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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Bird
2* Bird, Arthur. 1856-
3American composer, who lives in Germany. Born in Cambridge, Mass. Went to Berlin at the age of nineteen and for two years studied the piano and theory with Läschhorn, Haupt and Rohde. In 1877 he returned to America and was organist at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he also taught in several schools and organized a male chorus, the first in that province. He returned to Berlin in 1881, studying composition and orchestration with Heinrich Urban, and afterward spending two years at Weimar with Liszt. Mr. Bird's first concert in Berlin, given in 1886, was very successful. After a visit to America the same year, he returned to Germany where he has lived ever since in Berlin. He won the Paderewski prize for chamber-music in 1901 with his serenade for wind-instruments. His other compositions are a comic opera Daphne, a ballet Rubezahl, a Symphony in A and three suites for the orchestra, beside many pieces for the piano and for piano and violin.
5Bird, Henry Richard. 1842-
6Contemporary English organist, who has won special distinction as an accompanist and who for several years was official accompanist of the Popular concerts. At an early age, he appeared as an organist, having enjoyed a period of study under Thurle, with whom he made progress in various branches. He came to London, in 1859, served as organist at St. Mark's, Pentonville and Holy Trinity and also filled the post of organist at Chelsea and at St. Gabriel's, Pimlico. In 1872 he assumed the duties of his long service at St. Mary Abbotts in Kensington. In Chelsea, his rare skill as accompanist came to the fore, and in Kensington he began association with the distinguished singer, Mr. Plunket Greene, whose regular accompanist he became. Mr. Bird was engaged, in 1891, as regular accompanist for the Popular concerts and held this unusual post until reorganization made its various changes. In 1896 he became a member of the staff of the Royal College of Music. London.
8Bischoff (bē-sh'-ôf), D. Ludwig Friedrich Christian. 1794-1867.
9A German editor and writer, in his day of much influence and activity in musical matters. Son of a musician, from his earliest days breathing the atmosphere of music, he always showed a great interest in this art. He was born at Dessau, where his father was a court musician. He was entered at the University of Berlin, served as a volunteer in the war and was captured by the French. On his release he returned to the University and took his degree. He was a professor at Berlin for a while, and from 1823 to 1849 was director of the Gymnasium at Wesel. During his long residence here, he took an active part in musical affairs. Following an interval of residence at Bonn, he settled in Cologne, and here spent the rest of his years. In this city he founded the Rheinische Musikzeitung, and was the founder of its successor, the Nieder-Rheinische Musikzeitung, which he edited until his death. Grove records that the tendency of his papers "was dead against that of the Neue Zeitschrift of Schumann and Brendel in regard to Wagner and Liszt." Bischoff's worship for Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, to whom he afterward added Mendelssohn, was so exclusive as to exclude his appreciating even Schumann, essential as he is in the development of modern music. On the other hand, his influence on the music of the Lower Rhine was both good and great. He was the musical center of the energy and devotion which kept up the festivals of Cologne, Aix-la-Chapelle, and Düsseldorf, and through them acted so beneficially on the whole of Germany. Bischoff translated Ulibischef's Beethoven into German.
11Bishop
12Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley. 1786-1855.
13English dramatic composer. Born in London. He began composing at a very early age and studied under the noted Francesco Bianchi. At the age of eighteen he wrote the music to Angelina and a little later the music for the ballet Tamerlan et Bajazet, but was first brought into notice by his opera, The Circassian Bride, produced at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1809. The night after the performance, the theatre burned and with it the score of the opera, but it had been so well received that, in 1810, the position of musical director at Covent Garden Theatre was offered to Bishop. The position was accepted and the engagement was twice re-
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