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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1chef d'orchestre at the Grand Théâtre. He went to Paris in 1813 in order to be near his son, a favourite singer at the Opéra, and in 1815 was appointed maître de chapelle of Saint-Eustache. Works; His church music, consisting of 5 masses, a Requiem, considered his best work, psalms, etc., with organ and orchestral accompaniment, remains in MS.—Fétis; Larousse.
3PONCHIELLI, AMILCARE, born at Paderno-Fasolaro, near Cremona, Sept. 1, 1834, died in Milan, Jan. 16, 1886. Dramatic composer, pupil in 1843–54 at the Conservatorio of Milan. He lived in Piacenza, where he was bandmaster of a regiment; subsequently went to Cremona in the same capacity. His first opera, I promessi sposi, given at Cremona, 1856, and, in an altered arrangement, at the new Teatro dal Verme, Milan, 1872, won him popularity in Italy, where he is considered second only to Verdi. He was immediately engaged by the managers of La Scala to write a ballet in 7 acts, and in 1873 Le due gemelle was brought out at that theatre, with extraordinary success. In 1881 he was appointed maestro di cappella of the cathedral at Bergamo. Works—Operas: I promessi sposi, Cremona, 1856; La Savojarda, Cremona, 1861; Roderico, rè de' Goti, Piacenza, 1864; Bertrand de Born, ballet, Viterbo, 1867; La stella del monte, 1867; Clarina, ballet, Milan, 1873; Il parlatore eterno, scherzo comico, Lecco, 1873; I Lituani, Milan, 1874; Gioconda, ib., 1876; Lina (a remodelled edition of La Savojarda), ib., 1877; Il figliuol prodigo, ib., 1880; Marion Delorme, ib., 1885. A Gaetano Donizetti, cantata, Bergamo, 1875; Il 29 Maggio, funeral march to the memory of Manzoni; Another funeral march; Fantasia militare; Hymn in memory of Garibaldi, 1882; Eternamente, romance for soprano, with pianoforte and violoncello.—Fétis, Supplément, ii. 358; Mendel, Ergänz., 360.
5POND, SYLVANUS BILLINGS, born at Milford, Vermont, April 5, 1792, died in Brooklyn, New York, March 12, 1871. He went while young to Albany, where he engaged in the musical instrument business; in 1832 he removed to New York and associated himself with Firth & Hall under the firm name of Firth, Hall & Pond, which, after several changes, became William A. Pond & Co. He was leader of the choir at the Brick Church, New York, and was at one time director of the New York Academy of Music and of the New York Sacred Music Society. He composed church music, including several popular hymn tunes, among them Armenia (1835) and Franklin Square (1850), and compiled the following collections: Union Melodies (1838), United States Psalmody (1841), and Book of Praise of the Reformed Dutch Church (1866).
7PONIATOWSKI, JÓZEF MICHAŁ XAWERY FRANCISZEK JAN, Prince of Monte Rotondo, born in Rome, Feb. 20, 1806, died at Chiselhurst, England, July 3, 1873. Dramatic composer, and tenor singer; first taught by Candido Zanetti, a priest; and in Florence studied singing and composition under Ceccherini. He made his début as a tenor singer at the Teatro Standish in Florence, where in 1838 he produced his first opera, Giovanni da Procida, in which he sang the title-rôle, and from that time, for more than thirty years, wrote operas for the theatres of Italy and Paris. After the Revolution of 1848 he went to Paris as plenipotentiary of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and was made senator under the empire. After Sedan he followed Napoleon III. to England, and was on the eve of going to America professionally, when he died. Works—Operas: Don Desiderio, Pisa, 1839; Ruy Blas, Lucca, 1842; Bonifazio dei Gere-mei, Rome, 1844; I Lambertazzi, Florence, 1845; Malek-Adel, Genoa, 1846; Esmeralda, Leghorn, 1847; La sposa d' Abido, Venice, 1847; Pierre de Médicis, Paris, 1860; Au
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