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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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2of piano at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Guildhall School of Music, is a director and secretary of the Philharmonic Society and a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
4Berger, Ludwig. 1777-1839.
5German composer, pianist and teacher. Born in Berlin, where his father was an architect. Began studying there very early, and made great progress under Clementi, in 1804, and went with him to St. Petersburg, also to Stockholm and London, becoming famous as a pianist and teacher. From 1815 until his death he taught in Berlin, where he had many famous pupils, among them, Mendelssohn, Henselt, Taubert and Fanny Hensel, Mendelssohn's sister. On account of his melancholy temperament, he lived a very retired life, which interfered with his musical career. His compositions are mainly works for the piano, including studies, concertos, a toccata and a rondo. He also wrote the opera, Oreste; some cantatas; male quartets and songs.
7*Berger, Wilhelm. 1861-
8Composer and piano teacher. Born in Boston of German parents, but was taken to Germany when only a year old. From 1878 to 1882 he studied in the Hochschule of Berlin, under Kiel. Berger has lived in Berlin for many years as a composer and a successful teacher. His principal compositions are his settings of Goethe's Meine Göttin, which won a prize of two thousand marks in 1898; his Gesang der Geister; Todtentanz, which was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; many piano pieces, part-songs and over eighty songs. Berger is the conductor of the Meiningen Orchestra of Berlin.
10Berggreen (berkh'-grän), Andreas Peter. 1801-1880.
11Danish organist, teacher and composer. His parents intended that he follow law as a profession, but he maintained an early fondness for music and devoted himself to this art. He was born at Copenhagen, and began composing, when very young. His opera, The Picture and the Bust, was produced in 1832. Berggreen's most valued works are his volumes of national songs, songs for use in school, and his church music. A collection of Psalm Tunes was published in 1853, which subsequently was adopted by the churches throughout Denmark. In 1838 he was appointed organist of Trinity Church, in 1843 professor of vocal music at the Metropolitan School, and in 1859 inspector of public schools. Previous to the last appointment he had established a musical association for working people.
13Bergmann (bërkh'-män), Carl. 1821-1876.
14Eminent conductor who held an important place in the progress of music in America. Carl Bergmann was born in Ebersbach, Saxony, studied in Zittau under Zimmermann, and in Breslau was a pupil of Hesse. Bergmann came to America in 1850, and as violoncellist toured the eastern cities with the Germania Orchestra, an organization of German musicians, of which he became conductor. He entered the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1855, and with Eisfeld, conducted alternately till 1862, at which date he became sole conductor, and so remained until his death in New York in 1876. His successor was Leopold Damrosch. To music lovers in America, Carl Bergmann rendered great service in introducing here the works of Liszt and Wagner. Theodore Thomas was the first to make Americans well acquainted with Wagner, but, as Upton says, the credit for giving the first performance, in this country, of a Wagner composition, the overture to Tannhäuser, belongs to Carl Bergmann. In Theodore Thomas' Autobiography there is given this view of that great conductor's association with Bergmann and a personal estimate of the man: "It has been said by those who are unfamiliar with the history of that time, that Bergmann was my model in conducting. This is incorrect. Eckert . . . was the one who influenced me, and from whom I learned. He, (Bergmann) lacked most of the qualities of a first-rank conductor, but he had one great redeeming quality for those days, which soon brought him into prominence, he possessed an artistic nature, and was in sympathy with the so-called 'Zukunft Musik' (music of the future)."
16Previous to his occupancy of the post of conductor of the New York Philharmonic Society, Bergmann con-
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