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#16651

Albert Windisch

1878 - 1967 (89 years)

Albert Windisch was a German painter, Academy Professor and typographer. Windisch was successful as a painter and as a typographer as well. As a painter, he preferred urban scenes and portraits and after 1945 mainly floral motifs. For Klingspor he designed in 1917 the Windisch cursive font, later he worked for the Stempel foundry.

#16652

Moriz Rosenthal

Moriz Rosenthal

1862 - 1946 (84 years)

Moriz Rosenthal was a Polish pianist and composer. He was an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt and a friend and colleague of some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac Albéniz.

#16653

Franco Ferrara

1911 - 1985 (74 years)

Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor and teacher. Among his many students are various prominent conductors, including Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Davis and Riccardo Muti. Life and career After obtaining diplomas in piano, violin, organ and musical composition at the Conservatory of Bologna, Ferrara began his career as violin player in Bologna, in Rome and in Florence, with the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino . Encouraged to take on conducting, he debuted in 1938 in Florence beginning a brilliant career. In 1948, he retired from conducting in public concerts owing to po...

#16654

Junior Parker

1932 - 1971 (39 years)

Herman "Junior" Parker was an American blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his voice which has been described as "honeyed" and "velvet-smooth". One music journalist noted, "For years, Junior Parker deserted down home harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music". In 2001, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Parker is also inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.

#16655

Peter Halm

1854 - 1923 (69 years)

Peter Ignaz Johann Halm, later Von Halm , was a German etcher who served as a professor of etching at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from 1901 to 1923. Biography He was the son of an innkeeper and brewer. Initially, he wanted to become an architect and, in pursuit of that goal, attended the Technische Universität Darmstadt. After 1875, he studied copper engraving with Johann Leonhard Raab and general art subjects with Ludwig von Löfftz, at the Munich Academy.

#16656

William Wallace

1860 - 1940 (80 years)

William Wallace was notable as a Scottish classical composer and writer. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Music in the University of London. Early life and education Born at Greenock, Wallace studied ophthalmology at the University of Glasgow, and in Vienna and Paris. He became a qualified ophthalmic surgeon, but was also a poet, dramatist, writer on music and a painter.

#16657

Adolf Ebert

1820 - 1890 (70 years)

Georg Karl Wilhelm Adolf Ebert was a Romance philologist and literary historian. He was an author of literary studies as well as a publisher of periodicals, including the Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur.

#16658

Jan Bake

1787 - 1864 (77 years)

Jan Bake was a Dutch philologist and critic. He was born in Leiden, and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of Greek and Roman literature at the university. His principal works are:-Posidonii Rhodii Reliquiae Doctrinae Cleomedis Circularis Doctrina de Sublimitate Bibliotheca Critica Nova Scholica Hypomnemata , a collection of essays dealing mainly with Cicero and the Attic oratorsCicero, De Legibus and De Oratore Apsinis et Longini Rhethorica .His biography was written by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink ; for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, Geschichte...

#16659

Carlo Salvioni

1858 - 1920 (62 years)

Carlo Salvioni was a Swiss romanist and linguist. Biography He was born in Switzerland, in the capital of the Canton of Ticino, where his printer father also ran a bookshop. During secondary school in Lugano, Carlo Salvioni became acquainted with young anarchists such as Mikhail Bakunin. After interrupting both secondary school and university studies in Basel prematurely, in 1878 Salvioni moved to Germany to enroll at the university of Leipzig, which Tristano Bolelli called una delle capitali della glottologia del tempo . Here Salvioni's linguistic studies, based on the school of neo-grammarians, took place with regularity and depth of commitment for five years, from 1878 to 1883.

#16660

Gilbert Stuart

1742 - 1786 (44 years)

Gilbert Stuart was a Scottish journalist and historian. Early life He was born in Edinburgh, the only surviving son of George Stuart , professor of the Latin language and Roman antiquities in Edinburgh University.

