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Chester Edward Ide Ebenezer Prout Frederick Corder Davenport Arthur Farwell Kirkpatrick Quinto Maganini Tucker Georges Bizet 1821 1877 1894 1900 1907 1908 1909 1913 1915 1932 1933 1944 1956
It is my express wish that any and all remuneration that may be my due be instead directed towards all holders of copyright. Chester Edward Ide +••.••(...)) Symphony in A minor I. Allegro agitato ma non troppo 0:00 II. Adagio pesante 9:43 III. Scherzo: Vivace 18:21 IV. Finale: Con energico 24:22 Greenwich Symphony Orchestra David Gilbert, conductor Chester Edward Ide (June 13, 1877—March 18, 1944) was an American composer and music teacher, primarily known for his operettas, some major instrumental works, and his participatory teaching methods. Chester Edward Ide was born on June 13, 1877, in Springfield, Illinois to a prominent local family. Ide began piano lessons at the age of 7. When he was 16, he expressed the intention to become a concert pianist and, at his request, his parents sent him to London in 1894 to study music at the Royal Academy of Music. There he studied with Ebenezer Prout, Frederick Corder, and F. W. Davenport. During his school years, he published his first song, entitled “Song of Love and Death,” with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ide spent 6 months in Berlin, Germany, and then returned to Illinois in 1900, to teach piano, music theory, and composition at the Springfield Conservatory of Music. During this period, he composed several early orchestra works, including two Waltzes, the Idyllic Dances for orchestra, a Second Suite for Orchestra, the piano piece “Waltz to Margaret,” and more songs. Ide was married twice. His first marriage was around 1907 to Margaret Dorothy Townley Lawrence, of the Springfield area. They had two children. They were divorced probably sometime between 1909 and 1915. His second marriage was to Vella Martin, of Galesburg, Illinois. They had two daughters: Letitia and Elfrid. In 1908 he had a work performed in New York City at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School). The work was “Melody for Violin;” it was performed by Archule Sheasby, violin, and Edith Longstreet, piano. Ide moved there sometime between 1913 and 1915. In New York, he became involved in many musical activities. He was sponsored by Arthur Farwell, for whom he served as a local leader of the American Music Society. In the 1920s, Ide moved to Connecticut, where he worked as a music teacher at the Unquowa School in Fairfield, Connecticut, a private elementary school. In the early 1930s, during the Great Depression, Ide was laid off from his teaching position. Out of work, he embarked on an intensive period of composition, encouraged by friends John Kirkpatrick (pianist), Quinto Maganini (flautist and conductor), and Gregory Tucker (pianist). It was during this time that he composed his Symphony in A Minor, which was finished in 1932 and dedicated to Georges Bizet. “While he was writing it, his mother died,…and his sadness is reflected in the slow, dirge-like second movement”. In the 1930s and 1940s Ide's work met with growing success. Ide had moved to Greenwich Connecticut and had found work as a music teacher at The Edgewood School. It was described as a “private school of progressive trend, which closed in 1956,” and was located in Rock Ridge, Connecticut. His wife was a teacher there also. There he composed several children's operettas, many of them co-composed by his students as part of their musical training. The students also performed in them. His works received several local performances during this time, including a performance of his Suite in B Minor in 1933 by the Maganini Chamber Symphony at Greenwich's Masonic Temple. Ide's Piano Sonata in A was also premiered in 1933 by his pianist friend John Kirkpatrick, at the Greenwich Library. Ide died on Saturday, March 18, 1944. in Greenwich, Connecticut, after a brief illness. He was buried in Springfield, Illinois, in the family plot.
