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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918
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1HESS, Ludwig:
2Singer (tenor) and composer; b. Marburg, March 23, 1871; stud. at the Royal High School for Music in Berlin w. R. Otto, Bargiel, Wolf and Heymann (1895-1900); w. Melch. Vidal in Milan (1901). Conductor of the Konzertgesellschaft. in Munich, 1907-10; music teacher in Frankfort; toured the U. S., Mexico and Canada, 1911-1913; established in Berlin as singer (lieder and oratories), teacher and composer; noted as Bach-singer (Evangelist in Bach's passion, solo parts in cantatas), also as interpreter of songs by Wolf, Reger, Schillings, Hausegger, etc., Comp.: 2 symphonies ("Hans Memling's Himmelskönig" and C-sharp-minor); piano sextet; "Ariadne" f. chorus, soli and orch.; choruses, "Frohe Ernte," "Neuer Morgen," "Piraten," "Sommerfeierabend," "Grabgesang," "Hochsommernacht," "Neues Glück," "Abends," "Von unsterblicher Liebe"; songs w. orch., and many songs ("Lieder des Hafis"). Address: Berlin, Germany.
4HESS, Otto:
5B. Munich, Oct. 16, 1871; stud. law in Munich and was for a short time railroad clerk in Constantinople; resigned his position to study music in Milan; became conductor in theatres in Teplitz, Linz, Mühlhausen, Bremen; first Kapellm., Aachen 1911-3; at the Munich Hofoper as successor of Franz Fischer, 1913. Address: Kgl. Hofoper, Munich, Germany.
7HESS, Willy:
8Violinist; b. Mannheim, July 14, 1859, s. Julius (violinist) and Line (Rose) H.; stud. w. his father and first appeared at the age of 11, in New York; after several years of touring as virtuoso stud. w. Joachim in Berlin (1876-8); m. Addie Traut, 1885. Concertm., Opera and Museumskonzerte, Frankfort, 1878-86; Rotterdam, 1886; Hallé Orch., Manchester, 1888; also the Liverpool Philharmonic; Gürzenich Orch. Cologne, 1895; teacher of vln. Cologne Cons. and leader of the Gürzenich Quartet; professor of violin at the Royal Acad. of Music, London, 1903; concertm. of the Boston (Mass.) Symphony Orch., leader of a string quartet (w. Alwin Schröder as cellist), 1904-10; returned to Berlin where he succeeded Halir as teacher at the Royal High School for Music and as first violin of the Halir quartet; also mem. of the Schubert trio. Has played before Queen Victoria (1894). Hon. R. A. M.; knight of the Adolfsorden (Luxemburg), etc. Address: Kgl. Hochschule für Musik, Berlin. Home: Schillerstrasse 119, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany.
10HESS-SPROTT, Mme.:
11Pianist, mezzo-soprano; b. Prague, Bohemia, Oct. 7, 1871; ed. grammar and high sch., Prague; stud. piano w. Prof. Hahlfeldt, Prague; singing w. Mme. Marchesi, m. in Germany (1 son). Debut as Azucena in "Il Trovatore," in Germany, 1893; sang in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Prague, Mayence; in America with Thomas Orch., St. Paul and Minneapolis symphony orchestras; Omaha and Seattle music festivals; Seattle Philharmonic Orch.; sang in Germany with great Wagner singers, Gudehus, Mme. Moran-Olden; also w. Bertram, Boetel, Goetze, and others. Royal court-singer (Germany); hon. mem. male chorus "Arion," Seattle, and Musical Art Soc., Spokane. Address: 210 Fischer Building, Seattle, Wash.
13HESSELBERG, Edouard Gregory:
14Pianist, composer, teacher, writer; b. Riga, Russia, May 3, 1870, s. Heinrich and Sahra (Davidoff) H., related to Carl Davidov., the famous cellist; ed. Classic Gymnasium, Orel, Russia, 1878-87, laureate medal, M. A., 1892 (pianoforte); stud. music w. mother, piano w. Schuster in Königsberg, Godeluck in Orel, Russia, Schostakoffski in Moscow, orchestration w. Blaramberg, composition w. Illinski and Tchaikovsky, Moscow Cons. (laureate medal, M. A., 1892, piano), piano privately w. Rubinstein; m. Lena Shackelford, Denver, Colo., Nov., 1898 (2 children). Debut at Salle de la Noblesse, Moscow, as soloist w. the Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orch. in Liszt's "Dies Irae," 1891; appeared since 1892 in principal cities of Europe and the U. S.; concertized w. Sembrich, Marconi, Nordica, Nikita, Lucca, De Reszke; soloist w. Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orch., St. Petersburg Symphony, Sousa's Band; played before members of Imp. Russian and Austrian, and Royal Italian families; dir. pianoforte dept., Cons. of Music, Ithaca, N. Y., 1895-6; dir. of music Univ. of Denver Cons., Acad. of Music and Dick's Normal Coll., Denver, Colo., 1896-1900; Wesleyan Coll., Macon, Ga., 1900-5; Ward-Belmont Coll., Nashville, Tenn., 1905-12; senior prof. and examiner in the art of advanced pianoforte playing at Toronto Cons. of Music, Loretto Abbey, Glenmawr Coll., Hamilton (Ont.) Cons. of Music, and London (Ont.) Cons. of Music. 1912; founder and dir. Hesselberg Studio of Pianistic Art, Toronto, Canada, since 1914. Has composed for the piano, voice, orchestra and violin. Associate editor and ctbr. Elson's "Modern Music and Musicians," mem. advisory bd. "The Art of Music" (1913-17); ctbr. Canadian Journal of Music (Toronto). Mem. Masonic and Elk fraternities; Am. and Canadian consul for "Kosmos" Alliance Internationale (Amsterdam). Address: 32 Bloor St., W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
16HESSEN, Alexander Friedrich, Landgraf von:
17B. Copenhagen, Jan. 25, 1863; stud. violin and piano w. Cornelius Rübner and Paul Klengel in Copenhagen, w. Naret-Koning and A. Urspruch in Frankfort, 1884; attended Bülow's lectures at the Raff Cons. in Frankfort; continued his studies w. Herzenberg, Joachim, Bruch and Weinberger in Berlin, 1894-96. w. Draeseke in Dresden 1897-1898, and Faure in Paris, 1899. Although blind since childhood, became an accomplished composer; the following of his work being pub.: String Quartet, op. 1; Intermezzo for piano, op. 2; Trio for piano, horn and clarinet, op. 3; "Fatime" for bariton and orch., op. 4; Four Canons for 2 sopranos, 2 horns and piano, op. 5; Grand Mas for chor. and organ, op. 6. Arrange Beethoven's Quartet in F minor, op. 95, for string orch.
19HESSEN, Ernst Ludwig, Grossherzog von und bei Rhein:
20B. Darmstadt, Nov. 25, 1864. Composed songs, published by Schott in Mayence.
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