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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888

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1ABELL
3April 22, 1841. Vocal composer, pupil in Dresden of A. G. Fischer; went to Halle in 1825, and shortly after was made cantor at St. Mary's Church. He did much toward the promotion of vocal music in the public schools. Works: Collection of songs for two, three, and four voices (Leipsic, Hartknoch, 4th ed., 1848); 160 songs, followed by canons for several voices (ib., Breitkopf & Härtel); 120 quartets for male voices (ib.); Der Sängerbund, quartets for do. (Halle, Knapp).—Fétis.
5ABELL, JOHN, born in London (?) about 1660, died in Cambridge in 1724. Alto singer and lute player, probably educated in the choir of the Chapel Royal, of which he was a member in 1679, and afterwards sent by Charles II. to study in Italy, whence he returned in 1683. Having re-entered the Chapel Royal, he was dismissed, after the Revolution of 1688, on account of his Roman Catholic faith, and, after travelling on the Continent, leading a vagrant life, returned to London in 1700 and settled at Cambridge. Works: Les airs d'Abell pour le concert (Amsterdam); A Collection of Songs, in several languages (London, 1701); Collection of Songs in English (ib.).—Grove; Fétis; Mendel; Schilling.
7ABENCÉRAGES, LES (The Abencerrages), French opera in three acts, text by Jouy, music by Cherubini; first represented at the Opéra, Paris, April 6, 1813. This performance was attended by the Emperor Napoleon, who left Paris the morning after to attempt to check the advance of the Allies. The libretto is founded on the romantic, but now disproved, story of the feud between the two Moorish families the Zegris and the Abencerrages, and the murder in the Alhambra, by order of the sovereign of Granada, of all the princes of the latter name, on his discovery of illicit relations between one of them and his own wife or sister. The story, as given by Ginez Perez de Hita in his "Historia de los Vandos, de los Zegries y Abencerrages" (Saragossa, 1595), has been retold by Florian, Chateaubriand, and others. The same subject is treated in the operas Abenhamet et Zoraide, by Giuseppe Niccolini, Milan, 1805; Zoraide, by Giuseppe Farnelli, Venice, 1816; Zoraide, or Der Friede von Granada, by Karl Blum, Berlin, 1821; Zoraide di Granata, by Donizetti, Rome, 1822; Der letzte Abencerrage, text by Ludwig Bartog, music by Franz Sarosi (Schauer), Pesth, Jan. 4, 1887.—Bellasis, Cherubini, 206.
9ABENHAMET E ZORAIDE. See Abencérages.
11ABENHEIM, JOSEPH, born at Worms in 1804, still living, 1888. Violinist, studied the violin and pianoforte at Worms and Darmstadt, and theory at Mannheim, where he entered the orchestra. In 1825 he was made a member of the royal orchestra at Stuttgart, visited Paris in 1828, and studied composition under Reicha, and after his return was promoted to a more elevated position in the orchestra, until in 1854 he became director of music. Works: Music for the drama Hariadan, played at Stuttgart, 1842; Psalm for four voices; Pater noster; Songs without words, for pianoforte (Stuttgart, Hallberger); 2 nocturnes for do., op. 8 (ib.); Polonaise (Carlsruhe, Creuzbauer); 6 songs, with pianoforte, op. 2 (Leipsic, Breitkopf & Härtel); 6 do., op. 5 (Stuttgart, Copel); Der deutsche Rhein, for a single voice (Stuttgart, Schnitz); etc. Many entr'actes and overtures, which remain in manuscript.—Fétis; Mendel.
13ABERT, (JOHANN) JOSEF, born at Kochowitz, Bohemia, Sept. 21, 1832, still living, 1888. Dramatic composer, first instructed in the Augustine convent at Böhmisch-Leipa, but at the age of fifteen ran away, and became a pupil at the Conservatorium, Prague, of Kittl and Tomaczek. In 1852 he obtained an engagement as contrabassist in the court orchestra at Stuttgart, and in the year following brought out his first symphony in C minor. After having produced his first opera in 1859, he lived for several years in Paris and London, and in the former place was much aided by in-

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