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1lar; he publ. many duets for 2 vlns., for vln. and vla., for 2 flutes, for flute and horn, flute and bassoon, etc.; also quartets for flute, clar., horn and bassoon.
3Ge'bel, Franz Xaver, b. Fürstenau, near Breslau, 1787; d. Moscow, 1843. Pupil of Albrechtsberger and Abbé Vogler; Kapellm. at Leopoldstadt Th., Vienna, in 1810; later at theatres in Pest and Lemberg; from 1817, piano-teacher in Moscow.—Works: Operas, a mass, 4 symphonies, overtures, string-quintets and -quartets, many piano-pieces, etc.
5Ge'bel, Georg (Sr.), b. Breslau, 1685; d. there 1750. A runaway tailor's apprentice, he studied under Winkler and Krause, became org. at Brieg (1709), and at Breslau (1713). He invented a clavichord with quarter-tones, and a clavicymbalum with a pedal-keyboard. His numerous comps. (a Passion oratorio, cantatas, masses, psalms, canons [up to 30 parts!], organ-pieces, clavichord-music, etc.) are unpublished.
7Ge'bel, Georg (Jr.), b. Brieg, Silesia, Oct. 25, 1709; d. Rudolstadt, Sept. 24, 1753. Pupil of his father; in 1729, 2d org. at St. Maria Magdalene, Breslau, and Kapellm. to the Duke of Öls. In 1735 he joined Count Brühl's orch. at Dresden, where he met Hebenstreit, the inventor of the Pantalon, and learned to play that instr. In 1747 he was app. Kapellm. to the Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. A very prolific composer; wrote, while in Rudolstadt, 12 operas, 2 Passions, 2 Christmas cantatas, sets of cantatas for several years, more than 100 orch. symphonies, partitas, and concertos, etc.; and in Breslau a great variety of instrl. and vocal music.
9Geb'hard, Heinrich, born Sobernheim, Rhine Prov., July 25, 1878. As a boy of 10 he came with his parents to Boston; studied there piano and comp. with Clayton Johns until 1895, when he went to Vienna; after four years of study under Leschetizky he returned to Boston; made his pianistic début with Boston Symph. Orch. in 1900; since then he has been heard with the principal orchestras and chamber-music organizations; also in numerous recitals; he is an excellent interpreter of the classics and romanticists, but shows also a decided liking for the moderns (Loeffler, Strauss, d'Indy, etc.). He has written a string-quartet, a sonata for piano and vln., and many piano-pieces.
11Gebhar'di, Ludwig Ernst, b. Nottleben, Thuringia, Jan. 1, 1787; d. Erfurt, Sept. 4, 1862. Organist and music-teacher at Erfurt Seminary. Publ. several collections of organ-pieces; also school-songs, a Choralbuch, a Method for organ, and a Method of Thorough-bass (1828-35, 4 vols., frequently republ.).
13Gédalge [zhā-dāhlzh'], André, b. Paris, Dec. 27, 1856. Pupil of Cons. (Guiraud) in 1884; 2d Grand prix de Rome in 1885; prof. of comp. at the Cons. He took the Prix Cressent in 1895 with the 2-act lyric drama Hélène. Has also comp. the music to Carré's pantomime Le petit Savoyard (Paris, 1891); Vaux de Vive for solo, ch. and orch. (1895); a 1-act op. bouffe, Pris au piège (Paris, 1895; mod. succ.); 2 symphonies, several orchl. suites, a string-quartet, piano-pieces, etc.
15Geh'ring, Franz, b. 1838; d. Penzing, n. Vienna, Jan. 4, 1884; lecturer on mathematics at Vienna Univ. Wrote the biogr. of Mozart for Hueffer's 'Great Musicians'; contributed several articles to Grove's 'Dictionary.'
17Gei'bel, Adam, b. Neuenheim, Sept. 15, 1855. He was brought to the U. S. in 1862, and educated at the Penna. Inst. for the Blind [through carelessness of the physician he lost his eyesight when 9 days old]; he st. piano, organ, voice and comp. with Dr. D. D. Wood in Philadelphia; since 1885 org. of the J. B. Stetson Mission and cond. of the Stetson Chorus in Phila. In 1897, establ. a mus.-publ. firm, Geibel & Lehmann, which was dissolved in 1906; since then, Pres. of Adam Geibel Music Co.; in 1911 the Temple Univ. of Phila. conferred upon him the degree of Mus. Doc. He has written the cantatas Bethuel's Daughter, The Nativity, The Incarnation, Light out of Darkness, The Light of Life; pieces for piano, ditto for organ, and songs.
19Geijer [gi'ër], Erik Gustaf, b. Ransätter, Wermeland, Jan. 12, 1783; d. Upsala, April 23, 1847. Prof. of history at Upsala Univ. Publ. (with Lindblad) a coll. of modern Swedish songs (1824); musical editor-in-chief of the 'Svenska Folkvisor' (1814-16, 3 vols.; 2d ed. 1846), a coll. of Swedish folk-songs. Publ. original songs in the Swedish vein.
21Gels'ler, Paul, dramatic composer; born Stolp, Pomerania, Aug. 10, 1856; pupil of his grandfather (mus. dir. at Mecklenburg) and of Konstantin Decker. Chorusmaster at the Leipzig City Th., 1881-2, then with Angelo Neumann's Wagner troupe; 1883-5, Kapellm. at Bremen (under Seidl); since then he has lived in Leipzig and Berlin; now (1916) living in Posen, where he is dir. of his own Cons. and cond. of the 'Orchestervereinigung'; 'Kgl. Musikdir.' since 1902.—Works: The operas Ingeborg (Bremen, 1884; text by Peter Lohmann); Hertha, or Die Ritter von Marienburg (Hamburg, 1891); Palm (Lübeck, 1893); Wir siegen (1-act; Posen, 1899); Prinzessin Ilse (ib., 1903); music to the dramas Schiffbrüchig and Unser täglich Brod gieb uns heute (both Hamburg, 1890); the symphonic poems Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (1880; score publ.), Till Eulenspiegel, Mira, Maria Magdalena, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Ekkehard, Beowulf, Der Hidalgo, Walpurgisnacht, Am
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