Adams, Thomas. Pupil of Sir Frederick Bridge. Organist of Halstead Parish Church; St. Alban-the-Martyr, Holborn, London, 1888-1918. Taught at Bishop Stortford Grammar School. Composed choral and organ music. b. Harlow, England, Nov. 21st, 1857; d. Islington, London, Nov. 4th, 1918.
Alcock, SirWalter Galpin. Mus.D. (Dunelm, 1905), F.R.C.O., F.R.C.M., M.V.O. (1933). Studied at the National Training School for Music; pupil of Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir John Stainer and J. Francis Barnett. Organist of Twickenham Parish Church, 1880-87; the Quebec Chapel, Marylebone, London, 1887-; Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, London, 1895-1902; assistant organist of Westminster Abbey, 1889-1916; organist of the Chapel Royal, St. James’ Palace, London, 1902-16; Salisbury Cathedral, 1916-47; at the coronations of King Edward VII, 1902; King George V, 1911. Professor of organ at the Royal College of Music, London; president of Royal College of Organists, 1926-27. Composed anthems, services, &c. Brother of Gilbert A. Alcock. b. Edenbridge, England, Dec. 29th, 1861; d. Salisbury, Sep. 11th, 1947.
Berens, Johann Hermann. Studied in Dresden with K. G. Reissiger; pupil of Carl Czerny. Royal music director at Örebro, 1849; conductor Mindre Theatre, Stockholm, 1860; professor of composition at the Stockholm Academy. Moved to Sweden, 1847. Composed an opera, overtures, chamber music, songs, piano pieces, &c. b. Hamburg, Germany, Apr. 7th, 1826; d. Stockholm, Sweden, May 9th, 1880.
Six Pieces for Church Use Vol. 2 (1. Andante serioso in D minor; 2. Fuga in A (adagio molto); 3. Andantino in G; 4. March for a Church Festival in D; 5. Alla Breve in C; 6. Fantasia in F)
Blair, DrHugh. B.A. (Cantab, 1886), Mus.B. (Cantab, 1887), M.A. (Cantab, 1896), Mus.D. (Cantab, 1906). Studied at Worcester Cathedral School under Dr William Done; Christ College Cambridge under Sir G. A. Macfarren and Dr George M. Garrett. Organ scholar at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1883; organist there, 1884-87; assistant organist of Worcester Cathedral, 1887-94; organist there, 1895-97; Holy Trinity, Marylebone, London, 1898-; Battersea Town Hall, London, 1900-04. Conducted the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester, 1889-97; London Church Orchestral Society, 1910-15. Composed cantatas, anthems, services, part-songs, violin pieces, &c. b. Worcester, England, May 26th, 1864; d. Worthing, July 22nd, 1932.
Brosig, DrMoritz (Maurice). Ph.D. Studied at the Matthias Gymnasium, Leipzig; pupil of Franz Wolf. Organist of Breslau Cathedral, 1842-84. Sub-director of the Royal Institute for Catholic Church Music, Breslau; lecturer at Breslau University. Composed masses, organ pieces, church music, &c. b. Fuchswinkel, Upper Silesia, Germany, Oct. 15th, 1815; d. Breslau, Jan. 24th, 1887.
Clark, Rev. Frederick Scotson. Mus.B. (Oxon, 1867.) Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under Bennett, Goss, Lucas, Engel, Pinsuti and Pettit; Exeter College, Oxford; in Paris with Eugène Sergent (piano and harmony) and Louis Lefébure-Wély (harmony); in Leipzig with Richter and Reinecke; in Stuttgart with Lebert, Pruckner and Krugen; pupil of Dr E. J. Hopkins (organ). Organist of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London; the Regent Square Church, London, 1855; organ scholar at Exeter College, Oxford, 1865-66; organist of Llandilo Parish Church, Wales, 1866; assistant organist of the English Church, Leipzig, Germany; organist of St. Clement-Danes’, London, England. Head master of St. Michael’s Grammar School, Brighton, 1867; founded the London Organ School, 1873; represented English organists at the Paris Exposition, 1878. Composed organ and piano pieces, church music, songs, &c. b. London, England, Nov. 16th, 1840; d. Marylebone, London, July 5th, 1883.
