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#17101

Ralph Leopold

1884 - 1955 (71 years)

Ralph Leopold was an American pianist and piano teacher. Biography Ralph Herman Leopold was born in 1884 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Howard Leopold. His sister Elizabeth Leopold married Newton D. Baker, who in 1912 was considered a possible vice-presidential running mate to Woodrow Wilson, and from 1916 to 1921 was United States Secretary of War.

#17102

John Wesley Work III

1901 - 1967 (66 years)

John Wesley Work III was an American composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music. Biography He was born on July 15, 1901, in Tullahoma, Tennessee, to a family of professional musicians. His grandfather, John Wesley Work, was a church choir director in Nashville, where he wrote and arranged music for his choirs. Some of his choristers were members of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. His father, John Wesley Work, Jr., was a singer, folksong collector and professor of music, Latin, and history at Fisk, and his mother, Agnes Haynes Work, was a singer who helped train the Fisk group.

#17103

Robert Talbot

1893 - 1954 (61 years)

Jean Robert Talbot was a Canadian conductor, violinist, violist, composer, and music educator. For more than 25 years, he was the conductor of the Société symphonique de Québec . A member of the Société française de musicologie, the International Musicological Society, the Musical Association of London, and the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Music, he was the author of several books on music theory. He also contributed music articles to a variety of periodicals.

#17104

Alexander Laszlo

1895 - 1970 (75 years)

Alexander Lászlò was a Hungarian-American pianist, musical composer, arranger and inventor. He was born Sándor Totis, but used the professional name of Alexander Lászlò as a composer and music publisher.

#17105

Calvin Jackson

1919 - 1985 (66 years)

John Calvin Jackson was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Background He was born in Philadelphia in 1919 to Harry and Margaret Jackson. His mother was a concert singer in Philadelphia. Jackson played piano from childhood, having lessons with private teacher. He studied at Juilliard and New York University.

#17106

Lucia Dunham

1932 - 1959 (27 years)

Lucia Dunham was an American voice teacher, classical soprano, and academic writer on singing and diction who is chiefly remembered as a longtime professor of vocal performance at the Juilliard School from 1922-1956.

#17107

Franklin Rhoda

1854 - 1929 (75 years)

Franklin Rhoda . In the words of historian Mike Foster, Frank Rhoda was an "artist, musician, writer, surveyor, naturalist, social critic, defender of civil liberties and champion of Christ - the only theme unifying his versatile life was idealism that aimed to reform almost everything he encountered."

#17108

Herbert Sharpe

1861 - 1925 (64 years)

Herbert Francis Sharpe, was a British pianist, composer and music professor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London later becoming professor there. He composed songs, chamber music and orchestral pieces. He was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music.

#17109

Nicholas Staggins

1650 - 1700 (50 years)

Nicholas Staggins was an English composer. Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682, he was granted a musical doctorate by Cambridge University, and from 1684 until his death was Professor of Music at Cambridge. Following his death on the night of 12–13 June 1700, he was succeeded by John Eccles.

#17110

Dan White

1908 - 1980 (72 years)

Dan White was an American actor, well known for appearing in Western films and TV shows. Biography Early life White acted in a show with Frances Langford in Tampa's Rialto Theatre. He still longed for a career in entertainment and resigned from the CCC in 1935 and started his journey to Hollywood with his small family.

#17111

Harry Crane Perrin

1865 - 1953 (88 years)

Harry Crane Perrin was a cathedral organist at Canterbury Cathedral, England, and an academic who served as the first dean of music at McGill University, Canada. Background Perrin was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He attended Wellingborough Grammar School, and studied music under Sir Robert Prescott Stewart at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1890, as a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1892, and as a Doctor of Music in 1901.

#17112

William Berke

1903 - 1958 (55 years)

William A. Berke was an American film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He wrote, directed, and/or produced some 200 films over a three-decade career. Biography Berke broke into motion pictures in 1922 as a writer for silent westerns. For these assignments, he used the pseudonym William Lester. In the early 1930s, he formed a partnership with independent producer Bernard B. Ray to make feature films at Ray's Reliable Pictures studio, next door to Columbia Pictures. Berke, now using his own name for screen credits, was equally capable in making comedies, mysteries, action adventures, and westerns.

