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Musical Courier 1895-12-25: Vol 31 Iss 825, 1895
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1medals. His favorite instrument is the 'cello, and the public has been given ample opportunity to judge of his great talent, and has not stinted itself in the mood of praise bestowed. Signor Mattioli has also made a specialty of voice training, and is acknowledged to be one of the best vocal teachers in the country, his pupils being noted for their ease of singing and brilliancy of voice.
3"As a composer he has every reason to congratulate himself, for while he has not found time to produce a great many works, those which he has, both songs and instrumental, have been thoroughly appreciated by lovers of really good music.
5"Signor Mattioli is at present located in Cincinnati, where he has won high esteem on account of his musical and social qualities."
7Signor Mattioli's success as a vocal teacher has its basis in the fact that his method is based purely on Italian scientific principles, improved by study and a variety of practical experience. In this way Signor Mattioli frequently sets himself to the task, with invariably successful results, of undoing the work of incompetent teachers. He will replace a misplaced voice or in any way necessary mend ill or injudicious treatment, while his rapid success with voices which come to him for training in the first case is most remarkable. With the infallible resources of the pure Italian school at his command, Signor Mattioli does not shrink from any difficult or perverted case, but engages readily in placing singing pupils in the one correct groove, and has as testimony to his abilities a number of accomplished singers in various parts of the country.
9Is Parting Sweet, Serenade, Romance, Her Smile, and Where Love Abides are among Signor Mattioli's pretty songs which have attained popularity.
11Prof. Albino Gorno.
13PROF. ALBINO GORNO, of the College of Music of Cincinnati, yet a young man, is a thoroughly equipped musician, a composer and a virtuoso of high rank. Signor Gorno was born March 10, 1859, at Casalmorano, in the province of Cremona, Italy, and comes of a musical family. Young Albino began his regular music lessons under his father when but five years old, and studied piano, organ and harmony. Later he was sent to the Conservatory of Milan, where he soon became recognized as a student of great promise, and at his graduation carried away three diplomas, and three gold medals for proficiency in piano, organ playing and composition.
15In 1881 at Milan's Musical Exposition, Signor Albino Gorno won the prize medal in composition. On the committee of examiners were Boito, Bazzini, Ponchielli, and others. The exposition was under the auspices of Queen Marguerite, from whom the musician had the special distinction of receiving the prize medal in public. The same year Mme. Adelina Patti applied to the conservatory for a pianist and accompanist to tour with her through the United States. Signor Albino Gorno was unanimously proposed by the professors and best music critics of Milan. After five months' tour with Madame Patti he was engaged by the College of Music of Cincinnati, where he still occupies the position of teacher of piano.
17Among Signor Gorno's more ambitious compositions are a cantata to the memory of Garibaldi, a Marinaresca, for piano and orchestra, an Ave Maria accompaniment, some vocal romanzas, Return Again, Mi Tradiste, La Pazza d'Ischia, a barcarolle, and others; an Ave Maria in canon form for two voices, a nocturne for piano and many concert studies, a scherzo, for two pianos, a fantasia, La Festa dei Montanari, for piano, organ and orchestra, and an opera in two acts, Cuore e Patria, performed at the Conservatory of Milan. A fantasia, for piano and orchestra, after an Arabian legend, is important among his latest works.
19Signor Gorno made his début as a pianist in 1893 with a remarkable success, which he steadily maintains. To an intellectual and sympathetic conception he adds a fluent and brilliant technic, and his performance has on all occasions evoked the most admiring criticism from the press. Signor Gorno's versatility is rare and the esteem in which he is held in the city of his adoption, while of the highest order, is only in proportion to his superior merits.
21Charles A. Graninger.
23CHARLES A. GRANINGER, teacher, organist and choral director, is an active and valuable feature in the musical life of Cincinnati, such as the city could not afford to spare. His energies and abilities have entwined themselves in progressive musical organizations in such manner that his work has become a compulsory need in the maintenance of the city's musical status. The following article, taken from the Cincinnati Tribune of September 29 last, gives a sketch so clear and condensed of Mr. Graninger's career that we can do no better than reproduce it:
25Among the faculty of the College of Music there are a few who may be said to be the products, musically, of the college. Of these Mr. C. A. Graninger enjoys the singular distinction of having been the first graduate—singular, because of the fact that upon the occasion of the first commencement he was the only graduate. The ceremonies were of quite an elaborate character, notwithstanding this fact. Mr. Graninger, having been a student of both theory and piano, was down for a piano number, and an original quartet of his composition was played later. Mr. Graninger, after passing this ordeal, became a teacher in the college, and is now the oldest member of the faculty, in point of service, with the exception of Mr. Armin Doerner.
27Charles Albert Graninger was born in Cincinnati, January 2, 1861. His English education he received in the schools of this city. His studies in music began under Werner Steinberger, who was then a prominent pianist of this city, and Andrew Nembach, who taught him the rudiments of theory. At eighteen he became a student at the college, taking piano from Miss Cecilia Gaul and theory from the late Otto Singer.
