DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

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nent secretary of the Academie des Beaux-Arts,
and in this capacity had to pronounce eulogiunis,
wliicli lie jiublished witli some musical criticjues
in a volume entitled Suui-enirs ct Portraits,
itiides stir Ics beaux-arts (1861). [A second
series {I>€rnicrs Sottvc/tirs, etc.) appeared in
1S63.] These essays are pleasant reading ; they
secured Halevy reputation as a writer, "which,
however, he did not long cnjo}^, as he died of
consumption at Nice, ilarch 17, 1862. His
remains were brought to Paris, and interred on
the 24tli of the same month. [There is an in-
teresting notice of ' Le Val d'Andoire '
in H^^t-
lioz's L':s Jl'tsiciruset !a Musique,'p. 159.] G. c.
HALF-CLOSE or Semi-cadexce. An equivalent
term for Imperfect Cadence, and the better
of the two. (See Cadence. )
HALIE, Karl. See Joachim Quartet.
HALL, Henry, son of Capt. Henry Hall of
Windsor, where he was born about 1655, was a
chorister of the Chapel Royal under Capt. Cooke.
He is said to have studied under Dr. Blow, but
this is doubtful In 1674 he succeeded Theodore
Coleby as organist of Exeter Cathedral, an
appointment which he resigned on becoming
organist and vicar choral of Hereford Cathedral
in 1688. It is said that in 1698 Hall took
deacon's orders to cpialify himself for some preferment
in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of
Herefnrd. He composed a Te Deum in E flat,
a Benedicite in C minor, and a Cantate Domino
and Deus ilisereatur in B flat, all which, together
with five anthems, are included in the Tudway
Collection (Harl. MSS. 7340 and 7342), and
other anthems of considerable merit. The Te
Deum has been printed with a Jubilate by
William Hine, and an Evening Service by Dr.
AV. Hayes. Some songs and duets by Hall are in-
cluded in TltesauTvs Musicus, 1693; and Dcliciae
Musicae, 1695 ; and some catches in The ilonOdy
MtLslcs of Vocal Music for 1704 and 1707. Hall
commenda-
cidtivated poetry as well as music ;
tory verses of some merit by him are prefixed
to both books of Purcell's Orpheus Britannicus,
1698 and 1702, B.\\itoyi\o\,-'sAm2JhionAnglicv.s,
1700. He died ilarch 30, 1707, and was buried
in the cloister of the vicars' college at Hereford.
His son, Henry Hall, the younger, succeeded
his father as organist and vicar choral of Hereford.
He does not appear to have been a com-
poser, but in poetical ability he excelled liis
father. Jlany of liis poems, among them a once
well-known ballad, 'AH in the land of cyder,' are
included in The Grore, 1721. He died Jan, 22,
1713, and was buried near his father, w. H. H.
HALL, Marie, violinist, born April 8, 1884,
at Ncwcastle-on-Tyne. Received her first lesson
from her father, a harpist, then engaged in the
orchestra of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He
urged her to take up the harp, but her predilection
for the violin was so great, that his wishes
w-ere fortunately o"\-cr- ridden, and with the
further help of a lo.val te.iclier, Jliss Hildegarde
g.
"Werner, her proficiency on the instrument of
her choice was already considerable by the time
she had arri^-ed at tlie age of nine, when Euiile
Sauret heard her play, and jiressed her parents
to send her to the Royal Academy of Music.
This was not done, but she received from time
to time instruction from many professors of
distinction ; from Edward Elgar in Malvern
in 1894, from Professor Wilhelmj in London in
1896 (for three months), from Max Mossel at
the Midland Institute in Birmingham in 1898,
and from Professor Kruse in 1900. The year
before going to the last-mentioned teacher, she
won a scholarship at the Royal Academy of
JIusic against forty competitors, but was unable
to take it up for lack of means. In 1901 she
played to Kubelik, and through his influence
and advice, went to Prague to study under
Professor Sevcik. Her technic|ue, which is
very remarkable, and which surjiasses anything
hitherto achieved bj' a violinist of British birth,
she considers to he the outcome of Sevcik's
teaching, the advantage of which she enjoyed
at intervals between Sept. 1901 and the summer
of 1903, altogether about two years. She
played for the first time at Prague in Kov.
1902, at Vienna in Jan. 1903, and at St.
James's Hall, London, on Feb. 16, 1903, scoring
immediate success at all these nnisical
centres. Apparently of frail jjhysique, she produces
a powerful tone, and has given proofs of
great enclurance, sustaining a programme which
included three great concertos, one of them the
exceptionally trying one of Tchaikovsky, anil
by supiporting the fatigues of a tour in English
provincial towns, and in Bohemia. In short,
Marie Hall has both talent and perseverance,
and promises well for the future. w, "\v. c.
HALLE, Sir Charles (originally Carl
Halle), was born April 11, 1819, at Hageii in
Westphalia, wdiere his father, Friedrioh Halle,
was organist of the principal church. His
musical talents were not long in showing themselves
; at the age of four he pieriormed on the
piano in public, and from that time was allowi d
occasionally to appear at concerts, in order that
the townspeople might observe his progress ;
this plan, and the wisdom shown by his father
in not allo^\'ing him to appear too often, no
doubt did much to foster the developiment of
his genius. In 1828, at a concert at Cassel, he
attracted the notice of Sjiohr, and, in 1835,
went to Darmstadt to study wdth Rinck and
Gottfried Weber. In 1836 he settled in Paris,
taking some lessons of Kalkbrenner, but passing
most of his time in the company of such men
as Chopin, Liszt, Thalberg, Berlioz, and Cherubini.
In 1843 he came to England for the
first time, playing at a concert given bj' Sivori
in Hanover Square Rooms on June 16, and
giving one of his own a fortnight afterwards.
In 1846 he started a series of concerts in Palis
with Alard and Franchomnie, at which, during