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1CHAIX — CHAMBOUNIÈRES
3Chaix (shā), Charles, French teacher and composer; b. Paris, March 26, 1885. He studied at the École Niedermeyer, Paris; then at the Geneva Cons., where he later taught theory (1909-24), counterpoint (1927) and composition (1937). He has written 2 symphonies (1914; 1928); Scherzo for orch. (1910); Poème funèbre for soli, chorus and orch. (1922); piano quintet (1941); chorale for oboe and string orch. (1944); string quartet (1948); also works for unaccompanied chorus. He edited Rousseau's opera Le Devin du Village for the Édition Nationale Suisse (1924); published a treatise on harmony, Éléments d'écriture musicale (1935).
5Chajes (chā'-hās), Julius, composer; b. Lwow, Poland, Dec. 21, 1910. He studied piano with Richard Robert and Hedwig Rosenthal in Vienna; composition with Hugo Kauder; in 1933 won a prize at the International Contest for pianists in Vienna; from 1934-36 taught piano at the Tel-Aviv Cons., Israel; in 1937 came to the U. S.; from 1939-40 taught at the N. Y. College of Music; then became director of music at the Jewish Community Center in Detroit (from 1940). Works: Fantasy for piano and orch. (Vienna Radio, Oct. 9, 1928, composer soloist); cello concerto (Karlsbad, Aug. 5, 1932); 142nd Psalm for soli, chorus and strings (Jüdischer Kulturbund, Berlin, June, 1937; 1st American perf., N. Y., May 18, 1944); piano concerto (Vienna Radio, Nov. 25, 1953; Detroit Symph., Dec. 17, 1953, composer soloist); several cantatas on biblical subjects; string quartet; piano trio; piano pieces; arrangements of Israeli folksongs for choir (awarded the prize of the Jewish Cultural Association, Berlin, 1937).
7Chaliapin, Feodor. See Shaliapin.
9Challier (shāhl-yā'), Ernst, German music publisher; b. Berlin, July 9, 1843; d. Giessen, Sept. 19, 1914. His company, located in Berlin, published songs, duets, and trios.
11Chalmers, Donald, American bass; b. in Pennsylvania, Aug. 4, 1879; d. Wanna-massa, N. J., May 16, 1937. He toured the U. S. with E. Schumann-Heink in 1912, and sang at many music festivals with Nordica and Melba; organized the Criterion Quartet of New York; from 1917-37 was director of the Ocean Grove Auditorium.
13Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, English writer on music; b. Portsmouth, Sept. 9, 1855; d. Bayreuth, Jan. 9, 1927. He received his earliest education at Versailles, and then studied at Cheltenham College, Gloucester. Because of ill health he was obliged to abandon his intention of following a military career (his father was a British admiral), and in 1870 he went to Stettin. His association with Prof. Kuntze there filled him with enthusiasm for Germanic culture and civilization, to the study of which he devoted many years. The results of these studies he published in a remarkable work, Die Grundlagen des 19. Jahrhunderts (Munich, 1899-1901; 10th ed. 1914; English translation by Lord Redesdale, London, 1910). The years 1879-81 he spent in Geneva, studying science at the Univ. (taking his degree with the dissertation Recherches sur la sève ascendante) and music with A. Ruthardt. During his residence at Dresden (1885-9) he began his activities as contributor to various German, French and English journals, writing with equal facility in three languages. From 1889-1908 he lived in Vienna. In the latter year he married Wagner's daughter, Eva, then lived in Bayreuth. Chamberlain was one of the most ardent and influential apostles of Wagner's art, a man of deep penetration and keen analytical power. His great Wagner biography is, in fact, rather a profound psychological study than a mere record of events. Besides books dealing with literature and philosophy Chamberlin published the following: Das Drama Richard Wagners (Leipzig, 1892; 6th ed., 1921; French translation 1894; English translation 1915); Richard Wagner. Echte Briefe an F. Praeger (Bayreuth, 1894; 2d ed. 1908); Richard Wagner (Munich, 1896; 9th ed. 1936; English translation 1897; French translation 1899); Die ersten 20 Jahre der Bayreuther Bühnenfestspiele (Bayreuth, 1896); Parsifal-märchen (Munich, 1900; 3rd ed. 1916); Lebenswege meines Denkens, autobiography (1919).—Cf. L. von Schroeder, Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1918); Anna Chamberlain (his first wife, married 1878, divorced 1908), Meine Erinnerungen an Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1923).
15Chambonnières (shāhn-bōhn-yār), Jacques Champion (called Champion de Chambonnières), French clavecinist and composer, b. c. 1602; d. Paris, 1672. He was first chamber musician to Louis XIV, and the teacher of the elder Couperins, d'Anglebert, Le Bègue, Hardelle and others. Considered the founder of the French clavecin school, he was famed throughout Europe, and his style strongly influenced that of contemporary German composers, among them Froberger. Two books of his clavecin pieces were printed (1670). H. Quittard publ. his
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