Adolf Weidig
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Adolf H. A. Weidig (28 November 1867, in Hamburg, Germany – 23 September 1931) was an American composer who was born and raised in Hamburg. After extensive musical studies in Europe, including at the Academy of Music, Munich,[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/1208/mode/2up WEIDIG, Adolf], in Marquis Who's Who; 1901-1902 edition; via archive.org he immigrated to the United States in 1892 as a young man.
He wrote numerous pieces for orchestra, including a symphony and the tone poem Semiramis; among his chamber works are three string quartets and a string quintet. He also wrote songs. He died in Hinsdale, Illinois.{{cite web|title=MusicSack|url=http://musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100041321|access-date=31 August 2010}}
For years Weidig served as Associate Director of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and was Dean of the Department of Theory in the same.Clark J Herringshaw, Herringshaw's City Blue Book of Biography: Chicagoans of 1919, Volume 1919, pg 370 His composition students included harpist Helena Stone Torgerson,{{Cite journal|date=April 29, 1921|title=Recital by Adolf Weidig's Composition Class|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WdFAQAAMAAJ&q=Helena+Stone+Torgerson+born&pg=RA2-PA51|journal=Music News|volume=13|pages=16c}} pianist Theodora Troendle, organist Helen Searles Westbrook, and, most notably, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. He wrote the book Harmonic Material and its Uses in 1924 to aid as a reference in his composition classes.{{Cite journal |last=Borroff |first=Edith |date=1988 |title=Review of Ruth Crawford Seeger: Memoirs, Memories, Music |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3448355 |journal=American Music |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=104–106 |doi=10.2307/3448355 |issn=0734-4392|url-access=subscription }}
References
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Further reading
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Sixth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), London: Collier Macmillan Publishers
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky(1894–1995), New York: Macmillan Publishing Co./Schirmer Books, 1984
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, |New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992
- Biographical Dictionary of American Music, by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing Co., 1973
- Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936
- The Oxford Companion to Music. 1974 edition, by Percy Alfred Scholes (1877–1958), edited by John Owen Ward, London: Oxford University Press, 1974
- Who Was Who in America, a component volume of Who's Who in American History, Volume 1, 1897-1942, Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943
- {{cite book |last= Howard|first= John Tasker|title= Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It|year= 1939|oclc=1077031 |publisher= Thomas Y. Crowell Company|location= New York }}
External links
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- [https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/376 Adolf Weidig Music Manuscripts] at [https://www.newberry.org the Newberry]
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Category:American male composers
Category:Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States
Category:Pupils of Josef Rheinberger
Category:Pupils of Hugo Riemann
Category:University of Music and Theatre Munich alumni
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