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#16201

Lloyd Powell

1888 - 1975 (87 years)

Lloyd Powell was an English, later Canadian pianist and teacher. Career Lloyd Ioan Powell was born in Ironbridge, Shropshire in 1888. His parents were Welsh. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from the age of 10. His teachers were Marmaduke Barton , Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Sir Frederick Bridge . He won the Hopkinson Gold Medal for piano performance and the Dannreuther Prize for the best piano concerto performance. Further studies were undertaken with Ferruccio Busoni in Basel, and in Berlin.

#16202

James Ford

1903 - 1977 (74 years)

James Ford was an American actor in silent and sound films. Selected filmography Outcast , directed by William SeiterNaughty Baby Wizard of the Saddle Prisoners Making the Grade House of Horror Children of the Ritz

#16203

Relly Raffman

1921 - 1988 (67 years)

Relly Raffman was a composer and professor of music at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Early biography Raffman was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 4, 1921. He entered Dartmouth College in 1939, by which time he had been performing as a jazz pianist for several years. At Dartmouth, he was pianist, arranger, leader, singer, and saxophonist of the Barbary Coast Orchestra. His Dartmouth education was interrupted by four years in the U.S. Navy in World War II, during which he had a distinguished career as a carrier pilot, flying more than 75 missions and receiving the D...

#16204

Johannes Weyrauch

1897 - 1977 (80 years)

Johannes Weyrauch was a German composer and cantor. Life Childhood Weyrauch was born on 20 February 1897 in Leipzig. His mother, Maria Große, who had received a thorough musical education and worked in several cantor houses, introduced her son to sacred music at an early age. His father, Friedrich Louis Weyrauch, was a merchant by profession and was able to finance his son's attendance of the . Through his stepbrother , Weyrauch got in touch with the music of Richard Wagner, which had a decisive influence on his musical life:My brother sent me into the Ring when I was 14 years old - with the success that I became Wagner mad.

#16205

Else Schmitz-Gohr

1901 - 1987 (86 years)

Else Schmitz-Gohr was a German composer, pianist, and teacher who is best remembered for her Elegy for the Left Hand for piano, her successful students, and her recordings of Max Reger’s works for piano.

#16206

Karl Piutti

1846 - 1902 (56 years)

Karl Piutti was a German composer and organist. Piutti studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. He taught at his alma mater from 1875 onwards, and also became the organist at the Thomaskirche after 1880.

#16207

John Spikes

1881 - 1955 (74 years)

John Curry Spikes was an American jazz musician and entrepreneur. Along with his brother Reb Spikes, John ran a traveling show band in early 1900s. At one point, Jelly Roll Morton was a member of the band. The Spikes brothers were performing in San Francisco around 1915, under the name The Original So-Different Orchestra, with Reb Spikes billed as the "World's Greatest Saxophonist". Around 1919, they settled in Los Angeles, where they started a music store, a nightclub, an agency and a publishing house.

#16208

Zhu Zaiyu

1536 - 1611 (75 years)

Zhu Zaiyu was a Chinese mathematician, physicist, choreographer, and music theorist. He was a prince of the Chinese Ming dynasty. In 1584, Prince Zhu innovatively described the equal temperament via accurate mathematical calculation.

#16209

Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti

1814 - 1882 (68 years)

Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti was an Italian composer, music educator, and college administrator. Born in Asti, he joined the faculty of the Milan Conservatory in 1850 as a professor of counterpoint. He was appointed the school's director in 1878, a post he held until illness forced him to resign in November 1881. He died the following year in Casale Monferrato. His notable pupils included Franco Faccio, Giacomo Puccini, and Ivan Zajc. His compositional output mainly consists of sacred music. His opera Pergolese premiered at La Scala on 16 March 1857. It used a libretto by Temistocle Solera and...

#16210

Ana Itelman

1927 - 1989 (62 years)

Ana Itelman was a Chilean-born dancer and choreographer, who spent most of her career in Argentina and the United States. Serving as a professor at Bard College and then director of the school of dance, she toured internationally between 1957 and 1969. In 1970, she returned to Argentina and established a contemporary dance theater. She was honored with the Konex Award for choreography in 1989.

