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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1publication entitled Miscellaneous Works throws sharp sidelights on various persons of interest at the time. He wrote several anthems, glees, etc.
3Arcadelt, Jacob (or Jachet Arkadelt, Archadet, Arcadet, Harcadelt), great Flemish composer; b. probably in Liège, c. 1505; d. Paris, c. 1560. He was 'magister pucrorum' to the Papal Chapel (1539), and choirmaster (1540). In 1544 he held the office of 'Camerlingo.' He went to France in 1546; returned to Rome in May, 1547. In 1555 he again went to France, this time with the Duc de Guise. Arcadelt is mentioned in Paris as 'Regis musicus,' in 1557. In the domain of secular music, his Roman period was, in the main, devoted to the madrigal; his Paris period to the French chanson. He wrote 20 motets, about 120 French chansons and 200 madrigals. Of his extant works, the most important are 6 books of 5-part madrigals (Venice, 1538-56; his finest and most characteristic compositions) and 3 books of masses in 3-7 parts (Paris, 1557). Modern reprints include the 4-part 'Madrigale parlando' Il ciel che rado (Ricmann, Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, Part II); the 4-part madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno (W. B. Squire's 'Ausgewählte Madrigale'); others in Eitner (vol. XXIII); Schering's 'Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen'; Maldeghem's 'Trésor Musical.' See also The Chansons of Jacob Arcadelt, ed. by E. B. Helm ('Smith College Music Archives,' vol. V, 1942).—Bibl.: W. Klefisch, Arcadelt als Madrigalist (Cologne, 1938); A. Einstein, The Italian Madrigal (Princeton, 1949).
5d'Archambeau (dar-shahn-boh'), Iwan, Belgian cellist; member of the Flonzaley Quartet; b. Hervé, Sept. 28, 1879; d. Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, Dec. 29, 1955. He studied music at home; played in a family quartet with his father and two brothers. He then studied cello with A. Massau in Verviers and with Hugo Becker in Frankfurt. In 1903 he became a member of the Flonzaley Quartet, until it disbanded in 1929; in 1935 he joined the Stradivarius Quartet in New York. From 1939 until 1950 he lived in Cambridge, Mass.; then returned to Belgium.
7Archangelsky (ar-hahn'-gël-skë), Alexander, Russian choral conductor; b. near Penza, Oct. 23, 1846; d. Prague, Nov. 16, 1924. He studied singing and theory of music at the Court Chapel in St. Petersburg; in 1880 organized a chorus there, toured Russia with it in 1899-1900, presenting 110 concerts; also gave concerts with his chorus in Western Europe (1907 and 1912). Archangelsky was the first choir leader in Russia to include women's voices in performances of sacred works. He supported (with Gretchaninov) the reform movement in Russian church music; wrote a number of choral pieces for his organization and made transcriptions of Russian church hymns. In 1923 he went to Prague as conductor of a students' choir, and died there the following year.
9Archer, Frederick, English-American organist, conductor and composer; b. Oxford, June 16, 1838; d. Pittsburgh, Oct. 22, 1901. He studied organ in Leipzig, and in 1873 was appointed organist of Alexandra Palace in London; then became conductor of a Glasgow choir (1878-80). In 1881 he came to America; was active as church organist in Brooklyn and, from 1895, at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He was the first conductor of the newly organized Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, from Feb. 27, 1896, to 1898, when he was succeeded by Victor Herbert. A prolific composer, he published a cantata, King Witlaf's Drinking-horn; organ and piano pieces and songs. The bulk of his music remains in MS. He was the author of the manuals The Organ (1875) and A Complete Method for the American Reed Organ (1899), and founder and editor of the music magazine 'The Keynote' (1883).
11Ardévol, José, Spanish-Cuban composer; b. Barcelona, March 13, 1911. In 1930 he went to Havana, Cuba, settling there as composer and teacher and conducting a chamber music society. He has written a ballet Forma, with chorus (Havana, May 18, 1943, composer conducting); 3 concerti grossi (1937-46); concerto for 3 pianos (1938); 3 symphonics (1943; 1945; 1946); 6 sonatas for 3 instruments (1937-46) and 3 piano sonatas (1944). Bibl.: O. Mayer-Serra, Música y Músicos de Latino-América (Mexico, 1947, I, pp. 44-54).
13Arditi, Luigi, Italian composer and conductor; b. Crescentino, Piedmont, July 22, 1822; d. Hove, near Brighton, England, May 1, 1903. He studied violin, piano and composition at the Milan Cons., where he also produced his first opera, I Briganti (1841). He then embarked on a career as operatic conductor. From 1846 he traveled in Cuba (where he produced his opera Il Corsaro, Havana, 1846), and visited New York and Philadelphia. In New York he produced his opera La Spia (March 24, 1856). He finally settled in London (1858) as conductor and vocal teacher, while mak-
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