The Most Influential People Across History
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Anton Door
1833 - 1919 (86 years)
Anton Door was an Austrian pianist and music educator, also known in Russia as Anton Andreyevich Door. Biography Anton Door was born in Vienna and studied piano with Carl Czerny and theory with Simon Sechter. He began a concert career in 1850, touring as a soloist in Germany and Italy. He was appointed Court Pianist and a member of the Royal Academy in Stockholm, and taught for ten years at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1868-1901 he taught in Vienna at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. He served as president of the Friends of Brahms Society and instituted the organization's concert series. D...
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Ralph Lyford
1882 - 1927 (45 years)
Ralph Lyford was an American composer and conductor. He rose to prominence as the managing director of the Cincinnati Opera and as a 20th-century advocate for opera to be written and performed in English.
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John Cook
1918 - 1984 (66 years)
John Ernest Cook was an Anglo-American organist, composer and church musician. Early life, education and early career John Cook was born at Maldon, Essex on 11 October 1918. After leaving St. John's School, Leatherhead, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge as an organ scholar where he came under the influence of Hugh Allen and Boris Ord. A conscientious objector to the second World War, he left his Cambridge studies prematurely to drive an ambulance during the Blitz of London.
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Richard Smith
1886 - 1937 (51 years)
Richard Smith , also known as Dick Smith, was a screenwriter, actor, and film director. Smith was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and became a comedian active in the vaudeville era. He met his wife Alice Howell in 1910 and the two performed together as Howell and Howell. After working under direction of Mack Sennett at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, Smith moved to Los Angeles, California. Smith and his wife starred in reels together produced by L-KO Kompany.
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Vladimir Tsybin
1877 - 1949 (72 years)
Vladimir Tsybin was a flautist, composer and conductor. Born in a family of musicians - his father was a violinist and conductor of a small town orchestra, his mother had a good voice and played guitar. After moving to Moscow, boy's father soon died, and the 9 year old Vladimir was sent to a military orchestra, where he learned to play the flute and piccolo. At age 12 he entered the Moscow Conservatory where he studied flute with Wilhelm Kretschmann . He played in different private orchestras and in 1896 entered Bolshoi Theater as a piccolo player. He held this position until 1907, when, after death of Ernesto Köhler, he became the soloist of the Mariinsky Theater in Sankt-Petersburg.
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Nasreen Mohamedi
1937 - 1990 (53 years)
Nasreen Mohamedi was an Indian artist best known for her line-based drawings, and is today considered one of the most essential modern artists from India. Despite being relatively unknown outside of her native country during her lifetime, Mohamedi's work has been the subject of remarkable revitalisation in international critical circles and has received popular acclaim over the last decade. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, documenta in Kassel, Germany, and at Talwar Gallery, which organised the first solo exhibit...
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Svetislav Stančić
1895 - 1970 (75 years)
Svetislav Stančić was a Croatian pianist and music pedagogue. Stančić initially studied piano in Zagreb and then moved to Berlin where he studied with Karl Heinrich Barth, Conrad Ansorge, and Ferruccio Busoni, who also taught him composition. Stančić had a career as a concert pianist, and later he became legendary Professor of Piano at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1960 he received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in music.
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Willard Robertson
1886 - 1948 (62 years)
Willard Robertson was an American actor and writer. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas, and died in Hollywood, California. Biography Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he left his profession for a sudden interest in acting after being encouraged to do so by Joseph Jefferson.
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Karel Duba
1923 - 1968 (45 years)
Karel Duba was a Czech guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He was one of the first musicians to play electric guitar in Czechoslovakia. During his career, he collaborated with important exponents of Czech jazz and pop music. He died on a concert tour in Mongolia.
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Carey Morgan
1884 - 1960 (76 years)
Carey Elmore Morgan Jr. was an American composer and Vaudeville producer during the 1900s. Throughout his career, he collaborated with various songwriters and performers including, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Charles McCarron, and Arthur Monday Swanstrom.
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Eric-Paul Stekel
1898 - 1978 (80 years)
Éric-Paul Stekel, was a French composer and conductor of Austrian origin, former director of the Conservatory of Grenoble. He worked with piano teacher Félicien Wolff, whom he strongly encouraged his composition work, and he worked also with pianist Genevieve Dinand and with musicologist Paul-Gilbert Langevin, participating in his works, Le siècle de Bruckner and Anton Bruckner, apogée de la symphonie. There is an association in Grenoble called The friends of Éric-Paul Stekel.
