist position was Hamburg's Markuskirche in 1924, followed by Altona's Lutherkirche in 1927.

#14081

Ilse Fromm-Michaels

Ilse Fromm-Michaels

1888 - 1986 (98 years)

Ilse Fromm-Michaels was a German pianist and composer. Life Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschule fur Musik with Heinrich van Eyken for composition and with Marie Bender for piano. In 1905 she began study at the Sternsche Conservatory of Hans Pfitzner and James Kwast and completed her studies in 1913 with conductor and composer Fritz Steinbach and pianist Carl Friedberg in Cologne.

#14082

Vladimir Padwa

1900 - 1981 (81 years)

Vladimir Padwa was an American pianist, composer, and educator. Biography He was born at the Krivyakino Estate in the Russian Empire , the son of Mikhail and Maria Padwa. He was raised in Estonia, then a territory of Imperial Russia, receiving Estonian citizenship in 1917 when Estonia became an independent country. He married Alexandra Niedas of Tallinn in 1927. The couple resided in London and Berlin before coming to the United States in 1932. Their daughter Tatiana was born in 1933. The family settled in New York City and later lived in Woodstock, New York from 1935 to 1946. Padwa and Alex...

#14083

Chittoor Subramaniam Pillai

1898 - 1975 (77 years)

Chittoor Subramanyam was an Indian carnatic musician. He received the Sangeeta Kalanidhi award in 1954, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1964. Early life Chittoor Subramanyam was born to Perayya and SMogilamma, on 22 June 1898 in a village near Punganur in Palamaner taluk, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh. A distinguished votary of laya, Chittoor Subramanyam Pillai had his initial training under his father, who was a violinist. By age 7, he was well versed in Carnatic Music. He later became a disciple of Kanchipuram Naina Pillai. Under Naina Pillai's tutelage, Subramanyam learned and ...

#14084

Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja

1440 - 1522 (82 years)

Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja was a Spanish mathematician, music theorist, and composer. His only surviving work is the Latin treatise Musica practica. By his own testimony at the end of his Musica practica, Ramos de Pareja was born in Baeza, possibly around 1440. Most of the biographical details of his life must be culled from this treatise. He says that he was a student of Juan de Monte and that he obtained the chair of music at the University of Salamanca for his commentaries on the works of Boethius . At Salamanca he had many debates with Pedro de Osma concerning his musical theories. In 1482...

#14085

Michael Jeffery

1933 - 1973 (40 years)

Frank Michael Jeffery was an English music business manager of the 1960s who is best known for his management of The Animals and Jimi Hendrix, whom he co-managed for a time with former Animals bassist Chas Chandler. A former associate of noted English pop impresario Don Arden, Jeffery was and remains a controversial figure.

#14086

Carl Busch

1862 - 1943 (81 years)

Carl Busch was a Danish-born American composer and music teacher sometimes associated with the Indianist movement. He was an important figure in the musical life of Kansas City, Missouri for many years.

#14087

Hermann Wunsch

1884 - 1954 (70 years)

Hermann Wunsch was a German composer, conductor, music theorist and lecturer in composition. Life and career Born in Neuss, Wunsch was born in Neuss, Rhineland, in 1884, the son of the railway works master Balthasar Wunsch and his wife Amalie Hafels. He began his education with a teachers' seminar. He then attended conservatories in Krefeld, where he studied composition with Theodor Müller-Reuter, Düsseldorf, where he was taught by Frank Limbert, and Cologne.

#14088

Gustav Luders

1865 - 1913 (48 years)

Gustav Carl Luders, sometimes written Gustave Luders, was a musician who wrote the music for various songs and shows in the U.S. He was born in Bremen, Germany. He came to the U.S. in 1888 and lived in Milwaukee and then Chicago. He was known for his musical comedies. His The Prince of Pilsen was adapted into the film The Prince of Pilsen.

#14089

Josef Wolfsthal

Josef Wolfsthal

1899 - 1931 (32 years)

Josef Wolfsthal , born as Josef Wolfthal, was an Austrian violinist and a professor in Germany's capital Berlin. He was born into a musical family in Vienna. It was of Galician origin. His father and his older brother Max both played the violin. His father was an excellent violin teacher, and gave his sons their first lessons on that instrument. He also taught Sigmund Feuermann . From the age of 10, Wolfsthal studied for six years with famed Hungarian violin teacher Carl Flesch, and at age 16 started to perform in public. His debut was on 7 April 1916 with Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Camillo Hildebrand .

