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#16651

Max Miller

1911 - 1985 (74 years)

Edward Maxwell Miller was an American jazz pianist and vibraphone player. He had a forty year career that peaked in the 1940s and '50s. Many of his compositions use extended chord harmonies, polyphony, and polytonality and were influenced by Stravinsky, Bartók, and Hindemith.

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Carl Schlesinger

1813 - 1871 (58 years)

Carl Schlesinger was a cellist. He originally played the violin. From 1838 onwards, he worked as a solo cellist successively for the Pesth National Theatre in Budapest and the Imperial Opera orchestra in Vienna. He was a member of the Hellmesberger Quartet, which was formed in 1849.

#16653

Samuel S. Losh

1884 - 1943 (59 years)

Samuel S. Losh was a vocalist, composer and music educator in Fort Worth, Texas. Biography Early life and education Samuel S. Losh was born in the community of Lebo in Perry County, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1884. His middle initial has been said to stand for various names including Stephen, Simpson, and even Socrates. He was one of five children born to Charles Silverius Losh and Alice Tamar Wagner Losh , both natives of Pennsylvania. The family moved to Hagerstown, Maryland, where Losh graduated from high school in 1902. As a baritone and pianist, Losh moved to Germany to study at the Le...

#16654

Kurt Leimer

1920 - 1974 (54 years)

Kurt Leimer was a German concert pianist, composer and piano instructor. Life Kurt Leimer demonstrated musical talent from a young age. His great-uncle, Karl Leimer, was instructor to educator Walter Gieseking who together published several piano textbooks. His talent was recognized by Gieseking, Carl Schuricht, and Wilhelm Furtwängler who helped launch his career as a concert pianist. At the age of 18, he received a scholarship to the Berlin Conservatory, where he studied alongside Vladimir Horbowski and Winfried Wolf. The same year, 1938, Leimer made his concert debut in Berlin. In 19...

#16655

Nikolai Orlov

1892 - 1964 (72 years)

Nikolai Andreyevich Orlov was a Russian pianist who was appreciated especially for his interpretations of Frédéric Chopin. Nikolai Orlov studied piano at Moscow and graduated from Moscow Conservatory on 1910. He also studied privately composition and counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev. His first public concert was held in 1912, and he gave the première of the first piano concerto of Alexander Glazunov in the same year.

#16656

Osceola Macarthy Adams

Osceola Macarthy Adams

1890 - 1983 (93 years)

Osceola Macarthy Adams was an American actress, drama teacher, director, and clothing designer. She was one of the 22 founders of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Born to a life insurance executive in Albany, Georgia, Macarthy was mixed with European, Native American, and African-American heritage. She attended schools in Albany, Georgia including Albany Normal School, a predecessor to Albany State University, and then attended Fisk University’s Preparatory School. Later, she attended Howard University, where she studied ancient Greek and philosophy. After graduating from Howard, Osceola marrie...

#16657

Ed Brady

1889 - 1942 (53 years)

Edwin J. Brady was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 350 films between 1911 and 1942. On Broadway, he appeared in The Spy . Filmography The Heart of a Cracksman The Test A Child of the Prairie - The GamblerNeal of the Navy - HernandezSpellbound - Katti HabThe Twin Triangle - MarcoThe Sultana - Count StrelitsoThe Mainspring - JervissThe Double Room Mystery - Bill GreelyGod's Crucible - WilkinsMutiny - Eben WiggsThe Flame of Youth - McCoolThe Reed Case - 'Red'The Stolen Paradise - LerouxThe Spindle of Life - JasonWild Sumac - John LewisaIndiscreet Corinne - P.A. Br...

#16658

Joseph Fischhof

Joseph Fischhof

1804 - 1857 (53 years)

Joseph Fischhof was a Czech-Austrian pianist, composer and professor at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, belonging to the Romantic school. Life and career Fischhof was born into a Jewish family in Bučovice, Moravia. He planned to become a medical doctor, but later studied music and composition under Ignaz von Seyfried, and in 1833 became Professor of Piano at the Vienna Conservatory. He was the uncle of composer Robert Fischhof.

#16659

Edmund Burke

1809 - 1882 (73 years)

Edmund Burke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician. He served as the United States Commissioner of Patents and as a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire in the 1840s. Early life and career Born in Westminster, Vermont, Burke was the son of Elijah and Grace Burke. He attended the public schools and studied law with Henry Adams Bellows, future Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Burke was admitted to the bar in 1826. He began practicing law in Colebrook, New Hampshire before moving to Claremont, New Hampshire in 1833.

