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A cyclopædic dictionary of music .., 1925
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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.
7"Bach, the modern"—Max Reger.
8"Backbone of the Tonic Sol-fa system"—the Modulator.
9Bâton used in England abt. 1820. (See Bâton.)
10"Bayreuth, the master of"—Richd. Wagner.
11"Bayreuth, the heir of"—Siegfried Wagner.
12"Beethoven, the Russian"—Tchaikowsky.
13"Belgian Orpheus"—Lasso (Lassus).
14Birth of opera. (See Bardi.)
15Birth of oratorio. (See Neri.)
16Chief of the Meistersingers—Hans Sachs.
17Chief promoter of "C" organs in England—Gauntlett.
18Chief writer on orchestration—Gevaert.
19"Christopher Columbus of brass instruments"—Adolphe Sax.
20"Clown of the orchestra"—the bassoon.
21Composer of "Rule Britannia"—Dr. Arne.
22Composer of the first French opera—Abbé Mailly. (See also Cambert and Lully).
23Composer of the first opera—Peri.
24Composer of the "Marseillaise"—Rouget de Lisle.
25Creator of French burlesque opera—Offenbach.
26Creator of French operetta—Hervé.
27Creator of melodrama—Rousseau.
28"Creator of the modern science of harmony"—Rameau.
29"Creator of modern trombone playing"—Queisser.
30"Creator of National Hungarian Opera"—F. Erkel.
31"Creator of the modern Viennese Waltz"—Lanner.
32Creator of the modern violin bow—Tourte.
33"Diabolus in Musica"—the tritone.
34Discoverer of difference-tones—Tartini.
35Earliest composer in the "New Style"—Galilei.
36Earliest known analytical programmes. (See Ella, and Reichardt.)
37Earliest known attempts to show pitch by parallel lines. (See Hucbald.)
38Earliest known organ-builder—Van Os.
39Earliest known regular fugue. (See P. Philipps.)
40Earliest work on conducting. (See Pisa.)
41Earliest writer on mensurable music—Franco of Cologne.
42"English Handel"—H. Purcell.
43"English Mendelssohn"—Sterndale Bennett.
44"English Palestrina"—O. Gibbons.
45"English Tourte"—John Dodd.
46Famous left-hand pf. player—Zichy.
47"Father of all such as handle the harp and organ"—Jubal (Gen. iv. 21.).
48"Father of Christian Hymnology"—St. Ambrose.
49"Father of English church music"—Tallis.
50"Father of English counterpoint"—Dunstable.
51"Father of German counterpoint"—Thiele.
52"Father of Greek music"—Terpander.
53"Father of Solmization"—Guido.
54"Father of the art of instrumentation"—Monteverde.
55"Father of the German Lied"—Heinrich Albert.
56"Father of modern French musical criticism"—Castil-Blaze.
57"Father of modern instrumental music"—Haydn.
58"Father of modern Norwegian music"—Nordraak.
59"Father of modern pf. playing"—Clementi, (or C. P. E. Bach).
60"Father of modern vn. playing"—Viotti. (See also Covelli.)
61"Father of the New Style"—Caccini.
62"Father of the nocturne"—Field.
63"Father of the oratorio"—Animuccia.
64"Father of the Organ voluntary"—Fresco-baldi.
65"Father of the Roman school"—Goudimel.
66"Father of the symphony"—Haydn.
67"Father of the waltz"—Johann Strauss, senr.
68"Father of ultra-modern orchestration"—Berlioz.
69First Cambridge Prof. of Music—Staggins.
70First composer of comic opera—Acciajuoli.
71First composer of Polish opera—Kamienski.
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