DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

HARWOOD HASLINGER 337
the title of ' Professor ' (equivalent to a decora-
tion or order). A. c.
HARWOOD, Basil, son of Edward Harwood,
Esq., J. P., born at AVoodhouse, Olvestoa, Gloucestershire,
on April 11, 1859. He was edu-
cated at Charterhouse and Trinity College,
0-\ford, and took the degree of JIus. B. in
18S0, that of B.A. (honours in classics and
modern historj') in 1881, M.A. in 1884, and
ilus.D. 1896. He studied the pianoforte "with
J. L. Roeckel at Clifton, the organ with G.
Kiseley at Bristol, theory with Dr. C. W. Corfe
at 0-"vford, and composition for a short time at
the Leipzig Conservatoriuni under Reinecke and
Jadassohn. He was organist of St. Barnabas,
Pimlico, from 1883 to 1887, of Ely Cathedral
from 18S7 to 1S92, and has been organist of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, from 1892
to the present time. He was pirecentor of Keble
College, O-Kford, from 1892 to 1903, and conductor
of the Oxford Orcliestral Association
from 1892 to 1S9S. On the foundation of the
Oxford Bach Choir in 1896 he was ajiiiointed
its conductor, a p>ost he held with distinction
till 1900, in which year he became choragus of
the university. He conducted the ' Orpheus
Society ' in 1894. His works are few in nuni-
Tjer, only reaching up to op. 16 ; but all are
marked by most careful w'orkmanship and fas-
tidious taste. Tliey include a f)salm, ' Inclina,
Doiiiine, ' for soprano solo, chorus, and orchestra,
pierformed \\"ith great success at the Gloucester
Festival of 1898 ; an Agnus Dei, and Sahitaris,
for clioir and organ ; a ser\'ice in A flat, opt. 6 ;
a comnrunion service in D, op. 14 ; several
anthems ; a vocal trio, songs, etc. Among his
various pieces for organ may be mentioned a
sonata in C sharp minor, op. 5 ; 'Dithyramb,'
op. 7 ;
' ' Psan (played by Sir W. Parratt at
the reopening of the organ in York JMinster) ;
and preludes on Old English Psalm Tunes. M.
HARWOOD, Edward, of Liverjiool, was born
at Hoddleson, near Blackbm-n, 1707. He was
author of many songs, among wl^ich may be
named 'Absence,' 'The Cliain of Love,' 'Hapless
Collin,' ' To ease my heart,'—all published
at Liverpool. He also issued two sets of original
hymn tunes, the first without date, the second
in 1786. The first \'olume contains the metrical
anthem, 'Vital sjiark of heavenly flame, ' formerly
so popular in country churches. The trarlitional
account of its origiri is as follows:—Harwood
had been staying in London, in com})any with
Alexander Reed, of Lii'crpool ; but ^^l^en tlie
time for tlreir return arrived, they found tlieni-
selves ^\ithout the means of discharging the
reckoning at the inn. In this emergency it was
resolved to compose some piiece of music, andraisc
money upon it. Vhat Reed attemjited in that
direction is not told, but Harwood, taking up a
collection of poetry which lay in the coilee-room,
came across Pope's Ode, which he immediately
set to music, and taking it to a publisher, sold
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the copyright forforty pounds. This relieved the
friends from tlieir embarrassment, and brought
them back to Liver[iool. Some dithculties occur
in connection with the story which need not be
specified. Harwood died in 1787. H. P.
HASLINGER. A well-known music firm in
Vienna, originally the ' Bureau des arts et d'iu-
dustrie,' next S. A. Steiner k Co., and since
1826 Tobias Haslinger. Tobias, born March 1,
1787, at Zell, in Upjier Austria, came to Vienna
in 1810, was an energetic, intelligent man of
business, on intimate terms with the best
musicians of Vienna. Beethoven and he were
in constant communication, and the numerous
letters to him fronr the great composer, which
have been preserved (probably only a small
proportion of those which were written), each
with its queer joke or nickname, show the footing
they were on—Adjutant, or Adjutanterl,
or Bestes kleines Kerlchen, or Tobiasserl or
Tobias Peter Pliilipp, or jMonsieur de Haslinger,
General Musicien et General Lieutenant—such
are the various queer modes in wdiich Beethoven
addresses him. In a letter to Schott (Nohl, No.
328) he sketclies a comic biograph}' of his friend,
witli illustrative canons. Another canon '
Tuliias Itomiuus Haslinger,' occurs in a letter
of Sept. 10, 1821 ; and one of his very last notes
contains a flourish on his name, added, with the
signature, by the hand of the master :
Better To
Haslinger prepared a complete copy of Beethoven's
compositions in full score, beautifully
written by a single copyist. This was purchased
by the Archduke Rudolph, and bequeatlied by
liim to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, in
whose library it now is. He was one of the thirty-
six torch-bearers wdro surrounded the bier of liis
great friend, and it fell to his lot to hand the
three laurel wreaths to Hummel, by whom they
wore placed on the coffin before the closing of
the grave. He died at ^'ienna, June 18, 1842,
and the business can^e into the hands of his son
K.ARL(born Junell, 1816), a pupil of Czernyand
Seyfried, a remarkable pianoforte player, and
an industrious composer. His soirees were well
known and much frequented, and many a
yoimg musician made his first apipearance there.
He died Dee. 26, 1S68, leaving as many as
100 published works of all classes and dimensions.
The concern was carried on by his widow
till Jan. 1875, when it was bought by the firm
of Schlcsinger of Berlin, by whom it was maintained
under the st3'le of 'Carl Haslinger, qtiondam
Tobias.' It passed in 1875 into the hands
of Schlesinger. Among the works published by
this establishment may be nanred Schubert's
' ' ^\^interreise and ' '
Schwanengesang ;
hoven's Symphonies 2, 3, 4, 7, 8,
Beet-
Overtures
to 'Coriolan,' 'Ruins of Athens,' op. 115, 'King
z