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#17001

Clara Angela Macirone

1821 - 1895 (74 years)

Clara Angela Macirone was an English pianist and composer who published her music as C. A. Macirone. Born in London, she was the daughter of Italian musicians; her mother was also a pianist and her father was an amateur tenor. She began her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 1879 under Cipriani Potter, W H Holmes, Charles Lucas and others. She later took a position teaching at the Academy.

#17002

Jeanne Behrend

1911 - 1988 (77 years)

Jeanne Behrend was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer. Life Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero. She made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1922 and at Carnegie Hall in 1937, playing one of her own compositions.

#17003

T. Ranganathan

1925 - 1987 (62 years)

Tanjore Ranganathan was a Carnatic musician specializing in percussion instruments, particularly the mridangam, having studied under Palani Subramaniam Pillai. Ranganathan began performing professionally in 1938. At the California Institute of the Arts and Wesleyan University he taught many non-Indians Carnatic music, including Robert E. Brown, John Bergamo, Jon B. Higgins, Douglas Knight, David Nelson, Royal Hartigan, David Moss, Glenn "Rusty" Gillette, and Craig Woodson. He began teaching at Wesleyan in 1963, becoming that university's first Artist in Residence in Music.

#17004

William Dillon

1877 - 1966 (89 years)

William Austin Dillon was an American songwriter and Vaudevillian. He is best known as the lyricist for the song "I Want A Girl " , written in collaboration with Harry Von Tilzer. It can be heard in Show Business and The Jolson Story . He was born in Cortland, New York and performed at some point in Vaudeville with his brothers John and Harry. He billed his own act as the "man of a thousand songs".

#17005

Mischa Mischakoff

Mischa Mischakoff

1896 - 1981 (85 years)

Mischa Mischakoff was an outstanding violinist who, as a concertmaster, led many of America's greatest orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s. Mischakoff was born in Proskuriv , Ukraine as Mischa Fishberg. In 1921 he escaped from Russia with, among others, his friend and colleague, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, with whom he had played in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Mischakoff emigrated to the United States later that year, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1927.

#17006

Anton Walter

1883 - 1950 (67 years)

Anton Walter was an Austrian cellist. Life Born in Karlsbad, from 1896 until 1901 he studied violoncello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger at the conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

#17007

Max Butting

1888 - 1976 (88 years)

Max Butting was a German composer. Life Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. After attending secondary school , he studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich from 1908 to 1914. There, he received instruction in composition from Friedrich Klose, conducting from Felix Mottl and Paul Prill, as well as singing from Karl Erler. He also attended lectures in psychology, philosophy and musicology at the Munich University. Butting learned composition by private instru...

#17008

Ernst Levy

1895 - 1981 (86 years)

Ernst Levy was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor. Life Born in Basel, Switzerland, Levy studied with Hans Huber, Egon Petri and Raoul Pugno. David Dubal describes him as an "unusual and powerful pianist" who made "grandly conceived" recordings of the late Beethoven sonatas and captured "the very essence of the Faustian Liszt". His work as a musicologist and teacher brought him to the United States, where he taught at colleges including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago and the New England Conservatory; he also became a United States citizen.

#17009

J. E. P. Aldous

1853 - 1934 (81 years)

John Edmund Paul Aldous was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output includes many short pieces for piano, organ, choir, and voice. He also composed four operettas: Ptarmigan or A Canadian Carnival , A Golden Catch, Nancy or All for Love, and The Poster Girl . Some of his better-known works are Prelude and Fugue for organ, the choral works Grant, We Beseech Thee, Merciful Lord and Blessed Are the Dead That Die in the Lord, and the hymn Egypt, all of which have been reprinted several times.

#17010

Günter Kehr

1920 - 1989 (69 years)

Günter Kehr was a German violinist, conductor and academic teacher of violin and chamber music. He founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio, and the Mainzer Kammerorchester, a chamber orchestra, and toured internationally with both ensembles. Kehr was director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1953, and professor at the Musikhochschule Köln.

