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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1quartet, other variations being by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Liadov, Scriabin, etc.
3Artusi, Giovanni Maria, Italian contrapuntist and writer on music; b. Bologna, c. 1540; d. there, Aug. 18, 1613. He became canon-in-ordinary at S. Salvatore in Bologna in Feb., 1562. A capable musician and writer, a pupil of Zarlino, Artusi was reactionary in his musical philosophy. His first publication, L'Arte del contrappunto (in 2 parts, Venice, 1586 and 1589) has considerable theoretical value. He then published several polemical essays directed mainly against the innovations of Monteverdi and others: the characteristically named volume L'Artusi, ovvero delle imperfetti della moderna musica (Venice, 1600); reproduced in part in English by (). Strunk in Source Readings in Music History, N. Y., 1950), followed by a posthumous attack on his teacher Zarlino in Impresa del R. P. Giuseppe Zarlino (Bologna, 1604); Considerazioni musicali (1603; as part II of L'Artusi, etc.); Discorso musicale … (1606); Discorso secondo musicale (both attacking Monteverdi); and further polemical essays against Bottrigari and Vincenzo Galico. Monteverdi replied to Artusi in a leaflet entitled Oetuso accademico, and in the preface to his 5th book of madrigals; this reply is reproduced in Strunk's Source Readings in Music History. Bottrigari replied in a pamphlet entitled Ant' Artusi. As a composer, Artusi followed the old school; he published a set of 4-part Canzonette (1598), and an 8-part motet Cantate Domino (1599). Cf. H. Redlich, Claudio Monteverdi, Life and Works (London, 1952).
5Artzibuschew. See Artsybushev, Nikolay Vassilievitch.
7Arutunian, Alexander, Armenian composer; b. Erivan, Sept. 23, 1920. He studied piano with Igumnov and composition with Litinsky. He has written a piano concerto (1941); concert overture (1944); Cantata for the Fatherland (1948); trumpet concerto (1950), etc.
9Asafiev, Boris Vladimirovitch, Russian composer and writer on music; b. St. Petersburg, July 29, 1884; d. Moscow, Jan. 27, 1949. He studied with Kalafati and Lindov at the St. Petersburg Cons. (grad. in 1910); at the same time he studied philology and history at St. Petersburg Univ. (grad. in 1908). He then became a ballet coach at the Opera. In 1914 he began writing music criticism under the pseudonym Igor Glebov. Subsequently he published his literary writings under that name, sometimes indicating his real name as well. He always signed his musical works, however, with the name Asafiev. In 1920 he was appointed Dean of the dept. of music of the Institute of History of Arts in Petrograd. He was also an editor of the journal 'Novaya Musica' (1921-28); within a few years he published brief monographs on Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt, Chopin, etc.; translated articles from German, French and Italian. At the same time he continued to compose, mostly for the stage. The following ballets by him were performed in Leningrad: Flames of Paris (June 23, 1923); The Fountain of Bakhtchisaray, after Pushkin (Sept. 28, 1934; very popular); The Partisan Days (Sept. 12, 1937) and The Prisoner of the Caucasus (April 14, 1938). Altogether he wrote 9 operas, 27 ballets, works for orch. and chamber music. But it is as a historian of Russian music that Asafiev-Glebov is especially important. He continued the tradition of Vladimir Stasov in his ardent advocacy of the national Russian style. He published The Russian Poets in Russian Music (with a valuable catalogue of Russian vocal works; 1921); Symphonic Etudes (an account of the evolution of the Russian operatic style; 1922); Stravinsky (a comprehensive analysis of Stravinsky's works; Leningrad, 1929; later he repudiated the favorable view of Stravinsky expressed in this book); Russian Music from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century (1930; English transl. by A. Swan; American Council of Learned Societies, 1933); Musical Form as a Process (2 vols., 1930 and 1947) and Glinka (Moscow, 1947; the only book on music to receive the Stalin Prize). A 7-volume edition of Asafiev's collected writings was begun in Moscow in 1952.
11Aschaffenburg, Walter, composer; b. Essen, May 20, 1927. He came to America at the age of 11. He was with the U.S. Army in Germany in 1947; then studied at Oberlin with Elwell and at the Eastman School of Music with B. Rogers. In 1953 he was appointed instructor at the Oberlin Cons. He has written Oedipus, 'symphonic reflections after Shelley' (Rochester, April 22, 1952); an overture Oedipus Rex; 3 string quartets; Divertimento for trumpets, horn and trombone; a piano trio and a cello sonata.
13Aschenbrenner, Christian Heinrich, German violinist and composer; b. Altstettin, Dec. 29, 1654; d. Jena, Dec. 19, 1732. He studied with Schütz; was active as violinist at Zeitz (1677-81) and Merseburg (1683-
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