Johns

Clayton, New Castle, Del., Nov. 24, 1857—Boston, March 7, 1932; pupil of J. K. Paine, and W. H. Sherwood, Boston; later with Kiel, Grabow, Raif, and Rummel to managership on deeth of Herbert Wither spoon; hon. LL. D., Univ of Western Ontario; Cav. Ufficiale, Order of the Crown of Italy; Commander of the British Empire. (6) Horace, b. Waltham, Ma ., October 5, 1893; composer; studied comp. with Bainbridge Crist, org. and pf. with John P. Marshall; c. (orch.) suite, ‘Imagery,’ based on Tagore; ‘‘Streets of Florence’; tonepoem, ‘‘Astarte”’; ‘In the American Manner’’; (string orch.) ‘‘Joyance’’; vin. and pf. pieces, songs, etc. Managing editor, Musical Courier. (y6m-mél’-li), Niccold, Aversa, near Naples, Sept. 11, 1714 —Naples, Aug. 28, 1774; eminent operatic and church-composer; pupil of Canon Mozzillo, Durante, Feo, Leo, Prato and Mancini. C. ballets and songs, then dram. cantatas; at 23 prod. opera ‘‘L’ Errore Amoroso”. (Naples, 1737), under the name “Valentino”; its succ. relieved his anxiety and removed his anonymity and he followed it with other succ. works in various cities under various (pf.) in Berlin; in Boston, Ma ., as a concert-pianist and teacher; patronage. He was made Dir. of the Cons. del Ospedaletto, Venice; 1748-54 a t. Maestro at St. Peter’s, after 1912 taught N. E. Cons.; c. a Berceuse and Scherzi no for string of Wiirtemberg. orch. (played by Boston Symph. orch.); many songs, etc. John’son, (1) Edw., English composer, 1594. (2) Robert, Engl. 16th cent. ecclesiastic and church composer. (3) Robert, lutenist and composer, 1573—1625. (1) John, d. 1594-95; to Queen Elizabeth; c. lute-music. (5) Edward, b. Guelph, Ontario, tenor and impresario; studied Univ. of Toronto; | Singing with Lombardi in Florence; early sang in concerts and in light operas in N. Y.; opera début at Padua; heard in several Italian theatres, incl. La Scala (ist Ital. perf. of Parsifal, 1914); sang Chicago Op. Co. 1920, also Ravinia Op.; Met. Op. Co., after 1921, interpreting romantic réles such as “Pelléas” and in Italian works with succ.; created parts in 1st Amer. hearings of operas by Puccini, Pizzetti, Monte mezz i, Zandonai and (‘‘ King’s Henchman” and ‘‘ Peter Ibbetson’”’); chosen as a t. general manager, Met. Op. Co., 1935, and same year succeeded Rome, until 1754; cond. to the Duke Lived in Germany I5 years and made great succ. profited artistically by German influence, but when the Stuttgart opera was disbanded and he retired to Italy his style was too serious and perhaps his best works ‘‘Armida Abb and on at a” (1770), ‘‘ Demofoénte”® (1770), and “‘Ifigenia in Tauride” (1771), were failures when prod. at Naples. The humiliation after such long triumph brought on apoplexy (1773), from which he recovered only long enough to write a cantata on the birth of a prince, and his masterpiece, ‘‘Miserere.”? King of Portugal commi ioned him to write 2 operas and a cantata; but he did not live to finish them; he c. over.so known operas and diverti ements, and equally fine sacred mus., incl. 4 oratorios, a magnificat, with echo, etc. (zho-nas), (1) Emile, Paris, 5, 1827—St. Germain-enLaye, Paris, May 21, 1905; pupil of Carafa at the Cons.; from 1847 teacher there also mus.-dir. Portusvnagogue. (2) (hd’-nis). Alberto, b. Madrid, June 8, 1868; pf. pupil of Olave and Mendizabal; also at the Cons.; at 18 with Gevaert, Bru els Cons.; won ist prize for pf., and later 2 first prizes in harm.; début, Bru els, 1880; 1890, studied St. Petersburg Cons. under Rubin stein’s tuition; since toured Europe and America; 1894 head of the pf.dep. Univ. of Michigan; since 1914 has taught in N. Y.; composer and _ writer.