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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1(1935); Sonata Ballade (1936) and Sonata Legend "Capricornia" (1940).
3Agostini, Lodovico, Italian composer and poet; b. Ferrara, 1534; d. there Sept. 20, 1590. He served as maestro di cappella to Alphonso II of Este, Duke of Ferrara. A number of his sacred and secular vocal works (madrigals, motets, masses, vespers, etc.) were published in Milan, Ferrara and Venice (1567-86).
5Agostini, Mezio, Italian composer and theorist; b. Fano, Aug. 12, 1875; d. there, April 22, 1944. He studied with his father and with Carlo Pedrotti at the Liceo Rossini in Pesaro (1885-92); later became a harmony teacher there. He succeeded Wolf-Ferrari as director of the Liceo Benedetto Marcello in Venice (1909-40). Agostini wrote the following operas: Iovo e Maria (1896); Il Cavaliere del Sogno (1897); La penna d'Airon (1898); Alcibiade (1902); America (1904); Ombra (1907); L'Anello del sogno (1928). He also wrote a symphony, 4 orchestral suites, a string quartet, 2 piano trios, a cantata A Rossini, piano picccs and songs.
7Agostini, Paolo, Italian organist and composer; b. Vallerano, 1593; d. Rome, Oct. 3, 1629. He studied with Giovanni Bernardino Nanino in Rome; was organist at S. Maria in Trastevere, in Rome, and at S. Lorenzo in Damaso. He succeeded Vincenzo Ugolini as maestro di cappella at the Vatican in 1626. Agostini's published works, 7 books of psalms (1619), 2 books of magnificats and antiphons (1620) and 5 books of masses (1624-28) are only a small portion of his total output. Most of his manuscripts are preserved in various Roman libraries. His music displays great ingenuity of contrapuntal structure; some of his choral works are written in 48 independent parts.
9Agostini, Pietro Simone, Italian composer; b. Rome, c. 1650. He was in the service of the Duke of Parma as maestro di cappella. He wrote 6 operas: Tolemeo (Venice, 1668); Ippolita (Milan, 1670); La costanza di Rosmonda (Genoa, 1670); Adelinda (Aricia, 1673); Il Ratto delle Sabine (Venice, 1680); and Floridea (Venice, 1687). Some of his operas were written in collaboration with Busca, Ziani and others. He also wrote oratorios, motets and secular cantatas.
11Agrell, Johan Joachim, Swedish composer; b. I.öth, Feb. 1, 1701; d. Nuremberg, Jan. 19, 1765. He studied at Uppsala Univ.; later he was active in Kassel (1723-46) and in Nuremberg (from 1746). Among his published works are 5 concertos for cembalo and strings, 2 sonatas for violin and cembalo, 6 sonatas for cembalo solo, and pieces for cembalo in dance forms. His symphonies and cantatas are preserved in various European libraries (Stockholm, Uppsala, Brussels, Berlin, Königsberg, Munich and Darmstadt).
13Agricola, Alexander, composer of the Netherland school; sometimes said to have been of German extraction, but referred to as a Belgian in his epitaph; b. Flanders, c. 1446; d. 1506 at Valladolid, Spain. He was in the service of the Duke of Milan from 1472-74; then went to Cambrai; in 1476 he is mentioned as "petit vicaire" at Cambrai Cathedral. He later traveled in Italy; entered the service of Philip I of Burgundy in 1500 and followed him to Spain in 1502, returning to Belgium in 1505. He went to Spain again in January, 1506 and died shortly afterward. Thirty-one of Agricola's songs and motets were printed by Petrucci (Venice, 1501-03) who also published a volume of 5 masses based on chanson material: Le Serviteur, Je ne demande, Malheur me bat, Primi toni, Secundi toni (Venice 1503). Modern reprints of examples of his works are found in O. Gombosi, Jacob Obrecht, eine stilkritische Studie (1925; includes discussion of Agricola's style). See also A. Schering, Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen (1931) and G. Recse, Music in the Renaissance (N.Y., 1954).
15Agricola, Johann Friedrich, German organist and composer; b. Dobitzschen, near Altenburg, Jan. 4, 1720; d. Berlin, Dec. 2, 1774. He entered the Univ. of Leipzig as a law student in 1738, studying music meanwhile with J. S. Bach, and later (1741) with Johann Quantz in Berlin. In 1751 Agricola was appointed court composer to Frederick the Great, and in 1759 he succeeded Karl Graun as director of the Royal Chapel. Agricola wrote 8 operas (produced between 1750-1772 at Berlin and Potsdam) and church music; he also made arrangements of the King's compositions. He taught singing and translated (1757) Pier Tosi's Opinion de' cantori. Under the pseudonym 'Olibrio' Agricola printed some polemical pamphlets directed against the theorist Friedrich Marpurg; he was also a collaborator with Jakob Adlung in the latter's Musica mechanica organoedii (1768).
17Agricola, Martin, a very important German music theorist and writer; b. Schwiebus (Brandenburg), Jan. 6, 1486; d. Magdeburg, June 10, 1556. His real name was Sore, but he adopted the Latin name Agri-
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