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Hermann T. Schrader
Hermann Theodor Schrader (1860 – 9 July 1934) was a noted South Australian pianist, violinist and cellist, who had a later academic career in Victoria, Australia, Victoria. History Hermann was born in Adelaide, South Australia the second son of Heinrich Ludwig Christian Schrader (4 February 1832 – 21 February 1880) and his wife Wilhelmine "Menna" Schrader, née Oelmann (c. 1822–1910), who married in 1857. Hermann Schrader sen. arrived in Adelaide from Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany in 1857 and was from 1861 landlord of the Black Horse Hotel in Leigh Street, a singing teacher at the Deutsche Schule, Adelaide, Deutsche Schule run by Leschen and Niehuus in Wakefield Street, and bandmaster with the Adelaide Regiment, Volunteer Force, then had his own private band. He played the cornet, contrabass tuba and cornopean. He also served on occasion as court interpreter. Hermann was a student at the Deutsche Schule, Wakefield Street, followed by John Whinham's North Adelaide Gramma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieder Ohne Worte
''Songs Without Words'' (') is a series of short lyrical piano works by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn written between 1829 and 1845. His sister, Fanny Mendelssohn, and other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre. Music The eight volumes of ''Songs Without Words'', each consisting of six songs (), were written at various points throughout Mendelssohn's life and published separately. The piano became increasingly popular in Europe during the early nineteenth century, when it became a standard item in many middle-class households. The pieces are within the grasp of pianists of various abilities and this undoubtedly contributed to their popularity. This great popularity has caused many critics to under-rate their musical value. The first volume was published by Novello in London (1832) as ''Original Melodies for the Pianoforte'', but the later volumes used the title ''Songs Without Words''. The works were part of the Romantic tradition of writing short lyrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Marshall-Hall
George William Louis Marshall-Hall (28 March 1862 – 18 July 1915) was an English-born musician, composer, conductor, poet and controversialist who lived and worked in Australia from 1891 till his death in 1915. According to his birth certificate, his surname was 'Hall' and 'Marshall' was his fourth given name, which commemorated his physiologist grandfather, Marshall Hall (1790–1857). George's father, a barrister – who, however, never practised that profession – appears to have been the first to hyphenate the name and his sons followed suit. Early life Marshall-Hall's father owned a 65-ton iron ocean-going yacht which, he said, was kept "in great measure to give my family fresh air, the opportunity of seeing foreign ports, of leading a healthy life such as cannot be led on shore". He was, he declared, a "family yachtsman who likes to see his youngsters' skin-tanned". As a child George probably participated in family trips on this vessel when it explored Norwegian fjor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Quartet
The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists, a violist, and a cellist. The string quartet was developed into its present form by composers such as Franz Xaver Richter, and Joseph Haydn, whose works in the 1750s established the ensemble as a group of four more-or-less equal partners. Since Haydn the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form; writing for four instruments with broadly similar characteristics both constrains and tests a composer. String quartet composition flourished in the Classical era, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert each wrote a number of them. Many Romantic and early-twentieth-century composers composed string quartets, including Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, AntonÃn Dvořák, LeoÅ¡ Janà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Iris, Victoria
Glen Iris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Stonnington local government areas. Glen Iris recorded a population of 26,131 at the 2021 census. Glen Iris has been Melbourne's geographical centre of population since the 1990s. History Captain Thomas Henderson, of the Royal Navy, arrived in Melbourne on a ship called ''Iris'' in 1850. He acquired a property bounded by Gardiners Creek, High Street and a line extending Summerhill Road to Gardiners Creek. The property was advertised for sale as ''Glen Iris'', in 1852. Robert Kent, a subsequent owner of the ''Glen Iris'' homestead, suggested a Mechanics' Institute be established, but it was never completed. A Wesleyan church was established in 1865 and in 1871 land was granted for an adjacent school (now Glen Iris Primary School). By the 1880s reference was made to the Township of Glen Iris. Glen Iris Post Office opened on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacré Cœur School
