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#17001

Sidney Harrison

1903 - 1986 (83 years)

Sidney Harrison was a British pianist, composer, broadcaster and educationalist who taught at the Guildhall School of Music for many years. His students included Norma Fisher and John Lill, and one of his protégés was Sir George Martin.

#17002

Edward Jones

1752 - 1824 (72 years)

Edward Jones was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music. He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin" , which he took in 1820 when his patron King George IV came to the throne.

#17003

Branka Musulin

1917 - 1975 (58 years)

Branka Musulin was a German-Croatian classical pianist and teacher. Life Musulin was born in Croatia in Zagreb. As from the age of eight, she studied with celebrated Croatian pianist Svetislav Stančić in Zagreb and played in public at that time. After her concert diploma, she travelled to Paris in 1936 to study with Alfred Cortot and Yvonne Lefébure. As from 1938, she studied with Alfredo Casella in Siena and after 1941 with Max von Pauer in South Germany .

#17004

Stanley Bate

1911 - 1959 (48 years)

Stanley Bate was an English composer and pianist. Life Bate was born in Milehouse, Devonshire, a suburb of Plymouth, and received his first musical education from local teachers. He took to the piano early and by the age of 12 had secured a post as organist at Herbert Street Methodist Church in Devonport. His first opera, The Forest Enchanted, was completed in 1928 when he was 17, and produced locally with Bate conducting. Winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, he studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob, and Arthur Benjamin. Compositions from this time in...

#17005

Walter Tobagi

1947 - 1980 (33 years)

Walter Tobagi was an Italian journalist and writer. He was killed in a terrorist attack by the Brigade XXVIII March, a left-wing terrorist group. Biography Youth Walter Tobagi was born on 18 March 1947 in San Brizio, a neighborhood of the Italian district of Spoleto in Umbria, Italy. As an eight-year-old child he moved with his family in Bresso, close to the Italian city of Milan, mainly because of his father's work as a railway worker. His career as a journalist began during his early high school years, as the editor of the Parini high school's newspaper La zanzara, which became notorious f...

#17006

Charles King

1895 - 1957 (62 years)

Charles Lafayette King was an American actor who appeared in more than 400 films between 1915 and 1956. King was born in Dallas, Texas, and died in Hollywood, California, from cirrhosis of the liver.

#17007

Charles Draper

1869 - 1952 (83 years)

Charles Draper was a British classical clarinetisttist, sometimes described as the grandfather of English clarinetists. Early life and education Draper was born in Odcombe, Somerset. His father and brother, having been cellists and clarinetists, respectively. In 1888, he studied with Henry Lazarus and he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he continued as a student of Lazarus until the latter's retirement. He also studied for a year under Julian Egerton.

#17008

Ernesto Cavallini

1807 - 1874 (67 years)

Ernesto Cavallini was an Italian clarinetist and composer. Born in Milan, Cavallini studied at the Milan Conservatory under Carulli. He performed at the Conservatoire Concerts in 1830 with his brother, violinist Eugenio Cavallini. He became the principal clarinetist of La Scala under Giacomo Panizza. He also taught at the Milan Conservatory and spent 15 years performing in St Petersburg from 1852 to 1867.

#17009

Ion Nonna Otescu

Ion Nonna Otescu

1888 - 1940 (52 years)

Ion Nonna Otescu was a Romanian composer and head of the Bucharest Conservatory from 1918 until 1940. He was born in Bucharest and died there at the age of 51, having played an influential role in the musical life of his native country.

#17010

Jacob Weinberg

1879 - 1956 (77 years)

Jacob Weinberg was a Russian-born American Jewish composer and pianist who composed over 135 works for piano and other instruments. He was one of the founders of the Jewish National Conservatory in Jerusalem before immigrating to the U.S. where he became "an influential voice in the promotion of American Jewish music" from the 1940s until his death.

#17011

Walter Brooks

1832 - 1907 (75 years)

Walter Brooks was a Professor of Music and an organist based in Birmingham. Life He was born in Longdon, Worcestershire in 1832, to William Brooks and Elizabeth. He was a chorister and assistant organist in Gloucester Cathedral to John Arnott.

