Durutte

(dii-riit), Fran. Camille Ant., Ypres, East Flanders, 1803—Paris, 1881; system of harm.; c. operas, etc. Du(s)sek (DuSek, Duschek) (doos’sék or better doo’-shék), (1) Fz., Chotiborz, Bohemia, 1736—Prague, 1799; composer, pianist and teacher. (2) Joséphine, b. Prague, 1756; pianist, composer, singer. (3) J. Ladislaus, Caslav (Tschaslau), Bohemia, Feb. 12, 1760—Saint-Germainen-Laye, March 20, 1812; a boy soprano at-Iglau, pupil of Father Spenar at the Jesuit College; organist Jesuit Church, Kuttenburg, for 2 years; studied theology at Prague Univ., also music; became organist of Saint-Rimbaut’s, Mechlin; lived Bergenop-Zoom; Amsterdam; The Hague, 1783; studied with C. P. E. Bach, Hamburg; became famous pianist and performer on He el’s ‘‘Harmonica,”’ Berlin and St. Petersburg; lived in Lithuania a year at Prince Radziwill’s Court; lived Italy, Paris, London; 1792 m. (4) Sofia Corri (b. Edinburgh, 1775; a singer, harpist and composer). He entered a mus.-busine with his father-inlaw, 1800, failed and fled to Hamburg to escape creditors. He was in the service of various princes, (1808) of Prince Talleyrand in Paris. A pioneer among Bohemian and Polish virtuosi and composers he disputed with Clement i the invention of the ‘‘singing-touch.”” Prod. 2 English operas in London with succe , and pub. a Ma (comp. at the age of 13), oratorios and church-music; pub. nearly too works for pf., incl. I2 concertos, 80 sonatas with vln.; 53 sonatas for pf.-solo, etc.; pub. a “Method.” (dddsh’-kén), Samuel, b. Suwalki, Ru ian Poland, Dec. 13, 1898; violinist; studied with Auer, Kreisler, Remy; European début, 1918; 1st Amer. tour in 1924; has appeared widely in_ Europe, Egypt, — Palestine, and U. S., esp. in joint programmes with Igor Stravinsky.