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He Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1939
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1Bergonzi (bër-gôn'-tsē), (1) Carlo, d. 1747; vln.-maker at Cremona; best pupil of Stradivari. His son (2) Michelangelo, and his 2 nephews, (3) Niccolo and (4) Carlo, were less important. (5) Benedetto, Cremona, 1790—1840; horn-player and inventor.
2Bergson (bërkh'-zōn), Michael, Warsaw, May 20, 1820—London, March 9, 1898; pianist and composer; pupil of Schneider, Rungenhagen, and Taubert, Paris (1840); Italy, 1846, where his opera "Louisa di Montfort" was succ. (Florence, 1847); Paris, 1859, prod. a 1-act operetta; 1863, 1st pf.-teacher and for a time dir. Geneva Cons.; later in London as teacher.
3Bergt (bërkht), Chr. Gl. Aug., b. Oderan, Saxony, 1772—Bautzen, 1837; organist, violinist, and conductor.
4Beringer (bā'-rīng-ër), Oscar, Furtwangen, July 14, 1844—London, Feb. 21, 1922; pupil of Plaidy, Moscheles, Leipzig Cons., 1864–66; later of Tausig, Ehrlich, and Weitzmann, Berlin; teacher there, 1869; London, 1873–97; after 1885, pf.-prof. in R. A. M.; composed Technical Exercises, etc.
5Bériot (dū bär-yō), (1) Chas. Auguste de, Louvain, Feb. 20, 1802—Brussels, April 8, 1870; vln.-virtuoso; pupil of Viotti and Baillot, but chiefly of his guardian, Tiby; at 9 he played a concerto; 1821, made a brilliant début, Paris; chamber-violinist to the King of France, solo-violinist to the King of the Netherlands (1826–30); 1830–35 toured Europe with Mme. Garcia-Malibran, whom he m. in 1836; from 1843–52, prof at Brussels Cons.; became blind and paralysed in left arm; pub. method and 7 concertos, etc., for vln. (2) Chas. Vilfride de, Paris, Feb. 12, 1833—near Paris, 1914; son of above; pupil of Thalberg; prof. of pf., Paris Cons.; composed symphonies, etc.; wrote with his father a "Methode d'accompagnement."
6Berlijn (or Berlyn) (bär'-lēn), Anton (or Aron Wolf ?), Amsterdam, 1817—1870; conductor.
7Berlin', Irving (rightly Baline), b. Russia, May 11, 1888; composer of popular music; was largely responsible for start of "ragtime" craze with his "Alexander's Ragtime Band" several years before the war; has since c. more elaborate scores for musical comedies and the radio; pres. of his own publishing firm, Irving Berlin Inc., New York; m. Ellin Mackay, daughter of Clarence H. Mackay.
8Berlioz (bär-lē-ōs not bār-lī-ō), Hector (Louis), Côte-Saint-André, near Grenoble, France, Dec. 11, 1803—Paris, March 9, 1869; "Father of modern orchestration"; conductor, critic, writer of verse and electric prose; sent to Paris to study medicine, he accepted disinheritance and took up music, though he could never play any instr. save the guitar and flageolet; while pupil at the Cons., he earned a bare living; joined the chorus of the Gymnase Dramatique; left the Cons. in disgust with Reicha's formalism, and plunged with characteristic energy—or rather fury—into the cause of romanticism; 1825, an orchestral mass given at St. Roch brought the ridicule he usually had in France where he was little thought of as a composer though admired as a writer; 1828 saw the production of two overtures, "Waverley" and "Les Frances-Juges," and a Symphonie fantastique, "Épisode de la vie d'un artiste"; 1829, his "Concerts des Sylphes," publicly produced at 26, show him an ardent believer in programme-music (vide D. D.) and a marvellous virtuoso in instrumentation. He reentered the Cons. under Lesueur, in spite of Cherubini, who fought his admission; 1830, he took the Prix de Rome with a cantata, "Sardanapale"; after 18 months in Italy he returned to Paris and took up journalism with marked success. His symphony "Harold en Italie" (1834), the "Messe des Morts" (1837), the dram. symphony "Roméo et Juliette," with vocal soli and chorus (1839), and the overture "Carneval romain," were well received, but the 2-act opera semi-seria "Benvenuto Cellini" failed both in Paris and in London, 1838. In 1839 he was made Conservator of the Cons.; librarian, 1852, but was never made professor as he desired. Concert tours through Germany and Russia, 1843–47, were very successful and are described in his book "Voyage musical." London (1852) he cond. the "New Philh. Concerts"; prod. comic opera "Béat-
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