The Most Influential People Across History
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Helene Wildbrunn
1882 - 1972 (90 years)
Leonore Helene Wildbrunn was an Austrian operatic soprano. She was a celebrated Wagnerian singer, possessing a wide vocal range and dramatic creativity and fine sense of style. She made her debut in 1907 at the Stadttheater Dortmund as a contralto and mezzo-soprano. She performed at the Stuttgart Court Opera from 1914 to 1918, the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925, the Städtische Oper Berlin from 1925 to 1932, and the Vienna State Opera from 1919 until 1932. From 1932 to 1950, she only appeared as a concert singer, and taught at the Vienna Music Academy as a professor.
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Ernst Müller-Scheessel
1863 - 1936 (73 years)
Ernst Müller-Scheessel was a German artist and a co-founder of the "Bremer Kunstlerbund" . He also taught for some time at the "Kunstgewerbeschule" in Bremen. Biography Ernst Heinrich Adolf Ferdinand Müller was born at Scheeßel in the Kingdom of Hanover, a short distance to the east of Bremen and to the north of Hannover, the seventh of his parents' nine recorded children. Adolf Conrad Müller , his father, was a businessman who at one stage entered into an ill-starred partnership with his wife's brother, Ernst Müller's uncle, Julius Zahn. While he was growing up the family relocated in ...
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William Haade
1903 - 1966 (63 years)
William Haade was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1937 and 1957. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California. Early life and career Born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, Haade was one of four children born to Bernard Francis Haade and Annie Kelly, one of whom died at the age of one in 1908. Following the death of his birth father in 1909, Haade's mother married William Bittner, resulting in the eventual acquisition of four additional half-siblings.
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Trixie Smith
1895 - 1943 (48 years)
Trixie Smith was an American blues singer. She made four dozen recordings. Biography Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Smith came from a middle-class background. Various years are given for her birth including 1885, 1888, and 1895. She attended Selma University, in Alabama, before moving to New York City at the age of twenty around 1915. Soon after, she began working in a number of different cafés and theaters in Harlem and Philadelphia.
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David Gamrekeli
1911 - 1977 (66 years)
David Aleksandrovich Gamrekeli was a Georgian baritone opera singer. Biography Gamrekeli was born in Chiatura, Western Georgia. In 1935, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, studying under Professor Vronsky. That year, the young baritone sang at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre the role of Prince Yeletsky from Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades. In 1937 in Moscow, Georgian Literature and the Arts of the decade, he performed Kiazo's role in Paliashvili's opera Daisi . One year later he became laureate of the First All-Union Competition of Vocalists.
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Cecilia Clare Bocard
1899 - 1994 (95 years)
Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard, S.P., was an American musician and composer of works for organ, piano, and chorus. Born Frances Ada Bocard in New Albany, Indiana, she began studying piano in first grade and organ in third grade. Bocard began as her parish's organist at the early age of nine. She entered the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1916 at the age of 17, taking the religious name Sister Cecilia Clare. In addition to her composing work, Bocard taught piano, organ, composition and theory at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Conservatory of Music for 47 years. Beginning in 1970, she served as organist at the Church of the Immaculate Conception until her death in 1994.
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Julius von Raatz-Brockmann
1870 - 1944 (74 years)
Julius von Raatz-Brockmann was a German baritone concert singer and voice teacher. Born in Hamburg, he died in Perleberg at age 74. Further reading K. J. Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon. Unchanged edition. K. G. Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume M–Z, , Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, 2nd edition, volume 8, , Eva Folz: Raatz-Brockmann und die Gesangspädagogik: dem Meister zu seinem 60. Geburtstage am 29. April 1930. Wölbing-Verlag, Berlin, 1930
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Friedrich Rabenschlag
1902 - 1973 (71 years)
Friedrich Rabenschlag was a German choral conductor. Career Born in Herford, Rabenschlag studied German studies, art history, musicology and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Cologne. He also studied piano, organ, and conducting of both choirs and orchestras at the Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. He was enthusiastic about the Wandervogel movement, and founded the Madrigalkreis Leipziger Studenten in 1926, while studying. It was merged in 1938 with the Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei to form the Leipziger Universitätschor.