#17011

Leopold von Ledebur

Leopold von Ledebur

1876 - 1955 (79 years)

Leopold von Ledebur was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography Carmen The Serenyi Midnight The Foolish Heart The Golden Lie The Gambler The Japanese Woman The Loves of Käthe Keller State Attorney Jordan The Bodega of Los Cuerros All Souls Devoted Artists The Carousel of Life Only a Servant The Last Sun Son The Fairy of Saint Ménard The Enchanted Princess Die Spieler Christian Wahnschaffe In the Whirl of Life World by the Throat The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter Waves of Life and Love The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen Count Varenne's Lover The Maharaja's Favourite Wife The House on...

#17012

Robert Sanders

1906 - 1974 (68 years)

Robert Sanders was an American composer. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

#17013

David John de Lloyd

1883 - 1948 (65 years)

David John de Lloyd was a Welsh musician and composer. Born in Skewen near Neath, de Lloyd was the son of an insurance agent and the family moved with the latter's employment until they settled in Penparcau a village near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, while David was a small boy. As a child, he met John Spencer Curwen, son of the inventor of the tonic sol-fa, and assisted Curwen in several demonstrations. David attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 1905, he became the college's first B.Mus. graduate. He obtained a grant to study in Leipzig and obtained a doctorate in music from the Trinity College Dublin.

#17014

Sidney Foster

1917 - 1977 (60 years)

Sidney Foster , born Sidney Earl Finkelstein, was an American virtuoso pianist and teacher. He studied with Isabelle Vengerova and David Saperton at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and in 1940 became the first winner of the Edgar M. Leventritt Award. He concertized over four decades in the United States and performed in Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel and Japan. He was Professor of Piano at Indiana University from 1952–1977. He was described as "a virtuoso and a great interpreter of great music," and affirmed as "everything the connoisseurs claim he is: an interesting, original...

#17015

Arseny Koreshchenko

1870 - 1921 (51 years)

Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko was a pianist and composer of classical music, including operas and ballets. He was from the Russian Empire. Biography Koreshchenko was born in Moscow in 1870. He entered the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1891. He was only the second person ever to be awarded the Conservatory's Great Gold Medal; the first was one of his teachers, Sergei Taneyev, and the third was Sergei Rachmaninoff. He also studied theory under Anton Arensky.

#17016

Kristapor Kara-Murza

Kristapor Kara-Murza

1853 - 1902 (49 years)

Kristapor Kara-Murza was an Armenian composer.

#17017

Paul Baumgartner

1903 - 1976 (73 years)

Paul Baumgartner was a Swiss pianist. Born in Altstätten, Switzerland, he studied piano and composition with Walter Braunfels in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and with Eduard Erdmann in Köln where he subsequently taught. Fleeing from the rise of the Nazis, he took up residence in Basel, in Switzerland again, where he taught in the conservatory.

#17018

Robert Schollum

1913 - 1987 (74 years)

Robert Schollum was an Austrian composer, conductor, music educator, music critic, musicographer and academic scholar. He was president of the for several years in the 1960s and 1980s. Life and career

#17019

Hugh Archibald Clarke

1839 - 1927 (88 years)

Hugh Archibald Clarke was a Canadian composer, organist, and music teacher. Early life Hugh Archibald Clarke was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1839. Clarke was exposed to music at a very young age, this interest is edified by his father, James Paton Clarke, who was a Mus. Doc. of Oxford University. At the age of twelve, Clarke began to play the organ at his church.

#17020

Colin O'More

1890 - 1956 (66 years)

Colin O'More was a popular concert singer, music educator, and pioneer executive in broadcasting. "Till the Clouds Roll By," a duet with Anna Wheaton, was one of the first singles to hit #1 on the American music charts.

#17021

Robert Ellis

1933 - 1973 (40 years)

Robert Ellis was an American film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s, who was the last actor to play Henry Aldrich on the radio series The Aldrich Family. Early life Ellis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Fern Bloomfield. He was educated in professional children's schools in New York City and Hollywood and later studied theater arts at Columbia University.

#17022

Walter Courvoisier

1875 - 1931 (56 years)

Walter Courvoisier was a Swiss composer. Life Born in Riehen, Courvoisier was a son of the surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier. He initially studied medicine and worked as a doctor after obtaining his doctorate. In 1902 he went to Munich to study music. He was a student of Selmar Bagge and Ludwig Thuille - whose son-in-law he became - and then taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, first music theory, and later music composition.