#14090

Alberto Bimboni

1888 - 1960 (72 years)

Alberto Bimboni was an Italian-born American composer and conductor. He is remembered today, if at all, for his opera Winona; consequently, he is sometimes grouped with other composers of the Indianist movement in American music.

#14091

Beatrice Irwin

1888 - 1956 (68 years)

Beatrice Irwin was an actress, poet, designer and promoter of the Baháʼí Faith. Born Alice Beatrice Simpson, she took Beatrice Irwin as her stage name and later adopted it as her real name. After her family moved to Scotland and then to England, she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College where she graduated 1895 and took the Associate in Arts test in which she placed 5th for that year. She went on through a series of careers starting with being an actor in stage theatre which took her to Cape Colony, as it was known then, touring America, briefly in the then young country of Australia, and performed in Shanghai.

#14092

Clifford Taylor

1923 - 1987 (64 years)

Clifford O. Taylor was an American composer and music educator. He studied with Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith and served as chairman of the department of music composition at Temple University for 23 years. Among his compositions are three symphonies, The Freak Show , several string quartets and numerous piano sonatas. In December 1971 the Philadelphia Orchestra played the world premiere of his Symphony No. 2. He was married for many years to Louise Kemp, living with her in Jenkintown, PA until his death at Abington Memorial Hospital in 1987. They had three sons, Christopher, Andrew and Jo...

#14093

Irma Wolpe Rademacher

1902 - 1984 (82 years)

Irma Wolpe Rademacher , née Schoenberg, was a Romanian-born American pianist and teacher. Life and career She was born in 1902 in Galați, Western Moldavia, Romania, into a bourgeois Jewish family, the third of four children. In 1910 the family moved to Iași , where her father, Jacob Schoenberg , was offered the position of vice president with the newly formed Banca Moldova. Her mother, Rachel Schoenberg née Segall , conversant in many languages, was a gifted essayist and poet. Both parents were Zionists and eminently active in the Jewish community life. They were closely connected with leading...

#14094

Vassili Nebolsin

1898 - 1958 (60 years)

Vassili Vassilyevich Nebolsin was a Russian conductor. He studied at the college of the Moscow Philharmonic and became conductor of the orchestra in 1918. He became choir master of the Bolshoi in 1920 and its conductor in 1922. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1940 to 1945. The Stalin Prize was awarded him in 1950.

#14095

Roy Cheville

1897 - 1986 (89 years)

Roy A. Cheville was a religious leader, theologian and educator in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , which became Community of Christ in 2001. Cheville graduated from Graceland University in 1921 with an Associate of Arts degree in liberal arts and religious education. In 1926, he authored Graceland's Alma Mater Hymn while on the faculty. He obtained his Ph. B. in 1922, an A.M in Divinity in 1923, a D.B. in Practical Theology in 1925, and later a Ph.D. in religion in 1942, all from the University of Chicago. He was the first member of his denomination to complete...

#14096

Paul Willert

1901 - 1988 (87 years)

Max Paul Georg Willert was a German musicologist and baritone. Life Willert was born in 1901 as the son of a teacher and a housewife in Tanna, Thuringia. He was a pupil at the elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Bad Frankenhausen. Until the first teacher's examination in 1921 he attended the teacher's seminar. Leipzig. In 1924 the second teacher's examination followed. After a short Volksschule teacher period in Chemnitz, he studied musicology, music pedagogy and German literature at the Leipzig University and singing at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1926 to 1928. He also passed the Maturazeugnis for elementary school teachers at the .

#14097

Theodore Stearns

1881 - 1935 (54 years)

Theodore Pease Stearns was an American composer. Born in Berea, Ohio, he wrote a number of operas. Of these, The Snowbird was given at the Chicago Civic Opera in 1923; this work won the Bispham Memorial Medal Award. He taught music at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1932 until 1935.

#14098

Bill Nagy

1921 - 1973 (52 years)

Bill Nagy was a Canadian-born film and television actor who settled and worked in Britain. He began working on the London stage, appearing in the West End production of South Pacific. Selected filmography

#14099

Ludvig Wimmer

1839 - 1920 (81 years)

Ludvig Frands Adalbert Wimmer was a Danish linguist and runologist. He was the first modern runic scholar, published his work Runeskriftens oprindelse og utvikling i norden. He proved that all runic alphabets went back to one basic futhark of 24 signs, which was known and used by all the Germanic tribes.

#14100

Ward McAllister

1891 - 1981 (90 years)

Ward McAllister was an American film actor of the silent era. He was born in Apollo, Pennsylvania, as Ward David McAllister. In 1922 he appeared as the villain in the controversial British crime film Cocaine.

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