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#15751

Eric Porter

1911 - 1983 (72 years)

Eric Ernest Porter was an Australian filmmaker and animator who specialised in documentaries and commercials, but also made several features. He directed Australia's first animated feature, Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon . That film's financial failure forced him to close his animation studio.

#15752

Leo Smith

1881 - 1952 (71 years)

Joseph Leopold Smith was an English composer, writer, music critic, music educator, and cellist who was primarily active in Canada. His compositional output consists of works for cello, piano, choir and orchestra and a considerable amount of chamber music .

#15753

J.-J. Gagnier

1885 - 1949 (64 years)

Jean-Josaphat Gagnier was a Canadian conductor, composer, clarinetist, bassoonist, pianist, arts administrator, and music educator. His compositional output mainly consists of works for orchestra and band, although he did write some choral pieces, songs, works for solo piano and organ, some incidental music for the theatre, and a work for solo harp. His compositions are written in a wide variety of styles from romanticism to impressionism to 20th century idioms.

#15754

David Owen

1712 - 1741 (29 years)

David Owen was a Welsh harpist, best remembered as the composer of the popular song, "Dafydd y Garreg Wen" , which according to tradition Owen composed as he was dying. Dafydd y Garreg Wen was later adapted and published by harpist Edward Jones. David Owen was the son of Owen Humphreys of Ynyscynhaearn in Caernarfonshire . His mother's maiden name was Gwen Roberts. He composed several well-known airs. He was buried in the churchyard of St Cynhaiarn's Church in his home village of Ynyscynhaearn.

#15755

Richard Henry Mather

1835 - 1890 (55 years)

Richard Henry Mather was a professor of Greek at Amherst College. Biography He graduated at Amherst, was tutor of Greek, assistant professor of that branch, professor of Greek and German in 1864, and professor of Greek and lecturer on sculpture in 1878.

#15756

Eugene L. Roberts

Eugene L. Roberts

1880 - 1953 (73 years)

Eugene Lusk "Timpanogos" Roberts was head of the department of physical education and a coach of sports including track and field at Brigham Young University starting in 1910. Early life Roberts was born in Provo. Roberts was the child of William D. Roberts and his wife the former Julia Lusk. The family ran the Roberts Hotel in Provo. He studied at Brigham Young Academy from 1898-1904. He also studied at BYU itself receiving at B.A. degree. He then studied at Yale University. He later went to the University of Southern California from which he received a master's degree.

#15757

Schahan Berberian

1891 - 1956 (65 years)

Schahan R. Berberian was an Armenian philosopher, composer, and psychologist. Biography Early years Berberian was born in Constantinople . Shortly thereafter, along with his parents Retheos and Zaruhi and his elder brother Onnig, Berberian moved to Geneva, Switzerland to escape the atrocities against the Armenians perpetrated by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II from 1894 to 1896.

#15758

Winifred Copperwheat

1905 - 1976 (71 years)

Winifred May Copperwheat was an English classical viola player and teacher. She studied under English violist Lionel Tertis at the Royal Academy of Music. Tertis later said after one of her recitals, that she had "played like an angel".

#15759

David Stanley Smith

1877 - 1949 (72 years)

David Stanley Smith was an American composer. Smith started his studies with Horatio Parker in 1895 at Yale University, where his friends included Charles Ives, and was appointed organist at the Center Church in New Haven. He traveled to Europe, and became the pupil of Ludwig Thuille in Munich and Vincent d'Indy in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1902.

#15760

Richard Henry Walthew

1872 - 1951 (79 years)

Richard Henry Walthew, often known as Richard H. Walthew was an English composer and pianist, and an important figure in English chamber music during the first half of the 20th century. Life Richard Henry Walthew was born in Islington in Middlesex, the only son of Richard Frederick Walthew and his wife Emily Jeffreys , and was educated at Islington Proprietary School. William Heath Robinson was also at the school and he remained a lifelong friend. Walthew was a pupil of Hubert Parry for four years at the Royal College of Music . A contemporary at the RCM was Ralph Vaughan Williams. Recogniti...