#16211

Norman Lloyd

1909 - 1980 (71 years)

Norman Lloyd was an American pianist, composer, educator, author and supporter of the arts who scored works for modern dance, documentary film and classical chamber. Through his work as an educator, notably at Juilliard, he exerted a significant influence on the teaching of musical theory; and later as the author of books including the popular "Fundamentals of Sight Singing and Ear Training" . He continued to influence and support the arts as creator of the Rockefeller Foundation's arts program and its first director. He was the son of David Lloyd, a steel mill worker and minor league baseba...

#16212

Erich Marckhl

1902 - 1980 (78 years)

Erich Marckhl was an Austrian musicologist and composer. Life Erich Marckhl received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1925 . From 1926 to 1936 he worked as an educator at the Bundes-Erziehungsanstalt Wien XIII, formerly a cadet school, but was dismissed for political reasons . He then taught from 1937 to 1939 at the teacher training college in Dortmund . In 1939 he became "Specialist Inspector for Music at Higher Schools" in Vienna. In 1940–45 professor for music education at the Vienna State Academy of Music . At the music academies in Vienna he held a seminar for music educati...

#16213

John Donald Robb

1892 - 1989 (97 years)

John Donald Robb was an American composer, ethnomusicologist, arts administrator, and attorney. Biography Early life A symphony concert in his hometown of Minneapolis when he was a pre-teen planted the seed for Robb's lifelong desire to be a composer. He began studying cello, and then pipe organ. While pursuing an undergraduate degree in English literature at Yale University, Robb continued his music education, including a course taught by Horatio Parker. Despite his passion for music, Robb turned to a career in the law. He attended both the University of Minnesota Law School and Harvard Law...

#16214

R. T. V. Bowman

1875 - 1899 (24 years)

Randolph T. V. Bowman was an instructor in forge and foundry at Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina from February 1895 to April 1899, just after the college opened in 1889. He was best known for his association with college athletics, despite his own weak constitution, serving as the first baseball coach and one of the first assistant football coaches. He coached the very first intercollegiate match played at Clemson, a baseball game with Furman University on April 24, 1896, which the Tigers lost 13–20.

#16215

Walter Hyde

1875 - 1951 (76 years)

Walter Hyde was a British tenor, actor and teacher of voice whose career spanned genres from musical theatre to grand opera. In 1901 he sang Borrachio in the premiere of Stanford's Much Ado About Nothing and soon appeared in London's West End in light opera and Edwardian musical comedy. He appeared regularly at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden between 1908 and 1924, becoming known for roles in Wagner operas, among others, both in Britain and America. He was also in demand as a concert artist. In his later years he was Professor of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music where his student...

#16216

Wesley LaViolette

1894 - 1978 (84 years)

Wallace Wesley LaViolette was an American musician who composed, conducted, lectured, and wrote about music. He was also a poet and music theorist. As an educator, he mentored Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, John Graas, George Perle, Florence Price, Bob Carter, Bob Florence and Robert Erickson and writer William Irwin Thompson. Laviolette was an important figure on the West coast jazz scene of the 1950s.

#16217

Bruno Hinze-Reinhold

1877 - 1964 (87 years)

Bruno Hinze-Reinhold was a German pianist and music scholar. From 1916 to 1933 he was director of the music school and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Life Hinze-Reinhold was born in Danzig in 1877 as the son of a doctor. From 1895 he received his piano training with Bruno Zwintscher, Robert Teichmüller and Alfred Reisenauer at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. In 1901 he moved to Berlin, where he taught at the Stern Conservatory and the Eichelberg Conservatory. He also became active as a chamber musician and piano accompanist. Together with the singer Susanne Dessoir...

#16218

William Kincaid

William Kincaid

1895 - 1967 (72 years)

William Morris Kincaid was an American flutist and teacher. He is known for his work as principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra for almost 40 years, teaching at the Curtis Institute and being a guiding force in the creation of an American School of flute playing.

#16219

Herbert Oakeley

1830 - 1903 (73 years)

Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley, was an English composer, most well known for his role as Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to his appointment to this role in 1865 he established his reputation as an organist, composer, and musician. During his tenure at the University of Edinburgh he founded a number of university musical societies across Scotland, most notably the Edinburgh University Music Society, and successfully resolved the university's Reid School of Music into a Faculty able to award degrees to its graduates. He socialized with and mentored contralto, composer, and...

