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#15901

Richard Franko Goldman

1910 - 1980 (70 years)

Richard Franko Goldman was a conductor, educator, author, music critic, and composer. Born Richard Henry Maibrunn Goldman , he adopted the same middle name as his father, the conductor Edwin Franko Goldman, whose middle name came from the latter's mother's musical family.

#15902

Walter Piston

1894 - 1976 (82 years)

Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. Life Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter Hamor Piston, a bookkeeper, and Leona Stover. He was the second of four children. Although his family was mainly of English origin, his paternal grandfather was a sailor named Antonio Pistone, who changed his name to Anthony Piston when he came to Maine from Genoa, Italy. In 1905 the composer's father, Walter Piston Sr, moved with his family to Boston, Massachusetts.

#15903

William Vennard

1909 - 1971 (62 years)

William Vennard was a famous American vocal pedagogist who devoted his life to researching the human voice and its use in singing. He was one of the driving forces behind a major shift within the field of vocal pedagogy during the middle of the 20th century.

#15904

Gerhard Scholz

1903 - 1989 (86 years)

Gerhard Scholz was a German university professor and writer. The focus of his work was on Philology, German language and culture and literary history. Life Gerhard Scholz was born early in the twentieth century at Liegnitz, a mid-sized city in Lower Silesia. His father was a teacher. He passed his school leaving exams in 1924 and embarked on an extended period of university-level study at Tübingen, Heidelberg, Berlin and Breslau. Subjects addressed included German studies, History, Art history and the History of religions. In 1932 he joined the Tertiary Education Service as a Referendary. Af...

#15905

Hans Krahe

1898 - 1965 (67 years)

Hans Krahe was a German philologist and linguist, specializing over many decades in the Illyrian languages. He was born in Gelsenkirchen. Work Between 1936 and 1946 he was a professor at the University of Würzburg, where he founded the Archiv für die Gewässernamen Deutschlands in 1942. Between 1947 and 1949 he held a chair at Heidelberg and from 1949 to the time of his death he was Professor für vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft und Slavistik and Leiter des indologischen und slavischen Seminars in the University of Tübingen.

#15906

Ernst Krenek

1900 - 1991 (91 years)

Ernst Heinrich Krenek was an Austrian, later American, composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music . Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe.

#15907

T. F. O'Rahilly

1882 - 1953 (71 years)

Thomas Francis O'Rahilly was an influential Irish scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly in the fields of historical linguistics and Irish dialects. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and died in Dublin in 1953. He is the creator of O'Rahilly's historical model, which has since been discredited.

#15908

Yechezkel Kutscher

1909 - 1971 (62 years)

Edward Yechezkel Kutscher or Yechezkel Kutscher was an Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist. Biography Kutscher was born in 1909 in Topoľčany, Slovakia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied at the yeshiva in his home town and, later, in Frankfurt. In 1931 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine and continued with his studies at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva and at a Mizrachi Movement teachers seminary. For several years subsequently, he taught at various schools in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

#15909

Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński

Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński

1891 - 1965 (74 years)

Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński was a Polish linguist, scholar, and professor of Slavonic studies. He was twice elected rector of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków before and after the Nazi German occupation of Poland.

#15910

Witold Taszycki

1898 - 1979 (81 years)

Witold Taszycki was a Polish linguist. He specialized in Polish onomastics and historical dialectology. Life and career Taszycki was born on 20 June 1898 in Zagórzany, Austria-Hungary. Between 1917 and 1921, he was a student of Polish and Slavic philology at Jagiellonian University, where he started to work as an assistant after defending his doctorate in 1922. He received his postdoctoral degree in 1925. He was employed as a lecturer at Stefan Batory University of Wilno and awarded a professorship at Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów . He remained in Lwów after the outbreak of World War II ...

#15911

Charles Otto Blagden

Charles Otto Blagden

1864 - 1949 (85 years)

Charles Otto Blagden was an English Orientalist and linguist who specialised in the Malay, Mon and Pyu languages. He is particularly known for his studies of Burmese epigraphic inscriptions in the Mon and Pyu scripts.

