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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 1919
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1Welte-Mignon Co. has preserved his art in 21 records representing all styles from Couperin to d'Indy.—Works: An oratorio, La Résurrection de Lazare (1879); the opéras bouffes (all, except the first, at Paris) A qui la trompe (Asnières, 1877), Ninetta (1882), Le Sosie (1887), Le Valet de cœur (1888), Le Retour d'Ulysse (1889), La Vocation de Marius (1890), La petite Poucette (1891; as Der Talisman, Berlin, 1893); the ballets La Fée Cocotte (1881), Papillons (with C. Lippacher, 1881), Viviane (1886), La Danseuse de Corde (1892), Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (with A. Messager, 1897); a 'mimodrame' Pour le Drapeau (1895); a Suite d'orchestre (3 movements.); pf.-pcs. (sonata, mazurka, Feuillets d'Album, Pages d'Amour, Paysages, etc.). An opera, La Ville morte (after d'Annunzio), left incomplete, was finished by Nadia Boulanger.
3Pujol [poo-höhl'], Juan Bautista, famous pianist and teacher; b. 1836; d. Dec., 1898, in Barcelona, where he had been for many years prof. of pf. at the Cons.; among his pupils was Granados. Publ. Nuevo mecanismo del piano (1896; also in Fr.), and comps. for pf. (Fête andalouse, Boléro de concert, Valse des Sylphes, etc.).
5Puli'ti, Leto, b. Florence, June 29, 1818; d. there Nov. 15, 1875. A student of music and natural science; publ. songs, and music for pf. and orch.; also valuable essays in the Proceedings of the R. Inst. of Music at Florence, especially Cenni storici della vita del serenissimo Ferdinando de' Medici (1884, printed separately), with information concerning Cristofori, the inventor of the pf.
7Pun'to, Giovanni. See STICH.
9Pup'po, Giuseppe, an eccentric violinist; b. Lucca, June, 12, 1749; d. in poverty at Florence, April 19, 1827. Lived for years in London (till 1784), then in Paris as cond. at the Th. de Monsieur, and as fashionable accompanist and teacher, till 1811, and in Naples 1811–17 as maestro at the San Carlo Th.—Publ. 3 concertos, 3 violin-duets, 8 violin-études and 6 pf.-fantasias.
11Pur'cell, Daniel, brother of Henry; b. London, c. 1660; d. there Dec. 12, 1717. Also an excellent musician, he became org. of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1688; took his brother's place as dramatic composer in 1695, and was org. of St. Andrew's, Holborn, from 1713.—Works: Incid. music to ten dramas; several odes (e. g., funeral ode for his brother); publ. The Psalm Tunes set full for the Organ or Harpsichord . . . (n. d.); songs in collections.—Six anthems are in the choir-books of Magdalen Coll. chapel.—See Q. I. ex.
13Pur'cell, Henry (called 'the younger,' be-
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