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#14601

Reinhold Olesch

1910 - 1990 (80 years)

Reinhold Olesch was a linguist, Slavic studies Professor of University of Vienna. He researched the Slavonic dialects of Upper Silesia, which he recognized as his mother tongue. He published several works about them, including: "Die slawischen Dialekte Oberschlesiens" and "Beiträge zur oberschlesischen Dialektforschung – Die Mundart der Kobylorze".

#14602

Fernando de las Infantas

1534 - 1610 (76 years)

Fernando de las Infantas was a Spanish nobleman, composer and theologian. Life Infantas was born in Córdoba in 1534, a descendant of Juan Fernández de Córdoba who had conveyed the two daughters, infantas , of Pedro I of Castile to safety after the Battle of Montiel in 1369. The family was still notable in Córdoba at the time of Fernando's birth and he enjoyed a privileged education, and later a patrimonio, or stipend, remitted to him in Rome from his family in Spain.

#14603

Alfred Mendelsohn

1910 - 1966 (56 years)

Alfred Mendelsohn was a Romanian composer. Mendelsohn studied from 1927 to 1931 at the Music Academy in Vienna with Joseph Marx and Franz Schmidt and the Conservatory in Bucharest at Mihail Jora. From 1944 to 1963 he was conductor at the Romanian National Opera, 1949, he taught as professor of counterpoint at the Conservatory.

#14604

James Neill

1860 - 1931 (71 years)

James F. Neill was an American stage actor and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1913 and 1930. Biography After he graduated from the University of Georgia in 1882, James Neill embarked on a theatrical career which spanned nearly fifty years with stage appearances in every state in the Union, the territories , and the provinces of Canada, in addition to film appearances in the studios of many of the major early Hollywood producers.

#14605

Philo McCullough

1893 - 1981 (88 years)

Philo McCullough was an American actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1914 and 1969. He was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Burbank, California. McCullough's film debut came in 1912 with the Selig Company. He initially acted in light comedy roles, and in 1921 he directed Maid of the West. After that, he appeared primarily as a villain.

#14606

Herbert Fryer

1877 - 1957 (80 years)

George Herbert Fryer was an English pianist, teacher and composer. Career Fryer was born in Hampstead, London in 1877, the only son of three children. His father George Henry Fryer was an insurance broker. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then went on for two years study under Oscar Beringer at the Royal Academy of Music . In 1894, Fryer won the Heathcote Long Prize. This was followed by four years of study at the Royal College of Music , under Franklin Taylor.

#14607

Louis Jay Heath

Louis Jay Heath

1886 - 1939 (53 years)

Louis Jay Heath was a foreign correspondent for United Press International and one of the first organizers of the American Newspaper Guild. He was an instructor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Texas at Austin and was co-author of “A New Basis for Social Progress.” Jay Heath was a descendant of a distinguished line of early Americans including two Founding Fathers of the United States: John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States and John Adams, the second President of the United States.

#14608

Melchior Teschner

1584 - 1635 (51 years)

Melchior Teschner was a German cantor, composer and theologian. Born in Wschowa in Poland, Teschner attended the Gymnasium in Zittau, Saxony, and studied under Johann Klee. In 1602 he began studies in music theory, philosophy and theology with Bartholomäus Gesius at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder

#14609

Heinrich Faber

1490 - 1552 (62 years)

Heinrich Faber was a German music theorist, composer, and Kantor. Born in Lichtenfels, Bavaria, he was employed as a singer by Christian II of Denmark in Copenhagen, from 1515 to 1524. He later studied in Wittenberg, and is known to have lectured there, in 1551. He died in Oelsnitz.

#14610

Dorian Le Gallienne

1915 - 1963 (48 years)

Dorian Leon Marlois Le Gallienne was an Australian composer, teacher and music critic. Biography Dorian Le Gallienne was born in Melbourne in 1915. His father, an actor, was born in France, and his mother, a pianist who had studied with G. W. L. Marshall-Hall, was the daughter of the Assistant Astronomer at the Melbourne Observatory. His parents separated in 1924, and his father lived in England thereafter. He attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. He was diagnosed with diabetes at age 16. After leaving school, he studied with A. E. H. Nickson at the Melbourne Conservatorium and with Arthur Benjamin and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London in 1938.

