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The MacMillan EncyclopEdia Of Music And Musicians In One Volume-I, 1938
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1until her marriage. She composed piano music and songs.
3Parke, William Thomas, English oboist and composer, born at London in 1762; died there, Aug. 26, 1847; younger brother of John Parke; pupil of his brother and of Dance, Burney and Baumgarten. After being a soprano chorister and a violist, he became first oboe at Covent Garden and Vauxhall, where he played concertos. He extended the compass of the oboe up to G in Alt, a third higher than others had reached. His compositions were oboe concertos.
5Parker, Alfred, late 19th and early 20th century English salon composer.
7Parker, Bertie Patterson, English violoncellist, born Great Dunmow, Sept. 2, 1871; died in 1930; brother of William Frye Patterson; pupil of Whitehouse at the Royal Academy of Music; solo 'cellist with the London Philharmonic Society and the London Symphony Orchestra with which he toured America under Nikisch and member of the Wessely String Quartet.
9Parker, Denne, Scottish contralto recitalist, born Edinburgh, June 22, 1889.
11Parker, George, English stage baritone, born Leeds, Nov. 24, 1882.
13Parker, George Albert, American teacher, organist and pianist, born Kewanee, Ill., Sept. 21, 1856; pupil at the Stuttgart Conservatory and with Kullak, Guilmant and Pruckner. He has been dean of the College of Fine Arts of Syracuse University, at Syracuse, N. Y.
15Parker, Henry, English composer, born London, Aug. 4, 1842; pupil of Plaidy, Moscheles and Richter at the Leipzig Conservatory and of Lefort at Paris. His works include a romantic comic opera, three comic operas, choral works, orchestral and piano music, songs and a volume entitled The Voice, Its Production and Improvement, with Practical Exercises.
17Parker, Henry Taylor, American journalist and writer on music, born Boston, Apr. 29, 1867; died there, Mar. 30, 1934. Educated at Harvard, he was critic for various New York and Boston newspapers, including the Boston Transcript. He wrote Eighth Notes, a series of essays on music.
19Parker, Horatio William, American composer, born at Auburndale, near Boston, Sept. 15, 1863; died at Cedarhurst, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1919. He studied piano playing under John Orth, harmony under Stephen A. Emery, and composition under George W. Chadwick. At the age of eighteen he went to Munich where he attracted the attention of Josef Rheinberger; the latter instructed him in organ playing. He remained in Munich for three years, after which he settled in New York as an organist and choirmaster; he also taught counterpoint at the National Conservatory of Music. During this period he won a prize for the cantata, The Dream King and His Love; later he became organist at Trinity Church, Boston. His famous work, an oratorio, Hora Novissima, the words from Bernard de Morlaix's Rhythm of the Celestial Country, was first performed by the Church Choral Society, under the baton of the composer. It was produced later in Boston and Cincinnati, and it was the first American composition to be accepted for performance at the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester, England. Parker conducted the performance in England and was warmly received as conductor and composer. In 1894 he became professor of music at Yale University, where he raised the standards of the music department, and greatly stimulated the musical life of the city of New Haven. A concerto for organ was composed in 1901; this work figured on the programs of the Boston, Chicago and New Haven symphony concerts during the next year. About this time he resigned his position as organist in Boston, and took up similar work in New York. Later two operas, Mona and Fairyland, won valuable prizes; the former was produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Mar. 14, 1912. Parker's works reach eighty-four opus numbers, many of which were written during student-days in Munich. The most important, in addition to those previously mentioned, are the cantata, The Holy Child, the Greek ode, Hymnos Andron, Crépuscule for voice and orchestra, and the masque, Cupid and Psyche.
21Parker, James Cutler Dunn, American composer, organist and teacher, born Boston, Mass., June 2, 1828; died Brookline, Mass., Nov. 27, 1916; pupil of Moscheles, Plaidy, Hauptmann, Richter and Rietz at Leipzig. He organized in Boston an amateur vocal society, the Parker Club, was organist and choir leader of Trinity Church and for years organist of the Handel and Haydn Society. He composed choral works, cantatas and church services.
23Parker, Louis Napoléon, English composer, born at Calvadoz, France, in 1852; director of music in the Sherborne School from 1877-96. His compositions include cantatas, a motet on Psalm 23, overtures, songs, part-songs and violin music.
25Parker, Louise, see Oudin, Louise.
27Parker, Muriel, contemporary American composer; pupil of Nadia Boulanger in Paris; teacher at Western University, Oxford, O. A piano sonata of her composition was given at the Yaddo Music Festival.
29Parker, William Frye, English violinist, conductor and teacher, born at Great Dunmow in 1855; pupil of Sainton at the Royal Academy of Music, London; leader of the London Philharmonic and the Leeds Festival Orchestra, and teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music.
31Parkhurst, Howard Elmore, American composer, organist and writer on music, born Ashland, Mass., Sept. 13, 1848; died Lavallette, N. J., Aug. 18, 1916; organist of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York. He wrote: A Complete System of Harmony; A Complete Method for the Modern Organ; The Church Organist; The Beginnings of the World's
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