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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Stadler
2requiem; Te Deum and masses; offer-tories and gradualls; Des Gewitter, a cantata; Die Befreiung von Jerusalem; Seladon, a cantata; much other religious music; sonatas and fugues for piano and organ; three string quartets; concerto for violoncello; three trios for strings.
4Stadtfeldt (shtät'-fělt), Alexander. 1826-1853.
5Pianist and composer; born at Wiesbaden; the son of a military band conductor. His talent asserted itself early and at the age of nine he appeared in public. The King of Belgium gave him means to study at the Brussels Conservatory, where he was a pupil of Fétis in counterpoint, won prizes for piano-playing and harmony and the Grand Prize of Rome for composition in 1849. He went to Paris for a while, but ill health caused him to return to Brussels, where he died, when only twenty-seven years old. He left the following compositions: The operas, L'illusion, Abu Hassan, La Pedrina, and Hamlet; cantatas, La vendetta and Le songe du jeune Scipio; a lyric scene, Le dernier jour de Marino Faliero; a concert overture and one called La découverte de l'Amérique; two concertinos for piano and orchestra; four symphonies; a mass; Te Deum and other church-music.
7Stainer (shtī'-něr), Jacob. 1621-1683.
8Renowned German violin-maker, who has been called the father of the German fiddle. He was born at Absam, in the Austrian Tyrol; the son of peasants, and spent his early youth as a shepherd boy. Stainer was exceedingly fond of music, and showed such eagerness to learn that the parish priest had him taught the trade of organ-builder at Innsbruck. He found the work too hard and took up instead the manufacture of stringed instruments. Later he traveled to Italy and at Cremona found employment as apprentice to once of the Amatis, some say with Antonius; others say Nicholas, and there learned the secrets of the Cremona workers. He afterwards made his violins on Italian principles and was the first to introduce them into Germany. He worked in or near his native town all his life and was patronized by the Archbishop of Salzburg, the Archduke Ferdinand Charles, and was given in 1658 the title of violin-maker to the Imperial Court, but seems to have received most insignificant sums for his instruments, which are now highly prized. In 1677 Stainer was obliged to give up his work, and a few years later he died insane. The Stainer violins, of which there were a great number, are now chiefly valued as curiosities. Compared with the Amatis, they are high and narrow, and the tone is sharp and piercing, rather than mild and sweet.
10Stair
11Stainer (stā'-něr), Sir John. 1840-1901.
12Eminent English composer and organist; born in London; the son of a school-teacher. Was a chorister at St. Paul's from 1847 to 1856, where he studied harmony with Bayley, counterpoint with Steggall, and later organ with Cooper. From 1854 to 1860 he held three posts as organist, then was appointed University organist at Oxford, graduating from that institution with the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1859, and Doctor of Music in 1865. The following year he was appointed examiner for musical degrees, and from 1872 to 1888 was successor to Sir John Goss as organist at St. Paul's, resigning on account of failing eyesight. He was knighted in 1888, and the next year was appointed professor of music at Oxford. In 1876 he was appointed professor of organ and harmony at the National Training School, becoming principal in 1881, and after its reconstruction as the Royal College of Music in 1883, again professor. In 1882 he was appointed government inspector of music in training schools. Stainer received many honors and distinctions. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1878, and in 1888 was knighted by the Queen. He wrote the oratorio, Gideon; the cantatas, The Daughter of Jairus, and The Crucifixion; was the author of various primers on the organ, harmony and composition, and edited with W. A. Barrett a dictionary of musical terms.
14Stair, Patty. (Martha Greene.)
15American woman composer; a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who has written songs and piano-music and who is a prominent figure in the musical life of Cleveland. Miss Stair received her theoretical instruction
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