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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1in The Messiah with the N. Y. Oratorio Soc. almost every season from 1905. She made her operatic début as Micaëla at Cov. Garden, London (July 7, 1908). In 1909 she was soloist at the First Ch. of Christ, Scientist, N. Y. In 1926 she married the violinist Lynell Reed; now (1940) living in Toledo, Ohio.
3Rie'chers [rē'yhĕrs], August, b. March 8, 1836, in Hanover; d. Berlin, Jan. 4, 1893. Skilful maker and repairer of violins, trained by Bausch of Leipzig; Joachim entrusted his violins to R.'s hands. He publ. a valuable pamphlet: The Violin and the Art of its Construction; a Treatise on the Stradivarius Violin (Engl. ed. 1895; pp. 35), with 4 plates of full-size diagrams exhibiting the structure and exact dimensions of the model 'Strad.'
5Rie'del, Karl, b. Kronenberg, n. Elberfeld, Oct. 6, 1827; d. Leipzig, June 3, 1888. A silk-dyer by trade, the Revolution of 1848 upset his business, and turned his thoughts to the serious study of music. He became a pupil of Carl Wilhelm at Krefeld, and entered the Leipzig Cons. in 1849. In 1854 he organized the 'Riedelverein,' a singing-society which later became famous, for the performance of ancient church-music. The first public concert was given in 1855; in 1859 his fine mixed chorus successfully performed Bach's Mass in B minor. On Brendel's death in 1868, R. was elected president of the 'Allgemeiner deutscher Musikverein,' and founded the Leipzig branch ('Zweigverein'). A powerful advocate of the Wagner Festivals, he also became president of the 'Wagnerverein.' The Duke of Altenburg conferred on R. the title of 'Professor' in 1868; Leipzig University created him Dr. phil. (hon. c.) in 1883.—Even after its founder's death the 'Riedelverein' maintained its reputation as one of the finest choral organizations in Germany; successive cons. were H. Kretzschmar (1888–97), G. Göhler (1897–1907 and 1909–13), R. Hagel (1907–09), R. Wetz (1913–15), F. Mayerhoff (1915), M. Ludwig (1919).—Publ. the collections, 'Altböhmische Hussiten- und Weihnachtslieder,' and '12 altdeutsche Lieder'; a skilful reduction of Schütz's [address hidden] to one; and editions of Schütz's Sieben Worte, J. W. Franck's Geistliche Melodien, Eccard's Preussische Festlieder, Praetorius' Weihnachtslieder.—Cf. A. Göhler, Der Riedelverein zu Leipzig (Leipzig, 1904; with biogr. of R.).
7Riegel [rē'gĕl], Heinrich Joseph, born Wertheim, Franconia, Feb. 9, 1741; d. Paris, May, 1799. Pupil of F. X. Richter in Mannheim and Jommelli in Stuttgart; settled in Paris in 1768; from 1782–6 cond. of the Concerts Spirituels. On the title-page of several works publ. in Paris his name appears as Rigel (which form his son [q. v.] adopted). He is one of the earliest composers who wrote ensemble-music with pf. (e.g., pf.-quartets; and 'symphonies' for 2 vls., vcl., 2 horns and pf.), also the operas (all prod. in Paris) Le Savetier et le Financier (1778), L'Automate (1779), Rosanie (1780), Blanche et Vermeille (1781), Lucas (1785), Les Amours du Gros-Caillou (1786), Alix de Beaucaire (1791). A 'symphony' in D was republ. by R. Sondheim in 1923.
9Riegger, Wallingford, composer; b. Albany, Ga., Apr. 29, 1885; st. with Stillman-Kelley, Goetschius and A. Hekking, at the Inst. of Musical Art, N. Y., and later at the Berlin Hochschule; 1907, Mus. Bac.; 1925, Mus. Doc., Cincinnati Cons.; won the Paderewski Prize (1921) and the E. S. Coolidge Prize (1924); 1915–16, cond. opera in Würzburg and Königsberg, Germany; 1916–17, the Bluethner Orch. Concerts in Berlin; 1918–22, head of the theory dept. at Drake Univ., Des Moines; 1924–25, instructor at the Inst. of Musical Art, N. Y.; 1926–28, head of the theory Dept. at Ithaca Cons.; now (1940) teaching privately in N. Y., where he is adviser on the Board for New Music recordings and publ.; member of the Exec. Board of Pan Amer. Assoc. of Composers and the Amer. Composers' Alliance; 1938, mus. dir. of the Dance Div. of the Federal Th. Project, N. Y. Has written much music for the modern dance and the films.—For orch.: American Polonaise, triple jazz (1923; N. Y. Philh.); Rhapsody (1925; N. Y. Philh.); Fantasy and Fugue for organ and orch. (1931); Lyric Suite (1931); chamber-works: Trio in B m. (1921); str.-quartet in G m. (1923); La Belle dame sans merci, for 4 solo vcs. and chamber orch. (1924; Coolidge Prize); Study in Sonority, for 10 vlns. or multiple of 10 (1927; very successful); Suite for solo flute (1929; League of Composers, N. Y.); [address hidden] for woodwinds (flute, oboe, clar. and bassoon; 1930; N. Y., Paris, Vienna, etc.); Dichotomy, for 13 instrs. (1932, Berlin); Scherzo for 12 instrs. (1932); Diversissement for fl., harp and vcl. (1933); Mus. for voice and flute (1937); etc.
11Rie'mann, (Karl Wilhelm Julius) Hugo, musicologist and teacher; b. Grossmehlra, n. Sondershausen, July 18, 1849; d. Leipzig, July 10, 1919. He was trained in theory by Frankenberger at Sondershausen, studying the piano with Barthel and Ratzenberger; took the gymnasial course in the Rossleben 'Klosterschule,' 1865–8, and studied at first law, then philosophy and history, at Berlin and Tübingen; and, after passing through the campaign of 1870–1, entered the Leipzig Cons. In 1873 he took the degree of Dr. phil. at Göttingen with the dissertation
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