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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1ARRIETA Y CORERA — ARTARIA
3before his 20th birthday). He was an exceptionally gifted musician. While still in Bilbao, at the age of 13, he composed a 2-act opera Los esclavos felices (1819). He then went to Paris, where he studied at the Cons. with Baillot and Fétis, arousing their admiration for his talent. In Paris he wrote a symphony, a biblical scene Agar, 3 string quartets, several fugues, piano pieces and songs. (On Aug. 13, 1933, a monument was unveiled to him in Bilbao, and a 'Comisión Permanente Arringa' was formed there. The vocal scores of Los esclavos felices and Ensayo en octeto, subtitled Nada o mucho (scored for strings, trumpet, guitar and piano), were published in Bilbao in 1935 with extensive bio-bibliographical notes by Juan de Ercalde; the full score of a symphony was also publ. (Bilbao, 1953).
5Arrieta y Corera, Pascual Juan Emilio, Spanish composer; b. Puente la Reina, (Oct. 21, 1823; d. Madrid, Feb. 11, 1894. He studied at the Milan Cons. (1842-45) with Vaccai; returned to Spain in 1848; was prof. at the Madrid Cons. in 1857; became its director in 1868. He wrote more than 50 zarzuelas and several grand operas in Italian. Of these productions the most important is La conquista de Granada, produced in Madrid (Oct. 10, 1850) with Arrieta himself conducting, and revived five years later under the title Isabel la Católica (Madrid, Dec. 18, 1855). Other successful zarzuelas and operas are Ildegonda (Milan, Feb. 28, 1845); El Domino Azul (Madrid, Feb. 19, 1853); El Cirumete (Madrid, June 17, 1853; its sequel, La Vuelta del Corsario was performed in Madrid, Feb. 18, 1863); Marina (Madrid, Sept. 21, 1855; revised and produced as a grand opera, Madrid, Oct. 4, 1871); S. Francesco da Siena (Madrid, Oct. 27, 1883).
7Arrigoni, Carlo, Italian composer; b. Florence, Dec. 3, 1697; d. there, Aug. 19, 1744. He left Italy as a young man; in 1728 he was in Brussels. In 1732 he was invited to London by a group favorable to Italian composers in opposition to Handel; there he produced an opera Fernando (Feb. 8, 1734). Arrigoni then went back to Italy through Vienna, where he produced an oratorio Esther (1737); returning to Florence, he staged his new operas Sirbase and Scipione nella Spagna (1739). His 10 Cantate da camera were published in London (1732). Several airs from his opera Fernando are preserved in the British Museum; Burney mistakenly attributed the music of this opera to Porpora.
9l'Arronge, Adolf, German conductor and composer; b. Hamburg, March 8, 1838; d. Berlin, Dec. 25, 1908. He studied at the Leipzig Cons.; then conducted opera in Cologne, Danzig, Berlin, Breslau and Budapest. He wrote a number of light operas which, however, failed to obtain any degree of success.
11Arroyo, João Marcellino, eminent Portuguese composer, writer and statesman; b. (Oporto, Oct. 4, 1861; d. there, May 18, 1930. A member of a musical family, he first took lessons with his father; at the same time he studied law. From 1884-1904 he was a member of the Portuguese parliament; in 1900-01 he held the posts of minister of foreign affairs and public education. A royalist, he abandoned politics after the revolution of 1910, and received a professorship of law at the Univ. of Coimbra. He wrote two operas: Amor de Perdição (Lisbon, March 2, 1907; Hamburg, Jan. 25, 1910), which is regarded as the first modern Portuguese opera, and Leonor Teles; two symphonic poems; several choral works and songs; also compiled a manual of solfeggio for primary schools. See article on him in F. Amorim, Dicionário biográfico de músicos do Norte de Portugal (Oporto, 1941); also C. A. Dos Santos, João Arroyo (Lisbon, 1941).
13Artaria, music publishing house in Vienna, founded by the cousins Carlo A. (1747-1808) and Francesco A. (1744-1808). They opened a music shop on Kohlmarkt in 1769, and in 1778 began printing music; they introduced the method of zinc plating for the first time in Vienna. In 1779, the firm acquired some of Haydn's works, which brought fame to them; music of Clementi, Salieri and Boccherini was published later. Artaria publ. Mozart's 6 violin sonatas (K. 296, 376-80), the Hoffner-Sinfonie and 6 string quartets dedicated to Haydn, among other works, thus becoming Mozart's most important publisher in his lifetime. Other first editions in Artaria's catalogue were several songs by Schubert, Beethoven's C major quintet, op. 29, and string quartet, op. 131. The last owners were Carl August Artaria (d. 1919); Dominik Artaria (d. 1936) and Franz Artaria (d. 1942). After 1932, the old house became an art gallery and an auction bureau, preserving the name Artaria. – (Cf. F. Artaria and Hugo Rettlhuber, Joseph Haydn und das Verlagshaus Artaria (Vienna, 1909); D. MacArdle, Beethoven, Artaria, and the C major Quintet ('Mus. Quarterly, Oct., 1948); A. Weinmann, Vollständiges Verlagsverzeichnis, Artaria & Comp. (Vienna, 1952).
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