Faulkes, George William Henry. Pupil of William Dawson and Henry Dillon-Newman. . Organist of St. John-the-Baptist’s, Tue Brook, Liverpool, 1882-86; St. Margaret’s, Anfield, Liverpool, 1886-1933. b. Liverpool, England, Nov. 4th, 1863; d. there, Jan. 25th, 1933.
Goodhart, Arthur Murray. B.A. (Cantab, 1888), Mus.B. (Cantab, 1892), M.A. (Cantab, 1894). Pupil of Sir J. Barnby, Dr George M. Garrett, Dr Charles W. Pearce, C. Forsyth, Frank Bridge. Taught classics at Eton School. Composed orchestral, organ, and piano pieces, songs, carols, military band music, &c. b. Wimbledon, England, July 14th, 1866; d. Oxford, July 2nd, 1941.
Gostelow, Frederick James. A.R.A.M., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., F.T.C.L., Hon.R.C.M. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Sir Frederick Bridge, Fritz Hartvigson, Tobias Matthay and Dr Charles W. Pearce. Organist of the Walter Street Chapel, Luton, 1887-88; St. Mary’s Parish Church, Luton, 1889-1942; the private chapel of Luton Hoo Mansion, 1900-. Professor at Trinity College London. Composed church music, songs, &c. b. Dunstable, England, Dec. 20th, 1866; d. Luton, June 27th, 1942.
Gray, DrAlan. LL.B. (Cantab, 1877), LL.M. (Cantab, 1883), Mus.B. (Cantab, 1886), Mus.D. (Cantab, 1889), F.R.C.O. Studied at St. Peter’s School, York; law at Trinity College, Cambridge; music at York Minster under Dr Edwin George Monk; Trinity College, Cambridge. Organist of Wellington College, 1883-92; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1892-1930; the Guild Hall, Cambridge. Musical director of Wellington College, 1883-92; conducted the Cambridge University Musical Society, 1892; president of the Royal College of Organists, 1922-23. Composed cantatas, odes, church music, orchestral music, chamber music, organ pieces, songs, &c. b. York, England, Dec. 23rd, 1855; d. Cambridge, Sep. 27th, 1935.
Guilmant, Félix Alexandre. Legion of Honour, 1896. Pupil of his father; and Nicolaus Jacques Lemmens. Assistant organist at St. Nicholas’, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1849; organist of St. Joseph’s, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1853; St. Nicholas’, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1857; St. Sulpice’s, Paris, 1863; Notre-Dame, Paris, 1868; La Trinité, Paris, 1871-1901. Toured the U.S.A., 1893 and 1897; Europe, 1897-98, 1904-05. Professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory, 1896. Son of Jean Baptiste Guilmant. b. Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, Mar. 12th, 1837; d. Meudon, Mar. 30th, 1911.
Heap, DrCharles Swinnerton. Mus.B. (Cantab, 1870), Mus.D., (Cantab, 1872). Studied at King Edward VI School, Birmingham; York Minster under Dr Edwin George Monk; the Leipzig Conservatory under Moscheles, Hauptmann, E. F. Richter and Reinecke, 1865-67; St. John’s College, Cambridge; pupil of Walter Brooks and W. T. Best (organ). Organist of Queen’s College, Birmingham, 1859-62; St. John’s, Wolverhampton, 1868-. Conducted the Birmingham Philharmonic Union, 1870-86; the Wolverhampton Festival Choral Society, 1881-86; the North Staffordshire Festival, Hanley, 1888-99; the Birmingham Festival Choral Society, 1895; the Walsall Philharmonic Union. Composed an oratorio, cantatas, overtures, anthems, piano pieces, songs, &c. Father of J. Sebastian Heap. b. Birmingham, England, Apr. 10th, 1847; d. Edgebaston, Birmingham, June 11th, 1900.
