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ABBOTT, Emma. 1850-1888. Dramatic soprano. - Born in Chicago. Her father was a mu-sic teacher. She showed great love of music in childhood.
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Adam (ad-än), Adolphe Char le s. 1803-1856. - Born in Paris. His father was Louis Adam, a French operatic composer, who was also a musician of note but objected to the same tendency in his son.
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Aiblinger (i-bling-ér), Johann Kaspar 1779-1867. - German composer, director and music collector, esteemed as a writer of church music. Wasserburg, Bavaria, was his native place and he died in Munich.
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AM - AP
Ambros Amati (ä-mä'-tè) family. - Italian family of celebrated violin-makers, who lived and worked at Cremona in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
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Ambroise, Thomas
LESUEUR, the teacher of Ambroise Thomas at the Paris Conservatoire, called his talented pupil his note sensible (the sensitive or leading tone of the scale), because of Thomas's musical sensitiveness and because he was the seventh of Lesueur's pupils to win the Grand Prix de Rome.
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American Composers
IN this chapter only the most general mention can be made of the remarkable musical developments now going forward in America.
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Arbós (Ur-vas), E. Fernandez. 1863- - Eminent contemporary Spanish violinist and teacher, professor of violin at the Royal College of Music, London. He is also a composer; the author of songs; several trios for piano and strings; effective violin pieces; the comic opera, El Centro de la Tierra; and other works.
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Attwood, Thomas. 1765 or 1767-1838. - Distinguished composer and organist. He entered the Chapel Royal as chorister at the age of nine and remained there five years. At sixteen he attracted the attention of the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., and was sent by him to Italy for study.
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Bach (bäkh), Johann Christoph. 1642-1703. - The uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach and, next to him, the greatest of all the Bachs.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bach, Johann Sebastian. March 21, 1685-July 28, 1750. - The greatest representative of a wonderful family of musicians, who were prominent in Germany for over two hundred years.
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Balfe, Michael William
MICHAEL WILLIAM BALFE, composer of "The Bohemian Girl," was an Irishman of a native intelligence and genius for melody quick to make their mark. The son of a dancing-master, Balfe had his first musical instruction from his father.
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Banchieri (bän-ki-a'-rë), Adriano. About 1567-1634. - Italian composer, theorist, organist and poet. He was born at Bologna, and died in the convent of San Bernardo at Bologna.
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Beach, Mrs. H. H. A. 1867- - American composer and pianist. Born in Henniker, New Hampshire, of colonial ancestry. Her maiden name was Amy Marcy Cheney.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van
Beethoven, Ludwig van. 1770-1827. - Beethoven, born in the year 1770, came into the world in the beginning of a new era, a period of change and overthrow. During his boyhood, America established her freedom, in his manhood, in France were uttered the three words that vibrated round the world.
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Bellini, Vincenzo
CATANIA fronts on the shimmering waters of the Mediterranean, and 'Etna, the volcano, towers in the distance. Ships from all ports of the world crowd the harbors.
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Berlioz, Hector
CERTAIN names shine out in an age, but they are seldom the names that were greeted most enthusiastically by contemporary judgment.
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Bianchi (bá-än'-ké), Francesco. 1752-1810. - Italian opera composer and teacher. Born at Cremona. Little seems to be known of his life up to his twenty-third year, when he was appointed orchestra conductor to the Italian Opera in Paris, in 1775.
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Bizet, Georges
Bizet (bé-zá), Georges (Alexandre César Léopold). 1838-1875. - A brilliant and richly endowed composer, whose career, which promised so much, was cut short by death at the age of thirty-six, and whose masterpiece, Carmen, is the most popular and intensely dramatic, perhaps, of all the operas in the modern French repertory.
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Bizet, Georges
THE composer of Carmen, today one of the most popular and brilliant of all operas, died young and broken-hearted at the apparent failure of his masterpiece.
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Black, Andrew. 1860- - Accomplished contemporary Scotch barytone singer. He was born at Glasgow. After a period of service as an organist he made the discovery of the possession of a fine barytone voice.
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Boccherini (bôk-ké-ré'-né), Luigi. 1743-1805. - Famous Italian composer and violoncellist. Born at Lucca. He showed great genius for music at a very early age and his first teacher was his father, who was himself a good musician.
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Boito, Arrigo
WHEN Italy was winning freedom from Austria, and all the youth of the land were dreaming of the future of their mother-country, and all the nascent genius and art of the race was feeling the stir which usually precedes the fresh achievement of a people, there arose a youth who dared attempt one of the greatest things of which a musician has dreamed to interpret through music the entire meaning of Goethe's Faust.
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Bradbury, William Bachelder. 1816-1868. - One of the pioneers of American music. He was a composer and teacher. Was born in Maine. Both his father and mother were musical, his father being a choir-leader and singing-teacher.
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Brahms, Johannes
Brahms (bräms), Johannes. 1833 - 1897. - When Johannes Brahms died, in 1897, there passed the last of the great masters in German music, and one of their greatest.
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Brockway, Howard A. 1870- - American pianist and composer. He was born in Brooklyn and received his education at the Brooklyn Poly-technic Institute. From 1881 to 1889 he studied the piano in Brooklyn with H. O. C. Kortheuer.
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Cabel (ka-bel), Marie Josephe. 1827- - A Belgian soprano, who was born at Liège. As a child she showed great talent for the piano and at the suggestion of Meyerbeer studied at the Paris Conservatory.
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Cecilia, St. 200-230. - Descended from a noble Roman family, she suffered martyrdom for the Christian faith, which she espoused when a very young woman. Is credited with the invention of the organ, which many famous painters, notably Raphael and Carlo Dolci, have pictured her as playing.
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Chopin, Frederic Francois
Chopin, Frédéric François. 1809-1849. - He was the greatest genius of the piano who has ever lived, one of the most lovable, interesting and romantic figures in the history of music.
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Chopin, Freederic Francois
ONE of the most mysterious and poetic appearances in the history of music is that of Frédéric Francois Chopin, born on the 22d of February, 1810, in the village of Zelazowa-Wola, Poland.
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Cimarosa (chë-mä-rò'-sä), Domenico. 1749-1801. - One of the most celebrated of Italian composers. He was born at Aversa, near Naples, was a son of parents in humble circumstances and orphaned at an early age.
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