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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 1919
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1dino and Marcia-Capriccio, op. 55; sonatina, op. 57; also transcriptions of his other works. —Vocal works: 2 masses f. male chorus (op. 28, D; op. 29, Ab); 3 sacred songs f. mixed ch., op. 38; 2 do. for do., op. 70; offertories f. soli, ch. and orch., op. 47; songs f. male ch., op. 30, 48, 58; Christmas Carol of the 12th century, op. 59; old German hymn f. double male chorus, op. 64; 6 duets on old German poems, op. 67; songs f. mixed ch. (op. 71, 75); alto solo w. orch., An die Nacht, op. 45; dram. scene f. soprano w. orch., Sappho, op. 49; Kirchenarie f. bass, w. flute and strings, op. 65; 2 songs f. mezzo-soprano, w. pf. and cello, op. 56; many songs (op. 2, 13, 16, 46, 52, 54, 66, 72).—Without op.-number: Konzertouvertüre in C; Ariette for vl. and pf.; vars. on the Rheinweinlied for pf.; Capriccietto for do.; Weihnacht for 3-part fem. ch.; Im Wiesengrün for mixed ch.; 4 male choruses; 2 songs (Der träumende See, Der grüne Teich).—Cf. B. Vogel, R. V. (Leipzig, 1875); H. Volkmann, R. V. Sein Leben und seine Werke (ib., 1902); id., R. V. (ib., 1915; a new work giving fuller biogr. data); C. Preiss, R. V. Kritische Beiträge zu seinem Schaffen (Graz, 1912); V. von Herzelfeld, R. V., in 'Mus. Quart.' (July, 1915).
3Vol'kov, Fedor Grigorlevitch, b. Kostroma, 1729; d. Petrograd, 1763. He is not only the 'founder of the Russian theatre,' but also the author of the libretto of the first opera in Russian, Titovo miloserdie [Titus the Merciful], music by Francesco 'Araja (Petrograd, 1751); the generally accepted belief that he is the comp. of the first Russian opera, Taniusha ili stchastlivaya vstrietcha [T., or The Fortunate Meeting] (Petrograd, Dec. 9, 1756) seems to rest on rather slender foundations.
5Voll'hardt, Emil Reinhardt, b. Seifersdorf, Saxony, Oct. 16, 1858. Pupil of Leipzig Cons.; 1883–6, org. in Hirschberg, Silesia; since then in Zwickau as cantor at St. Mary's and cond. of the 'Lehrergesangverein' and librarian of the 'Ratsschulbibliothek'; 1887–1907, also cond. of the a cappella section of the 'Musikverein'; made Kgl. Prof. in 1915. Has publ. much a capp. music (sacred and secular) and songs. Author of Bibliographie der Musikschätze in der Zwickauer Ratsschulbibliothek (1896), Geschichte der Kantoren und Organisten in den Städten Sachsens (1899).
7Voll'weiler, Karl, b. Offenbach, Nov. 27, 1813; d. Heidelberg, Jan. 27, 1848. Pupil of his father, a Frankfort music-teacher (d. Nov. 17, 1847); piano-teacher in Petrograd, then at Heidelberg.—Publ. 2 pf.-trios, op. 2, 15; a pf.-sonata, op. 3; 6 melodic pf.-études, op. 4; lyric études, op. 9 and 10; other pf.-music; Variations on Russian themes, f. string-quartet, op. 14; etc.
9Vol'pe, Arnold, b. Kovno, Russia, July 1869. St. vl. under I. Lotto at the Warsaw Inst. of Music (1884–7) and under L. A. at the Petrograd Cons. (1887–91), where also st. comp. under N. Soloviev (1893–); came to New York in 1898. For the purpose of training orch. players he organized, 1902, the Young Men's Symph. Orch.; after 2 years' rehearsing he formed the most advanced performers into the V. Symph. Orch. with which he has since then given regular series of symph. concerts; 1910, cond. of the orch. of the Brooklyn Inst. of Arts and Sciences; 1910–14, cond. of the munic. orch. concerts in N. Y. In the autumn of 1914 he opened his own Cons. in N. Y. (V. Inst. of Music).
11Von der Hei'de, John Frederic, b. Cincinnati, Feb. 28, 1857. Was taught singing from early childhood, and the violin at 7. Appeared in public as a vocalist and violinist in his tenth year. Choir-boy for 5 years before the age of 17 he had practically studied nearly all orchl. instrs. Taught 3 years in Pittsburgh school; studied voice-culture and piano for 2 years in Cincinnati, then for several years in Europe. Director of the Buffalo School of Music 1882–4; then settled in New York, teaching 1885–91 at the N. Y. Cons., then privately till 1897.—1891, secy. and treas. of the N. Y. M. T. A.; reelected, 1892; president, 1893; reelected, 1894.
13Von Ende, Herwegh, b. Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 16, 1877. St. in Chicago, pf. with Ziehn (1883–6) and vl. with A. Gyger, Meyer and J. Vilim (1886–96); 1897–9, in Berlin with E. E. Taubert (comp.) and K. Halir and A. Witek (vl.). 1st vl. in the Berlin Philh. Orch. for one season (1898–9); in 1899 in charge of the musicales given by the Amer. Delegation to the Peace Conference at The Hague; 1899–1900, tour of the U. S. (East and Middle West) with Adrienne Reményi (sop.), a daughter of Eduard A. settled in New York in 1900; 1903–10, head of vl.-dept. at the Amer. Inst. of Applied Music; 1904–8 he gave chamber-music concerts of new and rarely heard works. In 1910 he establ. a school for violin, enlarged in 1911 to comprise a full cons. course (Von E. School of Music). In 1900 he married Adrienne Reményi, who since the foundation of the school has had charge of the vocal dept.
15Voss, Charles, b. Schmarsow, n. Demmin, Pomerania, Sept. 20, 1815; d. Verona, Aug. 29, 1882. Pianist; studied in Berlin, and went to Paris in 1846, where he gained a high reputation as a player and composer, and found ready sale for a great number of brilliant and effective pf.-pieces (salon-pieces, fantasias, transcriptions, paraphrases, etc., for piano, together with pf.-music of a higher order, such
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