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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1HERBLAY — HERBST
3ias, which was produced with encouraging success in New York (Nov. 20, 1894). From 1898 to 1904, Herbert was conductor of the Pittsburgh Symph. Orch., presenting some of his own compositions: Episodes amoureuses (Feb. 2, 1900); Hero and Leander (Jan. 18, 1901); Woodland Fancies (Dec. 6, 1901); Columbus (Jan. 2, 1903). In 1900 he directed at Madison Square Garden, New York, an orch. of 420 performers for the benefit of the sufferers in the Galveston flood. On April 29, 1906 he led a similar monster concert at the Hippodrome for the victims of the San Francisco earthquake. In 1904 he organized the Victor Herbert N. Y. Orch.; and gave concerts in New York and neighboring communities. But it is as a composer of light operas that Herbert became chiefly known. In the best of these he unites spontaneous melody, sparkling rhythm, and simple but tasteful harmony, while his experience as a symphonic composer and conductor imparted a solidity of texture to his writing that placed him far above the many gifted amateurs in this field. Furthermore, he possessed a natural communicative power in his music, which made his operettas spectacularly successful with the public. In the domain of grand opera, he was not so fortunate. When the production of his first grand opera, Natoma, took place at Philadelphia on Feb. 25, 1911, it aroused great expectations; but the opera failed to sustain lasting interest. Still less effective was his second opera, Madeleine, staged by the Metropolitan Opera Co. in New York on Jan. 24, 1914. Herbert was one of the founders of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1914, and was vice-president from that date until his death. In 1916 he wrote a special score for the motion picture, The Fall of a Nation, in synchronization with the screen play. A list of his operettas follows: Prince Ananias (N. Y., Nov. 20, 1894); The Wizard of the Nile (Chicago, Sept. 26, 1895); The Gold Bug (N. Y., Sept. 21, 1896); The Serenade (Cleveland, Feb. 17, 1897); The Idol's Eye (Troy, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1897); The Fortune Teller (Toronto, Sept. 14, 1898); Cyrano de Bergerac (Montreal, Sept. 11, 1899); The Singing Girl (Montreal, Oct. 2, 1899); The Ameer (Scranton, Oct. 9, 1899); The Viceroy (San Francisco, Feb. 12, 1900); Babes in Toyland (Chicago, June 17, 1903); Babette (Washington, Nov. 9, 1903); It Happened in Nordland (Harrisburg, Nov. 21, 1904); Miss Dolly Dollars (Rochester, Aug. 31, 1905); Wonderland (Buffalo, Sept. 14, 1905); Mlle. Modiste (Trenton, Oct. 7, 1905; Herbert's most popular work); The Red Mill (Buffalo, Sept. 3, 1906); Dream City (N. Y., Dec. 25, 1906); The Tattooed Man (Baltimore, Feb. 11, 1907); The Rose of Algeria (Wilkes-Barre, Sept. 11, 1909); Little Nemo (Philadelphia, Sept. 28, 1908); The Prima Donna (Chicago, Oct. 5, 1908); Old Dutch (Wilkes-Barre, Nov. 6, 1909); Naughty Marietta (Syracuse, Oct. 24, 1910; highly successful); When Sweet Sixteen (Springfield, Mass., Dec. 5, 1910); Mlle. Rosita (later called The Duchess, Boston, March 27, 1911); The Enchantress (Washington, Oct. 9, 1911); The Lady of the Slipper (Philadelphia, Oct. 8, 1912); The Madcap Duchess (Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1913); Sweethearts (Baltimore, March 24, 1913); The Débutante (Atlantic City, Sept. 21, 1914); The Only Girl (Atlantic City, Oct. 1, 1914); Princess Pat (Atlantic City, Aug. 23, 1915); Eileen (Cleveland, Jan. 1, 1917, as Hearts of Erin); Her Regiment (Springfield, Mass., Oct. 22, 1917); The Velvet Lady (Philadelphia, Dec. 23, 1918); My Golden Girl (Stamford, Conn., Dec. 19, 1919); The Girl in the Spotlight (Stamford, Conn., July 7, 1920); Oui, Madame (Philadelphia, March 22, 1920); Orange Blossoms (Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1922); The Dream Girl (New Haven, April 22, 1924). He also composed music for the following stage productions: Cinderella Man (1915), The Century Girl (1916), Ziegfeld Follies (1917, 1920-23), The Willow Plate (marionette play by Tony Sarg, 1924). Besides the above works he wrote Serenade, op. 12; a second concerto for cello, op. 30; Suite romantique, op. 31; Pan-Americana; a Suite of Serenades (composed for Paul Whiteman's orch.; perf. 1924); Golden Days; Dramatic Overture; orchestral arrangements; men's choruses; songs; many pieces for piano, violin and piano, and cello and piano.—Cf. J. Kaye, Victor Herbert (N. Y., 1931); Edward N. Waters, Victor Herbert (exhaustive biography, with a full list of works; N. Y., 1955).
5Herbst, Johannes, 'Moravian' minister and composer; b. Kempten, Swabia, July 23, 1735; d. Salem, North Carolina, Jan. 15, 1812. Herbst came to the United States in 1786 to serve as minister at Lancaster, Pa. and later at Lititz; brought with him an incredibly large collection of music manuscripts which he had copied in Europe. Included in the collection, which is preserved in its entirety in the Moravian Church Archives at Winston-Salem, N. C., are over 1000 anthems and sacred songs and about
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