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#15551

Burrill Phillips

1907 - 1988 (81 years)

Leroy Burrill Phillips was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. Biography Phillips was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied at the College of Music at the University of Denver with Edwin Stringham and at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. On September 17, 1928, he married Alberta Corinne Mayfield who wrote many of his librettos. In 1931 the couple had a daughter who, under the stage name Ann Todd, became a child actress in films. She continued acting into her early twenties, but left the entertainment industry in 1954 and died in 2020.

#15552

Frank W. Applebee

1902 - 1988 (86 years)

Frank W. Applebee was an American painter and educator. He was a co-founder of the Dixie Art Colony and the head of the art department at Auburn University. Early life Frank Woodberry Applebee was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

#15553

Nikolai Lopatnikoff

1903 - 1976 (73 years)

Nikolai Lopatnikoff was a Russian-American composer, music teacher and university lecturer. He composed some works of neoclassical music. These pieces featured fast, furious Allegro molto that included in some cases snare drumming and also soft cello music. These style alternate fast and furious with quiet and solemn, legato strings giving way to a quiet passage that ends with a loud drum.

#15554

Joe Thomas

1909 - 1986 (77 years)

Joseph Vankert Thomas was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and vocalist. Biography Thomas was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States, on June 19, 1909. His first band job was with the Earl Hood Orchestra. After eight months Horace Henderson offered him a job. Thomas played alto sax under Hood and Henderson, but played tenor from the time he joined Stuff Smith's band in 1932.

#15555

Gerhard Taschner

1922 - 1976 (54 years)

Gerhard Taschner was a noted German violinist and teacher. Biography Taschner was born in Krnov , Czechoslovakia, of Moravian origins. After studying with his grandfather, he played Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 at his debut in Prague, when aged only 7. He studied with Jenő Hubay in Budapest 1930-32, and with Bronisław Huberman and Adolf Bak in Vienna. At age 10, he played three concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Felix Weingartner. By age 17, having undertaken tours in the United States and Germany, he was concertmaster at the City Theatre of Brno. In 1941, still aged onl...

#15556

Dennis Day

1916 - 1988 (72 years)

Dennis Day was an American actor, comedian and singer. He was of Irish descent. Early life Day was born and raised in the Throggs Neck Clason Point section of the Bronx, New York City, the second of five children born to Irish immigrants Patrick McNulty and Mary McNulty. His father was a factory electric power engineer. Day graduated from the Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary and attended Manhattan College in the Bronx, where he sang in the glee club.

#15557

Hermann Stephani

1877 - 1960 (83 years)

Hermann Stephani was a German musicologist and lecturer at the University of Marburg. Life Born in Grimma, Stephani received his doctorate in psychology from Universität München in 1902 under Theodor Lipps. He studied music under Felix Draeseke and became the first director of the "Felix-Draeseke-Gesellschaft". After several positions as choir and orchestra conductor, he settled in Eisleben in 1906 as organist and church music director. In 1921, he was appointed first professor of musicology at the University of Marburg. He habilitated there on 12 November 1921 and held his inaugural lecture the same day.

#15558

Mary Jarred

1899 - 1993 (94 years)

Mary Jarred was an English opera singer of the mid-twentieth century. She is sometimes classed as a mezzo-soprano and sometimes as a contralto. Biography Jarred was born in Brotton, Yorkshire, , and studied at the Royal College of Music.

#15559

Lucille Bogan

1897 - 1948 (51 years)

Lucille Bogan was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Music critic Ernest Borneman noted that Bogan was one of "the big three of the blues", along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Many of Bogan's songs have been recorded by later blues and jazz musicians.

#15560

Mickey Daniels

1914 - 1970 (56 years)

Richard Daniels Jr. known professionally as Mickey Daniels, was an American actor. Signed by Hal Roach in 1921, he was, along with Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Jackie Davis, Mary Kornman, and Ernie Morrison, a regular in the popular Our Gang comedies during the silent era of the series, between 1922 and 1926.

