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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1Hill, Granville, English organist and music critic; b. Manchester, March 9, 1878; d. there, Dec. 26, 1953. As a youth, he was church organist in Manchester; later began to study piano; achieving a commendable degree of proficiency; in 1936 he was appointed piano prof. at the Leeds College of Music; also became music critic of the 'Manchester Guardian,' leaving that position shortly before his death.
3Hill, Junius Welch, American organist and music editor; b. Hingham, Mass., Nov. 18, 1840; d. Hollywood, Sept. 7, 1916. After studying in Boston with J.C.D. Parker, he went to Germany, where he took courses in piano and composition with Moscheles, Plaidy, Richter, and Reinecke. Returning to Boston in 1863, he was organist at various churches; taught at Wellesley College (1884-97); then settled in California. He publ. a number of choral works for women's voices; edited several collections of music, among them 'Treasures of Lyric Art,' 'Arabesques,' 'Mozaiques,' 'Characteristic Piano Pieces,' etc.
5Hill, Mabel Wood-. See Wood-Hill.
7Hill, Ralph, English writer on music; b. Wattingford, Oct. 8, 1900; d. London, Oct. 20, 1950. He was first active in music publishing (1920-29); was music editor of the 'Radio Times' (1933-45); also wrote for the 'Daily Mail' (1933-39 and 1945-50); publ. An Outline of Musical History (1929); Brahms: a Study in Musical Biography (1933); Liszt (1936); Challenges: a Series of Controversial Essays (1943); Music Without Fears (1945).
9Hill, Richard S., American music librarian; b. Chicago, Sept. 25, 1901. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy; studied at Cornell Univ. (B. A., 1924); post-graduate work at Oxford Univ., England (1924-26); held research fellowship in psychology under Kurt Koffka at Smith College (1927-29); returned to Cornell for further study and research in psychology and musicology, the latter under Otto Kinkeldey. In Sept., 1939, joined staff of Music Division, Library of Congress; made Head of Reference Section. 1950-51, vice president of the American Musicological Society. He was an associate editor of the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association, 'Notes,' during the last issues of its first series, and has served as editor since Dec., 1943. He was president of the International Association of Music Libraries (1951-55). He has contributed important articles to music magazines, one of the most notable being Schoenberg's Tone Rows and the Tonal System of the Future ('Mus. Quarterly,' Jan., 1936). In collaboration with Kurtz Myers, he edited a new type of discography publ. under the title Record Ratings (N. Y., 1956).
11Hill, Ureli Corelli, American violinist and conductor; b. New York, c. 1802; d. Paterson, N. J., Sept. 2, 1875. His father, Uriah K. Hill, was a teacher of music in Boston and N. Y., and author of a manual, Solfeggio Americano, a System of Singing (N. Y., 1820). An admirer of Corelli, he named his son after him; the first name (Ureli) is a combination of the father's name Uriah and a friend's name, Eli. Ureli Corelli Hill played violin in various theaters in N. Y. as a boy; was violinist in the orch. of Garcia's opera company in 1825; then joined the N. Y. Sacred Musical Society, and conducted it in the first American performance, with orchestral accompaniment, of Handel's Messiah (1831). In 1836 he went to Germany, where he studied a year with Spohr. Returning to N. Y., he became a founder and first president of the N. Y. Philharmonic (1842-48); then went West in quest of fortune, which, however, failed to materialize. In N. Y. he exhibited a pianoforte of his own invention, in which he used small bell tuning-forks in place of strings, so as to secure perfect intonation; the attempt to promote this instrument met with failure. He played the violin in the N. Y. Philharmonic until 1873, when he retired because of age; continued to play engagements in various theater orchestras throughout his life; then moved to Paterson, N. J., where he engaged (unsuccessfully) in real estate schemes. Depressed on account of constant setbacks in his ventures of promotion in music and in business, he committed suicide by swallowing morphine.
13Hill, W. E. & Sons, a firm of violin makers and music dealers in London. It is claimed that 'Mr. Hill, the instrument maker,' mentioned in Pepys' Diary (1660) was an ancestor of the present owners. The founder of the firm was Joseph Hill (1715-84); he served as an apprentice to Peter Wamsley; established his business about 1750. He had 5 sons, who were good violinists. William Ebsworth Hill, a grandson of the founder (b. London, 1817; d. Hanley, April 2, 1895), adopted the present name of the firm; his instruments took first prize at the expositions in London (1851) and Paris (1867). His sons, William Henry, Arthur
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