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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 1919
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1as concertos, and études). His concerto No. 1, op. 52, in F m., was warmly commended by Mendelssohn.
3Vret'blad, Viktor Patrik, b. Svartnäs, Sweden, April 5, 1876. Pupil of Stockholm Cons. (1895–1900); private pupil of Hilda Thegerström (pf.) and J. Dente (cpt. and comp.); won a stipend in 1901, and spent the next year in Berlin. Until 1907 he was org. at the French Ref. Ch. in Stockholm; since 1907, do. at St. Oscar's, where since 1909 he has given elaborate motet soirées. Has publ. Humoreske for vl. and pf., op. 15; pf.-pcs. (op. 3, Skisser; op. 8, Stämningar; op. 10, Impromptu; etc.); organ-pcs. (op. 9, Méditation; op. 11, Élégie and Pastorale; op. 16, In Memoriam; etc.); songs. Author of Johan Helmich Roman, Svenska musikens fader (2 vols., 1914; very important).—His wife Katarina (née Bodman; born Dec. 29, 1883), pupil of Zetterquist in Stockholm and Marteau in Geneva, is an excellent violinist.
5Vreuls [vröls], Victor, born Verviers, Feb. 4, 1876. St. at the Cons. there and at Liège, later privately with V. d'Indy in Paris; won in 1903 the Prix Picard of the Belgian Académie libre; for several years prof. of harm. at the Schola Cantorum.—Works: Jour de Fête, symph. poem; a symphony with vl. solo; Adagio for str.-orch.; Poème for vcl. and orch.; Triptyque for voice and orch.; a pf.-trio in D m.; a vl.-sonata in B; pf.-pcs. and songs.
7Vrieslander [frēs'-], Otto, born Münster, July 18, 1880. Pupil of J. Buths in Düsseldorf and of O. Klaauwell and M. van de Sandt at the Cologne Cons. (1901–2); now (1918) living as composer in Munich. He attracted attention with songs set after the manner of H. Wolf in cycles devoted to one poet. Has publ. Pierrot lunaire (46 poems by A. Guiraud), Lieder und Gesänge aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' (22 poems), Lieder von Goethe (12); also separate songs by various poets.
9Vroye [vrwāh'], Théodore-Joseph de, born Villers-la-Ville, Belgium, Aug. 19, 1804; d. Liège, July 19, 1873, as canon and 'grand-chantre' at the Cathedral. Erudite reformer of plain-song.—Publ. Vesperal (1829); Graduel (1831); Traité du plain-chant à l'usage des séminaires (1839); Manuale cantorum (1849); Processionale (1849); Rituale Romanum (1862); De la musique religieuse (1866; with Elewyck).
11Vuillaume [vüē-yohm'], Jean-Baptiste, famous violin-maker; born Mirecourt, Dept. of Vosges, France, Oct. 7, 1798; d. Paris, Feb. 19, 1875. He came of a family of violin-makers, and learned the trade from his father, Claude V. [1772–1834]. At 19 he went to Paris, and worked with Chanot till 1821, and from 1821–5 for Lété, with whom he then entered into partnership. After Lété's retirement in 1828, V. worked alone, and put his own name on several instrs. which he had constructed with the greatest care; but sales were slow, as the craze for old Italian violins had just set in. Unable to make headway against the prevailing fashion, he deftly turned it to account; after long and patient labor he placed a 'Stradivarius' violin on the market for 300 francs, bearing the master's label, and possessing a full, sonorous tone. Thenceforward he could hardly keep pace with the orders for similar instrs.; he also built 'celli for 500 francs. The sight of a Duiffopruggar viola da gamba inspired him with the idea of further imitations; hence the hundreds of 'Duiffopruggar' violins and 'celli with their quaint shape, carved scrolls, inlays, and the motto 'viva sui in sylvis, etc.' By dint of indefatigable researches and experiments, V. carried the construction of these various instrs. to the highest perfection. His own inventions were numerous:—in 1851 the huge 'Octobasse,' a double-bass 4 metres in length, 3-stringed (CC-GG-C), with a special lever-mechanism to aid the left hand (an 'octobasse' is in the Museum of the Paris Cons.); in 1855 a viola of broader and higher model, the 'contre-alto,' with double strength of tone, but clumsy to play; in 1867 a kind of mute, the 'pédale sourdine'; also a machine for manufacturing gut-strings of perfectly equal thickness. He likewise formulated the laws governing the tapering of the stick of the Tourte bow.
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15Waack, Karl, born Lübeck, Mar. 6, 1861. Pupil of the grand-ducal Musikschule in Weimar; 1882–3, cond. in Åbo, Finland; settled in 1883 in Riga as teacher and cond. of the 'Harmonie' (orchl. soc.); 1890–1, studied further with H. Riemann in Hamburg and Sondershausen (pf. and theory); on his return to Riga he was chosen cond. of the 'Wagnerverein' (Pres., K. F. Glasenapp), and became critic of the 'Düna-Zeitung' (now 'Rigasche Z.'); 1903–14, also cond. of the 'Liedertafel' and 'Bachverein'; 1897–1900 he took part in the Bayreuth Festivals as violinist in the orch. and assistant on the stage; after the outbreak of the war he fled to Lübeck, where he has been cond. (since 1915) of the 'Verein der Musikfreunde.' Has ed. Tristan und Isolde (1904) and Lohengrin (1907) for B. & H.'s 'Textbibliothek' (with leading-motives in notation and references to the full and pf.-scores); also wrote historical introductions and prepared the table of motives for all the Wagner operas in B. & H.'s new editions (1913).
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