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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, 1911
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1*Vix, Geneviève (b. France, 1887), from 1910 lyric soprano at Madrid and Buenos Aires, in 1917–18 appeared with the Chicago Opera Company. In 1918 she married the Russian banker Cyril Narishkin in New York.
3*Volavy, Marguerite (b. Moravia, 1886), from 1902 known as concert-pianist throughout Europe, since 1914 has played in America. At her New York début in 1915 with the Russian Symphony Orchestra she introduced a new concerto by Bortkiewicz.
5Ware, Helen (b. Woodbury, N. J., 1887), studied at Philadelphia, Vienna and Budapest, and since 1912 has toured Europe and America as concert-violinist, specializing in Hungarian and Slav music. See art.
7*Warnery, Edmond (b. France, 1876, of Swiss parents), originally a baritone, now a tenor, since 1910 has sung with the Chicago Opera Company with sustained success.
9*Weil, Hermann (b. Germany, 1878), the Wagnerian baritone, since 1911 has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House and in concert. He has published songs.
11*Witek, Anton (b. Bohemia, 1872), long eminent as concertmaster and ensemble-player in Berlin, in 1910–18 was concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, besides continuing, with his wife, *Vita Witek, née Friese (b. Denmark, 1868), and Joseph Malkin, the Witek-Malkin Trio (formed in 1902 at Berlin) and teaching in New York. See art.
13*Ysaÿe, Eugène (b. Belgium, 1858), since 1880 famous as a great violinist and also able conductor, since 1918 has been conductor of the Cincinnati Festivals and Symphony Orchestra. See Vol. v. 580–2, and art.
15*Zbinden, Theodore (b. Alsace, 1877), graduated from the University of Michigan in 1899, with degrees later in both music and medicine, from 1912 taught in Toledo, but since 1918 has been a practicing physician. He has written a violin-sonata, the cantata 'The Chambered Nautilus,' etc.
17*Zimbalist, Efrem (b. Russia, 1889), the distinguished violinist, settled in America in 1911 and has played extensively and with great success. In 1914 he married the soprano Alma Gluck (see sec. 9). See Vol. v. 596, and art.
19The several sections of the Register refer to about 1700 persons, of whom over 900 are native-born and nearly 800 are foreign-born. It is interesting to observe how the derivation of these classes changes from period to period.
21For convenience, those native-born may be grouped in six regions, namely, a. New England; b. Middle States; c. Southern States (Va. to Tex.); d. Central States (Ohio to Kan.); e. Western States; f. Canada, West Indies, Mexico and South America. Still more roughly, those foreign-born may be grouped in four classes, namely, a. Great Britain, Holland and Scandinavia; b. Germany, Bohemia and Austria; c. Latin Countries (including Belgium and Switzerland); d. Slavic and Other Countries.
23The statistics work out (as far as birthplaces are known or probable) as follows:
25<table>
26 <tr>
27 <th rowspan="2"> </th>
28 <th colspan="6">NATIVE-BORN</th>
29 <th colspan="5">FOREIGN-BORN</th>
30 </tr>
31 <tr>
32 <th>Names</th>
33 <th>a.</th>
34 <th>b.</th>
35 <th>c.</th>
36 <th>d.</th>
37 <th>e.</th>
38 <th>f.</th>
39 <th>Names</th>
40 <th>a.</th>
41 <th>b.</th>
42 <th>c.</th>
43 <th>d.</th>
44 </tr>
45 <tr>
46 <td>18th cent.</td>
47 <td>15</td>
48 <td>80%</td>
49 <td>20%</td>
50 <td>—</td>
51 <td>—</td>
52 <td>—</td>
53(no line here) one of two readings
54 <td>—</td> one of two readings
55 <td>100</td>
56 <td>70%</td>
57 <td>15%</td>
58 <td>15%</td>
59 <td>—</td>
60 </tr>
61 <tr>
62 <td>1800–40</td>
63 <td>50</td>
64 <td>75</td>
65 <td>21</td>
66 <td>2%</td>
67(no line here) one of two readings
68 <td>—</td> one of two readings
69 <td>—</td>
70 <td>2%</td>
71 <td>50</td>
72 <td>54</td>
73 <td>24</td>
74 <td>22</td>
75 <td>—</td>
76 </tr>
77 <tr>
78 <td>1840–60</td>
79 <td>80</td>
80 <td>60</td>
81 <td>23</td>
82 <td>12</td>
83 <td>3%</td>
84(no line here) one of two readings
85 <td>—</td> one of two readings
86 <td>2</td>
87 <td>95</td>
88 <td>24</td>
89 <td>67</td>
90 <td>9</td>
91 <td>—</td>
92 </tr>
93 <tr>
94 <td>1860–70</td>
95 <td>70</td>
96 <td>44</td>
97 <td>30</td>
98 <td>4</td>
99 <td>12</td>
100(no line here) one of two readings
101 <td>—</td> one of two readings
102 <td>10</td>
103 <td>45</td>
104 <td>22</td>
105 <td>64</td>
106 <td>14</td>
107 <td>—</td>
108 </tr>
109 <tr>
110 <td>1870–80</td>
111 <td>120</td>
112 <td>36</td>
113 <td>28</td>
114 <td>4</td>
115 <td>29</td>
116 <td>2%</td>
117 <td>1</td>
118 <td>60</td>
119 <td>25</td>
120 <td>46</td>
121 <td>15</td>
122 <td>14%</td>
123 </tr>
124 <tr>
125 <td>1880–90</td>
126 <td>175</td>
127 <td>28</td>
128 <td>38</td>
129 <td>5</td>
130 <td>20</td>
131 <td>2</td>
132 <td>7</td>
133 <td>115</td>
134 <td>33</td>
135 <td>48</td>
136 <td>10</td>
137 <td>9</td>
138 </tr>
139 <tr>
140 <td>1890–1900</td>
141 <td>195</td>
142 <td>21</td>
143 <td>38</td>
144 <td>4</td>
145 <td>29</td>
146 <td>3</td>
147 <td>5</td>
148 <td>95</td>
149 <td>32</td>
150 <td>49</td>
151 <td>10</td>
152 <td>9</td>
153 </tr>
154 <tr>
155 <td>1900–10</td>
156 <td>150</td>
157 <td>15</td>
158 <td>32</td>
159 <td>6</td>
160 <td>34</td>
161 <td>4</td>
162 <td>9</td>
163 <td>115</td>
164 <td>27</td>
165 <td>22</td>
166 <td>37</td>
167 <td>14</td>
168 </tr>
169 <tr>
170 <td>1910–20</td>
171 <td>50</td>
172 <td>10</td>
173 <td>38</td>
174 <td>2</td>
175 <td>38</td>
176 <td>6</td>
177 <td>6</td>
178 <td>105</td>
179 <td>27</td>
180 <td>18</td>
181 <td>36</td>
182 <td>19</td>
183 </tr>
184 <tr>
185 <td></td> one of two readings
186(no line here) one of two readings
187 <td>905</td>
188 <td>32%</td>
189 <td>32%</td>
190 <td>5%</td>
191 <td>23%</td>
192 <td>3%</td>
193 <td>5%</td>
194 <td>780</td>
195 <td>35%</td>
196 <td>37%</td>
197 <td>20%</td>
198 <td>8%</td>
199(no line here) one of two readings
200 <td>—</td> one of two readings
201 </tr>
202</table>
204If existing dictionaries be collated, it will be found that the trend of percentages does not vary much from the above, although the total number of names included is much larger — about 2700 native-born and about 1000 foreign-born.
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