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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Bergmann
2ducted the concerts of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston; and in New York for several years conducted the German male chorus "Arion." In 1854 Bergmann went to Chicago, and here was engaged to take charge of the Philharmonic Society, but dissensions arising, he left early in 1855 and returned to New York. This same year a series of chamber concerts under the name of Mason and Bergmann was instituted, at which concerts Bergmann played violoncello, Theodore Thomas first violin, and Mason was pianist. Long afterward Thomas declared that the first programs of Mason and Bergmann sounded the war-cry of death, to stale and meaningless music, and proclaimed progress. Krehbiel, writing in Grove, pays this tribute to Carl Bergmann: "Bergmann was the pioneer in America of the new school of conductors, as distinguished from the old class of mere time-beaters. He was strongly individual and assertive in his interpretations, a radical, and an enthusiastic and devoted champion of Liszt and Wagner."
4*Beringer, Oscar. 1844-
5Distinguished contemporary pianist and eminent teacher, active in musical affairs in London. He was born in Baden, Germany, but was taken to London at the age of five, his father being a political refugee. Up to the age of nineteen, he received his tuition from an elder sister. At the age of sixteen he commenced giving a series of recitals at the Crystal Palace, and when he was seventeen made his first appearance at the world-renowned Saturday concerts of the Crystal Palace. From 1864 to 1866 he studied at Leipsic under Moscheles, Reinecke, Richter and Plaidy, and later on continued his studies at Berlin under Tausig, at whose school, in 1869, he was appointed professor. He returned to England, in 1871, where he met with great success at the Saturday concerts, the Philharmonic Musical Union, and various other well-known societies. In January, 1872, he went back to Leipsic to play at the Gewandhaus, returned again to England the following year and settled there permanently. In 1872 he founded, in London, the Academy for the Higher Development of Piano Playing, an institution highly successful until its close in 1897. In 1882 he played the solo part in Brahms' second Piano Concerto on the occasion of its first performance in England. In 1885 he was invited by the Royal Academy of Music to join their professorial staff, being elected to the Committee of Management in 1898. He has been a director of the Philharmonic Society for many years and, since 1900, has served on the Committee of Management of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music. His published works include an Andante and Allegro for piano and orchestra, sonatinas for the piano, several songs, a largely used Tutor, and a book of Daily Technical Studies which has enjoyed continued success. In 1907 he gave a course of lectures at the Royal Academy of Music, embodying his experiences of fifty years' playing and teaching, which lecture he has recently enlarged and published in book form under that same title. His venture in founding a school for the higher development of piano-playing met with the highest and well deserved success, marking, as it did, the commencement in England of the modern school of piano-playing.
7Bériot (dü-bär-yō), Charles Auguste de. 1802-1870.
8Famous violinist. Born in Belgium of French parents. At nine years of age, he was left an orphan, without means, the noble family from which he came having lost everything through the French Revolution. He was, however, well cared for by his guardian, Tiby, who also gave him the thorough foundation in music which made him the great master that he was. His talent developed so rapidly that, at the age of nine, he was able to play one of Viotti's concertos. From this time on the influence of his friend Jacotot, the scholar and philosopher, had a great effect upon his life and work, giving him that perseverance and energy that overcame all obstacles. At the age of nineteen he left his native place and went to Brussels, where, for a short time, he worked with Robrecht, a pupil of Viotti's, who was especially noted for his fine style. Going to Paris, De Bériot played before the celebrated violinist Viotti, who told him that he had already a fine style and should give all his time to perfecting it, hearing all men of talent
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