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1BRADBURY, WILLIAM BATCHELDER (Oct. 6, 1816, York, Me. : Jan. 7, 1868, Montclair, N. J.), from 1830 had lessons on the piano and organ in Boston from Sumner Hill and Lowell Mason and attended the latter's singing-classes. From 1834 he served as church-organist. In 1836 Mason sent him to Machias, Me.; to lead a class and later to St. John's, N. B. In 1840 he was organist in Brooklyn, and from 1841 at the Baptist Tabernacle in New York, where and in other churches he organized popular singing-classes. These latter led to annual 'festivals,' held at the Broadway Tabernacle, and hastened the recognition of music in the public schools. In 1841 he published his first book, The Young Choir, assisted by Hastings, with whom in 1844–51 he collaborated upon four others of more importance. In 1847–49 he was in England and Germany, studying at Leipzig with Hauptmann, Moscheles, Ernst Wenzel and Böhme, besides investigating methods of popular instruction. After his return to New York he was active in classes and 'conventions' and in editing song-books, sacred and secular. In 1854, with his brother E. G. Bradbury, he went into the business of piano-making with success. Altogether, he was author or editor of about sixty collections of popular music. Among these, The Jubilee (1858) had a sale of over 200,000 copies, and Fresh Laurels and the 'Golden' series had even greater popularity. Of his two Sunday-school cantatas, 'Daniel' (1853) and 'Esther' (1856), the latter for many years had an enormous vogue. Many of his simple, but melodious tunes are still in wide use. See TUNE-BOOKS, 1841, and under Hastings; also Hall, Gospel Song and Hymn Writers, pp. 23–7. [ R.3 ]
3BRADBURY PIANO CO., THE, of New York, is the present name of the business established in 1854 by E. G. and W. B. Bradbury. Its development on modern lines was due to the skill and enterprise of F. G. Smith, who in 1861 helped perfect the 'Bradbury' piano and in 1867 became W. B. Bradbury's successor as head of the firm. It has been continued under F. G. Smith, 2nd, and F. G. Smith, 3rd. Since 1917 William Knabe, 3rd (b. 1872), has been general manager.
5BRADFORD, SAMUEL F. See TUNE-BOOKS, 1830.
7BRAHAM, HERBERT J. (b. 1885). See Register, 9.
9BRAINARD, SILAS (1814–1871). See Register, 3.
11BRAINARD'S SONS & CO., of Cleveland, is the publishing-house founded in 1836 by Silas Brainard and taken over in 1871 by his sons Charles S. and Henry M. Brainard. In 1876 the firm erected a large building of its own. They also have a house in Chicago.
13BRANDEIS, FREDERIC (July 5, 1835, Vienna, Austria : May 14, 1899, New York), was early a pupil of Czerny and Fischhof (piano) and of Rufinatscha (composition). He was brought to America at fourteen and studied with Meyerhofer in New York, making his début as pianist in New York in 1851. He toured with concert-companies, like that of Wallace, but finally settled in New York as teacher and composer. He was organist of the (R. C.) Cathedral in Brooklyn and of one of the large New York synagogues. His larger works, though performed, are unpublished (see list in Baker, Dict. of Musicians, p. 113). [ R.4 ]
15BRANDT, HERMANN (b. 1842). See Register, 6.
17BRANSCOMBE, GENA (Nov. 4, 1881, Picton, Ont.), is descended from a family that settled in New York in 1640. She was a pupil at the Chicago Musical College in 1897, studying piano with Ziegfeld and Friedheim and composition with Borowski. On graduating in 1899 she won a medal for composition. A further year of piano-study with Hans von Schiller brought another medal and appointment in the faculty of the College, which she held for seven years. In 1904 she studied piano with Ganz, and in 1905 composition, especially song-writing, with Von Fielitz. In 1907–09 she was piano-teacher at the Whitman Conservatory in Walla Walla, Wash. Going to Berlin in 1909 she resumed work under Ganz, with composition under Humperdinck. In 1910 she married John Ferguson Tenney of New York and has since lived there. Her songs have been widely sung. About seventy are published (Schirmer, Ditson, Schmidt), and the following have won special favor: 'The Morning Wind,' 'I bring you heartsease,' 'Krishna,' 'Hail, ye tyme of holie-dayes,' 'Dear little hut by the rice-fields,' 'There's a woman like a dewdrop,' 'Three Mystic Ships,' 'Boot and Saddle,' 'Dear is my inlaid sword,' and 'Just in the hush.' She has also four cycles for solo voice, many part-songs for women's or mixed voices and piano- and violin-pieces. A 'Festival Prelude' for orchestra was composed for the MacDowell Festival at Peterboro, N. H., in 1914. [ R.9 ]
19BRASE, HAGBARD (b. 1877). See COLLEGES, 3 (Bethany C., Kan.).
21BRASLAU, SOPHIE. See Register, 10.
23BRATTLE, THOMAS (d. 1713). See Register, 1.
25BREIL, JOSEPH CARL (b. 1870). See Register, 8.
27BREMNER, JAMES (d. 1780). See Register, 1.
29BRESSLER–GIANOLI, CLOTILDE (1875–1912). See Register, 9.
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