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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918
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1transferred to Dr. P. Simon 1888; then became Berlin manager of the Blüthner firm. Comp.: preludes and fugues and other pieces for piano; songs; overture to Fitger’s “König Drosselbart.” Compiled school songbooks. Address: per Adr. Julius Blüthner, Lützowstr. 76, Berlin W., Germany.
3SCHWARTZ, Alexander:
4Composer; b. Petrograd, July 7, 1874; stud. law in Petrograd for 5 yrs.; turned to music and stud. at the Leipzig Cons., 1899; went to Berlin 1902, where he attended lectures on music and was repetitor of the Royal Opera for a year. Comp.: songs, op. 6 (Nietzsche), op. 10 (Arno Holz), op. 11 (Richard Dehmel), op. 12 (Gustav Falke), op. 13 (Carmen Sylva), op. 14, 16, 18 and 19; duets, op. 15; Christmas Song for 2 children’s voices and piano trio (harmonium ad lib.); “Bilderbuch ohne Bilder,” for declamation with piano. Address: Kurfürstendamm 140, Berlin-Halensee, Germany.
6SCHWARTZ, Josef:
7Violinist; b. Gohr, Nov. 25, 1848; stud. at the Cologne Cons. Concertm. at the Municipal Theatre in Cologne, 1872; teacher of violin at the Cologne Cons. from 1879; cond. Cologne Male Choral Society, since 1890. Kgl. Musikdirektor; Kgl. Professor. Comp.: male choruses. Address: Streitzeugg. 69, Cologne, Germany.
9SCHWARTZ, George Foss:
10Teacher of musical history, theory and stringed instr., composer; b. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1872, s. George Julius and Jennie (Foss) S.; M.B., Univ. of Wooster (Ohio), 1894; A.B., 1895; A.M., 1914; mus. ed. Cincinnati Coll. of Music; New England Cons. of Music, Boston; Royal Cons., Leipzig; m. Emma Julia Houghton, Ft. Scott, Kans. (1 child). Taught in Auburn, N. Y., 1895–6, Central California Cons. of Music, Fresno, Cal., 1897–9, Univ. of Wooster Cons. of Music, 1901, Ill. State Univ. of Music since 1902; at present asst. prof. of music there. Comp.: Te Deum in F; Jubilate in D; Motet for voices and organ; hymns; 8 Characteristic Miniatures for vln. and piano. Author: “A Catechism of Harmony”; “Melody Harmonization”; “Harmonic Analysis”; article, “Music during the Period of the Am. Revolution” (“Étude,” 1916). Address: University of Illinois. Home: 512 W. Iowa St., Urbana, Ill. Summer: Hamlin Lake, Weckler’s Pier, Ludington, Mich.
12SCHWARTZ, Heinrich:
13Pianist and teacher; b. Dietenhofen, Oct. 30, 1861; grad. Gymnasium in Munich; stud. music under Rheinberger and K. Barmann there. Appointed teacher of piano at the Royal Academy of Music, Munich, 1885; Royal Professor, 1891, Bavarian Court pianist, 1900. Address: Kgl. Akademie der Tonkunst. Home: Amalienstr. 23, Munich.
15SCHWARTZ, Rudolf:
16Musicologist; b. Berlin, Jan. 20, 1859; stud. philosophy and science of music under Spitta at Berlin Univ., 1882–7; Dr. phil., Leipzig, with dissertation: “H. Leo Hassler unter dem Einfluss der italienischen Madrigalisten.” Cond. Students’ Choral Society in Greifswald, 1887–97, went to Leipzig as librarian of Peters Music Library 1901, succeeding Emil Vogel. Editor Peters Year-books. Royal Prussian Professor 1907. Compiled the general index of the Monatschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 1895; pub. 7 choruses from the “Centurien des Philipp Dulichius” (1896), and republished the complete work in the “Denkmäler d. Tonkunst,” (vols. 31, 41); issued the secular composition of H. L. Hassler, “Canzonette von 1590” and “Neye teytsche Gesang” of 1596 as vol. iv of the “Denkmäler d. Tonkunst” in Bayern. Author: articles in various mus. journals: “Die Frottole im 15. Jahrhundert” (1886); “Statius Althovius” (1894); “Das erste deutsche Oratorium” (1898, Year-Book of the Peters Mus. Lib.); “Zur Geschichte des Taktschlagens” (ibid. 1907); and in separate print “Die Tonkunst im 19. Jahrhundert” (1900). Address: Thomasiusstrasse 6, Leipzig, Germany.
18SCHWARZ, Max:
19Pianist; b. Hanover, Dec. 1, 1856, s. Wilhelm S., musician; stud. w. F. Bendel, Bülow and Liszt. Became teacher at the Hoch Cons. in Frankfort, 1880–3; founded the Raff Conservatorium there (after Raff’s death). Address: Raff Konservatorium, Eschenh. Anlage 5. Home: Weberstr. 29, Frankurt a. M., Germany.
21SCHWARZ, Wenzel:
22Educator; b. Bohemia, Feb. 3, 1830; stud. at the Prague Cons. Became owner of a Music Institute in Eger; established in Vienna since 1864. Wrote a few instructive works for piano.
24SCHWEDLER, Maximilian:
25Flute virtuoso; b. Hirschberg, March 31, 1853; stud. w. Meinel in Dresden. Flutist in the Municipal Orchestra in Düsseldorf, 1875–81, flutist of the Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1881. Author: “Katechismus des Flöten-spiels”; “Flötenschule.” Constructed a new model of a flute, which was taken up by the firm of K. Kruspe in Erfurt. Teacher of flute, Leipzig Cons. Address: Mozartstr. 2, Leipzig, Germany.
27SCHWEIGER, Eduard:
28Composer; b. Austria. Composed 7 operettas for Vienna, Pressburg and Graz (1890–1908).
30SCHWEITZER, Albert:
31Organist and musicologist; b. Günsbach, Jan. 14, 1875; ed. Gymnasium and Univ. of Strassburg (theology); Dr. phil., Strassburg; stud. organ w. Eugen Münch in Mühlhausen, w. Ernst Münch in Strassburg and w. Charles-Marie Widor in Paris. Lecturer on theology at Strassburg Univ.; professor, 1913; also pursued medical studies till 1912, and went to the Congo for medical investigations (still there at last accounts). Co-founder of the Paris Bach Society, 1906; wrote organ accompaniments to Bach’s cantatas; was organist of the Bach concerts at St. Wilhelm in Strassburg and of the Paris Bach Society from 1894. Author: “Jean Sebastian Bach, le musicien-poète” (Paris, 1905; enlarged in German, Leipzig 1907, 3rd ed. 1913, English by Ernest Newman, 1912); “Deutsche und französische Orgelbaukunst und Orgelkunst” (Leipzig, 1906); “Die Reform unseres Orgelbaues” (Lecture
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