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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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14 Valses; 3 Barcarolles; 3 Ballades; 3 Polonaises; 124 Concert études. He published also: Piano School (1880), and more than 700 technical studies and exercises.
3NEUSIEDLER (Newsidler), MELCHIOR, born at Augsburg in the first half of the 16th century, died in Nuremberg in 1590. Lutenist, lived in Italy in 1566, and afterwards in Nuremberg. He did much to improve the lute, and published two books of lute music (Venice, 1566), which were reprinted by P. Phalèse (Louvain, 1571) and by Tobin (Strasburg). He published also Deutsch Lautenbuch, darinnen kunstreiche Motetten, etc. (1574, 2d ed., 1596; in Italian, Il primo libro in tabulatura di liuto, 1576); and Sechs Motetten von Josquin in Lautentabulatur heraus (1587).
5NEVER WILL MY HEART REFUSE THEE. See Ich will dir mein Herze schenken.
7NEVIN, ETHELBERT WOODBRIDGE, born, of American parentage, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 25, 1862, still living, 1890. Pianist, pupil in Pittsburgh of von der Heide, and of William Guenther; and in 1877-78 studied singing in Dresden under von Boehme. In 1880-81 he studied counterpoint under S. Austen Pearce, of New York, and then in Boston, for two years, the pianoforte under B. J. Lang, and harmony under Stephen A. Emery. In 1884 he went to Europe and studied, in Berlin, the pianoforte and theory under Karl Klindworth, von Bülow, and Carl Bial. Works: Suite for pianoforte, op. 2; Waltzes, and other pianoforte music; Songs.
9NIBELUNGEN. See Ring des Nibelungen.
11NIBELUNGEN, eleven Charakterstücke for orchestra by Eduard Lassen, op. 47, written for Hebbel's drama of Die Nibelungen (1862), first performed in 1875. Published in Munich.
13NICCOLINI (Nicolini), GIUSEPPE, born in Piacenza in 1771 (April, 1763?), died there, Dec. 18, 1842. Dramatic composer, son and pupil of Omobono Niccolini, maestro di cappella at Piacenza; he studied singing under Macedone, and at the Conservatorio di San Onofrio in Naples was the pupil of Insanguine, called Monopoli. His first opera was performed in 1793, and he wrote more than fifty others, which were represented with great success in the principal cities of Italy. After becoming maestro di cappella of the cathedral at Piacenza in 1819, he composed chiefly church music. Works—Operas: La famiglia stravagante, Parma, 1792; Il principe Spazzacamino, I molinari, Genoa, 1794; Le nozze campestri, Milan, 1794; L'Artaserse, Venice, 1795; La donna innamorata, ib., 1796; Alzira, Genoa, 1797; La clemenza di Tito, Leghorn, 1798; I due fratelli ridicoli, Rome, 1798; Il Bruto, Genoa, 1799; Gli Scitti, Il trionfo del bel sesso, Milan, 1799; L'indativo, Genoa, 1800; I baccanali di Roma, Milan, 1801; I Manlj, ib., 1802; La selvaggia, Rome, 1803; Fedra, ossia il ritorno di Teseo, ib., 1804; Il geloso sincerato, Geribea e Telamone, Gl'incostanti nemici delle donne, Le nozze inaspettate, Naples, 1805; Abenhamet e Zoraide, Milan, 1806; Trajano in Dacia, Rome, 1807; Le due gemelle, ib., 1808; Coriolano, Milan, 1809; Dario Istaspe, Turin, 1810; Angelica e Medoro, ib., 1811; Abradame e Dircea, Milan, 1811; Quinto Fabio, Le nozze dei Morlacchi, Vienna, 1811; La feudataria, Piacenza, 1812; La casa del astrologo; Mitridate; L'ira d'Achille; Balduino; Carlo Magno; Il conte di Lennos; Annibale in Bitinia; Cesare nelle Gallie; Adolfo; La presa di Granata; L'eroe di Lancastro; Aspasia ed Agide; Il Teuzzone; Ilda d'Avenelle, Bergamo, 1828; La conquista di Malacca; Witikind; Il trionfo di Cesare. Five oratorios; 30 masses; 2 requiems; 100
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