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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1Angels, Victoria de Los. See De Los Angeles.
3d'Angeli, Andrea, Italian composer and writer on music; b. Padua, Nov. 9, 1868; d. S. Michele, near Verona, Oct. 28, 1940. He studied at the Univ. of Padua; then was instructor at the Liceo Rossini in Pesaro. He wrote several operas: L'Innocente; Il Negromante; Al Ridotto di Venezia; Fiori e Colombi; Maurizio e Lazzaro; also a number of libretti. He published monographs on Verdi (Milan, 1924) and Benedetto Marcello (Milan, 1930), and numerous essays on music in 'La Cronaca Musicale' of which he was editor (1907-14).
5Angelini, Bontempi Giovanni Andrea. See Bontempi, Giovanni Andrea.
7d'Angelo, Louis, baritone; b. Naples, May 6, 1888; brought to the U.S. as a child; first apprenticed as a glove cutter in Gloversville, N. Y., then sang in a local church. He went to New York at 18 and appeared in vaudeville; then sang with the Savage Opera Co.; joined the staff of the Metropolitan Opera during the 1917-18 season, retiring in 1946. He had more than 300 operatic roles in his repertoire and was particularly successful as Bartolo in The Barber of Seville.
9Angeloni, Carlo, Italian composer; b. Lucca, July 16, 1834; d. there, Jan. 13, 1901. He wrote the following operas, all performed at Lucca: Carlo di Viana (1855); Asraele degli Abenceragi (1871); Dramma in montagna (perf. posthumously, 1902). Bibl.: L. Landucci, Carlo Angeloni (Lucca, 1905).
11Angeloni, Luigi, Italian writer on music; b. Frosione, Papal States, 1759; d. London, Feb. 5, 1842. He wrote a valuable monograph, Sopra la vita, le opere ed il sapere di Guido d'Arezzo, restauratore della scienza e dell'arte musica (Paris, 1811).
13d'Anglebert, Jean-Henri, French clavecin player; b. Paris, probably in 1628; d. there, April 23, 1691. He studied with Champion de Chambonnieres; in 1664 he succeeded his teacher as clavecinist to Louis XIV. In 1689 he published a collection, Pièces de clavecin avec la manière de les jouer, containing original suites, arrangements of airs from Lully's operas and also 22 variations on Folies d'Espagne (the theme later used by Corelli); the same volume contains instruction on figured bass. D'Anglebert contributed greatly to the establishment of the French method of performance on the clavecin. His extant compositions were published in 1934 by Marguerite Roesgen-Champion in 'Publications de la Société Française de Musicologie,' also containing biographical information. His son Jean-Baptiste Henri (b. Paris, Sept. 5, 1661; d. there, March 9, 1747) succeeded his father as court musician. (Cf. Ch. Bouvet, Les deux d'Anglebert in 'La Revue de Musicologie' (May, 1928).
15Anglès, Higinio (Catalan form; in Spanish, Higinio Anglés), distinguished musicologist; b. Maspujols, Catalonia, Jan. 1, 1888. He studied philosophy at Tarragona (1900-13); musicology with Felipa Pedrell and composition with V. M. Gilbert in Barcelona (1913-19). In 1917 he became head of the Music Dept. of the Barcelona library. In 1923 he went to Germany and studied with W. Gurlitt at Freiburg and F. Ludwig at Göttingen. In 1924 he returned to Barcelona and in 1927, became prof. of music history at the Cons. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he went to Munich; returned to Barcelona in 1939. In 1943 he was appointed director of the Instituto Español de Musicologia; in 1947 he became director of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. His most important publication is El Códex Musical de las Huergas (3 vols., 1928-31), containing facsimiles and transcriptions of Spanish music of the 13th and 14th centuries. Part of the text of this edition was published in the 'Mus. Quarterly' (Oct., 1940). He has published the following books: Cantigas del Rei N'Anfus el Savi (Barcelona, 1927); Historia de la música española (Barcelona, 1935); La música a Catalunya fins al segle XIII (Barcelona, 1939); La música española desde la edad media hasta nuestros días (Barcelona, 1941), and many smaller works. He edited the collected works of J. Pujol (1925); the organ works of Cabanilles (1926); La Música en la Corte de los Reyes Católicos (2 vols.; Madrid, 1941, Barcelona, 1947); Recopilación de Sonetos, etc. by Juan Vásquez (Barcelona, 1946); El cancionero musical de Palacio (Barcelona, 1947). Anglès has contributed to many music journals and has written articles on Spanish music for 'Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.' He is regarded as an outstanding expert on Spanish music of the Middle Ages.
17Anglès, Rafael, Spanish organist and composer; b. Rafales (Teruel), 1731; d. Valencia, Feb. 19, 1816; was organist at Valencia Cathedral from 1762-72. He devoted his life to liturgical music; also wrote keyboard pieces, four of which are printed by J. Nin in his collection, 17 Sonatas et pièces anciennes d'auteurs espagnols (Paris, 1929).
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