#16220

Johann Christian Schickhardt

1680 - 1762 (82 years)

Johann Christian Schickhardt was a German composer and woodwind player. Biography Schickhardt was born in Braunschweig and received his musical education at the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel court under the patronage of Augustus William, third son and heir of Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. In the first decade of the 18th century, he was employed in the Netherlands and associated with Friedrich of Hesse-Cassel, Henriëtte Amalia van Anhalt-Dessau and her son John William Friso, Prince of Orange. In the second decade of the 18th century, Schickhardt lived in Hamburg, where it is speculated by musicologist Andrew D.

#16221

Arrigo Pedrollo

1878 - 1964 (86 years)

Arrigo Pedrollo was an Italian composer. His father was his first teacher; at thirteen he went to study at the Milan Conservatory. Among his teachers there was Gaetano Coronaro. At his graduation in 1900, Pedrollo's only symphony was performed, under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. He chose instead to compose operas in a Wagnerian cast; in 1908 his first, Terra promessa, was premiered in Cremona. His second, Juana, won the 1949 Sonzogno Prize. Between 1920 and 1936 six more of his operas saw their premieres. In 1922 he became the head of the Conservatory in Vicenza. In 1930 he returned to Milan to teach composition at the Conservatory there; he held that post until 1941.

#16222

Apollon Barret

1804 - 1879 (75 years)

Apollon Marie-Rose Barret was born in France and was Professor of oboe at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1850 he published his Complete Method for the Oboe that has been widely used by oboe teachers around the world ever since.

#16223

Irving Mills

1894 - 1985 (91 years)

Irving Harold Mills was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz promoter. He often used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose. Personal life Mills was born to a Jewish family in Odessa, Russian Empire, although some biographies state that he was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His father, Hyman Minsky, was a hatmaker who immigrated from Odessa to the United States with his wife Sofia . Hyman died in 1905, and Irving and his brother, Jacob worked odd jobs including bussing at restaurants, selling wallpaper, and working in the garment industry.

#16224

Frank M. Mayo

1839 - 1896 (57 years)

Frank Maguire Mayo was an American actor and comedian, born in Boston, Massachusetts. He followed the Gold Rush to San Francisco, where at 17 years of age he began his theatrical career after failure in the mines. Within a few years he was appearing in the stock company of manager Thomas Maguire with the young Edwin Booth. In the early 1860s he supported Adah Isaacs Menken and won acclaim for his first Hamlet performed before Virginia City, Nevada, audiences. He won applause in some classic roles, but his first great success was as Badger in The Streets of New York, in which he appeared in Boston in August 1865.

#16225

Matthew Boulton

1893 - 1962 (69 years)

Matthew Boulton was a British stage and film character actor, who often played police officers and military officers. Having established himself in the theatre, he began taking supporting roles in films including an appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage. He subsequently emigrated to Hollywood where he worked for the remainder of his career. His films in America include The Woman in Green and The Woman in White .

#16226

Cleota Collins

1893 - 1976 (83 years)

Cleota J. Collins was an American soprano singer and music educator. She was one of the founding members of the National Association of Negro Musicians in 1919. Early life Cleota Josephine Collins was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Ira A. Collins and Josie Collins. Her father was a clergyman. Cleota Collins studied music at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and abroad in France and Italy, as the student of Emma Azalia Hackley, with further studies in New York.

#16227

Charles Haubiel

1892 - 1978 (86 years)

Charles Trowbridge Haubiel was an American composer. He toured as a pianist and a lecturer. He composed three operas in addition to much orchestral and chamber music. His music has been described as a combination of Johannes Brahms and Claude Debussy.

#16228

Katherine Bacon

1896 - 1982 (86 years)

Katherine Bacon was an English classical pianist and faculty member of the Juilliard School of Music. She was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, and died in New York, New York, United States.

#16229

Nathaniel Shilkret

1889 - 1982 (93 years)

Nathaniel Shilkret was an American musician, composer, conductor and musical director. Early career Shilkret was born in New York City, United States, to parents who emigrated from Lemberg . His father played a number of instruments, and made certain that Nat and his three brothers were all accomplished musicians at an early age. Older brother Lew Shilkret was a fine pianist who also worked in the insurance industry. Younger brother Jack Shilkret had a career that paralleled Nathaniel's career: he played clarinet and piano, recorded extensively, and conducted and played piano on the radio and in motion pictures.

#16230

Alfred Jerger

1889 - 1976 (87 years)

Alfred Jerger was an Austrian operatic bass-baritone, who began his career as a conductor of operettas, and was also an interim director of the Vienna State Opera and a professor of the Vienna Music Academy. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival from 1922 to 1959, and created the leading role of Mandryka in Arabella by Richard Strauss, among others.

