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#15601

Philip Sainton

1891 - 1967 (76 years)

Philip Prosper Sainton was a British–French composer, conductor, and violist. Biography He was born in Arques-la-Bataille, in Seine-Maritime, France, grandson to violinist Prosper Sainton and contralto Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, but the family soon moved to Godalming, Surrey in the UK. His father, Charles Prosper, was a painter and his mother, born Amy Foster, was a singer. He started his music studies learning the violin. In 1913 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied composition under Frederick Corder and viola under Lionel Tertis.

#15602

Alicia Urreta

1930 - 1986 (56 years)

Alicia Urreta was a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Alicia Urreta was born in Veracruz, Veracruz. In 1952 she entered the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City, studying harmony with Rodolfo Halffter, and other topics under Hernández Moncada, León Mariscal, and Sandor Roth. In 1969, she studied with Jean-Etienne Marie at Schola Cantorum of Paris, France. She also studied piano instruction from Alfred Brendel and Alicia de Larrocha. She later worked as a concert pianist for the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. She also taught at the University of Mexico and was an...

#15603

M. R. Radha

1907 - 1979 (72 years)

Madras Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan was an Indian actor and politician active in Tamil plays and films. He was given the title "Nadigavel" by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. He mostly played villain roles, but had also acted in several films as comedian.

#15604

Ha Gil-jong

1941 - 1979 (38 years)

Ha Gil-jong was a South Korean film director, screenwriter and translator. Most famous for his youth classic, The March of Fools , Ha was also a very prominent social critic in his day. Biography He was born as the seventh child of a family with nine children in Choryang-dong, Busan, South Korea. His little brother Hah Myung-joong is an actor and film director. Ha lost his mother in 1945 and his father in 1950 when the Korean War occurred. Orphaned, Ha came to live with relatives. In 1956 he went to Seoul with one of his older brothers, and attended Jungdong High School in the following year.

#15605

Henry Wylde

1822 - 1890 (68 years)

Henry Wylde was an English conductor, composer, teacher and music critic. Background Henry Wylde was born at Bushey, Hertfordshire, elder son of Henry Wylde and Martha Lucy née Paxton. His father, then the organist at St. Mary's Church, Watford, was himself a music teacher. Henry, the father, one of the Children of the Chapel Royal was for many years vicar choral of the Chapels Royal and cantor there and he was a soloist at the marriage of Queen Victoria.

#15606

Emil Ermatinger

Emil Ermatinger

1873 - 1953 (80 years)

Emil Ermatinger was a Swiss professor for Germanic philology. Ermatinger studied classical philology in Zurich and Berlin. 1897 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Zurich. His doctoral advisor was the classical archaeologist and philologist Hugo Blümner. 1909 Ermatinger became a professor for Germanic philology at ETH Zurich. 1912 till 1943 he was professor at the University of Zurich. 1939 he was visiting professor at the Columbia University in New York City.

#15607

Leonidas Warren Payne Jr.

1873 - 1945 (72 years)

Leonidas Warren Payne Jr. was an American linguist and professor of English at the University of Texas. He was a co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society along with John Lomax, edited the first anthology of Texas literature, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of e.e. cummings.

#15608

Walther Davisson

Walther Davisson

1885 - 1973 (88 years)

Walther Davisson was a German violinist and conductor. Background Davisson was born in Frankfurt am Main. He studied in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory from 1900 to 1906 with Johann Naret-Koning and Adolf Rebner, in whose string quartet he played second violin from 1906 to 1913. He also taught violin in Frankfurt until 1918.

#15609

Albertine Morin-Labrecque

Albertine Morin-Labrecque

1886 - 1957 (71 years)

Albertine Morin-Labrecque was a Canadian pianist, soprano, composer, and music educator. Her compositional output includes 4 ballets, 2 comic operas, the Chinese opera Pas-chu, 2 concertos for two pianos, the symphonic poem Le Matin, numerous symphonic works, and compositions for band. Her works have been published by a variety of companies. A square and a street in Montreal were named after her in 1984.

