Hallé

Hallé, SIR CHARLES, an eminent pianist, was born at Hagen, in Westphalia, 11th April 1819. He studied first at Darmstadt, and from 1840 at Paris, where his reputation was established by his concerts of classical music. But the revolution of 1848 drove him to England, and he ultimately settled in Manchester. He and his highly-trained orchestra were ere long familiar to the music lovers of the kingdom from London to Aberdeen. He did much to raise the popular standard of musical taste by familiarising the British public with the great classical masters. An LL.D. of Edinburgh (1884), and knighted in 1888, he died 25th October 1895. See his Life and Letters (1896).—LADY HALLÉ (née Wilhelmine Neruda), violinist, was born at Brünn in Moravia, 29th March 1839. An organist's daughter, she made her début at Vienna in 1846, and three years later played first in London at the Philharmonic. She married in 1864 the Swedish musician Normann, and, after his death in 1885, Sir Charles Hallé.