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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1ENACOVICI — ENESCO
3John Tasker Howard, Our American Music (N. Y., 1939); R. B. Harwell, Confederate Music (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1950); Hans Nathan, Dixie, in the 'Mus. Quarterly' (Jan., 1949); H. O. Wintermute, Daniel Decatur Emmett (Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1955).
5Enacovici (eh-nah-koh-vē'-sē), Georg, Romanian composer; b. Focsani, April 22, 1891; studied at the Bucharest Cons.; then with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum in Paris; received the Enesco Prize in composition (1915); returned to Bucharest and became professor at the Cons. there. Among his compositions are Rapsodie roumaine for orch. (1935); 2 Poèmes for violin and orch. (1924 and 1941); some chamber music, and songs.
7Encina (or Enzina) (en-thē'-nah), Juan del, Spanish poet and composer; b. Salamanca, July 12, 1468; d. León, late in 1529. He was the son of a shoemaker of Salamanca named Juan de Fermoselle; became chorister at Salamanca Cathedral; studied music under his elder brother, Diego de Fermoselle, and under Fernando de Torrijos; took his degree in law at Salamanca Univ., where he enjoyed the favor of the chancellor, Don Gutiérrez de Toledo. About 1492 he entered the household of the 2nd Duke of Alba, for whom he wrote a series of pastoral eclogues that form the foundation of the Spanish secular drama. These eclogues included 'villancicos' or rustic songs, for which Encina composed the music. He went to Rome in 1500; on May 12, 1500, was appointed canon at the Cathedral of Salamanca; from Feb. 2, 1510 until 1512, he was archdeacon and canon of Málaga; on May 2, 1512, he again went to Rome; his Farsa de Plácida e Vittoriano was performed there in the presence of Julius II on Jan. 11, 1513. In 1517, he was 'sub-collector of revenues to the Apostolic Chamber'; in 1519, appointed prior of León, and that same year made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he was ordained a priest. He described his sacred pilgrimage in Tribagia o Via Sacra de Hierusalem (Rome, 1521). After the death of Leo X in 1521, Encina returned to Spain and spent his last years as prior at León. Besides being the creator of the Spanish drama, Encina was the most important Spanish composer of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella; he cultivated with notable artistry a type of part-song akin to the Italian 'frottola,' setting his own poems to music. Sixty-eight of these songs are preserved in the valuable 'Cancionero musical de los siglos XV y XVI,' ed. by F. A. Barbieri (Madrid, 1890; new ed., in 3 vols., by H. Anglès, 1947, 1951, 1953). No religious music by Encina is known to exist.—Cf. E. Diaz-Jiménez, Juan del Encina en León (Madrid, 1909); R. Mitjana, Estudios sobre algunos músicos españoles del siglo XVI (Madrid, 1918); R. Espinosa Maeso, Nuevos Datos biográficos de Juan del Encina (Boletín de la Royal Academia Española, Madrid, 1921); J. Subirá, La música en la Casa de Alba (1927); F. Pedrell, Cancionero musical popular español (new ed., 2 vols., Barcelona, 1936); J. P. Wichersham Crawford, Spanish Drama Before Lope de Vega (revised ed., Philadelphia, 1937); G. Chase, Origins of the Lyric Theater in Spain, in the 'Mus. Quarterly' (July, 1939); G. Chase, Juan del Encina, Poet and Musician, in 'Music & Letters' (Oct., 1939).
9Enckhausen, Heinrich Friedrich, German organist and composer; b. Celle, Aug. 28, 1799; d. Hanover, Jan. 15, 1885. He studied with Aloys Schmitt in Berlin, succeeding him as court organist. He wrote an opera Der Savoyard (Hanover, 1832) and sacred music; publ. a book of chorales.
11Ende, Heinrich vom, German music publisher; b. Essen, Aug. 12, 1858; d. Cologne, Jan. 20, 1904. He published popular manuals on music, such as Schatzkästlein; also composed a considerable number of male choruses (Das Kätzchen; Es ist ein Brünnlein geflossen, etc.), songs, and piano pieces.
13Enesco (Enescu), Georges, foremost Romanian composer and violinist; b. Liveni, Rumania, Aug. 19, 1881; d. Paris, May 4, 1955. He began to play violin when only 4 years old, taking lessons with a Rumanian gypsy violinist, Nicolas Chioru; then studied with the violinist and composer, Caudella; from 1888-93 he was a pupil at the Vienna Cons. under Hellmesberger (violin) and R. Fuchs (theory), winning first prize in violin playing and harmony (1892); 1894-9 he studied at the Paris Cons. with Marsick (violin), Fauré and Massenet (composition); won second accessit for counterpoint and fugue (1897) and first prize for violin playing (1899); at the same time he studied cello, organ, and piano, attaining more than ordinary proficiency on all these instruments. His talent for composition manifested itself very early, his first efforts (not published) dating from his student days in Vienna; on June 11, 1897, when he was not quite sixteen, he presented in Paris a concert of his own works (a string quintet, piano suite, violin sonata, and songs), which attracted the attention of Colonne, who produced the following year the youthful composer's op. 1, Poème roumain. He toured as a violin
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