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#15951

Berta Elena Vidal de Battini

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Berta Elena Vidal de Battini was an Argentine linguist, educationalist, writer and folklorist, whose life achievement is 10-volume selection of the Argentinian Folk Tales and Legends. Biography Berta de Battini was born in 1900 in San Luis, Argentina.

#15952

William Clifford Heilman

1877 - 1946 (69 years)

William Clifford Heilman was an American composer. Biography William Clifford Heilman was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1877. He composed a number of orchestral works as well as a good deal of chamber music; he also produced songs. Heilman was a graduate of Harvard University, where he later taught for some time.

#15953

Dora Zaslavsky

1904 - 1987 (83 years)

Dora Zaslavsky Koch was an American pianist who was one of the first graduates of and later a teacher at the Manhattan School of Music. Early life Zaslavsky was born in the Russian Empire in 1904, arriving in New York as an infant on February 22, 1905. Her family was Jewish, from the city of Kremenchuk in the oblast of Poltava. Her father Max had emigrated to the United States the previous year. She was traveling with her mother Celia née Fleisher, older siblings Joseph and Fay, and a young cousin. Another brother Israel was born six years later. Other sources give Zaslavsky’s birth year as 1905, but this is incompatible with the ship manifest information.

#15954

Carl Adolf Martienssen

1881 - 1955 (74 years)

Carl Adolf Martienssen was a German pianist and music educator. Life Born in Güstrow, Martiensen came from a large farming family, which apparently only immigrated to Mecklenburg in the generation of his father, the merchant Gottlieb Martienssen. Martienssen was a younger son of his parents, attended the and received his first music education in theory, organ and piano from Johannes Schondorf in his home town. After the Abitur Martienssen studied musical composition with Wilhelm Berger, musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and piano playing with the Liszt student Karl Klindworth in Berlin, and at the Leipzig Conservatory .

#15955

Waldemar Seidel

1893 - 1980 (87 years)

Waldemar "Wally" Carl Seidel was an Australian pianist, accompanist, and piano teacher who taught many notable pianists from Australia. Biography Seidel was born in St Kilda, Victoria in 1893, son of a German immigrant, the pianist and choral conductor Alfred Carl Seidel. Alfred had graduated from the Royal Conservatorium of Music, Leipzig, and migrated to Australia at the age of 19. Waldemar had lessons from his father, from J. Alfred Johnstone, from Benno Scherek, and from Edward Goll . Seidel assumed all of Johnstone's pupils when he returned to England in 1924.

#15956

David W. Guion

1892 - 1981 (89 years)

David W. Guion , Texan composer, was best known for his arrangements of cowboy tunes, African American spiritualss, and original compositions often inspired by the soundscape of west Texas. Early life David Wendel Guion was born in Ballinger, Texas, on December 15, 1892, to John I. and Armour Fentress Guion. Guion began to play the piano at an early age. He was intrigued by the cowboys, former cattle drivers, who worked on his father's ranch, and also by the spirituals that he heard whenever a family servant brought him to the services of an African-American church. As a young boy, he was sen...

#15957

Arne Oldberg

1874 - 1962 (88 years)

Arne Oldberg was an American pianist, composer, and teacher. He spent his career on the faculty of Northwestern University , where he taught piano and composition and, from 1924 until his retirement in 1941, served as director of the graduate department of the Music School. Among his students were composers Howard Hanson, Cecilia Clare Bocard, Theodora Troendle, Mildred Lund Tyson, and Ella May Walker.

#15958

Mark Wessel

1894 - 1973 (79 years)

Mark Wessel was an American pianist and composer. Life Wessel was born in Coldwater, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern School of Music, now known as Bienen School of Music; he later taught piano and theory there. When Wessel left Northwestern, he became a professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

#15959

Miklós Radnai

1892 - 1935 (43 years)

Miklós Radnai was a Hungarian composer, critic and music writer. From 1925 to his death in 1935, he was a noted Intendant of the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest. Biography At an early age he had lessons with the blind pianist Attila Horváth, and also studied the violin. While still in secondary school, he entered the Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied under János Koessler and Viktor Herzfeld. He taught theory at another music school, and had an extended tour of European countries. In 1919 he became a teacher at the Academy of Music.

