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‘nett. (1) Wm., b. Teignmouth, ca. 1767; organist. (2) Thos., ca. 1774-1848; organist. (3) Alfred, 1805—1830; English organist. (4) Sir Wm. Stern dale, Sheffield, April 13, 1816—London, Feb. 1, 1875; son of an organist (who died 1819); at 8 entered the choir of King’s College Chapel; at 10 pupil of R. A. M.; at 17 played there an original pf.concerto, later pub. by the Academy, sent 1837 by the Broad woods to Leipzig for one year; friend of Schumann and Mendel ohn; 1844 m. Mary Anne Wood, founded the Bach Society, 1849; cond. Philh. Society, 1856-66; 1856, Mus. Doc. Cambridge and prof. of mus. there; 1866, Principal there; 1871, knighted; buried in Westminster Abbey; composed symphony, an oratorio ‘‘The Woman of Samaria,’ music to Sophokles’ ~ “Ajax”; 5 overtures, ‘‘Paris in a,” “The Naiads,” “The Wood-nymph,” “Paradise and the Peri,’ ‘Merry Wives of Windsor,” sonatas, etc. (5), Jos., Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Nov. 29, 1831—June 12, 1911; ganist of Westminster Chapel; then music critic for various London newspapers; finally The Telegraph; wrote various libretti; pub. ‘‘ Letters from Bayreuth? (1877); “The Musical Year’ (1883), etc. (6) Robert Ru ell, b. Kansas City, Mo., 18094; composer; early pupil of Carl Busch; res. in New York after 1916, where active as orchestrator and arranger; won Guggenheim Fellowship; studied with Nadia Boulanger, Paris; c. (opera) ‘‘Maria Malibran,” text by Robert A. Simon, prod. by Juilliard School, N. Y., 1935; (ballet) ‘“‘Endymion”’ (orch.) symphony; ‘‘Charleston Rhapsody,” ‘‘Sights and Sounds’? (won RCA-Victor Co. prize); ‘‘Abraham Lincoln”; gro o; March for two pianos and orch.; Six Variations on a Theme of Jerome Kern; chamber music, incl. ‘‘Toy” _ Symphony and string quartet.