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Adolf H. A. Weidig (b. 28 November 1867 Hamburg, Germany; d. 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.

References

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.

External links

• Free scores by Adolf Weidig at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Adolf Weidig Music Manuscripts at the Newberry

На других языках

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[de] Adolf Weidig

Adolf Weidig (* 28. November 1867 in Hamburg; † 23. September 1931 in Chicago) war ein Komponist und Musiker.

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- [en] Adolf Weidig

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[ru] Вейдиг, Адольф

Адольф Вейдиг (нем. Adolf Weidig; 28 ноября 1867 (1867-11-28), Гамбург, Германия — 23 сентября 1931, Хинсдейл, Иллинойс, США) — американский композитор немецкого происхождения, музыкальный педагог.

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