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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1ARNOLD
3ARNOLD, GEORGE BENJAMIN, born at Petworth, Sussex, England, Dec. 22, 1832, still living, 1888. Pupil of S. S. Wesley; Mus. Doc., Oxford, 1861; was organist of St. Columba's College, 1852, of St. Mary's Church, Torquay, 1863, of New College, Oxford, 1860, of Winchester Cathedral, 1865. Works: Ahab, oratorio, Exeter Hall, London, 1863; The Second Coming of Our Lord, oratorio; The Song of David, cantata; Sennacherib, do., Gloucester, 1883; The Forty-third Psalm; Communion Service; Te Deums; Anthems and Motets; Concerted vocal music; Songs; Pianoforte music.
5ARNOLD, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, born at Niedernhall, Württemberg, Feb. 1, 1773, died at Frankfort, July 26, 1806. Violoncellist, son of the schoolmaster of Niedernhall. He showed such taste for music that his father apprenticed him from 1785 to 1789 to the musical director of the town of Künzelsau, under whom he devoted himself to the violoncello. In 1790 he entered on his first engagement at Wertheim, where his uncle Friedrich Adam Arnold was musical director, and took lessons of the organist Frankenstein in composition. After concert tours in Switzerland and Germany, where he played his own concertos, he studied under the violoncellist Willmann at Ratisbon (1796), and later visited Berlin and Hamburg, where he studied the method and style of Bernhard Romberg. He became first violoncellist in 1798 at the Frankfort Theatre, and was well known as a teacher and composer. Works; Five concertos for violoncello; Symphonie concertante for two flutes and orchestra; Airs with Variations, op. 9 (Bonn); Pieces for the guitar.—Allgem. mus. Zeitg., xii. 609; Fétis; Gerber, Hist. Lex.; Schilling.
7ARNOLD, KARL, born at Neuenkirchen near Mergentheim, Württemberg, May 6, 1794, died at Christiania, Nov. 11, 1873. Pianist, son and pupil at Frankfort of Johann Gottfried Arnold, then pupil at Offenbach of Philipp Karl Hoffmann and Aloys Schmitt on the pianoforte, and of Vollweiler and Anton André in composition. After a concert tour through Germany and Poland, he settled in 1819 at St. Petersburg, where he was in great demand as a teacher, but in 1824 removed to Berlin, whence he was called in 1835, as musical director, to Münster. In 1847 he gave concerts at St. Petersburg, and in 1849 became director of the Philharmonic Society, and organist at Christiania. His music is refined, and full of technical difficulties. Works: Sextet with pianoforte; Sonatas for do., op. 3 and 5 (Offenbach, André); Sonata for do., with clarinet and bass, op. 7 (ib.); Divertissement for do., Nos. 1 and 2, op. 12 and 13 (Berlin, Schlesinger); Rondo for do., op. 14 (ib.); Variations on an Original Theme, op. 16; Vive Henri IV., rondo for pianoforte and violoncello (Leipsic, Peters); Rondolletto, No. 4; Concerto for pianoforte, with orchestra, op. 17 (Berlin, Christiani); Valses favorites (ib., Grochenschnetz); Rondo for pianoforte for four hands (Offenbach, André); Divertissements for pianoforte, op. 13, 14, 16, 24; Fantaisies et variations, op. 17, 20; Canticle for four male voices (Brunswick, Spühr); Quartet for two violins, viola, and violoncello, op. 19 (Leipsic, Breitkopf & Härtel); Thelephos, opera, given at Königsberg about 1830; Irene, do., Berlin, 1832.—Fétis; Mendel; Schilling. one of two readings
8ARNOLD, KARL, born at Neuenkirchen near Mergentheim, Württemberg, May 6, 1794, died at Christiania, Nov. 11, 1873. Pianist, son and pupil at Frankfort of Johann Gottfried Arnold, then pupil at Offenbach of Philipp Karl Hoffmann and Aloys Schmitt on the pianoforte, and of Vollweiler and Anton André in composition. After a concert tour through Germany and Poland, he settled in 1819 at St. Petersburg, where he was in great demand as a teacher, but in 1824 removed to Berlin, whence he was called in 1835, as musical director, to Münster. In 1847 he gave concerts at St. Petersburg, and in 1849 became director of the Philharmonic Society, and organist at Christiania. His music is refined, and full of technical difficulties. Works: Sextet with pianoforte; Sonatas for do., op. 3 and 5 (Offenbach, André); Sonata for do., with clarinet and bass, op. 7 (ib.); Divertissement for do., Nos. 1 and 2, op. 12 and 13 (Berlin, Schlesinger); Rondo for do., op. 14 (ib.); Variations on an Original Theme, op. 16; Vive Henri IV., rondo for pianoforte and violoncello (Leipsic, Peters); Rondolletto, No. 4; Concerto for pianoforte, with orchestra, op. 17 (Berlin, Christiani); Valses favorites (ib., Grochenschetz); Rondo for pianoforte for four hands (Offenbach, André); Divertissements for pianoforte, op. 13, 14, 16, 24; Fantaisies et variations, op. 17, 20; Canticle for four male voices (Brunswick, Spühr); Quartet for two violins, viola, and violoncello, op. 19 (Leipsic, Breitkopf & Härtel); Thelephos, opera, given at Königsberg about 1830; Irene, do., Berlin, 1832.—Fétis; Mendel; Schilling. one of two readings
10ARNOLD, SAMUEL, born in London, Aug. 10, 1740, died there, Oct. 22, 1802. Dramatic composer and pupil of the Chapel Royal under Bernard Gates and Dr. Nares. Before he was twenty-three years old he was engaged as composer to the Covent Garden Theatre; here he used, with great success, concerted music to carry on the business of the stage. In 1769 he purchased Marylebone Gardens, where he
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