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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1became standard pedagogical works; also wrote attractive piano solos, La belle Amazone, 4 Pièces élégantes, Tarentelle, Deux Valses, the barcarolle À Venise, and Trois Mazurkas; suites, sonatas, sonatinas, etc. With J. Weiss he publ. a Wegweiser in die Pianoforte-Literatur (1862; 2nd ed., 1885 as Führer durch die Klavierliteratur).
3Loth, Louis Leslie, American composer; b. Richmond, Va., Oct. 28, 1888. He studied piano with Herman Epstein in New York and Alberto Jonás in Berlin; composition with Paul Ertel there. He gave concerts in Germany; then settled in N. Y. as teacher and composer. He wrote more than 500 works, including 2 symphonies, several symph. poems (Paean, Granada, Tarentelle, etc.), 2 piano concertos, many piano pieces of an imaginative nature (Valsette, The Bobolink, Teasing, March, Butterfly Waltz, Con Amore, Firelight Fancies, Valse Brillante, etc.); also teaching pieces.
5Lotti, Antonio, Italian organist and composer; b. Venice, c. 1667; d. there, Jan. 5, 1740. He was a pupil of Legrenzi in Venice; produced an opera, Giustino, at the age of 16; in 1687 he became chorister at San Marco; in 1690, assistant organist there, and in 1692, 2nd organist. On Aug. 17, 1704 he was appointed 1st organist; in 1736 he was elected maestro di cappella. While at San Marco, he industriously composed church music, Masses, anthems, etc.; he also wrote dramatic music. As a teacher, he was highly renowned; among his pupils were Alberti, Gasparini, Galuppi, and Marcello. He absented himself from Venice but once (1717-19), when he went to Dresden at the Crown Prince's invitation. — Works: 21 operas, including Alessandro Severo (Venice, Dec. 26, 1716), Giove in Argo (Dresden, Oct. 25, 1717), Teofane (Dresden, Nov. 13, 1719), Costantino (Vienna, Nov. 19, 1716; in collaboration with Fux and Caldara); 4 oratorios: Il voto crudele, L'umiltà coronata, Gioa re di Giuda, and Giuditta; many Masses, motets, etc., none of which were publ. by him. Lück's 'Sammlung ausgezeichneter Compositionen' contains 4 Masses and other numbers; Rochlitz, Proske, Trautwein, Commer, Schlesinger, and others have printed Misereres and other sacred music by Lotti; 8 Masses were edited by H. Müller in the 'Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst' (vol. 60). Lotti himself publ. only Duetti, terzetti e madrigali (1705, dedicated to Joseph I; includes the madrigal, In una siepe ombrosa, the appropriation of which caused Bononcini's downfall). —Cf. Charlotte Spitz, Antonio Lotti in seiner Bedeutung als Opernkomponist (Leipzig, 1918); Charlotte Spitz, 'Ottone' von Händel und 'Teofane' von Lotti, in the 'Sandberger-Festschrift' (p. 265 et seq.); A. Moser, Arcangelo Corelli und Antonio Lotti: Zwei künstlerische Ehrenrettungen, in the 'Zeitschrift für Musik' (April, 1921); A. Schering, Geschichte des Oratoriums (p. 202 et seq.). —The correspondence regarding the controversy with Bononcini was reproduced in Letters from the Academy of Ancient Music at London to Signor Antonio Lotti of Venice with his Answers and Testimonials (London, 1732); the case was described in the article The Fall of Bononcini, in the 'Mus. Times' (Jan., 1892).
7Lotze, Rudolf Hermann, German writer on music; b. Bautzen, May 21, 1817; d. Berlin, July 1, 1881. He became prof. of philosophy at Leipzig Univ. in 1842; in 1844, prof. in ordinary, and court councillor, at Göttingen; settled in Berlin shortly before his death. He publ. Geschichte der Ästhetik in Deutschland (1868), which contains criticism of Helmholtz, Hauptmann, and others; also interesting ideas on musical esthetics.
9Louel, Jean, Belgian conductor and composer; b. Ostend, Jan. 3, 1914. He studied with Joseph Jongen (theory) and Désiré Defauw (conducting). After graduation from the Brussels Cons., he obtained the Belgian Prix de Rome with his cantata De Vaart van Ulysses (1943). In 1948 he became teacher of harmony at the Brussels Cons. His works include 2 piano concertos, a flute concerto, a clarinet sonata, a flute sonata, and several choral works.
11Louis XIII, King of France from 1610 to 1643. He was an amateur musician, and wrote madrigals. The well known Amaryllis, arranged by Henri Ghis, and widely published as 'Air of Louis XIII,' is a misattribution; the melody first appears in print as 'La Clochette' in the Ballet-Comique de la Reine by Balthazar de Beaujoyeux, produced in 1582, long before Louis XIII was born. A gavotte, also entitled Amaryllis, with a melody totally different from the apocryphal 'Air of Louis XIII' and dated 1620, may be an authentic composition of Louis XIII.
13Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, nephew of Frederick the Great; b. Friedrichsfelde, near Berlin, Nov. 18, 1772; fell at Saalfeld, Oct. 10, 1806. He was an excellent amateur musician. While traveling in 1804,
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