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A Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1Tulou (Paris); from 1830 he resided in Amsterdam for many years.
3Boorn, Eduard van den, Belgian pianist and critic; d. Liège, Aug 16, 1898, aged 67. Fine concert-pianist. Mus. critic on staff of Liège "Meuse", wrote interesting articles for other papers. For his essay "De l'influence réciproque de l'industrie sur les beaux-arts et des beaux-arts sur l'industrie," he won a gold medal.
5Boosey, Thomas, founder (1825) of the London music-publishing house of Boosey & Co., formerly copyright publishers of Italian operas; now of cheap editions of standard works and popular English music.
7Boott, Francis (pen-name "Telford"), b. Boston, Mass., June 24, 1813; composer, pupil of L. Picchiati in Florence, where he settled—Works: Grand Mass, Te Deum, and "Song of Zechariah," 1 soli, ch., and orch.; Miserere (a capp.); songs, duets; string-quartets.
9Borde, de la. See LAMORDE.
11Borde'se [-dä'-sä], Luigi, b. Naples, 1815; d. Paris, Feb. 17, 1886. Pupil of Naples Cons.; after the unsuccessful production (Turin, 1834) of his opera Zelimo e Zoraida, he went to Paris, where, finding no success as a dramatic composer, he settled as a singing-teacher and composer. Besides 8 operas, he wrote 3 masses, a requiem, motets, and hundreds of sacred and secular songs; also two Vocal Methods, and many vocalises, etc., which are famous.
13Bordier, Jules, b. 1846 (5?); d. Paris, Jan. 29, 1896. Distinguished composer; founded concerts of the Association Artistique d'Angers; went to Paris (1893) as partner in a mus.-publ. house. Early champion of Wagner's music in French provinces.—Works: Several symph. poems; "Méditation" on Bach's 7th prelude; Hungarian Dance, and other instr. pcs., incl. a Danse macabre f. violin; music to A. de Vigny's "Chatterton"; 2 operas, Nadia (Paris), and Le Fiancé de la Mer (Rouen); 4-part male chorus "Patrie" (1893).
15Bordier, Louis-Charles, b. Paris, 1700; d. there 1764. Abbé, "maître de mus" at the Ch. of the Innocents. Publ. "Méthode de musique pratique" for vocal music (1700-78), and a "Traité de composition" (1770).
17Bordo'gni, Giulio Marco, distinguished tenor and singing-teacher; b. Gazzaniga, n. Bergamo, 1788; d. Paris, July 31, 1856. A pupil of S. Mayr, his début (La Scala, Milan, 1813) as "Tancredi" was brilliant. From 1819-33 he was eng. at the Th. des Italiens, Paris; after this he devoted himself to teaching. From 1820 (with an interval of some years) he was prof. at the Paris Cons; Sontag was one of his pupils. His "36 Vocalises," in 2 suites, have run through many editions; he also publ. several other sets.
19Bordo'ni, Faustina. See HASSE, FAUSTINA. one of two readings
20Bordo'ni, Faustina. See Hasse, Faustina. one of two readings
22Bor'ghi, Luigi, skilful violinist and composer, was a pupil of Pugnani, and settled in London abt. 1780. He was leader of the 2nd violins at the Handel Commemoration in 1784. Publ. a great variety of excellent instr. music, chiefly for violin.
24Bor'ghi-Mamo, Adelaide, celebrated dramatic mezzo-soprano; b. Bologna, 1820. Acting on the Pasta's advice, she trained herself for the stage; début, 1846, in Il Giuramento, by Mercadante, at Urbino, where she was eng. She next sang in Italian cities, in Vienna and Paris (1854-6), and 1856-9 was eng. at the Grand Opera. In 1860 she appeared with great success in London; then returned to Italy, and is now (1899) living in Florence.—Her daughter, Erminia, endowed with a grand soprano voice, made her début at Bologna (1875) in Bott's Mefistofele; has sung on important Italian stages, also at the Italian Opera, Paris.
26Bo'rodin [-deen], Alexander Porphyrevitch, b. St. Petersburg, Nov. 12, 1831; d. there Feb. 27 (28?), 1887. Student of medicine and chemistry; army-surgeon; prof. at the St. Petersburg medico-surg. Institute; Counselor of State; Knight; president of the mus. Soc. of Amateurs. Intimate with Liszt (in Weimar), and Balakireff, at whose suggestion he studied music, of which he was passionately fond. He became a foremost exponent of the neo-Russian musical cult. Biography by A. Habets; Engl. ed. London, 1895.—Works. A 4-act opera, Prince Igor [posthumously finished by Rimsky-Korsakov], (Kiev, 1891, very successful); 3 symphonies (Eb, D, A min. [unfinished]); symphonic poem "Dans les steppes de l'Asie Centrale"; scherzo f. orch. (A♭); 2 string-quartets; suite f. pf.; pf.-pcs.; songs, etc.
28Boro'ni (or Buroni), Antonio, b. Rome, 1738; d. there 1797. A pupil of Padre Martini and Girolamo Abos, he lived in Venice (1760-1), Prague (1765), and Dresden (1769), producing at these towns 4, 1, and 3 operas respectively; was court Kapellm. at Stuttgart, where he wrote 8 operas (1770-80); finally m. di capp. at St. Peter's, Rome.
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