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1Boito's Nerone (completed by T.). In 1929 he gave a series of perfs. in Vienna and Berlin with the La Scala troupe. In 1926-27 he appeared as guest-cond. of the N. Y. Philh. Orch. and shared the following season as cond. with Mengelberg. In 1928 he was app. cond. of the N. Y. Philh.-Symph. Orch., with which he made a triumphal tour of Europe in 1930; he resigned this position in 1936 (farewell concert, Apr. 29). He cond. at Bayreuth in 1930 and '31, and at the Salzburg Fest. in 1933, '35, '36 and '37. On Dec. 26, 1936, he cond. the first concert of the Palestine Symph. Orch. at Tel Aviv, and on Dec. 25, 1937 he began an engagement as cond. of the newly-formed NBC Symph. Orch., the event being hailed as a landmark in musical broadcasting; up to the present (1940) he has continued to cond. this orch. for a part of each season. From 1933-37 he appeared as guest-cond. of the Vienna Philh. Orch. and the Vienna State Opera. In 1940 he took the NBC Symph. Orch. on a tour of South America. Among contemporary conductors he enjoys a unique prestige. Owing to extreme near-sightedness he early formed the habit of cond. all scores from memory.—Cf. G. M. Ciampelli, A. T. (Milan, 1923); E. Cozzani, A. T. (ib., 1927); T. Nicotra, A. T. (transl. from the Ital., N. Y., 1929); D. Bonardi, A. T. (Milan, 1929); P. Stefan, T. (Vienna, 1935; Engl. transl., N. Y., 1936); D. Ewen, The Man with the Baton (N. Y., 1936); S. v. Winternitz, T. (pictures; Vienna, 1937); L. Gilman, T. and Great Music (N. Y., 1938).
3Tosel'li, Enrico, pianist and composer; b. Florence, Mar. 13, 1883; d. there, Jan. 15, 1926. Pupil of Sgambati, Martucci and Grazzini; toured widely as pianist. Best known as the composer of the famous song, Serenata ("Rimpianto . . ."). Also comp. the symph. poem Fuoco (after d'Annunzio), the opera La principessa bizzara (Milan, 1913), etc. His marriage with the former Crown Princess Luise of Saxony created a sensation (cf. his book, Il mio matrimonio con Luisa di Sassonia, Milan, 1918).
5To'si, Pier Francesco, contralto singer (castrato) and singing-teacher; b. Bologna, 1647; d. London, 1727. Pupil of his father, the comp. Giuseppe Felice T.; sang successfully in Italy, Dresden, etc., and in 1692 settled in London, where he gave regular concerts, and was highly esteemed as a vocal teacher. He owes his fame chiefly to the work Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni o sieno osservazioni sopra il canto figurato (Bologna, 1723; in English [Galliard], 1742, as Observations on the Florid Song, etc.; in German [Agricola] as Anleitung zur Singkunst, 1757; in French [Lemaire] as L'Art du Chant, Opinions . . ., 1774. The Ital. ed. was reprinted in 1904; the Engl., 1906).
7To'sti, Sir Francesco Paolo, singing-master and vocal composer; born Ortona, Abruzzi, April 9, 1846; d. Rome, Dec. 2, 1916. Pupil, from 1858, of the R. Collegio di S. Pietro a Majella, Naples, and was app. sub-teacher (maestrino) by Mercadante, resigning on account of ill health in 1869. After this he became singing-teacher to the court at Rome; visited London in 1875, had great success in concerts, and settled there as a teacher, becoming singing-master to the Royal Family in 1880, and prof. of singing at the R.A.M. in 1894; was knighted in 1908. In 1913 he returned to Italy, taking up his residence in Rome. Besides many original songs, both English and Italian, he published a coll. of 'Canti popolari abruzzesi'. His songs were highly popular; some of the best-known are Forever, Goodbye, Mattinata and Vorrei morire.
9Totenberg, Roman, violinist; b. Lodz, Poland, Jan. 1, 1913. Pupil of Michalowicz at the Chopin Music School in Warsaw, of Flesch at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, and of Enesco in Paris; début with the Warsaw Philh. in 1925; won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1932. Made his Amer. début at N. Y. in 1935; 1935-36, toured with K. Szymanowski (q.v.); 1937-38, toured the U. S. and South America.
11Tott'mann, Karl Albert, b. Zittau, July 31, 1837; d. Leipzig, Feb. 26, 1917. Studied in Dresden, and at the Leipzig Cons. (Hauptmann); was a violinist in the Gewandhaus Orch., and cond. at the Old Theater 1868-70. Lived in Leipzig as a writer, teacher of mus. theory, esthetics, and history; also lecturing.—His most valuable work is Kritisches Repertorium der gesammten Violin- und Bratschen-Literatur (1873; 3d ed., 1900, as Führer durch die Violinliteratur).
13Tourjée [toor-zha'], Dr. Eben, pioneer American mus. educator; b. Warwick, R. I., June 1, 1834; d. Boston, Apr. 12, 1891. While working in a cotton factory in Harrisville, R. I., he sang and played the organ in church; then st. mus. in Providence, becoming clerk in a music-store there; also establ. a short-lived cons. there, then moved to Newport, R. I., as org. and teacher; in 1861, app. mus.-dir. of the East Greenwich Seminary; then visited Europe and had lessons from A. Haupt in Berlin; in 1864, establ. the Mus. Inst. of Providence (developed from the mus. dept. of the E. Greenwich Sem.), which later became the Providence Cons. of Mus.; 1867, settled in Boston and founded there (with R. Goldbeck) the New Engl. Cons. of Mus., which he directed till his death. He assisted Patrick S. Gilmore (q.v.) in organizing the 2
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