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)
Bexfield, DrWilliam Richard. Mus.B. (Oxon, 1846), Mus.D. (Cantab, 1849). Pupil of Dr Zechariah Buck. Organist of Boston Parish Church, 1845-48; St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, 1848-53. Composed an oratorio, organ fugues, anthems, part-songs, songs, &c. b. Norwich, England, Apr. 27th, 1824; d. Bayswater, London, Oct. 28th, 1853.
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.
Chipp, DrEdmund Thomas. Mus.B. (Cantab, Mar. 17th, 1859), Mus.D. (Cantab, June 21st, 1860). Chorister at the Chapel Royal, London, under William Hawes; pupil of W. Thomas (violin) and J. B. Nadaud (violin). Organist of the Percy Chapel, Tottenham Court Road, London; the Albany Chapel, Regent’s Park, London, 1843-46; St. John’s Chapel, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London, 1846-47; St. Olave’s, Southwark, London, 1847-52; St. Mary’s-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London, 1852-56; the Royal Panopticon, Leicester Square, London, 1855-56; Holy Trinity, Paddington, London, 1856-62; St. George’s, Belfast, Ireland, 1862-66; Ulster Hall, Belfast, 1862-66; Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, Scotland, 1866; St. Paul’s (Episcopal), Edinburgh, 1866; Ely Cathedral, England, 1866-86. Violinist in Her Majestys Private Band, London, 1843-55; with the Royal Italian Opera, London. Composed church, organ music, oratorios, &c. b. London, England, Dec. 25th, 1823; d. Nice, France, Dec. 17th, 1886.
Dienel, Otto. Studied at the Görlitz Gymnasium; the Bunzlau Seminary; the Royal Institute of Church Music, Berlin, 1863-67; the Royal Academy, Berlin; pupil of August W. Bach and Dr Johann Schneider. Organist of St. Bartholomew’s, Friedrichshain, Berlin, 1865; the Holy Cross Church, Kreutzberg, Berlin; St. Mary’s, Berlin, 1881-1905. Royal Music Director, Berlin, 1881. Son of Karl Wilhelm Dienel. b. Tiefenfurt, Silesia, Germany, Jan. 11th, 1839; d. Steglitz, Berlin, Mar. 7th, 1905.
Duncan, William Edmondstoune. A.R.C.O. (1882). Studied at the Royal College of Music, London, under Sir Hubert H. Parry, Sir Charles V. Stanford, Sir George Martin and E. Pauer; pupil of Sir G. A. Macfarren. Music critic in London; professor at the Oldham College of Music. Composed choral and orchestral music, a mass, an opera, songs, part-songs, &c. Wrote about music. b. Sale, England, Apr. 22nd, 1866; d. there, June 26th, 1920.
Eddy, Hiram Clarence. Studied in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with J. G. Wilson; in Hartford, Connecticut, with Dudley Buck (organ); in Berlin with A. Haupt (organ) and Albert Löschhorn (piano), 1871. Organist of the Bethany Congregational Church, Montpelier, Vermont, 1858-71; the First Congregational Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1874-76; the First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1879-96; recitalist at the Vienna Exposition, 1873; Philadelphia Centennial, 1876; concert organist; touring the U.S.A. and Europe. Director of the Hershey School of Musical Art, Chicago, Illinois, 1876; a founder of the American Guild of Organists. Moved to Chicago, Illinois, 1874. Composed organ music, church music, songs, &c. b. Greenfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A., June 23rd, 1851; d. Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 10th, 1937.
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.
Gaul, Harvey Bartlett. Pupil of George F. Lejeune (organ); studied in New York with Dudley Buck; London with Dr Philip Armes and A. R. Gaul; at the Paris Conservatory under Alexandre Guilmant; the Schola Cantorum, Paris, under Charles Marie Widor and Vincent d’Indy. Assistant organist of St. John’s Chapel, New York City, 1898; organist of St. Luke’s Chapel, Paris, France; the Emmanuel Church, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., 1900-08; the Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1910-45. Taught at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Composed organ pieces, cantatas, songs, part-songs, anthems, &c. Wrote criticism for Pittsburgh newspapers. b. Astoria, New York, U.S.A., Apr. 11th, 1881; d. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dec. 1st, 1945.
