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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1ough training from his father, and from J. S. Bach at the Thomasschule, Leipzig; member of the Royal Polish Band at Dresden, 1748–58; visited Leipzig and other German towns, and went to London in 1759, where the Duke of York assisted him. In 1765, chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte. He was intimate with Joh. Chr. Bach. He comp. 2 operas: Love in a Village (London, 1760), and Berenice (1764); also popular symphonies, overtures, quartets, sonatas for harpsichord, concertos for harpsichord and strings, etc. (Eitner mentions some 60 different sets and single pieces still extant.) He revisited Germany 1783–5, returning to London via Paris. He was the last great virtuoso on the gamba.
3A’bel, Ludwig, b. Eckartsberga, Thuringia, Jan. 14, 1834; d. Neu-Pasing, n. Munich, Aug. 13, 1895. Pupil of Ferd. David; member of Gewandhaus orch. at Leipzig, the Weimar court orch. (1853), leader of court orch. at Munich (1867), teacher in and (1878) Inspector of the Royal Music-School then managed by v. Bülow; 1880, royal Professor; retired on pension, 1894. Violin-virtuoso of high rank, and an excellent orch. conductor; wrote a good Violin Method; also studies, variations, etc.
5A’bell, John, a celebrated alto singer (musico), and lutenist; b. London, c. 1660; d. Cambridge (?), c. 1724. In 1679, member of the Chapel Royal; fled to the Continent during the Revolution of 1688, and won fame and wealth by his singing. In Kassel he was made Intendant of Music (1698–9). About 1700 he returned to England. He was also a song-writer and collector (collections publ. in 1701 and 1740).
7A’bendroth, Hermann, b. Frankfort, Jan. 19, 1883. Pupil of L. Thuille and A. Langenhan-Hirzel in Munich; 1903–04 conductor of the ‘Orchesterverein’ in Munich; 1905–11 in Lübeck as first cond. at the ‘Stadttheater’ and cond. of the ‘Verein der Musikfreunde.’ In 1911 he was called as municipal music director to Essen, and in 1914 he succeeded Fritz Steinbach in the direction of the ‘Gürzenich’ concerts in Cologne; 1918, general music director; 1919, made Prof.; 1922–23, conducted the Philh. concerts of the Berlin State Opera; later, dir. of the Cologne Hochschule; since 1934 cond. of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig, and dir. of the Cons.; one of the leaders of the Reichsmusikkammer.
9Aber, Adolf, musicologist and critic; b. Apolda, Germany, Jan. 28, 1893; pupil of Kretzschmar, Stumpf, Friedländer, Wolf and Riehl in Berlin; Dr. phil. there; 1913, asst. of Kretzschmar at the Musicological Institute, Berlin; 1918–33, critic of the ‘Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten’; now living in London, connected with Novello (music publishers).—Important books: Handbuch der Musikliteratur (1922); Die Musikinstrumente und ihre Sprache (1924); Die Musik im Schauspiel, Geschichtliches und Ästhetisches (1926); Verzeichnis der Werke von Brahms (1928); also articles in various journals.
11A’bert, Hermann, b. Stuttgart, Mar. 25, 1871; d. there, Aug. 13, 1927. Pupil of the Cons. and his father, Joh. Jos. A. Dr. phil., Tübingen, 1897; Dozent for mus. science at Halle Univ., 1902; prof., 1909; 1913, dir. of the Musicological Institute; 1914, editor of the ‘Gluck Jahrbuch’; 1919, prof. at Heidelberg Univ.; 1920, at Leipzig Univ. (succ. Hugo Riemann); 1923, at Berlin Univ. (succ. Kretzschmar).—Works: Die Lehre vom Ethos in der griechischen Musik (1902); biogr. of Schumann, in Riemann’s ‘Ber. Mus.’ (1903); Die Musikanschauung des Mittelalters und ihre Grundlagen (Halle, 1905); Die dramatische Musik am Hofe Herzog Karls von Württemberg (Esslingen, 1905); Nic. Jommelli als Opernkomponist (Halle, 1908); Geschichte der Rob. Franz Singakademie zu Halle (ib. 1908); Nic. Piccinni als Buffo-Komponist (1913); biogr. of his father, Joh. Jos. Abert (1916); revision of Otto Jahn’s biogr. of Mozart (1920–21); Goethe und die Musik (1922); Luther und die Musik (1924); Illustriertes Musiklexikon (1927); Gesammelte Schriften (ed. Blume, 1929); historical essays in ‘Sbd. Int. M.-G.’, ‘Ztschr. f. M.-W.’, ‘Archiv f. M.-W.’, etc. He edited several older operas.
13A’bert, Johann Joseph, b. Kochowitz, Bohemia, Sept. 20, 1832; d. Stuttgart, Apr. 1, 1915. Choir-boy at Gastdorf and, from 8 to 15, at Leipa monastery, whence he fled to an uncle in Prague, who sent him (1848) to the Prague Cons. (Kittl, Tomašek). He first st. the double-bass; his études, concertos, etc., for this instr. are classics. He also wrote overtures, and graduated in 1852 with a symphony in C minor. Engaged as double-bass player in the court orch. at Stuttgart, he comp. 2 symphonies (G min. and A maj.), and an opera, Anna von Landskron (Stuttgart, 1859); in 1860 a second opera, Die Almohaden, was prod. Studied further in Paris and London; wrote opera König Enzio (1862) after returning to Germany, and a symphonic poem, Columbus, which made him famous. A 3-act romantic opera, Astorga (Stuttgart, 1866), followed; A. was then app. Musikdirektor and (1867) Kapellm. at the Stuttgart Court Th., succeeding Eckert; he retired in 1888. Other works are the 5-act opera Ekkehard (Berlin, 1878), probably his magnum opus; a 5th symphony in C min., and a 6th ‘lyric’ symphony in D min.; a mass f. mixed ch. w. org.-accomp.; overtures, string-quartets, pf.-pieces, and songs.—Cf. Hermann Abert, J. J. A. Sein Leben und seine Werke (Leipzig, 1916).
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