Riem

(rém), Fr. Wm., Kolleda, Thu ring i a, 1779—Bremen, 1857; organist, conductor and composer. (ré’-min), Hugo, Gro mehlra, near Sonders hausen, July 18, 1849—Leipzig, July 10, 1919; notable theorist. Son of a farmer who taught him the. rudiments of mus., and who had prod. an opera and choral pcs. at Sonders hausen, but opposed his son’s mus. ambitions; the youth, however, studied theory with Frankenberger, and piano with Barthel and Ratzenberger, at Sonders hausen. Studied law, then philosophy and history, at Berlin and Tiibingen; after serving in the campaign of 1870-71, entered Leipzig Cons.;.1873, Dr. Phil. Gottingen; wrote di ertation ““Musikalische Logik”’; until 1878, a cond. and teacher at Bielefeld, then lecturer Leipzig Univ.; 1880-81, teacher of mus. at Bromberg; then till 1890, Hamburg Cons., then the Wiesbaden Cons.; 1895, lecturer at Leipzig Univ.; m. in 1876. Notable at times under pseud. ‘‘Hugibert Ries” as an e ayist, writer of theoretical treatises of much originality, also an important historian and lexicographer; mus.-ed. Meyer’s and ed. a valuable “Musik- Lexikon” (1882; Engl. ed. 1893); c. chamber mus., vln.-sonata, etc. (ré’-mén-shni-dér), (1) G., Stralsund, April 1, 1848— Breslau, Sept. 14, 1913; pupil of Haupt and Kiel; th.-cond. Liibeck (1875) and Danzig; later cond. concert-orch.; c. operas “Mondeszauber” (Danzig, 1887), and “Die Eisjungfrau’’ (symphonic picture), “Julinacht,” etc. (2) Albert, b. Berea, O., Aug. 31, 1878; organist, conductor, teacher; pupil of Reinhold, Fuchs, Widor and Guilmant; dir. Baldwin-Wallace Cons., Berea, and cond. of annual Bach fests. there.