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The American history and encyclopedia of Music: Musical Biographies, 1908
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1Stadler
2requiem; Te Deum and masses; offer-
3tories and gradualls; Des Gewitter,
4a cantata; Die Befreiung von Jerusa-
5lem; Seladon, a cantata; much other
6religious music; sonatas and fugues
7for piano and organ; three string
8quartets; concerto for violoncello;
9three trios for strings.
11Stadtfeldt (shtät'-fělt), Alexander.
121826-1853.
13Pianist and composer; born at
14Wiesbaden; the son of a military
15band conductor. His talent asserted
16itself early and at the age of nine he
17appeared in public. The King of Bel-
18gium gave him means to study at the
19Brussels Conservatory, where he was
20a pupil of Fétis in counterpoint, won
21prizes for piano-playing and harmony
22and the Grand Prize of Rome for
23composition in 1849. He went to
24Paris for a while, but ill health caused
25him to return to Brussels, where
26he died, when only twenty-seven
27years old. He left the following com-
28positions: The operas, L'illusion,
29Abu Hassan, La Pedrina, and Ham-
30let; cantatas, La vendetta and Le
31songe du jeune Scipio; a lyric scene,
32Le dernier jour de Marino Faliero; a
33concert overture and one called La
34découverte de l'Amérique; two con-
35certinos for piano and orchestra;
36four symphonies; a mass; Te Deum
37and other church-music.
39Stainer (shtī'-nēr), Jacob. 1621-1683.
40Renowned German violin-maker,
41who has been called the father of the
42German fiddle. He was born at
43Absam, in the Austrian Tyrol; the
44son of peasants, and spent his early
45youth as a shepherd boy. Stainer
46was exceedingly fond of music, and
47showed such eagerness to learn that
48the parish priest had him taught the
49trade of organ-builder at Innsbruck.
50He found the work too hard and took
51up instead the manufacture of stringed
52instruments. Later he traveled to
53Italy and at Cremona found employ-
54ment as apprentice to once of the
55Amatis, some say with Antonius,
56others say Nicholas, and there learned
57the secrets of the Cremona workers.
58He afterwards made his violins on
59Italian principles and was the first to
60introduce them into Germany. He
61worked in or near his native town all
62his life and was patronized by the
63Archbishop of Salzburg, the Arch-
64duke Ferdinand Charles, and was
65given in 1658 the title of violin-maker
66to the Imperial Court, but seems to
67have received most insignificant sums
68for his instruments, which are now
69highly prized. In 1677 Stainer was
70obliged to give up his work, and a
71few years later he died insane. The
72Stainer violins, of which there were
73a great number, are now chiefly val-
74ued as curiosities. Compared with
75the Amatis, they are high and narrow,
76and the tone is sharp and piercing,
77rather than mild and sweet.
79Stainer (stā'-nēr), Sir John. 1840-
801901.
81Eminent English composer and
82organist; born in London; the son of
83a school-teacher. Was a chorister at
84St. Paul's from 1847 to 1856, where he
85studied harmony with Bayley, coun-
86terpoint with Steggall, and later
87organ with Cooper. From 1854 to
881860 he held three posts as organist,
89then was appointed University organ-
90ist at Oxford, graduating from that
91institution with the degree of Bach-
92elor of Music in 1859, and Doctor of
93Music in 1865. The following year he
94was appointed examiner for musical
95degrees, and from 1872 to 1888 was
96successor to Sir John Goss as organ-
97ist at St. Paul's, resigning on account
98of failing eyesight. He was knighted
99in 1888, and the next year was ap-
100pointed professor of music at Oxford.
101In 1876 he was appointed professor
102of organ and harmony at the National
103Training School, becoming principal
104in 1881, and after its reconstruction
105as the Royal College of Music in
1061883, again professor. In 1882 he was
107appointed government inspector of
108music in training schools. Stainer re-
109ceived many honors and distinctions.
110He was made a Chevalier of the
111Legion of Honor by the French gov-
112ernment in 1878, and in 1888 was
113knighted by the Queen. He wrote
114the oratorio, Gideon; the cantatas,
115The Daughter of Jairus, and The
116Crucifixion; was the author of various
117primers on the organ, harmony and
118composition, and edited with W. A.
119Barrett a dictionary of musical terms.
121Stair, Patty. (Martha Greene.)
122American woman composer; a
123native of Cleveland, Ohio, who has
124written songs and piano-music and
125who is a prominent figure in the musi-
126cal life of Cleveland. Miss Stair re-
127ceived her theoretical instruction
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