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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1Pibroch, for violin and orch.; Scottish Concerto for pf. and orch.; a suite for orch., London Day by Day; Invocation for orch.; a Canadian Rhapsody.—Also chamber-music; anthems, songs and part-songs.—Cf. J. Percy Baker, A. M., in the 'Mus. Quart.' (1927).
3Mackinlay, Malcolm Sterling, concert-bass and teacher, son of the famous contralto Antoinette Sterling; b. London, Aug. 7, 1876. Graduate of Trinity Coll., Oxford (M. A., 1901); st. singing under Manuel García (1897–1900); début on tour with his mother (1900); sang with much succ. in recitals and a few times in comic opera; in 1904 he gave up all public appearances and establ. himself in London as teacher; founded the 'Ladies' Choir' (1911), and the 'Sterling Mackinlay Operatic Soc.' (1912); now (1939) living in London as singing teacher, lecturer at the Division School for Modern Languages and adjudicator at music festivals.—Has publ. Antoinette Sterling, and Other Celebrities (1906); Garcia, the Centenarian and His Times (1908); The Singing Voice and Its Training (1910); Light Opera (technique and theater-craft; 1926); Origin and Development of Light Opera (1927); also 2 novels.
5Maclean, Charles Donald, b. Cambridge, England, Mar. 27, 1843; d. London, June 23, 1916. Pupil of F. Hiller in Cologne; Mus. Doc., Oxon., 1865; 1871–5, org. and mus.-dir. at Eton Coll.; has appeared frequently in recital, especially at Albert Hall and Crystal Palace; for many years he was in the civil-service in India; returned to London in 1893, where he lived thereafter as composer; 1899–1908, Engl. ed. of the 'Internationale Musikgesellschaft' (Leipzig); then General Secretary. He wrote the History of Modern Engl. Music for Lavignac's 'Encyclopédie de la Musique' (1914).
7Maclean, Quentin Morvaren (grandson of the preceding), organist and composer; b. London, May 14, 1896; studied in London (Shuttleworth), Vienna (Dittrich and Grädenner) and Leipzig (Reger, Straube and Krehl).
9Maclennan, Francis, dramatic tenor; b. Bay City, Mich., Jan. 7, 1879; d. Port Westminster, L. I., July 17, 1935. St. voice with J. F. Mount (Bay City), Carl Dufft and Joseph Tamara (N. Y.), G. Henschel (London) and Franz Emerich (Berlin); début as Faust with Moody-Manners Co. at Cov. Garden (1902); in 1904–5 he sang Parsifal in Savage's company on a tour of the U. S.; returned with the same company in Madama Butterfly (1906–7); 1907–13, at the R. Opera, Berlin, where he had the distinction of being the first foreigner to sing Tristan in Germany; 1913–5, at the Stadtth., Hamburg; accepted frequent invitations to sing Wagner rôles in England, Scotland and Ireland; 1915–7, with the Chicago Opera Co., making a very succ. début there as Tristan (Nov. 17), and later appearing chiefly in Wagner rôles. In 1904 he married Florence Easton [see EASTON-MACLENNAN], with whom he sang in the same companies and in duo-recitals.
11MacMillan, Sir Ernest Campbell, Canadian organist, conductor and composer; b. Mimico, Ontario, Aug. 18, 1893; st. music in Toronto, then with Hollins and Niecks in Edinburgh; 1911, F.R.C.O. and Mus. Bac., Oxford Univ.; 1918, Mus. Doc., Oxford; 1911–14, studied at the Univ. of Toronto (B.A., 1915); 1931, F.R.C.M.; 1936, hon. LL.D., Univ. of British Columbia; 1907, org. at Knox Ch., Toronto; 1914, visited Germany for further study and was interned there during the war; has appeared as org. throughout the U. S. and in Canada; 1919, org. of the Eaton Memorial Ch., Canada; 1920, member of the advisory board of the Canadian Academy of Mus.; since 1926 dir. of the Toronto Cons. of Mus., also dean of the mus. faculty of the Univ. of Toronto; 1927–28, Pres. of the Canadian Coll. of Organists; since 1931 cond. of the Toronto Symph. Orch.; has cond. in London, Edinburgh, N. Y., at the Hollywood Bowl, etc.; knighted in 1935.—Works: England, an ode for soli, chor. and orch. (text by Swinburne; 1917); Six vergerettes du Bas Canada, for chamber-orch.; [address hidden] for str.-quartet; Chansons of French Canada; [address hidden] of the West Coast; [address hidden] for voice and str.-trio; other songs, and pf.-pieces. Author of The Modern Piano Student and Our Piano Class (both in collaboration with Boris Berlin).
13Macmillen, Francis, American violinist; b. Marietta, O., Oct. 14, 1885. At age of 7 ent. Chicago Coll. of Music, where he st. vln. and pf.; 1895–9, pupil of K. Markees and J. Joachim in Berlin; then of C. Thomson at Brussels Cons., where he won the 1st prize and the van Hal cash prize in 1901; cont. his studies with K. Flesch and L. Auer, in St. Petersburg. Triumphal début in Brussels, Mar. 30, 1903; in the fall of the same year he was heard with the Queen's Hall Orch. (H. Wood), and made a very succ. tour of England; Amer. début with N. Y. Symph. Orch. (Damrosch), Dec. 7, 1906, followed by frequent and extensive tours of the U. S.; 1911–14, toured Europe; 1929, teacher at the Ithaca, N. Y., Cons. of Mus.; 1929–35, concertized and taught in Europe; returned to the U. S. in 1935.
15Macon'chy, Elizabeth, English composer of Irish parentage; b. Mar. 19, 1907; 1923–29, studied at the R.C.M. with R. Vaughan Williams and others; won the Blumenthal scholarship; 1929, won the Octavia Scholarship and st. for a time in Prague. Her
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