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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 1919
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1torical witness to the progress in the practice of tuning, the fingering of keyboard-instrs., and the execution of graces, etc. (described by Becker, Die Hausmusik in Deutschland, Leipzig, 1840); and Ein neu künstlich Tabulaturbuch (1575; 2nd ed., 1583). Also printed many comps. for organ and clavichord.
3Amiot [ah-m'yoh'], Joseph Maria, b. Toulon, 1718; d. Pekin, 1794; Jesuit missionary to China; transl. Li Koang Ti's work on Chinese music: Commentaire sur le livre classique touchant la musique des anciens; also wrote Mémoire sur la musique des Chinois, tant anciens que modernes (vol. vi of 'Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, etc., des Chinois'; Paris, 1780, 15 vols., edited by Abbé Rouffier).
5Am'(m)on, Blasius, d. Vienna, June, 1590; a Tyrolese by birth, educated as a sopranist in the service of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria; an able contrapuntist, many of whose works were printed (book of 5-part Introits, Vienna, 1582; ditto 4-part Masses, Vienna, 1588; 2 books of 4- to 6-part Motets, Munich, 1590-91; five 4-part Masses, Munich, 1591; and a book of 4-part Introits, Munich, 1601); numerous works in MS. are in the Munich Library. He died as a Franciscan friar.—See Q.-Lex.
7Am'ner, John, b. late in the 16th cent.; d. 1641. Organist and choirmaster at Ely cathedral, England, 1610-41; Mus. Bac. Oxon., 1613.—Works: Hymns in 3 to 6 parts, for voyces and vyols (1615); anthems; etc.—Ralph, his son, was bass singer at the Royal Chapel, Windsor, from 1623-63.
9A'mon, Johann (Andreas), b. Bamberg, 1763; d. Wallerstein, Bavaria, March 29, 1825; a virtuoso on the horn, and pupil of Punto, with whom he made long professional tours to the chief cities of France and Germany. App. music-director at Heilbronn in 1789, he lived there till 1817, then accepting the post of Kapellm. to the Prince of Öttlingen-Wallerstein.—His printed comps. include symphonies, a pf.-concerto, a concerto for flute and viola, various sonatas, trios, quartets, quintets, etc., etc.—See Q.-Lex.
11Amyot. See Amiot, Joseph Maria.
13A'nacker, August Ferdinand, b. Freiberg, Saxony, Oct. 17, 1790; d. there Aug. 21, 1854; a pupil of Schicht and Schneider at Leipzig; in 1822 cantor and music-director in Freiberg, and a teacher of music in the Seminary (R. Volkmann and Fr. Brendel were his pupils); in 1827, conductor of the miners' band. A sound musician and composer (wrote the cantatas Bergmannsgruss and Lebens Blume und Lebens Unbestand, 7 vocal numbers to Döring's Bergmannstreue, various piano-pcs., songs, etc.).
15Ancona, Mario, dramatic baritone; b. Florence, Nov., 1870. He studied Social Science and Law, and began life as a diplomat; but his interest in music was so strong that he soon abandoned the diplomatic career, and made his début at Trieste as Scindia in Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore, scoring an emphatic success; then sang at the principal opera houses of Italy; 9 seasons at Covent Garden, 5 at M. O. H., 2 at Manhattan O. H.; has sung in Spain, Portugal, Russia and Buenos Aires; recipient of several Portuguese orders; Commendatore della Corona d'Italia. He has appeared in more than 60 rôles (all Wagner parts in German); his répertoire includes the chief baritone parts in l'Africaine, Les Huguenots, Faust, Carmen, Pêcheurs de Perles, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Nozze di Figaro, Andrea Chénier, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Gioconda, all the Verdi operas still in the répertoire of to-day, etc.
17Ancot [ahn-koh'], a family of musicians at Bruges.—Jean (père), b. Oct. 22, 1779; d. July 12, 1848; violin-virtuoso, pianist, and composer; st. (1799-1804) in Paris: under Baillot, Kreutzer, and Catel, then settled in Bruges as teacher. Publ. 4 violin-concertos; overtures, marches, sacred music, etc.; most of his works are still in MS. Taught his 2 sons—(1) Jean (fils), b. July 6, 1799; d. Boulogne, June 5, 1829; finished his mus. education at the Paris Cons. under Pradher and Berton; an accomplished pianist, in London 1823-25, and settled in Boulogne after making concert-tours through Belgium; an astonishingly prolific composer (225 works, chiefly pf.-sonatas, a concerto, variations, études, fugues, 4-hand fantasias, also violin-concertos, etc.);—and (2) Louis, b. Bruges, June 3, 1803; d. there, 1836; for a time pianist to the Duke of Sussex, London; made extended continental tours, taught at Boulogne and Tours, and finally returned to Bruges. Compositions of little value.
19An'ders, Gottfried Engelbert, b. Bonn, 1795; d. Paris, Sept. 22, 1866. Archivist and superintendent of Paris Library. Wrote monographs on Paganini (1831), and Beethoven (1839).
21An'dersen, (Carl) Joachim, b. Copenhagen, April 29, 1847; d. there May 7, 1909; son and pupil of the flutist Christian Joachim A., and himself a remarkable flute-player and conductor; 1869-77, member of the Royal Orch., Copenhagen; 1881 in Berlin, where he was a co-founder, and for ten years 1st flute and asst.-conductor, of the Philharm. Orch.; since 1893, cond. of the Palace Orch. at Copenhagen. Chamber-musician to the Russian, Prussian, and Danish courts. Compositions for flute many and fine: Concert-pieces
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