Walker

(wdk’-ér), (1) Jos. Casper, Dublin, 1760—St.-Valéry, France, 1810; writer. (2) Jos. and Sons, org.-builders, London. (3) Edyth, b. Hope well, N. Y., March 27, 1870; contralto; studied Dresden Cons. with Orgeni; engaged at the Vienna opera for 4 years as 1st alto; also in concert; Met. Op. Co., 1903-06; in Berlin, and, 1912-17, Munich Op.; after 1933 taught at Amer. Cons., Fontainebleau. (4) Ernest, b. Bombay, July 15, 1870; composer; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1893; Mus. Doc. 1898; from 1900, dir. at Balliol College; mainly self-taught as composer of “‘Stabat Mater,” “Hymn to Dionysus,” and “Ode to Nightingale” for voices and orch.; overture, music, songs, etc. Wal’lace, (1) Wm. Vincent, Water ford, Ireland, June 1, 1814—-Chateau de Bages, Haute Garonne, Oct. 12, 1865; violinist; wandered over the world; c. very pop. pf.-pcs. and c. 6 operas includ. the very succ. ‘‘Mar it an a” (London, 1845); and ‘‘Lurline” (do. 1860). (2) William, b. Greenock, July 3, 1860; at first a surgeon; in 1889 took up music and studied at the R. A. M., London, till 1890; c. symph. ‘‘The Creation” (New Brighton, 1892); choral symph. “ Koheleth”; 6 symph. poems, “The Pa ing of Be at rice” (Crystal Palace, 1892), ““Ambo oder Hammer’ (do., 1896), “Sister Helen’? (do. 1899), “Greeting to the New Century” (London Phil., 1891), “Sir William Wallace” (Queen’s Hall, 1905), ‘‘Frangois Villon” (New Symph., 1909; also by New York Phil., 1910, 1912), overtures, suites, song cycles, 1-act lyric tragedy ‘‘Bras sol is,”’ etc.; author of poetry and a critical work, “‘The Threshold of Music.” (val’-li-shék), Richard, Brinn, Nov. 16, 1860—Vienna, April 24, 1917; after 1896 docent at Univ. in latter city; pub. 1886, valuable treatise “‘ Zsthetik der Tonkunst.” Wal lens tein (val’-lén-shtin), (1) Martin, Frankfort-on-Main, 1843-—1896; pianist; c. comic opera. (2) Alfred, b. Chicago, Oct. 7, 1898; cellist and conductor; studied with Julius Klengel; début, Los Angeles, 1912; solo *cellist in Chicago Symph., afterwards for several seasons with N. Y. Philh., with which he also appeared as soloist; cond. of orch. on the radio, and after 1935, dir. of musie for Station WOR, Newark. (val’-lér-shtin), Anton, Dresden, 1813—Geneva, 1892; violinist and composer.