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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1BABBI
3BABBI, CRISTOFORO, born at Cesena, Italy, in 1748, died at Dresden in 1814. Violinist, pupil of Paolo Alberghi; became, in 1790, Couzertmeister to the Elector of Saxony. Works: Concertos for the violin; Symphonies for church and chamber; Quartets and duets for the flute; Augusta, cantata (1789).—Mendel; Schilling.
5BABELL, WILLIAM, born in England in 1690, died in London in 1723. Violinist and organist, pupil of Dr. Pepusch; was a member of the Royal Band of Music and organist of All-Hallows Church, Bread Street, London. Works: 12 solos for violin or oboe; 12 solos for flute or oboe; 6 concertos for octave flutes and violins.
7BACCELLI, DOMENICO, Italian dramatic composer of the 18th century. He went to Paris in 1766 with his wife, an actress of reputation, and in 1770 successfully produced the comic opera, Le nouveau marié, ou les importuns, at the Comédie Italienne. In 1779 he returned to Italy.
9BACCELLI, Padre MATTEO, born at Lucca about 1680, died there in 1756. Church composer, professor of music at the seminary of San Giovanni. He wrote masses, gradualls, motets, and psalms for four voices, a Domine, a Dixit, and a Magnificat for do., with instrumental accompaniment.—Fétis, Supplément, i. 36.
11BACCHINI, CESARE, born in Florence in 1846. Dramatic composer, pupil of Anichini on the pianoforte and in harmony, of Giovacchino Giovacchini on the violin, and of Mabellini in composition. Works—Operas: Il quadro parlante, given at Florence, 1871; La secchia rapita (with Deschamps, Felice, Giraldini, Tacchinardi, and Usiglio), ib., Teatro Goldoni, April, 1872; La cacciata del Duco d'Atene, ib., Teatro Pagliano, Feb. 1874; Delmira, ib., Dec. 5, 1878.—Fétis, Supplément, i. 36.
13BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. See Arianna.
15BACCHUS, EVER FAIR AND YOUNG, bass air in F major, in Handel's Alexander's Feast, Part I.
17BACCI, PIETRO GIACOMO, born at Perugia about the middle of the 17th century. He composed the opera Abigail, given at Città della Pieve, Province of Perugia, in 1691.—Fétis.
19BACCUSI, IPPOLITO, lived in Verona, Italy, latter half of the 16th century. He was maestro di cappella of the Cathedral of Verona in 1590. His works include masses, madrigals, motets, and psalms, published in Venice during his lifetime (1592) by Gardano, Vincenti, and Rampazetti; others are in the volume dedicated to Palestrina by fourteen Italian composers, and in other publications of the day. Baccusi was among the first to introduce instruments as an accompaniment to the voices in church singing, and this system is applied in two volumes of his works, one containing vesper psalms and two magnificats; the title of the other book is: Hippolyti Baccusi, Eccl. Cath. Veronæ musicæ magistri, missæ tres, tum viva voce tum omni instrumentorum genere cantatu accommodatissimæ, cum octo vocibus (Amadino, Venice, 1596).—Fétis.
21BACH. The Bach family presents by far the most remarkable instance of hereditary genius in all history. In seven consecutive generations we can count no less than forty-nine musicians, of whom at least twenty deserve to be classed as important figures in musical history. Of the eldest member of the family to whom the genealogy is traceable, Hans Bach, nothing is known save that he was one of the trustees of the Parish (Gemeinde-Vormundschaftsglied) of Wechmar, a little town near Gotha, in 1561. The first musical member of the family was Veit Bach (probably son of this Hans), who has generally been looked upon as the head of the family tree. He was a miller or baker (possibly both), and used to delight in playing on the cythringen (diminutive for cithara, an instrument of the guitar tribe); he left his native place, and settled somewhere in Hungary; a tradition, probably originated by Korabinsky, fixes Presburg as the
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