Eugen Albert Ernst Pauer John Stainer Ebenezer Prout Arthur Sullivan Robert Schumann Hans Richter Felix Mendelssohn Franz Liszt Tausig Teresa Carreño Hermine Finck Finck Covent Garden 1809 1881 1886 1892 1895 1907 1963
Eugen D´Albert - Suite in fünf Sätze - 1.Allemande - VSL Synchron Steinway D-274 and Vienna MIR PRO Eugen d'Albert [actually Eugene Francis Charles], was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer. He was to an English mother and a French/Italian father. His father, Charles Louis Napoleon d'Albert +••.••(...)), was a dancer, pianist and music arranger, who had formerly been ballet-master at the King's Theatre and at Covent Garden and wrote popular music. Eugen d'Albert never spoke English fluently, and considered himself to be German. Albert received his early instruction in music from his father. At the age of 10, he entered the National Training School (Royal College of Music) in London, where he studied piano with Ernst Pauer and theory with John Stainer, Ebenezer Prout, and Arthur Sullivan. He arranged the piano reduction for the vocal score of Sullivan's sacred music drama The Martyr of Antioch, to accompany the chorus. While he later said that he considered his work during this period more or less worthless, he is credited with writing the overture to Sullivan's Patience. Eugen d'Albert made extraordinary progress as both a pianist and a composer, and after several appearances at the Popular Concerts, was the soloist in Robert Schumann's Concerto at the Crystal Palace in London (February 5, 1881). On October 24, 1881, when only 17, he played his own piano concerto at one of Hans Richter's concerts, arousing great enthusiasm. The press compared him to Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn. He received a Mendelssohn fellowship and went to Vienna. Later he studied in Weimar with the elderly Franz Liszt, who was greatly impressed by his technique and often referred to him as "the young Tausig." D'Albert can be heard in an early recording of that composer's works. In 1895 Eugen d'Albert was appointed conductor at Weimar. In 1907 he became director of the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In the wake of his success, he repudiated his English birth, adopting German citizenship, and made repeated statements derogatory to English culture and even to his former English teachers. He further changed his first name from Eugene to its German form, Eugen. During World War I, he was vocal in his enmity toward England, which led in turn to an understandable repugnance among British musicians to accept his music. Despite a brilliant beginning, Eugen d'Albert did not fulfill his early promise. His musical idiom oscillates between the Italian melodic style and German contrapuntal writings, and fails to achieve originality. His operas and other works were rarely revived. A considerable corpus of his autograph MSS, including 11 of his operas (although not Tiefland), was acquired in 1963 by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Eugen d'Albert's personal life was a stormy one. He was married 6 times; his first wife +••.••(...)) was the Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño, herself much married. D'Albert and Carreño were the subject of a famous joke: "Come quick! Your children and my children are quarreling again with our children!" (the line, however, has also been attributed to others). His 2nd was the singer Hermine Finck. He died in Riga, where he had traveled for the divorce from his 6th wife. He was buried in the beautiful cemetery overlooking Lake Lugano in Morcote, Switzerland.
William West Frederick Bridge Ebenezer Prout Bach Bourdon Novello Berthold Tours Joseph Barnby John Stainer Brahms Elgar 1863 1880 1884 1891 1893 1897 1898 1902 1919 1929
December 7, 1863, Hackney, London, England. February 29, 1929, London, England. Golder’s Green Cemetery, London, England. John’s father, William West, was an organist and founder of the North-East London Academy of Music. His mother, the self-styled Madame Clara West, was a professional soprano, and his sister, Lottie West, a professional contralto soloist, pianist and teacher. West was taught at home by his father and received organ lessons from Frederick Bridge, organist at Westminster Abbey. From 1880-82, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was taught composition by his uncle, Ebenezer Prout, the respected authority on the fugues of Bach. He gained his Associateship from the Academy in 1898 and passed the Fellowship exam of the then College of Organists (it did not receive Royal status until 1893). He held successive organ posts in London at St. Mary’s, Bourdon Street +••.••(...)); St. John of Jerusalem, South Hackney +••.••(...)); and St. Augustine’s, Queen’s Gate +••.••(...)). He conducted various choral societies and choirs in London, Reading, Croydon and Warlingham and lastly, the Railway Clearing House Male-Voice Choir. This choir was highly regarded in the early 20th Century, as reviews in The Musical Times reveal. It was famous enough to secure the services of Stanford Robinson as conductor after West’s death. In 1884, on his twenty-first birthday, he entered the music publishing firm of Novello & Company in London as an associate editor. Following the death of Berthold Tours in 1897, West succeeded to the post of chief editor and adviser. He was following in illustrious footsteps; apart from Tours, the post had been occupied by Joseph Barnby and John Stainer. He remained with Novello’s for 45 years, of which 32 were spent as chief editor. He retired shortly before his death in 1929. He was a prolific composer and editor with nearly 500 published pieces to his name. He was a pioneer in the field of editing, especially choral and organ music from earlier centuries. He prepared editions of Bach’s Six Motets and Brahms’ Requiem. He also found time to write an arrangement of Elgar’s Enigma Variations for pianoforte duet. He was awarded the FRAM in 1919 for his services to music and for bringing distinction upon his alma mater. He collapsed on the stage of Westminster Central Hall after conducting the third item in a concert by the Railway Clearing House Male-Voice Choir. He was rushed to nearby Westminster Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He would have been driven past the twin towers of Westminster Abbey, where it all began some 50 years before. Sheet music made with MuseScore - (http•••)
Ebenezer Prout Drake 1835 1909 2012
June 10th, 2012 - Music by Ebenezer Prout +••.••(...)) Music performed by the BUCC Choir under the direction of Douglas Drake
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