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Emanuel Balaban
1895 - 1973 (78 years)
Emanuel Balaban was a pianist and free-lance conductor who taught at the Eastman School of Music and later at the Juilliard School. Balaban was born to Joseph Balaban and Olga Ribman Balaban in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Institute of Musical Art, then studied under Fritz Busch in Germany. Although a pianist , conducting was his goal. He was a conductor at the Dresden State Opera and led orchestra in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, New York, and Washington D.C.
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Carl Albert Löschhorn
1819 - 1905 (86 years)
Carl Albert Löschhorn was a German composer, pianist and piano pedagogue. He taught in Berlin. Some of his piano studies are still popular today, including Op.65/66/67 of which the Étude op. 66 no.22 is best known.
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Spade Cooley
1910 - 1969 (59 years)
Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley was an American convicted murderer and Western swing musician, big band leader, actor and television personality. In 1961 he was tried and convicted for the murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans.
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Franz Dorfmüller
1887 - 1974 (87 years)
Franz Dorfmüller was a German pianist, piano teacher and music writer. In addition to guest performances and lectures, he was active at the main venues of Munich, Regensburg, Philadelphia and Nuremberg.
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Francis Karl Alter
1749 - 1804 (55 years)
Francis Karl Alter , a Jesuit, born in Silesia, and professor of Greek at Vienna, was an editor of the Greek text of the New Testament. His edition was different from those of Mill, Wettstein, and Griesbach, because he used only the manuscripts housed at the Imperial Library at Vienna. It was the first edition of the Greek New Testament that contained evidence from Slavic manuscripts themselves, as opposed to Christian Frederick Matthaei's editions , also claimed to be the first to contain evidence from the Slavic version of the New Testament.
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Brian Runnett
1935 - 1970 (35 years)
Henry Brian Runnett was a British organist and choral director. He was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire, in 1935 and was educated at the Liverpool Matthay School of Music, during which time he obtained the FRCO diploma with both Limpus and F J Read prizes in organ playing. His first organ post was at St. Stephen's Church, Hightown. From there he went to St. Andrew's, Litherland, before moving in 1955 to Chester Cathedral as assistant organist. In 1958 he obtained the degree of BMus from Durham University. In 1960 he was appointed organ scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, under Director of ...
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Alexander McCurdy
1905 - 1983 (78 years)
Alexander McCurdy Jr. was an organist and educator who taught a generation of America's most-prominent performers. Education and family After overcoming early struggles with infantile paralysis, McCurdy moved east to study organ with T. Tertius Noble. Dr. Noble was unable to take any more students and so suggested that McCurdy study instead with the great Lynnwood Farnam, first in New York and then in Philadelphia's newly established Curtis Institute of Music. In 1931, McCurdy became one of the Institute's earliest graduates, and received his diploma at the first official commencement ceremony in 1934.
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Dmitri Milyutenko
1899 - 1966 (67 years)
Dmytro Milyutenko was a Ukrainian stage and film actor of the Soviet era. Partial filmography Bolshaya igra Tom Soyer Karmeliuk - Yarjoma - Kovalya's sonShchors - Weaver / Vladimir VinichenkoVsadniki - Guest at the reception Kubantsy - Grandfather Makar OcheretovBogdan Khmelnitskiy - Hetman Mykola PototzkyPartizany v stepyakh Ukrainy - Filimon DovgonosikZigmund Kolosovskiy - Deputy VentselSecret Agent - BerezhnoyTaras Shevchenko - Commander Irakty Aleksandrovich UskovV stepakh Ukrajiny Martin Borulya - Protasiy PenenozhkaKalinovaya roshcha Bogatyr idyot v Marto - 'Khozyain'Mat Ivan...
