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The new encyclopedia of music and musicians, 1929
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1ner, 1878 and 1896, Silège, 1902, Pabst, 1905, Frankenstein, 1912, and in the Wagner-Jahrbuch, from 1906. See also the Bayreuther Blätter, edited by Wolzogen, from 1878.
3In 1887 a Wagner Museum was opened at Vienna and in 1897 removed to Eisenach. See works by Oesterlein, 1884, '92, Wolzogen, 1888 (in Neue Zeitschrift) and Kloss, 1904. G.
5Waissel, Matthias. 16th C.
7Wakefield, Augusta Mary (n. Kendal, 1853). English concert-contralto and since 1885 the promoter of a system of competitive choir-festivals at many places. G.
9Walcker, Eberhard Friedrich (Cannstatt, 1794–1872, Ludwigsburg). Noted Württemberger organ-maker, trained by his father, from 1820 building up an independent business at Ludwigsburg, which passed to his five sons, including two now in charge. They have supplied more than 1500 instruments, many of great importance, in Germany, Austria and Russia (including the famous Music Hall organ in Boston, Mass., in use in 1863–84). G.
11Walderee, Paul, Graf von (Potsdam, 1831–1906, n. Schweinfurt). Prussian army-officer, from 1871 editor for Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig of the complete editions of Beethoven and Mozart, with a noted Sammlung musikal. Vorträge, 5 vols. 1879–84 (60 essays by various authors, including 3 by the editor on works by Mozart, Schumann and Palestrina), as well as other articles in periodicals. G.
13Waldner, Franz (n. Meran, 1843–1917, Innsbruck). Tyrolese surgeon and local historian, author of monographs on music at the court of Innsbruck (1897–1904, in Monatshefte für Musikgesch.), on Isaac, Tritonius and Tyrolese luthiers and violin-makers (1903–11, in Zeitschr. d. Ferdinandeum).
15Waldstein, Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel, Graf von (Dux, 1762–1823, Vienna). Cultivated Bohemian amateur, from 1787 one of Beethoven's devoted friends and patrons. To him Beethoven dedicated the sonata in C (op. 53, 1804), besides using Waldstein's text for the Ritter-Ballett (1791) and a theme of his for 4-hand variations in C (1794). G.
17Waldstein, Wilhelm von. Composer of the opera Tonietta, 1904 (Linz).
19Waldteufel, Emil (Strasburg, 1837–1915, Paris). Alsatian dance-composer, pupil of the Paris Conservatory, from about 1860 active in Paris, in 1865 becoming musician to the Empress Eugénie and director at the court-balls, besides making tours to London, Berlin, Vienna, etc. Wrote over 260 dances, mostly for orchestra, but also arranged for piano. G.
21Waley, Simon (London, 1827–1875, do.). Gifted English (Jewish) pianist, pupil of Moscheles, W. S. Bennett, G. A. Osborne, Horsley and Molique, from 1848 well known in London as player and composer (in the style of Mendelssohn). Wrote a concerto, 2 piano-trios, piano-pieces, Psalms 117–118, part-songs and songs. He was also active as a stock-broker. G.
23Walker, Edyth (Hopewell, N. Y. 1870). Talented American operatic contralto (also mezzo-soprano), trained at the Dresden Conservatory, appearing in 1895 at the Gewandhaus (concert) and in Vienna (opera), till 1903 engaged at Vienna and as guest elsewhere, in 1903–06 at the Metropolitan, New York, from 1906 at both Berlin and Hamburg and in 1912–17 at Munich. Since 1900 she has also sung repeatedly in London. A.
25Walker, Ernest (Bombay, 1870). Able English (East Indian) composer and writer, educated at Oxford (Mus.D. 1898), in music self-taught, since 1900 music-director at Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1899–1902 editor of the Musical Gazette. Has written an overture, an Intermezzo for strings, a piano-quintet, a quintet for horn and strings, a piano-quartet, a quartet-fantasia, a piano-trio, sonatas for violin and for viola, pieces for violin, for viola and for 'cello, an organ Prelude and Fugue, a Stabat Mater, the choral works Hymn to Dionysus and Ode to a Nightingale, part-songs and songs. Author of a short life of Beethoven (1905) and a History of Music in England, 1907. G.
27Walker, Joseph Cooper (Dublin, 1760–1810, in France). Irish antiquarian, author of Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, 1786, and a history of the opera (1805).
29Walker, Joseph W., & Sons. Firm of organ-makers in London, founded in 1740 by George England and from 1820 conducted by Joseph W. Walker (d. 1870), who had been an apprentice earlier, and continued by his son James John Walker (1846–1922). They have built many noted instruments for England and the British Colonies. G.
31Wallace, Grace, née Stein (Edinburgh, 1815–1878), wife of Sir James Maxwell Wallace. Translator of letters by Mendelssohn (1862–63), Mozart (1865), Beethoven (1866) and other musicians (1867), and of Polko's Mendelssohn (1865) and Nohl's Mozart (1877). G.
33Wallace, William (Greenock, 1860). Eminent Scottish composer, educated as a surgeon (M.D. 1888) and specialist in ophthalmology, in music almost wholly self-taught, from about 1890 increasingly prominent in London both as gifted and original in the use of large forms and as one of the chief promoters of the new interest in British composition. From 1899 he was Bantock's aide as conductor at New Brighton and also joined in editing the New Quarterly Musical Review. From 1905 he was secretary of the Society of British Composers and also of the Royal Philharmonic Society. His works have been given place at various representative festivals of recent British music. Since 1912 he has also been interested in the subject of musical copyright. During the World War he served as ophthalmologist. His wife, née Ottilie Helen McLaren, is an accomplished sculptor. Has written the symphonies The Creation, 1899, and Koheleth (choral), the symphonic poems The Passing of Beatrice, 1892, Amboss oder Hammer,
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