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A Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1several intricate pf.-pieces (op. 13, Dances in counterpoint; op. 62, 12 Contrapuntal pieces, op. 76, Prose and Music; op. 55, 4 books [24 numbers] of amusing Fugues 1. 4 hands on national and operatic airs, etc.); 2 string-quartets (No. 2 is "Die 4 Temperamente"); the burlesque opera Ali Hutsch-Hutsch (1844); songs, etc. His magnum opus is the valuable treatise "Die Grundsatze der musikalischen Composition" (3 vol s, 1853, '54), on the lines of Rameau's basso fondamentale. He also publ. a "Generalbass-Schule," and a new ed. of Marpurg's "Abhandlung von der Fuge."
3See'ling, Hans [Hanus], b. Prague, 1828; d. there May 26, 1862. Pianist of great technical ability and admirable style; went to Italy in 1852, where he made his début; thence to the East, again to Italy, in Paris (1859), then making Germany his home. Many brilliant pieces (op. 10, 12, Concert-studies; op. 2, Loreley; etc.).
5Se'ger(t), Joseph, b. Řepin, Bohemia, Mar. 21, 1716; d. Apr. 22, 1782, at Prague, as organist of the Kreuzherrenkirche. Excellent organist and teacher; taught by Czernohorsky and Fr. Benda at Prague; among his pupils were Kozeluch, Maschek, Mysliweczek, etc.—Publ. 8 Toccatas and Fugues f. org.; many masses, psalms, etc., are in MS.
7Seghers, François-Jean-Baptiste, b. Brussels, Jan. 17, 1801; d. Margency, n. Paris, Feb. 2, 1881. Violinist, pupil of Gensse and Baillot (Paris Cons.); founded the Société Ste.-Cécile in 1848, and cond. it till 1854.
9Segond, L. A., a physician at Paris; took singing-lessons of Manuel Garcia, and publ. "Hygiène du chanteur. Influence du chant sur l'économie animale. Causes principales de l'affaiblissement de la voix et du développement de certaines maladies chez les chanteurs. Moyens de prévenir ces maladies" (1846); and "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire anatomique et physiologique de la phonation" (1850; lectures at the Académie).
11Sei'bert, Louis, b. Cleeberg, n. Wiesbaden, May 22, 1833. Teacher of pf. at Wiesbaden Cons.; comp. of orch. and chamber-music, male choruses, etc.
13Sei'del, Friedrich Ludwig, b. Treuenbrietzen, Brandenburg, June 1, 1765; d. Charlottenburg, May 5, 1831. Pupil of Benda at Berlin, and organist of the Marienkirche; 1801, asst.-cond. at the National-Theater; 1808, mus. dir. of the Royal orch.; 1822, court Kapellm.—Works: The operas Jery und Rötely, Der Dorfbarbier (1817), Lila (1818); incld. music to dramas; an oratorio, Die Gusterblichkeit (1797); masses, motets, songs, pf.-music.
15Sei'del, Johann Julius, b. Breslau, July 14, 1810; d. there Feb. 13, 1856. Org. at St. Christopher's ('h.—Publ. "Die Orgel und ihr Bau" (1843; now ed.s '75, '87), a clear and concise handbook.
17Seidl, Anton, eminent conductor; b. Pesth, May 7, 1850, d. New York, Mar. 28, 1898. Pupil of Leipzig Cons. 1870-2, then eng. by Hans Richter as chorusmaster at the Vienna Opera. Richter recommended him to Wagner, to assist in preparing the score and parts of the Nibelung Trilogy; S. worked in Bayreuth till 1879, when he acted for a short time as Kapellm. at the Leipzig City Th.; but in the same year Angelo Neumann eng. him for his great Wagner tournée, continuing until 1883. From 1883-5 S. cond. the Bremen Opera; here he met and married the soprano singer Fil. Krauss. In 1885 he was eng. at New York by Walter Damrosch and E. C. Stanton to cond. opera in the Metropolitan Opera House, a post occupied until the reaction (1891-2) to Italian opera. In 1895 he again cond. a supplementary season of German opera, and was regularly eng. for 1896-7; also cond. the Philharm. Orch. and the Sunday Night Concerts, and made tours with his orch. In 1897 he conducted at Covent Garden, London. To fore-stall offers from the Continent a movement was started, shortly before S.'s death, to raise a fund for a permanent concert- and opera-orch. in New York.—S. was par excellence a Wagner conductor, and, as such, enjoyed great authority; he was one of the cond.s at the Bayreuth Festival in 1886 and 1897.
19Seidl, Arthur, b. Munich, June 8, 1863. Pupil of the R. School of Music at Ratisbon; studied with Paul, Stade, Spitta, and Bellermann; Dr. phil., Leipzig, 1887 (valuable dissertation "Vom Musikalisch-Erhabenen. Prolegomena zur Ästhetik der Tonkunst"); also publ. "Zur Geschichte des Erhabenheitsbegriffs seit Kant" (1889). Living in Dresden.
21Seifert, Uso, b. Römhild, Thuringia, Feb. 9, 1852. Pupil of Wüllner, Blassmann, Merkel, Nicodé, and Rischbieter, at Dresden Cons.; now teacher there, and organist of the Reformed Church.—Works: A popular Method f. pf.; numerous pf.-pieces (Capriccietto, Valse-Imromptu, Polacca graziosa, Polonaise, a grand étude "Ohne Rast, ohne Ruh'"; etc.); songs. Has edited classic instructive works.
23Seifriz, Max, b. Rottweil, Württemberg, Oct. 9, 1827; d. Stuttgart, Dec. 20, 1885. Violinist; pupil of Täglichsbeck; 1854-69, court Kapellm. to Prince Hohenzollern at Lüwenberg; from 1871, mus. dir. at Stuttgart.—Works: Incld. music to Die Jungfrau von Orleans; concert-cantata Ariadne auf Naxos; a symphony; choruses f. male and mixed voices.
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