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Ro etter G., b. near Clyde, Mich., Feb. 5, 1866; composer; 1888, graduated from. Michigan Univ., taking musical courses also; at his graduation the Univ. Mus. Soc. performed his cantata with orch. “The Pa ing of Summer’; 1888-90, he taught English and Latin in high schools; 1890-92 in Berlin, winning competitive scholarship at Royal Master-school, and studying with Max Bruch; 1892-94, prof. of music Ripon College; 1894—1901, Iowa College; from 1902 in Chicago as teacher, and from 1908 also in charge of summer music cla es of Columbia Univ., N. Y. c. ‘‘King Robert of Sicily” and ‘‘ Hiawatha’s Wooing,” as musical backgrounds for recitation, ballade for ’cello and orch.; sonata for violin, songs, etc. Co’leridge-Taylor, Samuel, London, Aug. 15, 1875—Thornton Heath, Sept. 1, 1912 (of African descent; his father a native of Sierra Leone, mother, English); composer; pupil (vln.) of the R. A. M., 1890; won composition-scholarship in 1893; until 1896 pupil of V. Stanford; 1892 pub. an anthem; c. a nonet for pf., strings, and wind (1894); a symphony (1896); a quintet for clar. and strings (1897), a string-quartet, and a Morning and Evening Service; pub. a ballade for viola and orch., operetta “Dream Lovers,” 4 waltzes for orch.; he was made cond. Handel Society, 1904; his “‘ Hiawatha” was developed as a trilogy, ‘‘ Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast,” (R. C. M., London, 1898), “The Death of Minnehaha” (North Staff ords hire Fest., 1899); ‘‘ Hiawatha’s Departure’? (London, 1900), the overture the same year; c. also for voices and orch., “The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuillé” (Leeds Fest., t9or), “Meg Blane’’ (Sheffield Fest., 1902), ‘“‘The Atonement” (Here ford Fest., 1903), “‘ Kubla Khan’ (Handel Society, 1906); incid. music to Stephen Phillips’s plays, ‘‘ Herod,” “Uly es,” “Nero,” and “Faust” (1908); concert march, “Ethiopia Saluting the Colours”; 5 ballads by Long fellow, with orch. (Norwich Fest., 1905); “‘A Tale of Old Japan,” voices and orch. (London, 1912), etc. Colin (ké-lan), P. Gilbert (Colinus, Colin a us, Chamault), singer and notable composer, Paris, 1532.