29Three years before he had come to the front as an organist, his first church being St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal of Newport, Ky. His thorough knowledge of church music and his ability as a choir master are not surprising when one considers the length of service he has seen in this line of work. Mr. Graninger remained with St. Paul's Church until the resignation of Mr. Bush Foley, who had been for some time organist and choirmaster of Trinity P. E. Church, Covington. Mr. Graninger became his successor. There he remained until he was offered a similar position at St. Paul's Methodist Church of this city. Five years ago he resigned this place to become organist of the Second Presbyterian Church, where he has since remained.
31Choral work seems to have always had a fascination for Mr. Graninger. First he was director of the choral societies of Wyoming and Glendale, where he had mixed choruses of seventy-five voices. Among the more important works which were given under his direction were The May Queen, Rheinberger's Mermaid, Beethoven's Mount of Olives, together with a number of English part songs.
33When the Orpheus Club was founded four seasons ago, Mr. Graninger's services were again called for, and he has since devoted a great deal of time to the work of that organization. He makes a prolonged Eastern trip each year for the purpose of looking after the best solo material for the coming season, and as to the success of this bit of enterprise the musical people of Cincinnati have had ample opportunity to judge. Among the celebrities who have appeared at the Orpheus concerts are Mrs. Geneva Johnstone Bishop, Lachaume, Amelie Groll, Adele Aus der Ohe, Arthur Friedheim, Blauvelt, Materna, Henri Marteau, Theodore Pfaflin, Bellstedt, the Philharmonic String Quartet, and last, but not least, Ysaye and Van Stosch. Such standard works as Foote's Farewell of Hiawatha, Gernsheim's Salamis, Brutsch's Roman Song of Triumph, Dudley Buck's Nun of Nidoros and Bugle Song, Goetz's Water Lily, Mendelssohn's To the Son of Art and other equally representative works of of the various schools have been given.
35The directorship of the Arion Club, Columbus, Mr. Graninger held for two years, but the difficulty of attending rehearsals in this city made him resolve to give up this work. Since then his time has been given entirely to the Orpheus, so far as choral work is concerned. Mr. Graninger during all these years has been one of the most reliable and efficient teachers at the College of Music, and if there is one particular thing that he is proud of it is the fact that his musical education was received entirely in this city, and at the institution where his interests and strongest friendships have always been.
37Mr. Graninger, aside from his regular exacting duties of all the year round, is also an energetic organizer of festival or commemorative matters, and spares neither his artistic judgment nor personal labors in bringing musical enterprises of the highest order to a successful issue from every standpoint.
39His latest large effort was on the occasion of Washington's birthday, February 22, 1894, when the Arion Club gave its Festival Concert in the Fourteenth Regiment Armory Hall, Columbus, Ohio. The chorus of over 100 trained voices, with such soloists as Blauvelt, soprano; Guille, tenor, and the pianist Slivinski, made an ensemble of rare attraction, which proceeded with immense success under the direction of Mr. Graninger.
41He is a force of value and systematic energy in Cincinnati, and is widely appreciated at his true worth.
43Dr. Nicholas J. Elsenheimer.
45DR. NICHOLAS J. ELSENHEIMER was born in June, 1866, in Wiesbaden. His father enjoyed the reputation of being one of the leading musicians of the city. He was a prominent member of the Royal Orchestra of the Prussian Court Theatre, and became later on director of the choir of the Imperial Russian chapel of Wiesbaden. He began to teach the boy the rudiments of music at an early age, and soon the child displayed such a remarkable talent that there could be no doubt as to the future career of the little arduous student.
47The father, however, gave him the opportunity for a scientific education in general, before his consent to the study of music as a profession, and so the boy entered the Royal High School of his native city, and went through the regular course of studies required in Germany as preparation for the admission to the universities. After having graduated there the young man went to Munich, where the artistic and scientific atmosphere exercised an immense influence on Dr. Elsenheimer's talent.
49The unequaled performances of the Court Theatre of Munich, and the lectures of excellent professors of the university, were a source of unbounded pleasure for him. He studied law, literature and music, and his love for master works of poets like Shakespeare, Schiller, and Goethe, and musicians like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner grew in proportion with the development of his abilities.
51Dr. Elsenheimer's love for the dramatic art inspired him to such earnest and conscientious studies that it was his heartfelt desire to devote all his time to musical literature and composition, especially choral and orchestral works. Before entering this career as his chosen profession he prepared himself for the examination as a doctor of the laws, and having studied in Gottingen, and one year at the University of Berlin, he received his diploma as doctor of the secular and ecclesiastical laws (LL. D.) in Heidelberg. He then went to Strassburg, where he studied musical literature and counterpoint under Professor Gustav Jakobstal, of the faculty of the Imperial University, one of the greatest authorities of Europe in musical aesthetics.
53In October, 1890, Dr. Elsenheimer came to America, and from the 1st of January, 1891, he was engaged as a member
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