#17113

Alice Gordon Gulick

Alice Gordon Gulick

1847 - 1903 (56 years)

Alice Gordon Gulick was an American missionary teacher in Spain. Early life Alice Winfield Gordon was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Auburndale, Massachusetts, the daughter of James M. Gordon and Mary Clarkson Gordon. Her parents were active in the abolition movement; her sisters Anna Adams Gordon and Elizabeth Putnam Gordon were temperance activists. She attended Mount Holyoke Seminary from 1863 to 1867.

#17114

Lev Conus

1871 - 1944 (73 years)

Lev Eduardovich Conus , known in Western Europe and the US as Leon Conus , was a Russian pianist, music educator, and composer. A brother of the composers Georgi Conus and Julius Conus, he studied together with Sergei Rachmaninoff in Anton Arensky's advanced composition class and served as chief professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory until 1918. Together with his wife, the pianist and pedagogue Olga Kovalevskaya Conus they left the Soviet Union for Paris in 1921 where he subsequently taught at the city's Russian Conservatory, before finally moving to the United States in 1935. He taught in Cincinnati until his death at the age of 73.

#17115

Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

1786 - 1841 (55 years)

Konstantinos Agathophron Nikolopoulos was a Greek composer, philologist and colleague of Adamantios Korais. Biography Konstantinos Nikolopoulos was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire and grew up in Paris. Being somewhat of a "Renaissance Man" , he was employed as librarian in the French Institute, where he worked for much of his life.

#17116

K. L. Saigal

1904 - 1947 (43 years)

Kundan Lal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal , was an Indian singer and actor who is considered the first superstar of the Hindi film industry, which was centred in Calcutta during Saigal's time, but is currently centred in Bombay . Saigal's unique voice quality which was a mixture of baritone and soft tenor was the benchmark for most of the singers who followed him. In fact it remains the gold standard even today shining through very early and practically primitive recording technology.

#17117

Patrick Dunbar Ritchie

1907 - 1981 (74 years)

Patrick Dunbar Ritchie FRSE FRSC FPRI LLD was a 20th-century British chemist of Scots descent. Apart from being a noted chemist, he was an artist, fine art conservator, philatelist, ornithologist and mountaineer. His friends knew him as Pat Ritchie.

#17118

Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoi

1912 - 1973 (61 years)

Alexander Mikhailovich Ivanov-Kramskoy was a Soviet classical guitarist, composer, conductor, teacher, esteemed artist of Russian Federation . His original last name was Ivanov. Biography He began to study violin at the Music School , but after having heard Andres Segovia play in Moscow State Conservatory in 1926, he switched to six-string guitar.

#17119

Lennie Aleshire

Lennie Aleshire

1890 - 1987 (97 years)

Leonard Harrison Aleshire was a versatile American vaudeville and later country music performer from the 1920s into the 1960s. A singer, dancer and songwriter, he was also half of a musical comedy duo, Lennie and Goo Goo, with Floyd Rutledge. The pair appeared on local and national radio and television programs originating from Springfield, Missouri, during the 1940s and 50s.

#17120

Arthur Nevin

1871 - 1943 (72 years)

Arthur Finley Nevin was an American composer, conductor, teacher and musicologist. Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Blair Fairchild, Charles Sanford Skilton, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he was one of the leading Indianist composers of the early twentieth century.

#17121

Bernhard Paumgartner

1887 - 1971 (84 years)

Bernhard Paumgartner was an Austrian conductor, composer and musicologist. He is most famous for being Herbert von Karajan's composition teacher at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he recognized his pupil's potential gifts for conducting. Karajan would become a notable conductor. He also taught Vittorio Negri.

#17122

Eugen Papst

1886 - 1956 (70 years)

Eugen Papst was a German composer and music teacher. Life Papst was born in Oberammergau the son of the pedagogue and head teacher of the same name, Eugen Papst , after whom the Eugen-Papst-Förderschule in Germering was later named. He then attended the teacher training seminar in Freising and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1907.

