Adolf Weidig

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. He wrote the book Harmonic Material and its Uses in 1924 to aid as a reference in his composition classes.[5]

References

  1. ^ WEIDIG, Adolf, in Marquis Who's Who; 1901-1902 edition; via archive.org
  2. ^ "MusicSack". Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  3. ^ Clark J Herringshaw, Herringshaw's City Blue Book of Biography: Chicagoans of 1919, Volume 1919, pg 370
  4. ^ "Recital by Adolf Weidig's Composition Class". Music News. 13: 16c. April 29, 1921.
  5. ^ Borroff, Edith (1988). "Review of Ruth Crawford Seeger: Memoirs, Memories, Music". American Music. 6 (1): 104–106. doi:10.2307/3448355. ISSN 0734-4392.

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
  • Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. OCLC 1077031.


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