#16661

Edward Dannreuther

1844 - 1905 (61 years)

Edward George Dannreuther was a pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a piano manufacturing business. Young Edward, under pressure from his father to enter banking as a career, a prospect he found uncongenial, escaped to Leipzig in 1859.

#16662

Roger Edens

1905 - 1970 (65 years)

Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".

#16663

Vladimir Basov

1923 - 1987 (64 years)

Vladimir Pavlovich Basov was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR . Biography Vladimir Basov was born in the Urazovo village, Voronezh Governorate to Pavel Basov and Aleksandra Basova. His father was a Tartu alumnus of Finnish ethnicity who joined Bolsheviks during the revolution. "Basov" was his party alias later adopted as a family name. He served as an officer and political commissar up until his death in 1931. Vladimir's mother Aleksandra Ivanovna was a daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest from Pokrovsk. She met Pavel during the Civil War; he was a runaway and asked for shelter.

#16664

Adolph Brodsky

1851 - 1929 (78 years)

Adolph Davidovich Brodsky was a Russian Empire violinist who later moved to the United States. He enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a performer and teacher, starting early in Vienna, going on to Moscow, Leipzig, and New York City and finally Manchester. During its course he met and worked with composers such as Tchaikovsky and Elgar.

#16665

Joseph Carter Corbin

Joseph Carter Corbin

1833 - 1911 (78 years)

Joseph Carter Corbin was a journalist and educator in the United States. Before the abolition of slavery, he was a journalist, teacher, and conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Kentucky. After the American Civil War, he moved to Arkansas where he served as superintendent of public schools from 1873 to 1874. He founded the predecessor of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and was its first principal from 1875 until 1902. He ended his career in education spending a decade as principal of Merrill High School in Pine Bluff. He also taught in Missouri.

#16666

Trummy Young

1912 - 1984 (72 years)

James "Trummy" Young was an American trombonist in the swing era. He established himself as a star during his 12 years performing with Louis Armstrong in Armstrong's All Stars. He had one hit with his version of "Margie", which he played and sang with Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra in 1937. During his years with Armstrong, Young modified his playing to fit Armstrong's approach to jazz.

#16667

Roy William Neill

Roy William Neill

1887 - 1946 (59 years)

Roy William Neill was an Irish-born American film director best known for directing the last eleven of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Studios.

#16668

Rube Bloom

1902 - 1976 (74 years)

Reuben Bloom was an American songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, vocalist, and author. Life and career Bloom was born and died in New York City. He was Jewish. During his career, he worked with many well-known performers, including Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Ruth Etting, Stan Kenton, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. He collaborated with a wide number of lyricists, including Johnny Mercer, Ted Koehler, and Mitchell Parish.

#16669

Stefán Einarsson

1897 - 1972 (75 years)

Stefán Einarsson was an Icelandic linguist and literary historian, who was a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the United States. Life and career Stefán was born and raised on the farm of Höskuldsstaðir in Breiðdalur. His parents were Einar Gunnlaugsson and his wife Margrét Jónsdóttir. After attending school in Akureyri and graduating in 1917 from the Menntaskólinn in Reykjavík, he attended the University of Iceland and completed a master's degree in Icelandic in 1923–24; while a student, he assisted Sigfús Blöndal and Jón Ófeigsson on the Icelandic dictionary for four years.

#16670

Richard Carle

1871 - 1941 (70 years)

Richard Carle was an American stage and film actor as well as a playwright and stage director. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1915 and 1941. Carle was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was on the stage for many years, appearing in important roles in London, New York and Chicago including as J. Offenbach Gaggs in The Casino Girl and Algy Cuffs in The Belle of Bohemia in London in 1901 before making his screen debut. In 1941 he died in North Hollywood, California from a heart attack.