Händel (Handel, Haendel, Hendel), Georg Friedrich (George Frederick). Studied at Halle Cathedral, 1692, under Friedrich W. Zachau (counterpoint, organ, harpsichord and oboe). Assistant organist of Halle Cathedral, 1697-1702; organist there, 1702-03. Violinist at Hanover Opera, 1703; in Italy, 1706; conductor to the Elector of Hannover, 1709; to the Duke of Chandos, England, 1718; music master to the Prince of Wales; director of the Royal Academy, London. Composed operas, oratorios, serenatas, odes, anthems, songs, cantatas, concertos, suites, &c. b. Halle, Germany, Feb. 23rd, 1685; d. London, England, Apr. 14th, 1759.
Healey, Edward William. Mus.B. (Oxon). Organist of Christ Church, Hull; Sunderland Parish Church; the United Presbyterian Church, Helensburgh, Scotland, 1879-. b. Hull, England, Mar. 24th, 1850; d. Helensburgh, Scotland, Sep. 26th, 1913.
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.
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.
Lucas, Clarence Reyolds. Mus.B. (Toronto, 1893). Studied in Montréal; at the Paris Conservatory under George Marty and Théodore Dubois (harmony). Professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Toronto College of Music, Ontario, 1889-91; taught in Utica, New York, U.S.A., 1891-93; pianist. Composed operas, piano pieces, songs, &c. b. Smithville, near Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 19th, 1866; d. Sèvres, Paris, France, July 1st, 1947.
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.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jakob Ludwig Felix. Hon.Ph.D. (Leipzig, 1841). Pupil of Berger, Zelter and Hennings; Moscheles, 1824; studied at Berlin University. Organist. Visited England, 1829; toured Germany, Austria, Italy, and France, 1830-32. Conducted the Lower Rhine Festival, Düsseldorf, 1833; Cologne, 1835; Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig, 1835; Philharmonic Concerts, London, 1844; a chief organizer of the Leipzig Conservatory, 1843. Composed oratorios, cantatas, symphonies, incidental music, chamber music, concertos, piano and organ pieces, &c. Brother of Fanny Hensel. b. Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 3rd, 1809; d. Leipzig, Nov. 4th, 1847.
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.
Ouseley, Rev. SirFrederick Arthur Gorebart. (1825-1889)
Biography of Sir Frederick A. Gore Ouseley
Ouseley, SirFrederick Arthur Gore. B.A. (Oxon, 1846), M.A. (Oxon, 1849), Mus.B. (Oxon, 1850), Mus.D. (Oxon, 1854), Mus.D. (Cantab, 1862), Hon.LL.D. (Cantab, 1883), Hon.LL.D. (Edinburgh, 1885). Studied at Christ Church College, Oxford. Organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 1846 (gratuitously). Ordained, 1849; curate of St. Paul’s Knightsbridge, London, 1849-50; founded St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, 1854; professor of music at Oxford University, 1855; precentor at Hereford Cathedral, 1855; president of the Royal College of Organists, 1886. Composed oratorios, services, organ pieces, chamber music, part-songs, songs, &c. Wrote about theory, musical form, &c. b. London, England, Aug. 12th, 1825; d. Hereford, Apr. 6th, 1889.
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.
Raff, Joseph Joachim. Studied in Wiesensetten; at the Jesuit Lyceum, Schwyz. Taught piano at Wiesbaden, 1856; director of the Hoch Conservatory, Frankfurt, 1877-. Composed operas, symphonies, suites, overtures, concertos, cantatas, chamber and church music, songs, &c. b. Lachen, near Zürich, Switzerland, May 27th, 1822; d. Frankfurt-am-Main, June 25th, 1882.
