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A biographical dictionary of musicians, 1900
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1Petruc’ci, Ottaviano (de), the inventor of music-printing with movable types; b. Fossombrone, June 18, 1466; d. May 7, 1539. In 1498 he received from the Council of the Republic of Venice the privilege of printing music by his new method for 20 years, and worked there industriously 1501–11, then ceding the business to A. Scotti and N. da Rafael, and removing to Fossombrone, with a 15-year privilege for printing within the Papal States. His editions, printed with great neatness, are rare and highly prized specimens of early press-work. In Fossombrone he worked from 1513–23. His invention appeared at the most flourishing epoch of the Netherland School, and his first work, “Harmonicae musices Odhecaton. A” (1501), contains 94 chansons a 3, 222 a 4, and 15 motets, by famous composers before 1501. Further publications: 1502, “Canti. B” (dated Feb. 15, 1501; but as the Venetian New Year’s Day was Easter Sunday, the date acc. to modern style is 1502; 2nd ed. Aug. 4, 1503); “Misse Josquin” (also a 2nd ed.); “Missarum Josquin, Lib. I”;—1503, “Canti. C”; “Mottetti. B”; “Missarum Josquin, Lib. II–III”; “Misse Brumel”; “Misse Ghiselin”; “Misse Pierre de la Rue”; “Misse Obrecht”;—1504, “Misse Alexandri Agricolae”; “Mottetti. C”; “Frottole, Lib. I–IV” (Book IV as “Strambotti, Ode, Frottole, Sonetti et modo de cantar versi Latini e capituli”);—1505, “Frottole,” Lib. V–VI; “Misse de Orto”; “Mottetti,” Lib. IV;—1506, “Lamentationum Jeremie prophetae,” Lib. I–II; “Misse Henrici Izac”;—1507, “Frottole,” Lib. VII–VIII; “Missarum diversorum auctorum,” Lib. I;—1508, “Frottole, Lib. IX”; “Intabolatura de lauto,” Lib. I–IV (contains “Padoane, Calate, Frottole,” etc.); “Misse diversorum auctorum”;—1509, “Tenori e contrabassi intabolati col soprano in canto figurato . . . Francisci Bossoniensis opus”;—printed at Fossombrone: 1513, a vol. of Masses;—1514, “Mottetti della Corona”;—1515, “Missarum Joannis Mouton, Lib. I”; “Misse Antonii de Fevin”;—1516, “Missarum X a clarissimi musicis, . . . Libri II”; 1519, “Mottetti della Corona,” Lib. II–IV.—Of the “Missarum Josquin,” Book II was reprinted in 1515, and Books I and III in 1516; there is an undated reprint of Book I of “Motetti della Corona”; and 2 books of Laudi were publ. without date. P.’s last publications were 3 books of masses (1520–3) printed in folio as chorus-books.—Anton Schmid’s monograph on P. (1845) is valuable, but not up to date.
3Pe’trus de Cru’ce [Pierre de la Croix], of Amiens, was a 13th-century writer on mensural music; treatise printed in Coussemaker’s “Scrip-tores.”
5Pe’trus Platen’sis. See LA RUE.
7Petsch’ke, Dr. Hermann Theobald, b. Bautzen, Mar. 21, 1806; d. Leipzig, Jan. 28, 1888. On Board of Directors of the Gewandhaus Concerts. Comp. excellent choruses for men’s voices.
9Petch’nikoff, Alexander, b. Moscow (?), about 1873. Violinist; pupil of Moscow Cons.; his precocious talent gained influential protection. Very successful German tour 1895–6. His Stradivarius formerly belonged to Ferdinand Laub.
11Pet’zold, Christian, b. Königstein, 1677; d. Dresden, July 2, 1733, as court org. and chamber-comp.—Harpsichord-concertos and chamber-music in MS. at Dresden.
13Pet’zold (or Petzhold), Wilhelm Leberecht, b. Lichtenhain, Saxony, July 2, 1784; d. (?). Piano-maker, with J. Pfeiffer in Paris, 1806–14, later independent. His squares were favored before Pape’s time, as his strings were longer and thicker, and his instr.s more solidly built, than the generality.
15Pet’zold, Eugen Karl, b. Ronneburg, Altenburg, Nov. 7, 1813; d. Zofingen, Switz., Jan. 22, 1889, as mus. dir. and organist (since 1844). Active promoter of mus. art in Zofingen, establishing subscription and sacred concerts, and composing music to Goethe’s Faust, Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell, etc.
17Pevernage, André [Andreas], b. Courtray, Belgium, 1543; d. Antwerp, July 30, 1591, as choirmaster at Notre-Dame.—Publ. chansons a 5 and a 6–8, motets a 6–8, masses a 5–7, and “Laudes vespertinae Mariae . . .” (1604; a 4–6). Other music in collections.
19Pe’zel [Pezelius], Johann, town-musician at Bautzen and Leipzig; an industrious 17th-century instrumental composer. Among some 13 publ. sets of pieces, the following exhibit his instr.l combinations. “Bicinia variorum instrumentorum, ut a Violinis, Cornettis, Flautis, Clarinis et Fagottis cum appendice a 2 Bombardinis vulgo Schalmey” (1674); “Deliciae musicales oder Lustmusik, bestehend in Sonetten, Allemanden, Balletten, Gavotten, Couranten, Sarabanden und Giguen von 5 Stimmen, als 2 Violinen, 2 Violen nebst dem B C” (1678); “Intraten a 4, nehmlich mit einem Cornett und drei Trombonen” (1683); “Opus musicum sonatarum praestantissimarum 6 instrumentis instructum, ut 2 Violinis, 3 Violis et Fagotto adjuncto B C” (1686). He printed essays: Observationes musicae” (1678–83), “Infelix musicus” (1678), and “Musica politico-practica” (1678).
21Pfeiffer, Karl, b. 1833 (?); d. Vienna, Feb. 17, 1897. For 30 years chorus-director at the Vienna Imp. Opera. Wrote 2 operas, Das Nordlicht and Harold (both unsucc. prod. at the Vienna Opera); 1 mass, several part-songs, and songs.
23Pfeiffer, Jean-Georges, b. Versailles, Dec. 12, 1835. Pianist and comp., pupil of the Male-den and Damcke. Successful début at the Cons. concerts, 1862. Has received the Prix Chartier for chamber-music; has also prod. a symphony;
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