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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, 1927
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1for organ. The comic opera 'Daphne' was given in New York in 1897. [R.6]
2BIRGE, EDWARD BAILEY (b. 1868). See Register, 9.
3BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, THE, Birmingham, Ala., was founded in 1895 by Benjamin Guckenberger, who remained in charge till 1902, when he was succeeded by Edna Gockel and (from 1903) her husband, William Gussen. The institution is affiliated with the chain of schools of the Sherwood Music School in Chicago.
4BISCACCIANTI, ELIZA, née Ostinelli (1825–?). See Register, 4.
5BISCHOFF, JOHN W. (1850–1909). See Register, 6.
6BISHOP, ANNA (1814–1884). See Vol. i. 330–1, and Register, 4.
7BISPHAM, DAVID SCULL (Jan. 5, 1857, Philadelphia). See article in Vol. i. 333. Add to the list of works which he has introduced in America and England the following: Liza Lehmann's 'Persian Garden' and her romantic opera 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (London, Nov. 12, 1906); Schilling's 'Witch's Song,' Cole's 'King Robert of Sicily,' Bergh's setting of 'The Raven' and many other pieces for recitation. He has constantly championed the use of English versions wherever practicable, and has made a specialty of song-cycles in English, such as Beethoven's 'To a Distant Beloved,' Schubert's 'Songs of the Mill' and 'Winter Journey,' and Schumann's 'The Poet's Love.' He has been foremost in reviving the art of declamation to music, and is noted for his performance of Sophocles' 'Antigone' with Mendelssohn's music and of Byron's 'Manfred' with Schumann's music. His operatic repertory includes over fifty parts, and he has sung in more than a hundred oratorios and cantatas—his Elijah being particularly famous. Of songs of all schools he has sung at least 1500. His powers as an actor are universally recognized, but it is as a singer in opera and concert that he is most widely known. He has edited two volumes of songs under the title of Bispham's Albums, and has published A Quaker Singer's Recollections, 1920. [R.8]
8BISSELL, T. See TUNE-BOOKS, 1846.
9BLACK, LOUIS. See STATE UNIVERSITIES (W. Va.).
10BLAKE, GEORGE E. (1775–1871). See Register, 3, and TUNE-BOOKS, 1810.
11BLAKESLEE, SAMUEL H. See COLLEGES, 3 (Ohio Wesleyan U.).
12BLANCHARD, AMOS. See TUNE-BOOKS, 1807.
13BLANCK, HUBERT DE (June 11, 1856, Utrecht, Holland), was a pupil of Dupuy in composition at the Liège Conservatory, and of Ledent in piano, and won a scholarship from the Belgian government. At seventeen he toured Russia, Sweden and Germany as pianist, and then conducted at the El Dorado Theater in Warsaw. In 1880 he visited South America with the violinist Dengremont, in 1881 taught piano at the New York College of Music and in 1883 settled in Havana. Two years later he established the first conservatory there. He was imprisoned for revolutionary activity in 1896 and banished by order of General Weyler. On the establishment of order he returned and reopened the school as the Conservatorio Nacional. It is now a large institution, with branches in the leading cities of Cuba. He has composed piano-pieces and songs. [R.7]
14BLASS, ROBERT (b. 1867). See Register, 8.
15BLAUVELT, LILLIAN EVANS (Mar. 16, 1874, Brooklyn, N. Y.). See article in Vol. i. 338–9. Until 1914 she made annual tours in Europe and America. In 1902 she sang the Coronation Ode by special command at Albert Hall in London and received a medal from Edward VII. In 1905 she sang in Russia and made a tour of Europe in 1908–09. In 1906–07 she starred in the comic opera 'The Rose of Alhambra.' She received the Order of St. Cecilia at Rome in 1901. [R.8]
16'BLIND GIRL OF CASTEL-CUILLÉ, THE.' A three-act opera, with ballet, by Earl R. Drake, produced in 1914 in Chicago.
17'BLIND TOM.' See BETHUNE, THOMAS G.
18BLISS, CHARLES MERIT (b. 1866). See COLLEGES, 3 (Phillips U., Okla.).
19BLISS, PHILIP PAUL (1838–1876). See Register, 5.
20BLISS, PHILIP PAUL, JR. (Nov. 25, 1872, Chicago), was the son of the noted writer of 'Gospel hymns' and was educated for the ministry. He graduated from Princeton in 1894. His musical education was under Clarke and Zeckwer in Philadelphia, and in Paris in 1896–98 he studied organ with Guilmant and composition with Massenet. In 1900–04 he was organist, director and teacher of public-school music at Owego, N. Y. In 1904 he went to Cincinnati, as musical editor for the John Church Co., and in 1911 took a similar position with the Willis Music Co., where he is still engaged. He has composed about 200 instructive piano-pieces, many operettas (both words and music), sacred and secular cantatas, choruses, about 100 songs, duets and five song-cycles (two published), a piano-suite, a book on pedal-study, a graded course for piano, 4 vols., solos for organ, violin and 'cello, a comic opera (unpublished), etc. He has also increased the répertoire of four-, six- and eight-hand music for one and two pianos and for two violins and piano, and of musical recitations with piano. [R.9]
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