#15912

George Stanley Turnbull

1882 - 1977 (95 years)

George Stanley Turnbull was an English-American scholar and educator. He began a career of newspaper work in 1894 and helped found the University of Oregon School of Journalism in 1917, later serving as acting dean and, from 1944 to 1948, as dean. He founded and edited Oregon Exchanges, a newspaper for Oregon's "newspaper folk," which was at least initially produced by students at the School of Journalism.

#15913

Hjalmar Frisk

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Hjalmar Frisk was a Swedish linguist and etymologist in Indo-European studies. He was also rector of the University of Göteborg from 1951 to 1966. Early on, he became interested in Indo-European studies. Thus, as early as 1927, he published a translation of the historical account The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, written in Greek under the title Περίπλους τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης.

#15914

David Dodge Boyden

1910 - 1986 (76 years)

David Dodge Boyden was an American musicologist and violinist specializing in organology and performance practice. Education Boyden received a BA and MA from Harvard University; he also studied at Columbia University and Hartt School of Music .

#15915

Lee Hee-seung

1896 - 1989 (93 years)

#15916

George T. Flom

1871 - 1960 (89 years)

George Tobias Flom was an American professor of linguistics and author of numerous reference books. Background George Tobias Flom was born in Utica, Dane County, Wisconsin. His grandfather had immigrated to the U.S. from Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane in Norway at the beginning of the 1840s. Flom studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1889 to 1893, received his master's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1894, and studied in Copenhagen and Leipzig from 1898 to 1899. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1900 for a thesis on the Nordic inf...

#15917

Ruben Nirvi

1905 - 1986 (81 years)

Ruben Erik Nirvi was a Finnish linguist. He was the deputy of Finnish philology at the University of Helsinki from 1955 to 1957 and the personal additional professor of the Finnish language from 1957 to 1972. He was a special expert on Finnish, especially the Ingrian dialects. He defended his thesis Sanankieltoja ja niihin liittyviä kielenilmiöitä itämerensuomalaisissa kielissä: Riista- ja kotieläintalous .

#15918

Vilém Mathesius

Vilém Mathesius

1882 - 1945 (63 years)

Vilém Mathesius was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics. Mathesius was the editor-in-chief of two linguistic journals, Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague and Slovo a slovesnost , and the co-founder of a third, Nové Athenaeum. His extensive publications in these journals and elsewhere cover a range of topics, including the history of English literature, syntax, Czech stylistics, and cultural activism.

#15919

Harold Orton

1898 - 1975 (77 years)

Harold Orton was a British dialectologist and professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds. Early life Orton was born in Byers Green, County Durham, on 23 October 1898 and was educated at King James I Grammar School, in Bishop Auckland, and at the University of Durham. He left university in 1917 to enrol in the Durham Light Infantry in which he was commissioned as a lieutenant. He was wounded severely in 1918, never regaining full use of his right arm, and was invalided out of the army in 1919. He insisted to army surgeons that his arm not be amputated.

#15920

Irving Fine

1914 - 1962 (48 years)

Irving Gifford Fine was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. Composer Virgil Thomson described Fine's "unusual melodic grace" while Aaron Copland noted the "elegance, style, finish and...convincing continuity" of Fine's music.

#15921

Milton Mayer

1908 - 1986 (78 years)

Milton Sanford Mayer , a journalist and educator, was best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine, founded by Robert M. La Follette Sr., in Madison, Wisconsin. Early life Mayer, reared in Reform Judaism, was born in Chicago, the son of Morris Samuel Mayer and Louise . He graduated from Englewood High School, where he received a classical education with an emphasis on Latin and languages. He studied at the University of Chicago but did not earn a degree; in 1942, he told the Saturday Evening Post that he was "placed on permanent probation in 1928 for throwing beer bottle...

