Rothwell

Walter Henry, condr b. London, 1872. Father was English, mother Austrian, and a prominent pianist; began music studies at 9 in Roy. Acad Vienna, piano, history of music, and composition; won first prize and gold medal at 16; after graduation continued studies with Epstein in piano, Fuchs in composition, and Bruckner in harmony and counterpoint; later he went to Munich and studied with Thuille and Van PchilFsp*; 1889 concertized in Austria a: d Germany as pst.; 1885 a t, condr. at Hamburg opera under Mahler; after engagements in several opera houses in Germany and Austria condr. at opera in Amsterdam, 1903: 1904 came to W U. S. to conduct Parsifal for H. Savage and also gave first production of Madam Butterfly in U. S.; 1908 condr. St. Paul Symph. Orch.