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1BAILLOU
3counterpoint with Reicha and Cherubini. Member of Napoleon's private band in 1802. He made a professional tour with the violoncello-player Lamare in Russia in 1805-08, but the war brought him home; he gave concerts in the South of France, and started chamber-music concerts in Paris in 1814, which gained him great reputation as a quartet-player. In 1815-16 he made a second professional tour in Holland, Belgium, and England, becoming a member of the English Philharmonic Society, at one of whose concerts he played on Feb. 26, 1816. Director of the band at the Paris Opéra in 1821-31; director of the Concerts spirituels given at the Opéra, 1822, 1823, 1824; of the Royal Band from 1825; his last tour was made through Switzerland and part of Italy in 1833. Baillot's quartet-playing is highly praised by Mendelssohn and Hiller. He had celebrated pupils, Mazas, Habeneck ainé, the two Danelas, and many others. He assisted Rode and Kreutzer in compiling a work for the violoncello, and the Méthode de Violon, adopted by the Conservatoire (1803); with the exception of the Art du Violon, which is considered by Fétis the best elementary work of the kind (1834), his works are almost forgotten. His music is difficult. Among his published compositions are: 15 trios for two violins and bass; 6 duets for two violins; 12 études for violins; 9 concertos; Symphonie concertante for two violins, with orchestral accompaniment; 30 airs variés; 3 string quartets; Sonata for pianoforte and violin; 24 préludes in all keys and several smaller compositions for the violin. A posthumous work, "Observations aux concours de violon du Conservatoire de Musique," was published in Paris (1872).—Fétis; do., Supplément, i. 37; Grove; Larousse, ii. 62; Mendel, i. 416; Ergänz, 22; Wasielewski, Die Violine und ihre Meister, 274.
5BAILLOU, LOUIS DE, born in France about the middle of the 18th century, died in Milan in 1809. Dramatic composer and violinist, pupil of Capron on the violin; went to Italy and became conductor of the orchestra at the Teatro della Scala, Milan, for which he wrote the following ballets: Andromacca e Pirro, L'amante generosa, given in 1777; Apollo placato, Calipso abbandonata, 1778; Mirza, La guinguetta inglese, La Zingara riconosciuta, 1783; Giulio Sabino, 1784; Lodovico il Moro, Amore maestro di scuola, Il popolo d'Argo festeggiante, Vologese, 1786; Guatimozin o la Conquista del Messico, Il primo viaggiatore, Il fanfaro militare, I due avari, 1787; Il matrimonio per concorso, 1788; Guglielmo Tell, Lucio Giunio Bruto, 1797; La disfatta di Abderamo (with Capuzzi), 1809.—Fétis.
7BAINI, GIUSEPPE, born in Rome, Oct. 21, 1775, died there, May 21, 1844. Church composer, and the most eminent musical writer and critic in Italy in this century; pupil of his uncle, Lorenzo Bani, and at the Seminario Romano of Jannaconi in 1802, when he obtained a position as bass singer in the Pontifical Chapel, of which he was appointed maestro di cappella in 1817. His celebrated Miserere was composed for the Sistine Chapel, and is considered equal to those by Allegri and Bai, and still used. As a writer on music he is the author of "Saggio sopra l'identità de' ritmi musicali e poetichi" (Florence, 1820); his most important work was the monograph, "Memorie storico-critiche della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina," etc. (Rome, 1828). Member of Berlin Academy, 1837, of the Deutsche National Musik Verein, 1839. His principal compositions are: Salmi ed Inni a quattro voci, etc. (1804); Inni ad otto voci, etc. (1807); Tutto il servigio per la solenne messa del martedì santo, etc., Il Te Deum o Inno Ambrogiano ad otto voci, etc.
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