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#16051

Rezső Kókai

1906 - 1962 (56 years)

Rezső Kókai was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. Life Kókai studied composition with János Koessler and piano with Emánuel Hegyi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. In 1933 he received his doctorate in musicology from the University of Freiburg where he wrote the thesis Franz Liszt in seinen frühen Klavierwerken . Between 1926 and 1934 he was professor of piano at the National Conservatory, and from 1929 taught composition, aesthetics, music history, and pedagogy at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Kókai was director of music for the Hungarian Radio from 1945 to 1948.

#16052

Johann Heinrich Eckhardt

1800 - Present (226 years)

Johann Heinrich Ekchardt was a German typographer, printer and publisher. Johann Heinrich Eckhardt was a son of a tenant farmer in Wüst Eldena, he was appointed and sworn in at the University of Greifswald on 10 August 1793 and held the office until 1815. He published 79 works in 139 publications in Latin and German.

#16053

Bill White

1915 - 1981 (66 years)

William Andrew White, III, was a Canadian composer and social justice activist, who was the first Black Canadian to run for federal office in Canada. Family and education He was born in 1915 in Truro, Nova Scotia, the son of Baptist minister William A. White and his wife Izie Dora . Among his twelve siblings were internationally renowned Canadian concert singer Portia White, labour union leader and politician Jack White, and television performer Lorne White. Another sister married a Mr. Oliver, and they were the parents of Donald H. Oliver, the first black man to be appointed a Canadian Se...

#16054

Queena Mario

1896 - 1951 (55 years)

Queena Marian Tillotson , known professionally as Queena Mario, was an American soprano opera singer, newspaper columnist, voice teacher, and fiction writer. Early life Queena Marian Tillotson was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of James Knox Tillotson and Rose Tillotson. Queena was raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, where she graduated from Plainfield High School. She studied voice with Marcella Sembrich, who advised her name change. She paid for voice lessons by writing newspaper advice columns under the name Florence Bryant, including childrearing advice; "You know a lot when you're 16, y...

#16055

Semyon Bogatyrev

Semyon Bogatyrev

1890 - 1960 (70 years)

Semyon Semyonovich Bogatyrev was a Soviet and Russian musicologist and composer. He is best known in the West for his completion of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony in E-flat, which he abandoned while incomplete in 1892. In 1893 Tchaikovsky used the first movement as source material for his Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 75. In 1897, Sergei Taneyev used the remaining movements as source for the Andante and Finale for piano and orchestra, which was published as Tchaikovsky's Op. posth. 79.

#16056

Victor von Herzfeld

Victor von Herzfeld

1856 - 1919 (63 years)

Victor Emmerich Ritter von Herzfeld was a Hungarian violinist and composer. Born in Pressburg , Herzfeld studied law at the University of Vienna and music at the Music Academy of Vienna where he won first prize for both composition and violin playing. In 1884, he was awarded the Beethoven Prize of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde . He studied in Berlin with Eduard Grell and in 1886 went to Budapest as professor in the Music Academy. He was second violin in the original Budapest Quartet established by David Popper and Jenő Hubay. Ernst von Dohnányi dedicated his Sonata in C minor for Violin and Piano, Op.

#16057

William Murphy

1921 - 1989 (68 years)

William Murphy was an American film actor active from the 1940s through the 1970s. A long-time friend of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, Williams also spent many nights with Elvis Presley and his entourage the "Memphis Mafia". He reportedly regarded Hollywood as "an open invitation to party all night long".

#16058

William Howland

1871 - 1945 (74 years)

William A. Howland was an American operatic bass, voice teacher, composer, conductor and university administrator. He was the head of the music department at the University of Michigan from 1900-1914. In 1914 he co-founded the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts; serving as the school's vice-president and head of the vocal department until his death 31 years later.

#16059

Harvey Clark

1885 - 1938 (53 years)

Harvey Thornton Clark was an American actor on stage and screen. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1915 and 1938. He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack.

#16060

Charles Macpherson

1870 - 1927 (57 years)

Charles Macpherson DMus FRAM FRCO was a Scottish organist, who served at St Paul's Cathedral. Family Macpherson was born in Edinburgh on 10 May 1870, to Charles Macpherson, the Burgh Architect, and Mary Charlotte d'Egville. His brother, the Rev. Ranald Macpherson was sometime Vicar Choral of Ripon Cathedral.

