Waelrant

(wal’-rint), Hubert, Tongerloo, Brabant, ca. 1517—Antwerp, 1595; a mus.-pub. and teacher; intro- ‘‘Bocedisation” (v. D.D.); c. motets, etc. Utrecht, (vikh’-&-nir), (1) Johan, 1862-1941; the Cathedral; 1004, dir. of mus. school there; 1919, dir. of Cons. of Music in The Hague; c. “Fritjofs Meerfahrt” and “Saul and David’ for orch., overture “Cyrano Bergerac,’ etc. (2) Bernard, b. Arnhem, Holland, Aug. 18, 1894; composer; studied Utrecht Music School of the Toonkunst Soc., comp. with Johan Wagenaar; America in 1925; has taught comp. at Juilliard School of Music, N. Y.; c. (orch.) 2 symphonies, Divertimento, Sinfonietta (chosen to represent U.S. at Liége Fest. of I. S.C. M. 1930); sonata for vin. and piano (prize of Soc. for Pub. of Amer. Music, 1928); also “Three Songs prod. at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig. 1833. He wrote the libretto for an opera, “Die Hochzeit,” an intro1832, duction, septet, and a chorus but his sister Rosalie thought it immoral and he gave it up; 1833 his brother Albert, stage-manager and singer at the Wiirzburg Theatre invited him to be chorusm. there. He c. a romantic opera in 3 acts “Die Feen,” to his own libretto (after “La Donna serpente,” by Gozzi); it was accepted but never performed, by the Leipzig th.-dir. Ringelhardt (given at 1834, he became Munich, 1888). cond. at the Magdeburg Th. he c. (text and music) “Das Liebesverbot (after Shakespeare’s “Measure from the Chinese” for voice, flute, harp and piano; his works have been for Measure’), performed by a bank performed by N. Y. Philh., Detroit Symph., and other ensembles.