Engel

(éng’-€l), (1) Jn. Jakob, Parchim, Mecklenburg, 1741—1802; dir. composer. (2) David Hn, Neuruppin, 1816—Merseburg, 1877; organist, writer and dram. composer. (3) K., Thiedewiese, near Hanover, 1818—suicide, London, 1882; organist and writer. (4) Gv. Ed., Kénigsberg, 1823—Berlin, 1895; singing teacher, and_ theorist. (5) Carl, b. Paris, July 21, 1883; editor, musicologist; educated at Str as bourg and Munich Univ., studied composition with Thuille; res. * U. S. since 1905, became Amer. citizen, 1917; chief of music division, Library of Congre , Washington, I921-209; pres. publishing firm of G. Schirmer, Inc., N. Y., and ed. of “Musical Quarterly”; has written extensively on musical subjects. Aug., Nakskov, Denmark, En’na, May 13, 1860—Copenhagen, Aug. 3, 1939; grandson of an Italian soldier in Napoleon’s army; son of a shoemaker; self-taught in pf. and instrumentation, and had almost no teaching in vln. or theory; went with a small orch. to Finland (1880); played various insts., even a drum circus-tent; Copenhagen; prod. the operetta “‘A Village Tale” (1880) in provincial theatres; played at dancing-le ons, and gave pf.-le ons at 12 cents an hour; 1883, cond. for a small provincial troupe, for which he wrote act tunes, and 10 overtures; pub. songs, pi.-pes., an orchl. suite, and a symphony; this gained him, through Gade’s interest, the Ancker scholarship, enabling him to study in Germany (1888-89). After producing an operetta ‘‘Areta,” he prod. with unequalled succ. for a Dane, the opera “‘The Witch,” 1892, at.the R. Copenhagen. Opera House, (Copenhagen, ‘‘Cleopatra’”” 1894) failed, but 1895, with new cast, was succ. as also ‘‘Auca in and Nicolette” (Copenhagen, 1896; Hamburg, 1897). Opera ‘‘Aglaia,” in MS. Pub. a vln.-concerto, etc. E’noch & Co., London music-pub. firm, est. 1869.