Kriens

Christ i a an, Amsterdam, 29, 1881—West Hartford, Conn., Dec. 17, 1934; composer, conductor; studied at Hague Cons., winning gold medal; début 1895 with his father’s orch. in Amsterdam, cond. own symph. and playing both vin. and piano concertos; toured France, Holland, Belgium; came to U. S. 1906 as cond. of French Op. Co., New Orleans; after 1907, active as teacher and cond. in New York, founding and leading there a Symph. Club to train young players; for 5 years before his death, K. was musical dir. of a radio station in Hartford, Conn.; c. orch., chamber works, etc. Kroeger (kra’-gér), Ernest R., St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 10, 1862—April 7, 1934; composer, organist and teacher; active as recitalist (piano), dir. of mus. at Forest Park Univ. and after 1904 head of his own music school in St. Louis; mem. French Academie and Nat’! Inst. of Arts and Letters; c. overtures,’ orch. suite, “Lalla Rookh’’; various types of chamber music, a piano sonata op. 33, concert studies for the piano, violin and piano sonata; and many other piano pieces, songs, etc. Krogulski (kro-gool’-ski), Joseph, Tarnov, 1815—Warsaw, Jan. 9, 1842; composer; pupil of Elsner; c. 10 ma es, an oratorio, etc. Krohn (kron), Ilmari Henrik Rheinhold, b. Helsingfors, Nov. 8, 1867; Finnish author and comp. of sacred songs, piano sonatas, etc.: Xrommer (krém/-mér), Fz., Kamenitz, Moravia, 1760—Vienna, 1831; violinist, organist and conductor.