Bustini

(boos-té’-né), Ale .; b. Rome, Dec. 24, 1876; Italian composer, prod. succ. opera ‘‘Maria Dulcis,” Rome, 1902; libretto by Luigi Ilica. (boots), Julius, Wiesbaden, May 7, 1851—Dii eldorf, March 12, 1920; pianist; pupil of his father (an oboist), also of Gernsheim, Hiller and Kiel; 1871-72, cond. the ‘‘Cecilia,”’ at Wiesbaden; 1873, won Meyer beer Scholarship, and lived in Milan and Paris; 1875-79, cond. in Breslau; in Elberfeld, 1879-90; cond. Mus. Soc. at. Elberfeld; 1890-1908, civic mus. dir., Dii eldorf and, 1902, head of Cons. there; c. concerto, etc., for pf. Butt, Clara, South wick, Su ex, Feb. 1, 873—near Oxford, Jan. 23, 10936; contralto; scholarship at London R. C. M.; pupil of Bouhy and Mme. Gerster; début, London, 1892; toured America several times after 1899; long a favourite soloist at festivals in Great Britain, and one of the most popular concert singers of her day; made world tour in 1913-14 with her husband, R. Kennerly Rumford, barytone; works esp. written for her included Elgar’s ‘‘Sea Pictures’; Dame Commander of the British Empire.