[Songs of spring : for (high) voice with piano / poems by Max Dauthendey ; English versions by Dr. John R. Slater ; music by Heinrich Schalit]. [between 1940 and 1944]

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

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Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 (although throughout much of her life she gave her birth date as February 17, 1902) in south Philadelphia. Her father, John Berkley Anderson, sold ice and coal and her mother Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson was a former schoolmistress. She was the oldest of three sisters. She began singing when she was six, in the church choir, and by eight had become a regular substitute, filling in for absent sopranos, tenors and even bass. She was presented in one c...

Schalit, Heinrich, 1886-1976

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Heinrich Schalit was born in Vienna on January 2, 1886. His vision seriously impaired by childhood illness, Schalit studied music at Vienna's Jewish Institute for the Blind. At Vienna's Konservatorium für Musik und darstellende Kunst, he studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky and musical composition with Robert Fuchs. Schalit graduated from the Konservatorium in 1906 with a "superior" rating, that year winning the Austrian State Prize for Composition Students. He relocated to Munich in 1907. Hi...

Dauthendey, Max, 1867-1918

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Slater, John Rothwell, 1872-

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Naturally inclined to interdisciplinarity, John Clarke Slater was an important proponent of quantum theory, a pioneer in the electromagnetic theory of microwaves, an early materials scientist, and a significant player in the 20th century development of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Raised in an academic family in Rochester, NY, Slater had earned degrees in physics at Rochester (AB 1920) and Harvard (PhD 1923) before the age of 24. After receiving his doctorat...

Watson, William C.

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Music teacher in Portsmouth, Va. From the description of Letter to E.B. Dearborn, 1840. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52779266 William Watson was sheriff of Livingston Parish, La. From the description of William Watson papers, 1846-1870 (bulk 1866-1870). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 182624518 ...