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He Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1939
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1Constantin (kôn-stän-tän), Titus Chas., Marseilles, Jan. 7, 1835—Pau, Oct., 1891; pupil of Thomas, Paris Cons., 1860; cond. of the "Fantasies Parisiennes"; 1875, Op. Com.; c. a comic-opera, "Dans la Forêt" (1872), etc.
2Conti (kôn'-tē), (1) Fran. Bart., Florence, 1682—1732; court-theorbist and dram. composer. (2) ("Contini") Ignazio, Florence, 1699—Vienna, 1759; son and successor of above; composer. (3) Gioacchino (named Gizziello, after his teacher Dom. Gizzi), Arpino, Naples, 1714—Rome, 1761; famous male soprano; 1739, in London with Händel; retired to Arpino in 1753. (4) Carlo, Arpino, Naples, 1796—Naples, 1868; prof. and dram. composer.
3Contino (kôn-tē'-no), Giov., d. Mantua, 1565; conductor and contrapuntist.
4Co'onus (or Conius or Konius), (1) George Edwardovich, composer; Moscow, Oct. 1, 1862—Aug., 1933; theorist; pupil of the Cons.; 1891—99 teacher of theory there; 1902 prof. at the Opera School; c. symph. poem "From the Realm of Illusions," orch. suite, "Child-Life," cantata, etc. His brother, (2) Julius, b. Moscow, 1869; gold medallist at the Cons. and later teacher of violin there; c. violin concerto, etc. (3) Leo, pianist; pupil at the Cons.; later founded a school of his own.
5Converse, Frederick Shepherd, b. Newton, Mass., Jan. 1, 1871—Westwood, Mass., June 8, 1940; grad. Harvard and studied music with Bährmann and G. W. Chadwick; 1896—98 with Rheinberger, then taught theory and comp. at the New England Cons.; 1901—07, Harvard Univ.; c. operas "The Pipe of Desire" (in concert form, Boston, 1906, as an opera, Met. Op., N. Y., 1910, Boston Op., 1911); symph. (1907); overtures, "Youth" and "Euphrosyne"; orch. romance, "The Festival of Pan"; orch. fantasie, "The Mystic Trumpeter"; symph. poem "Ormazd," (Boston Symph. Orch., 1912); violin concerto and sonata, 2 string quartets, etc.
6Conver'si, Girolamo, b. Correggio, 16th cent.; c. madrigals, etc.
7Cooke, (1) H., d. July 13, 1672; buried Westminster Abbey; court-composer and teacher. (2) Nathaniel, b. Bosham, 1773; organist. (3) Benj., London, 1734—1793; conductor and composer. (4) Thos. Simpson, Dublin, 1782—London, 1848; conductor, later tenor, then prof. at the R. A. M.; prod. nearly 20 operas at Drury Lane. (5) H. Angelo Michael (called Grattan), son of above; oboist and bandmaster. (6) James Francis, b. Bay City, Mich., Nov. 14, 1875; pianist, composer, editor, teacher; studied in New York with W. H. Hall, Woodman, Eberhard and Medorn; also at Würzburg R. Cons. with Meyer-Olbersleben and Hermann Ritter; for some years active as piano teacher in New York, also org. and vocal teacher; beginning 1907 ed. "The Etude"; pres. Presser Foundation, Phila., after 1917; Mus. D., Ohio Northwestern Univ., 1919; c. piano pieces and songs; author, "Great Pianists upon Piano Playing"; "Standard History of Music"; "Mastering the Scales and Arpeggios"; "Musical Playlets"; "Music-Masters Old and New," etc.
8Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague (Mrs. Frederick Shurtleff Coolidge), noted music patron, composer, pianist; founder and sponsor for many years of the Pittsfield, Mass., Music Fests., on her estate, where invited audiences attended these events; in recent years transferred to auditorium in Library of Congress, Washington, which she donated and endowed by means of trust fund; commissioned works from many leading contemporary composers; has established a Coolidge Chamber Music Prize for such awards, and has sponsored festivals in Chicago (1930) and in many European cities, in which eminent solo artists and chamber music groups have participated; c. chamber music, incl. trio, quartet, etc.
9Coombs, Chas. Whitney, b. Bucksport, Me., Dec. 25, 1859—Montclair, N.J., Jan. 24, 1940; pupil of Speidel (pf.) and Max Seifriz, Draeseke (comp.), Hermann John, P. Janssen, and Lamperti; 1887—91, organist Amer. Ch., in Dresden; 1892, as organist Church of the Holy Communion, New York, 1908, St. Luke's; pub. "The Vision of St. John," cantata with orch. and org., songs, etc.
10Coo'per, (1) G., Lambeth, London, 1820—London, 1876; organist and composer. (2) Emil, Russian conductor; pupil of Taneyeff; cond. at Moscow Imp. Op. and Imp. Mus.
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