#16660

Sara Cahier

1875 - 1951 (76 years)

Sara Charles-Cahier or Madame Charles Cahier was an American-born Swedish mezzo-soprano or contralto singer in opera and lieder, singing primarily in Europe. The American-born Cahier later acquired Swedish citizenship. She was associated with Gustav Mahler, and was one of the soloists in the posthumous premiere of his Das Lied von der Erde in 1911. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and was a teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her students included Marian Anderson.

#16661

Krikor Peshtimaldjian

1778 - 1839 (61 years)

Krikor Peshtimaldjian was a prominent ethnic Armenian philosopher, educator, translator, and linguist. He was a key figure in the Armenian reawakening and reformist movement in the 19th century.

#16662

George Sidney

1877 - 1945 (68 years)

George Sidney was a Hungarian-born American film actor and comedian. He starred in The Cohens and Kellys film series. Early years Born in Nagynichal, Hungary, Sidney was the son of Lewis K. Sidney, an executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He was the uncle of the film director George Sidney.

#16663

John Lynch

1825 - 1892 (67 years)

John Lynch was a nineteenth-century politician, merchant, manufacturer and newspaper publisher from Maine. Born in Portland, Maine, Lynch attended public schools as a child and graduated from Portland High School in 1842. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, was manager of the Portland Daily Press in 1862 and was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864. He was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1864, serving from 1865 to 1873. There, Lynch served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy from 1869 to 1871 and of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury from 1871 to 1873.

#16664

Eric Emerson

1945 - 1975 (30 years)

Eric Emerson was an American musician, dancer, and actor. Emerson is best known for his roles in films by pop artist Andy Warhol, and as a member of the seminal glam punk group the Magic Tramps. Career Growing up in New Jersey, Emerson trained as a classic ballet dancer. It was this talent that caught the eye of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol. After seeing Emerson dancing at The Dom in April 1966, Warhol asked Emerson to be in one of his underground films. Emerson made his film debut in 1967's Chelsea Girls, and soon became a Factory regular. Emerson starred in other Warhol films, most notably Lonesome Cowboys, San Diego Surf, and Heat.

#16665

Hans Winderstein

1856 - 1925 (69 years)

Hans Wilhelm Gustav Winderstein was a German conductor and composer. Winderstein studied from 1877 to 1880 at Leipzig Conservatoire, under Henry Schradieck and Fr. Hermann , E. Fr. Richter and W. Rust . He also played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1880 to 1884, he led Baron von Derwies' private orchestra at Nice after which he was violin teacher at the Winterthur Conservatoire in Switzerland until 1887. He then conducted an orchestra at Nuremberg for three years. From 1890 to 1893 he conducted the concerts of the Philharmonic Societies of Nuremberg and Fürth. Between 1893 and 1896 Winderstein directed the newly established Kaim Orchestra.

#16666

Emelie Hooke

1912 - 1974 (62 years)

Emelie Victoria Georgina Hooke was an Australian soprano who was notable in opera, oratorio and concert, and sang in Australia, England, Europe and South Africa. Early life Hooke was born in 1912 in Melbourne, where she was schooled. Her advanced musical training was at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. She sang frequently in opera and oratorio in Australia, and for two years was engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In 1931 and 1932 she sang in Handel's Messiah with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic; the latter performance was with John Brownlee, the orchestra being conducted by Bernard Heinze.

#16667

Carol Brice

1918 - 1985 (67 years)

Carol Brice was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute and later at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she received a Bachelor of Music in 1939. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music from 1939 to 1943. She attracted considerable attention for her role in a 1939 production of The Hot Mikado at the New York World's Fair, where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice.

#16668

Vladimir Padwa

1900 - 1981 (81 years)

Vladimir Padwa was an American pianist, composer, and educator. Biography He was born at the Krivyakino Estate in the Russian Empire , the son of Mikhail and Maria Padwa. He was raised in Estonia, then a territory of Imperial Russia, receiving Estonian citizenship in 1917 when Estonia became an independent country. He married Alexandra Niedas of Tallinn in 1927. The couple resided in London and Berlin before coming to the United States in 1932. Their daughter Tatiana was born in 1933. The family settled in New York City and later lived in Woodstock, New York from 1935 to 1946. Padwa and Alex...

