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#16851

César Thomson

1857 - 1931 (74 years)

César Thomson was a Belgian violinist, teacher, and composer. Biography He was born in Liège in 1857. At age seven, he entered the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and studied under Désiré Heynberg, Rodolphe Massart and Jacques Dupuis . By age 16, he was considered to have "a technique unrivalled by any other violinist then living". He was also a student of Hubert Léonard, Henryk Wieniawski and Henri Vieuxtemps.

#16852

Kurt Fiebig

1908 - 1988 (80 years)

Kurt Fiebig was a German composer, church musician and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Life and career Fiebig was born in Berlin as the son of a military musician. His parents, whose father was an oboist in the 2nd Guards Regiment on Foot, brought him into contact with music at an early age. From the age of six he received piano lessons and accompanied his father to the violin. He attended the traditional Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster up to the Abitur.

#16853

Olin Howland

1886 - 1959 (73 years)

Olin Ross Howland was an American film and theatre actor. Life and career Howland was born in Denver, Colorado, to Joby A. Howland, one of the youngest enlisted participants in the Civil War, and Mary C. Bunting. His sister was stage actress Jobyna Howland.

#16854

Ira Louvin

1924 - 1965 (41 years)

Ira Lonnie Loudermilk , known professionally as Ira Louvin, was an American country music singer, mandolinist and songwriter. He was a cousin of songwriter John D. Loudermilk. Biography Ira Louvin was born in Section, Alabama, and played together with his brother, Charlie, in the close harmony tradition as the Louvin Brothers. They were heavily influenced by the Delmore Brothers and Monroe Brothers. Ira played mandolin with Charlie Monroe, guitar player of the Monroe Brothers in the early 1940s. The Louvin Brothers' songs were heavily influenced by their Baptist faith and warned against sin.

#16855

Muslim Magomayev

Muslim Magomayev

1885 - 1937 (52 years)

Abdulmuslim Muhammad oghlu Magomayev , commonly known as Muslim Magomayev , was an Azerbaijanii composer and conductor. He is the grandfather and namesake of Azerbaijani opera singer Muslim Magomayev.

#16856

Cesar Bresgen

1913 - 1988 (75 years)

Cesar Bresgen was an Austrian composer. Biography He was born in Florence to Maria and August Bresgen, both artists. He spent his childhood in Zell am See, Munich, Prague, and Salzburg. From 1930 to 1936 he studied piano, organ, conducting, and composition at the Musikhochschule München, the latter with Joseph Haas. From 1933 he moved to London, where he worked as a pianist and composer, co-operating with dancers, including Leslie Barrowes.

#16857

Vincent O'Brien

Vincent O'Brien

1871 - 1948 (77 years)

Vincent O'Brien , Irish organist, music teacher and composer. O'Brien was an important figure in early 20th-century Irish music. For some, he is mainly known as the first teacher of singers such as John McCormack, Margaret Burke-Sheridan and the writer James Joyce.

#16858

Tyrone Power

1795 - 1841 (46 years)

William Grattan Tyrone Power , known professionally as Tyrone Power, was an Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager. He was an ancestor of the American actor Tyrone Power and is also referred to as Tyrone Power I.

#16859

Eizō Tanaka

1886 - 1968 (82 years)

Eizō Tanaka was an early Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Tanaka initially trained as a stage actor in the shingeki movement under Kaoru Osanai, but eventually joined the Nikkatsu film studio in 1917. He debuted as a director in 1918 but mostly had to work with shinpa stories, not the shingeki techniques he was used to although two early films, The Living Corpse and The Cherry Orchard were based on Tolstoy and Chekhov respectively. Working in parallel with the Pure Film Movement, Tanaka made two films, Kyōya eirimise and Dokuro no mai , based on his own screenplays, that were highly praised for their cinematic technique.

#16860

Walter Davis Jr.

Walter Davis Jr.

1932 - 1990 (58 years)

Walter Davis Jr. was an American bebop and hard bop pianist. Davis once left the music world to be a tailor, but returned. A soloist, bandleader, and accompanist, he amassed a body of work while never becoming a high-profile name even within the jazz community. Davis played with Babs Gonzales' Three Bips & a Bop as a teen, then moved from Richmond to New York in the early 1950s. He played with Max Roach and Charlie Parker, recording with Roach in 1953.