#16061

Lois Towles

1912 - 1983 (71 years)

Lois Towles was an American classical pianist, music educator, and community activist. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, she grew up in the town straddling the Arkansas and Texas line. From an early age, she was interested in music and began piano lessons at age 9. After graduating as valedictorian of her high school class, she obtained a bachelor's degree from Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, and worked as a high school teacher from 1936 to 1941. In 1942, Towles enrolled in the University of Iowa and earned two master's degrees in 1943. She went on to further her education at Juilliard, the Univ...

#16062

Tom Clancy

1924 - 1990 (66 years)

Thomas Joseph Clancy was a member of the Irish folk group the Clancy Brothers. He had the most powerful voice of the brothers and had previously been an actor in numerous stage productions, appearing with Orson Welles in King Lear. He also performed often on television and occasionally in the movies.

#16063

Alberto Luconi

1893 - 1984 (91 years)

Alberto Luconi was an Italian-American clarinetist and instructor. Early life and education Luconi was born January 23, 1893, in Valmontone, Italy, a municipality of Rome about 23 miles southeast of the city. He studied clarinet under Aurélio Magnani at the Royal Academy of Saint Cecilia in Rome where he earned a Master's degree in 1919 and was one of three recipients of the Prize of the Province of Rome.

#16064

Edouard Silas

1827 - 1909 (82 years)

Edouard Silas who was born in Amsterdam and died in London, was a Dutch composer and organist. He studied in Paris with Friedrich Kalkbrenner, François Benoist and Jacques Fromental Halévy. He lived in London from 1850. Silas was organist at the Catholic Chapel of Kingston upon Thames and Professor of Harmony at the Guildhall School of Music.

#16065

August von Othegraven

1864 - 1946 (82 years)

August von Othegraven was a German composer and music pedagogue. He worked as a professor of choral singing at the Cologne Musikhochschule. Amongst his pupils were Theodor Schwake and Herbert Eimert. The "August von Othegraven Plakette" named after him is bestowed as a medal and badge in bronze, silver, and gold, for services to the cultural care and promotion of choral singing.

#16066

Julius Otto Grimm

Julius Otto Grimm

1827 - 1903 (76 years)

Julius Otto Grimm was a German composer, conductor and musician of Westphalia. He is best remembered today as one of the best friends of Johannes Brahms, whom he met in Leipzig in 1853. Brahms dedicated his 4 Ballades, Op 10, to him.

#16067

Bruno Seidlhofer

1905 - 1982 (77 years)

Bruno Georg Seidlhofer was an Austrian pianist, organist, academic teacher and piano teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Life Born in Vienna, Seidlhofer taught piano at the Academy of Music from 1938 to 1981, and was full professor there from 1956. From 1962 to 1968, he held a guest professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He taught until 1981, and his students included Alexander Jenner, Nelson Freire, Martha Argerich, Rudolf Buchbinder and Friedrich Gulda. He also performed as an organist in concert halls and on the radio.

#16068

Charles F. Bryan

1911 - 1955 (44 years)

Charles Faulkner Bryan was an American composer, musician, music educator and collector of folk music. Life and career Bryan was born in McMinnville, Tennessee in 1911. He was attracted to music from a young age and became particularly interested in the music of the Appalachian region.

#16069

Emil Frey

1889 - 1946 (57 years)

Emil Frey was a Swiss composer, pianist and teacher. Biography He was born in Baden, near Zurich, Switzerland in 1889. He studied with Otto Barblan, Willy Rehberg and Joseph Lauber at the Geneva Conservatory 1902–05, then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Louis Diémer and Gabriel Fauré and Charles-Marie Widor . In 1906 he won the Premier prix de piano.

#16070

Karl Schröder II

1848 - 1935 (87 years)

Karl Schröder II was a German cellist, composer and conductor, and son of violinist Karl Schröder. He studied as a child with his father and with Karl Drechsler in Dessau. He had three brothers, Carl Hermann Schroeder , who became a composer and violin professor in Berlin, Franz Schröder would work as a conductor in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the youngest brother, Alwin Schroeder was a German-American cellist best known as leading cellist in the Boston Symphony. In his early youth Karl studied with Friedrich Kiel and was appointed to the Sondershausen Hofkapelle at the age of 14. He toure...

