Nor’ris

(1) Wm., d. ca. 1710; English composer. (2) Thos., 1741-1790; English male soprano, organist and composer. (3) Homer A., Wayne, Maine, Oct. 4, 1860—New York, 1920; notable theorist; studied with Marston, Hale, Chadwick and Emery, Boston; lived there as teacher; also studied 4 years in Paris with Dubois, Godard, Gigout and Guilmant; c. overture “Zoroaster,” can- ‘‘Nain’” and _ songs; pub. “Harmony” and “Counterpoint” on French basis. (nésh-kéf’-shki), (Zygismunt von), Warsaw, May 2, 1846—July 24, 1909; pupil of Warsaw Mus. Inst.; inv. a mus.notation for the blind, and was sent by the Mus. Soc. to study with Kiel and Raif, Berlin; 1876 cond.; 1881, dir. of the Mus. Soc., Warsaw, and (1888) prof. at the Cons.; prod. succ. opéra “Livia” (Lemberg, 1898); c. symph., overture “Das Meerauge,”’ etc. (nésh’-lér), K. Eduard, b. Reichenbach, Saxony, March 26, 1863; pupil of Leipzig Cons.; 1888— 93, organist Frauenkirche, Bremen; 1887, cond. Male Choral Union; 1893, organist Bremen Cath., and 1896, cond. Neue Singakademie; c. symph., ‘Lustspiel-Ouvert i ire,” etc. (nét’-kér) (called Balbulus, “the stammerer’”’), 830-912, at St. Gallen; important writer and composer of sequences. (V. D. D.) Wottebohm (nét’-té-bim), Martin Gv., Liidenscheid, Westphalia, 1817— Graz, 1882; teacher and writer chiefly of valuable Beethoven works and discoveries; also composer.