#14611

Konstantin Igumnov

Konstantin Igumnov

1873 - 1948 (75 years)

Konstantin Nikolayevich Igumnov was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR . Biography Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. In 1898-9 he was pianoforte teacher at the Tiflis music-school of the Russian Musical Society. From 1899 he was Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his life's work was carried out. He recorded 6 pieces on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1910...

#14612

Charlotte Burton

Charlotte Burton

1881 - 1942 (61 years)

Charlotte E. Burton was an American silent film actress. Biography Early life and education Charlotte E. Burton was born on May 30, 1881, in San Francisco, California. However there is some debate on her date of birth; some sources state she was born ten years later, on May 30, 1891; and other sources state she died at age 48 .

#14613

Mildred Lund Tyson

1900 - 1989 (89 years)

Mildred Lund Tyson was an American choral director, composer, organist, and soprano. Biography Tyson was born in Moline, Illinois, to Mary Helena Anderson and Oscar Fredrick Lund. She married Harold Canfield Tyson in 1927 and they had a daughter, Barbara, in 1930.

#14614

Felix Wolfes

1892 - 1971 (79 years)

Felix Wolfes was an American educator, conductor and composer. Biography Felix was born to Jewish parents in Hannover, Germany. After graduating from high school, he attended the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied music theory with Max Reger and piano with Robert Teichmüller. He also studied with Richard Strauss and later in Strasbourg with Hans Pfitzner. His conducting debut was in Breslau in 1923. He then worked as musical director and opera conductor in Essen and Dortmund .

#14615

Booker Little

1938 - 1961 (23 years)

Booker Little Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He appeared on many recordings in his short career, both as a sideman and as a leader. Little performed with Max Roach, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy and was strongly influenced by Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown. He died aged 23.

#14616

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling

1904 - 1985 (81 years)

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling was a German composer. The son of a chemical manufacturer, Schwarz-Schilling embarked upon his musical studies in 1922, first in Munich and – interrupted by several extended breaks in Italy – from 1925 in Cologne, where he studied with Walter Braunfels , Philipp Jarnach and Heinrich Boell . From 1927 to 1929, he studied with Heinrich Kaminski, who also taught Carl Orff. In 1938, he obtained a teaching position at the Musikhochschule in Berlin . One of his most prominent pupils was Isang Yun.

#14617

Diego Carpitella

1924 - 1990 (66 years)

Diego Carpitella was an Italian professor of ethnomusicology at D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and La Sapienza University in Rome. He is considered one of the greatest scholars of Italian folk music and has written and published many essays on the subject. He collaborated with the Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare from 1952 to 1958, collecting more than 5,000 Italian folk songs. He was also the founding editor of the journal Culture musicali and a co-founder of the cultural magazine Marcatre.

#14618

Carlo Ninchi

1897 - 1974 (77 years)

Carlo Ninchi was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. Selected filmography Before the Jury – Marcello Barra, il guardacacciaMother Earth – Il commandatore BordaniLa stella del cinema La scala – Avvocato Giulio Terpi – suo maritoIl solitario della montagna La Wally – HagenbachRed Passport – Un passeggero sul 'Santa Fe'I Love You Only – Cesare BaldiConquest of the Air – Gabriele Adanti di Perugia Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal – LeliusCavalleria rusticana – AlfioLa conquista dell'aria – Gabriello DantiDora Nelson – Giovanni Ferrar...

#14619

Fritz Lehmann

1904 - 1956 (52 years)

Fritz Lehmann was a noted German conductor, whose career was cut short by his early death at the age of 51. His repertoire ranged from the Baroque through to contemporary works, in both the concert hall and the opera house. He was an early advocate of period performance practice. and founded the Berliner Motettenchor. He is best known through a number of recordings he left.

#14620

Helen Hopekirk

1856 - 1945 (89 years)

Helen Hopekirk was a Scottish pianist and composer who lived and worked in Boston. Life and career Helen Hopekirk was born in Portobello, Edinburgh in Scotland, a daughter of music shop owners Adam and Helen 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 to...

