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1had made a concert tour in Germany in 1798, and had played with success in Munich and Vienna. After his father's death he became associated with his brother Henri in the management of the harp factory which they inherited. Works: 2 concertos for the harp, op. 13, 46; 2 quartets for 2 harps, violin and violoncello, op. 42; Quartets for harp, pianoforte, violin and violoncello, op. 43, 54; Trios for harp and various instruments; Trio for harps, op. 57; Duos for harp and violin or flute; Do. for harp and pianoforte; Sonatas, airs variés, fantaisies, etc., for harp.—Fétis.
3NÄGELI, HANS GEORG, born at Wetzwicon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, May 16, 1773, died at Zürich, Dec. 26, 1836. Didactic and critical writer; deserves much credit for good and clear editions of classical works—Handel's, Bach's and Frescobaldi's, and the Répertoire des clavecinistes (1803), containing works of Beethoven, Clementi, Dussek, and Steibelt. In 1824 he travelled in Germany, and gave lectures on music; was a believer in the Pestalozzian method and used it more than twenty years in a school he had established. He was founder and president of a society for the cultivation of music. He is best known for his audacity in inserting four bars into one of Beethoven's sonatas. Works: Choruses for church and school; Toccatas for pianoforte; Many collections of songs, including Freut Euch des Lebens. He published also Gesangbildungslehre nach Pestalozzischen Grundsätzen (ib., 1810), Vorlesungen über Musik mit Berücksichtigung der Dilettanten (Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1826), and several other books and pamphlets.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 221; Bierer, Hans Nägeli, Erinnerungen, etc. (Zürich, 1844); Biog. von H. G. Nägeli (ib., 1837); Heindl, Biog. der berühmtesten Pädagogen, etc. ?; Keller, H. G. Nägeli, eine Festrede, etc. (Zurich, 1848); Schwager, Der deutsche Männergesang, etc. (Kaiserslautern, 1879).
5NAGILLER, MATTHÄUS, born at Münster (Tyrol), Oct. 24, 1815 (Oct. 14, 1817?), died at Innspruck, July 8, 1874. Instrumental and vocal composer, first instructed at Schwaz by the choir-master Pichler, then at Innspruck, pupil of Martin Goller in harmony, and at the Vienna Conservatorium, of Preyer in composition; won the first prize in 1840, and went to Paris in 1842. He soon gained reputation as a teacher, founded and conducted the Mozart-Verein, and in 1846 made a concert tour in Germany, bringing out successfully his first symphony, previously produced in Paris, and other compositions, at Cologne, Munich, and Berlin. In 1848 he left Paris to return to his native land, where he settled in 1850, after travelling in Germany. In 1854 he removed to Munich, brought out some of his more ambitious compositions, and repeatedly made concert tours to different cities until 1865, when he was called to Botzen as Kapellmeister and music director; in 1866 he went in the same capacity to Innspruck, where he assumed also the direction of the Conservatorium and was very active in promoting a higher standard of music. Works: Herzog Friedrich von Tirol, opera, given at Botzen, 1861, Innspruck, 1862; Music to Widmann's Nausikaa; Symphony in C minor; Solemn mass; Other masses; Offertories; Tantum ergo; etc.; Overtures; Choruses and songs.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 227; Allgem. Zeitg., July 15, 1874, Beilage, 196; Egger, Tiroler, and Vorarlberger (1882), 483; Heindl, Galleni berühmter Pädagogen, etc. (Munich, 1859), ii. 50; Wurzbach.
7NAIADS, THE. See Die Najaden.
9NAÏM, overture to an opera in five acts, of the same name, by Napoléon Henri Reber. The overture has been frequently performed, but the opera has never been given.
11NAÏS, opéra-ballet in three acts, text by Cahusac, music by Rameau, first represented at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris, April 22, 1749. It was revived Aug. 7, 1764.
13NAJADEN, DIE (The Naiads), overture for orchestra in D, by William Sterndale
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