#16231

Johann Rufinatscha

Johann Rufinatscha

1812 - 1893 (81 years)

Johann Rufinatscha was an Austrian composer, theorist and music teacher. Life Rufinatscha was born in 1812 in Mals . At the age of 14 he came to Innsbruck, where he studied the piano, violin, and musical study at the conservatory. After that he settled in Vienna, where he would remain for the rest of his life.

#16232

Hilda Jerea

1916 - 1980 (64 years)

Hilda Jerea was a Romanian-Jewish pianist, conductor, and composer. Born in Iaşi, she began her education at the Conservatory of Music in Iaşi and finished it in Bucharest where her teachers were Mihail Jora, Florica Musicescu and Dimitrie Cuclin. After graduation she pursued further studies in Paris and Budapest. She played the piano in concertos or chamber ensembles from 1936. Her best-known composition is the oratorio Under the Wake-Up Sun from 1951. She was distinguished with the State Prize of Romania and the Order of Labour.

#16233

Reinhard Oppel

1878 - 1941 (63 years)

Julius Reinhard Oppel was a German composer. He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt 1903–1909, was briefly an organist in Bonn, then from 1911 professor of composition at the Kiel Conservatory of Music, and from 1928 professor of music theory at the Leipzig Conservatory.

#16234

Eduard Rappoldi

Eduard Rappoldi

1839 - 1903 (64 years)

Eduard Rappoldi, real name Eduard Rappold was an Austrian violinist and composer. Life Born in Vienna, Rappoldi played piano and violin as a child, and was already performing his own compositions at the age of seven. He was a pupil of Leopold Jansa and Josef Böhm and from 1854, a student at the Konservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna with Georg Hellmesberger Sr.

#16235

Leonard Sorkin

1916 - 1985 (69 years)

Leonard Sorkin was an American violinist. Sorkin was born in Chicago in 1916. He received violin training from Mischa Mischakoff. At the age of 18, he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he remained until 1943. Sorkin served as concertmaster of the ABC Symphony from 1946 to 1954. In 1946, he helped found the Fine Arts Quartet, in which he played first violin until 1982. In 1983, Sorkin became founding director of the Institute of Chamber Music at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

#16236

Stepan Smolensky

1848 - 1909 (61 years)

Stepan Vasil'evich Smolensky was a choir director and scholar of ancient Russian chant. Smolensky was a graduate of the Faculties of Jurisprudence and Philology of Kazan University; during his studies, he had also taken private lessons on violin and piano. From the early 1870s he made a study of ancient church chant, publishing several books on znamenny chant and a catalogue of the musical manuscripts held in the library of the Solovetsky Monastery.

#16237

T. V. Raju

1921 - 1973 (52 years)

Thotakura Venkata Raju , better known as T. V. Raju , was an Indian music composer who primarily worked in Telugu cinema. He worked as an assistant composer to P. Adinarayana Rao in the film Palletoori Pilla . He acted in a small role in the same film. His debut film as independent music director was Tingu Ranga directed by B. A. Subba Rao. His music in the films Panduranga Mahatyam , Sri Krishna Pandaveeyam and Sri Krishnavataram is memorable. T. V. Raju also proved his mettle as versatile music composer in social drama genre movies similar to 1961 film Taxi Ramudu. Satyam assisted him for many films.

#16238

Alberta Masiello

Alberta Masiello

1916 - 1990 (74 years)

Alberta Masiello , was an assistant-conductor and opera coach at the Metropolitan Opera; a panelist in the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera Quiz on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, and teacher at the Juilliard School and at Mannes School of Music.

#16239

Philip Bezanson

1916 - 1975 (59 years)

Philip Thomas Bezanson was an American composer and educator. Life Born in Athol, Massachusetts, he graduated from Yale University School of Music in 1940 and after war services enrolled in the graduate program of composition at the State University of Iowa where he joined its faculty eight years later. In 1951 he received his Ph.D. and later became head of composition. He was made a professor in 1961. He was given a Distinguished Alumnus award by Yale.

#16240

Viktor Bely

1904 - 1983 (79 years)

Viktor Arkadyevich Bely , was a Soviet composer and social activist. Bely was born in Berdichev, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire . In 1929 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and later taught on the faculty of that school from 1935–1948. In 1939 he became a member of Union of Soviet Composers. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1952 and was named an honored artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1956. In 1980 he was endowed with the honorary title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.

