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The Austin Organ Company was formally organized in 1898 by John Turnell Austin in Boston, Massachusetts, although it traces its beginning to 1893 with the first instruments Austin built at the Clough & Warren Company in Detroit, Michigan. In 1899 the company moved to Hartford. [2] Austin was from England and had come to the United States in ...
Warren was born in London on 20 March 1804. He first studied the violin, and then the piano and organ under J. Stone. At an early age he ran a society of amateurs, for whom he wrote two symphonies and other vocal and instrumental pieces. [1] In 1843, Warren was appointed organist of St Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel in Chelsea, London. He took an ...
Warren Cohen is a Canadian composer, conductor and pianist is the musical director of the MusicaNova Orchestra, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, which is identified by its mission statement ('musica nova' means 'new music'), rather than a geographical location. The organisation specialises in works that are newly composed or unjustly neglected, as ...
This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as piano duet) as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this ...
Family vault of Frederick William Collard in Highgate Cemetery. Collard, son of William and Thamosin Collard, was baptised at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, on 21 June 1772, and coming to London at the age of fourteen, obtained a situation in the house of Longman, Lukey, & Broderip, music publishers and pianoforte makers at 26 Cheapside.
Huw Warren was the co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants with Mark Lockheart, Dudley Phillips, and Martin France.Perfect Houseplants recorded five albums for various labels (including the Scottish label Linn) and produced collaborative projects with early music artists such as Andrew Manze, Pamela Thorby, and the Orlando Consort.
He began playing a neighbor's piano by ear at the age of two, beginning lessons a few years later after his mother purchased a piano for him. [1] He took lessons from two different instructors, then from Misha Kotler, a Detroit Symphony Orchestra pianist who introduced the discipline and technique Phillinganes required. Phillinganes credits ...
Maurice de Sausmarez (20 October 1915 – 28 October 1969) was an artist, writer and art educator. He played an important role in the establishment of the University of Leeds Department of Fine Art [1] and was Principal of the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting from 1962 until the end of his life. [2]