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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Macfarren
2Baptist, was produced, and in 1875 he was given the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music and was made a professor of music at Cambridge. In 1876 he became principal of the Royal Academy of Music and brought out his oratorio, The Resurrection. In 1877 his oratorio, Joseph, and his cantata, The Lady of the Lake, were produced. In 1883 he again appeared with an oratorio, King David, and in the same year was knighted. Among his other compositions are overtures to The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. He wrote many excellent educational musical works which had much influence at the time, as The Rudiments of Harmony, and Six Lectures on Harmony. He contributed to The Musical World and wrote the lives of musicians for the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography. He also delivered many lectures in London and elsewhere. His active life ended in 1877, and he was buried at Hampstead cemetery. A life of him by H. C. Banister was published in 1891. Macfarren wrote in almost every form of music and attracted much attention in his time, but his works seem to lack the life and spontaneity of modern composers.
4Macfarren, Walter Cecil. 1826-1905.
5English musical composer and editor; was the brother of Sir George Alexander Macfarren. He was born at London; was a chorister at Westminster from 1836 to 1841, then studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1842 to 1846 as the pupil of Holmes; Potter and his brother. He taught piano there from 1846 to 1903 and also conducted the Academy concerts. He was also director and treasurer of the Philharmonic Society. He died at London. He wrote the overtures to Henry V., Hero and Leander, Beppo, a Winter's Tale, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew; two church services; piano concertos and sonatas; and various kinds of songs. He also edited Beethoven's sonatas; Mozart's piano works; and Popular Classics.
7Macirone (mä-chē-rō'-nē), Clara Angela. 1821-
8Composer of songs, pianist and teacher. Was born at London, and educated at the Royal Academy of Music as the pupil of Potter, Holmes, Lucas and Negri. She was made a professor of the Academy and an associate of the Philharmonic Society, and was for several years the head music-teacher at Aske's School for Girls, and later at the Church of England High School for Girls, and during this time she also conducted a singing society called The Village Minstrels. She has now retired. Her Te Deum and Jubilate, sung at Hanover Chapel, were the first service composed by a woman ever sung in the church. She has published an admirable suite for the violin and piano, and many part-songs, some of which have been sung at the Crystal Palace by choruses of three thousand voices; she has also written anthems and many solos for the voice.
10Mackenzie
11Stands in the front rank of British composers. He was born in Edinburgh, where he received his general education at Hunter's School. His father was probably his first teacher in music, but he was soon put under the care of Johann Durner, a composer. At the earnest recommendation of Durner he was taken to Schwartzburg-Sondershausen, Germany, to begin his serious musical study, and placed in surroundings exceedingly favorable to his musical advancement. He obtained a position in the ducal orchestra and began the study of theory with the conductor, Edouard Stein, and the violin with Ulrich. His training was of the best, and he had frequent opportunities to play the music of such masters as Wagner, Berlioz and Liszt, besides becoming acquainted with many of the great musicians, among them Liszt and Max Bruch. Returned to Scotland in 1862, and after a short stay in Edinburgh, went to London to study the violin under his father's old friend and master, Prosper Sainton, at whose advice he competed for the King's Scholarship in the Royal Academy of Music, an honor which he was so fortunate as to win. He supported himself by playing in an orchestra and studied violin under Sainton, harmony and counterpoint under Lucas, and piano under Jewson. At the close of his course at the Royal Academy in 1865 he returned to Edinburgh and began to teach. He soon became known as a violinist and performer of chamber-music, and in 1873 became conductor of the Scottish Vocal Music Associ-
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