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#16201

Eddie Miller

1919 - 1977 (58 years)

Edward Monroe Miller was an American songwriter, in the country music genre. Early life and education Miller was born in Camargo, Oklahoma and worked as a locomotive engineer before becoming a songwriter. Although he was never educated beyond high school, he taught songwriting at the University of Tennessee.

#16202

Thomas Wingham

1846 - 1893 (47 years)

Thomas Wingham was an English composer, known as a teacher and for his time at Brompton Oratory. Life Thomas Wingham was born in London on 5 January 1846 and became organist of St Michael's Mission Church, Southwark, London in 1856. In 1863 he began to study at Wylde's London Academy and was appointed organist of All Saints' Paddington, London in 1864. In 1867 he entered the Royal Academy of Music, London, studying under William Sterndale Bennett for theory and Harold Thomas for piano. Further appointments included a piano professorship at the Royal Academy in 1871, a professorship at the Guildhall School of Music, London, and musical director at the Oratory, Brompton, London, in 1882 .

#16203

Robert MacArthur Crawford

Robert MacArthur Crawford

1899 - 1961 (62 years)

Robert MacArthur Crawford is known for writing The U.S. Air Force song. He was born in Dawson City, Yukon, and spent his childhood in Fairbanks, Alaska. He graduated high school in 1915 at Chehalis High School in Chehalis, Washington. During World War I he attempted to become a pilot in the United States Army Air Service but was dismissed when he was discovered to be underage. He attended the Case Scientific Institute in Cleveland, known today as Case Western Reserve University, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Crawford then enrolled in Princeton University, and graduated in 1925.

#16204

Samuel de Lange

Samuel de Lange

1840 - 1911 (71 years)

Samuel de Lange Jr. was a Dutch composer, music conservatory director, organist, pianist, conductor and music teacher. His father, Samuel de Lange Sr., and his brother Daniel, one year his junior, were also well-known musicians.

#16205

James "Bubber" Miley

1903 - 1932 (29 years)

James Wesley "Bubber" Miley was an American early jazz trumpet and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute. Early life Miley was born in Aiken, South Carolina, United States, into a musical family. At the age of six, he and his family moved to New York City where, as a child, he occasionally sang for money on the streets, and later, at the age of 14, studied to play the trombone and cornet.

#16206

Paul Weingarten

1886 - 1948 (62 years)

Paul Weingarten, Ph.D. was a Moravia-born pianist and music teacher. He studied Music History at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1910. He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory. Among his teachers were Emil von Sauer , Robert Fuchs , Guido Adler.

#16207

Marinka Gurewich

1902 - 1990 (88 years)

Marinka Gurewich was an American voice teacher and mezzo-soprano of Jewish Czech descent. She is best remembered for teaching several successful opera singers, including Martina Arroyo, Marcia Baldwin, Grace Bumbry, Joy Clements, Ruth Falcon, Melvyn Poll, Florence Quivar, Diana Soviero, Sharon Sweet, Carol Toscano, Beverly Vaughn, and Mel Weingart among others.

#16208

Paul Pisk

1893 - 1990 (97 years)

Paul Amadeus Pisk was an Austrian-born composer and musicologist. A prize named in his honor is the highest award for a graduate student paper at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society.

#16209

Gaston Dethier

1875 - 1958 (83 years)

Gaston Marie Dethier was an American organist, pianist, and composer of Belgian birth. Early life Born in Liège, he was the son of organist Emile Jean Joseph Dethier , the brother of violinist Edouard Dethier, and the uncle of physiologist Vincent Dethier. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in his native city with Alexandre Guilmant. He was awarded premiers prix in organ, piano, harmony, and fugue from the conservatory.

#16210

Frank Skinner

1897 - 1968 (71 years)

Frank Skinner was an American film composer and arranger. Career In 2014, Dallas pre-swing orchestra The Singapore Slingers released a fifteen-track CD homage to Skinner's arrangements. Partial filmography The Rage of Paris Son of Frankenstein Big Town Czar Charlie McCarthy, Detective The Spirit of Culver The Sun Never Sets Rio Destry Rides Again The Invisible Man Returns The House of the Seven Gables Green Hell My Little Chickadee Hired Wife When the Daltons Rode Seven Sinners Back Street The Wolf Man South of Tahiti Appointment for Love Hellzapoppin Too Many Blondes The Lady from Cheyenne ...

