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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1NAUMANN
3NAUMANN, ERNST (CARL), born at Freiberg, Saxony, Aug. 15, 1832, still living, 1890. Instrumental composer, grandson of Johann Gottlieb Naumann, pupil of Hauptmann, Richter, Wenzel and Langer, at Leipsic, and of Johann Schneider at Dresden; became music director at the university and city organist at Jena in 1860, and professor in 1877. Works: 2 quintets for strings, op. 6, 13; Quartet for do., op. 9; Trio for pianoforte and strings, op. 7; Serenade for string quintet, flute, oboe, bassoon, and horn; Sonata for viola, op. 1; etc.—Mendel; Riemann.
5NAUMANN, JOHANN GOTTLIEB, born at Blasewitz, near Dresden, April 17, 1741, died in Dresden, Oct. 23, 1801. Dramatic composer, pupil in Dresden at the Kreuzschule, whence a Swedish musician, named Weeström, took him about 1757 to Italy. After a short time in Hamburg and Padua, bad treatment compelled him to leave the Swede, and he became a pupil of Tartini. After three years in Padua he visited Naples, Rome, Bologna, where he studied under Padre Martini, and Venice. Returning to Dresden in 1763, he became court composer of sacred music. He again travelled in Italy, producing operas, and on his return, having declined an invitation to Berlin from Frederick the Great, was appointed in 1776, by the Elector, Kapellmeister, and in 1786 Oberkapellmeister. Hummel was his pupil. Although very popular in his time and a good musician, he seems to have had no genius, and is now almost forgotten. Works—Operas: Achille in Sciro, Palermo, 1767; Alessandro nelle Indie, Venice, 1768; La clemenza di Tito, Dresden, 1769; Le nozze disturbate, Solimanno, Venice, 1772; Armida, Padua, 1772; L’isola disabita, Venice, 1773; Ipermestra, ib.; Il villano geloso, Dresden; L’ipocondriaco, ib.; Elisa, ib.; Osiride; Tutto per amore; Amphion, Stockholm, 1776; Cora, Gustave Wasa, ib., 1780; Le reggie d’Imeneo, Dresden; Orpheus, Danish opera, Copenhagen, 1785; La sorte di Medea, ballet, Berlin, 1788; La dama soldato, Dresden, 1791; Amor giustificato, ib., 1792; Protesilao, Berlin, 1793; Andromeda; Aci e Galatea, Dresden, 1801. Oratorios: La Passione di Giesu Cristo; Isacco figura del Redentore; Zeit und Ewigkeit; Santa Elena; Joseph reconnu par ses frères; Unsere Brüder; Il figlio prodigo; La Passione di Giesu Cristo, with new music; Davidde in Terebinto; Betulia liberata; La morte d’Abele. Pater noster, words by Klopstock; 20 masses; Te Deums; Psalms; Motets; Hymns; Litanies; Cantatas; Elegy, Le tombeau de Klopstock; 18 symphonies; Pianoforte concerto; Pianoforte sonatas; Violin duets; Trios for pianoforte and violins; Quartets for piano and violins; German, Italian and French songs.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 306; Bitter, Gesch. des Oratoriums, 476; Fétis; Gerber; Mendel; Riemann; Schilling; Meissner, Bruchstücke aus Naumann’s Lebensgeschichte (Prague, 1803-4); Rochlitz, Für Freunde der Tonkunst, iii. 3; Schubert, Lebensgeschichte Naumann’s (Dresden, 1844).
7NAVOIGILLE, GUILLAUME JULIEN, called Navoigille the elder, born at Givet (Ardennes), about 1745, died in Paris, November, 1811. Violinist, studied music in Paris, where a noble Venetian took him under his patronage, and finally adopted him. For several years he held positions as violinist or chef d’orchestre at various theatres, and in 1806 entered the orchestra of the King of Holland, after whose abdication he returned to Paris. Works: 6 symphonies for orchestra; 6 trios for violins and violoncello, op. 1; do., op. 10; 6 duos for violins,
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