#16671

Karl Klindworth

Karl Klindworth

1830 - 1916 (86 years)

Karl Klindworth was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher. He was one of Franz Liszt's pupils and later one of his closest disciples and friends, being also on friendly terms with composer Richard Wagner, of whom he was an admirer. He was highly praised by fellow musicians, including Wagner himself and Edward Dannreuther. Among his pupils were Hans von Bülow, Georgy Catoire, and Ethelbert Nevin.

#16672

William Nigh

1881 - 1955 (74 years)

William Nigh, born Emil Kreuske , was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye". Biography Nigh was born Emil Kreuske in Berlin, Wisconsin. He began his film career as an actor, appearing in 17 films in 1913 and 1914; he also directed one of these, Salomy Jane. He acted in eight more films in the 1910s and two more in the 1920s, but he is known mainly as a director, and an extremely prolific one at that, with a total output of 119 films, the last in 1948. Most of his directorial output was in the "B"-movie category, a...

#16673

Joe Heaney

1919 - 1984 (65 years)

Joe Heaney was an Irish traditional singer from County Galway, Ireland. He spent most of his adult life abroad, living in England, Scotland and New York City, in the course of which he recorded hundreds of songs.

#16674

Lauro Rossi

1812 - 1885 (73 years)

Lauro Rossi , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi . Life and career Rossi studied in Naples and produced his first opera there. His greatest success was with the comic opera originally entitled La casa disabitata, which was performed for many years in its revised form under the title I falsi monetari.

#16675

Joseph Cummings

Joseph Cummings

1817 - 1890 (73 years)

Joseph Cummings was an American academic who served as the 5th president of Wesleyan University from 1857 to 1875, the 5th president of Northwestern University from 1881 to 1890, and the president of Genesee College from 1854 to 1857.

#16676

Robert Kurka

1921 - 1957 (36 years)

Robert Frank Kurka was an American composer, who also taught and conducted his own works. Biography Kurka was born in Cicero, Illinois. He was mostly self-taught as a musician. He studied for short periods under Darius Milhaud and Otto Luening, and received his Master of Arts degree in music from Columbia University in 1948. After that he lived most of his life in New York.

#16677

Hans Sitt

1850 - 1922 (72 years)

Hans Sitt , was a Bohemian violinist, violist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the foremost teachers of violin. Most of the orchestras and conservatories of Europe and North America then sported personnel who numbered among his students.

#16678

Anton Dermota

1910 - 1989 (79 years)

Kammersänger Anton Dermota was a Slovene lyric tenor. Early life He was born in a poor family in the Upper Carniolan village of Kropa in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire . He went to the Ljubljana Conservatory with the intention of studying composition and organ, but in 1934 he received a scholarship which sent him to Vienna. There, he devoted himself exclusively to vocal study with Marie Radó.

#16679

Oswald Kabasta

1896 - 1946 (50 years)

Oswald Kabasta was an Austrian conductor. Life and career Kabasta was born in Mistelbach, Austria and later studied with composer Franz Schmidt. In 1931 he became head of conducting at the Vienna Academy. He also served as musical director of Vienna Radio about this time. In 1938 he became principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic. His interpretations, especially of Anton Bruckner, are admired for their intensity and rhythmic drive. He enjoyed the public approbation of Adrian Boult, who announced in a 1938 radio broadcast that:

#16680

Billy Bevan

1887 - 1957 (70 years)

Billy Bevan was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 American films from 1916 to 1952. Career Bevan was born in the country town of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He went on the stage at an early age, traveled to Sydney and spent eight years in Australian light opera, performing as Willie Bevan. He sailed to America with the Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in 1912, and later toured Canada. Bevan broke into films with the Sigmund Lubin studio in 1916. When the company disbanded, Bevan became a supporting actor in Mack Sennett movie comedies.

