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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1Milder-Hauptmann
2Spontini, the director, she left the company and traveled in Sweden, Denmark and Russia. Her last appearance was in Vienna in 1836, and her death occurred two years later in Berlin. Mme. Milder-Hauptmann had a marvelous voice, but she was indolent and capricious and did not work or study conscientiously. Cherubini wrote Faniska, and Beethoven, Leonore in Fidelio especially for her. She appeared to best advantage in such roles as Iphigenia, Armida and Alcestis.
4Millard, Harrison. 1830-
5American composer and teacher of vocal music; born in Boston, Mass. As a child he sang in a church choir, and when only ten entered the chorus of the Handel and Haydn Society. From 1851 to 1854 he studied singing in Italy, and as tenor concert-singer traveled through Ireland and Scotland with Catherine Hayes. While he was abroad he wrote articles for Dwight's Journal of Music and other American magazines. He returned to Boston in 1854, and in 1856 as a singer, teacher and composer he settled in New York. In 1859 he produced Viva la America, the first important patriotic song. As first lieutenant in the Nineteenth New York Regiment he served in the Civil War, and was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga and sent home. After his recovery he was given a position in the New York custom house. He has published over three hundred songs, among them the well-known Flag of the Free, and has also adapted songs from the French and German. He has written a Grand Mass, four Te Deums; also the four-act opera, Deborah.
7Miller, Edward. 1731-1807.
8English organist and composer; born at Norwich. His early musical education was obtained at Lynn under Dr. Burney. In 1756 he was appointed organist of Doncaster, and continued to fill that position for fifty years. He died in Doncaster in 1807. Among the works he has published are six solos for German flute, with remarks on double tonguing; elegies for voice and piano; songs; an ode with instrumental parts; six harpsichord sonatas; psalms and hymns, among them Psalms of David, for the use of parish churches, in which occurs the well-known hymn, Rockingham; also the Elements of Thorough-bass and Composition and Institute of Music, or Easy Instruction for the Harpsichord.
10Mills
11Conductor and composer of a very great number of operettas; born in Vienna. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and in 1864 became chapelmaster at the Gratz Theatre, a position which he retained until 1866, leaving then to take up similar work at the Harmonie Theatre in Vienna. This theatre failed in a very short time and Millöcker removed to Budapest for a time, but returned to Vienna in 1869 and became chapelmaster at the Theatre an der Wien. He died at Baden near Vienna. Among his compositions are a number of musical farces and many piano-pieces, some of which have appeared in the monthly installments of the Musikalische Presse. Of his operettas, Die lustigen Binder and Der todtte Gast, appeared in Gratz; Die Fraueninsel came out in Budapest; Der Regimenstambour, Ein Abenteuer in Wien; Diana; Drei Paar Schuhe; Das ver wunschene Schloss; Gräfin Dubarry and Die Musik des Teufels were performed in Vienna. His music is sprightly and piquant and for a time enjoyed great popularity.
13Mills, Sebastian Bach. 1838-1898.
14Piano virtuoso of unusual ability, who attained great popularity in America; born in Cirencester, England. His English instructors were Cipriani Potter and Sterndale Bennett, and at the age of seven he had so far progressed as to play before Queen Victoria. At the Leipsic Conservatory he was a pupil of Moscheles, Plaidy, Mayer, Rietz and Hauptmann, and later he became one of the young men of Liszt's circle at Weimar. In 1855 he was made organist of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Sheffield. In 1858 he appeared as soloist at a Gewandhaus concert in Leipsic, and in 1859 he came to the United States on a concert tour that proved so successful that he decided to settle here. He was a great favorite in New York, and from 1859 to 1877 appeared every season in concerts of the Philharmonic Society, of which
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