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Musical biographies / 2 The American history and encyclopedia of music / W.L. Hubbard, ed, 1908
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1BIOGRAPHIES
3Macbeth
4Choral Union. He has held various appointments as organist and conductor, and at Woodside Parish Church, Glasgow, he organized the first boy-choir in Scotland. During nine years at St. George's-in-the-Fields Parish Church he developed the music to an unusual degree. His most important service to music has been, probably, in connection with the Glasgow Athenaeum School of Music of which he was principal from 1890 to 1902 and the Glasgow College of Music which he formed in 1902. In these schools he has given particular attention to the study of opera, and for the last fourteen years has presented annually an operatic masterpiece, usually of the French Comic Opera School. Although the greater part of Mr. Macbeth's time has been taken up by teaching, he has composed a number of pieces, among them Forget-me-not, an intermezzo for string orchestra; The Land of Glory, a cantata which won the prize of the Glasgow Society of Music in 1890; incidental music to the drama, Bruce, Lord of the Isles; In Memoriam, for orchestra; Silver Bells; Jubilee chorus; Intermezzo for strings; Serenata Danze; Pizzicato and Ballet for orchestra; string trios; piano trios; suite for violoncello and piano; piano-music and songs.
6MacCarthy, Maud. 1884-
7Violinist; born at Clonmel, Ireland. Her teacher from the age of eight to fifteen was Señor Arbós. She made her debut at London in 1894 very successfully. She then studied two years more without appearing in public during that time. Since 1896 she has played at concerts in London, at the Saturday concerts at the Crystal Palace, and has made an extensive American tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Society. Her playing shows careful training and no effort. She has mastered the violin classics from Beethoven to Tschaikowsky, and her small hands in no way hinder her power or technical skill.
9MacCunn (măk-kŭn), Hamish. 1868-
10Dramatic composer, who is important among Scottish musicians. Was born at Greenock. His musical abilities were early apparent and he began to study when only six. In 1883, when the National Training School at South Kensington opened as the Royal College of Music, he won a scholarship for composition. Here he studied under Sir Hubert Parry. His first overture entitled, Cior Mhor, was performed at the Crystal Palace in 1885, and two years later the overture, The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, brought out by Sir August Manns, received wide notice. The following year the young composer produced his first cantata, Lord Ullin's Daughter, a ballad for chorus and orchestra, and for a commission from the Glasgow Choral Union he composed the cantata, entitled The Lay of the Last Minstrel. In 1889 he was married to a daughter of John Pettie, R. A. From 1888 to 1894 he was professor of harmony at the Royal Academy of Music, and in 1892 he became conductor of the Hampstead Conservatory Orchestral Society. In 1894 his opera, Jeanie Deans, based on Scott's Heart of Midlothian, was given by the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company in Edinburgh, and after a successful tour through the provinces appeared in London in 1896 and was exceedingly well received. In 1898 MacCunn became conductor of this company and for some years directed their performances. He has had much experience in this work and was the conductor under whom the first English production of Wagner's later works were given. On the death of Sir Arthur Sullivan he took his place at the Savoy Theatre during the engagements of Merrie England and A Princess of Kensington. As a composer his work shows great merit and a high degree of individuality, being strongly Scottish in character. His list of compositions is large and creditable and contains the following: Operas, Jeanie Deans; Dairmid; The Masque of War and Peace; and The Golden Girl. Orchestral compositions are The Land of the Mountain and The Flood; Highland Memories; the Dowie Dens o' Yarrow; and The Ship of the Fiend. Other works are a number of songs and part-songs; Scotch dances for piano; and The Eighth Psalm for chorus and organ. He also wrote the following ballads and cantatas: Bonnie Kilmeny; The Lay of the Last Minstrel; Lord Ullin's Daughter; Queen Hynde of Caledon; The Death of Parry Reed; The Wreck of the Hesperus; and The Cameronian's Dream.
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