#16681

Gary Usher

1938 - 1990 (52 years)

Gary Lee Usher was an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer, who worked with numerous California acts in the 1960s, including the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and Dick Dale. Usher also produced fictitious surf groups or hot rod groups, mixing studio session musicians with his own troops . These bands included the Super Stocks ; the Kickstands; plus the Hondells with their No. 9 US pop single "Little Honda"; and others.

#16682

Max Robinson

1939 - 1988 (49 years)

Maxie Cleveland Robinson Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983. Robinson is noted as the first African-American broadcast network news anchor in the United States. Robinson was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists.

#16683

Frank Marshall

1883 - 1959 (76 years)

Frank Marshall King , was a Spanish, Catalan pianist and pedagogue born to parents of English heritage. Marshall was born in Mataró, Catalonia, Spain. He attended the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu and then began studying with Enrique Granados. Marshall and Granados became close musical associates, and Marshall became Granados's teaching assistant at the latter's academy.

#16684

John Blackwood McEwen

1868 - 1948 (80 years)

Sir John Blackwood McEwen was a Scottish classical composer and educator. He was professor of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1898 to 1924, and principal from 1924 to 1936. He was a prolific composer, but made few efforts to bring his music to the notice of the general public.

#16685

Toni Stolper

1890 - 1988 (98 years)

Antonie "Toni" Stolper was an Austrian-German economist and journalist. She fled Europe and immigrated to the United States in 1933 and moved to Canada in 1977. Biography Stolper was born Antonie Kassowitz, daughter of and , in Vienna, Austria in 1890. She studied law in Vienna and economics in Berlin, Germany, earning her doctorate under Heinrich Herkner in 1917. In 1921, she married Gustav Stolper, the editor of a journal called Der Österreichische Volkswirt . In 1925, the couple moved to Berlin, where Gustav Stolper established a new paper, Der Deutsche Volkswirt . Toni Stolper wrote regu...

#16686

Rudolf Deman

1880 - 1960 (80 years)

Rudolf Deman was an Austrian-German violinist and academic teacher. He was concertmaster of Orchestra of the Berlin State Opera from 1918 to 1930 and first violinist of the Deman String Quartet which made several recordings.

#16687

Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh

1606 - 1677 (71 years)

Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh was a Franciscan friar, theologian and grammarian, author of the first published grammar of the Irish language written in Latin, c. 1606–1677. Biography Early life Ó Maolmhuaidh was born in the Diocese of Meath, most probably in the district of Fercall, lordship of The Ó Maolmhuaidh, in what was then called King's County. While his exact place within the Ó Maolmhuaidh family is unknown, he recorded stories heard in his youth "of a great Christmas banquet for 960 people, lasting twelve days, held by Calvagh O'Molloy, chief of his name, at the end of the sixteenth centu...

#16688

Karl Leimer

1858 - 1944 (86 years)

Karl Leimer was a German music teacher and pianist. Life and work The son of sculptor Peter Anton Leimer and his wife Pauline, he grew up in Biebrich and Wiesbaden, where he attended the Humanist Gymnasium as well as the Realgymnasium. From the winter semester of 1875 he studied at the Polytechnic School of Karlsruhe, where he studied civil engineering. At the instigation of the Württemberg court pianist Wilhelm Krüger he switched to music, and studied piano with him from 1878 to 1882 at the Stuttgart Music School. In addition, he studied music theory with Immanuel Faisst, and music history and instrumentation with Ludwig Stark.

#16689

Stuff Smith

1909 - 1967 (58 years)

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith , better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist. He is well known for the song "If You're a Viper" . Smith was, along with Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Warlop, Svend Asmussen, Ray Nance and Joe Venuti, one of jazz music's preeminent violinists of the swing era.

#16690

Rudolf Tobias

1873 - 1918 (45 years)

Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an oratorio, Des Jona Sendung .

