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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1to Berlin; st. voice with Ida Lurig, pf. and comp. with Rudolph Ganz; 1911, settled in Nashville, Tenn. She has written successfully for the voice (songs and choruses), violin, organ and 2 pfs. 1940, living in Webster Groves, Mo.
3Blauvelt, Lillian. Married Alexander Savine (q.v.), 1914. Created title-role in S.'s opera Xenia at Zürich, 1919; eng. in Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia, 1920. Later appeared in various European countries.
5Blitzstein, Marc. Add to works: No for an Answer, opera (N. Y., Jan. 5, 1941).
7Blume, Cl. Mus. examples are in vol. XVII of his Analecta hymnica.
9Boccherini, L. Concerto for vcl. ed. by M. Le Ronde (Northampton, Mass., 1937). There are numerous modern eds. of his istrl. and religious music.
11Bodanzky, Artur, d. New York, Nov. 23, 1939.
13Boghen, Felice, b. 1869, not 1875.
15Boieldieu, François-Adrien. Add to bibliogr.: G. Favre: La danseuse Clotilde Mafleurai, première femme d'A. B. in 'Revue mus.' (Jan. 1940).
17Bologna, Jacopo da. See JACOPO.
19Bonci, Alessandro, d. Milan, Aug. 8, 1940.
21Boosey, Thomas. The catalogue of Enoch & Sons was acquired for the U. S. and Canada only.
23Borowski, Felix. 1941, Professor of Musicology.
25Borowsky, Alexander, Russian pianist; b. Libau, Mar. 19, 1889. St. first with his mother (a pupil of Safonov), then with A. Essipova at the St. Petersburg Cons., winning the Gold Medal and the Rubinstein Prize in 1912; from 1915, prof. at the Moscow Cons.; in 1920 went to Constantinople and later concertized with much success in France, England and Germany; 1941, touring in North and South America.
27Botstiber, Hugo, d. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Jan. (?)1941.
29Boulanger, Nadia. Summer 1940, returned to U. S.
31Braine, Robert, d. N. Y., Aug. 22, 1940.
33Braudo, Eugen, d. Moscow, Oct. 17, 1939.
35Briard, Étienne. Cf. K. Meyer, Music-printing, 1473–1934, in 'Dolphin' (N. Y., 1935).
37Bridge, Frank, d. Eastbourne, England, Jan. 11, 1941. Add to works: Rebus, for orch. (London Philh., Sir Henry Wood cond., Feb. 23, 1941).
39Britten, Benjamin. 1941, living at Amityville, L. I. Add to works: Sinfonia da Requiem (N. Y. Phil., Mar. 30, 1941); Paul Bunyan, chamber opera (Columbia Univ., May 5, 1941).
41Broones, Martin, composer and producer; b. N. Y., June 10, 1900. St. medicine at Columbia Univ. and Coll. of the City of N. Y. 1924, married Charlotte Greenwood, comic opera star and motion picture actress. 1929, organized the Music Dept. of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood, and was later made an asso. producer. Left Hollywood in 1932 and has since produced many shows, including Leaning on Letty, and composed many songs, including Moon Melody.
43Brunold, Paul, organist, harpsichordist and musicologist; b. Paris, Oct. 14, 1875. Pupil of Marmontel (pf.), Lavignac (theory) and X. Leroux (comp.) at the Paris Cons., later st. with Paderewski; has made a specialty of playing old music for harpsichord; since 1915 organist of St. Gervais in Paris. With H. Expert he ed. the 'Anthologie des maîtres français du clavecin des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles', and with A. Tessier a complete ed. of Chambonnière's works; also ed. 2 vols. of comps. by Dieupart for the Lyre-Bird Press of Paris (I, [address hidden] pour clavecin; II, Airs et Chansons). Author of Le grande Orgue de l'[address hidden]. Gervais à Paris (1934).
45Buck, Dudley (Jr.), d. Fairfield, Conn., Jan. 13, 1941.
47Bukofzer, Manfred F. Also guest-lecturer at the Univs. of Cambridge and Oxford (1939); collaborator of the Warburg Institute; 1940–41, teaching at Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, O.; 1941, appointed Asso. Prof. University of Cal., Berkeley. Author of Kann die 'Blasquintentheorie' zur Erklärung primitiver Tonsysteme beitragen?, in 'Anthropos' (1937); and many smaller articles on mus. anthropology in various magazines; also Allegory in Baroque Music, in the 'Journal' of the Warburg Institute (1939); and The Music and Tone Systems of South-eastern Asia (in prep. 1940).
49Bungert, August, b. 1845, not 1846.
51Bur'chenal, Elizabeth, folklorist; b. Richmond, Ind. Instructor at Teachers Coll., Columbia Univ., 1902–05; research in folk-dance and music in U. S. and Europe since 1904; 1909–16, with Dept. of Educ., N. Y. City; organizer, 1916, and since 1929 pres. and perm. dir., of Amer. Folk Dance Soc.; eng. in the promotion of folk-arts through lectures and demonstrations at many colleges, univs., societies, nat'l and internat'l conferences, etc. Dir. of the Folk Arts Center (N. Y.) since 1934. Author and editor of numerous colls. and books on folk-dances. 1940, living in New York.
53Busch, Adolf. 1940, living in New York.
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