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,[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] His composition students included harpist Helena Stone Torgerson,[4] pianist Theodora Troendle, organist Helen Searles Westbrook, and, most notably, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger.
References edit
- ^ WEIDIG, Adolf, in Marquis Who's Who; 1901-1902 edition; via archive.org
- ^ "MusicSack". Retrieved 31 August 2010.
- ^ Clark J Herringshaw, Herringshaw's City Blue Book of Biography: Chicagoans of 1919, Volume 1919, pg 370
- ^ "Recital by Adolf Weidig's Composition Class". Music News. 13: 16c. April 29, 1921.
Further reading edit
- 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
- Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. OCLC 1077031.
External links edit
- Free scores by Adolf Weidig at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Adolf Weidig Music Manuscripts at the Newberry