#16211

Walter Davis

1912 - 1963 (51 years)

Walter Davis was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter who was one of the most prolific blues recording artists from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. He was unrelated to the jazz pianist Walter Davis, Jr.

#16212

Bill Graham

1918 - 1975 (57 years)

William Henry Graham was an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Graham was born in Kansas City, Missouri in September 1918 and grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he led his own ensemble which included Paul Quinichette among its members. He studied at Tuskegee University and then Lincoln University of Missouri after a stint in the Army during World War II. He worked with Count Basie, Lucky Millinder, Herbie Fields, and Erskine Hawkins early in his career. From 1946 to 1953, he worked with Dizzy Gillespie as a baritone saxophonist; among his compositions for Gillespie was the tune "Oh-Sho-Be-D...

#16213

Paul Ulanowsky

1908 - 1968 (60 years)

Paul Alexander Theodore Ulanowsky was an Austrian-American pianist, accompanist, vocal coach, and music educator of Austrian Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent. He began his career as the pianist for the Vienna Philharmonic from 1927 to 1935. He then embarked on a long career as an accompanist, notably enjoying a particularly close relationship with soprano Lotte Lehmann during the last fourteen years of her career. He played in concerts with many of the world's best singers and instrumentalists during the 1940s and 1950s.

#16214

James Carew

1876 - 1938 (62 years)

James Usselman , known professionally as James Carew, was an American actor who appeared in many films, mainly in Britain. He was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1876 and began work as a clerk in a publishing firm. He began acting on stage in Chicago in 1897 in Damon and Pythias.

#16215

Heinz Friedrich Hartig

1907 - 1969 (62 years)

Heinz Friedrich Hartig was a German composer and harpsichordist. In 1948 he began teaching at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik. Seven years later, he took up a professorship there. He became acquainted with Boris Blacher, a composer with whom he collaborated extensively.

#16216

Andrei Mironov

1941 - 1987 (46 years)

Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as The Diamond Arm, Beware of the Car and Twelve Chairs. Mironov was also a popular singer.

#16217

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.

#16218

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

#16219

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...

#16220

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.

#16221

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.

#16222

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.

#16223

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.

#16224

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.

#16225

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...

#16226

Louis Coerne

1870 - 1922 (52 years)

Louis Adolphe Coerne was an American composer and music educator. Life and works He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and at the Stuttgart Conservatory, Germany.

#16227

Lea Luboshutz

1885 - 1965 (80 years)

Lea Luboshutz was a Russian violinist. She had a performing career in Europe and the United States of America, settling in America and becoming a teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the mother of the conductor Boris Goldovsky and the sister of the pianist Pierre Luboshutz and the cellist, Anna Luboshutz.

#16228

Salomon Sulzer

1804 - 1890 (86 years)

Salomon Sulzer was an Austrian hazzan and composer. Biography His family, which prior to 1813 bore the name of Levi, removed to Hohenems from Sulz in 1748. He was educated for the cantorate, studying first under the cantors of Endingen and Karlsruhe, with whom he traveled extensively, and later under Salomon Eichberg, cantor at Hohenems and Düsseldorf. In 1820 Sulzer was appointed cantor at Hohenems, where he modernized the ritual, and introduced a choir. At the insistence of Rabbi Isaac Noah Mannheimer of Vienna he was called to the Austrian capital as chief cantor in 1826. There he reorga...

#16229

Sergey Balasanian

1902 - 1982 (80 years)

Sergey Artemyevich Balasanian was a Soviet Armenian composer. He taught composition in the Moscow Conservatory. Balasanian wrote the first Tajik opera – The Uprising at Vosse . It was debuted in Moscow in 1941 as part of a 10-day exhibition of Tajik art.

