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1ANDREVI
3Argentina, 1787; Sofronia e Olindo, Sesostri, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1789; Il finto cieco, La principessa filosofa, ib., Teatro Nuovo, 1790; Gustavo, rè di Svezia, Madrid, 1791; Giovanna d'Arco, Venice, 1793; Arsinoe, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1795; Armida e Rinaldo, ib., 1802; Piramo e Tisbe, Il trionfo d'Alessandro, ib., 1803. Other works: Six quartets for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello (Florence, 1786); Saule, oratorio, given at Naples, 1790; La passione di Gesù Cristo, do., ib., 1792.—Fétis; Mendel; Schilling.
5ANDREVI, FRANCISCO, born at Sana-buya (Catalonia), Spain, Nov. 16, 1786, died at Barcelona, Nov. 23, 1853. He was a priest and maestro de capilla successively at the cathedrals of Segorbe, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, and finally of the royal chapel. During the Carlist War he took refuge at Bordeaux, where he found employment, lived in Paris in 1845-49, and after his return to Spain became maestro de capilla at the Church of Our Lady at Barcelona. His most important works are: The Last Judgment, oratorio; Requiem for Ferdinand VII.; Stabat mater.—Fétis; do., Supplément, i. 15; Riemann.
7ANDRIES, JEAN, born at Ghent, April 25, 1798, died there, Jan. 21, 1872. Violinist and violoncellist, became professor at the Conservatoire, Ghent, in 1835, and its director in 1851. His compositions remain unpublished. As a writer he is known by: Aperçu historique de tous les instruments de musique (Ghent); and Précis de l'histoire de la musique depuis les temps les plus reculés (ib., Busscher, 1862).—Fétis, Supplément, i. 16; Mendel, Ergänz., 12; Viotta.
9ANDROMAQUE, French lyric tragedy in three acts, text by Pitra, music by Grétry, represented at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris, June 6, 1780. This opera, which was given twenty-five times, was written in thirty days. Mlle Levasseur, and afterwards Mlle Laguerre, filled the rôle of Andromaque, and Larivée that of Oreste. Andromacca, Italian opera, text by Zeno, music by Caldara, Vienna, 1724; music by Bioni, Breslau, 1729; by Francesco Feo, Rome, 1730; by Davide Perez, Vienna, 1752; by Sacchini, Florence, 1763; by Tozzi, Brunswick, 1765; by Bertoni, Venice, 1772; by Nasolini, London, 1790; by Paisiello, Naples, 1798; by Puccita, Lisbon, about 1806; by Raimondi, Palermo, about 1815; by Pavesi, Milan, 1822; by Ellerton, Prussia, about 1830.
11ANDROMEDA, daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia, who was delivered by Perseus from the sea-monster, for whom her father had been forced to chain her to a rock beside the sea, has been the subject of many operas: Andromeda, Italian opera, music by Girolamo Giacobbi, represented at Bologna, 1610, and revived in 1628; Italian opera, text by Benedetto Ferrari, music by Francesco Manelli da Tivoli, given at the Teatro di San Cassiano, Venice, 1637, the first opera ever represented in public in that city; music by Leo, Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, 1742; by Paisiello, Milan, about 1770; by Ignazio Fiorillo, Cassel, 1771; by Reichardt, Italian opera in three acts, Berlin, 1788; by Persicchini, Warsaw, about 1782; by Trento, two acts, Rome, about 1792, and Naples, 1805; Naumann, opera seria, Dresden, 1792; German opera, by Baumgarten, 1776; Polish opera, by Elsner, Warsaw, 1807; Andromeda e Perseo (Andromeda and Perseus), by Michael Haydn, Salzburg, about 1780; by Marescalchi, Rome, 1784; Andromeda und Perseus, German opera, by Jean Wolfgang Franck, Hamburg, 1679; Singspiel, by Zimmermann, Vienna, 1781. See Perseus.
13ANELLI, ANGELO, Italian dramatic composer of the 18th century. He is known by the opere buffe: I due supposti conti, given at Verona, 1786; La statua matematica, Bologna, 1788.—Fétis; Schilling.
15ANERIO, FELICE, born in Rome about 1560 (Ambros, 1551), died (?). He studied under Giovanni Maria Nanini, and was
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