#15960

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker

1844 - 1906 (62 years)

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker was a German composer, conductor and violinist. Life Childhood and youth Rauchenecker was born in Munich on 8 March 1844; he was the first child of Jakob Rauchenecker , an official musician of the city, and Rosina Crescenz Rauchenecker, née Wening and was baptised a Catholic two days later at St Peter's in Munich. As a young boy he was sent by his father to his uncle, Georg Wening, who had been pastor of the parish of Thalheim near Erding since 1855. It is possible that Rauchenecker was expected to follow the same career path as his uncle. After this he attended...

#15961

Aquilino Coppini

1505 - 1629 (124 years)

Aquilino Coppini was an Italian musician and lyricist. While in the service of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, he specialized in creating sacred contrafacta of secular madrigalss. His contrafacta are of interest for their concentration on Monteverdi's madrigals and for the form in which he treats the poetic text. According to Antonio Delfino, "rather than simply replacing the original text with a liturgical one, he ‘spiritualized’ then through a careful translation which, like an exercise in rhetorical expertise, reproduces the phonemes, accents and rhythms of the secular text." In a letter to H...

#15962

Carl Hugo Grimm

1890 - 1978 (88 years)

Carl Hugo Grimm was an American composer. Biography He was born on October 31, 1890, in Zanesville, Ohio. He received his early musical instruction from his father after moving to Cincinnati as a child. He was largely self-taught as a composer, though he did have lessons with Edgar Stillman Kelley and Frank van der Stucken. In 1927 his Erotic Poem received an award of $1000 from the National Federation of Music Clubs and in 1930 a choral work, The Song of Songs, received $1000 as well, this from the MacDowell Club. His orchestral works were played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Orchestra; he also composed chamber music, some choral works, and songs.

#15963

Oreste Sindici

1828 - 1905 (77 years)

Oreste Sindici was an Italian-born Colombian musician and composer. He composed the music for the Colombian national anthem in 1887. He was born in Ceccano and studied in the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at Rome.

#15964

LeRoy Mason

1903 - 1947 (44 years)

LeRoy Franklin Mason was an American film actor who worked primarily in Westerns in both the silent and sound film eras. Mason was born in Larimore, North Dakota, on July 2, 1903. Career 1920s Mason's first film was Hit and Run opposite Hoot Gibson . He was officially credited in Born to Battle opposite Tom Tyler and Jean Arthur. In 1926, Mason starred in The Arizona Streak opposite Tom Tyler, Frankie Darro, and Ada Mae Vaughn. Also in 1926, he starred in Lightning Hutch opposite Charles Hutchison and Edith Thornton. Mason starred opposite Tom Tyler, Doris Hill, and Frankie Darro in Tom and His Pals .

#15965

Johann Gottfried Pratsch

1750 - 1818 (68 years)

Johann Gottfried Pratsch , was a Czech composer of music. He spent most of his life in Russia, and sometimes supported himself by teaching music to students at the Smolnїy Institute and at the St. Petersburg Theatre School.

#15966

Maximilian Maksakov

Maximilian Maksakov

1869 - 1936 (67 years)

Maksimilian Karlovich Maksakov — was an Austrian/Russian opera singer and music teacher. As a theater director, entrepreneur and later Russian Academy of Theatre Arts professor, Maksakov has made a considerable impact on the development of performance arts in Russia, especially in the province. His best known protégé was a renowned Soviet mezzo-soprano Maria Maksakova Sr. whom he married in 1920.

#15967

Louis Svećenski

Louis Svećenski

1862 - 1926 (64 years)

Louis Svećenski was notable Croatian-American violist, violinist and rector of the Boston Academy of Music. Svećenski was born in Osijek, Donji grad district on November 7, 1862 to a Jewish family. His father Adolf Abraham Kohn was from Bonyhád in Hungary, and his mother Terezija was from Darda just north of Osijek. Svećenski finished elementary and high school in Osijek. In 1877, with only 15 years of age, Svećenski was recognized by Osijek cultural public as the potential future musician. He graduated from the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb on August 26, 1882 with compliments from Ivan Zajc.

#15968

Hermann Busch

1897 - 1975 (78 years)

Hermann Busch was a German cellist. Biography He was born in Siegen. His father was the violin maker . From the age of nine, he received cello lessons from his father. He then studied at the Academy of Music in Cologne with Friedrich Grützmacher der Jüngere and Paul Grümmer of the Vienna Academy. During the First World War, as a soldier, he was a member of the Brussels Symphony Orchestra. Between 1919 and 1923, he was principal cellist in Bochum; and until 1927 soloist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 1927, he was a professor at the Folkwangschule in Essen.