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Davis Cunningham
1916 - 1984 (68 years)
Thomas Davis Cunningham was an American tenor who had prominent career in operas, musicals, concerts, and on television from 1949 through 1973. Biography Cunningham was born in the Philippines, the son of an American medical doctor serving in the United States military. He studied singing at Wooster College and the Juilliard School before making his professional stage debut in the 1939 musical Stars In Your Eyes where he portrayed a handful of small roles. He returned to Broadway in 1941 as Jack in Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark. That same year he signed a contract with the Philadelphia Opera Company, joining their roster of principal tenors.
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Ann Richards
1935 - 1982 (47 years)
Ann Richards was an American pop and jazz singer. She was the second wife of bandleader Stan Kenton. She had a short career in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Early life, musical education and influences Ann Richards was born Margaret Ann Borden on October 1, 1935, in San Diego, California, but raised to the north in Albany, California. Her father William left the family after Ann's mother had an affair and child with one of her students. By 1940, her mother Bernice was divorced and Ann's mother's maiden name of Richards was adopted. Her mother taught school and also wanted her daughter to become a teacher.
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Joseph Hellmesberger Sr.
1828 - 1893 (65 years)
Josef Hellmesberger Sr. was an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer. Born in Vienna, he was the son of musician and pedagogue, Georg Hellmesberger Sr. , and was taught violin by his father at the Vienna Conservatory. Hellmesberger hails from a family of notable musicians including: brother, Georg Jr. ; son, Josef Jr. ; and son Ferdinand .
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Gustav Havemann
1882 - 1960 (78 years)
Gustav Havemann was a German violinist and from 1933 to 1935 head of the "Reichsmusikerschaft" in the Reichsmusikkammer. Life Born in Güstrow, Havemann first learned to play the violin from his father, the military musician Johann Havemann. Even before he attended school, he performed in a concert. After the death of his father, he was further educated by the husband of his sister Frieda, music director Ernst Parlow, the son of Albert Parlow, as well as Bruno Ahner, and played in the court orchestra in Schwerin before he went to the Universität der Künste Berlin in 1898, where one of his impo...
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Agide Jacchia
1875 - 1932 (57 years)
Agide Jacchia was an Italian orchestral director. Early life and education Born in Lugo di Romagna, Jacchia studied at the Conservatory of Parma from 1886 to 1891 and at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in Pesaro from 1891 to 1898. He won prizes for flute , conducting , and composition .
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Walter Fong
1866 - 1906 (40 years)
Walter Ngon Fong was an American educator, missionary and linguist who founded the first technical college in Hong Kong. He was Stanford University's first Chinese graduate. Early life Fong was born on 1 April 1866 to a humble farming family in the village of Sunning, Guangdong, China. At 15, he emigrated to California, United States, where he initially attended a Presbyterian Mission. While later working at the Chinese Methodist School in San Jose, he pursued further studies at the University of the Pacific from which he graduated in 1892. He went on to be the first Chinese student to g...
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Harold Gomberg
1916 - 1985 (69 years)
Harold Gomberg was the principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 through 1977. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Harold and his brother Ralph studied with Marcel Tabuteau, considered the father of American oboe playing, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the New York Philharmonic, Gomberg held positions with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony. He was a longtime member of the faculty of the Juilliard School, and recorded several albums of solo oboe repertoire during his long and very distinguished caree...
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Berta Elena Vidal de Battini
1900 - 1984 (84 years)
Berta Elena Vidal de Battini was an Argentine linguist, educationalist, writer and folklorist, whose life achievement is 10-volume selection of the Argentinian Folk Tales and Legends. Biography Berta de Battini was born in 1900 in San Luis, Argentina.
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William Clifford Heilman
1877 - 1946 (69 years)
William Clifford Heilman was an American composer. Biography William Clifford Heilman was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1877. He composed a number of orchestral works as well as a good deal of chamber music; he also produced songs. Heilman was a graduate of Harvard University, where he later taught for some time.
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Dora Zaslavsky
1904 - 1987 (83 years)
Dora Zaslavsky Koch was an American pianist who was one of the first graduates of and later a teacher at the Manhattan School of Music. Early life Zaslavsky was born in the Russian Empire in 1904, arriving in New York as an infant on February 22, 1905. Her family was Jewish, from the city of Kremenchuk in the oblast of Poltava. Her father Max had emigrated to the United States the previous year. She was traveling with her mother Celia née Fleisher, older siblings Joseph and Fay, and a young cousin. Another brother Israel was born six years later. Other sources give Zaslavsky’s birth year as 1905, but this is incompatible with the ship manifest information.
