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Goves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians, 1920
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1BOITO
3compositions included both orchestral and other works. His Harmony Made Practical, 1900, has had wide acceptance and he also wrote Music and its Masters, 1901. [R.5]
5†BOITO, ARRIGO (Feb. 24, 1842, Padua, Italy : June 10, 1918, Milan). See article in Vol. i. 353–8. To the last he was busy over his opera 'Nero,' whispering 'Nerone é finito' just before his death. In March, 1912, he was made Senator of the Kingdom.
7BOLLINGER, SAMUEL (Sept. 22, 1871, Fort Smith, Ark.), was the son of a musician and early played the piano in his father's trio. His first piano-lessons were with Emil Winkler; later he studied at Leipzig with Reinecke, Zwintscher, Schreck and Quasdorf. He won a scholarship at the Conservatory, taught there, and was organist of the American Church in 1893–5. In 1896 he founded the Bollinger Conservatory at Fort Smith, Ark., but two years later removed to San Francisco. Eight years were spent there and one in Chicago before starting the Bollinger Piano School in St. Louis in 1907. He has performed programs of his own compositions, besides lecturing on symphonies. His works include
9'The Sphinx,' a fantaisie-suite for orchestra in five scenes — 'Slumber-Song,' 'The Awakening,' 'The Riddle,' 'Theban Festival,' 'Death-Song of the Sphinx' (prize from the St. Louis Art League, 1916), op. 18.
11'Pompilia and Caponsacchi,' a dramatic overture, based on Browning's 'Ring and the Book,' op. 3.
13Waltzes for orchestra, op. 9.
15Petite Sonate, for violin, op. 2.
17Sonate quasi une Fantaisie, for violin, op. 9.
19Romanza, for violin, op. 6 (Breitkopf).
21Caprice, for violin, op. 11.
23Songs: 'Fancy' and 'Wilt thou weep?' op. 16 (Schirmer); 'Youth and Love' and 'A Confession,' op. 12.
25Piano-pieces: Scherzo, Mazurka and Romanza Lamentos, op. 1 (Grude, Leipzig); 'Danse Mélancolique' (F. A. Mills, New York); 'Chopinesques': op. 4, including Prélude ('At Sea'), Nocturne and Impromptu (Schirmer); op. 5, including Idylle, Barcarolle and Humoresque (Breitkopf), and op. 7, including 'Danse Caprice' and 'Danse Humoristique' (Breitkopf); 'Lament,' op. 8, no. 1 (Breitkopf); Tone-Poem, op. 8, no. 2 (Schirmer); 'Élégie' and 'Impromptu Fantastique,' op. 15 (Shattiger, St. Louis); Symphonic Prelude, a concert-study, op. 10; op. 20, including 'Trudging' and Romance; op. 21, 'American Dance.'
27Fantaisie Romantique, for organ, op. 17. [R.8]
29BONAWITZ, JOHANN HEINRICH (Dec. 4, 1839, Dürkheim, Germany : Aug. 15, 1917, London), was of Polish origin. He studied at the Liège Conservatory, and was brought to America in 1852. At twenty-two he returned to Europe and made several concert-tours as pianist with Joachim. He also taught in Wiesbaden, Paris and London. In 1872–73 he organized popular symphony-concerts in New York, but these failed from lack of popular appreciation. His piano-recitals on a tour in 1873 were more successful. In Philadelphia he produced two operas, 'The Bride of Messina' (1874) and 'Ostrolenka' (1875). In 1876 he removed to Vienna, and his last thirty years were spent in London. Here he founded the Mozart Society, which gave annual series of concerts largely devoted to Mozart's music. Excerpts from his opera 'Napoleon' were given in concert-form in London in 1911. His works included the above operas and also 'Diogenes' (1870) and 'Irma' (1885, London), a Requiem, a Stabat Mater, a piano-quintet, a string-quartet, a trio, many piano-pieces and songs. [R.5]
31BOND, CARRIE, née Jacobs (b. 1862). See Register, 9.
33BONVIN, LUDWIG (Feb. 17, 1850, Siders, Switzerland), after completing his college course in Sion in 1870, studied medicine in Vienna and law in Sion, but entered the Jesuit Order in 1874 in Holland. There and in England for several years he held positions as organist. He was ordained priest in Liverpool in 1885. Since 1887 he has been at Canisius College in Buffalo, as head of the college music-department till 1907, director of the choir in 1887–95 and 1897–1905, and of the orchestra in 1888–1907. As a musician he is chiefly self-taught. Though once engaged about equally in secular and ecclesiastical music, he has lately worked to improve the music and text of Catholic English hymnology and to restore the original rhythmic values in Gregorian chant. He has published several hymn-books, among which 'Hosanna' is most notable. Taking up the work of A. Dechevreus and Gietmann, he has also published many historical, scientific and controversial essays in various languages and issued several practical rhythmizations of the Vatican melodies. His compositions are as follows:
35'A Christmas-Night Dream,' op. 10, for string-orchestra (Siegel) — also, as op. 8a, for violin, 'cello and reed-organ (Coppenroth).
37Three 'Tone-Pictures,' op. 12, for orchestra (Breitkopf).
39Ballade, op. 25, for orchestra (Breitkopf) — also for violin, 'cello and piano.
41'Festival Procession,' op. 25, for orchestra (Breitkopf) — also in chamber-arrangements.
43'Reminiscences,' op. 31, for orchestra (Breitkopf), also for violin, 'cello and piano, or violin and piano.
45Symphony in G minor, op. 67 (Breitkopf).
47Two Symphonic Movements, op. 71 (Breitkopf).
49'Suppressed Sadness at the Joyous Feast,' op. 12a, for 2 violins, 'cello, reed-organ and piano (Coppenroth).
51Andante Cantabile, op. 77, for violin, 'cello, reed-organ and piano (Coppenroth) — also for organ (Leuckart).
53Romanza, op. 19, for violin with orchestra or piano (Breitkopf).
55Melody, op. 56, for violin and piano (Breitkopf), or for string-quartet (Leuckart).
57Three 'Tone-Poems,' op. 8, for organ (Leuckart).
59Accompaniments for the Kyriale Parvum, the hymnals 'Hosanna' and 'Cantemus Domino,' and
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