Whit’taker

William Gillies, b. New‘Whith’orne, Emerson, b. Cleveland, castle-on-Tyne, England, July 23, O., Sept. 6, 1884; composer; studied 1876; composer and conductor; stud with James H. Rogers, Leschetizky, ied with Frederic Austin and G. F. Schnabel and Robert Fuchs; lived, Huntley; hon. Mus. Doc., Durham in London, 1907-14, where was critic Univ., 1921; c. orch., chamber, of Pall Mall Gazette, 1913; served as choral and piano music in modern exec. ed., Art Publication Soc., St. style; author of books on music. Louis, 1915-20; c. (orch.) symphoWhyt’horne (or Whitehorne), Thos., nies, ‘Fata Morgan a,” “New York b. 1528; Engl. composer. Days and Nights” (Salzburg Fest., Wichern (vékh’-érn), Karo line, Horn, 1923); “Ranga,” “The City of Ys,” near Hamburg, Sept. 13, 1836— “The Aeroplane”; vin. concerto; March 19, 1906; soprano; led choruses “Saturday's Child” mezzo at the houses of cur rection for 20 soprano, tenor, and small orch.; years, then for 15 years taught in string quartets, incl. “Three Greek Manchester, returning 1896 to her Impre i ors °; (dance satire) “Sooner quinte., also music to plays incl. O’Neill’s “Marco Millions’; ‘The Troubadour” (vikh’-min), Hermann, ‘Berlin, Oct. 24, 1824—Rome, Aug. 27, 1905; studied at R. Akademie; also with Taubert, Mendel ohn and Spohr; then lived in Berlin; c.. symphs., sonatas, etc. Wichtl (vikht’-’l), G., Trostberg, Bavaria, r1805—Bunzlau, Silesia, 1877; violinist, conductor and dram. composer. (vik’-én-hows’-sér), Richard, Briinn, 1867—Vienna, 1936; pupil of Leipzig Cons.; 1894 was given a stipend on the advice of Brahms and Hanslick; 1895 leader of a singing society in Briinn; 1902 in Graz; 1907 dir. Vienna Singakademie, c. choral works, also 2 piano sonatas, a violin sonata, etc. Widmann (vét/-min), (1) Erasmus, poet-laureate, organist and conductor at Weikersheim; publisher and composer (1607). (2) Benedikt, Briunlingen, March 5, 1820—Frankfort, 1g10; rector at Frankfort; theorist composer. (3) Jos. Victor, Nennowitz, Moravia, Feb. 20, 1842 —Berne, 1912; at 3 taken to Switzerland; wrote librettos and biog. of Brahms.