Grove's dictionary of music and musicians

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194 RUMMEL RUSSELL
Vogler. In 1 806 he took the post of bandmaster
to the 2nd Nassau infantry, made the Peninsular
Campaign, married in Spain, was taken
prisoner, released, and served with his regiment
at Waterloo. He was then employed by the
Duke of Nassau to form and lead his Court
orchestra, which he did with great credit to
himself till 1841, when it was dissolved.
Christian Rummel died at Wiesbaden, Feb. 13,
1849. He was not only an able conductor and
a composer of much ability and industry, but
a fine clarinettist and a good pianist. His
works are numerous, and embrace pieces for
military band, concertos, quintets and other
pieces for clarinet, many pianoforte compositions,
especially a sonata for four hands (op. 20),
waltzes, variations, etc., and a Method for the
PF. (2) His daughter Josephine was born at
Manzanares in Spain during the Peninsular War,
May 12, 1812. She was pianist at the Court
at Wiesbaden, and died Dec. 19, 1877. (3)
His son Joseph, born at Wiesbaden, Oct. 6,
1818, was educated by his father in music
generally, and in the clarinet and PF. in
particular, on both of which he was a good
player. He was for many years Capellmeister
to the Prince of Oldenburg, then residing at
Wiesbaden—a post in which he was succeeded
by Adolph Henselt. Up to 1842 he lived in
Paris, and then removed to London for five
years. In 1847 he returned to Paris, and
remained there till driven back to London by
the war in 1870 ; and in London he resided
tiU his death, March 25, 1880. Joseph
Bummel wrote no original music, but he was
one of the most prolific arrangers of operas and
operatic selections for the PF. that ever existed.
For nearly forty years he worked incessantly for
the houses of Schott and Escudier, publishing
about 400 pieces with each house under his own
name, besides a much larger number under noms
de plume. His arrangements and transcriptions
amount in all to fully 2000. He wrote also a
series of exercises for Augener & Co., and for
Escudier. (4) Joseph's sister Franziska, bom
at Wiesbaden, Feb. 4, 1821, was educated by
her father until she went to Paris to stndy
singing under Bordogni, and afterwards to
Lamperti at Milan. She became principal
singer at the Court of Wiesbaden, and at length
married Peter Schott, the well-known music
publisher at Brussels, who died in 1873. (6)
Another son, August, a capable pianist, born
at Wiesbaden, Jan. 14, 1824, becime a merchant
in Loudon, where he died, Dec. 14, 1886, and
where (6) his sou Franz was born, Jan. 11,
1853. At the age of fourteen he went to
Brussels to study the PF. under Brassin, first
as a private pupil and afterwards in the Conservatoire.
He took the first prize for PF.-
playing there in 1872, and afterwards became
one of the staff of teachers. He made his
first public appearance at Antwerp, Dec. 22,
1872, in Henselt's PJ". Concerto ; in July 1873
played Schumann's Concerto at the Albert Hall
Concerts, London ; and again at Brussels, before
the King and Queen of the Belgians, with great
distinction. He remained at the Conservatoire
as professor till 1876, when on the advice of
Rubinstein he threw up his post and began to
travel, playing in the Rhine Provinces, Holland,
and France. Early in 1877 he came to London,
and played at the Crystal Palace on April 7.
Next year he went to America, where he met
with great success, though interrupted by a
serious accident. He returned in 1881, and
played again at the Crystal Palace on April 30.
[He was for a long time a teacher in the Stem
Conservatorium at Berlin. He afterwards
lived at Dessau, and died at Berlin, May 2,
1901.J
RUKGENHAGEN, Cael Friedwch, bom
at Berlin, Sept. 27, 1778, became in 1815 second
director of the Singakaderaie, and in 1833
succeeded Zelter as first director. In 1843 he
received the titlei of professor : he wrote four
operas, three oratorios, a mass, a Stabat Mater
for female voices, a great deal of church music,
many songs, and orchestral and chamber music,
all of which is now forgotten. He died in
Berlin, Dec. 21, 1851. (Riemann'sieaifcon..) M.
RUSSELL, Henky, was born at Sheerness
on Dee. 24, 1812 ; went to Bologna, in 1825,
to study music [was for a time a pupil of
Rossini in Naples, appeared as a singer at the
Surrey Theatre in 1828, and went to Canada
about 1833. He was organist of the Presbyterian
Church, Rochester (N.Y.), and travelled
in America till 1841, when he returned to
England and gave entertainments by himself
and in company with Charles Mackay. The
first took place at the Hanover Square Rooms,
March 8, 1842]. In his particular style he
had no rival. His songs 'I'm afloat, ' '
life on the ocean wave' (which in 1889 was
authorised as the march of the royal marines),
'Cheer, boys, cheer' (the only air played by
the regimental drum and fife band when a
regiment goes abroad), Woodman, ' spare that
tree,' etc., are still familiar, and some of his
dramatic songs, as The Dream '
of the Reveller,'
'
The JUaniac,' The Gambler's ' Wife,' etc., were
immensely popular in their day. It may certainly
be said that over 800 songs were either
written or composed by him. At a time when
Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand were
almost unknown, Henry Russell was instrumental,
through the Canadian government, in
sending over thousands of poor people who are
now wealthy. A memoir was published in
1846, and a book of reminiscences, Cheer, hoys,
cheer, in 1895. [He retired from public life in
1865, was ffited at a special concert given in
his honour by Sir A. Harris in Covent Garden
Theatre, Oct. 12, 1891, and died in London
Dec, 8, 1900.] L' amico dei cantanti is a treatise
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