Reger, Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian (1873-1916)
Biography of Max Reger
Reger, Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian. Studied in Weiden with Adalbert Lindner; in Sondershausen with Hugo Reimann, 1890; at the Wiesbaden Conservatory. Organist of Weiden Cathedral, 1886-89. Taught at the Wiesbaden Conservatory, 1895-96; music critic with the “Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung”; professor of harmony, counterpoint and organ at the Royal Academy of Music, Munich, 1905-06; conducted the Porges’ Singing Society; taught composition and instrumentation at the Leipzig Conservatory, 1907-16. Composed orchestral, piano, and organ pieces, songs, chamber music, cantatas, &c. b. Brand, Kemnath, Germany, Mar. 19th, 1873; d. Leipzig, May 11th, 1916.
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.
Schumann, Robert Alexander. Ph.D. (Jena, 1840). Studied at the Zwickau Gymnasium, 1820-28; Leipzig University, (for law), 1828; in Leipzig with Friedrich Wieck (piano). Organist of St. Mary’s, Zwickau. Settled in Dresden, 1844-50. Taught at the Leipzig Conservatory, 1843; town director of music, Düsseldorf, 1850-53; conducted the Lower Rhine Festival, 1853. Permanently crippled one of his fingers with a device he had invented to keep it straight whilst he was playing the piano; he tried to commit suicide by jumping into the Rhine, but was saved by a boatman, 1854, afterwards was committed to an asylum near Bonn. Composed symphonies, concertos, overtures, chamber music, piano pieces, &c. Husband of Clara Schumann. b. Zwickau, Germany, June 8th, 1810; d. Endenich, near Bonn, July 29th, 1856 (insane).
Smart, Henry Thomas. Studied for Law but threw over legal studies to become an organist; pupil of W. H. Kearns. Organist of Blackburn Parish Church, 1831-38; St. Philip’s, Regent Street, London, 1836-44; St. Luke’s, Old Street, London, 1844-64; St. Pancras’, Euston Road, London, 1865-79. Became blind in 1864. Composed an opera, cantatas, services, anthems, part-songs, songs, organ pieces, &c. Designed the organs at Leeds Town Hall and St. Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow. Nephew of Sir George T. Smart. b. Marylebone, London, England, Oct. 26th, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, July 6th, 1879.
Spark, DrWilliam. Mus.D. (Dublin, 1861). Chorister at Exeter Cathedral; articled pupil of Dr S. S. Wesley, 1834. Organist of St. Laurence’s, Exeter, 1840-42; assistant organist of Leeds Parish Church, 1842; St. Paul’s, Leeds; Tiverton Parish Church, c1845; in Daventry; Northampton; organist of St. George’s, Leeds, 1850-80; Leeds Town Hall, 1860-97. Founded and conducted the Leeds Madrigal and Motet Society; the Peoples Concerts; editor of the “Organist Quarterly Journal”. Composed an oratorio, cantatas, anthems, services, organ pieces, songs, &c. Brother of Edward J. Spark. b. Exeter, England, Oct. 28th, 1823; d. Leeds, June 16th, 1897.
Spohr, Ludwig (Louis). Pupil of Riemenschneider and Dufour; studied in Brunswick with Kinisch (violin), Hartung (theory) and Maucourt (violin); pupil of Dufour, Kunisch and Franz Eck. Violinist; director of the Stad Theatre, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1817. Composed operas, symphonies, chamber, church and choral music, &c. b. Brunswick, Germany, Apr. 5th, 1784; d. Cassel, Oct. 22nd, 1859.
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.
Tschaikowsky, Peter Ilyich. Studied in St. Petersburg with Kündinger (piano); at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Zaremba and Anton Rubinstein. Professor of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory, 1866-77. Composed operas, symphonies, ballets, piano music, &c. b. Wotkinsk, Russia, May 7th, 1840; d. St. Petersburg, Nov. 18th, 1893.
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