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A biographical dictionary of musicians. [With portraits from drawings in pen and ink, 1900
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11770, he met Sacchini, who helped him to bring out his first opera, Il finto cieco, at Vienna (1770). He wrote 32 more operas, mostly for Italian theatres; his Il convitato di pietra (Bergamo, 1788; at Lucca, 1792, as Don Giovanni Tenorio) is interesting as identical in subject with Mozart's Don Giovanni. In 1791, G. was app. m. di capp. of Crema cathedral, for which he wrote considerable sacred music (masses, a Stabat Mater, a Te Deum, etc.).
3Gear, George Frederick, b. London, May 21, 1857. Concert-pianist and comp.; pupil of Dr. Wylde and J. F. Barnett; gained a scholarship in 1872 at the London Acad. of Mus., in which he is professor. From 1876-92 he was mus. dir. of the German Reed Company.—Works: String-quartet; 2 pf.-sonatas; Scena f. sopr. solo and orch.; 2 operettas, A Water-cure and Hobbies; songs; etc.
5Gebauer, Michel Joseph, b. La Fère, Aisne, in 1763; d. 1812, during the retreat from Moscow. At 14 he was an oboist in the Royal Swiss Guard; and became an expert violinist and viol-player. In 1791, oboist in the Garde Nationale; from 1794-1802, prof. at the Cons.; thereafter bandmaster of the Garde des Consuls, and later of the Imperial Guard, having to accompany the army on various campaigns, during which he studied and profited by German military music. His marches for band (over 200) were very popular; he publ. many duets for 2 vlns., f. vln. and vla., for 2 flutes, f. flute and horn, flute and bassoon, etc.; also quartets for fl., clar., horn, and bassoon.—He had 3 brothers:
7Gebauer, François-René, b. Versailles, 1773; d. Paris, July, 1845. Bassoonist, pupil of his brother Michel, and of Devienne. Prof. of bassoon at Cons., 1796-1802, and after 1825; member of Grand Opéra orch., 1801-26.—Works for wind-instr.s: Quintets, quartets, trios, duets, sonatas, études, and symphonies concertantes; also overtures, military marches, and pot-pourris. Wrote a Method f. bassoon.
9Gebauer, Étienne-François, b. Versailles, 1777; d. Paris, 1823. Flutist, pupil of his brother Michel, and of Hugot. Second flute in the Op.-Com. orch., 1801; first flute, 1813-22.—Works: Over 100 flute solos, etc.; flute-duets, sonatas f. fl. and bass, exercises f. fl., airs variés f. clarinet.
11Gebauer, Pierre-Paul, b. Versailles, 1775, and died young. Publ. 20 horn-duets.
13Gebauer, Franz Xaver, b. Eckersdorf, n. Glatz, 1784; d. Vienna, Dec. 13, 1822. From 1816, choirmaster at the Augustiner Hofpfarrkirche, Vienna; in 1819 he founded the celebrated "Concerts spirituels," being their first cond.; he was also a member of the "Gesell. d. Musikfreunde," and a friend of Beethoven.—Publ. songs and part-songs.
15Ge'bel, Georg (Sr.), b. Breslau, 1685; d. there 1750. A runaway tailor's apprentice, he studied under Winkler and Krause, became org. at Brieg (1709), and at Breslau (1713). He invented a clavichord with quarter-tones, and a clavicymbalum with a pedal-keyboard. His numerous comp.s (a Passion oratorio, cantatas, masses, psalms, canons up to 30 parts, organ-pcs., clavichord-music, etc.) are unpublished.
17Ge'bel, Georg (Jr.), b. Brieg, Silesia, Oct. 25, 1709; d. Rudolstadt, Sept. 24, 1753. Pupil of his father; in 1729, 2nd org. at St. Maria Magdalene, Breslau, and Kapellm. to the Duke of Öls. In 1735 he joined Count Brühl's orch. at Dresden, where he met Hebenstreit, the inventor of the Pantaleon, and learned to play that instr. In 1747 he was app. Kapellm. to the Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. A very prolific composer; wrote, while in Rudolstadt, 12 operas, 2 Passions, 2 Christmas cantatas, sets of cantatas for several years, more than 100 orch. symphonies, partitas, and concertos, etc.; and in Breslau a great variety of instr.l and vocal music.
19Ge'bel, George Sigismund, brother of the preceding; d. 1775, Breslau, where he was org. of the Elisabethkirche.—Preludes and fugues f. org.
21Ge'bel, Franz Xaver, b. Fürstenau, n. Breslau, 1787; d. Moscow, 1843. Pupil of Albrechtsberger and Abbé Vogler; Kapellm. at Leopoldstadt Th., Vienna, in 1810; later at theatres in Pesth and Lemberg; from 1817, piano-teacher in Moscow.—Works: Operas, a mass, 4 symphonies, overtures, string-quintets and -quartets, many pf.-pcs., etc.
23Geb'hard, Martin Anton, b. Bavaria, 1770. A Benedictine monk at Benediktbeurn; after the suppression (1803) of the order, he became a priest at Steinsdorf, where he was still living in 1831. His philosophical works: "Versuch zur Begründung einer Wissenschaft, Chronometrie genannt" (Nuremberg, 1808), and "Harmonie: Erklärung dieser Idee in 3 Büchern und Anwendung derselben auf den Menschen in allen Beziehungen" (Munich, 1817), despite brilliant originality, lead to no positive result.
25Gebhar'di, Ludwig Ernst, b. Nottleben, Thuringia, 1787; d. Erfurt, Sept. 4, 1862. Org. and music-teacher at Erfurt Seminary. Publ. several collections of organ-pcs.; also, school-songs, a Choralbuch, a Method f. org., and a Method of Thorough-bass (1828-35, 4 vol.s, frequently republ.).
27Gédalge, André, b. Paris, Dec. 27, 1856. Pupil of Cons. (Guiraud) in 1884; 2nd Grand prix de Rome in 1885; took the Prix Cressent in 1895 with the 2-act lyric drama Hélène. Has also comp. the music to Carre's pantomime Le petit Savoyard (Paris, 1891); "Vaux de Vire" for solo, ch. and orch. (1895); a 1-act op.-bouffe Pris au piège (Paris, 1895; mod. succ.); 2 symphonies, several orch.l suites, a string-quartet, pf.-pcs. etc.
29Geh'ring, Franz, b. 1838; d. Penzing, n. Vienna, Jan. 4, 1884; lecturer on mathematics at Vienna Univ. Wrote the biogr. of Mozart
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