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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1at the R. C. Cath. and prof. of Plain-Chant at St. John's Ecclesiastical College; there he founded the W. Acad. of Music and a permanent opera company. In 1886 he was made Mus. Doc. by Trinity Coll., Toronto.
3Stradal [strah'dähl], August, pianist; b. Teplitz, May 17, 1860; d. Schönlinde, Mar. 13, 1930. Pupil of Door (pf.) and Bruckner (comp.) at the Vienna Cons.; in 1884 of Liszt at Budapest, Rome and Weimar. From 1893-5 he taught in Horak's piano-school in Vienna; then traveled as a concert-pianist (Austria, Germany, France and England); especially fine as a Liszt player. He publ. numerous pf.-arrs. of Liszt's orchl. works, also of earlier masters (Bach, Handel, Frescobaldi, etc.), his orig. comps. consist of pf.-pcs. (Ungarische Rhapsodie) and songs. He wrote Erinnerungen an Bruckner und Liszt (1929).—Cf. Hildegard Stradal, A. S. Lebensbild (Leipzig, 1934).
5Stradel'la, Alessandro, composer; b. Naples, ca. 1645; murdered in Genoa at the end of Feb., 1682. According to a story narrated in Bonnet-Bourdelot's Histoire de la musique et de ses effets (Paris, 1715), S. was engaged to comp. an opera for Venice, but there met the mistress of a Venetian nobleman and ran off with her before his work was prod.; the enraged nobleman thereupon engineered an attempt upon S.'s life at Turin in 1677. Though he was one of the most famous composers of his time, details of his biography are lacking, and he has been made the subject of many legends. He is the hero of Flotow's opera A. S. (1844), and operas dealing with his life have also been written by Doppler (Vienna, 1845), Niedermeyer (Paris, 1837), Sinico (Lugo, 1863), etc. His murder is attributed to the jealousy of an actress. Another attempt on his life was also made in Rome.—As a comp. S. developed the structural form and expressive power of the aria, and was one of the first to make use of the instrl. crescendo.—[address hidden]. in the Modena Library, incl. 8 oratorios and 11 dramas; cantatas in the Naples Cons. Library; 21 cantatas in the library of San Marco, Venice (10 publ. by L. Escudier, with pf.-accomp. by Halévy);—others in the Paris Natl. Library, and at the Cons.;—1 motet and 8 cantatas at Christchurch Library, Oxford; a number of cantatas, madrigals, arias, duets, etc., in the British Museum; etc. Among his extant works are the oratorios S. Giovanni Battista, Esther, S. Pelagia, S. Giovanni Crisostomo, Susanna, and S. Edita vergine; the operas Il Corispeo, Orazio Cocle sul ponte, Trespolo tutore, La forza del amore paterno (1678; new ed. by A. Gentili, Rome, 1931); the cantata Il Barcheggio (dated June 16, 1681).—The church-aria Pietà, Signore, and the arias O del mio dolce ardor and Se i miei sospiri, have been wrongly attributed to S.—Cf. A. Catelani, Delle Opere di A. S. esistenti nell' archivio musicale della R. Biblioteca Palatina di Modena (Modena, 1866); P. Richard, A. S. (Paris, 1866); H. Hess, Die Opern A. S.s, in 'Beiheft' II, 3 of 'I. M.-G.' (1906); F. M. Crawford, S. (London, 1911); A. Einstein, Ein Bericht über den Turiner Mordanfall auf A. S., in 'Sandberger-Festschrift' (1918); A. Della Corte, in 'Musica d'oggi' (1931); G. Roncaglia, Le composizioni strumentali di A. S., in 'Riv. M. I.' (1940).
7Stradiva'ri [Stradiva'rius], Antonio, b. Cremona, 1644; d. there, Dec. 18, 1737; the most famous of violin-makers. He was a pupil of Niccolo Amati and worked for him from about 1667-79. He purchased the house in which, for half a century, his workshop was situated, in 1680. His finest instruments were made in the period from 1700-1725; but he still worked up to the year of his death. Grove says of him: "S. marks the culminating point of the art of making stringed instruments. It was he who perfected the model of the violin and its fittings. No improvement has been made since his time, and subsequent makers . . . have mostly copied him." His label reads: 'Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis. Fecit Anno . . . (A † S).' His violoncelli command even higher prices than the violins. Of his eleven children, two sons, Francesco (born Feb. 1, 1671; d. May 11, 1743) and Omobono (b. Nov. 14, 1679; d. July 8, 1742), were his co-workers. S. also made violas (equally prized with the violins), viols of the earlier types, guitars, lutes, mandolins, etc.—Cf. P. Lombardini, Cenni sulla celebre scuola Cremonense degli instrumenti ad arco . . . e sulla famiglia del sommo Antonio Stradivari (Cremona, 1872; with genealogical table from the 13th century to date of publication); A. Reichers, The Violin and the Art of its Construction; a Treatise on S. (1895); H. Petheric, A. S. (London, 1900); H. W., A. F., F. S. and A. E. Hill, A. S. His Life and Work (London, 1902; the standard work); A. Mandelli, Nuove indagini su A. S. (Milan, 1903); H. Herrmann, Geschichte und Beschreibung von zwei Meisterwerken des A. S. (N. Y., 1929); R. Bacchetta, S. (1937); G. Hofmann, S. l'enchanteur (Paris, 1938); H. Tinyanova, S. the Violin-Maker (from the Russian; Engl. adaptation by C. Angoff, N. Y., 1938).—An exhaustive article is in Grove's 'Dict.'
9Straesser, Ewald, composer; b. Burscheid, Rhine Prov., June 27, 1867; d. Stuttgart, Apr. 4, 1933. Pupil of Wüllner at the Cologne Cons., and prof. of cpt. there until 1921; from 1922-32, prof. at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule.—Works: 6 symphonies; Tragö-
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