#15761

Vladimír Šmilauer

Vladimír Šmilauer

1895 - 1983 (88 years)

Vladimír Šmilauer was a Czech linguist, Bohemist and Slovakist. Biography Vladimír Šmilauer was born on 5 December 1895. He studied Czech and German at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. From 1921 to 1938 he worked as a high school professor. In 1938 he was appointed professor at Charles University. During the German occupation, he left his job at Charles University and worked at the Slavonic Institute in Prague. After World War II, he returned to the university.

#15762

Tosca Kramer

1903 - 1976 (73 years)

Tosca Berger Kramer was a New Zealand-born American violinist and violist. Kramer, along with her parents, was instrumental in bringing classical music performance and instruction to the state of Oklahoma.

#15763

M. S. Baburaj

1921 - 1978 (57 years)

Mohammad Sabir Baburaj was an Indian music composer. He is often credited for the renaissance of Malayalam film music. Baburaj has rendered music to many evergreen Malayalam film songs. Early years Baburaj was born on 3rd March 1921 in Kozhikode, then known as Calicut. His early childhood was spent in destitution and poverty. His father, Jan Muhammed Khan, who was a Hindustani musician from Bengal who frequently held concerts in Kerala, deserted his Malayali mother when he was very young, and returned to his native Kolkata. Baburaj thus became fatherless, often singing songs in trains to make a living.

#15764

Cheng Maoyun

1900 - 1957 (57 years)

Cheng Maoyun was a Chinese composer and a professor at National Central University and Hangzhou Societal University . He composed the National Anthem of the Republic of China. Early life and education He was born in Xinjian , Jiangxi to a family of officials. He studied music in Jiangxi Provincial Higher Normal School , and the Ueno Music Academy in Tokyo. He majored in violin, then music theory, and composition.

#15765

Miloslav Ištvan

1928 - 1990 (62 years)

Miloslav Ištvan was a Czech composer whose work was inspired by the works of Béla Bartók and by the orientation of the modal style of folk songs. He studied Romanian and African folklore. He also attempted a synthesis of classical and pop music genres.

#15766

Gustav Dannreuther

1853 - 1923 (70 years)

Gustav Dannreuther was an American violinist, instructor, chamber musician, and conductor. Dannreuther may best be remembered by connoisseurs of chamber music, particularly those of Boston and New York City, for his numerous string quartet concerts and an associated appreciation of string quartet music. He introduced new harmonic factors of color and atmosphere in string quartet literature, which set the standard for Franz Kneisel.

#15767

Alexander Ilyinsky

Alexander Ilyinsky

1859 - 1920 (61 years)

Alexander Alexandrovich Ilyinsky was a Russian music teacher and composer, best known for the Lullaby , Op. 13, No. 7, from his orchestral suite "Noure and Anitra", and for the opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray set to Pushkin's poem of the same name.

#15768

Arthur O'Leary

1834 - 1919 (85 years)

Arthur O'Leary was an Irish composer, pianist and teacher. Biography O'Leary was born in Tralee, County Kerry, both his father and uncle Daniel having been talented musicians, too. Arthur Senior was said to be first cousin to Arthur Sullivan's grandfather in an obituary for O'Leary written by W. H. Grattan Flood. When young Arthur's talents were discovered at the age of ten, a visiting barrister, Wyndham Goold became his patron: in May 1844 he sent him to school in Dublin and secured private piano tuition. With financial backing from others, including John Stanford , and with letters of intr...

#15769

Billy Taylor

1906 - 1986 (80 years)

William Taylor Sr. was an American jazz bassist. He was born Washington, D.C., and died in Fairfax, Virginia. Taylor began playing tuba but later picked up bass alongside it. After moving to New York City in 1924, he played with Elmer Snowden , Willie Gant and Arthur Gibbs , Charlie Johnson , Duke Ellington , McKinney's Cotton Pickers , Fats Waller , and Fletcher Henderson. He recorded with Jelly Roll Morton on three sessions in 1930. From 1935 to 1940, he again played with Ellington, and it is for this association that he is best remembered; he often played with a second bassist in the orchestra, at times Hayes Alvis or Jimmie Blanton.

