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Musical Courier 1895-12-25: Vol 31 Iss 825, 1895
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1of the faculty of the College of Music, of Cincinnati, where he has achieved high reputation as a teacher of piano, theory and literature, and his name as a composer is also well known to many of the leading musicians of this and the old country. His compositions—Valerian, cantata for male voices, baritone solo and orchestra; Belsazer, a dramatic ballad for tenor or soprano; his Humoresque for string orchestra; Eventide (chorus for female voices and string accompaniment, &c.)—received the most flattering compliments from authorities such as Theo. Thomas, Bazzini, Busoni, Professor Mannstaedt, Mme. Materna, Marianne Brandt, Anton Schott, Adolf Koerne, and others, and, according to the most encouraging criticisms of many of the leading musicians and critics, his works are highly recommended to musicians and music-loving people for their natural flow of melody and the artistic skill in their conception and development.
3John A. Broekhoven.
5JOHN A. BROEKHOVEN was born in the southern part of Holland in 1852, in the town of Beek, near the Belgian and German frontier.
7His earliest impressions of music were received at home. His three brothers were some of the foremost members of a local military band of forty pieces. This band was maintained by a Cæcilian society, of which the best families of the town were members, and to the rehearsals of which Jan was admitted.
9Mr. Broekhoven's first musical activity was in the boys' church choir, of which he was solo soprano until the time he left his native city at the age of ten years. His earliest impressions were thus biased by vocal and orchestral music, and these impressions have never been effaced.
11At present Mr. Broekhoven is a teacher of harmony and composition at the Cincinnati College of Music. The recitals of original compositions given by his pupils at the end of each scholastic year give evidence of his ability to stimulate and develop the creative faculty in his pupils.
13Of Mr. Broekhoven's compositions for orchestra that which has attracted general attention is his Suite Creole, based on creole melodies, which has been performed in Boston and New York, and by Theodore Thomas at the World's Fair, and at several other cities in this country.
15His latest work for orchestra is a grand overture entitled Columbia, in which his object is to depict the religious strength of the American people, and their longings and struggles for religious and social freedom. To give the composition a historical and characteristic background he has made use of the hymn Old Hundred.
17This hymn is gradually introduced until it appears in its entirety in the final with the assistance of a full chorus and organ. The final should appear as an apotheosis of the glorious liberty gained by the strivings, sufferings and struggles of the American people.
19Mr. Broekhoven's work on harmony is well known. He is an active, able and versatile musician.
21Arnold J. Gantvoort.
23MR. ARNOLD J. GANTVOORT was born at Amsterdam, Netherlands, on December 6, 1857, and received here a thorough common school and collegiate education, studying music at the same time with different masters. Later he traveled through Central Europe, pursuing his studies at different points, his ability as a linguist affording him special facilities.
25He came to the United States in the summer of 1876, and after some months of travel settled at Lebanon, Ohio, where he studied English in the National Normal University. After remaining there a year or more he began teaching privately, and continued until 1881, when he returned to Europe. After an absence of a few months he returned to this country, having accepted a position as teacher of music in the Bowling Green Female College, at Bowling Green, Ky., where he remained for several years. He next accepted a position as musical director of the Conservatory of Music at Oxford, Ohio, where he also remained several years.
27Noticing that the important field of public school musical education was occupied by few musicians, he resolved to go into that field, leaving college work behind him, believing that in this way he would be still more useful to the musical life by training children from the very beginning of their school life. He therefore accepted in 1889 a position as supervisor of music in the public schools of Piqua, Ohio, where he remained until the season of 1894, when he was called to the College of Music of Cincinnati to take charge of a department for the thorough preparation of public school music teachers.
29This branch of musical education has in the last few years absorbed all his attention and effort, and with the assistance of his co-laborer, Mr. Broekhoven, he has completed a series of music readers for public school children, embodying a complete system of musical education so far as it is practicable in these schools. These books are models of their kind, and begin a new era in public school music. They are based upon solid pedagogical as well as musical principles, and in their arrangement keep pace with the natural growth of the child mind. Beside this work and his regular duties he was president of the Ohio Music Teachers' Association from 1891 to 1894, and his re-election twice in succession to the same office proved his value there and the estimation in which he is held by his colleagues.
31Mr. Gantvoort is deservedly held in the highest esteem both as an artist and a man, and the value of his services to music is liberally recognized.
33Jose Marien.
35JOSÉ MARIEN, the new concert master of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1860. His musical training began in one of the churches of that city, where he was a choir singer for many years.