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Carl Adolf Martienssen
1881 - 1955 (74 years)
Carl Adolf Martienssen was a German pianist and music educator. Life Born in Güstrow, Martiensen came from a large farming family, which apparently only immigrated to Mecklenburg in the generation of his father, the merchant Gottlieb Martienssen. Martienssen was a younger son of his parents, attended the and received his first music education in theory, organ and piano from Johannes Schondorf in his home town. After the Abitur Martienssen studied musical composition with Wilhelm Berger, musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and piano playing with the Liszt student Karl Klindworth in Berlin, and at the Leipzig Conservatory .
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Waldemar Seidel
1893 - 1980 (87 years)
Waldemar "Wally" Carl Seidel was an Australian pianist, accompanist, and piano teacher who taught many notable pianists from Australia. Biography Seidel was born in St Kilda, Victoria in 1893, son of a German immigrant, the pianist and choral conductor Alfred Carl Seidel. Alfred had graduated from the Royal Conservatorium of Music, Leipzig, and migrated to Australia at the age of 19. Waldemar had lessons from his father, from J. Alfred Johnstone, from Benno Scherek, and from Edward Goll . Seidel assumed all of Johnstone's pupils when he returned to England in 1924.
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David W. Guion
1892 - 1981 (89 years)
David W. Guion , Texan composer, was best known for his arrangements of cowboy tunes, African American spiritualss, and original compositions often inspired by the soundscape of west Texas. Early life David Wendel Guion was born in Ballinger, Texas, on December 15, 1892, to John I. and Armour Fentress Guion. Guion began to play the piano at an early age. He was intrigued by the cowboys, former cattle drivers, who worked on his father's ranch, and also by the spirituals that he heard whenever a family servant brought him to the services of an African-American church. As a young boy, he was sen...
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Arne Oldberg
1874 - 1962 (88 years)
Arne Oldberg was an American pianist, composer, and teacher. He spent his career on the faculty of Northwestern University , where he taught piano and composition and, from 1924 until his retirement in 1941, served as director of the graduate department of the Music School. Among his students were composers Howard Hanson, Cecilia Clare Bocard, Theodora Troendle, Mildred Lund Tyson, and Ella May Walker.
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Mark Wessel
1894 - 1973 (79 years)
Mark Wessel was an American pianist and composer. Life Wessel was born in Coldwater, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern School of Music, now known as Bienen School of Music; he later taught piano and theory there. When Wessel left Northwestern, he became a professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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Miklós Radnai
1892 - 1935 (43 years)
Miklós Radnai was a Hungarian composer, critic and music writer. From 1925 to his death in 1935, he was a noted Intendant of the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest. Biography At an early age he had lessons with the blind pianist Attila Horváth, and also studied the violin. While still in secondary school, he entered the Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied under János Koessler and Viktor Herzfeld. He taught theory at another music school, and had an extended tour of European countries. In 1919 he became a teacher at the Academy of Music.
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Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
1844 - 1906 (62 years)
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker was a German composer, conductor and violinist. Life Childhood and youth Rauchenecker was born in Munich on 8 March 1844; he was the first child of Jakob Rauchenecker , an official musician of the city, and Rosina Crescenz Rauchenecker, née Wening and was baptised a Catholic two days later at St Peter's in Munich. As a young boy he was sent by his father to his uncle, Georg Wening, who had been pastor of the parish of Thalheim near Erding since 1855. It is possible that Rauchenecker was expected to follow the same career path as his uncle. After this he attended...
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Aquilino Coppini
1505 - 1629 (124 years)
Aquilino Coppini was an Italian musician and lyricist. While in the service of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, he specialized in creating sacred contrafacta of secular madrigalss. His contrafacta are of interest for their concentration on Monteverdi's madrigals and for the form in which he treats the poetic text. According to Antonio Delfino, "rather than simply replacing the original text with a liturgical one, he ‘spiritualized’ then through a careful translation which, like an exercise in rhetorical expertise, reproduces the phonemes, accents and rhythms of the secular text." In a letter to H...