Hesse, Adolf (Adolph) Friedrich. Pupil of Dr C. H. Rinck, Friedrich Wilhelm Berner (organ) and E. Köhler (organ). Assistant organist of St. Elizabeth’s, Breslau, 1827-31; organist of St. Bernard’s, Breslau, 1831-63. Director of the Breslau Symphony Concerts. Composed cantatas, symphonies, chamber music, organ pieces, &c. b. Breslau, Germany, Aug. 30th, 1809; d. there, Aug. 5th, 1863.
Hudson, Henry. Chorister at Holy Trinity, Southport. Organist of Holy Trinity, Southport, 1872-1912. b. Southport, England, 1853; d. there, Nov. 20th, 1912.
Jackson, Bob (Bernard). F.R.C.O. (1889). Studied at the Royal College of Music, London, under Sir Frederick Bridge and Sir Hubert H. Parry. Organist of St. Andrew’s Parish Church, Hingham, 1886-89; to the People’s Palace, London, 1890-1900; Christ Church, Battersea, London; St. Giles’, Cripplegate, London, c1908. Composed organ pieces, anthems, songs, &c. b. Birstwith, England, Aug. 27th, 1869; d. Wandsworth, London, 1925.
Lemare, Edwin Henry. A.R.A.M., F.R.A.M., F.R.C.O. (1886). Pupil of his father; won a Goss Scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, London, 1876; studied there under Sir G. A. Macfarren, Walter Macfarren, Dr Charles Steggall and Dr Edmund H. Turpin. Organist of St. Mary’s, Brookfield, Highgate, London; St. John-the-Evangelist’s, Brownswood Park, London, 1882; St. Andrew’s, Cardiff, Wales, 1886; the Park Hall, Cardiff, 1886; the Albert Hall, Sheffield, 1886; Sheffield Parish Church, England, 1886-92; Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, London, 1892-95; St. Margaret’s, Westminster, London, 1896-1902; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1902-05; at the Pan-America Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915; San Francisco City Hall, California, 1917-20; Portland City Hall, Maine, 1921-23; Chattanooga City Hall, Tennessee, 1924-29. Toured the U.S.A., 1900-01; Australia; New Zealand; Europe. Designed the organ for Auckland Town Hall, New Zealand; Melbourne Town Hall, Australia. The finest and most highly paid organ recitalist of his day; popularized Wagnerian operas in England, though his transcriptions of them. Composed organ pieces, church music, an orchestral symphony, &c. Son of Edwin Lemare; nephew of Dr William Lemare. b. Ventnor, England, Sep. 9th, 1865; d. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., Sep. 24th, 1934.
Lemmens, Nicolaus (Nicolaas) Jacques (Jaak). Pupil of Adolf F. Hesse, Van der Broeck, Godineau, Michelor and Girschener; studied at the Brussels Conservatory under François Joseph Fétis, 1839-45; in Breslau with Adolf Hesse, 1846. Organist. Professor of organ at the Brussels Conservatory, 1849-; founded the organists training college, Malines, 1879. Composed organ pieces, piano pieces, songs, &c. b. Zoerle-Parwijs, near Waterloo, Belgium, Jan. 3rd, 1823; d. Castle Linterport, near Malines, Jan. 30th, 1881.
Lux, Friedrich. Studied in Dessau with F. Schneider. Organist. Musical director of the Court Theatre, Dessau, 1841; conductor of the City Theatre, Mainz, 1851-77; the Oratorio Society, 1867-91. Composed operas, orchestral and chamber music, organ pieces, songs, piano music, &c. b. Ruhla, Germany, Nov. 24th, 1820; d. Mainz, July 9th, 1895.
