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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1TANS'UR — TAPPERT
3(1945); Ricercari (St. Louis, Dec. 22, 1949); Capriccio (Louisville, March 6, 1955); chamber music: 8 string quartets (No. 1, 1917; No. 8, 1956); Danse de la sorcière, for woodwind quintet and piano (a version of the ballet; 1925); a string sextet (1940); Divertimento, for oboe, clarinet, trumpet, cello, and piano (1944); violin sonata (1919); flute sonata (1925); cello sonata (1930); etc.; for piano: 20 pièces faciles polonaises (1924); Sonata rustica (1925); mazurkas, and other Polish dances; Sonatine transatlantique (1930; very popular; contains imitations of jazz; also for orch., Paris, Feb. 28, 1931; used by Kurt Jooss for his ballet Impressions of a Big City, Cologne, Nov. 21, 1932); Pour les enfants, 4 albums for piano. He publ. a monograph on Stravinsky (Paris, 1948; in English, Igor Stravinsky: The Man and His Music, N. Y.; 1949); contributed numerous articles on Polish music to the 'Revue Musicale' and other publications. — Cf. Irving Schwercké, Alexandre Tansman, Compositeur polonais (Paris, 1931); R. Petit, Alexandre Tansman, in the 'Revue Musicale' (Feb., 1929).
5Tans'ur, William, English organist, composer, and lexicographer; b. Dunchurch (baptized, Nov. 6), 1706; d. St. Neots, Oct. 7, 1783. His real name was Tanzer, and he was the son of Edward Tanzer; he changed his name to Tans'ur (using the apostrophe). He was a church organist and taught music in various provincial towns in England. His publications include: The Royal Melody Compleat, or the New Harmony of Sion (2nd ed., 1760; 3rd ed., in 3 parts, 1764, 1765, 1766; at least 11 American eds. are known, publ. as The American Harmony, or Royal Melody Complete, or under similar, slightly varying titles); Heaven on Earth, or the Beauty of Holiness (1738); Sacred Mirth, or the Pious Soul's Daily Delight (1739); The Universal Harmony (1743, etc.); The Psalm-Singer's Jewel (1760, etc.); Melodia sacra (1771, 1772); New Musical Grammar (1746; 7th ed., 1829); an epitome of this last, The Elements of Music Displayed (1772). — For details on various eds. see I. Lowens and Allen P. Britton, in 'Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America' (1955, No. 4; pp. 340-54).
7Tapper, Bertha (née Feiring), wife of Thomas Tapper (q.v.).
9Tapper, Thomas, American music educator; b. Canton, Mass., Jan. 28, 1864; d. White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1958. He studied music in Europe; from 1897 to 1905 was editor of the 'Musician'; then taught at N. Y. Univ. (1908-12); was lecturer at the Institute of Musical Art (1905-24); also filled other editorial and educational positions. His publications include The Music Life (1891); The Education of the Music Teacher (1914); Essentials in Music History (1914; with Percy Goetschius); The Melodic Music Course, 28 vols. (with F. H. Ripley); Harmonic Music Course, 7 vols.; The Modern Graded Piano Course, 19 vols.; Music Theory and Composition, 6 vols.; From Palestrina to Grieg (Boston, 1929; 2nd ed., 1946). — His wife, Bertha Feiring Tapper (b. Christiania, Norway, Jan. 25, 1859; d. New York, Sept. 2, 1915), was a good pianist; studied with Agathe Backer-Gröndahl in Norway and with Leschetizky in Vienna; came to America in 1881; taught piano at the New England Cons., Boston (1889-97) and at the Institute of Musical Art, N. Y. (1905-10); edited 2 vols. of Grieg's piano works; publ. piano pieces and songs. She married Thomas Tapper on Sept. 22, 1895.
11Tapper, Wilhelm, German music scholar and writer; b. Ober-Thomaswaldau, Silesia, Feb. 19, 1830; d. Berlin, Oct. 27, 1907. He was trained as a schoolmaster till 1856, when he entered Kullak's Academy of Music in Berlin; studied theory privately with Dehn; settled in Berlin. He was editor of the 'Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung' (1876-80); collected a large assemblage of old tablatures, including unique specimens; after his death this collection and his entire valuable library was acquired by the Royal Library of Berlin. An ardent admirer of Wagner, he publ. a curious volume, Ein Wagner-Lexikon: Wörterbuch der Unhöflichkeit, enthaltend grobe, höhnende, gehässige und verläumderische Ausdrücke welche gegen den Meister Richard Wagner, seine Werke und seine Anhänger von den Feinden und Spöttern gebraucht worden sind. Zur Gemütsergötzung in müßigen Stunden gesammelt, a collection of anti-Wagner reviews (Leipzig, 1877); a 2nd, enlarged ed. was publ. under the title Richard Wagner im Spiegel der Kritik (Leipzig, 1903). Other publications: Musik und musikalische Erziehung (1867); Musikalische Studien (1868); Das Verbot der Quintenparallelen (1869); Wandernde Melodien (2nd ed., 1889); 54 Erikönig-Kompositionen (1898; 2nd ed., 1906); Sang und Klang aus alter Zeit (1906); also publ. arrangements of old German songs; 50 left-hand studies for piano; other piano pieces.
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