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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1ALCIDE
3Venice, 1825; by C. L. J. Hanssens, text by Scribe, Brussels, 1829. Alcibiade solitaire, French opera in two acts, text by Cuvelier and Barouillet, music by Louis Alexandre Piccinni, was given at the Opéra, Paris, March 8, 1824.
5ALCIDE AL BIVIO, Italian opera, text by Metastasio, music by Paisiello, represented at St. Petersburg about 1779. Italian opera, same title, music by Righini, Coblentz, 1789.
7ALCIDES. See Choice of Hercules.
9ALCINA, Italian opera, text by Antonio Marchi, music by Handel, represented at Covent Garden Theatre, London, April 16, 1735. The MS. is dated at the end, April 8, 1735. Alcina, a character in Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato," and in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," is a kind of Circe, who enjoys her lovers for a time in her enchanted garden, and then metamorphoses them into trees, wild beasts, etc.—Rockstro, Handel, 191; Schelcher, Handel, 176.
11ALCOCK, JOHN, born in London, April 11, 1715, died at Lichfield, March, 1806. Organist; pupil of Stanley. He was chorister of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1722; organist of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, in 1738, of St. Lawrence's, Reading, in 1742, and of Lichfield Cathedral in 1749, when he was also master of choristers and lay vicar; in 1760 he resigned all positions but that of lay vicar. He received from Oxford the degree of Mus. B. in 1755, and Mus. D. in 1761. Works: Six Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord, Twelve Songs (Plymouth), Six Concertos, Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Anthems (Reading); Morning and Evening Service in E minor (1753); Twenty-six Anthems, and a Burial Service (1771); a book of glees, Harmonia Festi (1790). He edited a collection of psalm tunes, arranged for four voices, called Harmony of Sound. Hail, ever pleasing Solitude, a glee, gained a medal at the Catch Club in 1790. His son, John Alcock (Mus. B., born in 1739, died in 1791), was organist of Preston, and composer of anthems in 1773–76.—Grove; Fétis; Mendel.
13ALDAY, the younger, born at Perpignan or at Avignon in 1764, died at Edinburgh after 1806. Violinist, supposed pupil of Viotti; appeared with great success in the Concerts spirituels in Paris until 1791, when he went to England. In 1806 he was called as musical director to Edinburgh. Works: First Concerto for violin (Paris, Imbault); Fourth Concerto for violin (ib.); Second and Third Concertos for violin (Paris, Sieber); Duos for two violins (Paris, Decombe); Mélanges for two violins (Paris, Leduc); Airs variés for violin and viola (ib., Imbault); Trios for two violins and bass (London, Lavenu). His elder brother, born in 1763, was also a violinist, though less distinguished; played in the Concert spirituel in 1783, and with his brother in 1789, and settled at Lyons about 1795 as a music dealer. He composed: Symphonie concertante for two violins (Amsterdam, Hummel); do. for two violins and viola (Paris, Sieber); Quartets for violins, viola, and bass (ib., Pleyel); Method for the violin (Lyons, Cartoux). To one of the brothers is due the music to the lyrical drama Geneviève de Brabant, given at the Théâtre Louvois, 1791.—Fétis; do., Supplément, i. 10; Mendel; Schilling.
15ALDOVRANDINI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO VINCENZO, born in Bologna about 1665. Dramatic composer, pupil of Jacques Perti. He was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna in 1695, and principe in 1702; honorary maestro di cappella to the Duke of Mantua. Works—Operas: Dafne, Gl' inganni amorosi scoperti in villa, both given at Bologna in 1696; Ottaviano, Turin, 1697; Amor torna in cinque al cinquanta, ovvero Nozz' dla Flippa e d' Bedette, comic opera in Bolognese patois, Bologna, 1699; L'orfano, Naples
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