#16861

Ghantasala

1922 - 1974 (52 years)

Ghantasala Venkateswararao , known mononymously by his surname as Ghantasala, was an Indian playback singer and film composer known for his works predominantly in Telugu and Kannada cinema and also in Tamil, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi language films. He is considered one of the greatest singers of Telugu cinema. In 1970, he received the Padma Shri award, India's fourth highest civilian award for his contribution to Indian cinema. According to The Hindu and The Indian Express, Ghantasala was 'such a divine talent and with his songs he could move the hearts of the people'. 'Ghantasala's blending ...

#16862

Charles Hague

1769 - 1821 (52 years)

Charles Hague was an English violinist and composer, who became professor of music at Cambridge University. Life Hague was born at Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and was taught music and the violin by his elder brother, William. In 1779 he moved with his brother to Cambridge, where he studied the violin under Antony Manini, and thorough-bass and composition under Hellendaal the Elder. He acquired a reputation as a violin player, which led to a friendship with Joseph Jowett, then regius professor of civil law. Manini died in 1785, and Hague moved to London and studied under Johann Peter Salomon and Benjamin Cooke.

#16863

Joshua Ives

1854 - 1931 (77 years)

Joshua Ives was the first Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide and founder of the Elder Conservatorium of Music. History Ives was born at Hyde, Greater Manchester, the sixth son of Hannah Ives, née Goddard and her husband Joseph Ives, a furniture dealer. He was educated at the Commercial School and Owens College, Manchester, and studied music under Frederick Bridge and Henry Hiles. At age 16 he became assistant organist at All Saints, Manchester , and two years later was appointed to St. James, Gorton, but soon afterwards left for a better position and a finer organ at St. Andrews, Manchester .

#16864

Joel Engel

1868 - 1927 (59 years)

Joel Engel was a Russian music critic, composer and one of the leading figures in the Jewish art music movement. Born in the Russian Empire, and later moving to Berlin and then to Palestine, Engel has been called "the true founding father of the modern renaissance of Jewish music."

#16865

Thomas Welsh

1781 - 1848 (67 years)

Thomas Welsh was an English composer and operatic bass. Welsh spent most of his life in London and is now particularly remembered for his light-hearted stage works. Life The son of John Welsh, by his wife, a daughter of Thomas Linley the elder, he was born at Wells, Somerset. He became a chorister in Wells Cathedral, where his singing notice; Richard Brinsley Sheridan heard of him, and induced Linley to engage him for oratorio performances at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in 1796. Engagements followed for the stage, in course of which he sang in many operas, some of which, such as Thomas Attwood's Prisoner, were written specially to exhibit his powers.

#16866

William Mason

1829 - 1908 (79 years)

William Mason was an American composer and pianist and a member of a musical family. His father was composer Lowell Mason, a leading figure in American church music, and his younger brother, Henry Mason, was a co-founder of the piano manufacturers Mason & Hamlin.

#16867

Burrill Phillips

1907 - 1988 (81 years)

Leroy Burrill Phillips was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. Biography Phillips was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied at the College of Music at the University of Denver with Edwin Stringham and at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. On September 17, 1928, he married Alberta Corinne Mayfield who wrote many of his librettos. In 1931 the couple had a daughter who, under the stage name Ann Todd, became a child actress in films. She continued acting into her early twenties, but left the entertainment industry in 1954 and died in 2020.

#16868

Frank W. Applebee

1902 - 1988 (86 years)

Frank W. Applebee was an American painter and educator. He was a co-founder of the Dixie Art Colony and the head of the art department at Auburn University. Early life Frank Woodberry Applebee was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

#16869

Nikolai Lopatnikoff

1903 - 1976 (73 years)

Nikolai Lopatnikoff was a Russian-American composer, music teacher and university lecturer. He composed some works of neoclassical music. These pieces featured fast, furious Allegro molto that included in some cases snare drumming and also soft cello music. These style alternate fast and furious with quiet and solemn, legato strings giving way to a quiet passage that ends with a loud drum.

#16870

Joe Thomas

1909 - 1986 (77 years)

Joseph Vankert Thomas was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and vocalist. Biography Thomas was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States, on June 19, 1909. His first band job was with the Earl Hood Orchestra. After eight months Horace Henderson offered him a job. Thomas played alto sax under Hood and Henderson, but played tenor from the time he joined Stuff Smith's band in 1932.