#17123

Anton Door

1833 - 1919 (86 years)

Anton Door was an Austrian pianist and music educator, also known in Russia as Anton Andreyevich Door. Biography Anton Door was born in Vienna and studied piano with Carl Czerny and theory with Simon Sechter. He began a concert career in 1850, touring as a soloist in Germany and Italy. He was appointed Court Pianist and a member of the Royal Academy in Stockholm, and taught for ten years at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1868-1901 he taught in Vienna at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. He served as president of the Friends of Brahms Society and instituted the organization's concert series. D...

#17124

Ralph Lyford

1882 - 1927 (45 years)

Ralph Lyford was an American composer and conductor. He rose to prominence as the managing director of the Cincinnati Opera and as a 20th-century advocate for opera to be written and performed in English.

#17125

John Cook

1918 - 1984 (66 years)

John Ernest Cook was an Anglo-American organist, composer and church musician. Early life, education and early career John Cook was born at Maldon, Essex on 11 October 1918. After leaving St. John's School, Leatherhead, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge as an organ scholar where he came under the influence of Hugh Allen and Boris Ord. A conscientious objector to the second World War, he left his Cambridge studies prematurely to drive an ambulance during the Blitz of London.

#17126

Richard Smith

1886 - 1937 (51 years)

Richard Smith , also known as Dick Smith, was a screenwriter, actor, and film director. Smith was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and became a comedian active in the vaudeville era. He met his wife Alice Howell in 1910 and the two performed together as Howell and Howell. After working under direction of Mack Sennett at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, Smith moved to Los Angeles, California. Smith and his wife starred in reels together produced by L-KO Kompany.

#17127

Vladimir Tsybin

1877 - 1949 (72 years)

Vladimir Tsybin was a flautist, composer and conductor. Born in a family of musicians - his father was a violinist and conductor of a small town orchestra, his mother had a good voice and played guitar. After moving to Moscow, boy's father soon died, and the 9 year old Vladimir was sent to a military orchestra, where he learned to play the flute and piccolo. At age 12 he entered the Moscow Conservatory where he studied flute with Wilhelm Kretschmann . He played in different private orchestras and in 1896 entered Bolshoi Theater as a piccolo player. He held this position until 1907, when, after death of Ernesto Köhler, he became the soloist of the Mariinsky Theater in Sankt-Petersburg.

#17128

Nasreen Mohamedi

1937 - 1990 (53 years)

Nasreen Mohamedi was an Indian artist best known for her line-based drawings, and is today considered one of the most essential modern artists from India. Despite being relatively unknown outside of her native country during her lifetime, Mohamedi's work has been the subject of remarkable revitalisation in international critical circles and has received popular acclaim over the last decade. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, documenta in Kassel, Germany, and at Talwar Gallery, which organised the first solo exhibit...

#17129

Svetislav Stančić

1895 - 1970 (75 years)

Svetislav Stančić was a Croatian pianist and music pedagogue. Stančić initially studied piano in Zagreb and then moved to Berlin where he studied with Karl Heinrich Barth, Conrad Ansorge, and Ferruccio Busoni, who also taught him composition. Stančić had a career as a concert pianist, and later he became legendary Professor of Piano at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1960 he received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in music.

#17130

Willard Robertson

Willard Robertson

1886 - 1948 (62 years)

Willard Robertson was an American actor and writer. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas, and died in Hollywood, California. Biography Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he left his profession for a sudden interest in acting after being encouraged to do so by Joseph Jefferson.

#17131

Karel Duba

1923 - 1968 (45 years)

Karel Duba was a Czech guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He was one of the first musicians to play electric guitar in Czechoslovakia. During his career, he collaborated with important exponents of Czech jazz and pop music. He died on a concert tour in Mongolia.

#17132

Carey Morgan

1884 - 1960 (76 years)

Carey Elmore Morgan Jr. was an American composer and Vaudeville producer during the 1900s. Throughout his career, he collaborated with various songwriters and performers including, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Charles McCarron, and Arthur Monday Swanstrom.

#17133

Eric-Paul Stekel

1898 - 1978 (80 years)

Éric-Paul Stekel, was a French composer and conductor of Austrian origin, former director of the Conservatory of Grenoble. He worked with piano teacher Félicien Wolff, whom he strongly encouraged his composition work, and he worked also with pianist Genevieve Dinand and with musicologist Paul-Gilbert Langevin, participating in his works, Le siècle de Bruckner and Anton Bruckner, apogée de la symphonie. There is an association in Grenoble called The friends of Éric-Paul Stekel.

