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Dictionary of music and musicians : American supplement …, 1920
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1in England, active as teacher and critic. His compositions include two symphonies, two piano-concertos, a violin-concerto, five string-quartets, a piano-quintet, many piano-pieces and songs. [R.7]
3BENJAMIN, JONATHAN. See Tune-Books, 1799.
5BENSON, HARRY (b. 1848). See Register, 6.
7BENSON, LOUIS FITZGERALD (b. 1855). See Register, 8.
9BENTLEY, JOHN. See Register, 2.
11BENTLEY, WILLIAM FREDERICK (Sept. 12, 1859, Lenox, O.), has been largely identified with Knox College in Illinois. Graduating from Oberlin Conservatory in 1883, he studied piano with Sherwood and Perry in America and with Zwintscher and Kullak in Germany, and voice with Delle Sedie and Escalais in Paris and Randegger in London. In 1883–85 he was music-director in the Institute at South New Lyme, O. Since 1885 he has been director of the Knox Conservatory in Galesburg, Ill., teacher of voice there since 1898 and conductor of the Galesburg Musical Union since 1899. He is also conductor of the Choral Union at Kewanee, Ill. Two of his songs are published and about twenty-five others are in manuscript. [R.7]
13BERGE, WILLIAM (d. 1883). See Register, 4.
15BERGER, RUDOLF (1874–1915). See Register, 9.
17BERGER, WILHELM (Aug. 9, 1861, Boston : Jan. 16, 1911, Meiningen, Germany). See article in Vol. i. 308. He taught piano at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin in 1888–1903 and then succeeded Fritz Steinbach as director of the Meiningen Orchestra. He was Royal Prussian Professor and member of the Royal Academy of Arts. To the list of works add a Symphony in B minor, op. 80; Variations and Fugue for orchestra, op. 97; three Ballades for baritone and orchestra; 'Der Totentanz,' op. 86, for mixed chorus and large orchestra; many songs, choruses, and piano-pieces. [R.7]
19BERGH, ARTHUR (Mar. 24, 1882, St. Paul), began violin-study at five, and received his entire training in America. In 1903 he came to New York, for five years was violinist in the New York Symphony Society, and then was in the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House. He taught violin, harmony and composition at the New York Institute of Music and conducted the Municipal Concerts in 1911–14. He has lectured on American music and is secretary of the American Music Society. His melodramatic music to Poe's 'Raven,' op. 20, was first produced in 1909, with orchestra under his direction and with Bispham as reader. A second melodrama, also with orchestra, is on Browning's 'Pied Piper of Hamelin,' op. 23. He has also a symphonic choral for orchestra and chorus, 'The Unnamed City'; a romantic opera, 'Niorada'; two overtures; a Festival March for orchestra; 'The Night Rider,' a song with orchestra; piano- and violin-pieces and some thirty songs. [R.9]
21BERGMANN, B. See Register, 2.
23BERGMANN, KARL (1821–1876). See Vol. i. 308–9, and Register, 4.
25BERGNER, FREDERIC (1827– ? ). See Register, 4.
27BERGQUIST, JOHN VICTOR (b. 1877). See Register, 8.
29BERKENHEAD, JOHN L. See Register, 2.
31BERKSHIRE FESTIVALS OF CHAMBER MUSIC, THE, held at Pittsfield, Mass., were established in 1918 by Mrs. Frederick S. Coolidge of New York, whose summer-home at Pittsfield provides an ideal place for them. The first Festival occurred on Sept. 16–18, 1918, the participants being the Berkshire String Quartet, the Elshuco Trio, the Longy Club and the Letz Quartet. The five programs included Loeillet's Sonata for flute, oboe and piano, Mozart's Quartet in G (Köchel, 387), Quintet (Köchel, 516) and Quintet for piano and wood-wind, Beethoven's Quartets in E-flat, opp. 74 and 127, Schubert's Trio in B-flat, op. 99, no. 1, Brahms' Sextet in B-flat, op. 18, and Trio in C minor, op. 101. Thuille's Quintet, op. 20, Reiser's Quartet in E minor, Tanieiev's Quartet in B-flat, op. 19, Iarecki's Quartet (prize composition), Ravel's Trio in A minor, d'Indy's 'Chanson et Danses,' op. 50, Pierné's 'Pastorale Variée,' op. 30, and Caplet's 'Suite Persane.' The second Festival occurred on Sept. 25–27, 1919, the participants being the Berkshire String Quartet, the Flonzaley Quartet, and many individual artists, including Harold Bauer, the pianist, Gustav Langenus and Ugo Savolini from the New York Chamber Music Society, and several singers. The five programs included Mozart's Quartet in B-flat (Köchel, 458), Beethoven's Quartets in A minor and F, opp. 132 and 135, and Septet in E-flat, op. 20, Brahms' Trio in D, op. 40, Saint-Saëns' Quartet in G, op. 153 (first time in America), Dvořák's Quartet in E-flat, op. 51, Elgar's Quartet in E minor, op. 83 (first time in America), Mason's Pastorale in D, op. 8, Sowerby's Trio in E minor (first time), Bloch's Suite for viola and piano (prize composition), Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for viola and piano, and a variety of vocal selections for soli or quartet with chamber-accompaniment. A prize of $1000 is offered annually for the best chamber-work submitted, the winners being Tadeusz Iarecki in 1918, Ernest Bloch in 1919 and Francesco Malipiero in 1920.
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