#16871

Gerhard Taschner

1922 - 1976 (54 years)

Gerhard Taschner was a noted German violinist and teacher. Biography Taschner was born in Krnov , Czechoslovakia, of Moravian origins. After studying with his grandfather, he played Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 at his debut in Prague, when aged only 7. He studied with Jenő Hubay in Budapest 1930-32, and with Bronisław Huberman and Adolf Bak in Vienna. At age 10, he played three concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Felix Weingartner. By age 17, having undertaken tours in the United States and Germany, he was concertmaster at the City Theatre of Brno. In 1941, still aged onl...

#16872

Dennis Day

1916 - 1988 (72 years)

Dennis Day was an American actor, comedian and singer. He was of Irish descent. Early life Day was born and raised in the Throggs Neck Clason Point section of the Bronx, New York City, the second of five children born to Irish immigrants Patrick McNulty and Mary McNulty. His father was a factory electric power engineer. Day graduated from the Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary and attended Manhattan College in the Bronx, where he sang in the glee club.

#16873

Hermann Stephani

1877 - 1960 (83 years)

Hermann Stephani was a German musicologist and lecturer at the University of Marburg. Life Born in Grimma, Stephani received his doctorate in psychology from Universität München in 1902 under Theodor Lipps. He studied music under Felix Draeseke and became the first director of the "Felix-Draeseke-Gesellschaft". After several positions as choir and orchestra conductor, he settled in Eisleben in 1906 as organist and church music director. In 1921, he was appointed first professor of musicology at the University of Marburg. He habilitated there on 12 November 1921 and held his inaugural lecture the same day.

#16874

Mary Jarred

1899 - 1993 (94 years)

Mary Jarred was an English opera singer of the mid-twentieth century. She is sometimes classed as a mezzo-soprano and sometimes as a contralto. Biography Jarred was born in Brotton, Yorkshire, , and studied at the Royal College of Music.

#16875

Lucille Bogan

1897 - 1948 (51 years)

Lucille Bogan was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Music critic Ernest Borneman noted that Bogan was one of "the big three of the blues", along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Many of Bogan's songs have been recorded by later blues and jazz musicians.

#16876

Mickey Daniels

1914 - 1970 (56 years)

Richard Daniels Jr. known professionally as Mickey Daniels, was an American actor. Signed by Hal Roach in 1921, he was, along with Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Jackie Davis, Mary Kornman, and Ernie Morrison, a regular in the popular Our Gang comedies during the silent era of the series, between 1922 and 1926.

#16877

Alexander Mogilevsky

Alexander Mogilevsky

1885 - 1953 (68 years)

Alexander Yakovlevich Mogilevsky was a Russian classical concert violinist and director of the Kremlin Band for Tsar Nicholas II. Career Born in Odessa in 1885, Mogilevsky moved to Moscow in 1898 to study music at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory of Music, where he graduated first in his class.

#16878

Erik Ahlman

1892 - 1952 (60 years)

Erik Gustav Ahlman was a Finnish philosopher and linguist. Ahlman initiated his academic career as a classical philologist. Ahlman was born in Turku. He worked as a theoretical science education professor at the Jyväskylä College of Education from 1935 to 1948 and then Professor of Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki from 1948–1952. His most important works are Arvojen ja välineiden maailma , Kulttuurin perustekijöitä and Ihmisen probleemi .

#16879

Hugo del Carril

Hugo del Carril

1912 - 1989 (77 years)

Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril , was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. Early life Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril was the son of parents of a rich economic position, his mother Orsolina Bertani was born in Argentina , but his father Hugo Fontana was an Italian architect, born in Milan. But in spite of the comforts and the comfortable life they led, his parents separated and young Hugo was left in the charge of a family friend.

#16880

Clifton Williams

1923 - 1976 (53 years)

[James] Clifton Williams, Jr. was an American composer, pianist, French hornist, mellophonist, music theorist, conductor, and teacher. Williams was known by symphony patrons as a virtuoso French hornist with the symphony orchestras of Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Houston, Oklahoma City, Austin, and San Antonio. The young composer was honored with performances of Peace, A Tone Poem and A Southwestern Overture by the Houston and Oklahoma City symphony orchestras, respectively. He remains widely known as one of America's accomplished composers for the wind ensemble and band repertory.