#15770

Sascha Gorodnitzki

1904 - 1986 (82 years)

Sascha Gorodnitzki was an American concert pianist, recording artist and pedagogue at the Juilliard School of Music. Biography Early life and education Born in Kyiv, Russian Empire Gorodnitzki emigrated as an infant to Brooklyn, NY, where his parents founded a college of music. He was a child prodigy, but his parents had refused to allow him to embark on a performing career as a child. His teachers included his mother, then Percy Goetschius, William J. Henderson, Edwin Hughes, and Krehbiel at the Institute of Musical Art, which later became the Juilliard School. He entered the Juilliard Graduate School in 1926, where he was awarded teaching fellowship.

#15771

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

1883 - 1939 (56 years)

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro, but spent the early part of his career making comedies.

#15772

John Vincent

1902 - 1977 (75 years)

John Nathaniel Vincent Jr. was an American composer, conductor, and music educator. Vincent was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under Frederick Converse and George Chadwick graduating with a diploma in 1927. He continued his studies at George Peabody College where he earned a bachelor's and a master's degree followed by doctoral studies at Harvard University from 1933 to 1935. While at Harvard studying under Walter Piston he won the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for two years of study with Nadia Boulanger. He was able to study original manuscripts of all classical composers at Paris Bibliotech Fransaise.

#15773

Annelies Kupper

1906 - 1987 (81 years)

Annelies Kupper , was a German operatic soprano, particularly associated with Mozart and the German repertory. Kupper was born at Glatz in Lower Silesia. She studied in Breslau and was a music teacher there before making her operatic debut in 1935. She then appeared in Schwerin , Weimar , Hamburg , Munich . She sang Eva in Die Meistersinger at the Bayreuth festival, in 1944, and returned as Elsa in Lohengrin in 1960. She created Danae in Richard Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae at the Salzburg festival, in 1952.

#15774

John Rippiner Heath

1887 - 1950 (63 years)

John Rippiner Heath was a British composer, violinist and physician who lived and worked for most of his life in Wales. Life Heath was born in Birmingham the son of Professor Robert Heath, principal of Birmingham University's Mason College. He was educated at Clifton College before studying medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a musician he was largely self taught, though he led many string quartets for the University Musical Club. In 1913 he became a medical practitioner in Barmouth, Wales. During the Great War he served as a doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps, stationed in the Bal...

#15775

Gustav Jenner

1865 - 1920 (55 years)

Gustav Jenner , born Cornelius Uwe Gustav Jenner was a German composer, conductor and musical scholar. He was the only formal composition pupil of Johannes Brahms. Biography Jenner was born in Keitum on the island of Sylt, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His father, a doctor, came from a Scottish family: he claimed descent from Edward Jenner, the discoverer of smallpox vaccine, and was related to the family who built the eponymous Art-Nouveau style department store which is one of the landmarks of Edinburgh's Princes Street. While at school in Kiel, Jenner started to teach himself to writ...

#15776

Boris Goldstein

1922 - 1987 (65 years)

Boris Goldstein was a Soviet violinist whose career was greatly hindered by the political situation in the USSR. As a young prodigy, he started violin studies in Odessa with the eminent pedagogue, Pyotr Stolyarsky and continued them in Moscow Conservatory under Abram Yampolsky and Lev Tseitlin. As a teenager, Boris Goldstein was singled out by Heifetz as being USSR's most brilliant violin talent. His brother was the violinist and composer Mikhail Goldstein. His great uncle was the physicist Eugen Goldstein.

#15777

Sam Charles

1887 - 1949 (62 years)

Sam Charles was an American artist, pianist and professor. He was born in Agawam, Massachusetts, and was a life-long New Englander, living primarily in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He served on the music faculty of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and at Groton School. He admired and performed the music of modern French composers, particularly Claude Debussy. He was a well-known New England artist, painting primarily landscapes in watercolor, with a unique, free-flowing style, making skilled use of unpainted space.

#15778

Myrna Sharlow

1893 - 1952 (59 years)

Myrna Docia Sharlow was an American soprano who had an active performance career in operas and concerts during the 1910s through the 1930s. She began her career in 1912 with the Boston Opera Company and became one of Chicago's more active sopranos from 1915–1920, and again in 1923–1924 and 1926–1927. She sang with several other important American opera companies during her career, including one season at the Metropolitan Opera. She made only a handful of opera appearances in Europe during her career, most notably singing in the English premiere of Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at Covent Garden in 1914.