#15922

Emil Votoček

1872 - 1950 (78 years)

Emil Votoček was a Czech chemist, composer and music theorist. He is noted for his chemistry textbooks and multilingual dictionaries in both chemistry and music. Chemistry career Votoček studied at the Czech Institute of Technology later in Mulhouse and received his PhD with Bernhard Tollens at the University of Göttingen for his chemistry of sugar.

#15923

John Alexander

1923 - 1990 (67 years)

John Alexander was an American operatic tenor who had a substantial career during the 1950s through the 1980s. He had a longstanding relationship with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing with that company every year between 1961 and 1987 for a total of 379 performances. He also periodically performed at the New York City Opera during his career and was a frequent presence at the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company during the late 1950s and 1960s. Although he spent most of his career in New York City, Alexander occasionally traveled to perform as a guest artist with many of the world's leading opera houses, both in the United States and Europe.

#15924

Ruth Murray

1900 - 1991 (91 years)

Ruth Lovell Murray was a pioneer in the field of dance education. Early life and education Ruth L. Murray was born on October 20, 1900, in Detroit, Michigan. She attended Teachers College, Columbia University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1925. She earned her master's degree from that university in 1933.

#15925

Paul Diderichsen

1905 - 1964 (59 years)

Paul Diderichsen was a Danish linguist who is known for his model of sentence structure in Danish which has been widely applied to describe the syntax of languages with fixed word order, such as the mainland Scandinavian languages. Diderichsen was professor of Danish at the University of Copenhagen from 1943 until his death.

#15926

Israel Davidson

1870 - 1939 (69 years)

Israel Davidson was an American writer and publisher of Lithuanian Jewish heritage. He has been recognized as one of the leading American Hebrew writers in his era. His magnum opus was the four volume Otsar ha-shirah veha-piyut = Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry .

#15927

Albert Cuny

1869 - 1947 (78 years)

Albert Cuny was a French linguist known for his attempts to establish phonological correspondences between the Indo-European and Semitic languages and for his contributions to the laryngeal theory. He was a student of the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet . From 1910 until his formal retirement from teaching in 1937 he was a professor of Latin and comparative grammar at the University of Bordeaux . He continued teaching Sanskrit at the University however for the rest of his life . He was a correspondent of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .

#15928

Erwin Reifler

1903 - 1965 (62 years)

Erwin Reifler was an Austrian comparative philologist. He proposed comparative semantics, influenced by Joseph Vendryes. Biography Erwin Reifler was born on June 16, 1903, in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family. He studied political science, Chinese , and European classical languages at the University of Vienna. There he was a librarian in the Chinese Library in the Imperial Palace in Vienna from 1924 to 1927. He was awarded a PhD in political science in 1931. His thesis was entitled State and Administration in Ancient China. At Vienna he also developed a friendship with the American actress ...

#15929

Björn Collinder

Björn Collinder

1894 - 1983 (89 years)

Erik Alfred Torbjörn "Björn" Collinder was a Swedish linguist who was Professor of Finno-Ugric Languages at Uppsala University. Biography Collinder was born in Sundsvall, Sweden on 22 July 1894. After gaining a licentiate in Nordic philology at Uppsala University, Colinder developed a strong interest in Finno-Ugric languages. Since 1929, Collinder was a docent in Finno-Ugric languages at Uppsala University. He subsequently succeeded his mentor K.B. Wiklund as Professor of Finno-Ugric Languages at Uppsala University. Collinder retired as Professor Emeritus in 1961, and was succeeded by his pr...

#15930

John Lomax

1867 - 1948 (81 years)

John Avery Lomax was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music. He was the father of Alan Lomax, John Lomax Jr. and Bess Lomax Hawes, also distinguished collectors of folk music.

#15931

Sidney Low

1857 - 1932 (75 years)

Sir Sidney James Mark Low was a British journalist, historian, and essayist. Biography Low was born to Jewish parents Therese and Maximillian Loewe , who emigrated to Britain from Hungary following the 1848 uprising.