#16881

Sergei Svatikov

Sergei Svatikov

1880 - 1942 (62 years)

Sergei Grigorievich Svatikov was a Russian historian and political figure who presented critical evidence and/or testimony in 1935 in the Berne Trial regarding the notorious Protocols of Zion. See also Berne TrialHenryk Baran

#16882

Hibari Misora

1937 - 1989 (52 years)

Hibari Misora was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. She received a Medal of Honor for her contributions to music and for improving the welfare of the public, and was the first woman to receive the People's Honour Award, which was conferred posthumously for giving the public hope and encouragement after World War II.

#16883

Robert Shaw

1908 - 1985 (77 years)

Robert Shaw was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, best known for his 1963 album, The Ma Grinder. Early life Shaw was born in Stafford, Texas, the son of farm owners Jesse and Hettie Shaw, who owned a farm there. The family also owned a Steinway grand piano, and his sisters had lessons in playing, but Shaw's father was against allowing his son to learn the instrument.

#16884

Eleanor Sophia Smith

Eleanor Sophia Smith

1858 - 1942 (84 years)

Eleanor Sophia Smith was an American composer and music educator. She was one of the founders of Chicago's Hull House Music School, and headed its music department from 1893 to 1936. Born into a musical family, Smith taught herself to play the piano and later became a classically trained musician. Earning a teaching degree, she began publishing music compositions for children using the philosophy of Friedrich Fröbel, advocating for less memorization and drilling and more attention to intuitive appreciation of music. Studying composition and voice in Germany, she also toured the country observ...

#16885

Cow Cow Davenport

Cow Cow Davenport

1894 - 1955 (61 years)

Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport was an American boogie-woogie and piano blues player as well as a vaudeville entertainer. He also played the organ and sang. Davenport, who also made recordings under the pseudonyms of Bat The Humming Bird, George Hamilton and The Georgia Grinder, is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

#16886

Theodore von Eltz

1893 - 1964 (71 years)

Theodore von Eltz was an American film actor, appearing in more than 200 films between 1915 and 1957. He was the father of actress Lori March. Von Eltz was a Yale University professor's son. After 12 years at an eastern private boarding school, he served in France for eight months during World War I. He followed his war experience with ventures into oil fields in Texas and on the stage in New York.

#16887

Otto Hoffman

1879 - 1944 (65 years)

Otto F. Hoffman was an American film actor. He appeared in almost 200 films between 1915 and 1944. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles, California, from lung cancer. Hoffman's Broadway credits include The Strange Woman , The Spring Maid , and A Broken Idol . He was also active in stock theater productions. Hoffman debuted in film in 1906 in a production of the Edison Company in New York. Later he worked for Goldwyn Pictures.

#16888

Shinji Maejima

1903 - 1983 (80 years)

Shinji Maejima was a Japanese Orientalist. A native of Yamanashi Prefecture, he studied Pali and Sanskrit at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and graduated with a BA from the University of Tokyo. Prior to World War II, he taught in Taiwan, then a Japanese colony. After the war, he taught Islamic History at Keio University until his death.

#16889

Harvey Worthington Loomis

Harvey Worthington Loomis

1865 - 1930 (65 years)

Harvey Worthington Loomis was an American composer. He is remembered today for his associations with the Indianist movement and the Wa-Wan Press. Biography Loomis was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 5, 1865. He studied piano with Madeline Schiller. In his youth he won a scholarship of three years' study at the National Conservatory, where he studied with Antonín Dvořák, and quickly became a favored pupil of the Bohemian composer. He gained his greatest fame from the collection Lyrics of the Red Man, settings of American Indian songs rescored for piano. Loomis also composed works fo...

#16890

Mary Carr

1874 - 1973 (99 years)

Mary Carr , was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films from 1915 to 1956. She was given some of filmdoms plum mother roles in silent pictures, especially Fox's 1920 Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, which was a great success. She was interred in Calvary Cemetery. Carr bore a strong resemblance to Lucy Beaumont, another famous character actress of the time who specialized in mother roles. As older actresses such as Mary Maurice and Anna Townsend passed on, Carr, still in her forties, seem to inherit all the matriarchal roles in sile...