#15779

Ania Dorfmann

1899 - 1984 (85 years)

Ania Dorfmann was a Russian-American pianist and teacher, who taught at the Juilliard School in New York for many years and was the first of only a very few women pianists to play or record under Arturo Toscanini.

#15780

Alberto Jonás

1868 - 1943 (75 years)

Alberto Jonás was a Spanish pianist, composer, and piano pedagogue. Although not much is known about his life, as a pianist he was regarded as a virtuoso on the level of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal, Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, and Josef Lhévinne . He also ranked, during the 1920s and '30s, among the greatest and most sought-after keyboard pedagogues of the time.

#15781

Rosina Buckman

1881 - 1948 (67 years)

Rosina Buckman was a New Zealand soprano who became a prima donna during World War I and later a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. She was born in Blenheim, grew up mostly in the North Island and went to England when still a teenager to get a formal singing education from Charles Swinnerton Heap. After Heap's death, she moved to the Birmingham School of Music. Graduating in 1903, she could immediately sustain herself from singing engagements but fell ill and returned to New Zealand the following year. She advanced her career in the country of her birth and had her operatic debut in 1905.

#15782

Bedřich Bridel

1619 - 1680 (61 years)

Bedřich Bridel, or Fridrich Bridelius was a Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary. Biography He studied at the Jesuit gymnasium in Prague. In 1637 he entered the Jesuit order, he was ordained as a priest around 1650. From 1656 to 1660 he led the printing office of the Jesuits in the Prague Clementinum. Following the 1660 he devoted himself exclusively to the missionary and predicatory activities in Bohemia. He died of plague.

#15783

Lauri Hakulinen

Lauri Hakulinen

1899 - 1985 (86 years)

Lauri Pekka Hakulinen was a professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki and the director of the Finnish Dictionary Fund . Lari Hakulinen was the father of Auli Hakulinen, a Finnish linguist.

#15784

Harry Todd

1863 - 1935 (72 years)

Harry Todd was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 400 films between 1909 and 1935. On Broadway, Todd was a member of the ensemble in The American Way . Todd died in Glendale, California, from a heart attack at the age of 71. He was married to actress Margaret Joslin.

#15785

Otto von Friesen

Otto von Friesen

1870 - 1942 (72 years)

Otto von Friesen was a Swedish linguist, runologist and professor of the Swedish language at Uppsala University from 1906 to 1935. He was also a member of the Swedish Academy from 1929 to 1942, serving in Chair 9.

#15786

Nikolai Zverev

1833 - 1893 (60 years)

Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others. Life Zverev was born in 1833 in Volokolamsk, Russia, into an aristocratic family. He attended Moscow State University, studying mathematics and physics, while taking piano lessons from Alexander Dubuque . He did not graduate, because he inherited a large family fortune, and moved to Saint Petersburg to become a civil servant. While there, he continued to study piano with Adolf von Henselt, who empha...

#15787

Bernhard Scholz

Bernhard Scholz

1835 - 1916 (81 years)

Bernhard E. Scholz, was a German conductor, composer and teacher of music. Life Bernhard Scholz was born in Mainz in 1835. He was intended by his father to take over his father's business and studied to be a printer at Imp. Lemercier in Paris. But music became his career. He was a student of Ernst Pauer in Mainz, and 1855-56 of Siegfried Dehn in Berlin. He also took voice lessons with Antonio Sangiovanni in Milan.

#15788

Richard Buhlig

1880 - 1952 (72 years)

Richard Moritz Buhlig was an American pianist. Early Life and Education Buhlig was born in Chicago to a German immigrant father from Saxony, the baker Moritz Buhlig, and his wife Louise. He received early lessons from August Hyllested, Wilhelm Middelschulte and Margaret Cameron, who had studied with the legendary Teodor Leszetycki. In 1897, 16-year-old Buhlig moved to Vienna to study with Teodor Leszetycki himself.

