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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1Alford, Violet, English writer and lecturer on folk dancing; b. Bristol, March, 1881. She studied at London Univ., and at the Royal Academy of Music. She has published valuable compendia on folk music and dance: English Folk Dances (1923); The Traditional Dance (with Rodney Gallop; 1935); Pyrenean Festivals (1937); Introduction to English Folklore (1952). She also composed A Folk Masque, showing origins and development of the folk dance.
3Alfvén, Hugo, outstanding Swedish composer; b. Stockholm, May 1, 1872. He studied at the Stockholm Cons., and played the violin in the Court Orch. He was then sent by the government to Belgium where he studied violin with César Thomson (1896-99). In 1900 he received the Jenny Lind stipend for three years. In 1910 he became musical director at the Univ. of Uppsala and conductor of the student chorus there until 1939 when he retired. His best known work is Midsommarvaka (Midsummer Vigil, 1904), the first of his three Swedish rhapsodies for orch. It was produced as a ballet, La Nuit de Saint-Jean (Ballets Suédois, Paris, Oct. 25, 1925) and had over 250 performances in four years. He has written 5 symphonies: I in F minor (Stockholm, Feb. 9, 1897); II in E major (Stockholm, May 2, 1899); III in E major (Göteborg, Dec. 5, 1906); IV in C minor (Stockholm, Nov. 16, 1918); V in A minor (Stockholm, April 30, 1952); contributed a number of festive cantatas on various occasions, patriotic anniversaries and the like, among them a cantata celebrating the 450th year since the founding of Uppsala Univ. (1927) and another on the 500th jubilee of the Swedish Parliament (1935). He also wrote a ballad on Gustaf Vasa (1920) for soloists, mixed chorus and organ; and numerous male choruses. He published 3 volumes of memoirs: Tempo furioso (Stockholm, 1948); I dur och moll (1949); Finale (1952). In Swedish music Alfvén occupies the position of a late romantic composer, representing the best traits of Scandinavian national art, along the lines of Grieg and Sibelius. — Bibl.: S. E. Svensson, Hugo Alfvén, som människa och konstnär (Uppsala, 1946).
5Algarotti, Francesco, Italian musician and scholar; b. Venice, Dec. 11, 1712; d. Pisa, May 3, 1764. The fame of his great knowledge reached Frederick the Great who invited him to Berlin in 1740 and gave him the title of Count; and, in 1747, that of 'Chevalier de l'ordre pour le mérite.' In 1753 Algarotti returned to Italy. His musical monument is the Saggio sopra l'opera in musica, published in 1755; also in many later editions, including German and French translations. The English text of the Saggio … is reproduced in part in O. Strunk's Source Readings in Music History (N. Y., 1950). Bibl.: D. Michelessi, Memorie intorno alla vita ed agli scritti del Francesco Algarotti (Venice, 1770); R. Northcott, Francesco Algarotti, A Reprint of His 'Saggio … and a Sketch of His Life (London, 1917).
7Aliabiev (ähl-yäh'-byěv), Alexander Nikolyevitch, Russian song composer; b. Tobolsk, Siberia, Aug. 15, 1787; d. Moscow, March 6, 1851. He left Tobolsk at the age of nine; served in the cavalry during the War of 1812 and participated in the entry of the Russian Army into Dresden and Paris. Returning to Russia, he lived in Moscow. In 1825, he was arrested on suspicion of murder after a card game, and was exiled (on the express order of the Czar Nicholas I) to his birthplace in Siberia (1828). In 1831, he was allowed to return to European Russia, and lived in the Caucasus, Orenburg, and in the Crimea, before settling in Moscow. He wrote more than 100 songs, of which The Nightingale became extremely popular; it is often used in the music lesson scene in the Barber of Seville. Glinka and Liszt made piano arrangements of it. In exile, Aliabiev wrote a symphony (1830), 3 string quartets and a violin sonata. His opera The Prisoner of the Caucasus was very popular in Russia. He also set to music the stage ballads The Village Philosopher (to Zagoskin's text) and The Moon Night; with Verstovsky and Maurer he contributed the music to Chmelnitsky's comedy A Novel Prank, or Theatrical Combat. Bibl.: Dobrohotov, Alexander Aliabiev in 'Sovietskaya Musica' (April, 1951); Ilyin, Aliabiev in Siberia (with a facsimile reproduction of the registry of Aliabiev's birth), ibid. (Aug., 1952).
9Alió, Francisco, Spanish composer; b. Barcelona, March 21, 1862; d. there, March 31, 1908. He studied piano with Vidiella and composition with Anselmo Barba. As a composer, he was a determined believer in the Spanish national type of music, and in his piano pieces and songs brought out native rhythms and melodies. He published several albums of Catalan folk songs.
11Aliprandi, Bernardo, Italian cellist and composer; b. Milan, c. 1710; d. Munich, c. 1785. He became a member of the Court Orchestra in Munich (1732); then was concertmaster (1750); retired in 1780. He
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