#15561

Alexander Mogilevsky

Alexander Mogilevsky

1885 - 1953 (68 years)

Alexander Yakovlevich Mogilevsky was a Russian classical concert violinist and director of the Kremlin Band for Tsar Nicholas II. Career Born in Odessa in 1885, Mogilevsky moved to Moscow in 1898 to study music at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory of Music, where he graduated first in his class.

#15562

Erik Ahlman

1892 - 1952 (60 years)

Erik Gustav Ahlman was a Finnish philosopher and linguist. Ahlman initiated his academic career as a classical philologist. Ahlman was born in Turku. He worked as a theoretical science education professor at the Jyväskylä College of Education from 1935 to 1948 and then Professor of Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki from 1948–1952. His most important works are Arvojen ja välineiden maailma , Kulttuurin perustekijöitä and Ihmisen probleemi .

#15563

Hugo del Carril

Hugo del Carril

1912 - 1989 (77 years)

Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril , was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. Early life Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril was the son of parents of a rich economic position, his mother Orsolina Bertani was born in Argentina , but his father Hugo Fontana was an Italian architect, born in Milan. But in spite of the comforts and the comfortable life they led, his parents separated and young Hugo was left in the charge of a family friend.

#15564

Clifton Williams

1923 - 1976 (53 years)

[James] Clifton Williams, Jr. was an American composer, pianist, French hornist, mellophonist, music theorist, conductor, and teacher. Williams was known by symphony patrons as a virtuoso French hornist with the symphony orchestras of Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Houston, Oklahoma City, Austin, and San Antonio. The young composer was honored with performances of Peace, A Tone Poem and A Southwestern Overture by the Houston and Oklahoma City symphony orchestras, respectively. He remains widely known as one of America's accomplished composers for the wind ensemble and band repertory.

#15565

Sergei Svatikov

Sergei Svatikov

1880 - 1942 (62 years)

Sergei Grigorievich Svatikov was a Russian historian and political figure who presented critical evidence and/or testimony in 1935 in the Berne Trial regarding the notorious Protocols of Zion. See also Berne TrialHenryk Baran

#15566

Hibari Misora

1937 - 1989 (52 years)

Hibari Misora was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. She received a Medal of Honor for her contributions to music and for improving the welfare of the public, and was the first woman to receive the People's Honour Award, which was conferred posthumously for giving the public hope and encouragement after World War II.

#15567

Robert Shaw

1908 - 1985 (77 years)

Robert Shaw was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, best known for his 1963 album, The Ma Grinder. Early life Shaw was born in Stafford, Texas, the son of farm owners Jesse and Hettie Shaw, who owned a farm there. The family also owned a Steinway grand piano, and his sisters had lessons in playing, but Shaw's father was against allowing his son to learn the instrument.

#15568

Eleanor Sophia Smith

Eleanor Sophia Smith

1858 - 1942 (84 years)

Eleanor Sophia Smith was an American composer and music educator. She was one of the founders of Chicago's Hull House Music School, and headed its music department from 1893 to 1936. Born into a musical family, Smith taught herself to play the piano and later became a classically trained musician. Earning a teaching degree, she began publishing music compositions for children using the philosophy of Friedrich Fröbel, advocating for less memorization and drilling and more attention to intuitive appreciation of music. Studying composition and voice in Germany, she also toured the country observ...

#15569

Cow Cow Davenport

Cow Cow Davenport

1894 - 1955 (61 years)

Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport was an American boogie-woogie and piano blues player as well as a vaudeville entertainer. He also played the organ and sang. Davenport, who also made recordings under the pseudonyms of Bat The Humming Bird, George Hamilton and The Georgia Grinder, is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

#15570

Theodore von Eltz

1893 - 1964 (71 years)

Theodore von Eltz was an American film actor, appearing in more than 200 films between 1915 and 1957. He was the father of actress Lori March. Von Eltz was a Yale University professor's son. After 12 years at an eastern private boarding school, he served in France for eight months during World War I. He followed his war experience with ventures into oil fields in Texas and on the stage in New York.

