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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1ALFRED
3Troila…………………Herr Milde.
4Alfonso………………..Herr Liebert.
5Adolfo…………………Herr Mayrhofer.
6Mauregato………………Herr Hüfer.
7Estrella………………..Frau Milde.
9The original score, without the overture, is in the library of the Musikverein, Vienna. The overture, which is dated December, 1823, belongs to Herr Spina, who published it in 1867. A bass and a tenor air have also been published, with pianoforte accompaniment, by Diabelli (1832).—Hellborn (Coleridge), i. 234; ii. 293; Grove, iii. 335; Leipsic, Signale (1882), 465.
11ALFRED THE GREAT, King of England, has furnished the subject of the following works: Alfred, English masque, text by Thomson and Mallet, music by Thomas Augustine Arne (see Rule Britannia), Drury Lane, London, Aug. 14, 1740; do., same text, music by Charles Burney, London, 1759; Alfred, lyric tragedy, by Pitterlin, Magdeburg, 1797; Alfredo il Grande, music by Donizetti, Venice, 1823; Alfred, grand opera, text by Kotzebue, music by Wolfram, Dresden, 1826; Alfred der Grosse, German heroic opera in two acts, text by Körner, music by Johann Philipp Schmidt, Hamburg, about 1840; opera in three acts, music by Reuling, Vienna, 1840; German opera, by Maurice Chemin-Petit, Halle, 1858; König Alfred, three acts, text by Logan, music by Joachim Raff, Weimar, March 9, 1851; Alfred, King of Wessex, English opera, by Raymond Stainford, Liverpool, 1864.
13ALGHISI (Algisi), PARIS FRANCESCO, born at Brescia, Italy, June 2, 1666, died there, March 29, 1743. Dramatic composer and organist at the cathedral of his native city; lived for some time in Venice, where, in 1690, he brought out two operas: L'amor di Curzio per la patria, and Il trionfo della continenza, at the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo.—Fétis.
15ALI BABA (or, Les quarante voleurs; The Forty Thieves), opera in four acts and a prologue, text by Scribe and Mélesville, music by Cherubini, represented at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris, July 22, 1833. The libretto, the subject of which is from the "Arabian Nights," is but a rearrangement of Koukourgi, an unrepresented opera written by Cherubini in 1793 (text by Duveyrier-Mélesville père), with the music adapted and partly rewritten. The overture was probably new; and the composer introduced into the work the march from Faniska and the bacchanale from his ballet Achille à Sciros. A German Schauspiel of the same title, text by Th. Hell, music by Marschner, was given about 1822. Ali Baba, operetta, music by Charles Lecocq, given at the Alhambra, Brussels, Nov. 11, 1887.
17ALI PASCHA VON JANINA (Ali Pasha of Janina), opera by Lortzing, libretto founded on the story of the celebrated despot of Albania, first represented at Cologne in 1824. This, Lortzing's first opera, was produced with success in the chief cities of Germany.
19ALIANI, FRANCESCO, born at Piacenza, died there in May, 1812. Violoncellist; first instructed by his father, a violinist, then pupil of Giuseppe Rovelli at Parma. After five years he returned home, and became first violoncellist in the orchestras of the church and the theatre. He has published three books of duets for two violoncellos. His son Luigi, born at Piacenza in 1789, was a violinist of distinction.—Fétis; Mendel.
21ALICE DE NEVERS, opera fantasy, original plot, text and music by Hervé, represented at the Folies Dramatiques, Paris, April 22, 1875. Sung by Hervé, Mme Desclauzas, and Mlle Perrier.
23ALIDIA. See Dernier jour de Pompeii.
25ALINE, REINE DE GOLCONDE (Alina, Queen of Golconda), opera ballet in three acts, text by Sedaine, music by Monsigny, represented at the Comédie Italienne, Paris, April 15, 1766. The subject, which is from a story by Boufflers, has
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