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1BEFFROY—BELLELMANN
3Eure, Aug. 23, 1751; d. Paris, Feb. 2, 1838. Commissaire de Police 1792-1816, at Paris. Antiquary and writer.—Works: "Dict. de l'Académie royale de Musique" (7 vol.s), and 7 vol.s of rules and regulations of the Académie (Grand Opéra); "Dict. alphab. des acteurs, etc." (3 vol.s); "Tableau chronologique des représentations journalières, etc." (from 1671); "Dict. alphab. des tragédies lyriques . . . non représentés à l'Académie, etc." (5 vol.s); "Dramaturgie lyrique étrangère" (17 vol.s). He left his rare coll. of books and MSS. to the city of Paris; all were burned during the Commune, in 1871.
5Beffroy de Reigny, Louis-Abel (better known as Cousin-Jacques), b. Laon, Nov. 6, 1757; d. Paris, Dec. 18, 1811. The author of several whimsical stage-pcs. for which he wrote both text and music, and all of which are forgotten. Fétis says that he had neither literary nor musical talent; but Nicodème dans la lune (1790, given 191 times in 13 mos.) and Les deux Nicodèmes (1791, prohibited after 7 representations, on acct. of exciting the democrats), were certainly successful in their way.
7Behn'ke [bän'-kěh], Emil, b. Stettin, 1836; d. Ostende, Sept. 17, 1892. Lived chiefly in London as an authority on voice-training, and teacher of voice-production to singers and speakers. Lecturer on physiology of voice. Wrote "The Mechanism of the Human Voice" (London, 1880); "Voice, Song and Speech" [in coöp. with Lennox Browne] (1883); "Voice-training Exercises" (1884), and "The Child's Voice" (1885), the last two in coöp. w. Dr. C. W. Pearce.
9Behr, Franz, comp. f. pf., b. Lübtheen, Mecklenburg, July 22, 1837. Has publ. a great number of light and popular salon-pcs., some under the pseudonyms of "William Cooper," "Charles Morley" and "Francesco d'Orso."
11Bei'er, (Dr.) Franz. In 1888, Kapellm. (Musikdirektor?) in the Royal Theatre at Kassel.—Opera-parody Der Posaunist von Scherkingen (Kassel, 1889; succ.); comic operetta Der Gaunerkönig (Kassel, 1890; succ.).
13Bel'cke, Friedrich August, b. Lucka, Altenburg, May 27, 1795; d. there Dec. 10, 1874. Celebrated trombone-player; 1815, in Gewandhaus Orch., Leipzig; chamber-musician at Berlin, 1816-58. He was the first concert-virtuoso on the trombone, for which he wrote concertos and études. His brother,
15Bel'cke, Christian Gottlieb, b. Lucka, July 17, 1796; d. there July 8, 1875; a brilliant flutist, 1819-32 in Gewandhaus Orch., Leipzig, 1834-41 at Altenburg. Wrote concertos, fantasias, etc., f. flute.
17Beldoman'dis (or Beldemandis, Beldemando), Prosdocimus de, b. towards end of 14th cent. at Padua, where he was prof. of philosophy abt. 1422. Wrote theoretical and controversial treatises on Mensural Music (one is republ. in vol. iii of Coussemaker's "Scrip-tores"); he was a strenuous opponent of the theories of Marchettus of Padua.
19Be'lliczay, Julius von, b. Komorn; Hungary, Aug. 10, 1835; d. Pesth, May 1, 1893. Pupil of Joachim, Hoffmann and Franz Krenn; 1888, prof. of theory at the Natl. Acad. of Mus., Pesth.—Works: Mass in F, often perf.; symphony in D min. (1888); Ave Maria, f. sopr. solo, ch., and orch. (op. 9); serenade f. strings (op. 36); Andante f. string-orch. (op. 25); trio in Eb (op. 30); string-quartet in G min. (op. 21); pf.-pcs., études, songs, etc. In 1891 he publ. Part I of a "Method of Comp." (in Hungarian).
21Belin (or Bellin), Guillaume, abt. 1547 tenor singer in the Chapelle Royale, Paris; comp. Cantiques in 4 parts (1560) and Chansons (some are in Attaignant's coll. of 1543-4).
23Belin, Julien, b. Le Mans, abt. 1530; one of the most skillful lutenists of his time. Publ. (Paris, 1556) a book of motets, chansons, and fantasias in lute-tablature.
25Bel'la, Domenico della, famous 'cellist and comp. f. 'cello; publ. 12 sonatas w. 'cello obbligato and cembalo (Venice, 1704), and a 'cello-concerto (1705).
27Bel'la, Johann Leopold, b. St. Nicolam, Upper Hungary, 1843; priest and canon at Neusohl; comp. of much church-music in severe style; also orch. works, national choruses f. men's voices and mixed chorus, pf.-pcs., etc.
29Bella'sio, Paolo, comp. of the Venetian school in the 16th cent.; publ. a vol. of Madrigals (1579), one of Villanelle alla Romana (1595), and various other madrigals in the coll. "Dolci affetti" (1568).
31Bell'Ave're (or Bell'Haver'), Vincenzo, b. Venice, 1530(?); d. there 1588(?); pupil of A. Gabrieli, whom he succeeded as 2nd org. of San Marco (1586). Publ. several books of madrigals (1567-75), and single ones in various collections.
33Bellaz'zi, Francesco, Venetian comp., pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli; publ. (1618-28) a mass, psalms, motets, litanies, canzoni, etc.
35Bellère (or Bellerus, properly Beellaerts), Jean, bookseller and music-publisher at Antwerp, where he died abt. 1595. A partner of Pierre l'halèse (fils). His son, Balthasar, transferred the business to Douai, and printed much music up to abt. 1625. His printed catalogue of compositions publ. by him (1603-5), was found by Coussemaker in the Douai library.
37Bel'lermann, Johann Friedrich, b. Erfurt, Mar. 8, 1795; d. Berlin, Feb. 4, 1874. From 1847-68, Director of the gymnasium "Zum grauen Kloster" at Berlin. Distinguished writer on Greek music. His chief work is "Die Tonleitern u. Musiknoten der Griechen" (Berlin, 1847; explanatory of the Greek system
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