#16230

Thomas Jordan

1614 - 1685 (71 years)

Thomas Jordan was an English poet, playwright and actor, born possibly in London or Eynsham in Oxfordshire about 1612 or 1614. Early career Jordan was a boy actor in the King's Revels Company, which played at the Salisbury Court and Fortune theatres, and continued with the company as an adult. He is known to have performed the part of Lepida, the mother of Messalina, in Thomas Rawlins's Messalina some time between 1634 and 1636. In 1637, Jordan published his earliest known work, Poeticall Varieties, or Variety of Fancies, which shows his theatrical background. It was dedicated to John Ford of Gray's Inn, a cousin of John Ford the dramatist.

#16231

Ottmar Gerster

1897 - 1969 (72 years)

Ottmar Gerster was a German viola player, conductor and composer who in 1948 became rector of the Liszt Music Academy in Weimar. Life Ottmar Gerster was born some 50 km north of Frankfurt during the closing years of the nineteenth century. His father was a neurologist and his mother was a pianist. He attended an Academic secondary school and entered, in 1913, the Dr Hoch Music Conservatory where his teachers included Bernhard Sekles and Adolf Rebner . It was at the Hoch Conservatory that Gerster also got to know Paul Hindemith who was a near contemporary.

#16232

Friedrich Gumpert

Friedrich Gumpert

1841 - 1906 (65 years)

Friedrich Adolph Gumpert was a German horn player and teacher. Gumpert received his early musical education in Jena. From 1860 he was a horn player, first in Bad Nauheim, then in Halle. In October 1864, at the behest of Carl Reinecke, he became First Horn in the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, a position he held until 1899. He was a founder member of the Gewandhaus-Bläserquintett, formed in 1896.

#16233

Ralph Leopold

1884 - 1955 (71 years)

Ralph Leopold was an American pianist and piano teacher. Biography Ralph Herman Leopold was born in 1884 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Howard Leopold. His sister Elizabeth Leopold married Newton D. Baker, who in 1912 was considered a possible vice-presidential running mate to Woodrow Wilson, and from 1916 to 1921 was United States Secretary of War.

#16234

John Wesley Work III

1901 - 1967 (66 years)

John Wesley Work III was an American composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music. Biography He was born on July 15, 1901, in Tullahoma, Tennessee, to a family of professional musicians. His grandfather, John Wesley Work, was a church choir director in Nashville, where he wrote and arranged music for his choirs. Some of his choristers were members of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. His father, John Wesley Work, Jr., was a singer, folksong collector and professor of music, Latin, and history at Fisk, and his mother, Agnes Haynes Work, was a singer who helped train the Fisk group.

#16235

Robert Talbot

1893 - 1954 (61 years)

Jean Robert Talbot was a Canadian conductor, violinist, violist, composer, and music educator. For more than 25 years, he was the conductor of the Société symphonique de Québec . A member of the Société française de musicologie, the International Musicological Society, the Musical Association of London, and the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Music, he was the author of several books on music theory. He also contributed music articles to a variety of periodicals.

#16236

Alexander Laszlo

1895 - 1970 (75 years)

Alexander Lászlò was a Hungarian-American pianist, musical composer, arranger and inventor. He was born Sándor Totis, but used the professional name of Alexander Lászlò as a composer and music publisher.

#16237

Calvin Jackson

1919 - 1985 (66 years)

John Calvin Jackson was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Background He was born in Philadelphia in 1919 to Harry and Margaret Jackson. His mother was a concert singer in Philadelphia. Jackson played piano from childhood, having lessons with private teacher. He studied at Juilliard and New York University.

#16238

Lucia Dunham

1932 - 1959 (27 years)

Lucia Dunham was an American voice teacher, classical soprano, and academic writer on singing and diction who is chiefly remembered as a longtime professor of vocal performance at the Juilliard School from 1922-1956.

#16239

Franklin Rhoda

1854 - 1929 (75 years)

Franklin Rhoda . In the words of historian Mike Foster, Frank Rhoda was an "artist, musician, writer, surveyor, naturalist, social critic, defender of civil liberties and champion of Christ - the only theme unifying his versatile life was idealism that aimed to reform almost everything he encountered."

#16240

Herbert Sharpe

1861 - 1925 (64 years)

Herbert Francis Sharpe, was a British pianist, composer and music professor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London later becoming professor there. He composed songs, chamber music and orchestral pieces. He was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music.

