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A Cyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, 1908
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1NOTABLE QUOTATIONS, AND INTERESTING FACTS IN MUSICAL HISTORY.
3(See each name in its proper place. See also Chronology of Music.)
5Author of the first musical dictionary—Tinctor.
6Author of the oldest extant organ book—Paumann.
7Bâton used in England abt. 1820. (See Bâton.)
8"Belgian Orpheus"—Lasso (Lassus).
9Birth of opera. (See Bardi.)
10Birth of oratorio. (See Neri.)
11Chief of the Meistersingers—Hans Sachs.
12Chief promoter of "C" organs in England—Gauntlett.
13Chief writer on orchestration—Gevaert.
14"Christopher Columbus of brass instruments"—Adolphe Sax.
15"Clown of the orchestra"—the bassoon.
16Composer of "Rule Britannia"—Dr. Arne.
17Composer of the first French opera—Abbé Mailly. (See also Cambert and Lully).
18Composer of the first opera—Peri.
19Creator of French burlesque opera—Offenbach.
20Creator of French operetta—Hervé.
21Creator of melodrama—Rousseau.
22"Creator of the modern science of harmony"—Rameau.
23"Creator of modern trombone playing"—Queisser.
24"Creator of National Hungarian Opera"—F. Erkel.
25"Creator of the modern Viennese Waltz"—Lanner.
26Creator of the modern violin bow—Tourte.
27"Diabolus in Musica"—the tritone.
28Discoverer of difference-tones—Tartini.
29Earliest composer in the "New Style"—Galilei.
30Earliest known analytical programmes. (See Ella, and Reichardt.)
31Earliest known attempts to show pitch by parallel lines. (See Hucbald.)
32Earliest known organ-builder—Van Os.
33Earliest known regular fugue. (See P. Philipps.)
34Earliest work on conducting. (See Pisa.)
35Earliest writer on mensurable music—Franco of Cologne.
36"English Handel"—H. Purcell.
37"English Mendelssohn"—Sterndale Bennett.
38"English Palestrina"—O. Gibbons,
39Famous left-hand pf. player—Zichy.
40"Father of all such as handle the harp and organ"—Jubal (Gen. iv. 21.)
41"Father of Christian Hymnology"—St. Ambrose.
42"Father of English church music"—Tallis.
43"Father of English counterpoint"—Dunstable.
44"Father of German counterpoint"—Thiele.
45"Father of Greek music"—Terpander.
46"Father of the art of instrumentation"—Monteverde.
47"Father of the German Lied"—Heinrich Albert.
48"Father of modern French musical criticism"—Castil-Blaze.
49"Father of modern instrumental music"—Haydn.
50"Father of modern Norwegian music"—Nordraak.
51"Father of modern pf. playing"—Clementi.
52"Father of modern vn. playing"—Viotti. (See also Covelli.)
53"Father of the New Style"—Caccini.
54"Father of the nocturne"—Field.
55"Father of the oratorio"—Animmuccia.
56"Father of the Organ voluntary"—Fresco-baldi.
57"Father of the Roman school"—Goudimel.
58"Father of the symphony"—Haydn.
59"Father of the waltz"—Johann Strauss, senr.
60"Father of ultra-modern orchestration"—Berlioz.
61First Cambridge Prof. of Music—Staggins.
62First composer of comic opera—Acciajuoli.
63First composer of Polish opera—Kamienski.
64First copper-plate music printer—Verovio.
65First French opera. (See Opera.)
66First German oratorio. (See Oratorio.)
67First German organ. (See Faber.)
68First German pf. maker—G. Silbermann.
69First German Singspiel. (See Opera.)
70First German to employ popular themes in opera—Keiser.
71"First great composers for the harpsichord"—Byrd and Couperin.
72First harpsichord sonata—Kuhnau, 1695.
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