John Acton (musician)

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John Acton (born September 28, 1863 in Manchester , † May 5, 1915 in Bournemouth ) was a British singer, vocal teacher and composer.

Life

John Acton received private music lessons in Manchester. He later took singing lessons from Francesco Lamperti in Milan. In July 1882 he passed the College of Organists exam with a first class certificate. At the time he was organist at St. Peters Church in Blackley, a borough of Manchester. From 1882 to 1892 he had several positions as an organist. He gave singing lessons and led various choirs. In 1889 he married Alice Hestermann Mandley (* 1866). From 1894 he directed the St. Cecilia Choral Society in Manchester. The choir had seventy-three members in 1894 and was dissolved in 1898.

John Acton has taught at the Royal College of Music in Manchester since it opened in 1894 as a singing professor. At the seventeenth choir festival from May 25 to 26, 1908, Acton was on the jury with Tertius Noble (1867-1953) and CR Fogg. At the final concert he conducted the entire choir, which performed the cantata The power of sound by Arthur Somervell . His pupils included the English bassist Norman Allin (1884–1973), the English tenor Charles Edgar (web star) Millar (1874–1924), the English baritone George Baker (1884–1976), the English mezzo-soprano Edith Clegg and the English soprano Agnes Nicholls (1877-1959).

Works (selection)

  • Forest bells , cantata for female voices, 1888
  • The rose and the nightingale , cantata for female voices, 1893
  • Six duets for female voices
  • Songs on the River , six songs
  • The Fairies , six songs
  • Songs of wood and fairyland, Six songs

literature

  • Acton, John. In: James D. Brown, Stephen S. Stratton: British Musical Biography , printed by Chafield an Son Ltd., Derby, 1897
  • Acton, John. In: Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians. Revised and expanded by Alfred Remy; G. Schirmer; New York, Boston; 1919
  • Acton, John. In: The art of music. Volume 11. A dictionary index op musicians. The national society of music , New York

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Brandeis University Libraries: British musical biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors, and composers born in Britain and its colonies . Birmingham, Chadfield, 1897 ( archive.org [accessed October 2, 2017]).
  2. ^ Ccm :: Acton, John Acton. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Mr. John Acton . In: Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser . Manchester July 22, 1882, p. 6 (English).
  4. ^ Robert Beale: Charles Hall: A Musical Life . Routledge, London / New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-57232-3 , pp. 180 (English, google.de [accessed on October 3, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b Byron Adams: Edward Elgar and His World . Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 1-4008-3210-1 ( google.de [accessed October 2, 2017]).
  6. ^ A b Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singing dictionary . 4th edition. Walter de Gruyter, KG Sauer, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 66, 213, 853, 3132 ( google.de [accessed on October 3, 2017]).
  7. ^ University of Michigan: The musical times . [London, Orpheus, etc.], 1957 ( archive.org [accessed October 17, 2017]).
  8. ^ Norman Allin (Bass) (November 19, 1884, Ashton-under-Lyne - October 27, 1973, Pontrilas). Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
  9. ^ Music - University of Toronto: International who's who in music and musical gazetteer . New York, Current Literature Pub. Co ( archive.org [accessed October 17, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Acton, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer, vocal teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1915
Place of death Bournemouth