Adolf Weidig

Adolf H. A. Weidig (b. 28 November 1867 Hamburg, Germany; d. 23 September 1931) was an American composer of German origin, born in Hamburg; he came to the United States in 1892. 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.

Weidig had been Associate Director of the American Conservatory of Music and was Dean of the Department of Theory in the same.

References

General references

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

Inline citations

External links

• Free scores by Adolf Weidig at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)