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Verbrugghen String Quartet
Verbrugghen String Quartet was a string quartet founded by Henri Verbrugghen. In 1903 Verbrugghen founded in Scotland a string quartet. When in 1916 he went to Australia, he took its members with him. All of them were engaged as professors at the New South Wales Conservatorium. They gave numerous chamber music concerts in Sydney, with introductory talks by Verbrugghen. Alfred Hill's String Quartet No. 4 (1916) is dedicated to this ensemble and its members. The other members of the string quartet joined Verbrugghen also to Minneapolis. Members * Henri Verbrugghen Henri Adrien Marie Verbrugghen (1 August 187312 November 1934) was a Belgian musician, who directed orchestras in England, Scotland, Australia and the United States. Born in Brussels, Verbrugghen made his first appearance as a violinist when o ... (first violin) * Jenny Cullen (second violin, from ca.1908) * David Nichols (viola) * Paul Lemay (viola, late years) * James Messeas (cello) * Engelbert Roentgen (c ...
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Henri Verbrugghen
Henri Adrien Marie Verbrugghen (1 August 187312 November 1934) was a Belgian musician, who directed orchestras in England, Scotland, Australia and the United States. Born in Brussels, Verbrugghen made his first appearance as a violinist when only eight years old, and was a successful student at the Brussels Conservatorium under Hubay and Ysaÿe, winning many prizes. He visited England with Ysaÿe in 1888, and in 1893 settled in Scotland as a member of the Scottish Orchestra. During the summer he led the orchestra at Llandudno under Jules Riviere. For a time he was a member of the Lamoureux Orchestra at Paris and then for three years was deputy-conductor at Llandudno. He was director of music for four years at Colwyn Bay, and then returned to the Scottish Orchestra. In 1902 he became leader and deputy-conductor under Frederic Cowen, and during the promenade season led the Queen's Hall Orchestra for three years. In 1907, he was the soloist in the first performance in Englan ...
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Sydney Conservatorium Of Music
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music and known by the moniker "The Con") is a heritage-listed music school in Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia. Located adjacent to the Royal Botanic Gardens on the eastern fringe of the Sydney central business district, the conservatorium is a faculty of the University of Sydney, and incorporates the community-based Conservatorium Open Academy and the Conservatorium High School. In addition to its secondary, undergraduate, post-graduate and community education teaching and learning functions, the conservatorium undertakes research in various fields of music. The building was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 14 January 2011. History The land originally belonged to the Aboriginal people, called the "Eora", who lived around Sydney coast. They lived off the land by relying o ...
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Alfred Hill (composer)
Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE (16 December 186930 October 1960) was an Australian-New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher. Life and work Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in Wellington. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1887 and 1891 under Gustav Schreck, Hans Sitt and Oscar Paul. Later he played second violin with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, under guest conductors including Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Bruch, and Reinecke. While there, some of his compositions were played with fellow students, and several were published in Germany. These included the ''Scotch Sonata'' for violin and piano.Liner notes to ''Alfred Hill – Symphonies 8 & 9'', ABC recording Hill returned to New Zealand, where was appointed director of the Wellington Orchestral Society. He also worked as a violin teacher, recitalist, chamber musician, and choral conductor ...
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String Quartet No
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Jenny Cullen
Jenny Cullen (1890–1957) was a violinist and the first female member of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. She was a member of Verbrugghen String Quartet founded by Henri Verbrugghen. She began violin studies at the age of 8. At the age of 13 she came under direction of Verbrugghen. She attended the Scottish Academy of Music, studied with Verbrugghen in Glasgow and played in the Scottish Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 18 she was appointed Senior Professor at the Athenaeum School of Music, Glasgow. A year later she became the second violin in the Verbrugghen Quartet. In 1911 Cullen went to Russia to play at the Summer Symphony Concerts in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg. In 1915 she gave recitals at the ''Three B's Festival'' in London under Verbrugghen as conductor. When Verbrugghen moved to Australia with his quartet (1915), she became concertmaster of the State Symphony Orchestra of Sydney and principal violin instructor. Again together with Verbrugghen she went to Minneap ...
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David Eccles Nichols
David Eccles Nichols (1873, in Holbeck, Yorkshire – 1962, in Aberdeen) was a violist, member of the Verbrugghen String Quartet Verbrugghen String Quartet was a string quartet founded by Henri Verbrugghen. In 1903 Verbrugghen founded in Scotland a string quartet. When in 1916 he went to Australia, he took its members with him. All of them were engaged as professors at the ... and the Fellowes String Quartet. References 1873 births 1962 deaths People from Holbeck {{violist-stub ...
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Paul Lemay
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James Messeas
James Messeas (1880 or 1881 – 1955) was a Dutch cellist, member of Verbrugghen String Quartet. Messeas was born in Amsterdam. His parents were Spanish, the father being the principal double bass in the Paleis voor Volksvlijt Orchestra (Amsterdam). His uncle was violinist in Paris under Hector Berlioz. Both the father and the uncle provided the young Messeas with his initial musical training. In 1890, after studying the cello for only 12 months, he made a public recital of Julius Klengel's Concertino No. 1, Op. 7. The following year the boy went to Scotland. There he met Willy Benda, who gave him a scholarship at the Athenaeum School of Music. He later returned to Germany to finish his studies with Klengel. In 1902 Messeas came back to Athenaeum and became a professor. He soon joined Henri Verbrugghen's String quartet and became the principal cellist of the Harrogate Symphony Orchestra. In 1915 together with the other members of the quartet he came to Australia, where he got pr ...
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Engelbert Roentgen (1886-1958)
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