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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1Albini, Srecko, Croatian composer and conductor; b. Zupanja, Dec. 10, 1869; d. Zagreb, April 18, 1933. He studied music in Vienna; then was theater conductor in Graz and Zagreb. He composed an opera Maricon; a ballet The Lake of Plotvice; the operettas Nabob, Madame Troubadour, Baron Trank (1908; achieved considerable popularity); piano pieces and songs.
3Albinoni, Tomaso, Italian violinist and composer; b. Venice, June 8, 1671; d. there, Jan. 17, 1750. Between 1694 and 1740 he produced 45 operas, most of them in Venice. He rarely absented himself from Venice, but it is known that he attended the premiere of his opera Griselda in Florence (1703); in 1722 he was in Munich where he presented his festive opera I veri amici. It is, however, as a composer of instrumental music that he is significant; Bach, his close contemporary, admired Albinoni's music; made arrangements of two fugues from Albinoni's trio-sonatas (Bach Gesellschaft, Nos. 437, 438). The following works are available in modern editions: violin concerto (ed. by Vieweg); 2 violin sonatas and a trio-sonata (ed. by Nagel); organ transcriptions of 2 violin concertos (ed. by Walther); flute sonata (ed. by Schäffler); 3 oboe concertos (ed. by B. Paumgartner, London, 1948). A detailed catalogue of Albinoni's works and a thematic analysis are given by R. Ginzotto in his exhaustive monograph, Tomaso Albinoni (Milan, 1945).
5Albonese, Afranio. See Afranio.
7Alboni, Marietta (real name, Maria Anna Marzia Alboni), famous Italian contralto; b. Cesena, March 6, 1823; d. Ville d'Avray, France, June 23, 1894. She studied in Bologna with Monbelli; in 1841 was introduced to Rossini who agreed to give her lessons. She made her debut in Bologna, in Pacini's opera Saffo (Oct. 3, 1842); shortly afterwards, sang at La Scala in Rossini's Assedio di Corinto (Dec. 30, 1842). She then sang in Russia, and obtained great success during the season of 1844-45 in St. Petersburg, appearing at the Italian opera with Tamburini, Rubini and Mine. Viardot. After appearances in Prague, Berlin and Hamburg, she appeared in the spring of 1847 in Rome and at Covent Garden where she became a rival of Jenny Lind with the public. So successful were her London appearances that her fees were increased to 2,000 pounds a season. She gave four 'concerts-spectacles' in Paris in Oct., 1847; made her Paris opera debut in Rossini's Semiramide (Dec. 2, 1847). Auber wrote the opera Zarlinda for her, and she sang at its premiere (May 16, 1851). She made an American tour from June, 1852, till May, 1853, in concert and opera, appearing in New York, Boston and other cities. (On July 21, 1853, Alboni married Count Pepoli (d. Oct. 10, 1867); on Jan. 22, 1877 she married Charles Ziegler, a French officer, and settled in France. Suffering from excessive obesity, she gradually retired from the stage, but continued to appear occasionally in concert, singing while sitting in a large chair. Her vocal range was exceptional, from the contralto G to high soprano C, enabling her to sing soprano parts. She bequeathed a large sum of money to the City of Paris. In appreciation, the City Council, on Oct. 15, 1895, named a street in Passy after her. Arthur Pougin's monograph Marietta Alboni (Paris, 1912) quotes many of her autobiographical notes and presents a documented outline of her career.
9Albrecht, Evgeny Karlovitch, Russian conductor; son of Karl Albrecht and brother of Konstantin Albrecht; b. St. Petersburg, July 16, 1842; d. there, Feb. 9, 1894. He studied violin with Ferdinand David at the Leipzig Cons. (1857-60). Upon his return to Russia he conducted the Italian opera in St. Petersburg (1860-77); was also musical director of military schools there (1872-77). In 1877 he became inspector of the Imperial Orchestras; in 1892 was music librarian of the Imperial Theaters. He published 3 albums of Russian folk-songs and a book of 128 children's songs.
11Albrecht, Hans, German musicologist; b. Magdeburg, March 31, 1902. He studied at the Univ. of Berlin (1921-25); then taught music in Essen (1925-37). During World War II was prof. at the State Institute in Berlin (1939-45); from 1947 prof. at the Univ. of Kiel. He has publ. a valuable monograph Kaspar Othmayer, Leben und Werke (Kassel, 1943); several other papers of documentary significance remain in manuscript.
13Albrecht, Johann Lorenz, German music scholar; b. Gerau (Thuringia), Jan. 8, 1732; d. Mühlhausen, 1773. He studied at Leipzig; edited Adlung's Musica mechanica and Siehengestern (Berlin, 1768); wrote an essay Abhandlung über die Frage: ob die Musik beim Gottesdienst zu dulden sei oder nicht (1764), a manual Gründliche Einführung in die Anfangslehren der Tonkunst (1761), and a treatise Vom Hause der Musik (1765); contributed articles to Marpurg's 'Kritische Beiträge,' etc. He also composed several cantatas.
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