37Later on he studied violin with Joseph and Antoine Bacot in Antwerp, and with Henri Collyns at the Conservatory of Brussels. Up to this season José Marien was the concert master of the best musical organization in Antwerp, and many Americans who were at the concerts of the International Exposition of that city in 1894 will remember the solo work of this gifted musician. Besides his orchestral work Marien made quite a reputation as leader of a string quartet. That these concerts were of a high order is proven by the names of the artists who participated—Mrs. Anna Mehlig-Falk, Max Pauer, Dr. Eibenschütz, &c. Marien is also a very successful soloist, and the press of Geneva (Switzerland) and Mühlheim (Germany), where he played this summer, speak in the highest terms of his technic and of his wonderful, glowing tone.
39The farewell concert tendered him in Antwerp on the 14th of October of this year was a splendid ovation to an artist who leaves only friends and admirers at his old home and who will surely make his mark in this country.
41Mr. Marien has been engaged as a teacher of violin, ensemble and orchestral classes by Miss Clara Baur, the directress of the Conservatory of Music of Cincinnati.
43Winthrop S. Sterling.
45WINTHROP S. STERLING was born in Cincinnati in 1859. He manifested a love for music when he was hardly five years old, his favorite pastime being to sit at the piano, singing and playing and improvising. His talent attracted the attention of Werner-Steinberger (a pupil of Chopin), under whom he commenced his studies.
47At the age of thirteen Mr. Sterling was organist of one of the leading churches in Cincinnati; at eighteen he entered the College of Music, pursuing his studies in organ and composition under Mr. Geo. E. Whiting. During the following years he occupied prominent organ positions and was director of several choral societies.
49Graduating with gold medal honors he was offered the position of successor to Mr. Whiting in 1888, when the latter left that institution for Boston, but he preferred to go abroad to continue his studies. The same year he entered the Conservatory of Leipsic, studying piano under Zwintsetter, composition and orchestration under Jadassohn and Dr. Reinecke, and outside the conservatory the two latter branches under Hoffmann, the composer, and voice under Frau Unger-Haupt, the celebrated Wagner singer. With her and her husband, Herr George Unger, the original Siegfried, he made a concert tour through Southern Germany. At the close of his course at the conservatory he conducted an orchestral overture of his own at one of the concerts. He also studied in Berlin and Dresden.
51From Leipsic he went to London, where he continued his organ work under Dr. E. H. Turpin, the celebrated English organist, and held the position of organist of the Western London Tabernacle, where, as well as elsewhere, he gave numerous recitals. With Emil Behnke he pursued a thorough course in voice training, vocal physiology, and under Wm. Shakspeare oratorio and ballad work.
53In 1887 he returned to Cincinnati, having refused a flattering offer from Mr. Turpin, as he preferred to accept the position in the College of Music of Cincinnati as head of the organ department and teacher of voice and composition.
55During the past eight years in the college his time has been more than filled with concert work and the teaching of his large class of pupils. In the lecture field he was engaged with Signor Albine Gorno and Dr. N. J. Elsenheimer in a course of ten historical recitals which attracted great notice. He also gave lectures and took part in the recitals at the Ohio and several other State teachers' associations, and likewise in the National Association.
57Among numerous organ concerts in various parts of the country he was engaged as one of the organists of the great organ at the World's Fair.
59Owing to his great and increasing success as a trainer of voice, his time is now principally occupied in the department of musical work.
61Henry C. Froehlich.
63HENRY C. FROEHLICH, violinist, was born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received his complete musical education in this city. Much of this he acquired unaided by his own private study and hard, persevering application. He began his professional life by playing the bass drum in the Cincinnati Orchestra, and from this moved steadily forward to the conductor's chair, which he has filled at the Grand, at Pike's Opera House and at present fills at the Walnut Street Theatre.
65For the past seven or eight years Mr. Froehlich has filled the important position of concertmaster in the Cincinnati Orchestre and during the period of the Jacobson Quartet in Cincinnati he played the viola with that combination in its last season. For three years he held a position as teacher in the College of Music, which he relinquished for private tuition, which he continues to give to a large class of pupils in his studio in the Pike building.
67In 1885 in conjunction with Messrs. Louis Weigand Anthony Schath and Max Grau, Mr. Froehlich organized the Philharmonic String Quartet, of which he is the first violin and in which he appears constantly with prominent success.
69Mr. Froehlich is an artist of high standing, widely recognized and esteemed, and his own principal satisfaction in the position he has attained lies mainly in the fact that he has been the author in largest degree of his own musical
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