Fiedler

(fét’-lér), (1) August Max, b. Zittau, Dec. 31, 1859; piano pupil of his father, and studied organ and theory with G. Albrecht; 1877-80 Leipzig Cons.; won the Holstein Scholarship; 1882 teacher, Hamburg Cons.; in 1903, became director of the Hamburg. Cons.; 1904 cond. the Philharmonic concerts; 1908-12, cond. Boston Symphony Orchestra with great succe during the leave of absence of Karl Muck (q. v.), c. ’cello sonata (Boston, 1909), chamber music, etc.; 1916-33, he was dir. of music in E en. (2) Arthur, b. Boston, Dec. 17, 1894; studied Berlin R. Acad. of Mus.; after 1930, cond. “Pop” Concerts; Boston Univ. Field (1) John, Dublin, July 26, 1782— Moscow, Jan. 11, 1837;a great though gentle revolutionist of music, to whom much of Chopin’s glory belongs, for Field developed the more lyric mannec of pf.-playing and carried it into his composition, in which he gave the plano-song or poem its first escape from the old stiff forms. He created the Nocturne, and many of his comps. in this form have practically every quality and mannerism characteristic of those of Chopin, who excelled him in pa ion, resource, and harmonic breadth. He was the son of a violinist, and grandson and pupil of an organist, who compelled him to practise so hard that he ran away, but was brought back and later was apprenticed to Clement i as a sales He also had le ons from C., man. and went with him to Paris in 1802, making a great stir with his interpretation of Bach’s and Handel’s fugues; he was kept at his salesman’s tasks till 1804, when he settled at St. Petersburg as a teacher and pianist of great vogue. After touring Ru ia, in London, 1832, he played a concerto of his own at the Philh.; then to Paris; 1833 Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, where he was not a succ. Intemperance and fistula kept him nine months in a Naples hospital; whence he was rescued by a Ru ian family Raemanow and taken to Moscow, playing in Vienna with greatest succ.; but his health was lost and he died a few years later and was buried in Moscow. 20 nocturnes (of which only 12 were so named by Field) he c. 7 concertos (No. 4 in E flat the most popular); 4 sonatas; ‘‘Air ru e’; ‘‘Air ru e var ié’ (4 hands); ‘‘Chanson ru e var ié,’ in D min.; polonaise, ‘‘Reviens, —_reviens.” Romanza and Cavatina in E; 4 romances; 7 rondeaux; rondeau with 2 vins., viola, and ba ; variation in C; 2 diverti ements with 2 vins., viola and ba ; 2 fantasias; and pf.-exercises in all keys. (2) Henry, ‘‘Field of Bath,” Dec. 6, 1797—May 19, 1848; pianist and teacher. (fon fé’-lits), von, Leipzig, Dec. 28, 1860—Bad Salzungen, July 29, 1930; pupil in Dresden of J. Schulhoff (pf.) and Kretschmer (comp.); he became opera-cond. in Zirich, Liibeck, and Leipzig (City Th.); a nervous disorder compelled his retirement; lived in Italy as a composer of choruses, orch. pcs., songs, which attained popularity. 1906-08, cond. and teacher, Chicago; taught Stern Cons., Berlin (dir. IQI5). é Filippi (fé-lip’-p?) (1) Giu. de, Milan, 1825—Neuilly, near Paris, 1887; writer. (2) Filippo, Vicenza, 1830 —Milan, 1887; critic, writer, composer.