#17023

Franz Magnus Böhme

Franz Magnus Böhme

1827 - 1898 (71 years)

Franz Theodor Magnus Böhme was a German academic, musicologist, composer, folksong collector and writer on music history and folksong. Biography The son of a farmer, Böhme became a primary school teacher in Thuringia. He then studied at the Conservatory in Leipzig under Moritz Hauptmann and Julius Rietz. From 1859 to 1878 he was a choirmaster and music teacher in Dresden, before teaching counterpoint and history of music at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main from 1878 to 1885. After 1885 he returned as a professor to Dresden, where he continued to teach.

#17024

Frank Moser

1886 - 1964 (78 years)

Frank Moser was an American artist, illustrator and film director who co-founded Terrytoons, the animation studio. Between 1916 and 1937, he directed 202 films. He died in Dobbs Ferry Hospital at the age of 78.

#17025

Broadus Erle

1918 - 1977 (59 years)

Broadus Erle was an American violinist. Born in Chicago and reared in Toronto, Erle began his violin studies at age 3, taught by his mother, Brownie Earl. At age 5, he started taking lessons from Pasquale Briglia, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. By age 6, he was concertizing extensively. He briefly attended the Curtis Institute twice, the first time at age 10, and the second time as a member of the class of 1940. He was also a student at Rollins College, where he was concertmaster of its orchestra. According to Erle, his most important teacher was Alexander Bloch, a violinist, conductor, and composer who was once a student and assistant of Leopold Auer.

#17026

Ted Adams

1890 - 1973 (83 years)

Richard Theodore Adams was an American film actor who appeared in nearly 200 films between 1926 and 1952. Early life Adams was born in New York City. He appeared with his parents in their vaudeville act and later attended Cornell University. He served in World War I and World War II in the US Navy.

#17027

Anny Konetzni

1902 - 1968 (66 years)

Anny Konetzni was an Austrian soprano. She was the sister of soprano Hilde Konetzni. Born in Vienna, Anny Konetzni was a pupil of Erik Schmedes in her hometown, making her debut in Chemnitz as a contralto in 1927. Soon she became a dramatic soprano, singing at the Berlin Staatsoper from 1931 until 1935 and at the Vienna State Opera from 1935 until 1954. She tackled all the heavier parts in the operas of Richard Wagner. Konetzni bowed at the Royal Opera House in 1935 as Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen; she had made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Brünnhilde the previous year. She returned to London every year until World War II, and again in 1951.

#17028

Clark S. Hobbs

1888 - 1973 (85 years)

Clark Simpson Hobbs was a reporter, columnist, and editor. His writing led to the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission and his appointment as Chairman. He was also Vice President of Goucher College.

#17029

Robert Homans

1877 - 1947 (70 years)

Robert Edward Homans was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career. Life and career Robert Homans was born November 8, 1877, in Malden, Massachusetts. Although he studied medicine for three years after his college graduation, a 1906 newspaper article noted that "the 'stage bee' got into his bonnet and nothing would do but that he become an actor." His Broadway credits include The Blue Bird , The Blue Envelope , Johnny, Get Your Gun and Like a King .

#17030

Hans Duhan

1890 - 1971 (81 years)

Hans Duhan was an Austrian operatic baritone. He belonged to the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera for 26 years and was the first Count Almaviva and the first Papageno of the Salzburg Festival. Life and career Born in Vienna, Duhan was a "real Viennese", was born there, grew up there and completed his secondary school and his musical studies there. Besides singing with and Emil Steger, he studied piano, organ and music theory with Ferdinand Rebay and completed the conducting course with Franz Schalk and Felix Weingartner. With the exception of Salzburg, he rarely worked outside Vienna's city limits.

#17031

Leo Schulz

1865 - 1944 (79 years)

Leo Schulz was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American cellist. Biography Schulz was born in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia. As a child he toured Germany as a pianist along with his sister, a violinist. At 13 attended the Royal Academic High School of Music in Berlin, where he studied under Robert Hausmann, Richard Barth, Woldermar Bargiel, Friedrich Kiel, and Joseph Joachim. He was a principal cellist in Berlin as well as in the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig from 1886 to 1889.

#17032

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...

#17033

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 ...

#17034

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...

#17035

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.

#17036

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.

#17037

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.

#17038

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.

#17039

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 .

#17040

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.

#17041

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.

#17042

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...

#17043

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...

#17044

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.

#17045

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...

#17046

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 .

#17047

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.

#17048

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

#17049

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.

#17050

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.

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