#15932

Herbert Koziol

1903 - 1986 (83 years)

Herbert Koziol was professor of English historical linguistics at the University of Vienna's Department of English from 1961. Koziol was Karl Luick's successor from 1961. Koziol belonged to one of several generations of German-speaking English linguists who published cutting-edge research on English in the German language .

#15933

Eric Thiman

1900 - 1975 (75 years)

Eric Harding Thiman was an English composer, conductor and organist. The surname is pronounced 'tea-man'. By 1939 he was considered one of the leading non-conformist organists in England. His choral and educational music is still performed today.

#15934

Josef Svennung

1895 - 1985 (90 years)

Josef Gusten Algot Svennung was a Swedish classical philologist. He was Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Uppsala University from 1944 to 1961. Svennung is particularly known for his research on what Jordanes and other classical writers wrote about Scandza and the rest of Northern Europe.

#15935

Herbert Wichelns

1894 - 1973 (79 years)

Herbert August Wichelns was an American rhetorician. Personal life Wichelns grew up in New York, attending Boys’ High School in Brooklyn. He attended college at Cornell University. Wichelns was awarded an A.B. degree in 1916 and a Ph.D. in 1922. He was a second lieutenant in the US Army during the First World War.

#15936

Samuel Baud-Bovy

1906 - 1986 (80 years)

Samuel Baud-Bovy was a Swiss musician.

#15937

Richmond C. Beatty

1905 - 1961 (56 years)

Richmond C. Beatty was an American academic, biographer and critic. He was the author of several books. Early life Richmond C. Beatty was born on January 6, 1905, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father, William Henry Beatty, was a "cotton buyer." His mother was Caroline Barbour. He had a brother and two sisters.

#15938

Margaret H'Doubler

1889 - 1982 (93 years)

Margaret Newell H'Doubler was a dance instructor who created the first dance major at the University of Wisconsin. Her dance pedagogy was a blend of expressing emotions and scientific description. She used her knowledge about the body to help create movement to express what the dancers were feeling. She wrote five books about her pedagogy and about the importance of dance in education. Among H'Doubler's students was Anna Halprin, a post-modern dance pioneer.

#15939

Nikolai Rakov

1908 - 1990 (82 years)

Nikolai Petrovich Rakov , was a Soviet violinist, composer, conductor, and academic at the Moscow Conservatory where he had studied. He composed mostly instrumental works, for orchestra, chamber music and piano music, especially pedagogic works. In 1946, he received the Stalin Prize for his first violin concerto, which became known internationally.

#15940

Otto Luening

1900 - 1996 (96 years)

Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music. Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conductor and composer, and Emma , an amateur singer. When he was 12, his family moved to Munich, where he studied music at the State Academy of Music. At age 17, he moved to Switzerland and attended the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Zurich and University of Zurich, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Philipp Jarnach, and was also an actor and stage manager for James Joyce's English Players Company.

#15941

Jost Trier

1894 - 1970 (76 years)

Jost Trier was a German philologist who was Chair of German Philology at the University of Münster from 1932 to 1961. Biography Jost Trier was born in Schlitz, Hesse, Germany on 15 December 1894, the son of physician Jost Christian Ludwig Trier and Else Nehrkorn. After graduating from gymnasium in Barmen in 1914, Trier studied Roman philology, German philology, comparative linguistics and art history at the University of Freiburg. His studies were interrupted by World War I, during which Trier served in the Imperial German Army. He was eventually captured by the French, and was since February 1915 interned in a prisoner of war camp in French Algeria.

#15942

Donald Woodward Lee

1910 - 1971 (61 years)

Donald Woodward Lee was an American philologist who served until 1975 as Professor of English at the University of Houston. Biography Donald Woodward Lee was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on April 17, 1910. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from the Pennsylvania State University, his master's degree from Duke University and his doctor of philosophy from Columbia University. Throughout his career Lee taught at the University of Connecticut, the United States Naval Academy, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Vermont and Virginia State College, and was eventually appointed...

