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1NICOLAI
3went to Vienna, where he was made Kapellmeister and singing master at the court opera. In October, 1838, he returned to Rome, and began his career as a dramatic composer, producing several operas in various Italian cities with much success. In 1841 he returned once more to Vienna, to become first Kapellmeister of the opera, which post he held to general admiration until Easter, 1847, having produced two operas during his stay. In 1842 he founded the Philharmonic Concerts there. The composition of a mass (1843) dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm IV., and of a Festival Overture for chorus and orchestra on Ein' feste Burg for the Jubilee of the Königsberg University in 1844, got him a call to Berlin as director of the then newly organized Domchor, and Kapellmeister of the opera. Here he finished his Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, decidedly his best work, which he had begun at Vienna. It was brought out at Berlin with resounding success, only two months before he died of apoplexy. Excepting this last work, and his Festival Overture, nothing of his ever had a very lasting success. He had a natural gift of bright, graceful melody, and wrote in excellent style, albeit he never aimed very high, and was content to please the taste of the day. Yet much might have been expected of him, had he lived longer. He was honorary member of the Società Cecilia at Rome, and of the Filarmonici at Bologna. In 1851 the Berlin Tonkünstler-Verein set up a monument over his grave in the church-yard of the Dorotheenstadt. Works—Operas: Rosmonda d' Inghilterra, given in Turin, 1838, in Trieste, as Enrico II., April 26, 1839; Il Templario, three acts, text by G. M. Marino, after Scott's "Ivanhoe," Turin, Feb. 11, 1840; Odoardo e Gildippe, Turin, 1841; Il proscritto, three acts, Milan, March 13, 1842, in German as Die Heimkehr des Verbannten, Vienna, Feb. 3, 1844; Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Berlin, March 9, 1849. Mass, dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm IV., 1843; Fest-Ouverture, Königsberg, 1844; Symphony; Requiem; Te Deum; 6 Lieder, op. 6; Lieder und Gesänge, op. 16; Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra, and other pianoforte music; Songs and choruses.—Mendel, Otto Nicolai, Eine Biographie (Berlin, 1868).
5NICOLAI, JOHANN GOTTLIEB, born at Gross-Neundorf, Saxe-Meiningen, Oct. 15, 1744, died at Zwoll in 1801. Organist and concert director from 1780 at Zwoll. Works: Die Wilddiebe, operetta, 1774; Der Geburtstag, do., 1779; Jolantha, do., 1785; Symphonic concertante for violin and violoncello, op. 7; 2 quartets for strings; Sonatas for pianoforte; Soli for flute, etc.
7NICOLAÏ, WILLEM FREDERIK GERARD, born in Leyden, Holland, Nov. 20, 1829, still living, 1890. Organist and pianist, pupil at the Conservatorium, Leipsic, of Moscheles, Rietz, Hauptmann, and Richter, and at Dresden of Johann Schneider on the organ. In 1852 he was appointed instructor at the royal school of music at The Hague and, after Lübeck's death, became its director. As conductor of several musical societies and as editor of the "Cecilia" (since 1870), he has had much influence among his countrymen. Works: Bonifacius, oratorio; Das Lied von der Glocke, for chorus, soli, and orchestra; Hansken van Gelder, for male chorus and do.; Ter herinnering, for do.; Vondel-hymne, for do.; Door het woud, for do.; Thorbeckecantate, for do.; De zweedsche nachtegaal, for children's voices, mixed chorus, and orchestra; Other cantatas; Duets and songs; Pianoforte music.—Mendel; Riemann; Viotta.
9NICOLÔ. See Isouard.
11NICOU-CHORON, STÉPHANE LOUIS, born in Paris, April 20, 1809, died there, Sept. 6, 1886. Church composer, educated
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