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Tina Lerner
1889 - 2000 (111 years)
Tina Lerner was a Russian-American concert pianist born in Odessa. Early life Valentina Osipovna Lerner was the daughter of Yiddish writers Osip Mikhailovich Lerner and Mariam Rabinovitch. She showed musical promise from an early age, in her birthplace, Odessa. She studied at Moscow Conservatory and with Leopold Godowsky, and began performing while still a teenager.
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T. R. Mahalingam
1923 - 1978 (55 years)
Thenkarai Ramakrishna Mahalingam born in Sholavandan Thenkarai was an Indian actor, singer and music composer of the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for his melodious songs mostly based on romantic or devotional themes.
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Leslie Holmes
1901 - 1960 (59 years)
Leslie Holmes was a Canadian baritone and voice teacher. Holmes was born in Lesser Slave Lake in 1901. He was a celebrated singer in oratorios, concerts, and recitals in Canada and England from the 1920s-1950s. He appeared as a soloist with several notable music ensembles during his career, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He was also a soloist at the Montreal Festivals.
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Wallace Fox
1895 - 1958 (63 years)
Wallace Fox was an American film director. He directed more than 80 films between 1927 and 1953. He was born in Purcell, Oklahoma, and died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography Trail of Courage The Ridin' Renegade The Avenging Rider Driftin' Sands Partners of the Trail Devil on Deck Cannonball Express Gun Packer Bowery Blitzkrieg The Corpse Vanishes Let's Get Tough! Bowery at Midnight 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge Bullets for Bandits The Girl from Monterrey The Great Mike Brenda Starr, Reporter Docks of New York Pillow of Death The Vigilante The Gay Amigo West of Wyoming Gunslingers Blazin...
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Jimmie Davis
1899 - 2000 (101 years)
James Houston Davis was an American singer, songwriter, and politician. After achieving fame for releasing both sacred and popular songs, Davis served as governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964. As Governor, Jimmie was an opponent of efforts to desegregate Louisiana.
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Karel Krautgartner
1922 - 1982 (60 years)
Karel Krautgartner was a Czech jazz and classical clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, composer, conductor and teacher. Life He was born in Mikulov, Moravia, in the family of a postmaster. His family were of Moravian German ethnic which have assimilated into Czech people. In 1930 he began to play piano. In 1935, after moving to Brno, he found interest mainly in the radio broadcasting and specially in jazz. He began to study clarinet on private basis with Stanislav Krtička . Krautgartner acquired necessary skills of clarinet playing, and also inherited "fanatic passion" for clarinet construction and components .
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Semyon Snitkovsky
1933 - 1981 (48 years)
Semyon Snitkovsky - was a Soviet classical violinist and a professor. Biography Semyon Snitkovsky's formal music education began in 1940 at Stolyarsky Music School. After an ensuing hiatus that was brought on by World War II, he was accepted into a class of Veniamin Zinovievich Mordkovich. In three years he performed his first solo recital, and in 1951 entered Odessa Conservatory, where he also studied with professor Mordkovich. In the early fifties Snitkovsky was already a soloist with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Vladas Jakubėnas
1904 - 1976 (72 years)
Vladas Jonas Jakubėnas was a Lithuanian composer, pianist, musicologist and journalist. Works, editions and recordings Chamber Music: Kasparas Uinskas, Rusne Mataityte, Edmundas Kulikauskas, Albina Siksniute, Vilnius String Quartet, St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Donatas Katkus Toccata Classics 2011
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Thomas Canning
1911 - 1989 (78 years)
Thomas Canning was a composer and music educator, serving as a professor of composition and music theory at the Eastman school and as composer-in-residence at West Virginia University. He also held appointments at Morningside College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the Royal Conservatory of Music. In his composition work, he created music for specific occasions or ceremonies, focusing on hymns and choral works, and collaborated with poets Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams to create music in conjunction with their works. His best-known orchestral work, Fantasy on a Hymn by Just...
