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1Feb. 10, 1783. He was chorister in the Chapel Royal, under Bernard Gates, and afterwards pupil of Dr. Pepusch. He acted in the place of Pigott as organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor; in 1734 succeeded Salisbury at York Minster; in 1756 was organist and composer in the Chapel Royal, and in 1757–80 Master of the Children there. Mus. Doc., Cambridge, 1756. Works: Eight Sets of Harpsichord Lessons (1748); 5 Harpsichord Lessons (1758); Collection of Catches, Canons, and Glees; The Royal Pastoral, ode; Il Principio, or, A regular Introduction to playing on the Harpsichord or Organ; Treatise on Singing; 3 Easy Harpsichord Lessons; Six Organ Fugues; Second Treatise on Singing, with a Set of English Duets; 20 Anthems, 1778; A Morning and Evening Service and Six Anthems, 1788; To all lovers of harmony, and other glees; Service in F; Anthems, canons, and rounds in various collections.—Grove; Mendel; Riemann; Fétis; Gerber; Barrett, English Church Composers, 134; Harmonicon (1829), 235.
3NARGEOT, PIERRE JULIEN, born in Paris, Jan. 7, 1799, died (?). Dramatic composer, pupil at the Conservatoire of Kreutzer on the violin, and of Barbereau, Reicha, and Lesueur in composition. He was a member of the orchestras successively at the Opéra Comique, the Théâtre Italien, and the Opéra, then became chef d'orchestre at the Théâtre des Variétés. Works—Operettas: Los Contrabandistas, 1861; La volonté de mon oncle, 1862; Les exploits de Sylvestre, 1865; Dans le pétrin, 1866; Jeanne, Jeannette et Jeanneton, 1876; Trois troubadours; I Pifferari; Le docteur Frontin; Les ouvrières de qualité.—Fétis; do., Supplément, ii. 263.
5NASCO, GIOVANNI, Italian composer of the 16th century. He was maestro di cappella at Fano. Works: Primo libro di Madrigali, etc. (Venice, 1555); Motetti a cinque voci (ib., 1558); Madrigali, do. (ib., 1559); Canzoni e Madrigali a sei voci, etc. (ib., 1562); Lamentationes Jeremiae cum Passionis, etc. (ib., 1565).—Fétis; Mendel.
7NASOLINI, SEBASTIANO, born at Piacenza, Italy, in 1768, died in Venice in 1799 (1810 ?). Dramatic composer. Works: Nitteti, Trieste, 1788; L' isola incantata, Parma, 1789; L' Adriano in Siria, Milan, 1790; L' Andromacca, London, 1790; Teseo, Vienna, 1790; La morte di Cleopatra, Vicenza, 1791; Ercole al Termodonte, Trieste, 1791; Semiramide, Rome, 1792; Eugenia, Vicenza, about 1793; L' incantesimo senza magia, about 1794; Il trionfo di Clelia, about 1799; Merope, about 1805; and several others, given in different cities of Italy.—Fétis; Mendel.
9NATHAN, ISAAC, born in Canterbury, England, in 1792, died in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 15, 1864. Intended for the priesthood, he went to Cambridge in 1805 to study Hebrew, but became the pupil of Domenico Corri in singing and composition. He was then a singing master in London, and appeared in Guy Mannering, at Covent Garden, but without success. He emigrated afterwards to Sydney. Works: The Alcaid, opera, 1824; The Illustrious Stranger, operetta, 1827; Music for Sweethearts and Wives; Hebrew Melodies for Byron's poetry; Songs. He was author also of An Essay on the History and Theory of Music, and on the qualities, capabilities, and management of the Human Voice (London, 1823); also of the Life of Madame Malibran de Beriot (ib., 1836).—Grove; Fétis; Mendel; Riemann.
11NATIONS, LES, suite, six morceaux caractéristiques, for grand orchestra, by Moritz Moskowski, op. 23. I. Russisch (Allegretto); II. Italienisch (Presto); III. Deutsch (Andante sostenuto); IV. Spanisch (Molto vivace); V. Polnisch (Allegro con fuoco); VI. Ungarisch (Molto Allegro). Published by Heinauer (Breslau, 1885); by
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