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1operas of the same title, in Italian: text by Maria Piccioli, music by Carlo Pallavicino, Venice, 1679; music by Carlo Porsile, Naples, 1686; Nerone fatto Cesare, text by Matteo Noris, music by Perti, Venice, 1693; Nerone, music by Antonio Gianettini, Modena, about 1710; text by Piovene, music by Giovanni Maria Orlandini, Venice, 1721; music by Vignati, about 1725; music by Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Rome, 1735; La morte di Nerone, by Angelo Tarchi, Venice, 1792; and in German by Reissiger, Munich, 1822.—Clément et Larousse, 929; La Mara, Mus. Studienkopf, iii. 217; Mus. Wochenblatt (1879), 544; Signale (1879), 929; (1884), 273; Krehbiel, Review (1886–87), 152.
3NERUDA, JOHANN GEORG, born at Rossiccz, Bohemia, in 1706, died in Dresden in 1780. He played in the orchestra of a theatre, travelled, and from 1750 until his death was a member of the Elector's chapel in Dresden. His two sons, Ludwig and Anton, were also attached to the Dresden chapel. Works: 18 symphonies; 4 violin concertos; 30 trios; 6 solos for violin.—Wurzbach; Mendel; Schilling; Gerber; Fétis.
5NESSLER, VICTOR ERNST, born at Baldenheim, near Schlettstadt, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1841, still living, 1890. Dramatic composer, pupil of Theophil Stern at Strasburg, where he studied theology, then finished his musical education at Leipsic, where he conducted several singing societies, and in 1870 became chorus master at the Stadttheater; in 1879 music director at the Carolatheater. He has lived at Strasburg for several years. Works—Operas: Dornröschens Brautfahrt, Leipsic, 1867; Irmgard, ib., 1876; Der Rattenfänger von Hameln, ib., 1879; Der wilde Jäger, ib., 1881; Der Trompeter von Säkkingen, ib., 1884. Operettas: Fleurette, Strasburg, 1864; Die Hochzeitsreise, Leipsic, 1867; Nachtwächter und Student, ib., 1868; Am Alexandertag, ib., 1869. Der Blumen Rache, for chorus, soli, and orchestra; Sängers Frühlingsgruss, double chorus for male voices; Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, cycle for chorus, soli, and pianoforte; Quartets for male voices; Songs.—Mus. Wochenblatt, xv. 559; Riemann.
7NESWADBA, JOS (properly Hamáček), born at Vyskeř, Bohemia, Jan. 19, 1824, died at Darmstadt, June 20, 1876. He was Kapellmeister, successively, at the theatres of Karlsbad (1848), Olmütz, Brünn, Gratz, at the National Theatre in Prague (1857–58), at the Italian Opera in Berlin (1859–60), at the Stadttheater in Hamburg (1861–63), and in 1864 became Hof-Kapellmeister at Darmstadt. Works: Music to several ballets, performed at Darmstadt; Overtures, and other pieces for orchestra; Bohemian songs, and choruses.—Mendel; Slovník naučný (Prague, 1859), v. 790; Wurzbach.
9NETZER, JOSEF, born at Zams, Tyrol, March 18, 1808, died at Gratz, May 28, 1864. Dramatic composer, self-taught on the pianoforte and organ, afterwards at Innsbruck pupil of Martin Goller on the pianoforte, and of Kathrein on the violin. He then went to Vienna, where he became one of the favourite pianoforte teachers, and studied composition under Gänsbacher, and counterpoint under Sechter. In 1839 he visited Italy, and in 1842 made a tour through Germany to produce his opera Mara, which had been brought out with great success in Vienna, in 1841. At Leipsic he assisted Lortzing as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater and conductor of the Euterpe Concerts in 1844–45, then was for one year Kapellmeister of the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, where he resided three years. After a visit at Meldenau, near Leipsic, in 1848, he went, in 1849, as Kapellmeister to Mainz, and, having again lived at Leipsic, accepted, in 1853, an engagement as Kapellmeister of the theatre at Gratz. Works—Operas: Die
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