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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 1919
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1to ill-health, he spent in travelling. In 1862, Mus. Bac., Oxon.; 1864-7, org. of St. Paul's, Manchester; Mus. Doc. in 1867. In 1876, app. lecturer on harm. and comp. at Owens College, Manchester; in 1879, at Victoria University. In 1882 was co-founder of the National Society of Professional Musicians; later, prof. of harm. and comp. at Manchester College of Music. From 1885, editor of the 'Quarterly Musical Review.' Writings: Grammar of Music (2 vols.; 1879); Harmony of Sounds (3 editions, 1871, '72, '78); First Lessons in Singing (1881); Part Writing, or Modern Counterpoint (1884); Harmony versus Counterpoint (1894). Comps.: 2 oratorios, David (1860) and The Patriarchs (1872); the cantatas Fayre Pastoral, The Crusaders, and Watchfulness; psalms, anthems, services, part-songs; an operetta, War in the Household (1885); and an historic opera, Harold (1893; not perf.); also odes, and music for organ and pf.
3Hiles, John, English organist, b. Shrewsbury, 1810; d. London, Feb. 4, 1882. Org. at Shrewsbury, Portsmouth, Brighton, and London. Comp. pf.-pcs. and songs; also wrote didactic works, catechisms of the pf., org., harm., thorough-bass, part-singing; and a Dictionary of Musical Terms (1871).
5Hilf, Arno, celebrated violin-virtuoso; b. Bad Elster, Saxony, March 14, 1858; d. there Aug. 2, 1909. Pupil of his father, Wilhelm Christoph H., and from 1872 of the Leipzig Cons. under David, Röntgen and Schradeck. Second Concertmeister and teacher at Moscow Cons. in 1878, and at Sondershausen in 1888. The same year, he succeeded Petri as leader of the Gewandhaus orch., Leipzig, and in 1892 succ. Brodsky as princ. prof. of vln. at the Cons. Also leader of an excellent quartet.
7Hill, Edward Burlingame, b. Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 9, 1872. St. music with J. K. Paine while pursuing the regular course at Harvard Univ.; grad. in 1894 (summa cum laude in music); pupil in pf. of B. J. Lang, A. Whiting (Boston) and L. Breitner (Paris), in comp. of F. F. Bullard (Boston) and Widor (one summer in Paris), in orchestration of G. W. Chadwick (Boston). For a time he was asst.-critic to the 'Boston Transcript'; since 1908 instructor in mus., Harvard Univ.; member of faculty, 1915; Chairman of Boston section of the Int. Mus. Soc.; is a frequent contrib. to various journals ('Mercure Musical' [Paris], 'Mus. Quart.' [N. Y.], 'Étude' [Phila.], 'Musician' [Boston], etc.); associate ed. of and contrib. to 'The Art of Music' (1916). He has also made for himself an honorable place among contemporary Amer. composers.—Works: Op. 5, Songs from 'The Round Rabbit' (for children); op. 6, 6 songs; op. 7, 5 songs; op. 8, Three Poetical Sketches f. pf.; op. 10, Country Idyls (6 pcs. f. pf.); op. 13, 3 songs; op. 15, Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration, f. women's vcs. and orch. (1908); op. 16, Jack Frost in Midsummer, pantomime w. orch. (1908); op. 19, Pan and the Star, do. (1914); op. 21, Autumn Twilight, f. sop. and orch.; op. 22, The Parting of Lancelot and Guinevere, symph. poem after S. Phillips (1915); op. 23, Poem f. vl. and orch.—Without opus-number, The Wilderness shall rejoice, anthem f. mixed ch. (1915).
9Hill, Junius Welch, b. Hingham, Mass., Nov. 18, 1840. Pupil, in Boston, of J. C. D. Parker. Entered Leipzig Cons. 1860 (Mosccheles, Plaidy, Richter, Reinecke, Hauptmann), studying (also privately) until 1863. After occupying, since 1860, important positions as organist and director at Tremont Temple, Shawmut Ch., Tremont St. Methodist Ch., and Harvard Ch. (Brookline), in Boston, he was app. Prof. of Music at Wellesley College, where he raised the standard of music to a very high degree of excellence, giving (during 13 years) more than 200 concerts of real artistic merit (with fine soloists, quartets, and orchestras). H. resigned his position in 1897, and devoted himself to teaching in Boston, with marked success; retired, and is now (1916) living in Los Angeles. He has publ. numerous female choruses, and edited several valuable instructive colls. f. pf.; among them being 'Treasures of Lyric Art,' 'Arabesques,' 'Mosaïques,' 'Characteristic Piano-pieces,' etc.
11Hill, Karl, baritone stage- and concert-singer; b. Idstein, Nassau, May 9, 1831; d. insane in an asylum at Sachsenberg, Mecklenburg, Jan. 12, 1893. A post-office official, he occasionally appeared as a concert-singer, but in 1868 went on the stage, was attached to the Schwerin court th., and also sang at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, and the Gürzenich Concerts, Cologne. Held in high esteem by Wagner, he sang the rôle of Alberich at Bayreuth in 1876.
13Hill, Thomas Henry Weist, violinist and conductor; b. London, Jan. 23, 1828; d. there Dec. 26, 1891. Pupil of Sainton at R. A. M. Made concert-tours in America and Europe. Member of the orchestras of the Opera, Philh., and Sacred Harmonic. In 1879, cond. at Alexandra Palace; 1880, Principal of the Guildhall School of Music.—Pieces for vln. and f. 'cello; and a Civic Anthem.
15Hill, Uriah C., b. N. Y., 1802 (?); d. there Sept., 1875. Violinist, a pupil of Spohr at Kassel (1836). Founder and first President of the N. Y. Philh. Soc. (1842), playing with the first violins.
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