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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Manney
2Institute, and as a lad was soprano soloist at St. Paul's Church and at the Church of The Redeemer, Brooklyn. In Brooklyn he studied harmony with W. A. Fisher, and, on removing to Boston in 1898, he became the pupil of Wallace Goodrich and Dr. Percy Gottschius, with whom he studied counterpoint, composition and harmony. He is associate editor with Oliver Ditson in Boston, and is well known as a composer of vocal and piano-pieces, having written cantatas; songs and part-songs; anthems; two sacred cantatas; and a comic opera, The Duke's Double. He has also edited various collections and writings. He is a member of a number of musical societies, among them The Boston Chorister Club, The Harvard Musical Association and The Manuscript Society.
4Manners, Charles. (Real name Southcote Mansergh.) 1857-
5English opera-singer and manager; born at London. He studied in Dublin and London and then in Italy, and in 1881 was in the chorus in Carte's traveling opera company. In 1882 he made his debut as Private Willis in Iolanthe at the Savoy Theatre. He then toured in the provinces with the Carl Rosa Company, and in 1890 appeared as Bertram at Covent Garden. In 1892 he sang the part of Prince Gremin in Tschaikowsky's Eugen Onégin at the Olympic, and later appeared as the King in Lohengrin. In 1893 he visited America. From 1894 to 1896 he was with Harris, in English and Italian Opera. In 1896 he made a South African tour. He then organized the Moody-Manners Opera Company and toured the provinces with it. In 1892 he was at Covent Garden and in 1894 at Drury Lane. His most recent musical venture was an operatic festival at Sheffield, for the University.
7Manners, Fanny Moody. 1866-
8Celebrated English opera-singer; born at Redruth, in Cornwall. Her teacher was Mme. Sainton-Dolby, and the young prima donna's first public appearance was made in 1885, when she sang the leading part in her teacher's cantata, Florimel. In 1887 she made her operatic debut as Arline in The Bohemian Girl. She was then with the Carl Rosa Company, with which she made a three-years' tour in the provinces. In 1890 she made a very favorable impression as Mignon and Margaret at Drury Lane, and the same year married Charles Manners. In 1892 she created in English the part of Tatiana in Tschaikowsky's opera, Eugen Onégin. She made many tours with her husband, appearing in many roles, among them Elizabeth, Elsa and Brünnhilde. In 1902 she appeared in Pizzi's Rosalda; in 1903 as Militza in M'Alpin's Crescent and Cross, and in 1904 in the Flying Dutchman.
10Manns (mäns), Sir August Friedrich. 1825-1907.
11Orchestra conductor, to whom the British public owes much of its knowledge of the works of great composers. He was born at Stolzenburg, North Germany. His earliest acquaintance with music began in a family quintet, and his first instruction was received at Torgelow, from the village musician, with whom he studied violin, clarinet and flute. Later he was apprenticed to Urban at Elbing, where he played in the orchestra of the Danzig Opera Company when it came to Elbing. Finally he obtained a position to play first clarinet in a regimental band of Danzig, and at the same time played a first violin at the theatre. When his band was sent to Posen in 1848 Manns became acquainted with Wieprecht, who helped him get a place in Gungl's Orchestra in Berlin, where later he became conductor and solo violin at Kroll's Garden. In 1851 he was appointed bandmaster to Colonel von Roon's infantry regiment at Königsberg, in which position he had unusual freedom in his methods of work. When the regiment was moved to Cologne, its band enjoyed great reputation, and in 1854 Manns was offered a position of subconductor, under Schallehn, of the band at the Crystal Palace in London. Owing to trouble with Schallehn he resigned his position, and for a few months conducted the summer concerts at Amsterdam, but in 1855 he was appointed conductor in Schallehn's place. As conductor of the band at the Crystal Palace, Manns did great work. He transformed the band from a wind band into a full orchestra, succeeded in getting the concert-room enclosed and roofed in, and began his famous Saturday concerts, through which he did much to
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