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Musical Courier 1895-12-25: Vol 31 Iss 825, 1895
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1education and that every professional step which has been the outcome of that education has been made by his own determined effort without push or favor from any outer source.
3He is a worker as earnest and faithful as he is artistic, and personally is a man of sincere modesty and many rare qualities of mind and heart, which endear him to a large circle of friends.
5Mr. Froehlich's identification with musical life and progress in Cincinnati is widely esteemed as most active and valuable.
7Signorina Tecla Vigna.
9SINCE the year 1882 Miss Tecla Vigna has been a prominent member of the vocal faculty of the College of Music of Cincinnati. Miss Vigna came to America after several seasons of pronounced success in her native land, with the glow of early enthusiasm still unabated, and not, as many come, in those years when powers are beginning to fade and ambitious ardor to fall into lassitude and ennui. From the first her many musical gifts and her magnetic personality created a strong impression upon her students.
11Her Italian career was, in brief, as follows: She was born in Piedmont, coming of a musical family. At the Milan Conservatory she received two silver prizes, one for piano playing, which she studied under Sangalli, the other for singing, which she perfected under Leoni. She made her début in Brescia the same season in which Scalchi made her first appearance in Italy. Miss Vigna's first important rôle was that of La Cieca, in La Gioconda, of Ponchielli. This rôle she had the distinguished honor of creating to the Florentine public under the directorship of Faccio with the celebrated company from La Scala in Milan. She was re-engaged to sing La Favorita in Florence. With Madame Wild, at Trieste, she sang in the opera Il Trovatore, this being her last Italian appearance.
13Since she has taken charge of the vocal department of the college, however, she has very seldom sung in public. She gives all her time and enthusiastic attention to her pupils. And when it is remembered that, at present, she has seventy-two pupils under her charge, it is easy to believe that she has little time for other work.
15Miss Vigna, aside from her musical gifts, is a woman of versatile accomplishment and interesting personality. She has placed several pupils on the operatic stage, who have met with success, and is held by her present large class in the highest personal as well as artistic regard.
17Adolf Hahn.
19A DOLF HAHN is perhaps the youngest of Cincinnati's representative musicians. He was born of a musical family in Indianapolis, Ind., January 18, 1872, and went to Cincinnati with his parents when six years old.
21His father, Theodore Hahn, a flute player of note, was at that time connected with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra and under him young Hahn received his first musical instruction on the violin. This home instruction was in accordance with the highest and purest standard of artistic taste. At the age of nine he had already developed so much talent that when the eminent violinist and teacher S. E. Jacobsohn heard him he expressed himself delighted, and at once insisted upon taking him under his personal tuition. After a brilliant course of studies, during which he enjoyed the advantage of training by one of the greatest masters of quartet playing, he graduated with the highest honors at the College of Music of Cincinnati, and two years later, in 1891, received the first post-graduate gold medal and diploma given by the college faculty.
23Following the advice of that eminent violinist Leandro Campanari, he went to Europe, but returned again, after a brief stay, to accept a professorship of the violin at the same college at which he had been such a brilliant scholar. For three years following he devoted himself to teaching at this institution, and then resolved to enter the field as a concert player. As a soloist he has received the highest praise wherever he has appeared, and as the first violinist of the string quartet which bears his name he has made a reputation for himself such as few of the younger violinists of the day possess.
25Mr. Hahn has been the means of elevating in no slight degree the musical taste of Cincinnati. The soirées and musicales which he inaugurated in 1893, in company with Mr. H. G. Andre, and his string quartet chamber concerts have been among the most artistic events, and that interest in them is always on the increase is attested by the size of his cultured audiences. Mr. Hahn will in the spring undertake a concert tour with his string quartet, consisting of Messrs. Romeo Gorno, Arthur Brand and Lino Mattioli, and, like all his other undertakings, this one will undoubtedly be an assured success.
27Mr. Hahn's playing is characterized by repose, a full tone, magnificent technic, and in fact all the good qualities of a real artist. He is a sincere disciple of his art, and there is every reason to anticipate for him a most distinguished career.
29Romeo Gorno.
31SIG. ROMEO GORNO was born in Cremona, Italy, and comes from a distinguished musical family. His brother, Albino Gorno, was the concert pianist of Adelina Patti for several years during the diva's palmiest days and both as an artist and teacher at the College of Music, Cincinnati, established a wide reputation.
33Sig. Gorno received his first lessons from his father, Davide Gorno, who was himself a musician of note. His studies were continued under the direction of his brother, Albino, and he soon made rapid progress. To his piano studies he added those of the violin, for which he developed a marked aptitude, under the guidance of several able instructors. At the instigation of his brother, who had already preceded him, he came to America in 1889 and at once secured an honored place in the College of Music as teacher of the piano, where he is at present engaged.
35His success as a teacher has been a signal one, and his popularity is attested by a very large class of talented pupils. During his six years as a teacher at the College of Music, of Cincinnati, some of the most talented graduates in piano have been his pupils at different times. Strictly conscientious, and with a high sense of the best in art, he is thoroughly devoted to his profession. Signor Gorno has given considerable time and study to string quartet playing, and was often heard to advantage, not only at the college concerts, but in several notable engagements in other cities. His playing is always graceful and refined.
37Thomas Wendell Phillips.
39AMONG the successful young musicians who have grown into popular favor by untiring zeal and ambition, Mr. Thomas Wendell Phillips must be numbered. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and at the age of eight years attracted much attention by playing accompaniments by ear for his mother, who was a singer of high reputation, and from whom he has directly inherited his talent. At nine years of age he went to Cincinnati, taking up the study of piano and theory with Prof. Foley, with whom he remained about six years. Mr. Phillips then entered the College of Music, studying theory and composition with Mr. Otto Singer, instrumentation with Professor Baelens, and piano with Mr. Albino Gorno, under whom he graduated with high honors in 1887, performing in public at his graduation the Rhapsodie d'Auvergne of Saint-Saëns, with full orchestra.
41For the last twelve years Mr. Phillips has been organist and choir director of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church,
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