#15610

Jimmy Wakely

1914 - 1982 (68 years)

James Clarence Wakely was an American actor, songwriter, country music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios, appeared on radio and television and even had his own series of comic books. His duet singles with Margaret Whiting from 1949 until 1951, produced a string of top seven hits, including 1949's number one hit on the US country chart and pop music chart, "Slippin' Around". Wakely owned two music publishing companies in later years, and performed at the Gran...

#15611

Shomu Nobori

1878 - 1958 (80 years)

Shomu Nobori was the pen-name of a noted translator and educator of Russian literature in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Naotaka Nobori. He also served as a special advisor to the Japanese cabinet on Russian and Soviet issues.

#15612

Arthur Alexander

1891 - 1969 (78 years)

Arthur Alexander was a New Zealand-born pianist, teacher and composer who spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. Alexander was born in Dunedin and educated at Wellington College, where he studied piano with Maughan Barnett and composition and harmony with Lawrence Watkins. In 1907 he left for London to study at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay and Frederick Corder . He won the largest number of prizes ever at the Academy, including the Macfarren and Chappell gold medals for piano playing, and was appointed a sub-professor there. He was also a singer, and in early reci...

#15613

Emma Lomax

1873 - 1963 (90 years)

Louise Emily Lomax was an English composer and pianist. She was born in Brighton, daughter of the curator of Brighton Free Library and Museum. She studied at the Brighton School of Music and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying composition with Frederick Corder and the clarinet. She was a Goring Thomas Scholar from 1907 to 1910 and won the Charles Lucas Medal in 1910, awarded for her Theme and Variations for orchestra.

#15614

Helen Morgan

1900 - 1941 (41 years)

Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. She starred as Julie LaVerne in the original Broadway production of Hammerstein and Kern's musical Show Boat in 1927, as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a part-talkie made in 1929 and a full-sound version made in 1936, becoming firmly associated with the role. She suffered from bouts of alcoholism, and despite her notable success in the title role of another Hammerstein and Kern's Broadway musical, Sweet Adeline , her stage career was relatively short.

#15615

John Black

1778 - 1802 (24 years)

Captain John Black , was an English seafarer, who had a short but eventful career that included privateering and exploration. He was best known, during his own lifetime, for a mutiny on in August 1797, as it sailed south in the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Sydney, New South Wales, carrying female convicts. As a result of the mutiny, Black and several other members of the crew were put into a small boat and left to find their way to the nearest land, being Brazil.

#15616

Stanislav Neuhaus

1927 - 1980 (53 years)

Stanislav Genrikhovich Neuhaus was a Soviet-Russian classical pianist, and son of the pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus. Neuhaus was born in Moscow, during the time in which his father was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He studied piano with his father from 1953 to 1957 and, in his father's later years, was one of his three assistants, alongside Lev Naumov and Yevgeny Malinin. Brigitte Engerer was one of his students at the Moscow Conservatory, studying with him for five years, and his son, Stanislav Bunin, also went on to become a well known pianist. He died in Peredelkino, ne...

#15617

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs

1842 - 1899 (57 years)

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs was an Austrian composer, opera conductor, teacher and editor. His editorial work included an important role in the preparation of the first complete edition of Franz Schubert's works. He was an older brother of the composer Robert Fuchs.

#15618

Frankie Jaxon

1895 - 1944 (49 years)

Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson , was an African American vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Life and career He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, orphaned, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He started in show business around 1910 as a singer in Kansas City, before travelling extensively with medicine shows in Texas, and then touring the eastern seaboard. His feminine voice and outrageous manner, often as a female impersonator, established him as a crowd favorite. By 1917...

#15619

Vilém Kurz

1872 - 1945 (73 years)

Vilém Kurz was a Czech pianist and renowned piano teacher. Career Kurz was born in Německý Brod, Bohemia in 1872. He became a professor at the State Conservatory in Lviv and Vienna, and Prague Conservatory.