#15969

Eugen Schmitz

1882 - 1959 (77 years)

Eugen Schmitz was a German musicologist and music critic. Life Schmitz was born in Neuburg an der Donau. The descendant of the violin virtuoso, composer and court kapellmeister Louis Spohr first studied law, then music and musicology in Munich with Anton Beer-Walbrunn, Adolf Sandberger and Theodor Kroyer. There he published the article Zum hundertjährigen Geburtstag Franz Lachner's in the Münchener Zeitung already in 1903. He received his doctorate in 1905 and was a music critic for the Munich Allgemeine Zeitung. After a study stay in Italy, he worked as a private lecturer in Munich from 1909...

#15970

Evencio Castellanos

1915 - 1984 (69 years)

Evencio Castellanos Yumar , was a Venezuelan pianist and classical musician. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and director of choirs and orchestra. Biography His parents were Pablo Castellanos Almenar and Matilde Yumar. His musical initiation came from the hand of his father, who was an organist and chapel master. In 1938 he entered the Escuela Superior de Música de Caracas, where he studied singing with Antonio Pardo Soublette, cello with Carlos Áñez, history of music with Juan Bautista Plaza, and harmony and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. On July 4, 1944 he graduated as a maste...

#15971

Clara Angela Macirone

1821 - 1895 (74 years)

Clara Angela Macirone was an English pianist and composer who published her music as C. A. Macirone. Born in London, she was the daughter of Italian musicians; her mother was also a pianist and her father was an amateur tenor. She began her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 1879 under Cipriani Potter, W H Holmes, Charles Lucas and others. She later took a position teaching at the Academy.

#15972

Jeanne Behrend

1911 - 1988 (77 years)

Jeanne Behrend was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer. Life Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero. She made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1922 and at Carnegie Hall in 1937, playing one of her own compositions.

#15973

T. Ranganathan

1925 - 1987 (62 years)

Tanjore Ranganathan was a Carnatic musician specializing in percussion instruments, particularly the mridangam, having studied under Palani Subramaniam Pillai. Ranganathan began performing professionally in 1938. At the California Institute of the Arts and Wesleyan University he taught many non-Indians Carnatic music, including Robert E. Brown, John Bergamo, Jon B. Higgins, Douglas Knight, David Nelson, Royal Hartigan, David Moss, Glenn "Rusty" Gillette, and Craig Woodson. He began teaching at Wesleyan in 1963, becoming that university's first Artist in Residence in Music.

#15974

William Dillon

1877 - 1966 (89 years)

William Austin Dillon was an American songwriter and Vaudevillian. He is best known as the lyricist for the song "I Want A Girl " , written in collaboration with Harry Von Tilzer. It can be heard in Show Business and The Jolson Story . He was born in Cortland, New York and performed at some point in Vaudeville with his brothers John and Harry. He billed his own act as the "man of a thousand songs".

#15975

Mischa Mischakoff

Mischa Mischakoff

1896 - 1981 (85 years)

Mischa Mischakoff was an outstanding violinist who, as a concertmaster, led many of America's greatest orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s. Mischakoff was born in Proskuriv , Ukraine as Mischa Fishberg. In 1921 he escaped from Russia with, among others, his friend and colleague, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, with whom he had played in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Mischakoff emigrated to the United States later that year, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1927.

#15976

Anton Walter

1883 - 1950 (67 years)

Anton Walter was an Austrian cellist. Life Born in Karlsbad, from 1896 until 1901 he studied violoncello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger at the conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

#15977

Max Butting

1888 - 1976 (88 years)

Max Butting was a German composer. Life Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. After attending secondary school , he studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich from 1908 to 1914. There, he received instruction in composition from Friedrich Klose, conducting from Felix Mottl and Paul Prill, as well as singing from Karl Erler. He also attended lectures in psychology, philosophy and musicology at the Munich University. Butting learned composition by private instru...

#15978

Ernst Levy

1895 - 1981 (86 years)

Ernst Levy was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor. Life Born in Basel, Switzerland, Levy studied with Hans Huber, Egon Petri and Raoul Pugno. David Dubal describes him as an "unusual and powerful pianist" who made "grandly conceived" recordings of the late Beethoven sonatas and captured "the very essence of the Faustian Liszt". His work as a musicologist and teacher brought him to the United States, where he taught at colleges including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago and the New England Conservatory; he also became a United States citizen.