#16669

Chittoor Subramaniam Pillai

1898 - 1975 (77 years)

Chittoor Subramanyam was an Indian carnatic musician. He received the Sangeeta Kalanidhi award in 1954, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1964. Early life Chittoor Subramanyam was born to Perayya and SMogilamma, on 22 June 1898 in a village near Punganur in Palamaner taluk, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh. A distinguished votary of laya, Chittoor Subramanyam Pillai had his initial training under his father, who was a violinist. By age 7, he was well versed in Carnatic Music. He later became a disciple of Kanchipuram Naina Pillai. Under Naina Pillai's tutelage, Subramanyam learned and ...

#16670

Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja

1440 - 1522 (82 years)

Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja was a Spanish mathematician, music theorist, and composer. His only surviving work is the Latin treatise Musica practica. By his own testimony at the end of his Musica practica, Ramos de Pareja was born in Baeza, possibly around 1440. Most of the biographical details of his life must be culled from this treatise. He says that he was a student of Juan de Monte and that he obtained the chair of music at the University of Salamanca for his commentaries on the works of Boethius . At Salamanca he had many debates with Pedro de Osma concerning his musical theories. In 1482...

#16671

Michael Jeffery

1933 - 1973 (40 years)

Frank Michael Jeffery was an English music business manager of the 1960s who is best known for his management of The Animals and Jimi Hendrix, whom he co-managed for a time with former Animals bassist Chas Chandler. A former associate of noted English pop impresario Don Arden, Jeffery was and remains a controversial figure.

#16672

Carl Busch

1862 - 1943 (81 years)

Carl Busch was a Danish-born American composer and music teacher sometimes associated with the Indianist movement. He was an important figure in the musical life of Kansas City, Missouri for many years.

#16673

Hermann Wunsch

1884 - 1954 (70 years)

Hermann Wunsch was a German composer, conductor, music theorist and lecturer in composition. Life and career Born in Neuss, Wunsch was born in Neuss, Rhineland, in 1884, the son of the railway works master Balthasar Wunsch and his wife Amalie Hafels. He began his education with a teachers' seminar. He then attended conservatories in Krefeld, where he studied composition with Theodor Müller-Reuter, Düsseldorf, where he was taught by Frank Limbert, and Cologne.

#16674

Gustav Luders

1865 - 1913 (48 years)

Gustav Carl Luders, sometimes written Gustave Luders, was a musician who wrote the music for various songs and shows in the U.S. He was born in Bremen, Germany. He came to the U.S. in 1888 and lived in Milwaukee and then Chicago. He was known for his musical comedies. His The Prince of Pilsen was adapted into the film The Prince of Pilsen.

#16675

Josef Wolfsthal

Josef Wolfsthal

1899 - 1931 (32 years)

Josef Wolfsthal , born as Josef Wolfthal, was an Austrian violinist and a professor in Germany's capital Berlin. He was born into a musical family in Vienna. It was of Galician origin. His father and his older brother Max both played the violin. His father was an excellent violin teacher, and gave his sons their first lessons on that instrument. He also taught Sigmund Feuermann . From the age of 10, Wolfsthal studied for six years with famed Hungarian violin teacher Carl Flesch, and at age 16 started to perform in public. His debut was on 7 April 1916 with Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Camillo Hildebrand .

#16676

Alberto Bimboni

1888 - 1960 (72 years)

Alberto Bimboni was an Italian-born American composer and conductor. He is remembered today, if at all, for his opera Winona; consequently, he is sometimes grouped with other composers of the Indianist movement in American music.

#16677

Beatrice Irwin

1888 - 1956 (68 years)

Beatrice Irwin was an actress, poet, designer and promoter of the Baháʼí Faith. Born Alice Beatrice Simpson, she took Beatrice Irwin as her stage name and later adopted it as her real name. After her family moved to Scotland and then to England, she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College where she graduated 1895 and took the Associate in Arts test in which she placed 5th for that year. She went on through a series of careers starting with being an actor in stage theatre which took her to Cape Colony, as it was known then, touring America, briefly in the then young country of Australia, and performed in Shanghai.

#16678

Clifford Taylor

1923 - 1987 (64 years)

Clifford O. Taylor was an American composer and music educator. He studied with Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith and served as chairman of the department of music composition at Temple University for 23 years. Among his compositions are three symphonies, The Freak Show , several string quartets and numerous piano sonatas. In December 1971 the Philadelphia Orchestra played the world premiere of his Symphony No. 2. He was married for many years to Louise Kemp, living with her in Jenkintown, PA until his death at Abington Memorial Hospital in 1987. They had three sons, Christopher, Andrew and Jo...