#17134

Davis Cunningham

1916 - 1984 (68 years)

Thomas Davis Cunningham was an American tenor who had prominent career in operas, musicals, concerts, and on television from 1949 through 1973. Biography Cunningham was born in the Philippines, the son of an American medical doctor serving in the United States military. He studied singing at Wooster College and the Juilliard School before making his professional stage debut in the 1939 musical Stars In Your Eyes where he portrayed a handful of small roles. He returned to Broadway in 1941 as Jack in Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark. That same year he signed a contract with the Philadelphia Opera Company, joining their roster of principal tenors.

#17135

Ann Richards

1935 - 1982 (47 years)

Ann Richards was an American pop and jazz singer. She was the second wife of bandleader Stan Kenton. She had a short career in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Early life, musical education and influences Ann Richards was born Margaret Ann Borden on October 1, 1935, in San Diego, California, but raised to the north in Albany, California. Her father William left the family after Ann's mother had an affair and child with one of her students. By 1940, her mother Bernice was divorced and Ann's mother's maiden name of Richards was adopted. Her mother taught school and also wanted her daughter to become a teacher.

#17136

Joseph Hellmesberger Sr.

1828 - 1893 (65 years)

Josef Hellmesberger Sr. was an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer. Born in Vienna, he was the son of musician and pedagogue, Georg Hellmesberger Sr. , and was taught violin by his father at the Vienna Conservatory. Hellmesberger hails from a family of notable musicians including: brother, Georg Jr. ; son, Josef Jr. ; and son Ferdinand .

#17137

Gustav Havemann

1882 - 1960 (78 years)

Gustav Havemann was a German violinist and from 1933 to 1935 head of the "Reichsmusikerschaft" in the Reichsmusikkammer. Life Born in Güstrow, Havemann first learned to play the violin from his father, the military musician Johann Havemann. Even before he attended school, he performed in a concert. After the death of his father, he was further educated by the husband of his sister Frieda, music director Ernst Parlow, the son of Albert Parlow, as well as Bruno Ahner, and played in the court orchestra in Schwerin before he went to the Universität der Künste Berlin in 1898, where one of his impo...

#17138

Agide Jacchia

1875 - 1932 (57 years)

Agide Jacchia was an Italian orchestral director. Early life and education Born in Lugo di Romagna, Jacchia studied at the Conservatory of Parma from 1886 to 1891 and at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in Pesaro from 1891 to 1898. He won prizes for flute , conducting , and composition .

#17139

Walter Fong

1866 - 1906 (40 years)

Walter Ngon Fong was an American educator, missionary and linguist who founded the first technical college in Hong Kong. He was Stanford University's first Chinese graduate. Early life Fong was born on 1 April 1866 to a humble farming family in the village of Sunning, Guangdong, China. At 15, he emigrated to California, United States, where he initially attended a Presbyterian Mission. While later working at the Chinese Methodist School in San Jose, he pursued further studies at the University of the Pacific from which he graduated in 1892. He went on to be the first Chinese student to g...

#17140

Harold Gomberg

1916 - 1985 (69 years)

Harold Gomberg was the principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 through 1977. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Harold and his brother Ralph studied with Marcel Tabuteau, considered the father of American oboe playing, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the New York Philharmonic, Gomberg held positions with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony. He was a longtime member of the faculty of the Juilliard School, and recorded several albums of solo oboe repertoire during his long and very distinguished caree...

#17141

Berta Elena Vidal de Battini

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Berta Elena Vidal de Battini was an Argentine linguist, educationalist, writer and folklorist, whose life achievement is 10-volume selection of the Argentinian Folk Tales and Legends. Biography Berta de Battini was born in 1900 in San Luis, Argentina.

#17142

William Clifford Heilman

1877 - 1946 (69 years)

William Clifford Heilman was an American composer. Biography William Clifford Heilman was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1877. He composed a number of orchestral works as well as a good deal of chamber music; he also produced songs. Heilman was a graduate of Harvard University, where he later taught for some time.

