seiffritz

Updated: May 10, 2025

In manuscript are a fine song, "Free as the Tossing Sea," and a well-devised trio. A successful writer of songs is C. Whitney Coombs. He was born in Maine, in 1864, and went abroad at the age of fourteen. He studied the piano with Speidel, and composition with Seiffritz, in Stuttgart, for five years, and pursued his studies later in Dresden under Draessecke, Janssen, and John.

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions

After two years in Chicago, Kelley went to Germany, where, in Stuttgart, he studied the piano with Kruger and Speidel, organ with Finck, composition and orchestration with Seiffritz. While in Germany, Kelley wrote a brilliant and highly successful concert polonaise for four hands, and a composition for strings.

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions