Willem Frederic Gerard Nikolai ( Dutch Willem Frederik Gerard Nicolai ; November 20, 1829 , Leiden - April 25, 1896 , The Hague ) - Dutch organist, conductor, music teacher and composer.
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Having lost his parents early, he was brought up in a church shelter, mastering the craft of a bookbinder, but then his love of music was noticed by mentors. Since 1849 , he studied organ, piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory under the direction of Julius Ritz , Ignaz Mosheles and Karl Ferdinand Becker , then improved the organist's skills in Dresden under the direction of Johann Gotlob Schneider Jr.
He returned to the Netherlands in 1852 , a year later he began to teach the organ and theory of music at the Hague Conservatory , and from 1865 until the end of his life he was its director; in the early 1860s also taught in Rotterdam, where he studied with Willem de Haan . Since 1871 he directed the music magazine Caecilia [1] . The author of a symphony and three overtures for the orchestra, stylistically following the traditions of Felix Mendelssohn , sonatas for cello and piano, oratorio “Boniface” (1873), cantatas “Song of the Bell” (to verses by Schiller ) and “Swedish Nightingale” ( Dutch. De Zweedsche nachtegaal ; 1880, dedicated to Jenny Lind ), other choral compositions, songs. He was also the author of the music of the anthem of the Orange Republic .
The name of Nicholas is street ( Dutch. Nicolaistraat ) in The Hague.
Notes
- ↑ Liesbeth Hoedemaeker. Caecilia. Algemeen Muzikaal Tijdschrift van Nederland // Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
Links
- Nicholas, Willem Frederick Gerard // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Willem Nikolai's page on the website of the Netherlands Institute of Music (nid.)