#16241

Harry von Meter

Harry von Meter

1871 - 1956 (85 years)

Harry von Meter was an American actor of stage and silent film. He starred in about 200 films in the period from 1912 through 1929. He retired from acting just as sound films were beginning. Biography Harry von Meter was born on March 20, 1871 in Malta Bend, Missouri. He was a member of the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. In his early career he was a stage actor for eighteen years. Von Meter worked for the Alcazar stock company at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, California, followed by a move in 1908 to the Valencia stock company at the Valencia Theater in the same city. H...

#16242

James Thomas Quarles

1877 - 1954 (77 years)

James Thomas Quarles was a 20th-century American organist, educator, and academic. He was National President of both the Music Teachers National Association and music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. In his long tenure he taught at Lindenwood University, Cornell University, and the University of Missouri. He was the founding dean of the University of Missouri School of Fine Arts including the University of Missouri School of Music. In 1905 he wrote one of Cornell's school songs "Cornell Hymn" In the 1920s he edited a compilation of Missouri school songs and was advisor to the Zeta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

#16243

György Kósa

1897 - 1984 (87 years)

György Kósa was a Hungarian composer. Kósa studied with Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and Victor von Herzfeld between 1905 and 1916. From 1927, he taught piano at the Budapest Conservatory. He composed nine operas, four ballets, and incidental music for four pantomimes, as well as nine symphonies, one orchestral suite, chamber music, eleven oratorios, several cantatas, one mass, one setting of the Dies Irae, two requiems, and lieder.

#16244

Henry Sopkin

1903 - 1988 (85 years)

Henry Sopkin was an American conductor. He founded, and for 21 years, from 1945 to 1966, led the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Before that, he had been a long-standing pedagogue at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, where he taught conducting and led the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra.

#16245

Vassily Brandt

1869 - 1923 (54 years)

Karl Wilhelm Brandt was a German-Russian trumpeter, pedagogue, and composer. He is considered the founder of the Russian trumpet school. Life Karl Wilhelm Brandt was born and educated in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, now part of Germany. Between 1887 and 1890, he worked alternatively in the spa orchestra in Bad Oeynhausen and in Helsinki. He was active in the Helsinki Philharmonic Society, now the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, under Robert Kajanus. In 1890, he changed his name to Vassily Georgyevich and moved to Moscow, Russia.

#16246

Fidelio F. Finke

Fidelio F. Finke

1891 - 1968 (77 years)

Fidelio Friedrich "Fritz" Finke was a Bohemian-German composer. Life Finke was born the son of a teacher in 1891 in the north-Bohemian village of Josefstal . From 1906 to 1908, he attended a teacher's seminar in Reichenberg . He received organ, piano and violin lessons, and from 1908 to 1911, studied at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition. From 1911 onward, he worked as a private music teacher and from 1915 as a teacher of musical theory at the Prague Conservatory. In 1920, he moved to the German Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Prague, where he worked as a teacher of musical theory and composition.

#16247

Walter Müller

1911 - 1969 (58 years)

Walter Müller was an Austrian film actor. Filmography External links

#16248

Harry Glantz

1896 - 1982 (86 years)

Harry "Hersch" Glantz was a trumpet player. Biography Born in Ukraine, Glantz moved to the United States in 1901 at the age of five. He came from a musical family and began playing violin and cello at an early age, but eventually switched to trumpet. He had a number of teachers, including Jack Borodkin, Max Schlossberg, Max Bleyer, Christian Rodenkirchen, and Gustav Heim.

#16249

Ivan Brkanović

1906 - 1987 (81 years)

Ivan Brkanović was a Croatian composer. He was a choir conductor, high school teacher, dramaturge at the Zagreb Opera, director of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and a professor at the Sarajevo Music Academy. He worked intensively as a music publicist and was a president of the Croatian Composers' Society. Father of the Croatian composer Željko Brkanović.

#16250

John 'Dusty' King

John 'Dusty' King

1909 - 1987 (78 years)

John 'Dusty' King was a singer and film actor renowned for his Westernss particularly the Range Busters series. Biography Everson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Everson travelled the country working a variety of jobs, such as chauffeuring motorcars from Detroit to Cincinnati, lumberjacking in New Mexico, and working as a ranch hand in Arizona.

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