#16691

Raimu

1883 - 1946 (63 years)

Jules Auguste Muraire , whose stage name was Raimu, was a French actor. He is most famous for playing César in the 'Marseilles trilogy' . Life and career Born in Toulon in the Var department, Muraire made his stage debut there in 1899. After coming to the attention of the great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work as a secondary act in the Paris theatre scene. He worked primarily in comedy. In 1916, writer/director Sacha Guitry gave him significant parts in productions at the Folies Bergère and other major venues. In addition to his appear...

#16692

Thomas Clayton

1673 - 1725 (52 years)

Thomas Clayton was an English violinist and composer, and a member of The King's Musick at the court of William III. His is said to be the first to acclimatise legitimate opera in England. Life His father was William Clayton. He studied in Italy, from about 1702 to about 1704, bringing with him a considerable quantity of Italian songs which he had collected abroad. These he set to an adaptation by Peter Anthony Motteux of a drama by Stonzani, which had been performed at Bologna in 1677, and at Venice in 1678.

#16693

Jimmy Jones

1918 - 1982 (64 years)

James Henry Jones was an American jazz pianist and arranger. Biography As a child, Jones learned guitar and piano. He worked in Chicago orchestras from 1936 and played in a trio with Stuff Smith from 1943 to 1945. Following this, he played with Don Byas, Dizzy Gillespie , J.C. Heard , Buck Clayton and Etta Jones. He accompanied Sarah Vaughan from 1947 to 1952, and then again from 1954 to 1958 after a long illness. In 1954, he played on an album with Clifford Brown and accompanied him on his European tour. Around this time, he also played with Helen Merrill and Gil Evans. In 1959, he accompan...

#16694

Larry Young

1940 - 1978 (38 years)

Larry Young was an American jazz organist and occasional pianist. Young's early work was strongly influenced by the soul jazz of Jimmy Smith, but he later pioneered a more experimental, modal approach to the Hammond B-3.

#16695

Ángel Reyes

1919 - 1988 (69 years)

Ángel Reyes , originally from Cuba, was an American violinist. A son of , Ángel Reyes was a Premier Prix graduate from the Paris Conservatory at the age of sixteen, and a prize-winner of the Ysaye International Violin Competition in Brussels.

#16696

Morris Ankrum

1896 - 1964 (68 years)

Morris Ankrum was an American radio, television, and film character actor. Early life Born in Danville in Vermilion County in eastern Illinois, Ankrum originally began a career in academics. After graduating from The University of Southern California with a law degree, he went on to an associate professorship in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley he became involved in the drama department and eventually began teaching drama and directing at the Pasadena Playhouse.

#16697

Robert Sommer

1864 - 1937 (73 years)

Karl Robert Sommer was a german psychiatrist and genealogist born in Grottkau. He is remembered for his work in experimental psychology. He coined the term „Psychohygiene“ in 1901 and founded the „German Association for Psychohygiene“ and the „Society for Experimental Psychology“ . He is remembered for his work in experimental psychology. He also published on genealogy, philosophy, and forensics. He was also an active inventor and involved in local politics.

#16698

Jerry Ross

1926 - 1955 (29 years)

Jerry Ross was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956, respectively, in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.

#16699

A. P. Carter

1891 - 1960 (69 years)

Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter was an American musician and a founding member of The Carter Family, one of the most notable acts in the history of country music. While A.P.'s mother was pregnant with him she was struck by lightning, which gave A.P. a tremble in his right hand, but that didn't stop him from learning the fiddle and guitar when he was young.

#16700

Günther Ramin

1898 - 1956 (58 years)

Günther Werner Hans Ramin was an influential German organist, conductor, composer and pedagogue in the first half of the 20th century. Early life Ramin, the son of a pastor, was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the age of 12 he was accepted into the famed Thomanerchor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig by the then-cantor, Gustav Schreck. At the time, Karl Straube, the organist, conductor, publisher and advocate of the music of Max Reger, was Schreck's assistant, and he took note of Ramin's abilities as an organist and composer. Later, when Straube took over the cantorate at the Thomaskirche, Ramin ...

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