Chadwick

George White field, compr b. Lowell, Ma Nov. 13, 1854. His family, though of musical tastes, did not encourage adopting music as a rofe ion, and hi** studies with his rother, Dudley Buck, Geo. Whiting, and Eugene Thayer W’ere carried on coincidently with public school education anti office work up to 1876, w’hen he became head of musical department of Olivet College, Mich. In one year he saved enough to go to Leipzig where he studied at (Jons, with Reinecke and Jada ohn and in 1879 wdth Rheinberger at Munich. In 1880 came to Boston, taught composition at N. E. Cons., of which he became director in 1897; conducted Boston Orch. Club, Springfield Festivals, Worcester Festivals; orgt. Second Church. As a teacher C. had great influence, among his pupils having been H. W. Parker, Wallace Good rich, H. K. Hadley, etc.; he has written a text-book on harmony, and as director has introduced m the N. E. Cons, the high standards 64 CHAMBERLAIN and something approaching the “ atmosphere ” of foreign schools. As a composer he has been most versatile; in the larger forms his comic opera Tabasco (1894) was widely succe ful, the lyric drama Judith, given as an or a to no 1901, with its graphic orchestration is his most ambitious work, but his overtures, string quartets, esp. E minor, and F, symph. most widely known and most admired of his instrumental works One of the most celebrated American composers, C. gives typical expre ion to the qualities of American music in the deliberatene , learning, and wide variety of his work. Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, writer. b Portsmouth, Eng., Sept. 9, 1855 Son of naval officer, educated in France and at Cheltenham; student of natural science and philosophy at German univ.; living in Vienna since 1881; admirer of Germanic civilization and of Wagner, he has written articles in several languages, and studies of principle in Das Drama R Waqners and Richard Wagner 1897. Married a daughter of Wagner. ChambonniSres (shon-bon-ni-ar'), Jacques Champion de, harpsichord player b. about 1600; d. 1670. Father Jacques and grandfather Antoine distinguished orgts.; C. first harpsichord player to Louis XIV; Anglebert and elder Couper ins his pupils; playing excelled in delicacy of touch; compositions praised for correctne of style, elegance of melody, and appropriatene of ornaments.