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Goves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians, 1920
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1BLOCH, ERNEST (July 24, 1880, Geneva, Switzerland), was a pupil at Geneva of Jaques-Dalcroze in 1894–96, at Brussels of Ysaye and Rasse in 1896–99, and at Frankfort of Ivan Knorr in 1899–1900. He spent time in Paris and Munich before returning to Geneva in 1904. He conducted concerts in Lausanne and Neuchâtel in 1909–10, and occasionally acted as guest-conductor of his own works. In 1911–15 he lectured at the Geneva Conservatory. Since 1916 he has lived in the United States, for two years teaching composition at the Mannes School of Music in New York. His compositions are the symphonic poem 'Vivre et Aimer' (1900); Symphony in C-sharp minor (1901–03); 'Hiver-Printemps' (1904–05, Schirmer); 'Poèmes d'Automne' (1906, Schirmer); 'Macbeth,' drame lyrique (1904–10), given at the Opéra-Comique in 1910–11 (Astruc-Enoch), and 'Historiettes au Crépuscule' (Demets). Works inspired by Jewish themes are '3 Poèmes Juifs' (1913, Schirmer); Psalms 137, 114 and 22 for voice and orchestra (1911–14, Schirmer); 'Schelomo,' a rhapsody for 'cello and orchestra (1916, Schirmer). 'Israël,' a symphony for orchestra and voices, was begun in 1914; the Jewish opera 'Jézabel,' piano-pieces and other works are still in an incomplete stage. The string-quartet in B has been played in America by the Flonzaley Quartet. A suite for viola and orchestra (or piano) is in ms. He has conducted performances of his orchestral works in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, and they have also been given in Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis and San Francisco. The symphony in C-sharp minor has been pronounced by Romain Rolland 'one of the most important works of the modern school.' In 1919 he won the prize in the Coolidge (Berkshire) competition for his Suite for viola and piano. [R.10]
3BLODGETT, BENJAMIN COLMAN (Boston, Mar. 12, 1838), from 1847 studied piano with James Hooton of Boston and organ with W. R. Babcock. He became organist of the Essex Street Church in 1850 and in 1853 went to the Eliot Church in Newton, where he remained five years. Then followed a period of three years at Leipzig. In 1861 he returned to Boston and was active as teacher, concert-pianist and organist of the Park Street Church. He became music-master at the Maplewood Institute in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1865, and this led to the establishment in 1870 of a separate music-school under his direction. In 1878 he became professor of music at Smith College in Northampton, and there soon established the Smith College School of Music, of which he was principal until 1903. A year later he became organist and choir-director at Leland Stanford University in California. Here he gave many organ-recitals until the destruction of the chapel by the earthquake of April, 1906. Illness in his family caused his retirement from public life in 1914, and he has since lived in Seattle. He has made numerous trips to Europe, appearing as pianist several times in London and Leipzig, and making the acquaintance of many distinguished musicians (Liszt at Weimar in 1860, Wagner at Bayreuth in 1876 and 1882). As a musical educator he exercised influence for almost half a century. Comparatively little of his attention has been given to composition, but he has published a set of Études for advanced piano-students, op. 20, a cantata, 'The Prodigal Son,' op. 31 (1895), piano-pieces and church-music. Unpublished works in larger form are the oratorio 'Job' (Smith College Commencement, 1889, revised 1890), an overture, concert-pieces for orchestra and a string-quartet. [R.4]
5BLUM, ELIAS (Feb. 22, 1881, Isaacfalln, Hungary), was brought to Boston in 1891, and there received his general education, studying piano with Kelterborn and composition with Goetschius. After four years' study at the Grand-Ducal School in Weimar (organ, piano, voice, composition and conducting) he returned to Boston and was active for a time as singer and organist. In 1909 he went to Walla Walla, Wash., as music-director at Whitman College. In 1917 he removed to Grinnell College in Iowa. His published compositions are a Passacaglia and Scherzo for organ, a Capriccio for piano, songs, choruses and anthems. A number of works are still in manuscript, among them a piano-trio in G minor. [R.9]
7BLUMENSCHEIN, WILLIAM LEONARD (1849–1916). See Register, 6.
9BOCHAU, CHARLES HENRY (July 7, 1870, Holstein, Germany), was brought to America as a boy. He had no opportunity for serious musical study until 1892, when he entered the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, studying harmony and composition with Hamerik, Kahmer and Boise, and piano with Burmeister. After graduation in 1899 he also studied voice with Heimendahl. In 1897 he was appointed on the staff of the Conservatory, where he is now in the vocal department. Since 1905 he has also had charge of music at the Maryland School for the Blind. The Kimball Prize of the Chicago Madrigal Club was awarded to him in 1908. In 1910–14 he was choir-master of the Madison Avenue Synagogue and devoted much time to the arrangement and development of Jewish music. He became director of the Arion Singing Society in 1913, succeeding David Melamet, and has recently been appointed conductor of the new Johns Hopkins University Orchestra (60 players), consisting of
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