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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 1919
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1ASTARITTA—ATTWOOD
31824, Kapellm. at the 'Schottenstift'; 1825, Imperial organist; 1838, vice-, 1846 second Kapellm. to the court, succeeding Weigl.—Publ. 2 oratorios, Saul und David, and Sauls Tod; a 3rd, Das Gelübde, is in MS.; also a mass (he wrote 15), and a few of his other sacred works (requiems, a Te Deum, gradu- als, offertories, hymns, etc.); most of his secular works (symphonies, overtures, pastorales, etc.), some 60 in all, have been printed.
5Astarit'ta, Gennaro, opera-composer; b. Naples, circa 1749; d. 1803. Wrote some 36 operas, given in Naples, Rome, Venice, Dresden, Berlin, etc.; L'Orfana insidiata (Naples, 1765) was the first; Circe ed Ulisse (Presburg, 1787), the best.
7Aston (Ashton, Aystoun, Austen), Hugh, d. Dec., 1522; composer of the oldest preserved virginal pieces (Hornpipe and Lady Carey's Dompe, printed in S. Smith's 'Musica Antiqua'); wrote also a mass a 6 (Videte manus meas) and a mass a 5 (Te Deum); also several motets.
9d'Astorga, Emanuele (Gioachino Cesare Rincón), b. Augusta, Sicily, Mar. 20, 1680; d. circa 1750 in Spain. He came of a noble Spanish family, who, at the beginning of the 17th century, had settled in Augusta. A. was a baron in his own right from his estate Ogliastro, near Augusta. He received an excellent education, at first in Augusta, and later in Palermo, where his father had been a resident for some years when he died there in 1712. During the revolution of 1708 in Palermo A. was an officer in the municipal guard. In 1712 he was in Vienna; in 1713 in Znaim; 1714–15 in London; 1717–18 senator in Palermo. After that he lived in Spain in the service of the king; 1744 he sold his Sicilian estate. He had practised music from childhood, but never took it up as a profession. To his contemporaries he was known as a man versed in the sciences, a fine singer, cembalist and composer. His reputation was won through his only opera Dafni (Genoa, 1709; other known productions at Barcelona, 1709, and Breslau, 1726), and numerous chamber-cantatas, of which he himself publ. a volume (containing 12) in 1726 at Lisbon. The earliest known performance of his most famous work, a Stabat Mater for 4 voices, took place in London in 1752. In 1878 R. Franz publ. a new ed. The current romantic account of A.'s life, first publ. by Fr. Rochlitz in vol. ii of 'Für Freunde der Tonkunst' (1825), has been proved to be pure invention.—In his book Emanuel d'Astorga (Leipzig, 1911) Hans Volkmann gives an authentic account based upon the evidence of original documents. A second vol., dealing with the works of A., is to follow shortly.
11Atherton, Percy Lee, b. Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 25, 1871. Grad. 'with honors' from the mus. course in Harvard Univ., 1893; from 1893–5 pupil of Rheinberger at the Kgl. Hochschule in Munich; 1896 with O. B. Boise (comp.) in Berlin; 1900 with Sgambati in Rome, and later with Widor in Paris. Has written 2 comic operas, The Heir-Apparent (1890) and Maharajah (1900); f. vl. and pf., 2 sonatas, a suite, and smaller pcs.; suite f. fl. and pf.; choruses, part-songs, and songs for 1 voice; his orch. works (in MS.) include Noon in the Forest, symph. poem; Symph. Scherzo; Symph. Andante; Scherzino f. string-orch., etc.
13Attaignant [-tän-yähn'], Pierre (also Attaingnant, Atteignant), music-printer in the first half of the 16th cent., and the first, in Paris, to employ movable types. The 20 books of motets printed by him (1527–50), 65 books of chansons, and other compositions, chiefly by French musicians, are very rare.—See Q.-Lex.
15At'tenhofer, Karl, b. Wettingen, Switzerland, May 5, 1837; d. Munich, May 22, 1914. Pupil of D. Elster (Wettingen), Kurz (Neuenberg), and Richter, Papperitz, Dreyschock, Röntgen, and Schleinitz (Leipzig Cons., 1857–8). 1859, teacher of music at Muri (Aargau); 1863, conductor of Rapperswyl Men's Choral Union, and in 1866 took charge of 3 Unions at Zurich, where he settled in 1867. He has also held various positions as organist, teacher, etc. A well-known and eminent composer of choral-songs for men's voices (e. g., the cantatas Hege- lingenfahrt, 1890, and Frühlingsfeier, op. 51); Der deutsche Michel f. men's voices, bar. solo and org.; Liederbuch f. Männerges. (1882); also for women's ch., soli and pf. (Beim Rattenfänger im Zauberberg, Das Kind der Wüste, Prinzessin Wunderhold, Rütlifahrt); children's songs, songs w. pf., masses, pf.-pieces, easy études f. vln.—Biogr. sketch by A. Glück.
17At'trup, Karl, b. Copenhagen, Mar. 4, 1848; d. there Oct. 5, 1892. Pupil (1867) of Gade, whom he succeeded, in 1869, as organ-teacher at the Copenhagen Cons.; organist at several churches. His studies for organ, and songs, are of value.
19Attwood, Thomas, b. London, Nov. 23, 1765; d. Chelsca, Mar. 24, 1838. Chorister in the Chapel Royal, and a pupil of Nares and Ayrton, from 1774–9; sent by the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) to Naples, where he studied, 1783–5, with Filippo Cinque and Gaetano Latilla; then with Mozart in Vienna until 1787. He was, successively, organist of St. George the Martyr, London, and a member of the Prince's private band; teacher of the Duchess of York
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