#17143

Dora Zaslavsky

1904 - 1987 (83 years)

Dora Zaslavsky Koch was an American pianist who was one of the first graduates of and later a teacher at the Manhattan School of Music. Early life Zaslavsky was born in the Russian Empire in 1904, arriving in New York as an infant on February 22, 1905. Her family was Jewish, from the city of Kremenchuk in the oblast of Poltava. Her father Max had emigrated to the United States the previous year. She was traveling with her mother Celia née Fleisher, older siblings Joseph and Fay, and a young cousin. Another brother Israel was born six years later. Other sources give Zaslavsky’s birth year as 1905, but this is incompatible with the ship manifest information.

#17144

Carl Adolf Martienssen

1881 - 1955 (74 years)

Carl Adolf Martienssen was a German pianist and music educator. Life Born in Güstrow, Martiensen came from a large farming family, which apparently only immigrated to Mecklenburg in the generation of his father, the merchant Gottlieb Martienssen. Martienssen was a younger son of his parents, attended the and received his first music education in theory, organ and piano from Johannes Schondorf in his home town. After the Abitur Martienssen studied musical composition with Wilhelm Berger, musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and piano playing with the Liszt student Karl Klindworth in Berlin, and at the Leipzig Conservatory .

#17145

Waldemar Seidel

1893 - 1980 (87 years)

Waldemar "Wally" Carl Seidel was an Australian pianist, accompanist, and piano teacher who taught many notable pianists from Australia. Biography Seidel was born in St Kilda, Victoria in 1893, son of a German immigrant, the pianist and choral conductor Alfred Carl Seidel. Alfred had graduated from the Royal Conservatorium of Music, Leipzig, and migrated to Australia at the age of 19. Waldemar had lessons from his father, from J. Alfred Johnstone, from Benno Scherek, and from Edward Goll . Seidel assumed all of Johnstone's pupils when he returned to England in 1924.

#17146

David W. Guion

1892 - 1981 (89 years)

David W. Guion , Texan composer, was best known for his arrangements of cowboy tunes, African American spiritualss, and original compositions often inspired by the soundscape of west Texas. Early life David Wendel Guion was born in Ballinger, Texas, on December 15, 1892, to John I. and Armour Fentress Guion. Guion began to play the piano at an early age. He was intrigued by the cowboys, former cattle drivers, who worked on his father's ranch, and also by the spirituals that he heard whenever a family servant brought him to the services of an African-American church. As a young boy, he was sen...

#17147

Arne Oldberg

1874 - 1962 (88 years)

Arne Oldberg was an American pianist, composer, and teacher. He spent his career on the faculty of Northwestern University , where he taught piano and composition and, from 1924 until his retirement in 1941, served as director of the graduate department of the Music School. Among his students were composers Howard Hanson, Cecilia Clare Bocard, Theodora Troendle, Mildred Lund Tyson, and Ella May Walker.

#17148

Mark Wessel

1894 - 1973 (79 years)

Mark Wessel was an American pianist and composer. Life Wessel was born in Coldwater, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern School of Music, now known as Bienen School of Music; he later taught piano and theory there. When Wessel left Northwestern, he became a professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

#17149

Miklós Radnai

1892 - 1935 (43 years)

Miklós Radnai was a Hungarian composer, critic and music writer. From 1925 to his death in 1935, he was a noted Intendant of the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest. Biography At an early age he had lessons with the blind pianist Attila Horváth, and also studied the violin. While still in secondary school, he entered the Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied under János Koessler and Viktor Herzfeld. He taught theory at another music school, and had an extended tour of European countries. In 1919 he became a teacher at the Academy of Music.

#17150

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker

1844 - 1906 (62 years)

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker was a German composer, conductor and violinist. Life Childhood and youth Rauchenecker was born in Munich on 8 March 1844; he was the first child of Jakob Rauchenecker , an official musician of the city, and Rosina Crescenz Rauchenecker, née Wening and was baptised a Catholic two days later at St Peter's in Munich. As a young boy he was sent by his father to his uncle, Georg Wening, who had been pastor of the parish of Thalheim near Erding since 1855. It is possible that Rauchenecker was expected to follow the same career path as his uncle. After this he attended...

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