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1APELLE
3orchestra; 24 Italian scenas and airs, with do.; 6 Italian duets for soprano and contralto, with do.; 6 canzonets (1791); 3 do, with viola and bass.—Fétis; Gerber, N. Lex.; Mendel; Schilling.
5APELLE E CAMPASPE (Apelles and Campaspe), Italian opera, music by Zingarello, represented at Venice, 1794; music by Tritto, Milan, 1796; Apelle et Campaspe, French opera, text by Dumoustier, music by Eler, given at the Opéra, Paris, July 12, 1798. Subject, the love of the painter Apelles for Campaspe, the favourite concubine of Alexander the Great, said by some to have been the model of the Venus Anadyomene.
7APOLLINI, SALVADORE, born in Venice about the beginning of the 18th century. Dramatic and vocal composer. At first a barber, he studied the violin and played on it his barcaroles, which became popular among the boatmen of Venice. He composed the three operas: Fama dell'onore e della virtù, given at Venice, 1727; Metamorfosi amorosi, ib., 1732; Il pastor fido, ib., 1739.—Fétis; Schilling.
9APOLLO AND DAPHNE. See Dafne.
11APOLLO ET HYACINTHUS, Latin comedy, music by Mozart, represented in the Aula of the University of Salzburg, May 13, 1767. Mozart, who was then but eleven years old, played the harpsichord at the performance. The MS. of the music, which is written for five voices, covers one hundred and sixty-two pages.
13APOLLON, BERGER D'ADMÈTE (Apollo, Shepherd of Admetus), opera in one act, music by Grenet, represented at the Opéra, Paris, 1759. The same episode, the story of the god tending the flocks of Admetus at Pheræ in Thessaly, on the banks of the Amphryssus, is treated in Apollo in Tessaglia (Apollo in Thessaly), music by Franceschini, Bologna, 1679; Apollo unter den Hirten (Apollo among the Shepherds), German Liederspiel, music by Schweitzer, Germany, 1778; do., German opera, music by Stegmann, Königsberg, 1775.
15APOLLON ET CORONIS (Apollo and Coronis), French opéra-ballet, text by Fuzelier, music by Jean Baptiste Rey, represented at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris, May 3, 1781. The libretto deals with the loves of Apollo and Coronis, who became by him the mother of Æsculapius, and who was finally slain by him through jealousy.
17APOLLONI, GIOVANNI, Cavaliere, born at Arezzo about 1650. Dramatic composer, author of three operas: Dori, ossia lo schiavo regio, given in Rome about 1680; L'Argia, in the theatres of Italy, about 1682; L'Astiage, ib., about 1683.—Fétis.
19APOLLONI, GIUSEPPE, born at Vicenza, contemporary. Dramatic composer. Works: L'Ebreo, opera seria, given first probably at Venice, 1855 or 1856, then on all the principal stages of Italy; Pietro d'Albano, Venice, 1856; Adelchi, ib., 1857; Il Conte di Königsberg, Florence, Teatro della Pergola, 1866; Gustavo Wasa, Trieste, Teatro Communale, 1872.—Fétis, Supplément, i. 18.
21APOSTEL VON PHILIPPI, DIE, oratorio, for unaccompanied male voices, text by Giesebrecht, music by Karl Löwe, op. 48, first performed at the music festival in Jena, Aug. 13, 1835.
23APPEL, KARL, born at Dessau, March 14, 1812. Violinist, pupil of Conzertmeister Lindner on the violin, and of Friedrich Schneider in theory and composition; early entered the ducal orchestra as violinist, and succeeded his master as Conzertmeister. Among his vocal music, the quartets for male voices are especially liked. He also wrote an opera, Die Räuberbraut, which was performed at Dessau, 1840.—Mendel.
25AQUIN, D'. See Daquin.
27ARABESKE (Arabesque), the title given by Robert Schumann to a piece for the pianoforte, op. 18, written somewhat in rondo form. Composed in 1839, dedicated to Frau F. Serre; published by C. A. Spina (Vienna).
29ARABI NELLE GALLIE, GLI (The Arabs in Gaul), opera in four acts, libretto
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