#16679

Irma Wolpe Rademacher

1902 - 1984 (82 years)

Irma Wolpe Rademacher , née Schoenberg, was a Romanian-born American pianist and teacher. Life and career She was born in 1902 in Galați, Western Moldavia, Romania, into a bourgeois Jewish family, the third of four children. In 1910 the family moved to Iași , where her father, Jacob Schoenberg , was offered the position of vice president with the newly formed Banca Moldova. Her mother, Rachel Schoenberg née Segall , conversant in many languages, was a gifted essayist and poet. Both parents were Zionists and eminently active in the Jewish community life. They were closely connected with leading...

#16680

Vassili Nebolsin

1898 - 1958 (60 years)

Vassili Vassilyevich Nebolsin was a Russian conductor. He studied at the college of the Moscow Philharmonic and became conductor of the orchestra in 1918. He became choir master of the Bolshoi in 1920 and its conductor in 1922. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1940 to 1945. The Stalin Prize was awarded him in 1950.

#16681

Roy Cheville

1897 - 1986 (89 years)

Roy A. Cheville was a religious leader, theologian and educator in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , which became Community of Christ in 2001. Cheville graduated from Graceland University in 1921 with an Associate of Arts degree in liberal arts and religious education. In 1926, he authored Graceland's Alma Mater Hymn while on the faculty. He obtained his Ph. B. in 1922, an A.M in Divinity in 1923, a D.B. in Practical Theology in 1925, and later a Ph.D. in religion in 1942, all from the University of Chicago. He was the first member of his denomination to complete...

#16682

Paul Willert

1901 - 1988 (87 years)

Max Paul Georg Willert was a German musicologist and baritone. Life Willert was born in 1901 as the son of a teacher and a housewife in Tanna, Thuringia. He was a pupil at the elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Bad Frankenhausen. Until the first teacher's examination in 1921 he attended the teacher's seminar. Leipzig. In 1924 the second teacher's examination followed. After a short Volksschule teacher period in Chemnitz, he studied musicology, music pedagogy and German literature at the Leipzig University and singing at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1926 to 1928. He also passed the Maturazeugnis for elementary school teachers at the .

#16683

Theodore Stearns

1881 - 1935 (54 years)

Theodore Pease Stearns was an American composer. Born in Berea, Ohio, he wrote a number of operas. Of these, The Snowbird was given at the Chicago Civic Opera in 1923; this work won the Bispham Memorial Medal Award. He taught music at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1932 until 1935.

#16684

Bill Nagy

1921 - 1973 (52 years)

Bill Nagy was a Canadian-born film and television actor who settled and worked in Britain. He began working on the London stage, appearing in the West End production of South Pacific. Selected filmography

#16685

Ludvig Wimmer

1839 - 1920 (81 years)

Ludvig Frands Adalbert Wimmer was a Danish linguist and runologist. He was the first modern runic scholar, published his work Runeskriftens oprindelse og utvikling i norden. He proved that all runic alphabets went back to one basic futhark of 24 signs, which was known and used by all the Germanic tribes.

#16686

Ward McAllister

1891 - 1981 (90 years)

Ward McAllister was an American film actor of the silent era. He was born in Apollo, Pennsylvania, as Ward David McAllister. In 1922 he appeared as the villain in the controversial British crime film Cocaine.

#16687

Joe Murphy

1877 - 1961 (84 years)

Joseph Murphy was an American comic stage actor. He went on to become a silent film actor, notably playing Andy Gump in the shorts The Gumps during the mid-1920s. His unusual tall, thin stature and extraordinary facial features were instantly recognizable.

#16688

Polyna Savridi

Polyna Savridi was an American operatic soprano and voice teacher. As a singer she was primarily active on the international stage during the 1960s, and only performed infrequently afterwards. She taught briefly on the voice faculties of Columbia University and the Jacobs School of Music during the early 1960s before settling at the University of Calgary where she was a professor of voice from 1963 until her death from cancer seventeen years later. She is best remembered for her recordings of Greek folk songs for Concord Records and as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Audit...

#16689

Martin Karl Hasse

1883 - 1960 (77 years)

Martin Karl Woldemar Hasse was a German university lecturer, composer and music writer. Life Born in Dohna, Hasse was the son of the pastor Martin Hasse and his wife Cora , née Wittich. In 1910 in Heidelberg, he married Aline , a daughter of , pastor and writer. Together with his wife he had three daughters. Of these is known by name: Ruth Hasse , violinist, married to Wilhelm Stross , professor at the Munich Academy of Music.