#14621

Joseph-Arthur Bernier

1877 - 1944 (67 years)

Joseph-Arthur Bernier was a Canadian organist, pianist, composer, and music educator. Born in Lévis, Quebec, he was the senior member of a prominent family of musicians from Quebec City. He is the father of pianist Gabrielle Bernier, cellist Maurice Bernier, and composer and keyboardist Conrad Bernier, and the grandfather of musicians Françoys Bernier, Madeleine Bernier, and Pierre Bernier. His compositional output includes 4 masses, several motets, pieces for solo organ, a Berceuse for violin, a Pastorale for oboe, a Cantilène for cello, and a Mazurka for piano.

#14622

Ludwig Thuille

1861 - 1907 (46 years)

Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille 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.

#14623

Grigory Ginzburg

1904 - 1961 (57 years)

Grigory Romanovich Ginzburg was a Soviet pianist. Biography Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw I International Chopin Piano Competition. He was recognized as one of the finest musicians in the Soviet Union and toured Europe several times. He became an important professor at the Moscow Conservatory in 1929. Some of his best-known students are Gleb Axelrod, Sergei Dorensky, Regina Shamvili and Sulamita Aronovsky.

#14624

William Henry Holmes

1812 - 1885 (73 years)

William Henry Holmes was an English pianist and composer, and a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music. Early life Holmes was born in Sudbury, Derbyshire in 1812, the son of a musician. He entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, the year it opened, and he gained two of the first medals given by the Academy, for composition and the piano.

#14625

Karl Weigl

1881 - 1949 (68 years)

Karl Ignaz Weigl 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.

#14626

Hanns Jelinek

1901 - 1969 (68 years)

Hanns Jelinek was an Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonyms Hanns Elin, H. J. Hirsch, Jakob Fidelbogen. Biography Jelinek was born and died in Vienna. His father was a machine operator . At the age of 6 he began violin lessons and at age 7, began learning the piano. In 1918 he became a member of the newly founded Communist Party of Austria.

#14627

Lola Gjoka

1910 - 1985 (75 years)

Lola Gjoka Aleksi was an Albanian pianist during the period of the Communist regime. Life Gjoka was born in Sevastopol in 1910, into an Albanian family. She began learning the piano at the age of six, and her success was such that her father arranged for her to have lessons from the pianist Karalovy. In 1932 her family moved to Korçë, where Gjoka worked as an accompanist for singers including the soprano Tefta Tashko-Koço, the Albanian folk singer Marie Kraja, and Mihal Ciko.

#14628

Polibio Fumagalli

1830 - 1900 (70 years)

Polibio Fumagalli was an Italian composer, organist, and pianist. Fumagalli studied organ at the Milan Conservatory; beginning in 1873 he taught organ at that institution. Among his students were Marco Enrico Bossi and Pietro Yon. He also served as choirmaster of the Church of San Celso.

#14629

István Kniezsa

1898 - 1965 (67 years)

István Kniezsa was a Hungarian linguist and Slavist, corresponding and regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the most significant figures in Hungarian language historical research in the 20th century, achieving significant scientific results in the study of place and personal names in the Carpathian Basin, in researching the medieval state and writing practice of the Hungarian language, as well as in the exploration of foreign words of Slavic origin. His major contribution was to the research of Slavic loanwords in the Hungarian language and toponymy. He was awa...

#14630

Richard Hofmann

1844 - 1918 (74 years)

Richard Hofmann was a German composer and music teacher who worked in Leipzig. Richard Hofmann was born in Delitzsch where his father was the municipal music director. He studied with Raimund Dreyschock and Salomon Jadassohn and settled in Leipzig as a music teacher. He was Professor at Leipzig Conservatory and leader of the Leipzig Choral Society.

#14631

Stanislaw Schayer

1899 - 1941 (42 years)

Stanislaw Schayer was a linguist, Indologist, philosopher, professor at the University of Warsaw. In 1922, he founded, and was the first director, of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Warsaw Scientific Society.

#14632

Nikolaus Selnecker

Nikolaus Selnecker

1530 - 1592 (62 years)

Nikolaus Selnecker was a German musician, theologian and Protestant reformer. He is now known mainly as a hymn writer. He is also known as one of the principal authors of the Formula of Concord along with Jakob Andreä and Martin Chemnitz.