#15943

Warren Cowgill

1929 - 1985 (56 years)

Warren Cowgill was an American linguist. He was a professor of linguistics at Yale University and the Encyclopædia Britannica's authority on Indo-European linguistics. Two separate Indo-European sound laws are named after him, both called Cowgill's law in Greek and Germanic respectively.

#15944

William Cornyn

1906 - 1971 (65 years)

William Stewart Cornyn was a Canadian-born American linguist and author, noted for his expertise in Burmese and Russian language studies, as well as for his research on Athabaskan and Burman etymology.

#15945

Franzpeter Goebels

1920 - 1988 (68 years)

Franzpeter Goebels was a German pianist, harpsichordist and music educator. Life and career Goebels was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, the son of a church musician. He received piano lessons, and then studied piano and harpsichord at the Musikhochschule Köln with teachers including Karl Hermann Pillney. He also studied musicology, Romance studies and philosophy at the University of Cologne. He was a solo pianist with the Deutschlandsender broadcaster from 1940, and studied piano further with Raoul von Koczalski. He was drafted for military service in 1942, but due to an injury he was soon transferred to Prague where he led a symphony orchestra of the Wehrmacht.

#15946

Paul Constantinescu

Paul Constantinescu

1909 - 1963 (54 years)

Paul Constantinescu was a Romanian composer. Two of his main influences are Romanian folk music and Byzantine chant, both of which he used in his teaching. One of his students was composer Margareta Xenopol.

#15947

Wang Li

1900 - 1986 (86 years)

Wang Li , courtesy name Wang Liaoyi and birth name Wang Xiangying , was a Chinese linguist, educator, translator and poet, described as "the founder of Chinese Linguistics". His work expands a wide range in Chinese linguistics, including phonology, grammar and lexicography, historical linguistics and dialectal studies. He was also the founder of the first Chinese Linguistics Department at Tsinghua University. He brought the western modern linguistic methodologies back to China and strove for the modernization and reformation of Chinese grammar throughout his whole life. His most famous books ...

#15948

Émile Legouis

1861 - 1937 (76 years)

Émile Hyacinthe Legouis was a French scholar of English literature and translator. Biography Son of a haberdasher, member of a family of five children, he began his career teaching one year at the college in Avranches. He became a student at the École pratique des hautes études in 1883, he subsequently received first at the agrégation of English in 1885. He was then appointed lecturer in English language and literature at the University of Lyon. Between 1904 and 1932, he taught English language and literature at the Sorbonne , first as a lecturer in 1904, then as a professor in 1906 and he obtained the chair in 1919.

#15949

Carl Clewing

1884 - 1954 (70 years)

Theodor Rudolph Carl Clewing was a German operatic tenor/heldentenor, stage and film actor, composer of the song Alle Tage ist kein Sonntag and professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Life Born in Schwerin, Clewing originates from an old Westphalian Schulzengeschlecht, which is first mentioned in documents in 1486 on the Schulte-Klevinghof in the parish Pelkum. In his birthplace Schwerin, his father was the owner of the Löwenapotheke there. Clewing studied in Prague and joined the Burschenschaft there, Constantia, which was absorbed into the Munich fraternity Sudetia in 1952. From 19...

#15950

Yuri Yankelevich

1909 - 1973 (64 years)

Yuri Yankelevich was a Soviet violin pedagogue who taught many internationally known virtuosos during his long tenure at the Moscow Conservatory. Life and career Yuri Yankelevich was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father, Isay Leontyevich Yankelevich, a prominent lawyer, was one of the founders of the Omsk Philharmonic Society. In Omsk, young Yuri studied with Leopold Auer's student, Anisim Berlin, a grandfather of Natalia Gutman. In 1923 he entered Leningrad Conservatory, the class of Hovhaness Nalbandian . On Yankelevich's graduation composer Alexander Glazunov commented: "a career of a virtuoso violinist would certainly be his calling".

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