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The MacMillan EncyclopEdia Of Music And Musicians In One Volume-I, 1938
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1BÄHR—BAILLOT
3Bähr (Bär, Beer), Johann, Austrian conductor and composer, born St. Georg, Feb. 28, 1665; died Weissenfels, Aug. 6, 1770; composer of musical satire under the pen-name Ursus.
5Bähr, Joseph, see Beer, Joseph.
7Bahr, Mildenburg, Anna, see Mildenburg, Anna von.
9Bai (Baj), Tommaso, Italian tenor, born Crevalcuore, near Bologna, about 1660; died Rome, Dec. 22, 1714; tenor singer and choirmaster at the Vatican. As a disciple of Palestrina his fame rests on a five-part Miserere still sung during Holy Week at the Vatican.
11Baier, Klemens, German choir-director and composer, born Bobernig, May 22, 1855; writer of church music and male choruses.
13Baier, Victor, American organist, born New York, 1861; died there, 1921. For many years he was organist at Trinity Church, New York, and recognized as one of the most outstanding performers of his time; a Fellowship bearing his name was instituted at Columbia University, New York.
15Baier Fellowship, an American scholarship, in memory of the great American organist, Victor Baier. It is awarded annually by the University Council, Columbia University, New York; candidates are required to be competent performers on the piano and organ, and to possess a thorough knowledge of theoretical subjects and musical history.
17Baif, Jean-Antoine de, French poet and lute-player, born Venice, 1532; died Paris, Sept. 19, 1589. He gave concerts in Paris, and published several collections of sacred and secular songs. He imitated ancient poetic meters in his French poems; more than sixty of these were set to music by Jacques Maudit and Claude Le Jeune.
19Bailand, Joseph, English organist and composer, died May 7, 1774. He held important church positions, and was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He won several prizes offered by the London Catch Club; several of his glees were popular in their day.
21Bailand, Thomas, 18th century English song composer and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
23Bailey, Daniel and William, 18th century American pioneer music publishers.
25Bailey, Frederic Ware, American pianist, organist and teacher, born Worcester, Mass., Apr. 3, 1879. He studied with W. W. Farmer and Mrs. A. W. Virgil, becoming a well known organist and piano teacher in New York.
27Bailey, Herbert Mead, American baritone and music teacher, born Plainville, Kansas, June 20, 1886. He studied with various teachers in Kansas and Chicago, and gradually earned a reputation in the Middle West as a concert and oratorio singer, and as a music teacher at various colleges.
29Bailey, Lilian June, American singer, born Columbus, O., Jan. 18, 1860; died London, Nov. 4, 1901. She studied with Mme. Rudersdorff and made her début at Boston in 1876. Later she studied with Mme. Viardot-Garcia and Sir George Henschel, to whom she was eventually married, and with whom she gave many highly appreciated vocal recitals.
31Bailey, Marie Louise, American pianist and composer, born Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 24, 1876. She studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Reinecke, at Vienna with Leschetizky, and made her début at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1893. Since then she has toured extensively in the United States; her compositions are chiefly for the piano.
33Bailey-Apfelbeck, Marie Louise, American pianist, born Nashville, Tenn., 1876, pupil of Leschetizky. She made concert tours of Europe and frequently visited her native country, acquiring considerable reputation as a pianist in Vienna.
35Bailleux, Antoine, French composer and teacher, died Paris, 1791. His compositions included both vocal and instrumental music, also methods for voice and for violin.
37Baillot, Pierre Marie François de Sales, French violinist, teacher and composer, born Passy, near Paris, Oct. 1, 1771; died Paris, Sept. 15, 1842. His talent for the violin made itself evident at an early age, and his preliminary training was under the direction of Polidori and Sainte-Marie. After the death of his father, which took place while he was still a child, Baillot's guardian provided him with musical instruction in Rome and attended to his general education. He soon began to be known as an excellent performer, and by the time he was twenty he secured, through the influence of Viotti, a position in an important Paris theatre. Later a more attractive post was offered him in the Ministry of Finance, where he remained several years, meanwhile perfecting his technique unhampered by the necessity of making a living through his music. There followed a period of compulsory service in the army, which tended to develop his personality; later he received an appointment as teacher of violin playing at the Paris Conservatory. There he studied composition under Reicha, and became the most distinguished pedagogue of his time, numbering among his pupils such eminent performers as Habeneck, Dauda, Mazas, Guérin and Wéry. He was revered as the head of the French school of violinists, not only as a virtuoso but as a quartet leader, and was praised by Mendelssohn, Hiller and Spohr. With Rode and Kreutzer he wrote an authoritative method for violin, L'Art du Violon; his compositions include nine violin concertos, a double concerto, chamber music and many violin pieces.
39Baillot, René Paul, French music teacher, born Paris, Oct. 23, 1813; died there, Mar. 28, 1889; son of Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot. He was
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