#14633

Luella Gear

1897 - 1980 (83 years)

Luella Gear was an American actress. She appeared in numerous films, TV series and theatrical productions throughout the 1910s to the 1960s Early life Gear was born in New York in 1897. She attended the Spence School and was educated in Brussels, Belgium.

#14634

Frank Miller

1912 - 1986 (74 years)

Frank Miller was a principal cellist and music director whose professional career spanned over a half-century. Miller studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, under Felix Salmond, and at age 18, joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. His longest stints were principal cellist of the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and conductor of the Evanston Symphony Orchestra. A 1950 segment of Miller playing cello in "The Swan" from Carnival of the Animals with an orchestra on The Voice of Firestone is sometimes shown on Classic Arts Showcase.

#14635

John Thomson

1805 - 1841 (36 years)

John Thomson was a Scottish classical composer. He was born in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, the son of Andrew Mitchell Thomson, the minister of Sprouston Church. Life and career Thomson studied in Germany with a letter of introduction to the Mendelssohn family, and his Drei Lieder were published in Leipzig in 1838. John Purser contends that we have to look to Schumann to find anything comparable to these songs published two years before Schumann composed any songs in his mature style. The first song, Keiner von den Schönheit Töchtern, is based on the poem There be none of beauty's daughters by ...

#14636

George Muirhead

1715 - 1773 (58 years)

George Muirhead was a Scottish linguist. Life Muirhead was born at Dunipace. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh , he was ordained as a Minister of the Kirk in 1746. He was professor of oriental languages at the University of Glasgow , until his appointment as Chair of Humanity in 1754. Muirhead was elected Clerk of Senate in 1769.

#14637

Fanny Arthur Robinson

1831 - 1879 (48 years)

Fanny Arthur Robinson was an English pianist, music educator and composer who spent most of her career in Dublin, Ireland. Biography Fanny Robinson was born in Southampton and studied the piano in London with William Sterndale Bennett and Sigismund Thalberg. She performed in Dublin in February 1849 where she met her future husband Joseph Robinson, conductor, composer and chorister at St. Patrick's Cathedral. They married on 17 July 1849. She appeared as a pianist in London and Paris, and in 1856 made her performing debut in Ireland. She took a teaching position at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in the same year.

#14638

Judith Raskin

1928 - 1984 (56 years)

Judith Raskin was an American lyric soprano, renowned for her fine voice as well as her acting. Life and work Raskin was born in New York to Harry A. Raskin, a high school music teacher, and Lillian Raskin, a grade school teacher. Her father aroused her childhood interest in music, leading her to study violin and piano, before she turned her focus to singing. In 1945, she graduated from Roosevelt High School, Yonkers and attended Smith College, where she majored in music. It was during her college years that she began taking singing lessons, which she continued after graduation in order to...

#14639

Seymour Simons

1896 - 1949 (53 years)

Seymour Simons was an American pianist, composer, orchestra leader, and radio producer. Biography Simons born in Detroit, Michigan, was originally trained in engineering and went to work as a research engineer at a Detroit motor plant, but the First World War intervened and he spent it in aeronautical research

#14640

Bobby Mitchell

1935 - 1986 (51 years)

Bobby Mitchell was an American, New Orleans-based, rhythm & blues singer and songwriter. Mitchell was born in the Algiers section of New Orleans. He was a popular recording artist in the 1950s and early 1960s, making records for Imperial Records, Show Biz Records and Rip Records. He first recorded in his teens with the doo-wop group "The Toppers", which was broken up as most of the members were drafted. Mitchell's single "Try Rock 'n Roll," hit the top 20 of the US Billboard R&B chart in 1956. Many of his sessions were arranged by Dave Bartholomew. His single "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday...

#14641

Julia Perry

1924 - 1979 (55 years)

Julia Amanda Perry was an American classical composer and teacher who combined European classical and neo-classical training with her African-American heritage. Life and education Born in Lexington, Kentucky, as a child Perry moved with her family to Akron, Ohio. She went on to study voice, piano, and composition at the Westminster Choir College 1943–48. It was there that she received her B.M. and M.M. She continued on to her graduate studies at Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, where she was a student of Luigi Dallapiccola, and then later studied at the Juilliard School of Music. Around...