#16891

Bernard Walton

1917 - 1972 (55 years)

Bernard Walton was a British classical clarinettist. Biography Walton was born into a musical family. His grandfather was a cellist with the Hallé Orchestra under the eponymous founder Charles Hallé, and his father played in the Queen's Hall Orchestra. He studied at the Royal College of Music with George Anderson, the principal clarinettist at the founding of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1904. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1968.

#16892

Henny Wolff

1896 - 1965 (69 years)

Henny Wolff was a German soprano concert singer and voice teacher. She made an international career, known for performing music by Bach and Handel, but also performing contemporary classical music. Composers wrote music for her and performed with her, such as Hermann Reutter. She was a voice teacher at the Bonn Conservatory, in Berlin, and from 1950 to 1964 at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She was awarded the city's Johannes Brahms Medal.

#16893

Dennis Grady

1886 - 1974 (88 years)

Dennis Henry Grady was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Alma College from 1910 to 1911 and at Northwestern University in 1913, compiling a career college football coaching record of 8–12. Grady's football coaching record at Northwestern was 1–6. Grady was also the fifth head basketball coach for Northwestern, coaching two seasons from 1912 to 1914 and tallying a mark of 25–10.

#16894

Amadeus Wendt

1783 - 1836 (53 years)

Johann Amadeus Wendt was a German philosopher and music theorist. Life Wendt came from a modest background. He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig as an outside student. As a boy, he demonstrated a pronounced interest in music, and therefore received theoretical and practical music lessons from the conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and later Cantor at Saint Thomas, Johann Gottfried Schicht.

#16895

Giovanni Michelotti

Giovanni Michelotti

1921 - 1980 (59 years)

Giovanni Michelotti was one of the most prolific designers of sports cars in the 20th century. His notable contributions were for Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati and Triumph marques. He was also associated with truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for British Leyland after the merger of Leyland and BMC.

#16896

Clara Kathleen Rogers

1844 - 1931 (87 years)

Clara Kathleen Barnett Rogers , was an English-born American composer, singer, writer and music educator. Early life and education Rogers was born in Cheltenham, England, into a musical family. Her grandfather, Robert Lindley, was a cellist; her father, John Barnett, was an opera composer and was the first music teacher his children had; her mother, Eliza, was a singer. At the age of twelve, her family moved to Germany to further the musical education of the children. Clara was denied acceptance to the Leipzig Conservatory, but that decision was changed in 1857 in view of her talent, making her the youngest student ever admitted.

#16897

Hans Stieber

1886 - 1969 (83 years)

Hans Albert Oskar Stieber was a German conductor, composer and violinist. He was the founding director of the Hochschule für Theater und Musik in Halle an der Saale. Life Origin and family Stieber was born in Naumburg an der Saale in the Prussian Province of Saxony as the eldest of four sons of the lawyer Paul Stieber and his wife Elsbeth , née Biermann. His maternal great-grandmother Friederike Komitsch, née Schaffner, was an actress at the Schauspielhaus Berlin and married the actor Ludwig Devrient in her first marriage. His grandfather was the jurist Wilhelm Stieber and worked as a police director, privy councillor and head of the Central-Nachrichten-Bureaus at the in Berlin.

#16898

Philip Sainton

1891 - 1967 (76 years)

Philip Prosper Sainton was a British–French composer, conductor, and violist. Biography He was born in Arques-la-Bataille, in Seine-Maritime, France, grandson to violinist Prosper Sainton and contralto Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, but the family soon moved to Godalming, Surrey in the UK. His father, Charles Prosper, was a painter and his mother, born Amy Foster, was a singer. He started his music studies learning the violin. In 1913 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied composition under Frederick Corder and viola under Lionel Tertis.

#16899

Alicia Urreta

1930 - 1986 (56 years)

Alicia Urreta was a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Alicia Urreta was born in Veracruz, Veracruz. In 1952 she entered the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City, studying harmony with Rodolfo Halffter, and other topics under Hernández Moncada, León Mariscal, and Sandor Roth. In 1969, she studied with Jean-Etienne Marie at Schola Cantorum of Paris, France. She also studied piano instruction from Alfred Brendel and Alicia de Larrocha. She later worked as a concert pianist for the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. She also taught at the University of Mexico and was an...

#16900

M. R. Radha

1907 - 1979 (72 years)

Madras Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan was an Indian actor and politician active in Tamil plays and films. He was given the title "Nadigavel" by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. He mostly played villain roles, but had also acted in several films as comedian.

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