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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1tiful song of the page, "Saper vorreste," and finally the ball scene and the assassination.—Hanslick, Moderne Oper, 237.
3BAL MASQUÉ, LE, by Auber. See Gustave III.
5BALTAZAR, oratorio, music by Giacomo Carissimi. MS. in National Library, Paris. It has been published by Chrysander (Schott).
7BALTAZARINI (Baltagerini, Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx), flourished in the 16th century. An Italian musician, and perhaps the best violinist of his day. Brought from Piedmont to Paris in 1577 by the Marquis de Brissac, he became intendant of music and first valet de chambre to Catherine de' Medici, queen dowager. He introduced into France the five-stringed Italian violin (tuned by 4ths from A to F). But his most important service was the introduction of the Italian dances into Paris; he was the real founder of the ballet in France, and, through the ballet, of the opera. In this labor he associated with himself the best Parisian musicians of the day. His most important work was Circé, or Le ballet comique de la Reine (4to, Paris, Adrien Le Roy et Robert Ballard, 1582). Some other ballets by him are in MS. in the National Library, Paris.—Ludovic Celler, Les Origines de l'Opéra, 135 (Paris, 1868).
9BALTHASAR, FLORENCE, Henry Matthias Balthasar, called, born at Arlon, Belgium, Oct. 21, 1844, still living, 1888. Dramatic composer and pianist, pupil at the Conservatoire, Brussels, in 1857, studied the pianoforte under Auguste Dupont, the organ under Lemmens, harmony under Adolphe Samuel, fugue and counterpoint under Fétis, obtaining successively all the prizes in these studies. He performed in public at Namur, where he lived, and in 1868 brought out a dramatic overture at the Concerts populaires in Brussels, and in 1870 the fragments of several symphonies. In 1875 he took the prize given by the city of Lille for a cantata. Works: Une croyance bretonne, opéra-bouffe, given at Brussels, Théâtre de la Monnaie, about 1868; Le Docteur Quinquina, operetta, ib., Casino des Galeries Saint-Hubert; Grand concerto symphonique for pianoforte and orchestra, Namur, 1870; Messe solennelle, with chorus and orchestra, Namur, 1872; Cantata for soli, chorus, and orchestra, Lille, 1875; Several fantaisies for pianoforte; a concerto for the trumpet; ballet music, etc.—Fétis, Supplément, i. 39; Mendel; Ergänz., 23.
11BALTZAR, THOMAS, born in Lübeck, Germany, about 1630, died in London, buried July 27, 1663. Violinist, settled in England in 1656, the first great performer ever heard there. At the Restoration he became leader of the king's celebrated band of twenty-four violins. Anthony Wood credits him with having introduced the shift and the use of the upper part of the fingerboard. His printed compositions appear in Playford's Division Violin; a set of sonatas for lyra violin, treble violin, and bass viol, were sold at the auction of Thomas Britton, and Burney owned some MS. solos.—Grove; Fétis; Burney; Schilling.
13BAMBINI, FELICE, born at Bologna, Italy, about 1742, died in Paris during the first years of this century. Dramatic composer and pianist, went to France in 1752 with an Italian opera troupe, of which his father was director, first at Strasburg, then in Paris, where young Bambini, then nine years old, accompanied the performances on the pianoforte, and even composed airs, which were introduced in the intermezzi. Remaining in Paris after the expulsion of the Italian troupe, he studied under Bordenave and Rigade, and settled down as a teacher of the pianoforte. Works: Les amants de village, comic opera, given in Paris, Nouveau Théâtre Italien, 1764; Niceaise, do., Opéra Comique, 1776; L'Amour l'emporte, do., Théâtre de Beaujolais, about 1787; 8 sonatas for pianoforte; Trios for violin, viola, and violoncello; 6 symphonies; Little airs for pianoforte with violin.—Fétis; Schilling.
15BANCHIERI, ADRIANO, born in Bologna in 1567, died in 1634. Organist, pupil
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