#16071

Alfred Giraudet

Alfred Giraudet

1845 - 1911 (66 years)

Alfred-Auguste Giraudet was a French operatic bass, voice teacher, and writer on singing. He was one of the earliest exponents of the role of Méphistophélès in Charles Gounod's Faust; a role he portrayed many times at the Paris Opera where he was a principal artist for over two decades. He was also a regular performer at the Opéra-Comique and taught singing at the Conservatoire de Paris for 15 years. On 10 May 1869 he portrayed the title role in the world premiere of Ernest Boulanger's Don Quichotte at the Théâtre Lyrique. In 1876 he created the role of Vulcan in the world premiere of the revised version of Gounod's Philémon et Baucis.

#16072

Lev Tseitlin

1881 - 1952 (71 years)

Lev Tseitlin , was a violinist and a professor. Biography Tseitlin started to study violin in Tbilisi under Evgeny Kolchin. In 1901 he graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied with Leopold Auer. He then went to study with Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels, and worked as a concertmaster in Orchestre Collone in Paris before returning to Russia in 1906. There in Moscow he first worked as an orchestra leader in Zimin Opera, and from 1908 till 1917 as a concertmaster in Serge Koussevitzky’s symphony orchestra. From 1918 to 1920 he taught at the Institute of Music and Drama, and from 19...

#16073

Gertrude Foster Brown

1867 - 1956 (89 years)

Gertrude Foster Brown was a concert pianist, teacher, and suffragist. Following the passage of women suffrage in New York State in 1917, and pending passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Brown wrote Your Vote and How to Use It, published in 1918. She was Director-General of the Women's Overseas Hospitals in France, founded by suffragists, in 1918. In addition to her work in the New York suffrage movement, she helped to found the National League of Women Voters. She was the Managing Director of the Woman's Journal from 1921-1931.

#16074

Carl Ueter

1900 - 1985 (85 years)

Carl Ueter was a German composer of classical music. From 1950 to his retirement in 1965 he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Life and work Ueter was born in Münster, where he studied Christian music at the Bischöfliche Kirchenmusikschule from 1915 to 1918. During these years he was also organist at different churches in Münster. He worked as a teacher for Gregorian musicology, music theory and violin at the Bischöfliche Kirchenmusikschule after the completion of his studies, but attended the composition class of Fritz Volbach at the University of Münster further on.

#16075

Hanuš Schwaiger

Hanuš Schwaiger

1854 - 1912 (58 years)

Hanuš Johann Peter Paul Schwaiger was a Czech painter, designer, graphic artist and professor, best known for his fairy-tale illustrations. Biography He was the only son of six children born to a German-speaking ironmonger, but was baptized as a Catholic. In 1865, he was enrolled at the local gymnasium, but failed his courses and transferred to the Realschule in České Budějovice, where he met a teacher who encouraged his artistic interests. In 1873, despite this, he followed his father's wishes and entered the Vienna Business School. He soon ignored his studies and spent more time at the local art schools, prompting his parents to bring him home to work in the family business.

#16076

Joseph Colborne-Veel

Joseph Colborne-Veel

1831 - 1895 (64 years)

Joseph Veel Colborne-Veel was a journalist and educator in Christchurch, New Zealand. Early life Colborne-Veel was born in 1831 in Gloucester, England and received his early education at Kidderminster. Sources differ whether he graduated in 1856 with honours from Magdalen College, Oxford, or from the adjacent but unrelated Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He once won an essay competition, beating Stopford Brooke to second place. Brooke later made a career as a writer, but in the essay competition, his style was marked "too flowery", whilst Veel was judged having used "good, straight-forward, sensible E...

#16077

James Higgs

1829 - 1902 (73 years)

James Higgs was an English organist and teacher, and the uncle of Henry Marcellus Higgs. Life and career James Higgs was born in Lambeth in 1829. He studied under his father, an amateur of ability. He succeeded the late Dr. Wylde as organist of Eaton Chapel in 1844 and in the following year, on the secession of his brother Marcellus Higgs, he became organist of St. Benet and St.Peter, Paul's Wharf. His successive organ appointments were St. Mark's, Kennington, 1852–64, St.Michael's, Stockwell, 1864-7 and for twenty-eight years of St. Andrews, Holborn, 1867 to 1895, when he retired from playin...