#16241

Nicholas Staggins

1650 - 1700 (50 years)

Nicholas Staggins was an English composer. Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682, he was granted a musical doctorate by Cambridge University, and from 1684 until his death was Professor of Music at Cambridge. Following his death on the night of 12–13 June 1700, he was succeeded by John Eccles.

#16242

Dan White

1908 - 1980 (72 years)

Dan White was an American actor, well known for appearing in Western films and TV shows. Biography Early life White acted in a show with Frances Langford in Tampa's Rialto Theatre. He still longed for a career in entertainment and resigned from the CCC in 1935 and started his journey to Hollywood with his small family.

#16243

Harry Crane Perrin

1865 - 1953 (88 years)

Harry Crane Perrin was a cathedral organist at Canterbury Cathedral, England, and an academic who served as the first dean of music at McGill University, Canada. Background Perrin was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He attended Wellingborough Grammar School, and studied music under Sir Robert Prescott Stewart at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1890, as a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1892, and as a Doctor of Music in 1901.

#16244

William Berke

1903 - 1958 (55 years)

William A. Berke was an American film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He wrote, directed, and/or produced some 200 films over a three-decade career. Biography Berke broke into motion pictures in 1922 as a writer for silent westerns. For these assignments, he used the pseudonym William Lester. In the early 1930s, he formed a partnership with independent producer Bernard B. Ray to make feature films at Ray's Reliable Pictures studio, next door to Columbia Pictures. Berke, now using his own name for screen credits, was equally capable in making comedies, mysteries, action adventures, and westerns.

#16245

Alice Gordon Gulick

Alice Gordon Gulick

1847 - 1903 (56 years)

Alice Gordon Gulick was an American missionary teacher in Spain. Early life Alice Winfield Gordon was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Auburndale, Massachusetts, the daughter of James M. Gordon and Mary Clarkson Gordon. Her parents were active in the abolition movement; her sisters Anna Adams Gordon and Elizabeth Putnam Gordon were temperance activists. She attended Mount Holyoke Seminary from 1863 to 1867.

#16246

Lev Conus

1871 - 1944 (73 years)

Lev Eduardovich Conus , known in Western Europe and the US as Leon Conus , was a Russian pianist, music educator, and composer. A brother of the composers Georgi Conus and Julius Conus, he studied together with Sergei Rachmaninoff in Anton Arensky's advanced composition class and served as chief professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory until 1918. Together with his wife, the pianist and pedagogue Olga Kovalevskaya Conus they left the Soviet Union for Paris in 1921 where he subsequently taught at the city's Russian Conservatory, before finally moving to the United States in 1935. He taught in Cincinnati until his death at the age of 73.

#16247

Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

1786 - 1841 (55 years)

Konstantinos Agathophron Nikolopoulos was a Greek composer, philologist and colleague of Adamantios Korais. Biography Konstantinos Nikolopoulos was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire and grew up in Paris. Being somewhat of a "Renaissance Man" , he was employed as librarian in the French Institute, where he worked for much of his life.

#16248

K. L. Saigal

1904 - 1947 (43 years)

Kundan Lal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal , was an Indian singer and actor who is considered the first superstar of the Hindi film industry, which was centred in Calcutta during Saigal's time, but is currently centred in Bombay . Saigal's unique voice quality which was a mixture of baritone and soft tenor was the benchmark for most of the singers who followed him. In fact it remains the gold standard even today shining through very early and practically primitive recording technology.

#16249

Patrick Dunbar Ritchie

1907 - 1981 (74 years)

Patrick Dunbar Ritchie FRSE FRSC FPRI LLD was a 20th-century British chemist of Scots descent. Apart from being a noted chemist, he was an artist, fine art conservator, philatelist, ornithologist and mountaineer. His friends knew him as Pat Ritchie.

#16250

Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoi

1912 - 1973 (61 years)

Alexander Mikhailovich Ivanov-Kramskoy was a Soviet classical guitarist, composer, conductor, teacher, esteemed artist of Russian Federation . His original last name was Ivanov. Biography He began to study violin at the Music School , but after having heard Andres Segovia play in Moscow State Conservatory in 1926, he switched to six-string guitar.

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