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1tution; on the appointment of M. Bertrand as successor to Ritt, in 1892, he retired, but joined Bertrand the following year as co-director; after the latter's death, in 1899, he remained sole director till 1907. His administration was remarkably successful, considering both the novelties produced and the engagement of new singers (Melba, Eames, Bréval, Caron, Ackté, Alvarez, Saléza, Renaud, the two de Reszkés, etc.). Against violent opposition he introduced, and maintained in the repertory, Wagner's works: Lohengrin (1895), Walküre (1893), Tannhäuser (1895; the first perf. after the notorious fracaso of 1861), Meistersinger (1897), Siegfried (1902). Together with Baron de Reinach he wrote the scenario for P. Vidal's ballet La Maladetta (1893), and with Gheusi the text for the same composer's opera Guernica (1895).
3Gál, Hans, b. Brünn, Austria, Aug. 5, 1890. Pupil of E. Mandyczewski; living as teacher of theory and comp. in Vienna; awarded the Austrian Staatspreis for comp. in 1915; has in MS. a comedy-opera, Der Fächer; a symphony; a symph. fantasy; an overture, Weh dem, der lügt!; a serenade for orch.; Von ewiger Freude, for fem. voices; Abendgesang for mixed ch. and orch.; some chamber-music; has publ. choruses, pf.-pieces and songs.
5Galandia. See GARLANDIA.
7Galeazzi [-lā-āh'tsē], Francesco, b. Turin, 1758; d. Rome in Jan., 1819. A skilful violinist, for 15 years leader of the concerts in the Teatro Valle, Rome; then violin-teacher at Aseoli.* Publ. one of the earliest known Methods for violin: Elementi teorico-pratici di musica, con un saggio sopra l'arte di suonare il violino . . . (Rome, 1791-1796, in 2 parts; Part I reprinted 1817).
9Gales, Weston, b. Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 5, 1877. Studied at Yale Univ. (1896-8) pf. with S. S. Sanford and comp. with H. W. Parker; organ with G. M. Déthier in N. Y. (1900-3), and later in Paris with Widor (1908) and L. Vierne (1912); org. and chm. of Christ Ch., New York, 1902-8; then of Emanuel Ch., Boston, 1908-13; has had charge of the training of boys' choirs for special perfs. of the Oratorio Soc. (N. Y.) and Cecilia Soc. (Boston); founder and cond. (since 1914) of the Detroit Symphony Orch.
11Galile'i, Vincenzo, celebrated musico-graph, father of Galileo Galilei, the astronomer; b. Florence, c. 1533; d. there June (buried July 2), 1591. A skilful lutenist and violinist, and well-versed in ancient Greek theory, he was a prominent member of the artistic circle meeting at Count Bardi's house; his compositions for solo voice with lute-accomp. may be regarded as the starting-point of the monody successfully cultivated by Peri, Caccini, etc., the founders of the 'opera in musica.' A zealous advocate of (soi-disant) Grecian simplicity in contrast with contrapuntal complexity, he publ. a Discorso della musica antica e della moderna (Florence, 1581; to the 2d ed. [1602] is appended a polemical Discorso intorno alle opere di messer Gioseffo Zarlino di Chioggia, which had appeared separately in 1589); and Il Fronimo, dialogo sopra l'arte del bene intavolare e rettamente suonare la musica di liuto (Venice, 1583; 2d ed. 1584); all of considerable historical interest.—See Q.-Lex.
13Galin [găh-lăn'], Pierre, b. Samatan, Gers, France, 1786; d. Bordeaux, Aug. 31, 1821. He was teacher of mathematics at the Lycée in Bordeaux, and conceived the idea of simplifying musical instruction by a method which he termed the 'Méloplaste,' and explained in his work Exposition d'une nouvelle méthode pour l'enseignement de la musique (1818; 2d and 3d eds. in 1824 and 1831). The method attracted attention, found warm advocates, and attained considerable popularity. [See CHEVÉ and PARIS.]
15Gali'tzin, Georg (Prince Galitzin), son of the following; b. Petrograd, 1823; d. there in Sept., 1872. He was Imperial Chamberlain. As a cultivated musician, he established in Moscow, in 1842, a choir of 70 boys; later he also maintained an orch., with which he travelled in Germany, England, France, and America, to introduce Russian music (more especially Glinka's and his own). He wrote masses, orchestral works, soli for various instrs., choruses, songs, etc.
17Galitzin [gah-lē'tsēn], Nicolas Borissovitch, a Russian prince; b. 1794; d. Kursk, 1866. To him Beethoven dedicated an overture (op. 124) and 3 quartets (op. 127, 130, 132); they also corresponded until B.'s death. The prince was an amateur of fine attainments, being a skilful 'cellist; in 1820 he founded the Philh. Soc. at Petrograd.
19Gall [găhl], Jan, b. Warsaw, Aug. 18, 1856; d. Lemberg, Oct. 30, 1912. Pupil of Krenn in Vienna, Rheinberger in Munich and Lamperti in Milan; 1880, cond. of the Galician Mus. Soc. in Lemberg; 1886, prof. of singing at the Cracow Cons.; after 1892 cond. of a choral society, 'Echo,' in Lemberg; wrote about 400 songs, choruses, quartets, etc.
21Gallay, Jacques-François, b. Perpignan, Dec. 8, 1795; d. Paris, Oct., 1864. Brilliant horn-virtuoso. Pupil (1820-21) of Dauprat in Paris Cons., where he took 1st prize. Player in the Odéon and (1825) Th. Italien; member of the royal 'chapelle,' and in 1832 chamber-musician to Louis Philippe; in 1842 he succeeded Dauprat as horn-prof. in the Cons.—
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