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"Louis Koemmenich sitting at his desk in 1917 Louis Koemmenich in 1917 Louis Koemmenich (October 4, 1866 – August 14, 1922) was an American composer and conductor who took his own life in 1922. Biography He was born in Elberfeld, Germany on October 4, 1866. He came to the United States in 1890. He was active as a choral conductor, and as a result wrote mainly choral music, although some of his songs are also extant. He conducted the Brooklyn Choral Union, the German Theatre in Philadelphia, the Mendelssohn Glee Club, the Beethoven Society, and the New Choral Society. In 1916 he conducted several performances by the Oratorio Society of New York and the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.Programs, New York Philharmonic City College stadium, where Koemmenich conducted Percy MacKaye's vast masque Caliban He was the conductor of the chorus and orchestra for a huge civic or community masque (with a cast of 1500 amateur performers) entitled Caliban by the Yellow Sands by Percy MacKaye which played at the New York City College Stadium (the Lewisohn Stadium) from 23 May to 5 June 1916, for the Shakespeare Tercentenary celebrations. The music was by Arthur Farwell.Theatre programme for Caliban: Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration. Document ID ET-D2080, Image 11 of 25. Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database. Retrieved 25 August 2017. Koemmenich conducting Verdi's Requiem at the Polo Grounds, New York City, on 4 June 1916. The soloists are (from left to right) Giovanni Zenatello, Louise Homer, Maria Gay, and Léon Rothier. Koemmenich also conducted an open-air performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem at the Polo Grounds, New York City, on 4 June 1916. He conducted an augmented New York Philharmonic Orchestra of 120 players and a chorus of 1,200 singers, selected from leading local choral societies including the Oratorio Society of New York, the Peoples' Choral Union, the Beethoven Society and the Mendelssohn Glee Club. The soloists were Louise Homer (under the assumed name of 'Lucile Lawrence'), Maria Gay, her partner Giovanni Zenatello and Leon Rothier.Further review on Flickr of the event (scroll down the page) & photo (Library of Congress call number: LC-B2-3874-13). Rehearsals had been going on for a month, possibly taken by Arnaldo Conti who was also billed as a conductor;Retired by this time, Conti was previously conductor of the Boston Opera Company from 1909 to 1913. but he seems not to have actually conducted during the performance. In June 1917 two hundred members of the Oratorio Society held a protest meeting in Carnegie Hall because he had not been re-elected as conductor, a position he had held for five years. Koemmenich took his own life with cooking gas on August 14, 1922 at 347 West 91st Street in Manhattan. References Further reading * External links * 1866 births 1922 deaths American male composers American composers Suicides in New York City American choral conductors American male conductors (music) Suicides by gas Male suicides Composers who committed suicide Conductors (music) who committed suicide "
"Randol may refer to: In people: * Randoll Coate * Randol Fawkes * Alanson Merwin Randol * James Butterworth Randol, general manager, New Almaden Quicksilver Mine * E. Randol Schoenberg In places: * Randol Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA In other uses: * Randol Abbey "
"William Edwin Haesche (April 11, 1867 – January 26, 1929"William Edwin Haesche" in Virginia, Death Records, 1912–2014 on Ancestry.com) was an American composer. Haesche was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Henry W. Haesche, a German immigrant, and his wife, the former Rosian Gaffney, an Irish immigrant. He studied violin with Bernard Listemann and piano with Ernst Perabo. He was mainly self-taught in music theory, except for a course in fugue and general composition with Horatio Parker at Yale University where he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Music. He co-founded the New Haven Symphony Orchestra where he played first violin. He conducted the People's Choral Union, a choir of 250 voices. In 1903 he became instructor of instrumentation at Yale. In the 1894 New Haven city directory, he is listed as being a violin teacher.New Haven Directory, 1894, New Haven, The Price & Lee Co., 1894), p. 633. available on Ancestry.com, He wrote a number of works for orchestra, as well as some chamber music and songs; he also composed some pieces for choir. Haesche composed the piece "Marguerite Waltz" for viola and piano.Solos for Young Violists, Vol. 1, Naxos Records His works include: *1896: Forest Idylle, tone poem for orchestra *1897: Fridtjof Saga, overture (won a prize) *1898: Young Lovel's Bride, ballad for female choir and orchestra *1899: Springtime, overture *1901: Symphony in A-flat *1903: The Haunted Oak of Nannau, dramatic cantata for chorus and orchestra *1904: Fridtjof, symphonic poem *1904: Ingeborg, symphonic poem *1913: The South, symphonic poem *1913: Symphonietta *Sonata for piano and violin in E major *Legend for violin, cello and piano *Anthems, songs At the time of his death he was employed by Hollins College where he was teaching music theory.Helen M. Walker, "Contemporary Virginia Composers," The Virginia Teacher 7, no. 6 (June 1926), p. 162. As stated on his death certificate, Haesche died in Roanoke, Virginia, of carcinoma of the rectum after two operations. References * External links * 1867 births 1929 deaths Musicians from New Haven, Connecticut Yale School of Music alumni Yale School of Music faculty American male classical composers "