Adolf Weidig

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, 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.

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. His composition students included harpist Helena Stone Torgerson, pianists Frances Marion Ralston and 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.

References

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
• Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. OCLC 1077031.

External links

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