Macchia, Grimoaldo. Studied at the Arts Academy, Rome; Perugia Conservatory. Organist of St. Boniface’s Basilica, Rome; St. George’s, Arth, Switzerland. Professor of music at the Junior International Institute, Rome. b. Rome, Italy, May 6th, 1972.
Macpherson, DrCharles. A.R.A.M. (1896), Mus.D. (Dunelm, 1919), F.R.A.M., F.R.C.O. Chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1879-87, under Sir George Martin; studied at St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School, London; the Royal Academy of Music, London, 1890-. Organist of St. Clement’s, Eastcheap, London, 1887; St. David’s, Weem, Scotland, 1887-89; Madame de Falba’s Private Chapel, Luton Hoo, England, 1889-95; assistant organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1895-1916; organist there, 1916-27. Taught harmony at the Royal Academy of Music, London; president of the Royal College of Organists, 1920-21. Composed chamber music, orchestral suites, &c. b. Edinburgh, Scotland, May 10th, 1870; d. Westminster, London, England, May 28th, 1927.
Maxfield, William Henry. F.R.C.O. (1888), Mus.B. (Toronto, 1889). Chorister at St. Philips’ Hulme, Manchester, 1860-65; studied in Manchester with F. Pugh and Dr Henry Hiles. Organist of St. Peter’s, Levenshulme, 1866-72; St. Thomas’, Norbury, 1872-79; St. George’s, Altrincham, 1879-84; St. John-the-Evangelist’s, Altrincham, 1884-. Composed cantatas, piano and organ music, &c. b. North Somercotes, England, Apr. 27th, 1849; d. Altrincham, Nov. 4th, 1936.
Merkel, Gustav Adolf (Adolph). Studied in Dresden with Julius Otto (counterpoint) and Dr Johann Schneider (organ); pupil of Otto Reissiger (harmony) and Robert Schumann (composition). Organist of the Waisenhaus Church, Dresden, 1858; the Church-of-the-Holy-Cross, Dresden, 1860; the Catholic Court Church, Dresden, 1864-85. Professor of Dresden Conservatory, 1861. A friend of Robert Schumann. Composed organ pieces, piano pieces, songs, &c. Author of an Organ School. b. Oberoderwitz, near Zittau, Germany, Nov. 12th, 1827; d. Dresden, Oct. 30th, 1885.
Mozart, Johann Chrysostemus Wolfgang Amadeus. Pupil of his father (clavichord), self taught organ and violin; of Johann Christian Bach; Haydn, Tenducci and Manzuoli. Organist and concertmaster to the Archbishop of Salzburg, 1779. Concertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg, 1768; chamber composer to the Emperor; toured Italy, 1769; elected a member of the Bologna Philharmonic Academy. Composed masses, operas, songs, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, clavier music, organ sonatas. Son of Leopold Mozart. b. Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27th, 1756; d. Vienna, Dec. 5th, 1791.
Neukomm, ChevalierSigismond Ritter von (1778-1858)
Biography of Chevalier Sigismund Neukomm
Neukomm, ChevalierSigismund (Sigismond) Ritter von. Chorister at Salzburg Cathedral, 1788-93; studied in Salzburg with Weissauer and Michael Haydn; in Vienna with Joseph Haydn. Organist of Salzburg Cathedral. Conductor to the Emperor of Russia, St. Petersburg, 1806; conducted the German Opera, St. Petersburg, 1807; pianist to Talleyrand, Paris, 1809; court music director at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, 1816-21. Composed oratorios, masses, cantatas, operas, orchestral pieces, concertos, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, songs, &c. b. Salzburg, Austria, July 10th, 1778; d. Paris, France, Apr. 3rd, 1858.