#16078

Harold Triggs

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Harold Melvin Triggs was an American composer and pianist. A native of Denver, where his father directed a company which sold musical instruments, Triggs studied at the Bush Conservatory under Julie Rivé-King, and also had lessons with Josef Lhévinne. He had a long career as a teacher, beginning at his alma mater and continuing at the Juilliard School and Columbia University. Concurrently he appeared as a concert pianist, both alone and as a duo with Vera Brodsky. Most of his music is for piano; other works include the orchestral The Bright Land, which was taken up by Leopold Stokowski and Howard Hanson among others, and recorded by the latter.

#16079

Caspar Othmayr

1515 - 1553 (38 years)

Caspar Othmayr was a German Lutheran pastor and composer. Othmayr was born in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, and studied in Heidelberg as a pupil of Lorenz Lemlin, among others. Later, he became rector of the monastery school of Heilsbronn near Ansbach. From 1548 on he was provost in Ansbach, but soon lost the position because of theological differences.

#16080

Benjamin Carl Unseld

Benjamin Carl Unseld

1843 - 1923 (80 years)

Benjamin Carl Unseld , better known as B. C. Unseld, was a gospel music teacher, composer, and publisher. Biography Unseld was born October 18, 1843, in Shepherdstown, Virginia. In the early 1860s, he moved to Pennsylvania. Though mostly self-taught, he sang in the choir and accepted a position as organist at the Methodist Church in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He studied music under Eben Tourjée and Theodore F. Seward. B. C. Unseld taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the school's first secretary. Later he taught at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and was the first principal of the Virginia Normal School of Music.

#16081

Jimmy Liggins

1922 - 1983 (61 years)

Jimmy Liggins was an American R&B guitarist and bandleader. His brother was the more commercially successful R&B/blues pianist, Joe Liggins. Career The son of Harriett and Elijah Elliott, he was born in Newby, Oklahoma, United States, and adopted his stepfather's surname, Liggins, as a child. He moved with his family to San Diego, California in 1932, and graduated from Hoover High School. He fought under the name of Kid Zulu as a professional boxer until age 18, when he began as a driver for his brother Joe's band, the Honeydrippers.

#16082

Hermann Ambrosius

1897 - 1983 (86 years)

Hermann Ambrosius was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Hamburg, Ambrosius came via Magdeburg, Berlin and Chemnitz to Leipzig, where he received his musical education. He was a master student of Hans Pfitzner at the Prussian Academy of Arts. From 1925 to 1942, Ambrosius was Tonmeister at the and since 1926 teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.

#16083

Richard Burmeister

1860 - 1944 (84 years)

Richard Burmeister was a German-American composer and pianist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Burmeister studied with Franz Liszt . He made concert tours through Europe in 1883-85, and in 1885 he married fellow Liszt pupil Dory Petersen.

#16084

Ferdinand Sorenson

1882 - 1966 (84 years)

Ferdinand Sorenson was a prominent music educator in the U.S. state of Oregon as well as a conductor, composer, dance instructor and performer. Originally from Grenaa , Denmark, Sorenson came to the United States as an infant with his parents, Lars and Matilda Sorenson.

#16085

Carl Riedel

1827 - 1888 (61 years)

Carl Riedel was a German conductor and composer. Born in Cronenberg, Wuppertal, he initially worked as a dyer of silk before conductor Karl Wilhelm discovered his musical talent and encouraged him to pursue a music career. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and after graduating from the school joined the conservatory's faculty as a professor of piano and music theory, teaching there for several decades. He was notably one of Julius Reubke's teachers, and Reubke dedicated his Sonata on the 94th Psalm to him. He was a highly respected choral conductor in his native country and was one of the founders of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein.

#16086

Kirk Stuart

1934 - 1982 (48 years)

Charles Kincheloe "Kirk" Stuart was an American jazz pianist and educator. Stuart studied at a conservatory before accompanying singers such as Billie Holiday , Della Reese , and Sarah Vaughan . He also arranged and conducted for these singers. He led his own unit in Los Angeles later in the 1960s, and recorded with Al Grey in 1965 and once more with Reese in 1967. In later years he taught at Howard University and the Texas Southern University Jazz Ensemble, led ensembles in Las Vegas, and accompanied Joe Williams at the Smithsonian Institution in 1982. Later that year he died during surgery ...

#16087

Knocky Parker

1918 - 1986 (68 years)

Knocky Parker , born John William Parker, II, was an American jazz pianist. He played primarily ragtime and Dixieland jazz. A native of Texas, Parker played in the Western swing bands The Wanderers and the Light Crust Doughboys before serving in the military during World War II.

