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Title: Judas Maccabaeus Composer: George Frideric Handel Original Publisher: G. Schirmer - 1909 Vocal Score This concertized version of Judas Maccabaeus shortens the production slightly and makes Judas Maccabaeus palatable for a concert performance. Orchestral parts and a conductor's score are also available to match this version. Performer’s Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.
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Van Der Stucken was born on October 15, 1858, in Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, Texas. He was the son of Jan Frank and Sophia (Schoenewolf) Van der Stucken.
His father was of Belgian and his mother of German birth, and after the Civil War the family went to Belgium to live.
The lad's musical education was started as soon as Frank Valentin reached Europe, and he was first entered at the Conservatory of Music in Antwerp, where he became a pupil of Pierre Benoit.
From 1866 to 1876, he studied violin with Emile Wambach in Brussels, and for the following two years he was a pupil of Reinecke, Grieg, and Langer in Leipzig.
By the time Frank Valentin was twenty years of age, Frank Valentin had shown much promise as a composer and had produced his "Gloria, " for chorus, and orchestra; his "Te Deum, " for solo, chorus and orchestra; and a "Festmarsch" for orchestra. In the season 1881-82, he was Kapellmeister for the Stadt Theatre in Breslau. At Breslau, he composed his suite on Shakespeare's "Tempest" (1885), "Festzug" (1891), "Pagina d'Amore" (copyright 1891), and a lyric drama, "Vlasda" (copyright 1891).
Franz Liszt invited him to Weimar in 1883 to give a concert of his own works under Liszt's patronage. This event occurred in November, and the program included a symphonic prologue to Heine's tragedy, "William Ratcliff. " Van der Stucken's reputation had already extended to the land of his birth, and in 1884, he was invited to succeed Leopold Damrosch as the conductor of the Arion Society, a male chorus in New York City. He held this position until 1895, and in 1892 took the organization on a European tour.
Meanwhile, he appeared frequently as an orchestral conductor. During the season 1885-86, he presented a series of "novelty concerts" at Steinway Hall, where he gave the American premiere of Brahms's Third Symphony. Two years later, 1887-88, he gave a series of "symphonic concerts" at Chickering Hall in New York. It was in these concerts that he adopted a policy for which he is perhaps most remembered, the inclusion of a number of "all-American" programs, presenting exclusively the works of American musicians.
He was certainly one of the first to offer such programs, and for this, he won the undying gratitude of those who urged the cause of American music. In 1889, he gave a program of American compositions at the French International Exhibition. Throughout his whole life, he fought for the recognition of American talent at home and abroad. He was much in demand as a conductor of music festivals. In 1887, he directed a festival in Indianapolis; in 1891, one in Newark; in 1894, another in New York.
He left New York in 1895 to live in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had been offered the conductorship of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and a position as director of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He retained the directorship of the College until 1903 and was a conductor of the Cincinnati orchestra until 1907. After the death of Theodore Thomas, Van der Stucken was appointed conductor of the Cincinnati May Music Festivals, which he directed regularly from 1906 until 1912.
From 1908, he lived mostly in Europe, returning to America for the Cincinnati Festivals (1923, 1925, 1927), and for other events that demanded his attention. He appeared frequently abroad as conductor of the Wagner festival at Antwerp in 1913; in a concert of orchestral works at Copenhagen, 1919; as conductor of a series of Wagner and Gluck concerts in Antwerp during the season 1920-21; and as director of the Ysaye concerts in Brussels, 1921 and 1923.
Frank Valentin died in Hamburg, Germany, following a surgical operation, and was survived by his wife.
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As a composer, Van der Stucken had a fine talent for orchestration; his scores sparkle with subtle effects. His music is seldom heard today, but in his own time it was highly praised.
Quotes from others about the person
Rupert Hughes said of his songs: "It is always the unexpected that happens, though this unexpected thing almost always proves to be a right thing. Without any sense of strain or bombast he reaches superb climaxes; without eccentricity he is individual . "
Van Der Stucken married Mary Vollmer in June 1880, and four children.