Nicholl (né Nicholls), Horace Wadham (Wadhams). Pupil of Samuel Prince (organ). Organist in Dudley, 1867-70; in Stoke-on-Trent, 1868-70; of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1870; the Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; of St. Mark’s, New York City, 1878-80. Editor in New York, U.S.A., 1878; taught in Farmington, Connecticut, 1888-95. Moved to the U.S.A., 1871. Composed oratorios, tone-poems, symphonies, concertos, piano and organ pieces, songs, &c. b. Tipton, near Birmingham, England, Mar. 17th, 1848; d. Manhattan, New York, U.S.A., Mar. 10th, 1922.
Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings. Mus.B. (Oxon, 1867), B.A. (Oxon, 1870), M.A. (Oxon, 1874), Hon.Mus.D. (Cantab, 1883), Hon.Mus.D. (Oxon, 1884), Hon.Mus.D. (Dublin, 1891); knighted, 1898; baronet, 1903. Studied at Eton College, 1861; Exeter College, Oxford; pupil of Sterndale Bennett, Sir G. A. Macfarren and Dr G. Elvey(composition); in Stuttgart with Edward Dannreuther (piano) and H. H. Pierson. Choragus to Oxford University, 1883; director of the Royal College of Music, London, 1894-1918; president of the Royal College of Organists, 1898-1901; professor of music at Oxford University, 1901-08; president of the Royal College of Organists, 1917-18. Composed symphonies, overtures, chamber music, piano pieces, anthems, songs, oratorios, &c. b. Bournemouth, England, Feb. 27th, 1848; d. Knight’s Croft, Rustington, Oct. 7th, 1918.
Pearce, DrCharles William. Mus.B. (Cantab, 1881), Mus.D. (Cantab, 1884), M.A., F.R.C.O. Studied in Salisbury with Theodore Aylward (organ); in London with Dr Charles Garland Verrinder, Dr W. S. Hoyte (organ), C. J. Read (harmony), E. Prout (q.v.) (harmony) and Dr E. J. Hopkins (organ). Organist of St. Martin’s, Salisbury, 1871-73; St. Luke’s, Old Street, London, 1874-85; St. Clement’s, Eastcheap, London, 1885-. Professor of organ and composition at Trinity College of Music, London, 1882; dean there, 1891-; honorary treasurer to the Union of Musical Graduates, 1894; professor of harmony at the Guildhall School of Music, London, 1898; director of examinations at Trinity College London, 1908; music editor. Composed church cantatas, services, anthems, organ pieces, &c. b. Salisbury, England, Dec. 5th, 1856; d. Poole, Dec. 2nd, 1928.
Petrali, Vincenzo Antonio. Organist of Crema Cathedral; assistant organist of St. Maria-Maggiore’s, Bergamo, 1853-80. Taught in Bologna; at Liceo Rossini, Pesaro. b. Crema, near Cremona, Italy, Jan. 22nd, 1832; d. Bergamo, Nov. 24th, 1889.
Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel. Pupil of Sebastian Pohly; studied in Feldkirch; at the Royal School of Music, Munich, under Leonhard (piano), Dr J. G. Herzog (organ) and Maier (counterpoint), 1851-58. Organist of Vaduz Church, 1846-50; the Theatine Church, Munich, Germany; St. Michael’s, Munich, 1860-66. Professor of piano at the Royal School of Music, Munich, 1859; theory there, 1860-67; organ there, 1867-1901; conductor of the Royal Chapel Choir, 1877. Composed operas, an oratorio, masses, orchestral pieces, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, &c. b. Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Mar. 17th, 1839; d. Munich, Germany, Nov. 25th, 1901.
Silas, Édouard (Eduard, Edward) Eli. Studied in Mannheim with Neher; in Frankfurt with Louis Lacombe (piano); at the Paris Conservatory under Friedrich W. M. Kalkbrenner, François Benoist (organ) and Jacques Fromenthal Halévy (composition), 1842-49. Organist of Kingston-upon-Thames Catholic Chapel, England, 1850-. Professor at the Guildhall School of Music, London, England. Moved to England, 1850. Composed cantatas, church music, organ pieces, orchestral and chamber music, piano pieces, songs, &c. b. Amsterdam, Holland, Aug. 22nd, 1827; d. West Kensington, London, England, Feb. 8th, 1909.
