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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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3MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.
5ABACO, EVARISTO FELICE DALL', born in Verona, in 1662, died in Munich, Feb. 26, 1726. Violinist, Concertmeister in the band of the Elector Max Emmanuel of Bavaria. Works: 12 sonatas for violin and bass; 10 concertos for four parts, for church use; 12 sonatas for two violins, violoncello, and bass; Sonata for violin and bass; 6 concertos for four violins, alto, bassoon, violoncello, and bass. These works were published in Amsterdam.—Fétis; Mendel, Ergänz., 1.
7ABADIA, NATALE, born in Genoa, Italy, March 11, 1792, died (?). Dramatic composer, pupil of Pietro Raimondi and of L. Cerro. Works: L'imbroglione ed il castigamatti, opera buffa, given in Genoa, 1812; La Giannina di Pontieu, ossia la Villanella d'onore, musical drama, ib., 1812; Mass for three voices; Mass for four voices, with orchestra; Vesper service; Motets.—Fétis.
9ABBATINI, ANTONIO MARIA, born at Tiferno, or at Castello, Italy, in 1595, died in Castello in 1677. He was maestro di cappella, in Rome, of S. Giovanni in Laterano in 1626, of the Gesù in 1628, of S. Maria Maggiore in 1645–46, and then of S. Lorenzo e Damaso; again of S. Maria Maggiore in 1649–57, of S. Maria di Loretto until 1672, when he returned to S. Maria Maggiore, and remained there until his decease. Most of his compositions, masses, psalms, motets, etc., are in manuscript, and are preserved in the archives of the churches in which he served. He assisted Kircher in writing his Musurgia, and is said by Allaci to have written an opera: Del male in bene, Rome, 1654. Works published: Psalms, four books (1630–35); Motets, for two, three, four, and five voices (1636–38); Masses, three books (1638–50). After his death, his pupil, Dominique del Pane, published his Antennes for twelve tenors and twelve basses (Rome, 1677).—Fétis; Mendel, Ergänz., 1.
11ABBÉ, JOSEPH BARNABÉ SAINT-SÉVIN, called, born at Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), June 11, 1727, died at Maisons, near Charenton, in 1787. Violinist, son and pupil of Philippe de Saint-Sévin, called Abbé (who, from 1727, was a violoncellist of repute in the orchestra of the Opéra in Paris); then pupil of Leclair in 1740–42. He was a violinist at the Comédie Française in 1739, and the Opéra in 1742, whence he retired after twenty years of service. He published eight works of sonatas and trios for the violin.—Fétis.
13ABEGG VARIATIONS, theme on the name Abegg, with variations for pianoforte, by Schumann, op. 1, dedicated to Pauline, Countess d'Abegg; composed in the first
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