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Dictionary of music and musicians : American supplement …, 1920
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1among the leading music-dealers of the country, specializing in the production of instruments of many kinds, including harps, violins, pianos and organs. See Dolge, Pianos and their Makers, pp. 350–4.
3*Heintzmann, Theodore A. (Prussia, 1817–1899, Toronto), an experienced piano-maker, came to New York in 1850, went to Buffalo in 1853 and in 1860 to Toronto, becoming the pioneer manufacturer in Canada.
5*Held, Ernst Carl Eberhardt (Saxony, 1823–1913?, Syracuse), originally a mining-engineer in Prussia, joined in the revolution of 1848 and then migrated to America, and from 1849 was teacher, composer and writer in Syracuse. Mus.D. of Syracuse University in 1903.
7*Hoffman, Richard (England, 1831–1909, Mt. Kisco, N. Y.), came to New York in 1847 and became a leading pianist and composer for the piano. See Vol. ii. 414–5, and art.
9*Hohnstock, Carl (Brunswick, 1828–1889, Brunswick), from 1848 till 1860 was prominent in Philadelphia as pianist and teacher. His sister Adelaide Hohnstock (d. 1856) was associated with him.
11*Holmes, Edward (England, 1797–1859, America), author of works on Mozart and Purcell, etc., came to America in 1849 and worked as editor and critic.
13Hopkins, Edward Jerome (Burlington, Vt., 1836–1898, Athenia, N. J.), from 1846 a self-taught organist, composer, lecturer and organizer, from 1856 with headquarters at New York. See art.
15*Hülskamp, Gustav Heinrich, a German piano-maker who worked in Troy from 1850 and in New York from 1866, introducing many improvements in construction, including striking experiments with 'symmetrical' grands.
17*Huss, George John (Bavaria, 1828–1904, New York), from 1848 was organist and piano-teacher in or near New York, with some compositions.
19Jarvis, Charles H. (Philadelphia, 1837–1895, Philadelphia), began as a child-pianist in 1844 and developed into a competent and influential artist. See art.
21*Keller, Matthias (Württemberg, 1813–1875, Boston), a band-master and violinist who came to Philadelphia in 1846, was later conductor in New York and finally went to Boston, where his 'American Hymn' was brought out in 1869.
23Kemp, Robert ['Father Kemp'] (Wellfleet, Mass., 1820–1897, Boston), a shoe-dealer in Boston, started in 1854 giving 'old-folks' concerts' of early American music. See autobiography, 1868.
25Kimball, William Wallace (Maine, 1828–1904, Chicago), after clerical and commercial experience in the East, began dealing in pianos and organs at Chicago in 1857, rapidly becoming prominent, took up reed-organ-making in 1881, piano-making in 1887 and organ-making soon after, developing one of the strongest establishments in the country.
27*Klauser, Karl (Russia [Swiss parents], 1823–1905, Farmington, Conn.), from 1850 piano-teacher, arranger and editor in New York, and in 1856–83 teacher in Farmington, Conn. He edited Famous Composers, 1891 (with Thomas and Paine), and Half-Hours with the Best Composers, 1894.
29*Kotzschmar, Hermann (Prussia, 1829–1909, Portland, Me.), came to America in 1848 and from 1849 was active in Portland as organist, teacher, conductor and composer. See art.
31*Kreissmann, August (Saxony, 1823–1879, Saxony), active in Boston from 1849 to 1876 as singer, teacher and leader of the Orpheus Club.
33*Krell, Albert (Germany, 1833–1900, Cincinnati), of a family of instrument-makers, came to America in 1848 and was known at Cincinnati as an expert violin-maker. In 1889, with his sons, he started a piano-factory.
35Lang, Benjamin Johnson (Salem, 1837–1909, Boston), from 1852 eminent as organist and conductor in Boston. See Vol. ii. 631–2, and art.
37Ludden, William (b. Williamsburg, Mass., 1823), a pupil of Mason and Webb, from 1840 taught in Pittsfield, Mass., from 1842 in Williston Seminary at Easthampton, was organist and conductor in New Haven while at Yale College, in 1853–4 studied singing in Paris, taught at New Haven and from 1862 at Chicago, removing in 1870 to Savannah as music-dealer. He compiled a Pronouncing Musical Dictionary (terms), 1875.
39Madeira, Louis Cephas, identified from 1843 with the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia till its dissolution in 1858, first as manager and then as secretary, supplied data for Annals of Music in Philadelphia and History of the Musical Fund Society, 1820–58, 1896 (edited by P. H. Goepp).
41*Maretzek, Max (Moravia, 1821–1897, Staten Island, N. Y.), an experienced violinist and opera-conductor, brought to New York in 1848 by Fry, from 1849 till 1878 was the indefatigable and usually clever manager of a variety of operatic ventures in New York, Havana and Mexico, introducing many noted singers. He wrote two operas, 'Hamlet' (1843) and 'Sleepy Hollow' (1879), orchestral music, etc., besides the autobiographic Crochets and Quavers, 1855, and Sharps and Flats, 1890.
43Mason, Daniel Gregory (Savannah, 1820–1869, Europe), son of Lowell Mason, with his brother Lowell was engaged in music-publishing in Boston from 1853.
45Mason, Henry (Boston, 1831–1890, Boston), son of Lowell Mason, in 1854 with Emmons Hamlin founded the Mason & Hamlin firm of reed-organ-makers, to which in 1869 was added his brother Lowell. Before this, in 1861, they had begun making the improved 'cabinet organ.' In 1882 the firm began to make pianos of the highest quality.
47Mason, Lowell, Jr. (Westboro, Mass., 1823–1885, Orange, N. J.), son of Lowell Mason, was from 1853 associated with his brother Daniel Gregory in the publishing-firm of Mason
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