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1great peace jubilees in Boston (1869, '72). He was the first pres. of the M.T.N.A. (1876), and dean of the Coll. of Music of Boston Univ. He was made Mus. Doc. by Wesleyan Univ.—Cf. 'Dict. of Amer. Biogr.' XVIII.
3Tournemire [toorn-mēr'], Charles (Arnould), organist and composer; b. Bordeaux, Jan. 22, 1870; d. Arcachon, Nov. 3, 1939. Pupil of César Franck at the Paris Cons., winning the 1st prize for organ in 1891; also st. comp. with V. d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. In 1898 he succ. Pierné as org. at Ste. Clotilde. His dram. cantata, Le sang de la Sirène, won the Prize of the City of Paris (perf. Nov. 17, 1904). As an organ-virtuoso he toured throughout Europe. He was prof. of ensemble-playing at the Paris Cons.—Other works: Opera, Les dieux sont morts (Paris Opéra, Mar. 19, 1924); 8 symphonies (No. 5 is the 'Mountain Symph.'); Psalm 57 for mixed chor. a capp.; sextet for pf. and winds; pf. quartet; for org.: [address hidden] de l'année liturgique (L'orgue mystique); [address hidden] symphoniques; etc. Also a book, César Franck (Paris, 1931).—Cf. 'L'Orgue' XII (Dec. 1939–Mar. 1940).
5Tours [toor], Berthold, violinist, composer and musical editor; born Rotterdam, Dec. 17, 1838; d. London, Mar. 11, 1897. Pupil of his father, Barthélemy T. (1797–1864), Verhulst, and of the Conservatories at Brussels and Leipzig; went to London in 1861 as an orch.-player; in 1878 became musical adviser to Novello & Co., and editor of their publications.—Works: Services, anthems, hymn-tunes; pf.-pieces; a Primer of the Violin.
7Tours, Frank E., son of the preceding; b. London, Sept. 1, 1877. Pupil of Stanford, Parratt and Bridge at the R.C.M.; from 1897–1904, cond. of various light opera companies in London, then came to N. Y. as mus. dir. of Broadway productions. Later he ent. the motion-picture field and was with Paramount for 6 years (3 years in London) as comp. and mus. dir.; now (1940) with the R.K.O. studios in Hollywood. Besides several musical plays, he has written succ. songs (Mother o' Mine, Beyond the Sunset, Red Rose, In Flanders Fields, etc.).
9Tourte [tōört], François, b. Paris, 1747; d. there, April, 1835. This famous maker of violin-bows was the creator of the modern bow, the model for all succeeding bow-makers. The shape and inward curve of the stick, the selection and preparation of the wood (Pernambuco), the length of the bow and all its modern fittings, are the product of his constructive genius.
11Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, composer, pianist and musical scholar; b. Eton, July 17, 1875; d. Edinburgh, July 10, 1940. St. privately with Sophie Weisse (pf.), Sir W. Parratt (cpt.), James Higgs (comp.) until 1894, when he won the Nettleship scholarship at Balliol Coll., Oxford; graduated with Classical Honors (B. A., 1898). In 1900–1 he gave a series of chamber-music concerts in London, at which he prod. several of his own works; in 1901–2 he gave similar concerts in Berlin and Vienna; played his pf.-concerto in 1903 under Henry Wood and in 1906 under Hans Richter; from 1906–12 he gave in London regular series of chamber-music concerts, known as 'The Chelsea Concerts.' In 1914 he succeeded Niecks (q. v.) as Reid Prof. of music at Edinburgh Univ. (see Reid, John); there he establ. the 'Reid Symph. Concerts,' for which he organized in 1917 the 'Reid Symph. Orch.' of 50 musicians. He made his Amer. début as pianist in Oct., 1925, and in 1927–28 made a tour of the U. S. Hon. F.R.C.O., 1924; knighted in 1935. Though highly esteemed as a composer, he was most widely known as a writer and lecturer on music, his analytical essays being models of their kind. Besides much chamber-music and several pf.-comps. (Sonata in B, op. 16; Balliol Dances, op. 17, for 4 hands; etc.), he composed an opera, The Bride of Dionysus (Edinburgh, 1929); a Symphony in D (1913); Concerto for vcl. and orch. (1937); etc. Publ. a coll. of 16th-century church-music, Laudate Pueri (Part I of 'Northlands Singing Book'), and ed. Bach's Kunst der Fuge. He wrote most of the mus. articles for the 'Encycl. Brit.' (from the 11th ed.). Contrib. essays on Schubert (1927) and Gluck (1934) to Foss' Heritage of Music.—Books: A Companion to Bach's Art of Fuge (1931); A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas (1931); Musical Form and Matter (1934); Normality and Freedom in Music (1936); Essays in Musical Analysis, 6 vols. (1935–39): I and II, orchl. works; III, concertos; IV, polyphony and illustrative music; V, vocal music; VI, supplement, index and glossary.—Cf. S. Wilson, D. F. T., in 'Monthly Mus. Record' (Sept., 1930).
13Toye, (John) Francis, music critic; b. Winchester, England, Jan. 27, 1883. Pupil of S. P. Waddington and E. J. Dent; living in London as critic for various papers (from 1925 for the 'Morning Post', and since 1937 for the 'Daily Telegraph'); in 1923, lectured on modern music in the U. S.—Books: The Well-Tempered Musician (1925); Giuseppe Verdi, his Life and Works (1931); Rossini, a Study in Tragi-comedy (1934).
15Trabacci (Trabaci), Giovanni Maria, organist and composer at the Royal Chapel in Naples from about 1603–16. He publ.
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