#15789

Miriam Bernstein-Cohen

1895 - 1991 (96 years)

Miriam Bernstein-Cohen , 1895–1991, was an Israeli actress, director, poet and translator. Miriam Bernstein-Cohen was born in Kishinev, Russian Empire. Her father was the doctor and community activist Jacob Bernstein-Kogan. She grew up in Kharkov. After training as a medical doctor she enrolled in drama school. She studied with Konstantin Stanislavski in Moscow in 1918 before returning to Moldova as an actress, where she worked under the name Maria Alexandrova.

#15790

Frank Mayo

1886 - 1963 (77 years)

Frank Lorimer Mayo was an American actor. He appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949. Biography He was born in New York City, the son of actor Frank M. Mayo, and he died in Laguna Beach, California, from a heart attack. He was married to actress Dagmar Godowsky from 1921 to 1926. The marriage was annulled in August 1926 on the ground that Mayo had another wife. Mayo was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

#15791

Ralph Stockman Tarr

Ralph Stockman Tarr

1864 - 1912 (48 years)

Ralph Stockman Tarr was an American geographer. Biography He was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1891, and worked as an assistant in geology from 1890 to 1891. Beginning in 1892, he served as assistant in geology at Cornell, where he became professor of dynamic geology and physical geography from 1897 until his death.

#15792

Nasim Amrohvi

1908 - 1987 (79 years)

Nasim Amrohvi or Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi He belonged to the Taqvi Syed family. His father was Syed Barjees Hussain Taqvi and his mother was Syeda Khatoon. His grand father was Shamim Amrohvi who was bestowed the title of Farazdaq-e-Hind.

#15793

Martin Janus

1620 - 1682 (62 years)

Martin Janus was a German Protestant minister, church musician, hymnwriter, teacher and editor. He wrote the lyrics of the hymn "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne", which became popular in the arrangement of a Bach chorale as Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

#15794

Judy Canova

1913 - 1983 (70 years)

Judy Canova , born Juliette Canova , was an American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own self-titled network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955.

#15795

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

1694 - 1758 (64 years)

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer. Jöcher was born in Leipzig, and became professor of history at the University of Leipzig in 1732. From 1742, he was university librarian in the Leipzig University Library, where he began the complete alphabetic catalogue of the collections.

#15796

César Thomson

1857 - 1931 (74 years)

César Thomson was a Belgian violinist, teacher, and composer. Biography He was born in Liège in 1857. At age seven, he entered the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and studied under Désiré Heynberg, Rodolphe Massart and Jacques Dupuis . By age 16, he was considered to have "a technique unrivalled by any other violinist then living". He was also a student of Hubert Léonard, Henryk Wieniawski and Henri Vieuxtemps.

#15797

Kurt Fiebig

1908 - 1988 (80 years)

Kurt Fiebig was a German composer, church musician and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Life and career Fiebig was born in Berlin as the son of a military musician. His parents, whose father was an oboist in the 2nd Guards Regiment on Foot, brought him into contact with music at an early age. From the age of six he received piano lessons and accompanied his father to the violin. He attended the traditional Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster up to the Abitur.

#15798

Olin Howland

1886 - 1959 (73 years)

Olin Ross Howland was an American film and theatre actor. Life and career Howland was born in Denver, Colorado, to Joby A. Howland, one of the youngest enlisted participants in the Civil War, and Mary C. Bunting. His sister was stage actress Jobyna Howland.

#15799

Ira Louvin

1924 - 1965 (41 years)

Ira Lonnie Loudermilk , known professionally as Ira Louvin, was an American country music singer, mandolinist and songwriter. He was a cousin of songwriter John D. Loudermilk. Biography Ira Louvin was born in Section, Alabama, and played together with his brother, Charlie, in the close harmony tradition as the Louvin Brothers. They were heavily influenced by the Delmore Brothers and Monroe Brothers. Ira played mandolin with Charlie Monroe, guitar player of the Monroe Brothers in the early 1940s. The Louvin Brothers' songs were heavily influenced by their Baptist faith and warned against sin.

#15800

Muslim Magomayev

Muslim Magomayev

1885 - 1937 (52 years)

Abdulmuslim Muhammad oghlu Magomayev , commonly known as Muslim Magomayev , was an Azerbaijanii composer and conductor. He is the grandfather and namesake of Azerbaijani opera singer Muslim Magomayev.

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