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Henry Schoenefeld
1857 - 1936 (79 years)
Henry Schoenefeld, also spelled Henry Schoenfeld was an American composer. Schoenfeld studied in the German Empire at the Weimar Conservatory. He moved to Chicago in 1879, when he began conducting Germania Männerchor that year and a mixed choir there from 1891 to 1902. In 1904, he again became a choir master and conducted the Woman's Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles.
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Henrietta Myers
1878 - 1968 (90 years)
Henrietta Crawley Myers, a.k.a. "Mrs. James A. Myers" was a singer and choral director, primarily known for her work as director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee. Early life Henrietta Crawley was born November 10, 1878, in Nashville, Tennessee, the oldest of 10 children born to Thomas Edward and Mary Jane Crawley. She was educated in the public schools of Nashville, and later at Fisk University. She began her career as a Fisk Jubilee Singer under the direction of John W. Work II.
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Vinicio Adames
1927 - 1976 (49 years)
José Vinicio Adames Piñero was a Venezuelan musician, and director of choral groups. He performed as a member of popular group Adames Trio with his sisters Yolanda and Shirley. He led a number of choral groups, including the UCV University Choir, the Chamber Orchestra of the Central University of Venezuela, the Chamber Orchestra of the University of Carabobo, the Panama Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra of Caracas, the Shell Choir, the Choral of the Social Security, the Metropolitan Choral Group and the Central Bank of Venezuela Choral. He also wrote original choral pieces and arranged folk music.
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Guglielmo Andreoli the Younger
1862 - 1932 (70 years)
Guglielmo Andreoli was an Italian pianist, music teacher and composer. He was born in Mirandola, Modena, to the musical family of Evangelista Andreoli . He shared his name with his older brother Guglielmo, who had died nearly two years before his birth. He was also the brother of Carlo Andreoli.
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Eliza Mazzucato Young
1846 - 1937 (91 years)
Eliza Mazzucato Young was an Italian-born American composer, musician, and educator. She wrote Mr. Sampson of Omaha , one of the first operas by a woman to be produced in the United States. Early life Elisa Mazzucato was born in Milan, the daughter of opera composer Alberto Mazzucato and Teresa Bolza, a daughter of Count , Austrian police commissioner in Milan.
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Engelbert Röntgen
1829 - 1897 (68 years)
Engelbert Röntgen was a German violinist, for many years concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Life He was born in Deventer in the Netherlands, the son of Johann Röntgen, a German merchant, and his Dutch wife. He entered the Conservatorium der Musik at Leipzig in 1848, where he was a pupil of the violinist Ferdinand David.
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Scott Darling
1898 - 1951 (53 years)
William Scott Darling was a Canadian-born writer and a pioneer screenwriter and film director in the Hollywood motion picture industry. He is often known in Hollywood histories as Scott Darling, though he was almost invariably credited in films as W. Scott Darling.
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Nagercoil S. Ganesa Iyer
1905 - 1978 (73 years)
Nagercoil Ganesa Iyer was a prominent carnatic musician and exponent. Early life Nagercoil S Ganesa Iyer was born in Nagercoil in 1905 to Harikatha exponent Srimaan Sthanu Bagavathar, also a Sanskrit professor in Annamalai University and his wife Narayani in travancore music family. He was a genius in the early 1930s for the Indian percussion instrument Mridangam. Those who have listened to him can still revoke their sweet memories of this percussionist. Popularly called as NSG in music circle .
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Otto Köhler
1903 - 1976 (73 years)
Otto Köhler was a German operatic baritone and voice teacher. Life Born in Neu-Isenburg, Köhler, like his cousin, the tenor Franz Völker, first completed an apprenticeship at Disconto-Bank in Frankfurt, where he subsequently worked as a bank clerk. Like Franz Völker, he was a member of the Gesangverein Frohsinn - Sängerbund 1834 Neu-Isenburg and also had singing lessons with Alexander Wellig-Bertram, who had also trained the baritone Heinrich Schlusnus. Clemens Krauss engaged Köhler in 1928 as a lyrical baritone beginner at the Oper Frankfurt, where Köhler sang Silvio in Leoncavallo's Pagliac...