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Carl Hugo Grimm
1890 - 1978 (88 years)
Carl Hugo Grimm was an American composer. Biography He was born on October 31, 1890, in Zanesville, Ohio. He received his early musical instruction from his father after moving to Cincinnati as a child. He was largely self-taught as a composer, though he did have lessons with Edgar Stillman Kelley and Frank van der Stucken. In 1927 his Erotic Poem received an award of $1000 from the National Federation of Music Clubs and in 1930 a choral work, The Song of Songs, received $1000 as well, this from the MacDowell Club. His orchestral works were played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Orchestra; he also composed chamber music, some choral works, and songs.
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Oreste Sindici
1828 - 1905 (77 years)
Oreste Sindici was an Italian-born Colombian musician and composer. He composed the music for the Colombian national anthem in 1887. He was born in Ceccano and studied in the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at Rome.
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LeRoy Mason
1903 - 1947 (44 years)
LeRoy Franklin Mason was an American film actor who worked primarily in Westerns in both the silent and sound film eras. Mason was born in Larimore, North Dakota, on July 2, 1903. Career 1920s Mason's first film was Hit and Run opposite Hoot Gibson . He was officially credited in Born to Battle opposite Tom Tyler and Jean Arthur. In 1926, Mason starred in The Arizona Streak opposite Tom Tyler, Frankie Darro, and Ada Mae Vaughn. Also in 1926, he starred in Lightning Hutch opposite Charles Hutchison and Edith Thornton. Mason starred opposite Tom Tyler, Doris Hill, and Frankie Darro in Tom and His Pals .
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Johann Gottfried Pratsch
1750 - 1818 (68 years)
Johann Gottfried Pratsch , was a Czech composer of music. He spent most of his life in Russia, and sometimes supported himself by teaching music to students at the Smolnїy Institute and at the St. Petersburg Theatre School.
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Maximilian Maksakov
1869 - 1936 (67 years)
Maksimilian Karlovich Maksakov — was an Austrian/Russian opera singer and music teacher. As a theater director, entrepreneur and later Russian Academy of Theatre Arts professor, Maksakov has made a considerable impact on the development of performance arts in Russia, especially in the province. His best known protégé was a renowned Soviet mezzo-soprano Maria Maksakova Sr. whom he married in 1920.
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Louis Svećenski
1862 - 1926 (64 years)
Louis Svećenski was notable Croatian-American violist, violinist and rector of the Boston Academy of Music. Svećenski was born in Osijek, Donji grad district on November 7, 1862 to a Jewish family. His father Adolf Abraham Kohn was from Bonyhád in Hungary, and his mother Terezija was from Darda just north of Osijek. Svećenski finished elementary and high school in Osijek. In 1877, with only 15 years of age, Svećenski was recognized by Osijek cultural public as the potential future musician. He graduated from the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb on August 26, 1882 with compliments from Ivan Zajc.
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Hermann Busch
1897 - 1975 (78 years)
Hermann Busch was a German cellist. Biography He was born in Siegen. His father was the violin maker . From the age of nine, he received cello lessons from his father. He then studied at the Academy of Music in Cologne with Friedrich Grützmacher der Jüngere and Paul Grümmer of the Vienna Academy. During the First World War, as a soldier, he was a member of the Brussels Symphony Orchestra. Between 1919 and 1923, he was principal cellist in Bochum; and until 1927 soloist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 1927, he was a professor at the Folkwangschule in Essen.
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Eugen Schmitz
1882 - 1959 (77 years)
Eugen Schmitz was a German musicologist and music critic. Life Schmitz was born in Neuburg an der Donau. The descendant of the violin virtuoso, composer and court kapellmeister Louis Spohr first studied law, then music and musicology in Munich with Anton Beer-Walbrunn, Adolf Sandberger and Theodor Kroyer. There he published the article Zum hundertjährigen Geburtstag Franz Lachner's in the Münchener Zeitung already in 1903. He received his doctorate in 1905 and was a music critic for the Munich Allgemeine Zeitung. After a study stay in Italy, he worked as a private lecturer in Munich from 1909...
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Evencio Castellanos
1915 - 1984 (69 years)
Evencio Castellanos Yumar , was a Venezuelan pianist and classical musician. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and director of choirs and orchestra. Biography His parents were Pablo Castellanos Almenar and Matilde Yumar. His musical initiation came from the hand of his father, who was an organist and chapel master. In 1938 he entered the Escuela Superior de Música de Caracas, where he studied singing with Antonio Pardo Soublette, cello with Carlos Áñez, history of music with Juan Bautista Plaza, and harmony and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. On July 4, 1944 he graduated as a maste...