#17012

Mirta Aguirre

1912 - 1980 (68 years)

Mirta Aguirre Carreras was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and political activist from the LGBTQI movement. She has been called "the most important female academic and woman of letters in post-revolutionary Cuba".

#17013

Carrie Tubb

1876 - 1976 (100 years)

Caroline Elizabeth Tubb was an English soprano of the early 20th century, and later a teacher of singing at the Guildhall School of Music. She made her debut at London's Royal Opera House in 1910, where she appeared in such works as Elektra and Hänsel und Gretel. With Thomas Beecham's opera company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she sang in Die Fledermaus, The Marriage of Figaro and The Tales of Hoffmann. Later, she mostly appeared on the concert platform, including at 54 Prom concerts and at the major British music festivals. She also made some early recordings. Around 1930 she retired from singing and began teaching.

#17014

Anthony C. Lund

Anthony C. Lund

1871 - 1935 (64 years)

Anthony Canute Lund was the director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1916 until 1935. Lund was also a professor of music at Brigham Young University. Early life and education Lund was born of Danish immigrant Anthon H. Lund in Ephraim, Utah Territory. He began taking organ lessons at the age of eight. At 18, he was made choir director in Ephraim. In 1891, Lund graduated from Brigham Young Academy as valedictorian of his class. He then studied at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig. He also did studies in London and Paris.

#17015

Sviatoslav Knushevitsky

1908 - 1963 (55 years)

Sviatoslav Nikolayevich Knushevitsky was a Soviet-Russian classical cellist. He was particularly noted for his partnership with the violinist David Oistrakh and the pianist Lev Oborin in a renowned piano trio from 1940 until his death. After Mstislav Rostropovich and Daniil Shafran, he is spoken of as one of the pre-eminent Russian cellists of the 20th century.

#17016

Şadi Çalık

1917 - 1979 (62 years)

Şadi Çalık was a Turkish sculptor. He is famous for his abstract sculpture. Çalık was born in Heraklion, on the island of Crete, in 1917. In 1923, during the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, he moved to Izmir with his family. Between 1932 and 1939, he worked in the atelier of the painting teacher Abidin Elderoğlu in Izmir on drawing. In 1939, he started in the Sculpture Department of the Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul. In 1940, he created the first piece that was ordered from him, "Atbaşları". With many busts, he created, he showed that he could do quality work quickly and with ease.

#17017

Luigi Ricci

1893 - 1981 (88 years)

Luigi Ricci was an Italian assistant conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, and author. Career Ricci began studying music as a child and at age twelve started accompanying voice lessons given by the famous baritone Antonio Cotogni, who had performed several of Giuseppe Verdi's operas under the composer's supervision. At this early age, Ricci began taking meticulous notes on traditions, which Cotogni was passing on to him from work with 19th-century composers and conductors.

#17018

Bill Hopkins

1943 - 1981 (38 years)

Bill Hopkins was a British composer. He also published music criticism, mostly under the name G. W. Hopkins. Biography Hopkins was born in Prestbury, Cheshire, and educated at Hillcrest Grammar School and Rossall School, Lancashire; his mother's disability meant she was unable to look after him, and he was raised by aunts. Studies with Luigi Nono at Dartington Summer School consolidated his interest in serialism; subsequently he studied at Oxford University with Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz.

#17019

Jon B. Higgins

1939 - 1984 (45 years)

Jon Borthwick Higgins , also known in India as Higgins Bhagavatar, was an American musician, scholar, and teacher known principally for his rare skill as a non-Indian in the field of Carnatic music. Early life and education Born in Andover, Massachusetts, Higgins had his high school education at Phillips Academy, where his father taught English and his mother taught music for many years. He attended Wesleyan University and received all three of his degrees from there: A B.A. as a double major in music and history in 1962, an M.A. in musicology in 1964, and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology in 1973.

#17020

Harold Morris

1890 - 1964 (74 years)

Harold Morris was an American pianist, composer and educator. Morris was born in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1910 and received his master's degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in 1922. He married Cosby Dansby, August 20, 1914; the couple had one daughter. Morris moved from his native San Antonio, Texas to New York in 1916.