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Hanns Reinartz
1911 - 1988 (77 years)
Hanns Reinartz was the first president of the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, where he was professor of conducting. In the 1930s, he was assistant to Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner, in 1940 musical director of the Bonn theatres, in 1946 municipal music director in Solingen, and from 1951 first Kapellmeister in Wuppertal. From 1954 to 1956, he was opera conductor at the National Theatre in Weimar. In 1956, he was appointed to Würzburg, where he was director of the Bavarian State Conservatory of Music. Under his leadership, the former state conservatory was elevated in 1973 to the rank of the...
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Árpád Szendy
1863 - 1922 (59 years)
Árpád Szendy [] was a Hungarian pianist, composer and teacher. Biography Szendy's father was a college professor. The original name of the family was Golnhofer. Szendy studied with Henri Gobbi, Franz Liszt and Hans Koessler at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. From 1888, he taught piano at the academy, becoming a full professor in 1891. In 1920, he was appointed director of the academy, but resigned a year later due to health reasons. He died of heart disease in 1922.
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Reimar Dahlgrün
1914 - 1982 (68 years)
Reimar Dahlgrün was a German pianist, professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and journalist. Life Born in Hanover during the Weimar Republic, Dahlgrün attended the Hanoverian and passed his Abitur there. During the Nazi era, he studied from 1933 to 1938 at the "Städtische Konservatorium" as well as at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where, among other things, he took piano lessons with Conrad Hansen and conducting with Walther Gmeindl
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Blake Stern
1917 - 1987 (70 years)
Blake Stern was an American tenor, best known as an oratorio singer, and a professor emeritus of music at Yale University, where he taught voice. He was born in Logan, Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College in 1940, he was an intelligence officer in the US Navy during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at Juilliard School in New York City before becoming an esteemed teacher at the Yale faculty for 32 years. One of his notable pupils was tenor John Stewart. During his career he performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and toured the world.
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Fritz Reuter
1896 - 1963 (67 years)
Fritz Reuter was a German musicologist, music educator, composer and Kapellmeister. Reuter was one of the most important German music educators of the 20th century. After studying music and musicology in Dresden and Leipzig, with Teichmüller, Riemann, Schering and Abert, he received his doctorate in 1922 . In 1945, he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Volksoper in Dresden. In 1949, he was appointed as the first professor of music education at a German university . He was also director of institutes at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the Humboldt University Berlin. In 195...
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Carlernst Ortwein
1916 - 1986 (70 years)
Carlernst Ortwein, pseudonym Conny Odd, was a German classical pianist and composer. Life Ortwein was born in 1916 in Leipzig as the son of the music teacher Karl Ortwein. From 1927 he was a member of the Thomanerchor. After he passed the Abitur at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig followed studies at the of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig: organ with Karl Straube, piano with Carl Adolf Martienssen and Robert Teichmüller as well as musical composition with Kurt Thomas, Günter Raphael and Johann Nepomuk David.
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Katarina Jovanović
1869 - 1954 (85 years)
Katarina A. Jovanović was a Serbian translator, literary historian, publicist, philosopher, journalist and humanitarian. She translated into German Petar II Petrović Njegoš's masterpiece "Mountain Wreath" .
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Elisabeth Kuyper
1877 - 1953 (76 years)
Elisabeth Johanna Lamina Kuyper was a Dutch Romantic composer and conductor. Life Elisabeth Kuyper was born in Amsterdam, the eldest of three children. At the age of twelve, she began the formal study of music at the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst with Antoon Averkamp, Louis Coenen, and Daniel de Lange. She began composing at an early age, including a piano sonata and a prelude and fugue, which she performed for her diploma examination in 1895, and a one-act opera that was performed in Amsterdam in 1895. She moved to Berlin in 1896 to continue her composition studies with Heinrich...
