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A biographical dictionary of musicians, 1900
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1AMON—ANDRÉ
3Am'(m)on, Blasius, d. Vienna, June, 1590; a Tyrolese by birth, educated as a sopraniast in the service of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria; an able contrapuntist, many of whose works were printed (book of 5-part Introits, Vienna, 1582; ditto 4-part Masses, Vienna, 1588; 2 books of 4- to 6-part Motets, Munich, 1590-91; five 4-part Masses, Munich, 1591; and a book of 4-part Introits, Munich, 1601); numerous works in MS. are in the Munich Library. He died as a Franciscan friar.
5Am'ner, John, b. late in the 16th cent.; d. 1641. Organist and choir-master at Ely cathedral, England, 1610-41; Mus. Bac. Oxon., 1613.—Works: Hymns in 3 to 6 parts, "for voices and vyols," 1615; anthems; etc.—Ralph, his son, was bass singer at the R. Chapel, Windsor, from 1623-63.
7A'mon, Johann Andreas, b. Bamberg, 1763; d. Öttingen, March 29, 1825; a virtuoso on the Waldhorn, and pupil of Punto, with whom he made long professional tours to the chief cities of France and Germany. App. music-director at Heilbronn in 1789, he lived there till 1817, then accepting the post of Kapellm. to the Prince of Öttingen-Wallenstein.—His printed comp.s include symphonies, a pf.-concerto, a concerto f. flute and viola, various sonatas, trios, quartets, quintets, etc., all hardly remembered to-day.
9A'nacker, August Ferdinand, b. Freiberg, Saxony, Oct. 17, 1790; d. there Aug. 21, 1854; a pupil of Schicht and Schneider at Leipzig; in 1822 cantor and music-director in Freiberg, and a teacher of music in the Seminary; in 1827, conductor of the miners' band. A sound musician and composer (wrote the cantatas Bergmannsgruss and Lebens Blume und Lebens Unbestand, the opera Bergmannstreu, various piano-pcs., songs, etc.). Founded singing-societies by which the best works of Seb. Bach, Graun, Hasse, Schneider, etc., were given.
11Ancot, a family of musicians at Bruges.—Jean (père), b. Oct. 22, 1779; d. July 12, 1848; violin-virtuoso, pianist, and composer; st. (1799-1804) in Paris under Baillot, Kreutzer, and Catel, then settled in Bruges as teacher. Publ. 4 violin-concertos; overtures, marches, sacred music, etc.; most of his works are still in MS. Taught his 2 sons—(1) Jean (fils), b. July 6, 1799; d. Boulogne, June 5, 1829; finished his mus. education at the Paris Cons. under Pradher and Berton; an accomplished pianist, in London 1823-25, and settled in Boulogne after making concert-tours through Belgium; an astonishingly prolific composer (225 works, chiefly pf.-sonatas, a concerto, variations, études, fugues, 4-hand fantasias, also violin-concertos, etc.);—and (2) Louis, b. June 3, 1803; d. Bruges, 1836; for a time pianist to the Duke of Sussex, London; made extended continental tours, taught at Boulogne and Tours, and finally returned to Bruges. Comp.s of little value.
13An'der, Aloys, remarkable dramatic singer (lyric tenor), b. Liebititz, Bohemia, Aug. 10, 1824; d. Bad Wartenberg, Dec. 11, 1864. His début as Stradella (1845) at the Vienna court opera, was a complete success, though he had had no previous stage-training; he was engaged in V. till 1864 (?). Principal parts, Lohengrin, Johann of Leyden, Arnold (in Tell), etc.
15An'ders, Gottfried Engelbert, b. Bonn, 1795; d. Paris, Sept. 22, 1866. Archivist and superintendent of Paris Library. Wrote monographs on Paganini (1831), and Beethoven (1839).
17Andersen-Boker, Orleana, b. New York, 1835; a pupil of Timm in piano-playing and thorough-bass; an excellent pianist, and deserving of special mention on account of her fine arrangements (piano, 8 hands) of Mendelssohn's Symphonies and of Spohr's Double Symph. and Historical Symph.
19Andersen, Lucy, née Philpot, b. Bath, in Dec., 1790; d. London, Dec. 24, 1878. Fine pianist, pupil of Windsor at Bath, and the teacher of Queen Victoria and her children.
21An'ding, Johann Michael, b. Queienfeld, n. Meiningen, Aug. 25, 1810; d. Hildburghausen, Aug. 9, 1879, as music-teacher at the Seminary. Publ. "Vierstimmiges Choralbuch" (1868), "Handbüchlein für Orgelspieler" (3d ed., 1872); also organ-pcs., part-songs, school song-books, etc.
23André, Johann, father of a musical family; b. Offenbach, March 28, 1741; d. there June 18, 1799. Founder of the well-known music-publ. house at Offenbach, est. Aug. 1, 1774. He was an accomplished pianist, a composer of some 30 operas and "Singspiele" (Der Töpfer, Erwin und Elmire, Belmonte e Constanze [Berlin, 1781, a year before Mozart's], etc.), of many instr.l works and songs (Rheinweinlied, Bekränzt mit Laub), and was the creator of the durchkomponierte Ballade, the first being "Die Weiber von Weinsberg" (1783). For 7 years (1777-84) he was Kapellm. at Döbbelin's Theatre in Berlin. Up to his death his establishment issued about 1,200 numbers.
25André, Johann Anton, third son of the preceding, b. Offenbach, Oct. 6, 1775; d. there April 8 [GROVE], 1842; a precocious mus. talent, pupil of Vollweiler in Mannheim from 1793-96; was a fine pianist, violinist and composer before entering the Univ. of Jena; after completing his studies, he made extensive travels, and on his father's death took charge of the business, adding peculiar lustre to its good name by the purchase (1800) of Mozart's entire mus. remains. He publ. M.'s autograph thematic catalogue, and supplemented it by a list of the works so acquired. By accepting the application of the lithographic process to music-printing (1779), another long stride was taken
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