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Pratt (ed.), Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920) — the Squier, Juhan, Gemünder and Elias Howe entries, 1920
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1the two following seasons he continued with the same company, and appeared in orchestral concerts in London and elsewhere in England. In 1899–1900 he was at the Mayence Opera, and for the next ten years sang variously in concert, opera and oratorio. In 1903–05 he made two American tours with Mme. Melba, and in 1906–07 with Mme. Sembrich. In 1911–12 he sang with the Chicago Opera Company, and has since specialized in oratorio and concert-work. With the New York Oratorio Society he participated in the American première of Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ on Dec. 6, 1903. [ R.8 ]
3VAN VECHTEN, CARL (June 17, 1880, Cedar Rapids, Ia.), graduating from the University of Chicago in 1903, and has devoted himself to writing on musical and allied subjects. His books are Music after the Great War, 1915, Music and Bad Manners, 1916, Interpreters and Interpretations, 1917, The Merry-Go-Round, 1918 and The Music of Spain, 1919. He has championed the cause of the moderns in music. He was one of the first in America to write of Stravinsky, Ornstein and Satie. He has devoted several essays to modern stage-decoration, with particular emphasis on the work of Adolphe Appia. His Music of Spain is the only book on the subject in English. He was assistant musical editor of the New York ‘Times’ for four years, edited the program-notes for the Symphony Society in 1910–11, contributed the musical biographical notes to the revised edition of the Century Dictionary, and was Paris correspondent for the ‘Times’ in 1908–09 and dramatic critic for the ‘Press’ in 1913–14. [ R.9 ]
5VAN VLECK, JACOB. See Register, 2.
7VAN VLIET, CORNELIUS (Sept. 1, 1886, Rotterdam, Holland), began violin and piano at six, but at nine changed to the ’cello and at twelve was heard in concert. He studied with Eberle in Rotterdam and Mossel in Amsterdam, and joined the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Mengelberg. Thence in 1903 he went as leading ’cellist to the Leipzig Philharmonic and the Prague Philharmonic, followed by solo-engagements in Helsingfors, Munich (1905) and Vienna (1908) under Weingartner. In Helsingfors he also taught chamber-music in the Conservatory. In 1911–12 he concertized in America and then joined the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Trio. Since 1919 he has been located in New York, chiefly occupied with concert-work. He is ’cellist in the New York Trio. [ R.10 ]
9VAN ZANDT, MARIE (Oct. 8, 1861,1 New York : Dec. 31, 1919, Cannes, France).
101 ‘1858’ in Who’s Who in America, 1901–12, but ‘1860’ in International Year-Book, 1919.
12See article in Vol. v. 585–6. In 1898 she married Professor Tcherinov of the Moscow Imperial Academy and retired from the stage. Delibes wrote ‘Lakmé’ for her, but her greatest success was as Mignon. [ R.6 ]
14VEAZIE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS (1835–1915). See Register, 5.
16VECSEI, DESIDER JOSEF (b. 1882). See Register, 10.
18VENTH, CARL (Feb. 16, 1860, Cologne, Germany), was a pupil of Hiller, Japha, Jensen and Klauwell at the Cologne Conservatory, and of Wieniawski and Dupont at the Brussels Conservatory, graduating from the latter in 1877 and making his début as violinist with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra in 1878. He then became concertmaster of the Flemish Opera in Brussels, and the next year held a similar position at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. He came to America in 1880 and from 1884 was concertmaster at the Metropolitan Opera House. In 1888 he established the Venth College of Music in Brooklyn, where he also conducted the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra and choral societies. Moving to Texas in 1908, he became head of the violin-department in the Kidd-Key College and conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. At present he is dean of fine arts in the Texas Woman’s College at Fort Worth, conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and divisional band-superintendent at Camp Bowie. He has published the comic opera ‘Fair Betty’; the cantatas ‘The Resurrection,’ ‘Myth-Voices,’ ‘From Olden Times’ and ‘The Quest of Beauty’; the piano-suite ‘Frithjof and Ingeborg,’ and many piano-pieces; about twenty-five pieces for violin; and a considerable group of songs. Two operas and a cantata are in manuscript, as also several orchestral works, two string-quartets, a piano-trio and sonata, two violin-concertos and three sonatas for piano and violin. [ R.7 ]
20VERE, CLÉMENTINE DUCHÊNE DE, was born at Paris. She studied there and with Mme. Albertini-Baucardé at Florence, where at sixteen she made her début as Marguerite de Valois in ‘Les Huguenots.’ She then sang in Italy, France, Spain, Mexico, Germany, England and Australia, meeting with equal success in opera and concert. She sang Marguerite in Berlioz’ ‘Damnation de Faust’ in New York in 1896, and in 1897 joined the Metropolitan Opera House Company. Later she made several tours of England with the Moody-Manners Opera Company. Since 1914 she has lived in New York as singer and teacher. In 1892 she married Romualdo Sapio, the conductor. Her répertoire includes Violetta, Gilda, Micaela, Marguerite de Valois, the Infanta (in ‘Le Cid’), Mar-
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