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1composer rests upon his light operas, which owe their success to spontaneity of melodic invention, piquancy of rhythm and variety of style. From the simplicity of the earlier works there is a gradual evolution toward greater complexity in style and technic, so that some numbers in later works sound almost like excerpts from grand opera. Yet his two attempts in the grand style, Natoma (Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 1911) and Madeleine (M. O. H., 1913), did not meet with lasting success because of the composer's evident inability to sustain his inspiration in a style foreign to his native talent.—Works: The operas Prince Ananias (N. Y., 1894), The Wizard of the Nile (Chicago, 1895), The Gold Bug (N. Y., 1896), The Serenade (Cleveland, 1897), The Idols' Eye (Troy, 1897), The Fortune Teller (Buffalo, 1898), Cyrano de Bergerac (Montreal, 1899), The Singing Girl (ib., 1899), The Ameer (Scranton, 1899), The Viceroy (San Francisco, 1900), Babes in Toyland (Chicago, 1903), Babette (Washington, 1903), It Happened in Nordland (Harrisburg, 1904), Miss Dolly Dollars (Rochester, 1905), Wonderland, or Alice and the Eight Princesses (Buffalo, 1905), Mlle. Modiste (Trenton, 1905), The Red Mill (N. Y., 1906), Dream City (ib., 1906), The Magic Knight (ib., 1906), The Tattooed Man (Baltimore, 1907), The Rose of Algeria (Atlantic City, 1908), Little Nemo (Philadelphia, 1908), The Prima Donna (Chicago, 1908), Old Dutch (Wilkesbarre, 1909), Naughty Marietta (Syracuse, 1910), When Sweet Sixteen (Springfield, Mass., 1910), Mlle. Rosita (Boston, 1911), The Lady of the Slippers (1912), The Madcap Duchess (Rochester, 1913), Sweethearts (Baltimore, 1913), The Débutante (Atlantic City, 1914), The Only Girl (N. Y., 1914), Princess Pat (ib., 1915). In 1916 he made a new and successful departure with elaborate music to the photo-play The Fall of a Nation. Besides the above works he has written for orch. a symphonic poem, Hero and Leander; Serenade, op. 12; a second concerto for vcl., op. 30; Suite romantique, op. 31; the suites Woodland Fancies and Columbus; Irish Rhapsody; male choruses; songs.
3Herblay, V. H. See HIRSCHMANN.
5He'ring, Karl Eduard, son of Karl Gottlieb; b. Oschatz, Saxony, May 13, 1807; d. Bautzen, Nov. 26, 1879. Studied with his father at Zittau, and at Leipzig Univ. with Weinlig and Pohlenz. In 1839 app. organist at Bautzen. Published pf.-pieces, part-songs, songs, a coll. of school-chorales, and a Buch der Harmonie (1861). In MS.: Oratorios Der Erlöser (Leipzig, 1834), Die heilige Nacht, David, Salomo, Christi Leid und Herrlichkeit; a mass (produced at Prague); two operas; masses, cantatas, hymns, etc.
7He'ring, Karl (Friedrich August), violinist; b. Berlin, Sept. 2, 1819; d. Burg, near Magdeburg, Feb. 2, 1889. Studied with H. Ries and Rungenhagen (Berlin), Lipinski (Dresden), and Tomaschek (Prague). Made concert-tours, became violinist in the Berlin royal chapel, founded the 'Sonatenverein' in 1848, and a music-school in 1851. Appointed royal music director.—Comps.: Symphonies, overtures, masses, chamber-music, songs.—Author of educational works: Methodischer Leitfaden für Violinlehrer (1857), Über R. Kreutzers Etüden (1858), and an elementary Violin-Method.
9He'ring, Karl Gottlieb, born Schandau, Saxony, Oct. 25, 1765; d. Zittau, Jan. 1853. Pupil of Meissen Coll.; became student of theology and pedagogy at Leipzig University. From 1811 to his death, principal of Zittau seminary, and chief teacher of harmony. He published half a score of pedagogical works, and composed instructive piano-pieces, variations, exercises, etc. In 1830 he founded a 'Musikalisches Jugendblatt für Gesang, Clavier und Flöte,' continued by his son.—See Q.-Lex.
11Héritte-Viardot, Louise-Pauline-Marie, b. Paris, Dec. 14, 1841. Daughter of Louis Viardot and Pauline Garcia. Vocal-teacher at Petrograd Cons.; later at Dr. Hoch's Cons., Frankfort; then lived in Berlin, and later in Heidelberg, as a singing-teacher. She married Consul-General Héritte.—Comps.: Opera Lindora (Weimar, 1879); Le feu du ciel for soli, ch. and orch.; cantatas; 2 pf.-quartets; vocal exercises; etc.
13Her'man, Reinhold (Ludwig), pianist and dramatic composer; b. Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Sept. 21, 1849. Pupil at Stern Cons., Berlin, of Ehrlich (pf.), Kiel (comp.), and Stern (singing). From 1871-8, singing-teacher and conductor in New York; 1878-81, director of Stern Cons., Berlin; then returned to N. Y.; 1884, conductor of 'Liederkranz'; 1887, prof. of sacred history at the Theol. Seminary; 1898, conductor of Handel and Haydn Soc., Boston; in 1900 he returned to Berlin, where he has been living since.—Works: Romantic opera Vineta (1872; Breslau, 1895, mod. succ.); heroic opera Lancelot; Spielmannsglück (Kassel, 1894); Wulfrin (Cologne, 1896, mod. succ.); Sundâri (Kassel, 1911); cantatas (Braut von Messina, The Bridge of Sighs [Hood], The Spirits of the Thay, Sancta Cäcilia, The Buried Song); overtures; pf.-concerto; suites, sonatas; vocal sextets, quintets, quartets, etc.; songs.
15Her'mann, Friedrich, violinist, composer and distinguished teacher; b. Frankfort, Feb. 1, 1828; d. Leipzig, Sept. 27, 1907. In 1843 pupil at Leipzig Cons. of David (vln.), Hauptmann and Mendelssohn (comp.). From
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