Hauptmann

Gerhart, » German dramatist and poet; born in Salzbrunn, Silesia, Nov. 15, 1862. His taste for practical sociology comes out strongly in his intense and powerful poems and dramas; he settled on a small] Silesian farm solely to study eee life. He has traveled widely, visiting the United States in 1894, Hauptmann, Moritz, a German musical theorist and composer; born in 1792; died in 1868. He studied the violin with Spohr; and in 1826 produced his succe ful opera, “Mathilde.” He is best known as musical director of the Thoma chule, Leipzig; as the author of “Die Natur der Harmonik und Metrik;” and as the teacher of a long list of celebrated musicians, including several prominent Americans.