DUDLEY BUCK (1839-1909)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V04,
Page 720
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
DUDLEY BUCK (1839-1909)
, American musical composer, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the loth of March 1839, the son of a merchant who gave him every opportunity for cultivating his musical talents; and for four years (1858–862) hestudied at Leipzig, Dresden and Paris
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On returning to America he held the position of organist at Hartford, Chicago (1869), and Boston (1871)
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In 1875 he went to New York to assist Theodore See also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
as conductor of the orchestral concerts, and from 1897 to 1903 was organist at Holy Trinity See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
: Meanwhile he had become well known as a composer of church music, a number of cantatas ( Columbus, 1876; Golden Legend,.r88o; Light of Asia, 1885, &c), a grand opera, Serapis, a comic opera, Deseret (188o), a symphonic overture, Marmion, a symphony in E flat, and other orchestral and vocal works
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He died on the 6th of October 1909
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