Adolf Weidig Explained

Adolf H. A. Weidig (28 November 1867, in Hamburg, Germany – 23 September 1931) was an American composer who was born and raised in Hamburg. After extensive musical studies in Europe, including at the Academy of Music, Munich,^[1] he immigrated to the United States in 1892 as a young man.

He wrote numerous pieces for orchestra, including a symphony and the tone poem Semiramis; among his chamber works are three string quartets and a string quintet. He also wrote songs. He died in Hinsdale, Illinois.^[2]

For years Weidig served as Associate Director of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and was Dean of the Department of Theory in the same.^[3] His composition students included harpist Helena Stone Torgerson,^[4] pianist Theodora Troendle, organist Helen Searles Westbrook, and, most notably, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. He wrote the book Harmonic Material and its Uses in 1924 to aid as a reference in his composition classes.^[5]

Further reading

• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Sixth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), London: Collier Macmillan Publishers
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky(1894–1995), New York: Macmillan Publishing Co./Schirmer Books, 1984
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, |New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992
• Biographical Dictionary of American Music, by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing Co., 1973
• Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936
• The Oxford Companion to Music. 1974 edition, by Percy Alfred Scholes (1877–1958), edited by John Owen Ward, London: Oxford University Press, 1974
• Who Was Who in America, a component volume of Who's Who in American History, Volume 1, 1897-1942, Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943
• Book: Howard, John Tasker. Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. 1939. 1077031 . Thomas Y. Crowell Company. New York .

External links

• • Adolf Weidig Music Manuscripts at the Newberry

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/1208/mode/2up WEIDIG, Adolf
2. Web site: MusicSack. 31 August 2010.
3. Clark J Herringshaw, Herringshaw's City Blue Book of Biography: Chicagoans of 1919, Volume 1919, pg 370
4. April 29, 1921. Recital by Adolf Weidig's Composition Class. Music News. 13. 16c.
5. Borroff . Edith . 1988 . Review of Ruth Crawford Seeger: Memoirs, Memories, Music . American Music . 6 . 1 . 104–106 . 10.2307/3448355 . 0734-4392.