#15979

J. E. P. Aldous

1853 - 1934 (81 years)

John Edmund Paul Aldous was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output includes many short pieces for piano, organ, choir, and voice. He also composed four operettas: Ptarmigan or A Canadian Carnival , A Golden Catch, Nancy or All for Love, and The Poster Girl . Some of his better-known works are Prelude and Fugue for organ, the choral works Grant, We Beseech Thee, Merciful Lord and Blessed Are the Dead That Die in the Lord, and the hymn Egypt, all of which have been reprinted several times.

#15980

Günter Kehr

1920 - 1989 (69 years)

Günter Kehr was a German violinist, conductor and academic teacher of violin and chamber music. He founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio, and the Mainzer Kammerorchester, a chamber orchestra, and toured internationally with both ensembles. Kehr was director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1953, and professor at the Musikhochschule Köln.

#15981

Leopold von Ledebur

Leopold von Ledebur

1876 - 1955 (79 years)

Leopold von Ledebur was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography Carmen The Serenyi Midnight The Foolish Heart The Golden Lie The Gambler The Japanese Woman The Loves of Käthe Keller State Attorney Jordan The Bodega of Los Cuerros All Souls Devoted Artists The Carousel of Life Only a Servant The Last Sun Son The Fairy of Saint Ménard The Enchanted Princess Die Spieler Christian Wahnschaffe In the Whirl of Life World by the Throat The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter Waves of Life and Love The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen Count Varenne's Lover The Maharaja's Favourite Wife The House on...

#15982

Robert Sanders

1906 - 1974 (68 years)

Robert Sanders was an American composer. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

#15983

David John de Lloyd

1883 - 1948 (65 years)

David John de Lloyd was a Welsh musician and composer. Born in Skewen near Neath, de Lloyd was the son of an insurance agent and the family moved with the latter's employment until they settled in Penparcau a village near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, while David was a small boy. As a child, he met John Spencer Curwen, son of the inventor of the tonic sol-fa, and assisted Curwen in several demonstrations. David attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 1905, he became the college's first B.Mus. graduate. He obtained a grant to study in Leipzig and obtained a doctorate in music from the Trinity College Dublin.

#15984

Sidney Foster

1917 - 1977 (60 years)

Sidney Foster , born Sidney Earl Finkelstein, was an American virtuoso pianist and teacher. He studied with Isabelle Vengerova and David Saperton at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and in 1940 became the first winner of the Edgar M. Leventritt Award. He concertized over four decades in the United States and performed in Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel and Japan. He was Professor of Piano at Indiana University from 1952–1977. He was described as "a virtuoso and a great interpreter of great music," and affirmed as "everything the connoisseurs claim he is: an interesting, original...

#15985

Arseny Koreshchenko

1870 - 1921 (51 years)

Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko was a pianist and composer of classical music, including operas and ballets. He was from the Russian Empire. Biography Koreshchenko was born in Moscow in 1870. He entered the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1891. He was only the second person ever to be awarded the Conservatory's Great Gold Medal; the first was one of his teachers, Sergei Taneyev, and the third was Sergei Rachmaninoff. He also studied theory under Anton Arensky.

#15986

Kristapor Kara-Murza

Kristapor Kara-Murza

1853 - 1902 (49 years)

Kristapor Kara-Murza was an Armenian composer.

#15987

Paul Baumgartner

1903 - 1976 (73 years)

Paul Baumgartner was a Swiss pianist. Born in Altstätten, Switzerland, he studied piano and composition with Walter Braunfels in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and with Eduard Erdmann in Köln where he subsequently taught. Fleeing from the rise of the Nazis, he took up residence in Basel, in Switzerland again, where he taught in the conservatory.

#15988

Robert Schollum

1913 - 1987 (74 years)

Robert Schollum was an Austrian composer, conductor, music educator, music critic, musicographer and academic scholar. He was president of the for several years in the 1960s and 1980s. Life and career

#15989

Hugh Archibald Clarke

1839 - 1927 (88 years)

Hugh Archibald Clarke was a Canadian composer, organist, and music teacher. Early life Hugh Archibald Clarke was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1839. Clarke was exposed to music at a very young age, this interest is edified by his father, James Paton Clarke, who was a Mus. Doc. of Oxford University. At the age of twelve, Clarke began to play the organ at his church.

#15990

Colin O'More

1890 - 1956 (66 years)

Colin O'More was a popular concert singer, music educator, and pioneer executive in broadcasting. "Till the Clouds Roll By," a duet with Anna Wheaton, was one of the first singles to hit #1 on the American music charts.

