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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1(1908-18) director of music at University College, Reading. In 1918 he succeeded Sir Walter Parratt as prof. of music at Oxford, and in the same year became director of the Royal College of Music, London, from which he resigned in 1937 (succeeded by George Dyson). He was knighted in 1920. For many years he conducted the London and the Oxford Bach Choirs; he was an ardent promoter of British music. — Cf. C. Bailey, Hugh Percy Allen (London, 1948).
3Allen, Nathan H., American organist and choral conductor; b. Marion, Mass., April 14, 1848; d. Hartford, Conn., May 9, 1925. He studied organ in Berlin; was active as church organist and teacher in Hartford, Conn. From 1906-11 he was organist at Worcester, Mass., then returned to Hartford. He wrote church music (including a cantata, The Apotheosis of St. Dorothy), and concert pieces for organ, violin and piano.
5Allen, Paul Hastings, American composer; b. Hyde Park, Mass., Nov. 28, 1883; d. Boston, Sept. 28, 1952. He studied at Harvard Univ. (A.B., 1903), then in Italy. During World War I was in the American diplomatic service there; returning to the U. S. in 1920 and settling in Boston. A prolific composer, he wrote 12 operas, mostly in Italian, several of which were performed in Italy. They include Il Filtro (Genoa, Oct. 26, 1912); Milda (Venice, June 14, 1913); L'Ultimo dei Mohicani (Florence, Feb. 24, 1916); Cleopatra (1921); La piccola Figaro (1931). His Pilgrim Symphony received the Paderewski prize (1910); other orchestral works are largely unperformed. Allen wrote much chamber music, some for unusual combinations, such as a quartet for 2 clarinets, basset-horn and bass-clarinet; several piano sonatas and a great number of other piano pieces; choral works and songs. His writing is marked by technical mastery in a romantic style.
7Allen, Warren D., American musicologist; b. San José, Cal., Aug. 3, 1885. He studied at the Univ. of Cal.; later with Fielitz in Berlin and with Widor in Paris. From 1913-19 he was dean of music at the College of the Pacific, San José. In 1918 he became choral director at Stanford Univ.; from 1940 till 1949, on the faculty there; 1949-55, prof. at Florida State Univ.; retired in 1955 and settled in Seattle. — Books: Philosophies of Music History (1939) and Our Marching Civilization (1943).
9Allende (ah-yěn-dā) Sarón, (Pedro) Humberto, eminent Chilean composer; b. Santiago, June 29, 1885. He studied violin and theory at the National Cons. in Santiago (1899-1908); then taught in public schools there. Elected member of the Chilean Folklore Soc. in 1911. He was in France and Spain (1922-23); appointed Chilean delegate to the Congress of Popular Arts in Prague, under the auspices of the League of Nations (1928); in 1929 he took part in the Festival of Ibero-American Music in Barcelona. He was prof. of composition at the National Cons. in Santiago from 1928-45. In 1945 he received the Chilean Government Prize. In his music, Allende combines authentic national sentiment with a modern treatment, often in an impressionistic manner. He has written a Symphony in B Flat (1910; awarded Chilean Centennial Prize); Campesinas Chilenas for orch. (1913); cello concerto (1915); La Voz de las Calles, symphonic poem utilizing street cries of Chilean cities (Santiago, May 20, 1921); La Despedida for 2 sopranos, contralto and orch. (Santiago, May 7, 1934); violin concerto (Santiago, Nov. 27, 1942); string quartet (1947); 3 piano sonatas (1909-15); 12 Tonadas de carácter popular chileno for piano (1918-22; his most distinctive work in a national style; also arranged for orch.) and songs. He also published a teaching manual Método Original de Iniciación Musical (Santiago, 1937). — Cf. special issue of 'Revista Musical Chilena' (Sept., 1945); N. Slonimsky, Humberto Allende, First Modernist of Chile, in 'Musical America,' (Aug. 1942); V. S. Vill, La Creación Musical en Chile, pp. 115-129 (Santiago, 1952).
11Allihn, Heinrich (Max), German music scholar; b. Halle-on-Saale, Aug. 31, 1841; d. there Nov. 15, 1910; from 1885 pastor and school inspector at Allenstedt; edited the 2nd edition (1888) of Töpfer's Lehrbuch der Orgelbaukunst (Theorie und Praxis des Orgelbaues); publ. Die Hausinstrumente Klavier und Harmonium (1892), and Die Pflege des musikalischen Teils des Gottesdienstes (1906); contributed many essays to De Wit's 'Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau.'
13d'Almeida, Fernando, Portuguese composer; b. Lisbon, c. 1618; d. Thomar, March 21, 1660. Distinguished pupil of Duarte Lobo; in 1638, entered the Order of Christ at Thomar. Of his many church compositions, only one folio vol. in MS. is known: Lamentos, Responsorias e Misereres das tres ofícias da Quarta, Quinta e Sexta-feira da Semana Santa.
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