Stanford, SirCharles Villiers. B.A. (Cantab, 1874), D.C.L. (Durham), M.A. (Cantab, 1877), Hon.Mus.D. (Oxon, 1883), Mus.D. (Cantab, 1888), F.R.C.O., knighted, 1903. Pupil of Arthur O’Leary (composition) and Sir Robert P. Stewart (composition); studied in London with Ernst Pauer (piano); in Leipzig with Dr Karl Reinecke, 1875-76; and Berlin with Friedrich Kiel. Organ scholar of Queens College, Cambridge, 1870; organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1873-92. Professor of composition at the Royal College of Music, London, 1883; professor of music at Cambridge University, 1887-1924; conducted the Cambridge Amateur Vocal Guild; the Cambridge University Musical Society, 1873-93; Bach Choir, 1885-1903; the Leeds Philharmonic Society, 1897-; the Leeds Festival, 1903. Elected Corresponding Member of the Société des Compositeurs de Musique, Paris, 1892. Composed symphonies, oratorios, operas, cantatas, odes, incidental music, church music, orchestral music, chamber music, organ pieces, songs, piano pieces, &c. b. Dublin, Ireland, Sep. 30th, 1852; d. Marylebone, London, England, Mar. 29th, 1924.
Steane, Harry Bruce Dennis. A.R.C.O. Chorister at St. Augustine’s, Forest Hill, London; studied at Dulwich College; pupil of Dr C. Warwick Jordan. Assistant organist of St. Augustine’s, Forest Hill, London, 1878; organist of St. Mary’s, Cuddington; St. Bartholomew’s Convalescent Home, Swanley, 1888-89; St. Peter’s Parish Church, Seal, Sevenoaks, 1890-92; St. Mary’s Parish Church, Whitechapel, London, 1893-99; St. Peter’s Parish Church, Seal, Sevenoaks, 1900-02; St. Mary’s Parish Church, Kensing, Sevenoaks, 1903-04; St. Bartholomew’s-the-Less (Hospital Church), Smithfield, London, 1905-17; Combe Martin Parish Church, 1918-. b. Champion Hill, Camberwell, London, England, June 22nd, 1866; d. Battersea, London, 1939.
Tours, Berthold. Pupil of his father; of Jan Verhulst; studied at the Brussels Conservatory; the Leipzig Conservatory. Organist of the Swiss Church, Holborn, London, England, 1867-79. Musical adviser to the publishers “Novello & Co.”, 1872; violinist. Moved to London, England, 1861. Composed services, anthems, piano pieces, songs, &c. Son of Barthélemy Tours; father of Frank E. Tours. b. Rotterdam, Holland, Dec. 17th, 1838; d. Fulham, London, England, Mar. 11th, 1897.
Wolstenholme, William. Mus.B. (Oxon, 1887). Studied at the College for Blind Sons of Gentlemen, Worcester; pupil of Dr William Done and Sir Edward Elgar (violin); studied at Oxford University, was the only blind musician to have taken a degree in music since John Stanley. Organist of St. Paul’s, Blackburn, 1888-1901; Kings Weigh House Church, Grosvenor Square, London, 1902-04; All Saints’, Norfolk Square, London, 1904-; All Saints’, St. John’s Wood, London, (where Rev. Noel Bonavia-Hunt was the precentor), 1926; toured the U.S.A., 1908. A great exponent of extemporization. President of the London Society of Organists, 1925. Composed chamber music, songs, part songs, orchestral pieces, organ music, &c. b. Blackburn, England, Feb. 24th, 1865; d. Hampstead, London, July 23rd, 1931.
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