GARTEVELD William Napoleonovich( composer, originally Swede)
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Biography GARTEVELD William Napoleonovich
Born in Stockholm in 1862, graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory, then moved to Russia. His opera "The Song of Triumphant Love" on the story by Turgenev (1895), not found, however, in the author nor the strength nor the depth of talent, was at one time in Kharkov, Kazan, Moscow and other cities. In 1906, Mr.. Garteveld undertook a trip to Siberia to collect prison and hard labor songs. Returning to Russia, . He gave several concerts in St. Petersburg and other cities, . where the executable was compiled and harmonized them convicts and prison songs, part of the collected material, . among which are valuable and interesting things, . it was also printed,
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