#17021

Paul Steinitz

1909 - 1988 (79 years)

Paul Steinitz OBE was an English post-war organist, best known as an interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. He founded the London Bach Society and Steinitz Bach Players, performing among other significant Bach projects, a complete cycle of Bach's cantatas, mainly in London venues, over a period of 29 years, the first public cycle of the extant church and secular works in the UK.

#17022

Gene Gauntier

1885 - 1966 (81 years)

Gene Gauntier was an American screenwriter and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry. A writer, director, and actress in films from mid 1906 to 1920, she wrote screenplays for 42 films. She performed in 87 films and is credited as the director of The Grandmother .

#17023

Karl Höller

1907 - 1987 (80 years)

Karl Höller was a German composer of the late Romantic tradition. Biography Karl Höller was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He came from a musical family on both sides: his father Valentin Höller was the Bamberg Cathedral organist for 40 years, and his grandfather and great-grandfather were organists at Würzburg Cathedral. His aunt Gretchen was the first female organist at Würzburg. His mother was a singer, whose father had been a choir director and musician. He showed aptitude for the organ at an early age. He was a choirboy from age six, and he studied piano, organ and cello in Bamberg. He we...

#17024

Warren Hymer

1906 - 1948 (42 years)

Edgar Warren Hymer was an American theatre and film actor. Early life He was born in New York City. His father, John Bard Hymer was a playwright , vaudeville writer and actor, while his mother, Eleanor Kent, was an actress.

#17025

Sydir Vorobkevych

1836 - 1903 (67 years)

Sydir Vorobkevych was a Ukrainian composer, writer, Eastern Orthodox priest, teacher, artist, and newspaper editor of Bukovina. He used following pen-names: Danylo Mlaka, Demko Makoviychuk, Morozenko, Semen Khrin, Isydor Vorobkevych, S.Volokh, and others.

#17026

Ernst Pepping

1901 - 1981 (80 years)

Ernst Pepping was a German composer of classical music and academic teacher. He is regarded as an important composer of Protestant sacred music in the 20th century. Pepping taught at the and the . His music includes works for instruments , the church , and collections including the and the three volume , which provides pieces for the entire liturgical year.

#17027

Walther Gruner

1905 - 1980 (75 years)

Walther Gruner was a baritone who taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Early life and family Walther Karl Grünebaum was born at Blumenstrasse 13, Frankfurt, Germany to Jewish parents. His father was Julius Grünebaum, a merchant, and his mother was Klara Lina Grünebaum née Oppenheim, a music teacher. Both of his parents later were murdered in the Holocaust. His sister Hedi Frank became a chiropodist and moved to Australia in 1939. Hermann Grunebaum, a pianist and conductor who was Chorus Master at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden from 1907 to 1933, was his uncle; English-born...

#17028

Robert Hausmann

Robert Hausmann

1852 - 1909 (57 years)

Robert Hausmann was a notable 19th-century German cellist who premiered important works by Johannes Brahms and Max Bruch . He was the cellist for the Joachim Quartet and taught at the Berlin Königliche Hochschule für Müsik.

#17029

Eduard Erdmann

1896 - 1958 (62 years)

Eduard Erdmann was a Baltic German pianist and composer. Erdmann was born in Wenden in the Governorate of Livonia. He was the great-nephew of the philosopher Johann Eduard Erdmann. His first musical studies were in Riga, where his teachers were Bror Möllersten and Jean du Chastain and Harald Creutzburg . From 1914 he studied piano in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge and composition with Heinz Tiessen. In the 1920s and early 1930s his name was frequently cited among Germany's leading composers. Moreover, Erdmann had an international reputation as an outstanding concert pianist whose repertoire encompassed Beethoven and the advocacy of contemporary music.

#17030

Buddy DeSylva

1895 - 1950 (55 years)

George Gard "Buddy" DeSylva was an American songwriter, film producer and record executive. He wrote or co-wrote many popular songs, and along with Johnny Mercer and Glenn Wallichs, he co-founded Capitol Records.

#17031

Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová

Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová

1899 - 1975 (76 years)

Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová was a Czechoslovak concert pianist and piano teacher, a professor at the Prague Academy of Arts. Her students included Ivan Moravec. Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová was the mother of pianist Pavel Štěpán.