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Clara Angela Macirone
1821 - 1895 (74 years)
Clara Angela Macirone was an English pianist and composer who published her music as C. A. Macirone. Born in London, she was the daughter of Italian musicians; her mother was also a pianist and her father was an amateur tenor. She began her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 1879 under Cipriani Potter, W H Holmes, Charles Lucas and others. She later took a position teaching at the Academy.
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Jeanne Behrend
1911 - 1988 (77 years)
Jeanne Behrend was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer. Life Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero. She made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1922 and at Carnegie Hall in 1937, playing one of her own compositions.
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T. Ranganathan
1925 - 1987 (62 years)
Tanjore Ranganathan was a Carnatic musician specializing in percussion instruments, particularly the mridangam, having studied under Palani Subramaniam Pillai. Ranganathan began performing professionally in 1938. At the California Institute of the Arts and Wesleyan University he taught many non-Indians Carnatic music, including Robert E. Brown, John Bergamo, Jon B. Higgins, Douglas Knight, David Nelson, Royal Hartigan, David Moss, Glenn "Rusty" Gillette, and Craig Woodson. He began teaching at Wesleyan in 1963, becoming that university's first Artist in Residence in Music.
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William Dillon
1877 - 1966 (89 years)
William Austin Dillon was an American songwriter and Vaudevillian. He is best known as the lyricist for the song "I Want A Girl " , written in collaboration with Harry Von Tilzer. It can be heard in Show Business and The Jolson Story . He was born in Cortland, New York and performed at some point in Vaudeville with his brothers John and Harry. He billed his own act as the "man of a thousand songs".
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Mischa Mischakoff
1896 - 1981 (85 years)
Mischa Mischakoff was an outstanding violinist who, as a concertmaster, led many of America's greatest orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s. Mischakoff was born in Proskuriv , Ukraine as Mischa Fishberg. In 1921 he escaped from Russia with, among others, his friend and colleague, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, with whom he had played in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Mischakoff emigrated to the United States later that year, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1927.
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Anton Walter
1883 - 1950 (67 years)
Anton Walter was an Austrian cellist. Life Born in Karlsbad, from 1896 until 1901 he studied violoncello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger at the conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.
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Max Butting
1888 - 1976 (88 years)
Max Butting was a German composer. Life Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. After attending secondary school , he studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich from 1908 to 1914. There, he received instruction in composition from Friedrich Klose, conducting from Felix Mottl and Paul Prill, as well as singing from Karl Erler. He also attended lectures in psychology, philosophy and musicology at the Munich University. Butting learned composition by private instru...
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Ernst Levy
1895 - 1981 (86 years)
Ernst Levy was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor. Life Born in Basel, Switzerland, Levy studied with Hans Huber, Egon Petri and Raoul Pugno. David Dubal describes him as an "unusual and powerful pianist" who made "grandly conceived" recordings of the late Beethoven sonatas and captured "the very essence of the Faustian Liszt". His work as a musicologist and teacher brought him to the United States, where he taught at colleges including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago and the New England Conservatory; he also became a United States citizen.
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J. E. P. Aldous
1853 - 1934 (81 years)
John Edmund Paul Aldous was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output includes many short pieces for piano, organ, choir, and voice. He also composed four operettas: Ptarmigan or A Canadian Carnival , A Golden Catch, Nancy or All for Love, and The Poster Girl . Some of his better-known works are Prelude and Fugue for organ, the choral works Grant, We Beseech Thee, Merciful Lord and Blessed Are the Dead That Die in the Lord, and the hymn Egypt, all of which have been reprinted several times.
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Günter Kehr
1920 - 1989 (69 years)
Günter Kehr was a German violinist, conductor and academic teacher of violin and chamber music. He founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio, and the Mainzer Kammerorchester, a chamber orchestra, and toured internationally with both ensembles. Kehr was director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1953, and professor at the Musikhochschule Köln.
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Leopold von Ledebur
1876 - 1955 (79 years)
Leopold von Ledebur was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography Carmen The Serenyi Midnight The Foolish Heart The Golden Lie The Gambler The Japanese Woman The Loves of Käthe Keller State Attorney Jordan The Bodega of Los Cuerros All Souls Devoted Artists The Carousel of Life Only a Servant The Last Sun Son The Fairy of Saint Ménard The Enchanted Princess Die Spieler Christian Wahnschaffe In the Whirl of Life World by the Throat The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter Waves of Life and Love The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen Count Varenne's Lover The Maharaja's Favourite Wife The House on...
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Robert Sanders
1906 - 1974 (68 years)
Robert Sanders was an American composer. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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