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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1piano pieces (At Longwood, Poème Lyrique, At Sunset, etc.); songs (The Seagull, etc.).
3Stefan, Paul, writer on music; b. Brno, Nov. 25, 1879; d. New York, Nov. 12, 1943. He was educated at the Univ. of Vienna; studied music theory with Hermann Grädenner. He became associated with the avant-garde in Vienna, and was appointed editor of the progressive musical periodical, 'Musikblätter des Anbruch'; was a co-founder of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1922. In 1938 he went to Switzerland; then was in Lisbon (1939-41); arrived in the U. S. in 1941. His books on music include Gustav Mahler (1910; 7th ed., 1921; also in English, N. Y., 1913); Oskar Fried (1911); Die Feindschaft gegen Wagner (1919); Das neue Haus, a history of the Vienna Opera (1919); Neue Musik und Wien (1921; also in English); Der Musiker Hoffmann (1922); Arnold Schönberg (1924); Franz Schubert (1928); Geschichte der Wiener Oper (1932); Arturo Toscanini (1935; 3rd ed., 1937; English transl., N. Y., 1936); Bruno Walter (1936); brought out an abridged German transl. of Sourek's biography of Dvořák (Vienna, 1935; in English, N. Y., 1941); Georges Bizet (Zürich, 1952); publ. essays on Don Giovanni (1938) and Die Zauberflöte (1937) and various studies in European and American journals.
5Stefani, Jan, composer and conductor; b. Prague, 1746; d. Warsaw, Feb. 24, 1829. He was Kapellmeister to Count Kinsky and violinist in the orch. of the Vienna Opera. In 1771 he entered the service of Stanislaus Poniatowski in Warsaw, and became conductor of the Warsaw Opera. He wrote several Polish operas, of which Krakowiacy i Górale (The Cracovites and the Mountainers), produced in Warsaw on March 1, 1794, was very successful, and remained in the repertory for 65 years. Other operas (all produced in Warsaw) were: Król w kraju rozkoszy (Feb. 3, 1787); Wdzieczni poddani panu (July 24, 1796); Frozyna (Feb. 21, 1806); Rotmistrz Gorecki (April 3, 1807). He also wrote a great number of polonaises.
7Stefani, Józef, Polish composer and conductor, son of Jan Stefani; b. Warsaw, April 16, 1800; d. there, 1864. He was a pupil of his father and of Chopin's teacher, Elsner; conducted ballet at the Warsaw Opera, and wrote a number of light operas, which enjoyed a modicum of success during his lifetime: Dawne czasy (April 26, 1826); Lekcja botaniki (March 15, 1829); Figle panien (Aug. 6, 1832); Talizman (Dec. 7, 1849); Zyd wieczny tulacz (Jan. 1, 1850); Piorun (May 21, 1856); Trwoga wieczorna (posthumous, July 25, 1872). He also wrote church music, which was often performed in religious services in Poland.
9Steffan, Joseph Anton, composer; b. Kopidlno, Bohemia, March 14, 1726; d. Vienna, April 12, 1797. A pupil of Wagensel, he settled in Vienna, where he was a renowned teacher; among his pupils were the princesses Marie Antoinette (later Queen of France) and Caroline (later Queen of Naples). He wrote some church music and numerous works for piano (divertimentos, concertos, and sonatas); he is historically important for his songs, Sammlung deutscher Lieder (4 books), which are among the best of that time. Specimens were publ. by M. Friedlaender in Das deutsche Lied im 18. Jahrhundert (1902); see also 'Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich' (vol. 79).
11Steffani, Abbate Agostino, Italian composer; b. Castelfranco Veneto, July 25, 1654; d. Frankfurt, Feb. 12, 1728. He began his musical career as a choirboy at Padua, where his beautiful soprano voice so charmed Count Tattenbach that the latter obtained permission to take him to the Electoral court at Munich, where he was trained by Kerll from 1668-71; from 1672-74 he studied at Rome with E. Bernabei at the Elector's expense, and in 1675 was appointed court organist at Munich. In 1678-79 he visited Paris, where he made an advantageous study of Lully's music. He took holy orders in 1680 and was made titular Abbot of Lepsing in 1682. In 1681 he became director of the Elector's chamber music (together with G. A. Bernabei, his former teacher's son). He composed his first opera, Marco Aurelio, in 1680, for Munich; other operas: Solone (1685), Audacia e rispetto (1685), Servio Tullio (1686), Alarico (1687), and Niobe (1688), followed; in 1688 he went to Hanover as court Kapellmeister. There he brought out the opera Enrico detto il Leone (Jan. 30, 1689), the orchestration of which is noteworthy (besides the string quartet, there are flutes, oboes, bassoons, 3 trumpets, and drums; all the wind instruments have obbligato passages); further, La Lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo (1689); La Superbia d'Alessandro (1690; revised in 1691 as Il Zelo di Leonato); Orlando generoso (1691); Le Rivali concordi, or Atlanta (1693); La Libertà contenta (1693); I Baccanali (1695); Il Trionfo del fato, or Le Glorie d'Enea (1695; given at Brunswick in 1716
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