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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1'macstro al cembalo' at the Italian Theater. Returning to Naples in 1758 he taught at the Cons. della Pietà de' Turchini. Among his pupils was Paisicillo. Abos wrote 14 operas which were produced in Naples, Rome and London; of these, Tito Manlio (Naples, May 30, 1751) was successful; also composed 7 masses and other church music. He is often confused with his contemporary, the Neapolitan opera composer, Giuseppe Avossa (1716-96).
3Abraham, Gerald, eminent English musicologist; b. Newport, Isle of Wight, March 9, 1904. He studied piano; became interested in philology; has mastered the Russian language and made a profound study of Russian music which has become his specialty. From 1935-47 he was connected with the B.B.C. in London; then was appointed prof. of music at Liverpool Univ. He has publ. the following books: Borodin (1927); This Modern Stuff (1933; revised edition under the title This Modern Music, 1952); Masters of Russian Music (in collaboration with M. D. Calvocoressi, 1936); A Hundred Years of Music (1938); On Russian Music (1939); Chopin's Musical Style (1939); Beethoven's Second-Period Quartets (1942); 8 Soviet Composers (1943); Rimsky-Korsakov: A Short Biography (1945); also edited collections of articles on Tchaikovsky (1945), Schubert (1946), Sibelius (1947), Schumann (1952), Handel (1954). Abraham has contributed important biographical articles to the 5th edition of Grove's Dictionary (1954).
5Abraham, Max, German publisher; b. Danzig, June 3, 1831; d. Leipzig, Dec. 8, 1900. He became a partner in C. F. Peters' 'Bureau de Musique' in 1863, and sole proprietor in 1880. On Jan. 1, 1894, his nephew, Heinrich Hinrichsen, of Hamburg, entered the firm and, upon Abraham's death, became its head. The famous 'Edition Peters' was inaugurated by Abraham.
7Abraham, Otto, German specialist in tone psychology; b. Berlin, May 31, 1872; d. there, Jan. 24, 1926. He studied medicine; became an associate of Stumpf at the Berlin Psychological Institute from 1894; then collaborated with Hornbostel in building up the Archive of Phonographic Recordings in Berlin. He published several valuable treatises on acoustics and primitive music, among them Wahrnehmung kürzester Töne und Geräusche (1898); Studien über das Tonsystem und die Musik der Japaner (1904); Phonographierte Indianermelodien aus British-Columbia (1905; with Hornbostel). He also wrote studies on recorded Turkish, Siamese and Hindu melodies; a paper on Chinese musical notation, etc.
9Abrányi, Cornelius, Hungarian pianist, composer and writer on music; grandfather of Emil Abrányi; b. Szentgyörgy-Abrányi, Oct. 15, 1822; d. Budapest, Dec. 20, 1903. He came of an ancient Magyar family whose name was originally Eördögh. He was first destined to a legal profession, but in 1834 a meeting with the Hungarian national composer, Erkel, made him decide to study music. In 1843 Abrányi went abroad; in Munich he met Liszt, and became his lifelong friend. He went to Paris and took lessons with Chopin and Kalkbrenner for a short time, returning to Hungary in 1845. He took a leading part in the formation and encouragement of the Hungarian national school of composition during the second half of the nineteenth century. His compositions (130 opus numbers) emphasize the Hungarian national elements; the most ambitious of these works being his Hungarian Millennial Sonata, op. 103. His books (all in Hungarian) include: Art and Revolution (1867); Biography of Franz Liszt and Survey of his Oratorio Christus (1873); General History of Music (1886); History of Hungarian Music in the Nineteenth Century (1900). He also wrote an autobiography, From My Life and Memories (1897).
11Abrányi, Emil, composer and conductor; b. Budapest, Sept. 22, 1882. His father was Emil Abrányi, the poet, and his grandfather, Cornelius Abrányi. In 1902 he went to Germany and studied under Nikisch in Leipzig. He was engaged as conductor to the Municipal Theater at Cologne (1904) and at Hanover (1907). Returning to Budapest (1911) he became conductor at the Royal Opera House; he was also active as music critic. He was director of the Budapest Municipal Theater (1921-26); conducted various orchestras in the provinces. As a composer, Abrányi follows the tradition of Wagner. The following stage works were performed at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest: The King of the Mist, ballet (Oct. 17, 1909); the operas Monna Vanna (March 2, 1907); Paolo e Francesca (Jan. 13, 1912); Don Quixote (Nov. 30, 1917); Ave Maria (1922). Other operas are Singing Dervishes (1935); The Prince with the Lilies (1938); Byzantium (1942); Sorceress Eve (1944); The Tale of Balaton (1945) and The Cantor of St. Thomas Church (1947; the first opera written on the life of J. S. Bach).
13Abravanel, Maurice, conductor; b. Sal-
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