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The new encyclopedia of music and musicians, 1929
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11896, Sister Helen, 1899, Greeting to the New Century, 1901, Sir William Wallace, 1905 (for the Wallace Sexcentenary), and François Villon, 1909, the orchestral suites The Lady from the Sea, 1892, Pelléas and Mélisande, 1900, and Moidart, the overture In Praise of Scottish Poesie, 1894, a prelude to Æschylus' Eumenides (1893), the scenas Lord of Darkness, 1890, The Outlaw and The Rhapsody of Mary Magdalena, 1896, the burlesque cantata The Massacre of the MacPherson, 1899, a piano-trio, various vocal quartets and trios, the song-cycles Freebooter Songs, 1899, Jacobite Songs, 1900, and Lords of the Sea, 1901, and many other songs (often to original texts). Author of the mystery-play The Divine Surrender, 1895, The Threshold of Music, 1908, and The Musical Sense, 1914, articles in periodicals and translations of the texts of Berlioz' Damnation de Faust, Missa's Muguet, Strauss' Feuersnot and Leroux' Chemineau, as well as of songs by Sibelius, Weingartner, etc. G, A.
3Wallace, William Vincent (Waterford, 1813-1865, in the Pyrenees). Noted Irish violinist and composer, even as a boy playing in a theater-orchestra in Dublin and later as soloist. In 1835 he migrated to New South Wales as a pioneer settler and later wandered in the East Indies, South America, Mexico and the United States, occasionally giving concerts with striking success, returning to London in 1845, but later making further trips to North and South America and at one time living for a period in Germany. He lost all his savings through the failure of a piano-factory in New York and in 1850 had a narrow escape in a steamboat-explosion. Wrote the operas Maritana, 1845, Matilda of Hungary, 1847, The Maid of Zurich, Lurline, 1860, The Amber Witch, 1861, Love's Triumph, 1862, The Desert Flower, 1863, and Estrella (given by his wife to W. K. Bassford to complete), 3 piano-nocturnes and other salon-music. Memoirs by Pougin, 1866, and Flood, 1912. G.
5Wallaschek, Richard (Brünn, 1860-1917, Vienna). Eminent Moravian musicologist, educated at Vienna, Heidelberg and Tübingen Universities (Ph.D. and Jur.D.), from 1886 docent in rhetoric at Freiburg University, in 1890-95 engaged in research-work at the British Museum in London, and from 1896 lecturer on musicology at Vienna University, besides in 1896-1909 serving as critic for Die Zeit, in 1900-02 teaching aesthetics at the Conservatory and becoming prominent in learned societies. Author of Aesthetik d. Tonkunst, 1886, Primitive Music, 1893 (enlarged as Anfänge d. Tonkunst, 1903), Psychologie u. Pathologie d. Vorstellung, 1905, Gesch. d. Wiener Hofoper, 4 parts, (1907-09), and a long list of valuable monographs in periodicals on the origin and primitive development of music, on problems in musical aesthetics, etc. Memoir by Lach, 1917 (in Zeitsch. für Aesthetik). G.
7Wallek-Walewski, Boleslav (Lemberg, 1885). Galician composer of the opera Dola, 1919, fine choral works, church-music, pieces for orchestra and piano, etc. He is opera-conductor in Cracow.
9Wallenstein, Martin (Frankfort, 1843-1896, do.). Able Hessian pianist, pupil of Dreyschock, Hauptmann and Rietz, from about 1865 favorably known through many tours. Wrote the comic opera Das Testament, 1870, an overture, a piano-concerto, studies and pieces.
11Wallerstein, Anton (Dresden, 1813-1892, Geneva). Saxon violinist and dance-composer, from 1829 playing in the Dresden court-orchestra and in 1832-57 in that at Hanover, then living at Dresden. Wrote about 300 dances (some of which produced in London and Paris in 1853-55), violin-variations and songs. G.
13Wallis, John (1616-1693). 17th C.
15Walliser, Christoph Thomas (1568-1648). 17th C. G.
17Wallner, Bertha Antonia (Munich, 1876). Bavarian musicologist, trained at the Munich Conservatory and University (Ph.D. 1910), author of monographs on Virdung (1911, Kirchenmusikal. Jahrbuch), the musicalia in the Wittelsbach Exhibition at the Munich Library (1912, I. M. G. Zeitschr.), and Musikal. Denkmäler d. Steinätzkunst d. XVI. u. XVII. Jahrh. 1912, besides articles on the local music-history of Munich.
19Wallnöfer, Adolf (Vienna, 1854). Austrian operatic tenor and vocal composer, pupil of Waldmüller, Krenn, Dessoff and Rokitansky, from about 1875 appearing in concert in Vienna (as baritone), from 1880 at the Olmütz Opera, from 1882 engaged with Neumann's traveling-troupe and following him to Bremen and Prague, in 1895-96 theater-manager at Stettin, then for a season each at the Metropolitan, New York, and in Russia, settling in Nuremberg and later returning to Munich. Has written the opera Eddystone, 1889, the choral works Die Grenzen der Menschheit, Gersprenz, Der Blumen Rache and Hymne an die Erde, various choruses, many notable ballads and songs (Wallnöfer-Album, 3 vols.) and piano-pieces. Author of Resonanztonlehre, 1911.
21Walmisley, Thomas Attwood (London, 1814-1856, Hastings). Able English organist, pupil of Attwood, from 1830 at Croydon (London suburb) and from 1833 at Trinity and St. John's Colleges in Cambridge, besides assisting at other colleges and pursuing mathematical studies. In 1836 he succeeded Clarke-Whitfield as university professor and in 1848 became Mus.D. Wrote 2 Installation Odes, services, over 20 anthems (edited as Cathedral Music, 1857, by his father) and songs, and edited a chant-collection (1845). His father, Thomas Forbes Walmisley (1783-1866), in 1814-54 was organist at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and a well-known glee-composer. G.
23Walsh, John (? -1736). Enterprising music-publisher in London, beginning business about 1695 and being prominent in Handel's time, for whom he issued many works. He was followed
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