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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900

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1Fritz Reiner. In 1942 he was appointed head of the dept. of composition at the Philadelphia Cons.; in 1948, joined the staff of the Juilliard School of Music, N. Y.; wrote (with Flora Rheta Schreiber) the monograph William Schuman (N. Y., 1954). Persichetti's music is remarkable for its contrapuntal compactness, in a synthetic style, amalgamating the seemingly incompatible idioms of different historical epochs; the basis is tonal, but the component parts often move independently, creating polytonal combinations; the rhythmic element is always strong and emphatic; the melody is more frequently diatonic than chromatic or atonal. —Works: 4 symphonies: No. 1 (1942; Rochester, Oct. 21, 1947); No. 2 (1942); No. 3 (Philadelphia, Nov. 21, 1947); No. 4 (Philadelphia, Dec. 17, 1954); concertino for piano and orch. (Rochester, Oct. 23, 1945); Dance Overture (Tokyo, Feb. 7, 1948); Fables, for narrator and orch. (Philadelphia, April 20, 1945); The Hollow Men, for trumpet and string orch. (Germantown, Dec. 12, 1946); Divertimento for band (N. Y., June 16, 1950); Fairy Tale, for orch. (1950); Pageant, for band (Miami, March 7, 1953); Symphony for Strings (Louisville, Aug. 28, 1954); a series of serenades for various groups: No. 1, for 10 wind instruments (1929); No. 2, for piano (1929); No. 3, for violin, cello, and piano (1941); No. 4, for violin and piano (1945); No. 5, for orch. (Louisville, Nov. 15, 1950); No. 6, for trombone, viola, and cello (1950); No. 7, for piano (1952); No. 8, for piano, 4 hands (1954); King Lear, ballet music for 7 instruments (Martha Graham Co., Montclair, N. J., Jan. 31, 1949); 2 string quartets (1939; 1944); suite for violin and cello (1940); sonata for solo violin (1940); 2 piano quintets: No. 1 (1940); No. 2 (Library of Congress, Washington, Kroll String Quartet and the composer, Feb. 4, 1955; his most remarkable chamber music work); violin sonata (1941); Pastoral for woodwind quintet (Philadelphia, April 20, 1945); Vocalise for cello and piano (1945); sonata for unaccompanied cello (1952); 9 piano sonatas; 6 piano sonatinas; 3 sets of Poems for piano; sonata for 2 pianos (1940); concerto for piano 4 hands (1952); The Little Piano Book (1953); Magnificat for chorus and organ (1940); Two Chinese Songs (1945); 3 Canons for Voices (1947); several choruses; harpsichord sonata (1951); a sonatina for organ (pedals alone); etc. —Cf. Robert Evett, The Music of Vincent Persichetti, in the 'Juilliard Review' (Spring, 1955).
3Persinger, Louis, American violinist and teacher; b. Rochester, Ill., Feb. 11, 1887. He studied with Hans Becker at the Leipzig Cons., 1900-04, making his début at a Cons. concert on March 23, 1904; then went for further study to Ysaÿe in Brussels (1905-08); also coached with J. Thibaud in Paris; 1909-11, he made successful tours of Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia; 1912-13, first extended American tour; 1913-14, another tour of Germany; 1914-15, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic; 1915-17, with the San Francisco Symph. Orch.; 1916-28, director and 1st violin of 'The Chamber-Music Society of San Francisco'; 1929-30, prof. of violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music; 1930, succeeded Leopold Auer at the Juilliard Graduate School, N. Y. His pupils include Yehudi Menuhin and Guila Bustabo. He has publ. transcriptions and arrangements for violin. In 1913 he married the pianist Angela Gianelli (d. 1954); remarried in 1956.
5Perti, Jacopo Antonio, Italian composer; b. Crevalcore, near Bologna, June 6, 1661; d. there, April 10, 1756. A pupil of Padre Petronio Franceschini, as early as 1680 he brought out a Mass, and next year was elected a member of the Accademia Filarmonica, of which he was five times the president. After spending several years as an opera composer at Parma, he became maestro at San Pietro in Bologna (1690), and in 1696 maestro at San Petronio. He wrote 24 operas, the most successful of which was Il Furio Camillo (Venice, 1692), and 19 oratorios; publ. the oratorio Abramo vincitor de' propri affetti (1687), Cantate morali e spirituali (1688), and Messe e salmi concertati (1735). His MSS were dispersed; Abbate Santini possessed a valuable collection. Extant works include 4 Passions and 8 oratorios at Bologna, an Adoramus Te in the Fitzwilliam Collection, Cambridge, 2 fine choruses in Novello's 'Sacred Music,' and other compositions in various collections. —Cf. L. Mancini, J. A. Perti (Bologna, 1813); G. Atti, Orazione in lode di I. A. Perti (1844); an extended biography of Perti is found in L. Busi's Il Padre Giambatt. Martini (Bologna, 1891; vol. I, p. 61 et seq.); F. Giegling, G. A. Perti, in 'Die Musikforschung' (1955, No. 4).
7Pessard (pěhs-sahr'), Émile-Louis-Fortuné, French composer; b. Paris, May 29, 1843; d. there, Feb. 10, 1917. Pupil in the Paris Cons. of Bazin (harmony), Laurent (piano), Benoist (organ), and Carafa (composition); won the 1st harmony-prize in 1862, and the

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