About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Jack Butler Yeats, John Weinzweig, Percy Crosby, Arno Breker, Frederick William MacMonnies, Charles Downing Lay, John Russell Pope, Ernst Weiss, Alfred Hajos, Josef Suk, Laura Knight, Theodore Andrea Cook, Rudolf G. Binding, Ruth Miller, Josef Petersen, Dezs Lauber, Ernst van Heerden, Werner March, Carl Moos, Alex Diggelmann, Lauro De Bosis, Jozef Klukowski, Holger Sinding-Larsen, Margaret Stuart, Jacques Lambert, Frantz Heldenstein, Chris van der Hoef, Milo Martin, Kurt Thomas, Rudolf Eisenmenger, Kalervo Tuukkanen, Alfred Rinesch, Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussen, Edy Knupfer, Janina Konarska, Werner Schindler, Jens Klemmensen, Wilhelm Ehmer, Oskar Thiede, Alfred Hierl, Romano Dazzi, Lino Liviabella, Oreste Riva, Simon Goossens, Bruno Fattori, Luciano Mercante. Excerpt: John (Jacob) Weinzweig, OC, O.Ont (March 11, 1913 - August 24, 2006) was a Canadian composer of classical music. Born in Toronto, Weinzweig went to Harbord Collegiate Institute, and studied music at the university. In 1937, he left for the United States to study under Bernard Rogers. During the Second World War, he began composing film music, and in 1952 he became a professor at his old university in Toronto. In the previous year he had co-founded the Canadian League of Composers, and he was actively involved in several other organisations representing musicians and composers. In 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1988, he was awarded the Order of Ontario. John Jacob Weinzweig was the eldest child of Joseph and Rose (Burstyn) Weinzweig, Polish-Jewish immigrants. His younger siblings were named Morris and Grace Weinzweig. In Russian-occupied Poland, his father was temporarily imprisoned for participating in radical union movements, and the family moved to Canada shortly after. His first music lessons were at Workman's Circle...