#17032

Jim Jackson

1884 - 1937 (53 years)

Jim Jackson was an American blues and hokum singer, songster, and guitarist, whose recordings in the late 1920s were popular and influential on later musicians. Biography Jackson was born in Hernando, Mississippi. The researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc date his birth as 1876, but other sources give 1884 or 1890. He was raised on a farm, where he learned to play guitar. Around 1905 he started working as a singer, dancer, and musician in medicine shows and played at dances and parties, often with other local musicians, such as Gus Cannon, Frank Stokes and Robert Wilkins. He soon began trave...

#17033

Arthur Housman

1889 - 1942 (53 years)

Arthur Housman was an American actor in films during both the silent film era and the Golden Age of Hollywood. Career Arthur Housman was one of the first screen comedians known to the public by name, and one of the first to be part of a movie comedy team. He was a slapstick comic and light leading man for the pioneer Edison studio in New York. In 1913-14 the Edison company cast Housman opposite character actor William Wadsworth as the comedy team "Waddy and Arty."

#17034

Rudolf Biebrach

Rudolf Biebrach

1866 - 1938 (72 years)

Rudolf Biebrach was a German actor and film director. He directed over 70 films between 1909 and 1930; and he appeared as an actor in nearly 110 films between 1909 and 1938. In his youth, Biebrach had worked for some years as an engraver. He got his first engagement as an actor in Gießen during 1890/1891. After a long career as a stage actor, Biebrach managed to become a successful director and character actor in the German film during the 1910s. He directed many films with Henny Porten and Lotte Neumann.

#17035

Nikolai Batalov

Nikolai Batalov

1899 - 1937 (38 years)

Nikolai Petrovich Batalov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He performed in a number of notable films between 1924 and 1931. He was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1933.

#17036

Fritz Geißler

1921 - 1984 (63 years)

Fritz Geißler was one of the most important composers of the German Democratic Republic. The son of Elsa and Walther Geißler, he was raised in modest circumstances. His first violin lessons came from the leader of a local tenants' association's mandolin-band, himself a pipe-fitter. Following graduation from public school, Geissler went into training with the town-pipers band of Naunhof. After the conclusion of this most inauspicious education he earned the means to continue private lessons in violin, piano, and music theory as a bar and coffee house fiddler in Leipzig. Later, in 1979, he us...

#17037

Athenaeus

110 BC - Present (2136 years)

Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus was an ancient Greek composer and musician who flourished around 138–128 BC, when he composed the First Delphic Hymn. Although it was long thought that the composer of the First Hymn was merely "an Athenian", careful reading of the inscription shows that it cannot be the ethnic Athenaîos , but rather names Athénaios Athenaíou as the composer.

#17038

John Ward

1704 - 1773 (69 years)

John Ward was an English actor and theatre manager. The founder of the Warwickshire Company of Comedians – a Birmingham-based theatre company who toured throughout the West Midlands and into Wales during the mid to late eighteenth century – he was the first of the Kemble family theatrical dynasty, whose most notable member was his granddaughter Sarah Siddons. Ward was the first recorded performer of a Shakespearian play in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is also notable as the author of the two earliest surviving prompt books of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which reveal how the play was performed in eighte...

#17039

Volodymyr Shaian

1908 - 1974 (66 years)

Volodymyr Petrovych Shaian was a Ukrainian linguist, philologist and Orientalist-Sanskritologist. He was a pioneer of Slavic Native Faith in Ukraine during the interwar period. Biography Shaian was educated at the University of Lviv. In 1934, he had a spiritual revelation at the top of Mount Grekhit in the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains. According to him, this inspired him to seek a pagan renewal. Shaian proposed a "pan-Aryan" approach to European paganism, developed in opposition to National Socialist Germany's focus on the Germanic world. Shaian presented his vision of a "pan-Aryan renaissance" in a paper at an Indologist seminar in Lviv in 1937.

