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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1rates (Nov. 21, 1792), The Prize (March 11, 1793), My Grandmother (Dec. 16, 1793), The Cherokee (Dec. 20, 1794), The Three and the Deuce (Sept. 2, 1795). An opera, Mahmoud, or The Prince of Persia, was not finished at his death, but was arranged by Michael Kelly, and performed posthumously on April 30, 1796. Storace wrote several other pieces of theatrical music, some of them adaptations, admitted or concealed, of works by other composers, such as Dittersdorf's Doctor und Apotheker and Salieri's Grotta di Trofonio.—Cf. R. Graves, The Comic Operas of Stephen Storace, in the 'Mus. Times' (Oct., 1954).
3Storch (shtohrh), M. Anton, Austrian conductor and composer; b. Vienna, Dec. 22, 1813; d. there, Dec. 31, 1888. He was conductor at the Carl and Josephstadt Theaters in Vienna, and produced several of his operettas and opera-burlesques there: Romeo und Julie (Oct. 31, 1863); Das Festkleid (April 1, 1865), Löwen im Dorfe (Sept. 27, 1866), Wiener Zugstücke (April 26, 1868), Prinz Taugenichts (March 8, 1870; successful); wrote many favorite male quartets (Letzte Treue, Grün, etc.).
5Storck, Karl, Alsatian writer on music; b. Dürmenach, April 23, 1873; d. Olsberg, May 9, 1920. He studied at the Universities of Strasbourg and Berlin (Dr. phil., 1897); wrote music criticism for the 'Deutsche Zeitung' (Berlin). He publ. a unique edition, Musik und Musiker in Karikatur und Satire (Oldenburg, 1911), richly illustrated by numerous reproductions of caricatures on musical subjects; other publications include: Der Tanz (1903); Geschichte der Musik (1904); Das Opernbuch (1905; 44th printing, 1946); Die Kulturelle Bedeutung der Musik (1907); Mozart (1908; 2nd ed., 1923); Musik-Politik (1911); Emil Jaques-Dalcroze (1912). He edited selections from the letters of Beethoven (1905; 3rd ed., 1922), Mozart (1906), and Schumann (1906).
7Storer, John, English organist and composer; b. Hulland, near Derby, May 18, 1858; d. Berwick-on-Tweed, May 1, 1930. He was a chorister at various churches before entering Oxford Univ. (Mus. Bac., 1878). In 1891 he became music director of the old Globe Theatre in London, and later filled similar positions in London; settled in Waterford, Ireland, as organist of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, and prof. of plainchant at St. John's Ecclesiastical College; left Waterford in 1916, and lived in Sheffield and Reading, England. He composed the operas The Punchbowl (London, 1887) and Gretna Green (London, 1889); an oratorio, Deborah and Barak (1881); 2 symphonies: The Holiday (1909) and Vita (1914); several Masses; church services; songs; organ pieces.
9Stöwe (shtö'-veh), Gustav, German pianist and pedagogue; b. Potsdam, July 4, 1835; d. there, April 13, 1891. He studied at the Stern Cons. in Berlin; in 1875 founded the Potsdam Musikschule, and was its director until he died. He publ. Die Klaviertechnik, dargestellt als musikalisch-physiologische Bewegungslehre (1886; thorough analysis of the elements of piano touch); wrote piano pieces.
11Stradal (shtrah'-dahl), August, pianist; b. Teplitz, Bohemia, May 17, 1860; d. Schönlinde, Germany, March 13, 1930. He studied composition with Bruckner at the Vienna Cons. and piano with Door; was a pupil of Liszt in 1884 and became an ardent propagandist for Liszt's piano music; gave concerts in Germany, Austria, France, and England; made arrangements of Liszt's orchestral works; also of Bach, Frescobaldi, etc. His original compositions consist of piano pieces (Ungarische Rhapsodie, etc.) and songs. He wrote Erinnerungen an Franz Liszt (Bern, 1929).—Cf. Hildegard Stradal, August Stradals Lebensbild (Bern, 1934).
13Stradella, Alessandro, Italian composer; b. Montefestino, 1642; murdered in Genoa, Feb. 25, 1682. According to a story narrated in Bonnet-Bourdelot's Histoire de la musique et de ses effets (Paris, 1715), Stradella was engaged to compose an opera for Venice, but there met the mistress of a Venetian nobleman and ran off with her before his work was produced; the enraged nobleman thereupon engineered an attempt upon Stradella's life at Turin in 1677. Though he was one of the most famous composers of his time, details of his biography are lacking, and he has been made the subject of many legends. He is the hero of Flotow's opera Alessandro Stradella (Hamburg, 1844), and operas by Niedermeyer (Paris, 1837), Sinico (Lugo, 1863), etc. His murder is attributed to the jealousy of an actress. Another attempt on his life was also made in Rome. —As a composer Stradella developed the structural form and expressive power of the aria, and was one of the first to make use of the instrumental crescendo. —Works: 148 MSS in the Modena Library, including 8 oratorios and 11 dramas; cantatas in the Naples Cons. Li-
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