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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians. American supplement : being the sixth volume of the complete work, 1920
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1BEHR BROTHERS PIANO CO.
3BEHR BROTHERS PIANO COMPANY, THE, of New York, was founded in 1881 by Henry and Edward Behr. William J. Behr, the son of the former, is now its president. Their pianos have won high awards at the Expositions at New Orleans in 1885, at Melbourne in 1889 and at Chicago in 1893. The total number made is over 50,000.
5BEHRENT, JOHN. See Register, 1.
7BEISSEL, JOHANN CONRAD (1690–1768). See Register, 1.
9BELCHER, SUPPLY (1751–1836). See TUNE-BOOKS, 1794.
11BELKNAP, DANIEL (1771–1815). See TUNE-BOOKS, 1797.
13† BELL, WILLIAM HENRY (Aug. 20, 1873, St. Alban’s, England). See article in Vol. v. 612–63. Since 1912 he has been principal of the South African College of Music in Cape Town. His recent larger works are a set of Symphonic Variations in G (1917, Cape Town Orchestra), a 2nd Symphony, in A (1918, ibid.), and a 3rd Symphony, in F, written in 1918–19. See ‘Musical Times,’ May–July, 1920.
15BELLAMANN, HEINRICH HAUER (Apr. 28, 1882, Fulton, Mo.), secured his general education at Westminster College in Missouri and the University of Denver. He then went to Paris, studying piano with Philipp and organ and composition with Widor. Since 1907 he has been director of the School of Fine Arts in Chicora College for Women at Columbia, S. C. He has interested himself in the advancement of modern French music in the South, and has presented for the first time in America many of the more important works by d’Indy, Widor, Debussy, Magnard, Labey, Roussel, de Séverac, de Bréville, Chausson and others. He is an authorized representative of Philipp’s method. His compositions include a piano-concerto, a violin-sonata, a piano-sonata, a piano-quintet and choral works. He has also written numerous magazine articles. In 1907 he was made Mus.D. by Grayson College (Tex.). His wife is an accomplished singer and since 1907 has also taught at Chicora College. He comes of a distinguished line of German musicians. [R.9]
17BELTZ, OLIVER S. See COLLEGES, 3 (Union C., Neb.)
19BENBOW, WILLIAM (b. 1865). See Register, 6.
21BENDIX, MAX (Mar. 28, 1866, Detroit, Mich.), having appeared in public as violinist at eight, before he was twenty gained orchestral experience under conductors like Thomas, Van der Stucken and Seidl. His training as soloist was chiefly with Jacobsohn. In 1886 he was concertmaster at the Metropolitan Opera House and also concertmaster and assistant-conductor of the Thomas Orchestra, remaining with the latter ten years, during which he was assistant and successor to Thomas at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Concertizing alone or with the Bendix Quartet occupied the years 1897–1903. He conducted the orchestra at the World’s Fair at St. Louis in 1904. The next season he was concertmaster for the Wagnerian performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. He was concertmaster and conductor at the Manhattan Opera House there in 1906; concertized in this country and in Europe for two years; and conducted again at the Metropolitan in 1909–10. Then came four years as conductor of light opera. In 1915 he was conductor of the Exposition Orchestra at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. Since then he has devoted himself to teaching in New York. His compositions include a violin-concerto; ‘Pavlowa,’ a valse-caprice for orchestra; a theme and variations for ’cello and orchestra; ‘The Sisters,’ a ballad for soprano and orchestra; music for the play ‘Experience’; and a number of songs. [R.7]
23BENDIX, OTTO (1845–1904). See Register, 7.
25BENEDICTIS, SAVINO DI (Jan. 20, 1883, São Paulo, Brazil), having been for some years a specialist in theory, is now professor of harmony and composition in the Conservatorio Drammatico e Musical at Sao Paulo. His compositions include a four-movement suite for orchestra, ‘Mariage de Pierrot et Pierrette’; ‘Tramonto,’ an ‘essai lyrique’; and a number of graceful pieces for piano. He has written a Traité d’Harmonie, 2 vols., and a Théorie Musicale. [R.9]
27BENHAM, ASAHEL. See TUNE-BOOKS, 1790.
29BENHAM, VICTOR (Apr. 12, 1871, Brooklyn, N. Y.), in 1877 appeared in public as singer and in 1880 as pianist with the Thomas Orchestra in New York. He toured as a child-pianist with Patti, Gerster, Wilhelmj and other artists. In 1882 he was first heard in London, playing at the Crystal Palace concerts under Manns and on Monday Popular Concert programs with Joachim, Piatti and others. By this time he had composed in various forms. In 1885 he played a Fantaisie for piano and orchestra at the Lamoureux Concerts in Paris. There he studied at the Conservatory under Marmontel, receiving a first prize in 1886. After European tours he returned to America, where he spent the years 1890–1900. During 1900–04 he was again in London, and then for eight years in Detroit, teaching, composing and lecturing on various art-subjects. In 1912 he returned to Europe, playing in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, France and England. Since 1914 he has lived
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