#15620

Sylvia Lark

1947 - 1990 (43 years)

Sylvia Lark was a Native American/Seneca artist, curator, and educator. She best known as an Abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. Lark lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. Early life and education Lark was born in 1947 in Buffalo, New York. She went to high school at Nardin Academy in Buffalo. Lark attended school at the University of Siena; University at Buffalo where she received her B.A. degree in 1969; Mills College; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received her M.A. degree in 1970 and M.F.A. degree in 1972.

#15621

Pavel Pabst

1854 - 1897 (43 years)

Paul or Pavel Avgustovich Pabst was a pianist, composer, and Professor of Piano at Moscow Conservatory. Life and career Pabst was born Christian Georg Paul Pabst in 1854, into a family of musicians in the capital of East Prussia, Königsberg . He studied piano with his father and then in Vienna with Anton Door and in Weimar with Franz Liszt. The young Pabst had a fortuitous meeting with Anton Rubinstein when he travelled to Königsberg as overseer of cultural programmes there.

#15622

Placido Mandanici

1799 - 1852 (53 years)

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

#15623

Herbert Elwell

1898 - 1974 (76 years)

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

#15624

Arbee Stidham

1917 - 1988 (71 years)

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

#15625

Georgi Conus

1862 - 1933 (71 years)

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

#15626

Mamie Smith

1883 - 1946 (63 years)

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

#15627

Rezső Sugár

1919 - 1988 (69 years)

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

#15628

Emory Johnson

1894 - 1960 (66 years)

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

#15629

John Mehegan

1916 - 1984 (68 years)

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

#15630

Margarete Kupfer

1881 - 1953 (72 years)

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

#15631

George Frederick Boyle

1886 - 1948 (62 years)

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

#15632

Guan Pinghu

1895 - 1967 (72 years)

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

#15633

William Scott

1893 - 1967 (74 years)

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

#15634

Stanisław Rospond

Stanisław Rospond

1906 - 1982 (76 years)

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

#15635

Anthony Young

1683 - 1747 (64 years)

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

#15636

Fredrik Wulff

1845 - 1930 (85 years)

Fredrik Amadeus Wulff was a Swedish phonetician and philologist.

#15637

Frederick Crowe

1862 - 1931 (69 years)

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

#15638

James Bell

1891 - 1973 (82 years)

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

#15639

Arthur Jones

1892 - 1976 (84 years)

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

#15640

Aleksandr Lokshin

Aleksandr Lokshin

1920 - 1987 (67 years)

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

#15641

Willis Jackson

1932 - 1987 (55 years)

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

#15642

Edith Farnadi

1911 - 1973 (62 years)

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

#15643

Gerrit Hendrik Kersten

1882 - 1948 (66 years)

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

#15644

Luca Fumagalli

1837 - 1908 (71 years)

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

#15645

Fu Ssu-nien

1896 - 1950 (54 years)

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

#15646

Dionys Pruckner

Dionys Pruckner

1834 - 1896 (62 years)

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

#15647

Vasily Zolotarev

1873 - 1964 (91 years)

Vasily Andreyevich Zolotarev, also romanized as Zolotaryov , was a Russian composer and music teacher. Biography Vasily Zolotarev was born to a Greek family named Kuyumzhi or Kouyoumtzis in the city of Taganrog in 1872. The family name was later changed to the more Russian Zolotarev. He studied music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under direction of Mily Balakirev in the class of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , graduating in 1900. Zolotarev lectured at Moscow Conservatory , at the Belarus State Academy of Music in 1933–1941, and other conservatories. Among his students in Minsk was Mieczys...

#15648

Johnny Lee

1898 - 1965 (67 years)

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

#15649

Hermann Schroeder

1904 - 1984 (80 years)

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

#15650

Jonas Švedas

1908 - 1971 (63 years)

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

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