#15991

Robert Ellis

1933 - 1973 (40 years)

Robert Ellis was an American film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s, who was the last actor to play Henry Aldrich on the radio series The Aldrich Family. Early life Ellis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Fern Bloomfield. He was educated in professional children's schools in New York City and Hollywood and later studied theater arts at Columbia University.

#15992

Walter Courvoisier

1875 - 1931 (56 years)

Walter Courvoisier was a Swiss composer. Life Born in Riehen, Courvoisier was a son of the surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier. He initially studied medicine and worked as a doctor after obtaining his doctorate. In 1902 he went to Munich to study music. He was a student of Selmar Bagge and Ludwig Thuille - whose son-in-law he became - and then taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, first music theory, and later music composition.

#15993

Franz Magnus Böhme

Franz Magnus Böhme

1827 - 1898 (71 years)

Franz Theodor Magnus Böhme was a German academic, musicologist, composer, folksong collector and writer on music history and folksong. Biography The son of a farmer, Böhme became a primary school teacher in Thuringia. He then studied at the Conservatory in Leipzig under Moritz Hauptmann and Julius Rietz. From 1859 to 1878 he was a choirmaster and music teacher in Dresden, before teaching counterpoint and history of music at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main from 1878 to 1885. After 1885 he returned as a professor to Dresden, where he continued to teach.

#15994

Frank Moser

1886 - 1964 (78 years)

Frank Moser was an American artist, illustrator and film director who co-founded Terrytoons, the animation studio. Between 1916 and 1937, he directed 202 films. He died in Dobbs Ferry Hospital at the age of 78.

#15995

Broadus Erle

1918 - 1977 (59 years)

Broadus Erle was an American violinist. Born in Chicago and reared in Toronto, Erle began his violin studies at age 3, taught by his mother, Brownie Earl. At age 5, he started taking lessons from Pasquale Briglia, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. By age 6, he was concertizing extensively. He briefly attended the Curtis Institute twice, the first time at age 10, and the second time as a member of the class of 1940. He was also a student at Rollins College, where he was concertmaster of its orchestra. According to Erle, his most important teacher was Alexander Bloch, a violinist, conductor, and composer who was once a student and assistant of Leopold Auer.

#15996

Ted Adams

1890 - 1973 (83 years)

Richard Theodore Adams was an American film actor who appeared in nearly 200 films between 1926 and 1952. Early life Adams was born in New York City. He appeared with his parents in their vaudeville act and later attended Cornell University. He served in World War I and World War II in the US Navy.

#15997

Anny Konetzni

1902 - 1968 (66 years)

Anny Konetzni was an Austrian soprano. She was the sister of soprano Hilde Konetzni. Born in Vienna, Anny Konetzni was a pupil of Erik Schmedes in her hometown, making her debut in Chemnitz as a contralto in 1927. Soon she became a dramatic soprano, singing at the Berlin Staatsoper from 1931 until 1935 and at the Vienna State Opera from 1935 until 1954. She tackled all the heavier parts in the operas of Richard Wagner. Konetzni bowed at the Royal Opera House in 1935 as Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen; she had made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Brünnhilde the previous year. She returned to London every year until World War II, and again in 1951.

#15998

Clark S. Hobbs

1888 - 1973 (85 years)

Clark Simpson Hobbs was a reporter, columnist, and editor. His writing led to the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission and his appointment as Chairman. He was also Vice President of Goucher College.

#15999

Robert Homans

1877 - 1947 (70 years)

Robert Edward Homans was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career. Life and career Robert Homans was born November 8, 1877, in Malden, Massachusetts. Although he studied medicine for three years after his college graduation, a 1906 newspaper article noted that "the 'stage bee' got into his bonnet and nothing would do but that he become an actor." His Broadway credits include The Blue Bird , The Blue Envelope , Johnny, Get Your Gun and Like a King .

#16000

Hans Duhan

1890 - 1971 (81 years)

Hans Duhan was an Austrian operatic baritone. He belonged to the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera for 26 years and was the first Count Almaviva and the first Papageno of the Salzburg Festival. Life and career Born in Vienna, Duhan was a "real Viennese", was born there, grew up there and completed his secondary school and his musical studies there. Besides singing with and Emil Steger, he studied piano, organ and music theory with Ferdinand Rebay and completed the conducting course with Franz Schalk and Felix Weingartner. With the exception of Salzburg, he rarely worked outside Vienna's city limits.

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