#14642

Louis Coerne

1870 - 1922 (52 years)

Louis Adolphe Coerne was an American composer and music educator. Life and works He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and at the Stuttgart Conservatory, Germany.

#14643

Lea Luboshutz

1885 - 1965 (80 years)

Lea Luboshutz was a Russian violinist. She had a performing career in Europe and the United States of America, settling in America and becoming a teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the mother of the conductor Boris Goldovsky and the sister of the pianist Pierre Luboshutz and the cellist, Anna Luboshutz.

#14644

Salomon Sulzer

1804 - 1890 (86 years)

Salomon Sulzer was an Austrian hazzan and composer. Biography His family, which prior to 1813 bore the name of Levi, removed to Hohenems from Sulz in 1748. He was educated for the cantorate, studying first under the cantors of Endingen and Karlsruhe, with whom he traveled extensively, and later under Salomon Eichberg, cantor at Hohenems and Düsseldorf. In 1820 Sulzer was appointed cantor at Hohenems, where he modernized the ritual, and introduced a choir. At the insistence of Rabbi Isaac Noah Mannheimer of Vienna he was called to the Austrian capital as chief cantor in 1826. There he reorga...

#14645

Sergey Balasanian

1902 - 1982 (80 years)

Sergey Artemyevich Balasanian was a Soviet Armenian composer. He taught composition in the Moscow Conservatory. Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera – The Uprising at Vosse . It was debuted in Moscow in 1941 as part of a 10-day exhibition of Tajik art.

#14646

Thomas Jordan

1614 - 1685 (71 years)

Thomas Jordan was an English poet, playwright and actor, born possibly in London or Eynsham in Oxfordshire about 1612 or 1614. Early career Jordan was a boy actor in the King's Revels Company, which played at the Salisbury Court and Fortune theatres, and continued with the company as an adult. He is known to have performed the part of Lepida, the mother of Messalina, in Thomas Rawlins's Messalina some time between 1634 and 1636. In 1637, Jordan published his earliest known work, Poeticall Varieties, or Variety of Fancies, which shows his theatrical background. It was dedicated to John Ford of Gray's Inn, a cousin of John Ford the dramatist.

#14647

Ottmar Gerster

1897 - 1969 (72 years)

Ottmar Gerster was a German viola player, conductor and composer who in 1948 became rector of the Liszt Music Academy in Weimar. Life Ottmar Gerster was born some 50 km north of Frankfurt during the closing years of the nineteenth century. His father was a neurologist and his mother was a pianist. He attended an Academic secondary school and entered, in 1913, the Dr Hoch Music Conservatory where his teachers included Bernhard Sekles and Adolf Rebner . It was at the Hoch Conservatory that Gerster also got to know Paul Hindemith who was a near contemporary.

#14648

Friedrich Gumpert

Friedrich Gumpert

1841 - 1906 (65 years)

Friedrich Adolph Gumpert was a German horn player and teacher. Gumpert received his early musical education in Jena. From 1860 he was a horn player, first in Bad Nauheim, then in Halle. In October 1864, at the behest of Carl Reinecke, he became First Horn in the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, a position he held until 1899. He was a founder member of the Gewandhaus-Bläserquintett, formed in 1896.

#14649

Ralph Leopold

1884 - 1955 (71 years)

Ralph Leopold was an American pianist and piano teacher. Biography Ralph Herman Leopold was born in 1884 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Howard Leopold. His sister Elizabeth Leopold married Newton D. Baker, who in 1912 was considered a possible vice-presidential running mate to Woodrow Wilson, and from 1916 to 1921 was United States Secretary of War.

#14650

John Wesley Work III

1901 - 1967 (66 years)

John Wesley Work III was an American composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music. Biography He was born on July 15, 1901, in Tullahoma, Tennessee, to a family of professional musicians. His grandfather, John Wesley Work, was a church choir director in Nashville, where he wrote and arranged music for his choirs. Some of his choristers were members of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. His father, John Wesley Work, Jr., was a singer, folksong collector and professor of music, Latin, and history at Fisk, and his mother, Agnes Haynes Work, was a singer who helped train the Fisk group.

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