#15571

Otto Hoffman

1879 - 1944 (65 years)

Otto F. Hoffman was an American film actor. He appeared in almost 200 films between 1915 and 1944. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California, from lung cancer. Hoffman's Broadway credits include The Strange Woman , The Spring Maid , and A Broken Idol . He was also active in stock theater productions. Hoffman debuted in film in 1906 in a production of the Edison Company in New York. Later he worked for Goldwyn Pictures.

#15572

Shinji Maejima

1903 - 1983 (80 years)

Shinji Maejima was a Japanese Orientalist. A native of Yamanashi Prefecture, he studied Pali and Sanskrit at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and graduated with a BA from the University of Tokyo. Prior to World War II, he taught in Taiwan, then a Japanese colony. After the war, he taught Islamic History at Keio University until his death.

#15573

Harvey Worthington Loomis

Harvey Worthington Loomis

1865 - 1930 (65 years)

Harvey Worthington Loomis was an American composer. He is remembered today for his associations with the Indianist movement and the Wa-Wan Press. Biography Loomis was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 5, 1865. He studied piano with Madeline Schiller. In his youth he won a scholarship of three years' study at the National Conservatory, where he studied with Antonín Dvořák, and quickly became a favored pupil of the Bohemian composer. He gained his greatest fame from the collection Lyrics of the Red Man, settings of American Indian songs rescored for piano. Loomis also composed works fo...

#15574

Mary Carr

1874 - 1973 (99 years)

Mary Carr , was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films from 1915 to 1956. She was given some of filmdoms plum mother roles in silent pictures, especially Fox's 1920 Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, which was a great success. She was interred in Calvary Cemetery. Carr bore a strong resemblance to Lucy Beaumont, another famous character actress of the time who specialized in mother roles. As older actresses such as Mary Maurice and Anna Townsend passed on, Carr, still in her forties, seem to inherit all the matriarchal roles in sile...

#15575

Bernard Walton

1917 - 1972 (55 years)

Bernard Walton was a British classical clarinettist. Biography Walton was born into a musical family. His grandfather was a cellist with the Hallé Orchestra under the eponymous founder Charles Hallé, and his father played in the Queen's Hall Orchestra. He studied at the Royal College of Music with George Anderson, the principal clarinettist at the founding of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1904. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1968.

#15576

Henny Wolff

1896 - 1965 (69 years)

Henny Wolff was a German soprano concert singer and voice teacher. She made an international career, known for performing music by Bach and Handel, but also performing contemporary classical music. Composers wrote music for her and performed with her, such as Hermann Reutter. She was a voice teacher at the Bonn Conservatory, in Berlin, and from 1950 to 1964 at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She was awarded the city's Johannes Brahms Medal.

#15577

Dennis Grady

1886 - 1974 (88 years)

Dennis Henry Grady was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Alma College from 1910 to 1911 and at Northwestern University in 1913, compiling a career college football coaching record of 8–12. Grady's football coaching record at Northwestern was 1–6. Grady was also the fifth head basketball coach for Northwestern, coaching two seasons from 1912 to 1914 and tallying a mark of 25–10.

#15578

Amadeus Wendt

1783 - 1836 (53 years)

Johann Amadeus Wendt was a German philosopher and music theorist. Life Wendt came from a modest background. He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig as an outside student. As a boy, he demonstrated a pronounced interest in music, and therefore received theoretical and practical music lessons from the conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and later Cantor at Saint Thomas, Johann Gottfried Schicht.

#15579

Giovanni Michelotti

Giovanni Michelotti

1921 - 1980 (59 years)

Giovanni Michelotti was one of the most prolific designers of sports cars in the 20th century. His notable contributions were for Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati and Triumph marques. He was also associated with truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for British Leyland after the merger of Leyland and BMC.

#15580

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.

#15581

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.

#15582

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...

#15583

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.

#15584

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.

#15585

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.

#15586

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.

#15587

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.

#15588

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.

#15589

Robert Talbot

1893 - 1954 (61 years)

Jean Robert Talbot was a Canadian conductor, violinist, violist, composer, and music educator. For more than 25 years, he was the conductor of the Société symphonique de Québec . A member of the Société française de musicologie, the International Musicological Society, the Musical Association of London, and the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Music, he was the author of several books on music theory. He also contributed music articles to a variety of periodicals.