#16690

Alfred Caldicott

1842 - 1897 (55 years)

Alfred James Caldicott was an English musician and composer of operas, cantatas, children's songs, humorous songs and gleess. Early life and education He was born in Worcester, the eldest son of William Caldicott, a hop merchant and amateur musician. At the age of nine he became a choirboy in Worcester Cathedral, where several of his brothers and half-brothers subsequently also sang. He rose to be the leading boy treble, and, while taking part in the Three Choirs Festival, formed the ambition to conduct an oratorio of his own in the cathedral. At the age of fourteen his voice broke, and he was articled to William Done, the cathedral organist.

#16691

Philipp Wolfrum

Philipp Wolfrum

1854 - 1919 (65 years)

Philipp Julius Wolfrum was a German conductor, musicologist, composer, organist and academic teacher. He was influential to university education in church music in Heidelberg, and in 1907 became the town's Generalmusikdirektor.

#16692

Jurgis Karnavičius

1884 - 1941 (57 years)

Jurgis Karnavičius was a Lithuanian composer of classical music and a forerunner of the development of Lithuanian operatic works. Biography Karnavičius was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, which at the time was a part of the Russian Empire. After completing his basic education in his homeland, he began the study of Law in St. Petersburg, Russia.

#16693

Walter Schartner

1894 - 1970 (76 years)

Walter Schartner was a German conductor, composer and Hochschullehrer. In 1946, he was appointed Generalmusikdirektor in Halle and as such he directed the . In 1949/50, he was chief conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle.

#16694

Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli

Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli

1882 - 1949 (67 years)

Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli was an Italian composer and pianist of Czech birth. Life and career Born in Strakonice, South Bohemia, on July 10, 1882, Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli moved with his family to Milan, Italy, when he was two years old. In 1896, at the age of 14, he began his studies at the Milan Conservatory. After graduating from the conservatory in 1903, he worked as a concert pianist for the next 11 years in Italy and Vienna.

#16695

Harrison Kerr

1897 - 1978 (81 years)

Harrison Kerr was an American composer of contemporary classical music, editor, administrator, and educator. He studied in Cleveland, Ohio with James H. Rogers, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1949 to 1969, he served as professor of music and dean at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

#16696

Heinrich Zöllner

1854 - 1941 (87 years)

Heinrich Zöllner was a German composer and conductor. Biography The son of composer Carl Friedrich Zöllner, Heinrich Zöllner was born in Leipzig. From 1875 to 1877 he attended the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied music under Carl Reinecke, Salomon Jadassohn, and Ernst Friedrich Richter. In 1878, Zöllner became the director of music at the University of Dorpat in Estonia where he stayed for almost seven years. In 1885, he joined the faculty at the Cologne Conservatory and while there he conducted the Cologne Male Voice Choir.

#16697

Kurt Singer

1885 - 1944 (59 years)

Kurt Singer was a German neurologist, musicologist, conductor and chairman of the Jüdischer Kulturbund. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Life Born in Kościerzyna, Singer, son of a rabbi, spent his youth in Koblenz. After graduating from high school he studied medicine, psychology and musicology. In 1908, he received his doctorate in medicine and initially worked as a neurologist at the Berlin Charité.

#16698

Heinrich Boell

1890 - 1947 (57 years)

Heinrich Boell was a German organist and choir conductor.

#16699

Suresh

1929 - 1979 (50 years)

Suresh , also known as N. A. Suresh, was an Indian actor in Bollywood, who was born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, India. He acted in Hindi/Hindustani films from 1929 to 1979. Early life Suresh started as a child artiste in 1929 as baby Krishna in Gopal Krishna and as a child artiste in Nishan-e-Jung in 1937. His early films were Anjan , Naya Sansar and Basant .

#16700

Liesel Schuch-Ganzel

Liesel Schuch-Ganzel

1891 - 1990 (99 years)

Elisabeth Franziska von Schuch-Ganzel also Liesel von Schuch, Liesel Schuch-Ganzel, née von Schuch Life Born in Dresden, Schuch grew up with her parents, the conductor Ernst von Schuch and the opera singer Clementine von Schuch-Proska, in Niederlößnitz . She was a sister of the soprano Käthe von Schuch-Schmidt and the violoncellist Hans von Schuch.

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