Sacré Cœur is a Roman Catholic, independent, day school for girls, located in Glen Iris, a south eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1888, the school caters to over 700 students from Prep to Year 12 and has an open-entry policy.Sacré Cœur- Principal's Welcome (accessed:30-06-2007) It offers the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). Sacré Cœur is a member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV), the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition
The Adelaide International Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne on 20 June 1837, held in Adelaide, South Australia in 1887. It was also a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Proclamation of South Australia which occurred around six months earlier, on 28 December 1886. Proposal The idea of South Australia hosting an international exhibition as a patriotic gesture was promoted in the early 1880s, culminating in a Bill which was passed by Parliament in 1883. Subsequent opposition to the scheme on the grounds of the expense involved saw the Bill being repealed in 1884, and Sir Edwin T. Smith pushed for a less grandiose celebration, which resulted in the Act of 1885, and the voting of £32,000 for a permanent Exhibition Building, as well as an adjacent temporary building. The cost of running the Exhibition, expected to be met by entrance fees, was underwritten by a handful of wealthy guarantors, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elder Overseas Scholarship
The Elder Overseas Scholarship, sometimes referred to as the Elder Travelling Scholarship, is a triennial award to a South Australian (classical) musician, selected by competition from eligible candidates, to study at the Royal College of Music, London for three years. History In 1882 a call was made by the newly established Royal College of Music to philanthropists around the world for a once-off donation of £3,000 to sponsor, perpetually, an eligible young musician to three years of tuition at the school. Mr (later Sir) W. J. Clarke of Melbourne was an early responder, stipulating that his scholarships would be allocated by competition open to residents of the Colony of Victoria. The editor of the South Australian ''Register'' greeted this donation in an article about the college, urging wealthy men of South Australia to follow suit, pointedly mentioning great musicians of the past whose wealthy patrons were remembered honorably as a result — Prince Esterhazy and Haydn, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Fischer Sobell
Otto Fischer Sobell, born Otto Fischer (2 May 1862 – 14 January 1934) was an Australian operatic singer, noted for Wagnerian roles. History Sobell's father George Friedrich Fischer (c. 1822 or 1828 – 9 February 1882) emigrated to South Australia aboard the ship ''Louise'', arriving 26 March 1849, and was soon involved in the city's musical scene, performing with Frederick and Albert Seyler, who arrived aboard ''Alfred'' in December 1848. George was co-owner with Robert Wiener (died 1878) of a coffee bar on Rundle Street, where the Adelaide Liedertafel, was formed. Fischer and Wiener were often heard singing together, Fischer also on piano. After the coffee shop, Fischer and Wiener ran the Tanunda Hotel to 1870, then Fischer had the National Hotel on Pirie Street 1871–72, the Hamburg (later Oriental) on the Gawler Place/ Rundle Street corner 1872–73, and the Pier Hotel, Glenelg 1873–74. Destitute, he then left for Melbourne, where he died at the Hobsons Bay railway st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. According to ''Folk Song in England'', Sharp was the country’s "single most important figure in the study of folk song and music." Sharp collected over four thousand songs from untutored rural singers, both in South-West England and the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. He published an extensive series of song books based on his fieldwork, often with piano arrangements, and wrote an influential theoretical work, English Folk Song: Some Conclusions. He also noted down surviving examples of English Morris dance, Morris dancing, and played an important role in the revival both of the Morris and English country dance. In 1911, he co-founded the English Folk Dance So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Fischer
Minna Pauline Fischer (20 January 1858 – 7 August 1941) was an Australian lyric soprano and singing teacher in London. History Fischer was born in Tanunda, South Australia, the second daughter of George Friedrich Fischer and his second wife Emma Caroline Antoinette Fischer, née Sobels (married 5 April 1855). George emigrated to South Australia aboard the ship ''Louise'', arriving 26 March 1849, and was soon involved in the city's musical scene, performing with Frederick and Albert Seyler, who arrived aboard ''Alfred'' in December 1848. George was co-owner with Robert Wiener (died 1878) of a Rundle Street, Adelaide, Rundle Street coffee house, birthplace of the Adelaide Liedertafel, then licensees of the Tanunda Hotel from 1862 to 1870. He ran the National Hotel, Adelaide in Pirie Street 1871–72, the Hamburg Hotel, Adelaide, Hamburg (later Oriental) on the Gawler Place/Rundle Street corner 1872–73, and the Pier Hotel, Glenelg, Pier, Glenelg 1873–74, when he was found gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
