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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1for harmony (under Bazin) in 1849; in 1871, app. deputy-conductor of the Opéra, 1879–87 conductor, then retired.—Principal comps.: a symphony, string-quartet, trio for pf. and strings, sonata for pf. and vln., etc.
3Altès, Joseph-Henri, b. Rouen, Jan. 18, 1826; d. Paris, July 24, 1895. Pupil of the Paris Cons., and a fine flute-player (Grand Opéra); successor of Dorus as Cons. professor (1868–94); publ. flute-pieces, many with accomp. of pf. or orch.
5Alt’glass, Max, tenor; b. Warsaw, Feb. 16, 1890; studied music at the Berlin Cons.; début as lyric tenor at Frankfort; later, at Berlin, Prague, etc.; since Nov. 1924 member of the M. O. H., New York; also active in concerts (Europe and the U. S.), and as vocal teacher and coach, his prize pupil being Maria Mueller, lyric soprano. His repertory consists of the main rôles in Rigoletto, Traviata, Trovatore, Carmen, Lohengrin, Bartered Bride, La Juive, Coq d’Or, Aida, Tosca, Tales of Hofmann, etc.
7Althouse, Paul, dram. tenor; b. Reading, Pa., Dec. 2, 1889. Began his vocal studies with Miss Essick in Reading; cont. in New York with P. R. Stephens and O. Saenger; début as Dimitri in Boris Godunov at M. O. H., Mar. 19, 1913 (creating the rôle at the American première); he also created Duke d’Esterre in Herbert’s Madeleine (1914) and Conte de Neipperg in Giordano’s Madame Sans-Gêne (1915); has been especially successful as a concert-singer, having appeared at many of the most important mus. festivals in the U. S. (Worcester, Springfield, Richmond, Savannah, Norfolk, etc.); has been tenor of the M. O. H. in all the leading rôles of the Wagnerian operas; also member of the Chicago Civic Opera (beginning season 1930–31) and of the San Francisco Opera; has made numerous guest-appearances in Europe (Berlin, Stuttgart, Stockholm); soloist with all the leading orchestras in the U. S. and many in Europe; two recital tours through Australia and New Zealand; important radio appearances. His operatic rôles, besides Wagner, include Cavaradossi, Rodolfo, Pinkerton, Faust, Don José, Samson, etc. He is now (1938) living in New York.
9Altmann, Wilhelm [Dr. phil.; R. Prof.]; b. Adelnau, Apr. 4, 1862. In 1900, chief librarian at the Berlin R. Library; 1906, also director of the ‘Deutsche Musiksammlung,’ to which he, with Breitkopf & Härtel, gave the initial impulse; 1904, also head music reviewer for the ‘National-Zeitung’; until 1927, dir. of the Music Division of the Prussian State Library, Berlin. He has retired and is now living in Berlin.—Works: Chronik des Berliner Philh. Orchesters [1882–1901] (1902); Heinrich v. Herzogenberg (1903); Öffentliche Musikbibliotheken; ein frommer Wunsch (1903); Richard Wagners Briefe (1905), a list of 3143 letters with brief synopses; Brahms Briefwechsel (1908); Wagners Briefwechsel mit seinen Verlegern (2 vols., 1911); Kammermusik-Literatur-Verzeichniss [list of chamber-music publ. since 1841] (1910, 1931); Max-Reger-Katalog (1917 [1927]); Orchester-Literatur-Katalog (1919 [1926]); vol. II [1937] (includes complete data of all orch. comps. publ. from 1926–1935); Catalogue of all music for viola and viola d’amore (together with Vladimir Borrisovsky); Rich. Wagner und A. Niemann (1924); Handbuch für Streichquartettspieler (1928); Handbuch für Klaviertriospieler (1934); Führer durch die Vln.-Literatur (1934); Katalog der theatricalischen Musik (1935–36); Handbuch für Klavierquintettspieler (Wolfenbüttel, 1936); ed. of annual opera-statistics of Germany; also edited P. Frank’s Tonkünstler-Lexikon (new revision, 1926), Merseburger Tonkünstler-Lexikon (1936), chamber-music and orchestral works (arrangements of Bach, Beethoven, Stamitz, etc.), first ed. of Michael Haydn’s violin-sonatas with basso-cont., letters of Wagner (1925), Otto Nicolai’s letters to his father (1925), and Weber’s writings (1927 and 1937).
11Alt’nikol, Johann Christoph (J.S. Bach’s pupil and son-in-law); b. 1719; d. Naumburg, July, 1759, as organist there. Publ. works: Several cantatas with gr. orch.; Magnificat; some others in MS. in Berlin Royal Library.
13Alt’schuler, Modest, b. Mogilev, Russia, Feb. 15, 1873. Had his first instruction on the vln., but later took up the ’cello; 1884–6, pupil of Gobelt (vcl.) at the Warsaw Cons.; winning a scholarship at the Moscow Cons., he studied there under Fitzenhagen (vcl.), Arensky, Safonov and Taneiev (comp.), graduating in 1890 as winner of the silver medal. After touring Russia for some years with his own trio, he settled in New York as an orchestral player and teacher; in 1903 he organized and was the cond. of the Russian Symph. Orch. (first concert, Jan. 7, 1904). From the beginning the concerts met with marked success, so that soon extended tours, covering the entire U. S. and Canada, were undertaken. The orch. was founded for the express purpose of introducing the works of modern Russian composers, and in this it was conspicuously successful; among the composers whose orchl. works had their first Amer. performance under A. are Ippolitov-Ivanov, Liadov, Rachmaninov, Vassilenko, Konius, Spendiarov, Skriabin, etc.; among the artists who made their Amer. début with this orch. are Elman, Lhévinne, Rachmaninov, Skriabin, etc. Worthy of special mention is the first complete perf. anywhere of Skriabin’s Prométhée, le Poème du Feu, op. 60, with a
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