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A biographical dictionary of musicians, 1900
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1"POLLAROLO—PONCHIELLI
3"Erinnerungen an F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" (1868); "Niccolò Paganini und die Geigenbauer" (1876; also Ital. transl.); "Vom Gesang" (1876); "Aus der Künstlerwelt" (1878); "Die Classiker der Musik" (1880; Händel, Bach, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven); etc.
5Pollaro'lo, Carlo Francesco, b. Brescia, 1653; d. Venice, 1722. Pupil of Legrenzi; 1665, singer at San Marco, Venice; 1690, organist of the 2nd organ, and from 1692 vice-maestro. At Venice alone he prod. 64 operas from 1686–1721; at least 3 others are known. They were very popular in their day.—His son,
7Pollaro'lo, Antonio, b. Venice, 1680; d. there 1750; succeeded his father in 1723, and was Lotti's successor (1740) as 1st maestro at San Marco. Comp. 8 operas for Venice; also church-music.
9Polle'dro, Giovanni Battista, noteworthy violinist; b. Piovà, n. Turin, June 10, 1781; d. there Aug. 15, 1853. A pupil of Pugnani, he joined the court orch. at Turin, gave his first concert in 1797, travelled 1799–1801, lived in Milan and Moscow, toured Germany and France, was Kapellm. at Dresden 1814–24, and maestro of the court orch. at Turin 1824–44.—Publ. Sinfonia pastorale f. full orch.; a mass; a Miserere a 4 w. orch.; 5 violin-concertos; 1 bassoon-concerto; duets and trios for strings; pieces f. violin w. orch.; studies f. violin; etc.
11Polli'ni, Francesco (Giuseppe), pianist; b. Laibach, Carniola, 1763; d. Milan, Sept. 17, 1846. Pupil of Mozart (who dedicated a violin-rondo to him) at Vienna, later of Zingarelli at Milan, where he was app. prof. of pf. shortly after the opening of the Cons. (1809). The first (?) to write pf.-music on 3 staves, imitated therein by Liszt, Thalberg, and others; a specimen of this style being one of his "32 Ezercizi in forma di toccata" (op. 42), a central melody surrounded by passage-work for both hands.—Publ. (f. pf.) Toccatas, op. 31, 50, 67; Toccata in G; 3 Sonatas, op. 26; Caprices, op. 28, 29; Rondo, op. 43; 6 books of Variations; Divertimento pastorale, op. 34; a Method f. pf. (2 editions); a Stabat Mater in Ital. f. sopr. and alto, w. 2 violins, 2 'celli, and organ; etc.
13Polli'ni, Bernhard, (real family-name Pohl,) famous impresario; b. Cologne, Dec. 16, 1838; d. Hamburg, Nov. 27, 1897. A tenor singer, he made his début at Cologne, 1858, as Arturo in Bellini's I Puritani; later sang baritone rôles in an Italian opera-troupe, of which he subsequently became manager and artistic director. He then undertook the management of the Lemberg Th., later of the Italian opera at St. Petersburg and Moscow. His fame dates from his assumption, in 1874, of the directorship of the Hamburg City Th.; in 1876 he also became manager of the Altona Th., and in 1894 (?) of the Thalia Th. in Hamburg. All these enterprises were in a highly prosperous condition at his death.—In 1897 he married the singer Bianca Bianchi (his second wife). He had received the title of "Hofrath" in recognition of his services. His successors are Franz Bittong and Max Bachur.
15Polli'ni, Cesare, Cavaliere de', b. Padua, July 13, 1858. After legal studies at the Univ. there, he took a 2-year course in music with Bazzini in Milan (1881–3); was from 1883–5 Director of the chief Cons. at Padua; resigned to devote himself to writing and composition. Has publ. a "Terminologia musicale tedesco-italiana"; a "Teoria generale della musica"; "La musica italiana nelle sue principale fasi storiche"; also, in the journal, "Il Teatro illustrato" of Milan, translations and analyses of works by Ambros, Hirschfeld, Langhans, and Riemann (he is an advocate of the theories of the last-named).
17Pol'itzer, Adolf, b. Pesth, 1832. Pupil, at Vienna, of Böhm (vln.) and Preyer (comp.); then, after a European tour, of Alard at Paris. In 1851, leader of orch. at H. M.'s Th., London; later, to the New Philharm. Society. Prof. of violin at the London Acad. of Music, of which he has been a director since 1890, succeeding Dr. Wylde.
19Ponchard, Louis-Antoine-Éléonore, b. Paris, Aug. 31, 1787; d. there June 6, 1866. Tenor singer, pupil of Garat at the Cons.; début 1812 at the Opéra-Comique in Grétry's Tableau parlant, singing there until 1817; in 1819 he became prof. of singing at the Cons. He was the first stage-singer accepted into the Legion of Honor.—His son Charles, b. Paris, Nov. 17, 1824, d. there in May, 1891, had a class in comedy-opera at the Cons.
21Ponchiel'li, Amilcare, a modern opera-composer who stands next to Verdi in Italian estimation; b. Paderno Fasolaro, Cremona, Aug. 31, 1834; d. Milan, Jan. 16, 1886. Studied 1843–54 at the Milan Cons.; his first dramatic work (written with 3 other students) was the operetta Il Sindaco Babbeo (1851). Leaving the Cons., he at first took the organ at S. Ilario in Cremona; then became bandmaster; but in 1856 brought out the opera I promessi sposi at Cremona, followed by La Savojarda (1861; revised as Lina, Milan, 1877), Roderico, re de' Goti (Piacenza, 1864), and La Stella del monte (1867); his first striking success was achieved with a revised version of I promessi sposi (Milan, 1872), whereupon he was commissioned to write a ballet for La Scala, Milan, where Le due gemelle, in 7 acts, was prod. in 1873. Continuous good fortune attended the production of the operas I Lituani
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