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See also:HILLER, See also:FERDINAND (181i-1885) , See also:German composer, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main, on the 24th of See also:October 1811. His first See also:master was Aloys Schmitt, and when he was ten years of See also:age his compositions and See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent led his See also:father, a well-to-do See also:man, to send him to See also:Hummel in See also:Weimar. There he devoted himself to See also:composition, among his See also:work being the entr'actes, to Maria See also:Stuart, through which he made See also:Goethe's acquaintance. Under Hummel, Hiller made See also:great strides as a pianist, so much so that See also:early in 1827 he went on a tour to See also:Vienna, where he met See also:Beethoven and produced his first quartet. After a brief visit See also:home Hiller went to See also:Paris in 1829, where he lived till 1836. His father's See also:death necessitated his return to Frankfort for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but on the 8th of See also:January 1839 he produced at See also:Milan his See also:opera La Romilda, and began to write his See also:oratorio See also:Die Zerstorung See also:Jerusalem., one of his best See also:works. Then he went to See also:Leipzig, to his friend Mendelssohn, where in 1843–1844 he conducted a number of the Gewandhaus concerts and produced his oratorio. After a further visit . to See also:Italy to study sacred See also:music, Hiller produced two operas, Ein Traum and See also:Conradin, at See also:Dresden in 1845 and 1847 respectively; he went as conductor to See also:Dusseldorf in 1847 and See also:Cologne in r85o, and conducted at the Opera Italien in Paris in 1851 and 1852. At Cologne he became a See also:power as conductor of the Gurzenich concerts and See also:head of the Conservatorium. In 1884 he retired, and died on the 12th of May in the following See also:year. Hiller frequently visited See also:England. He composed a work for the opening of the Royal See also:Albert See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, his Nala and Damayanti was performed at See also:Birmingham, and he gave a See also:series of See also:pianoforte recitals of his own compositions at the See also:Hanover Square Rooms in 1871. He had a perfect mastery over technique and See also:form in musical composition, but his works are generally dry. He was a See also:sound pianist and teacher, and occasionally a brilliant writer on musical matters. His compositions, numbering about two See also:hundred, include six operas, two oratorios, six or seven cantatas, much chamber music and a once-popular pianoforte See also:concerto.
End of Article: HILLER, FERDINAND (181i-1885)
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