Adolf Weidig

Adolf H. A. Weidig (b. 28 November 1867 Hamburg, Germany; d. 23 September 1931) was an American composer of German origin, born in Hamburg; he came to the United States in 1892. 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.^[1]

Weidig had been Associate Director of the American Conservatory of Music and was Dean of the Department of Theory in the same.^[2]

References

General references

• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Sixth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), Collier Macmillan Publishers, London
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky(1894–1995), Macmillan Publishing Co., Schirmer Books, New York (1984)
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York (1992)
• Biographical Dictionary of American Music, by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), Parker Publishing Co., West Nyack, New York (1973)
• Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1928-1936
• The Oxford Companion to Music. 1974 edition, by Percy Alfred Scholes (1877–1958), edited by John Owen Ward, Oxford University Press, London (1974)
• Who Was Who in America, a component volume of Who's Who in American History, Volume 1, 1897-1942, A.N. Marquis Co., Chicago (1943)
• Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. OCLC 1077031.

Inline citations

External links

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