DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

HOLMES HOLYOKE 423
Tly. Life of Mozart^ including his Correspaiidence,
in an Svo volume, which justly attracted great
attention. This book, which was the result of
a second visit to Germauy, and bears traces of
great and conscientious labour, as well as of
talent and judgment of no common order, was
characterised by Otto Jahn as the most useful,
complete, and trustworthy biography then iu
existence (Jahn's Mozart, 2nd ed. A'orwort. p.
xv). Jahn's own Life of the master contains
a mass of materials which no one but a German
residing on the spot could have collected, but
Holmes's has greatly the advantage of it in compression
and readableness, and a new edition
was prepared by Professor Prout (Novello k Co.,
1878). In addition to this, his great work.
Holmes wrote a life of Purcell for the second
issue of Novello's edition of his Sacred Music,
an Analytical and Thematic Index of Mozart's
PF. works, often reprinted by the same firm,
analyses of several of Mozart's Masses, which
were published in the Musical Times, with many
other papers on musical subjects. He married
the grand-daughter of S. "VVebbe, and died in
America, August 28, 1859. (See Mas, Tiuics,
Oct. 1, 1859.) w. H. H.
HOLMES, George, organist to the Bishop of
Durham, was aptpointed organist of Lincoln
Cathedral on the death of Thomas Allinson in
1704. He composed several anthems, two of
which— 'Arise, shine, daughter of Zion,'
compcraed on the Union with Scotland, 1706,
and ' I will love Thee, Lord/—are to be
found intheTudwayCollection(Harh MS. 7341),
and others are in the choir books of Lincoln.
[His setting of the Burial Sentences is still sung
in Lincoln Cathedral.] Holmes composed an
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, but for what particular
year is not stated : its contents, however, show
it to have been written between 1703 and 1713.
He died in 1721. Some catches by a George
Holmes are contained in Hilton's ' Catch that
Catch can,' 1652; their composer may pos-
sibly have been the father of the organist of
Lincoln. iv. h. h.
HOLMES, JoHX, organist of Winchester
Cathedral in the latter part of the 16th century.
and organist of Salisbury Cathedral from 1602
to 1610, contributed to 'The Triumphes of
Oriana,' 1601, the madrigal for live voices,
'Thus Bonny Boots the birthday celebrated.'
Some church music of his composition is extant
in MS. He was master to Adrian Batten and
Edward Lowe. His son Thomas was sworn a
gentleman of tlie Chapel Royal, Sept. 17, 1633.
Some catches by him are contained in Hilton's
'Catch that Catch can,' 1652. He died at
Salisbury. March 25, 1638. w. H. H.
HOLMES. "\ViLLi.4M Henry, son ofamusician,
born at Sudbury, Derbyshire, Jan. 8, 1312,
entered the Royal Academy of Music at its
opening in 1822. and gained two of the first
medals granted there for composition and the
piano. In 1826 he became Sub-professor and
subsequently Professor of the Piano. As a
teacher he was remarkably successful, having
trained some of the most eminent of English
musicians ; among them Sterndale Bennett, the
two Macfarrens, J. AA^. Davison, and others.
His knowledge of PF. music was very great,
and as a virtuoso he long enjoyed a high reputation.
His first appearance at the Philharmonic
was in Mendelssohn's Introduction and Rondo,
March 24, 1851 ; and as late as 1876 he performed
at the Alexandra Palace a concerto of
his own, in A major, written for the Jubilee of
the R.A.1\L His compositions are numerous
and of all classes— symphonies, concertos,
sonatas, songs, and an opera— still in MS.
Like his friend Cipriani Potter he was ahvays
ready to welcome new compiosers and new music,
in proof of which we may name the fact that it
was at its instigation and under his care that
Brahms's fii^st PF. Concerto was first played
in England by Miss Baglehole, at the Crystal
Palace, March 9, 1872. He died in London,
April 23, 1885. g.
HOLSTEIN, Fr,\nz von, the son of an officer
of high piosition, born at Brunswick, Feb. 16,
1826. He was himself obliged to adopt the
military profession, but eagerly embraced every
opportunity of improving his musical knowledge.
He studied with such success under Griepenkerl
that in 1845, while he was working for an examination,
he found time to finish an opera in
two acts, ' Zwei Nachte in Venedig, ' which was
privately performed. He went through the
Schleswig-Holstein campiaign, and on his return
to Brunswick set to work upon an opera on the
subject of 'AVaverley.' This more ambitious
work in five acts was finished in 1852, and was
shown to Hauptmann, who was so pleased with
it that he persuaded Holstein to leave the army
and devote himself to art. From 1853 to 1856
therefore, with a considerable inter^'al occasioned
by ill-health, he studied at Leipzig, and produced
several very promising works, among them a
concert overture, 'Loreley. ' He went to Rome in
the winter of 1856-57, and continued his studies
there, and subsequently at Berlin and Paris.
In 1869 a new opera, 'Die Haideschacht, ' was
produced with success at Dresden, and was heard
on all the principal stages of Germany. A comic
opera, ' Die Erhe von Morley,' was produced in
1872 at Leipzig, and in 1876 yet another, ' Die
Hochlander, ' was given at Mannheim. In the
night of May 21-22, 1878, the composer died at
Leipzig. Besides the dramatic works we have
a post-
mentioned, the following are important :
humous overture, ' Frau Aventiure,' a solo
from Schiller's 'Braut von Messina,'- 'Beatrice,'
a scena for soprano with orchestra, and many
songs and instrumental compositions. ii.
HOLYOKE, Samuel, A.M. An American
teacher and composer of both vocal and instrumental
music, born at Boxford, Mass., 1771.