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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians Third Edition, 1919
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1London theatres. A curious episode in his career was his search for the philosopher's stone (c. 1768), during which he neglected his profession and ruined himself pecuniarily.
3Arne, Thomas Augustine, one of the foremost of English composers; b. London, March 12, 1710; d. there March 5, 1778. By dint of stolen nightly practice he became a fine player on the spinet and violin, in despite of his father's wishes that he should study law; the latter finally yielded to the inevitable, and Arne, free to pursue his mus. work, set to music various texts—Addison's Rosamond and Field's Tragedy of Tragedies (1733); a masque, Dido and Aeneas (1734); and Zara (1736). In 1736 he married Cecilia Young, a fine singer and a prime favorite of Handel's. In 1738, as composer to the Drury Lane Th., he set Dalton's adaptation of Comus to music, a composition which firmly established his reputation. The music to the masque of Alfred (1740) contains, among other fine songs, the celebrated Rule, Britannia. While residing in Dublin (1742-4) he brought out 2 new operas, Britannia and Eliza, and the musical farce Thomas and Sally. He became comp. to Vauxhall Gardens, London, in 1745. Further dramatic works were Congreve's masque, The Judgment of Paris (1740), Colin and Phæbe (1745), Artaxerxes (1762), Olympiad (1765), and the music to Mason's Caractacus (1776); also settings for songs in As You Like it and 'Where the Bee Sucks' in The Tempest; etc. His 2 oratorios are Abel (1755) and Judith (1761). Dr. A. was the first to introduce female voices into oratorio-choruses (Judith). Besides the above, he composed numerous minor texts, and wrote orch. overtures, vln.-sonatas, organ-music, harpsich.-sonatas, many songs, glees, catches, canons, and the like. With the exception of 2 years in Dublin, A. lived continuously in London as a composer and concert-giver; he was created Mus. Doc. (Oxon.) in 1759. The London 'Musical Times' for Nov. and Dec., 1901, contains a sketch of his life and a fairly complete list of his compositions.—See Q.-Lex.
5d'Arne'iro, (José Augusto) Ferreira Veiga, Viscount, distinguished Portuguese composer, b. Macao, China, Nov. 22, 1838; d. San Remo, July, 1903; pupil (1859) of Botelho (harm.), Schira (cpt. and fugue), and Soares (pf.), at Lisbon. Wrote the ballet Ginn (1866); 2 operas, L'Elisire di giovinezza (Lisbon, 1876) and La Derelitta (ib., 1885); and a Te Deum (his chief work), performed Lisbon, 1871, and later in Paris under the modern and much-affected title of Symphonie-Cantate.
7Arnold, Johann Gottfried, violoncellist and composer; b. Niedernhall, n. Öhringen, Feb. 15, 1773; d. Frankfort, July 26, 1806. Pupil of Romberg and Willmann; after concert-tours in Germany and Switzerland, he was app. 1st 'cellist at Frankfort Th.—Works: Symphonia concertante f. 2 flutes w. orch.; 5 'cello-concertos; 6 sets of vars. f. 'cello (op. 9); picces f. guitar; etc.
9Arnold, Karl, b. Neukirchen, n. Mergentheim, Wurttemberg, March 6, 1794; d. Christiania, Nov 11, 1873. Pupil of A. Schmitt, J. A. André, and Karl Vollweiler, at Frankfort; fine pianist; lived successively at Petrograd (1819), Berlin (1824), Münster (1835), and Christiania (1849), where he conducted the Philh. Soc. and was org. of the principal church.—Works: an opera, Irene (Berlin, 1832); pf.-sextet, and sonatas, variations, fantasias, etc., for pf.
11Arnold(-Strothotte), Maurice, b. St. Louis, Jan. 19, 1865. He received his first instruction from his mother, and then attended the Cincinnati Coll. of Mus. (1880-3); st. in Berlin with Vierling and Urban, at Cologne Cons. with Wullner, Neitzel and G. Jensen, and finally in Breslau with Max Bruch; returned to St. Louis, where he estab. himself as teacher, vlst. and cond. of light opera. In 1894 a perf. of his American Plantation Dances f. orch. in New York aroused the interest of Dvořák (at that time dir. of the Nat. Cons.) in the possibilities of negro-melodies, and he offered A. a position as instr. of comp. at the Cons.; since then A. has been living in New York, with the exception of one season, when he was cond. at the Princess Th., London, and of another season, touring Germany; since 1905 dir. of 'Progressive Stage Soc.,' N. Y.—Works: The Wild Chase, cantata; a symphony in F min.; Dramatic Overture; Danse de la Midway Plaisance and Turkish March, for orch.; sonata for vl. and pf. in E min.; Minstrel Serenade for vl. and pf.; a fugue for pf. (8 hands); numerous pcs. for pf. (Caprice espagnol, Banjoenne; etc.); songs. A comic opera, The Merry Benedict, was prod. in Brooklyn (1896); has in MS. another comic opera and a grand opera, Cleopatra.
13Arnold, Richard, excellent violinist; b. Eilenberg, Prussia, Jan. 10, 1845. Went to the United States in 1853; returned to Europe in 1864 to study under Ferd. David at Leipzig; from 1869-76, first violin in Theodore Thomas's orch.; 1878-91, leader and solo violin in the N. Y. Philharm. Club; elected member of the Philharm. Soc. in 1877; concert-master, 1880-1909; vice-president in 1896. Organized the R. Arnold String Sextet in 1897. Living in New York as a concert-violinist and teacher.
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