#17040

Frances James

1903 - 1988 (85 years)

Frances James was a Canadian soprano who specialized in concert repertoire. She worked prolifically as a performer on CBC Radio and as a recitalist from the late 1920s through the 1950s; premiering works by numerous Canadian composers of note and championing works by contemporary international composers. Her performances were noted for their musical intelligence and sophistication. Her singing was admired by several important composers, including Benjamin Britten, Paul Hindemith, and Darius Milhaud. While her performances, both live and on radio/disc, were mainly from the concert repertoire, ...

#17041

Salomon Kalischer

Salomon Kalischer

1845 - 1924 (79 years)

Salomon Kalischer, or Solomon Kalischer , was a German Jewish composer, pianist, and physicist. Kalischer was born in Thorn in the Province of Prussia, within the Kingdom of Prussia. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and the universities of Breslau and Berlin .

#17042

Eric Rogers

1921 - 1981 (60 years)

Eric Rogers was an English-born composer, conductor and arranger, best known for composing the scores for twenty-two Carry On films. Early life Rogers moved with his parents from Halifax, England, to Morriston, Wales, when he was three. Rogers was interested in music from an early age, and during his attendance at church as a child, he was taught to play the church organ. His musical apprenticeship was generally untutored and he found himself playing the piano during the Second World War for free beer.

#17043

Julius Epstein

1832 - 1926 (94 years)

Julius Epstein was a Croatian-Jewish pianist. Biography Epstein was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He was married to Amalija Epstein with whom he had a son Richard Epstein, a notable Zagreb pianist and music pedagogue.

#17044

Karl Klingler

1879 - 1971 (92 years)

Karl Klingler was a German violinist, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and lecturer. Life Early years Karl Klingler was born in Strasbourg, at that time in Germany, the fifth of his parents' six recorded children. His father, Theodor Klingler , was a professional viola player who taught at the conservatory. When he was still very young Klingler was receiving violin lessons from his father, and then from his father's colleague at the conservatory, Heinrich Schuster. Klingler began giving concerts at five years of age. In 1897, when he concluded his schooling in Strasbourg, he relocated...

#17045

Harrison Keller

1888 - 1979 (91 years)

Harrison Keller was an American violinist and music educator. Keller was born in Delphos, Kansas, and began his violin studies at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, graduating in 1907. From 1907 to 1911, he continued his studies at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, Germany. Keller also studied with Anton Witek in Prague and Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, Russia .

#17046

Pavel Chesnokov

1877 - 1944 (67 years)

Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov was an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred choral works, over four hundred of which are sacred. Today, he is most known for his piece Salvation is Created as well as works such as Do Not Reject Me in Old Age and movements from various settings of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.

#17047

Robert Wakefield

1401 - 1537 (136 years)

Robert Wakefield was an English linguist and scholar. Life He studied at the University of Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1513-1514. He was awarded an M.A. at the University of Leuven in 1519; while in the Low Countries he taught Hebrew at Jeroen van Busleyden's Collegium Trilingue in Leuven. John Fisher was his patron, and in 1519 he also became Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was at the University of Tübingen in 1522, teaching as the successor of Johannes Reuchlin.

#17048

A. M. Rajah

1929 - 1989 (60 years)

Aemala Manmadharaju Rajah, popularly known as A. M. Rajah, was an Indian playback singer and music director. Early life A. M. Rajah was born on 1 July 1929 in Renukapuram village, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh. His father died when he was three months old and the family moved to Renukapuram then. He graduated Pachaiyappa's College with a Bachelor of Arts.

#17049

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

1856 - 1938 (82 years)

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter was an American soprano and composer. She was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner. Turner graduated from Burlington High School in Burlington, Iowa, and the Boston College of Music, and then worked as a voice teacher at Wellesley College and performed in churches. In 1881 she married Sumner Salter. She died in Orangeburg, New York. She was one of the founding members of the American Society of Women Composers.

#17050

Stick McGhee

1917 - 1961 (44 years)

Granville Henry "Stick" McGhee was an American jump blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for his blues song "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee", which he wrote with J. Mayo Williams Early life McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. He received his nickname when he was a child. He used a stick to push a wagon carrying his older brother Brownie McGhee, who had contracted polio. Granville began playing the guitar when he was thirteen years old. After his freshman year he dropped out of high school and worked with his father at the Eastman Kodak subsidiary, Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport.

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