#16088

Anatoly Alexandrov

1888 - 1982 (94 years)

Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov was a Soviet and Russian composer of works for piano and for other instruments, and pianist. His initial works had a mystical element, but he downplayed this to better fit socialist realism. He led a somewhat retiring life, but received several honors.

#16089

Charles Sanford Skilton

1868 - 1941 (73 years)

Charles Sanford Skilton was an American composer, teacher and musicologist. Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Blair Fairchild, Arthur Nevin, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he was one of the leading Indianist composers of the early twentieth century.

#16090

Paul Page

1903 - 1974 (71 years)

Paul Page was an American film actor. Born Campbell U. Hicks, he was the son of Robert C. Hicks and Laura Conant Hicks. Page attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis with a degree in engineering.

#16091

Hans Richter-Haaser

1912 - 1980 (68 years)

Hans Richter-Haaser was a noted German classical pianist, who was known for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. He was also a teacher, a conductor, and a composer. Hans Richter-Haaser was born in Dresden in 1912, and studied at the Dresden Conservatory. He made his debut in 1928, aged 16. During World War II, while fighting for the Nazis with an anti-aircraft unit, he had no opportunity to play for years on end, and his technique slipped. However, he regained it after the war. He conducted the Detmold Orchestra from 1945 to 1947. He was Professor of Piano at the North-West German Music Academy from 1947 to 1962.

#16092

John Wilson

1800 - 1849 (49 years)

John Wilson was a Scottish singer. Life The son of John Wilson, a coach-driver, he was born in Edinburgh on 25 December 1800. The family lived at 4 South Princes Street . At the age of ten he was apprenticed to a printing firm, and then engaged by the Ballantyne brothers, where he helped to set up typeface for the Waverley Novels. During the building of Abbotsford he was one of the armed messengers who had to ride weekly to fetch money to pay the workmen. He took up music, studied under John Mather and Benjamin Gleadhill of Edinburgh, and was a member of the choir of Duddingston parish churc...

#16093

Wilhelm Tank

1888 - 1967 (79 years)

Wilhelm Tank was a German professor of anatomy, artist and sculptor. His teaching activity over five decades combined with 14 books and more than a hundred articles on scientific and artistic subjects in academic journals, made him one of the more influential figures in his field during the middle part of the twentieth century.

#16094

Lil Johnson

1950 - 1950 (0 years)

#16095

Arthur Loft

1897 - 1947 (50 years)

Arthur Loft was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1932 and 1947. Biography He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

#16096

Hans Herter

1899 - 1984 (85 years)

Hans Herter was a German Classical philologist who was for many years Director of the Rheinischen Museum für Philologie, Bonn. His main interests lay in the works of Thucydides and Plato. Among his prominent students is Heinz-Günther Nesselrath.

#16097

Dorothy James

1901 - 1982 (81 years)

Dorothy James was an American music educator and composer. James was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the Chicago Musical College and the American Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Louis Gruenberg for composition and Adolph Weidig for counterpoint. She continued her studies with Howard Hanson at Eastman School of Music, Healey Willan at the Toronto Conservatory, and Ernst Krenek at the University of Michigan. After completing her studies, she took a position in 1927 teaching music at Eastern Michigan University, then Michigan State Normal College, where she worked until retiring in 1968.

#16098

Paul Homeyer

1853 - 1908 (55 years)

Paul Homeyer was a German organist who had an active international concert career during the late 19th century and early 20th century. His repertoire encompassed works from a variety of musical periods from ancient to contemporary works. He was particularly admired for his performances of the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. In 1903 he was given special recognition for his work by King George of Saxony.

#16099

Karel Lamač

1897 - 1952 (55 years)

Karel Lamač was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. He directed more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Life Lamač was born 27 January 1897 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. His parents were Karel Lamač sr. , opera singer and a pharmacist, and Františka Lamačová . In his childhood Lamač was interested in pharmacy, electrical engineering, stage magic and acting. Before WWI he went to apprentice in camera manufacturer company Ernemann in Dresden. During the war he was a combat cameraman. After the war he became a technical director of film laboratory in Excelsiorfilm.

#16100

Nándor Zsolt

1887 - 1936 (49 years)

Nándor Zsolt was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and the professor of violin at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He was born in a professional musician family; his father was a conductor and music teacher. After graduating at Esztergom, he entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, taking violin studies with Jenő Hubay and composition with Hans von Koessler.

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