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S. Ramanathan
1917 - 1988 (71 years)
S. Ramanathan was a Carnatic music singer and musicologist. He was awarded the Sangeetha Kalanidhi title in 1985 by Madras Music Academy. He learned music from Tiger Varadachariar, Sabesa Iyer, Ponniah Pillai, and Sathur Krishna Iyengar. Post this, he also trained under Vidwan :Valadi Krishnaiyer known as "Kirthana Kutir" - Granary of Kirthanas for vocal music and Devakottai Narayana Iyengar for the veena and acquired proficiency in both fields.
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Emil Robert Höpner
1846 - 1903 (57 years)
Emil Robert Höpner was a German organist and music educator. Life and career Born in Dresden, Höpner was Royal Saxon Music Director and organist at the Dresden Frauenkirche from 1872 to 1885. He was unanimously elected to this position at the Kreuzkirche to succeed the late organist Christian Robert Pfretzschner . He worked there from 1885 to 1902, as well as teaching at the Conservatory of Music in his native Dresden. His father, Christian Gottlob Höpner , was also from 1837 to 1859. Höpner had his first organist position at the Reformed Church in Dresden in the late 1860s and he worked as a music teacher at the same time.
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William Nicolai
1890 - Present (136 years)
William Alvin Nicolai was the seventh head football coach at Temple University, a position he held for three seasons, from 1914 until 1916. His overall coaching record at Temple was 9–5–3. In his final season at Temple, his team played six games and allowed only 14 points in the entire season.
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Han Young-suk
1920 - 1990 (70 years)
Han Young-suk , was an Ingan-munhwage for the Seungmu and Hakmu, which is an Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Korea. She was designated on July 4, 1969. She was a master of Korean dance especially Seungmu, Hakmu, Taepyeongmu and Salpuri. She used Byeoksa as a pseudonym.
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Germán Valdés
1915 - 1973 (58 years)
Germán Genaro Cipriano Teodoro Gómez Valdés y Castillo , known professionally as Tin-Tan, was a Mexican actor, singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He often displayed the pachuco dress and employed pachuco slang in many of his movies, some with his brothers Manuel "El Loco" Valdés and Ramón Valdés. He made the language of the border Mexican, known in Spanish as fronterizos pachucos, famous in Mexico. A "caló" based in Spanglish, it was a mixture of Spanish and English in speech based on that of Mexicans on the Mexican...
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J. Emory Shaw
1863 - 1943 (80 years)
J. Emory D. Shaw was an American musician, educator, and academic administrator. He served as the musical director of Wilson College, president of Kee Mar College, and director of fine arts at Southwestern University.
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Konstantin G. Mostras
1886 - 1965 (79 years)
Konstantin Georgiyevich Mostras was a Soviet and Russian violinist and teacher. He studied at the Moscow Philharmonic School of Music and Drama until 1914, and later was a teacher there . During this period he performed in quartets and other ensembles. From 1922 he taught the violin at the Moscow Conservatory, where he became head of the violin department, and in 1931 introduced his unique method on violin teaching. From 1922 to 1932 he was one of the directors of Persimfans, the conductorless symphony orchestra. As a teacher he played a significant role in the development of a Soviet violin school; among his pupils were Ivan Galamian, Mikhail Terian, Andrey Abramenkov and Marina Yashvili.
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Victor Galway
1894 - 1960 (66 years)
Victor Edward Galway was a New Zealand music academic, organist, conductor and composer. Biography Victor Galway was born in Colchester, Essex, England in 1894. He studied organ under Frederick Ely. In 1911 he emigrated with his family to Australia, where he studied music at the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1916, and in 1923 became the university's first student to complete the requirements for the Doctor of Music degree.
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