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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians Third Edition, 1919
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1Alberti'ni, Gioacchino, b. 1751; d. Warsaw, in April, 1812. About 1784, Royal Polish Kapellm. His Italian operas, Circe ed Ulisse (Hamburg, 1785) and Virginia (Rome, 1786), were extremely popular.
3Alberti'ni, Michael (called Momioletto), famous soprano singer (musico) at Kassel early in the 18th century. His sister Giovanna, (called Romanina) was prima donna there.
5Albino'ni, Tommaso, opera-composer and violinist; b. Venice, 1674; d. there 1745; wrote some 46 operas, chiefly for Venice; in Germany he was best known as a violinist and instrumental composer (symphonies, sonatas, concertos, etc., among them some valuable works). He was also an admired singer.—See Q.-Lex.
7Albo'ni, Marietta, celebrated contralto, b. Cesena (Romagna), Mar. 10, 1823; d. Ville d'Avray, France, June 23, 1894. Studied under Mme. Bertolotti at Bologna (where she began her stage career in 1839), and later with Rossini, whose sole pupil she is said to have been. Her début as Orsini in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, at La Scala (Milan, 1843), was a brilliant success; with her impresario, Merelli, she made an Italian tour, then proceeding to Vienna. She visited Petrograd, returned to Germany in 1845, sang at the Roman carnival in 1847, and appeared at Covent Garden in London the same spring, entering into not unsuccessful rivalry with Jenny Lind, then at the zenith of her fame. Engaged the following October in the Italian Opera at Paris, she was received with unbounded enthusiasm, and sang for several years alternately in these capitals. In 1853 she made a triumphal progress through the two Americas; married Count Pepoli in 1854, and at his death (1866) retired from the stage. In 1877 she married a French officer, Zieger. Her voice was rich, sweet and powerful, with a compass of 2 octaves (g—g²) and perfectly equalized. Cf. A. Pougin, M. A. (2nd ed. Paris, 1912).
9Al'brecht, Eugen Maria, a fine violinist and musician; b. Petrograd, June 16, 1842; d. there Feb. 9, 1894. 1857–60, a pupil of David at Leipzig Cons.; 1860–77, leader of the orchestra at the Italian opera, Petrograd, and (1867–72) musical director of military schools; 1872, app. inspector of the Imperial orchestras; 1892, librarian of the Imperial Theatres. Also the founder (1872) of the Chamber-music Society, and violin-master to several of the Imp. princes.—His father, Karl A., b. Posen, Aug. 27, 1807; d. Gatchina, Feb. 24, 1863, was Kapellm. for 12 years of the Imp. Russian Opera, where, in 1842, he conducted the world's première of Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla.
11Al'brecht, Johann Lorenz, b. Gormar near Mühlhausen (Thuringia), Jan. 8, 1732; d. Mühlhausen, 1773. He studied at Leipzig, and in 1758 became cantor, music-director and teacher in the Gymnasium at M. Edited Adlung's Musica mechanica and Siebengestirn (Berlin, 1768), wrote an Abhandlung uber die Frage: ob die Musik beim Gottesdienst zu dulden sei oder nicht (1764); Grundliche Einleitung in die Anfangslehren der Tonkunst (1761); and a treatise Vom Hasse der Musik (1765); contributed articles to Marpurg's 'Kritische Beitrage,' etc. Composed a Passion, some cantatas and harpsichord-lessons.
13Al'brechtsberger, Johann Georg, famous theoretical writer, composer, and teacher; b. Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, Feb. 3, 1736; d. Vienna, Mar. 7, 1809. After holding positions as organist and music-master in smaller towns (especially 12 years in Mölk, where his fine playing attracted the Emperor Joseph's notice), in 1772 he was engaged in Vienna as 'Regens chori' to the Carmelites; app. court organist in the same year, and, in 1792, Kapellm. at St. Stephen's cathedral. His important theoretical writings (complete ed. publ. by I. v. Seyfried) are: Grundliche Anweisung zur Composition (1790 and 1818; French ed., 1814); Kurzgefasste Methode, den Generalbass zu erlernen (1792; also in French); Clavierschule fur Anfanger (1808); and some lesser essays. Of his 244 compositions, only 27 have been printed (pf.-fugues; pf.-quartet; a Concerto léger for pf., 2 vlns., and bass; organ-preludes; and quartets, quintets, sextets and octets for strings); the MS. scores (in the possession of Prince Esterházy-Galantha) comprise 26 masses, 43 graduals, 34 offertories, 6 oratorios; 28 trios, 42 quartets, and 38 quintets, for strings; besides a great variety of church music. A selection from his instrumental works was publ. in 'Dkm. der Tonkunst in Österreich,' vol. xvi, 2. He was Beethoven's teacher in cpt., and expressed but a poor opinion of his pupil's talents.—See Q.-Lex.
15Albrici [-brē-tchē], Vincenzo, b. Romc, June 26, 1631; d. Prague, Aug. 8, 1696. About 1650, Kapellm. to Queen Christina, at Stralsund, Sweden; 1654, do. to the Elector, at Dresden; 1680, organist of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig; afterwards, church-music director at Prague. His works (MS.) were destroyed in the Dresden library during the bombardment of 1760; only a few were saved, but never publ.
17Alcarrot'ti, Giovanni Francesco, Italian comp.; b. Novarra, c. 1536; organist at Como.—Publ. works: 2 books of 5- and 6-part Madrigals (1567, 1569); 1 book 5-part Lamentations (1570).
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