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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918
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1BALLASEYUS
2Chicago Artists' Assn. (membership com.). Address: 329 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Home: 907 Winona Ave., Chicago, Ill.
4BALLASEYUS, Franz Albert:
5Pianist, organist, conductor, teacher; b. Ueckermünde, Germany, May 7, 1852, s. Albert and Amalia (Landon) B.; nephew of Julius Landon. composer; ed Gymnasium, Univ. of Kiel (B.S., B.L.); stud. piano, organ, composition w. Hambourg, Gurlitt, Kleinpaul, Armbrust; m. Charlotte Schirmer, New York, 1890 (four children). Organist and teacher in Chicago. 1883-7: dir. of music, Univ. of Dakota, 1887-91; dir. music school, Sioux City, Ia., 1891-2; prof. of advanced piano classes, Hollins Coll., Va., 1892-6; dir. of music, Univ. of South Dakota, 1896-8; organist St. Peter's Ch., New York, 1898-1900; dir. of music, Oahu Coll., Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900-3; organist in San Francisco and Oakland, Cal., 1903-8; dir. of music in high sch., Stockton, Cal., and organist of churches since 1910. Produced "Creation" and "Messiah" in Honolulu; founded the Honolulu Symphony Club, 1901. Has composed organ pieces (MS.); pres. San Joaquin Co., Cal. Music Teachers' Assn.; hon. Litt. B., Univ. of Cal., 1903. Address: 930 N. Monroe St., Stockton, Cal.
7BALLING, Michael:
8Conductor; b. Heidingsfeld, Bavaria, Aug., 1866; mus. ed. Würzburg Royal School of Music (free scholarship), stud. viola with Ritter, obtained a prize given by King Ludwig II; viola player in Mayence Municipal Orch. under Emil Steinbach, in Schwerin Court Orch. and in Bayreuth Orch, under Mottl; practiced chamber music with Brahms; lived for a time at Nelson, New Zealand, where he founded school of music; conducted "Midsummer Night's Dream" music with Mr. Benson's Company on tour through Great Britain; returned to Bayreuth, 1896; became chorus-master at the Municipal Theatre, Hamburg; later conductor at Lübeck; succeeded Mottl at Karlsruhe; afterwards conducted a Beethoven Festival in Rome; succeeded Richter at Bayreuth; toured with Denhof Company in Scotland and subsequently became conductor of the Hallé Orch., Manchester. Address: Manchester, England.
10BALSAM, James:
11Teacher; b. New York City, Feb. 21, 1889, s. Louis and Bertha (Lesslau) B.; A.B. Coll. of the City of New York, 1909; M.A. and Mus. Bac., Columbia Univ., 1912; stud. harmony w. Frank E. Ward, counterpoint w. Daniel Gregory Mason, orchestration w. Cornelius Rübner; m. Ethel Ruth Sullivan, 1912. Debut Waldorf-Astoria, New York, May 6, 1909; teacher of piano in New York for 11 years; frequent artist-pupil recitals at Waldorf-Astoria; composed piano pieces and church music, still in MS.; mem. Omega Pi Alpha fraternity. Address: 2491 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
13BALTZELL, Winton James:
14Editor; b. Shiremanstown, Pa., Dec. 18, 1864, s. Isaiah and Cecilia Caroline (James) B.; ed. pub. schs., Harrisburg, Pa., A.B., Lebanon Coll., Annville, Pa.; mus. ed. New England Cons.; Mus. Bac., Univ. of Pennsylvanina, 1896; also stud. w. Sir Frederick Bridge and William Shakespeare (London); m. Bertha Sweet, 1900 (2 children). Engaged in private teaching, Reading, Pa., for a time; instructor in history and theory of music, Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1899-1900; editor Etude (Philadelphia), 1897-1907, The Musician (Boston) since 1907. Composed small works for voice, violin and chorus (sacred and secular). Author: "A Complete History of Music for Schools" (1905) and "Dictionary of Musicians" (1912). Mem. Boston Art Club, Music Teachers' Nat. Assn. Home: 30 Villa Ave., Winthrop, Mass. Address: 178 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
16BAMMAN, Catherine A.:
17Concert manager; b. New York City, Sept. 25, 1882, d. Ferdinand C. and Kathrina (von Rügen) B.; ed. pub. sch., National Academy of Design and Art Students' League, New York; vocal studies w. Louise B. Voigt; managed American tour of Mme. Yvette Guilbert, 1915-6; manager of the Little Symphony (George Barrère, cond.), the Barrère Ensemble (wood-wind), the Trio de Lutèce, George Barrère, flutist, Carlos Salzédo, harpist, Paul Kéfer, cellist, Lucy Gates, soprano, and the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet, etc. Address: 35 West 39th Street, New York.
19BANDINI, Primo:
20Composer; b. Parma, Nov. 29, 1857; stud. at the Royal School of Music, Parma. 1869-75. Comp.: operas, "Eufemio di Messina" (Parma, 1878), "Fausta" (Milan, 1886); 4-act opera, "Janko" (Turin, 1897).
22BANGERT, Louis J.:
23Teacher of singing and theory. b. Angola, N. Y., in 1874, s. Frederick and Katherine (Ley) B.; grad. Buffalo School of Music, 1896; stud. voice w. Max Ulanowsky, piano w. Malwine Bree and Theodor Leschetizky (all in Vienna). 1901-3, again in Vienna under Ulanowsky. 1911; also stud. w. Perley Dunn Aldrich, Philadelphia. and theory w. Josef Labor, Vienna: m. Bessie Hilton (organist) at Syracuse. 1906; Engaged in teaching in Buffalo. Address: 254 Highland Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
25BANTOCK, Granville:
26Conductor, editor, composer; b. London, Aug. 7, 1868; s. Dr. Georg Granville B.; physician; intended first for the Indian civil service, then for a scientific career, but was finally allowed to devote himself to music: stud. w. F. Corder at the Royal Acad. of Music, 1889-92; 1st holder of the Macfarren Scholarship; m. Helen von Schweitzer. Founded and edited the New Quarterly Musical Review, 1893-6; cond. musical comedies, etc.; made tour of America and Australia with one of the Edwardes companies, 1894-5; a provincial tour as cond. of "Shamus O'Brien," 1895; mus. dir. of the Tower, New Brighton, 1897-1901; founded the New Brighton Choral Soc. and was app. cond. Runcorn Philharmonic Soc., 1898; principal Birmingham and Midland School of Music, 1900; succeeded Wood as cond. of the Wolverhampton Festival Choral Soc. and Birm. Amateur Orch. Soc., 1902; succeeded Elgar as prof. of music at the Univ. of Birming-
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