#15590

Alexander Laszlo

1895 - 1970 (75 years)

Alexander Lászlò was a Hungarian-American pianist, musical composer, arranger and inventor. He was born Sándor Totis, but used the professional name of Alexander Lászlò as a composer and music publisher.

#15591

Calvin Jackson

1919 - 1985 (66 years)

John Calvin Jackson was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Background He was born in Philadelphia in 1919 to Harry and Margaret Jackson. His mother was a concert singer in Philadelphia. Jackson played piano from childhood, having lessons with private teacher. He studied at Juilliard and New York University.

#15592

Lucia Dunham

1932 - 1959 (27 years)

Lucia Dunham was an American voice teacher, classical soprano, and academic writer on singing and diction who is chiefly remembered as a longtime professor of vocal performance at the Juilliard School from 1922-1956.

#15593

Franklin Rhoda

1854 - 1929 (75 years)

Franklin Rhoda . In the words of historian Mike Foster, Frank Rhoda was an "artist, musician, writer, surveyor, naturalist, social critic, defender of civil liberties and champion of Christ - the only theme unifying his versatile life was idealism that aimed to reform almost everything he encountered."

#15594

Herbert Sharpe

1861 - 1925 (64 years)

Herbert Francis Sharpe, was a British pianist, composer and music professor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London later becoming professor there. He composed songs, chamber music and orchestral pieces. He was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music.

#15595

Nicholas Staggins

1650 - 1700 (50 years)

Nicholas Staggins was an English composer. Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682, he was granted a musical doctorate by Cambridge University, and from 1684 until his death was Professor of Music at Cambridge. Following his death on the night of 12–13 June 1700, he was succeeded by John Eccles.

#15596

Dan White

1908 - 1980 (72 years)

Dan White was an American actor, well known for appearing in Western films and TV shows. Biography Early life White acted in a show with Frances Langford in Tampa's Rialto Theatre. He still longed for a career in entertainment and resigned from the CCC in 1935 and started his journey to Hollywood with his small family.

#15597

Harry Crane Perrin

1865 - 1953 (88 years)

Harry Crane Perrin was a cathedral organist at Canterbury Cathedral, England, and an academic who served as the first dean of music at McGill University, Canada. Background Perrin was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He attended Wellingborough Grammar School, and studied music under Sir Robert Prescott Stewart at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1890, as a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1892, and as a Doctor of Music in 1901.

#15598

William Berke

1903 - 1958 (55 years)

William A. Berke was an American film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He wrote, directed, and/or produced some 200 films over a three-decade career. Biography Berke broke into motion pictures in 1922 as a writer for silent westerns. For these assignments, he used the pseudonym William Lester. In the early 1930s, he formed a partnership with independent producer Bernard B. Ray to make feature films at Ray's Reliable Pictures studio, next door to Columbia Pictures. Berke, now using his own name for screen credits, was equally capable in making comedies, mysteries, action adventures, and westerns.

#15599

Alice Gordon Gulick

Alice Gordon Gulick

1847 - 1903 (56 years)

Alice Gordon Gulick was an American missionary teacher in Spain. Early life Alice Winfield Gordon was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Auburndale, Massachusetts, the daughter of James M. Gordon and Mary Clarkson Gordon. Her parents were active in the abolition movement; her sisters Anna Adams Gordon and Elizabeth Putnam Gordon were temperance activists. She attended Mount Holyoke Seminary from 1863 to 1867.

#15600

Lev Conus

1871 - 1944 (73 years)

Lev Eduardovich Conus , known in Western Europe and the US as Leon Conus , was a Russian pianist, music educator, and composer. A brother of the composers Georgi Conus and Julius Conus, he studied together with Sergei Rachmaninoff in Anton Arensky's advanced composition class and served as chief professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory until 1918. Together with his wife, the pianist and pedagogue Olga Kovalevskaya Conus they left the Soviet Union for Paris in 1921 where he subsequently taught at the city's Russian Conservatory, before finally moving to the United States in 1935. He taught in Cincinnati until his death at the age of 73.

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