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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1ORTOLAN
3and 11 chansons for do. (in Harmonice musices odhecaton, Venice, 1500–1); Masses, songs, and motets in manuscript.—Fétis; Mendel; Riemann.
5ORTOLAN, EUGÈNE, born in Paris, April 1, 1824, still living, 1890. Dramatic composer, pupil of Berton and Halévy at the Conservatoire, while studying law at the same time; won the second grand prix in 1845, and after taking his degree as doctor, entered the ministry of foreign affairs. L. of Honour; Orders of Léopold and Stanislas. Works: Lisette, opéra-comique, Théâtre Lyrique, 1855; La momie de Roscoco, operetta, Bouffes Parisiens, 1857; Tobie, oratorio, Versailles, 1867; Symphonic music, and vocal melodies.—Fétis, Supplément, ii. 289.
7ORTOLANI, ANGELO, born at Siena, April 11, 1788, died there, April 18, 1871. Pupil of Ritterfels, Deifebo Romagnoli, and of Ettore Romagnoli, whom he succeeded as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria di Provenzano, in 1838. Works: Il giorno delle nozze, opera (1835–36?), not performed; L’Arte del contrappunto, etc., published under the pseudonym Lotario Ganleno (Siena, 1828). He published also 7 volumes of comedies and dramas (ib., 1839), and Memoirs on the history of Siena (ib., 1842).—Fétis, Supplément, ii. 289.
9ORTOLANI, TERENZIO, born at Pesaro, Ancona, Sept. 4, 1799, died there, April 7, 1875. Church composer, pupil of Ripini in harmony and counterpoint, then at the Liceo, Bologna, of Padre Mattei. He was maestro di cappella successively in several cities in the Marches and the Romagna, and then at the cathedral of Pesaro. Works: La pastorella delle Alpi, opera buffa, Naples, 1830; Many masses, psalms, and other church music; 10 fugues for 8 voices and figured bass; 100 fugues for 2 to 4 voices; 10 circular canons.—Fétis, Supplément, ii. 290.
11O RUDDIER THAN THE CHERRY, bass aria of Polyphemus, in G minor, with accompaniment of flute, two violins, and continuo, in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Act II.
13O SANCTISSIMA, O PURISSIMA, a hymn to the Virgin Mary, set to a melody called the Sicilian Mariners’ hymn, a tune which was popular in Non-conformist chapels in England. It is still sung by the gondoliers in Venice, especially on St. Mary’s Day. The air, Sicilian Mariners’, is included in Miller’s “Dr. Watts’s Psalms and Hymns set to Music” (London, 1800).—Grove, iii. 491.
15OSBORNE, GEORGE ALEXANDER, born at Limerick, Ireland, Sept. 24, 1806, still living, 1890. Pianist, pupil in Paris (1826) of Pixis and Fétis; later studied under Kalkbrenner, and was intimately acquainted with Chopin and Berlioz. In 1843 he settled in London and became a popular teacher. Works: Duets for pianoforte and violin (with de Bériot); Violin quartets; Pluie des Perles and other pianoforte music including rondos, fantasias, and variations.—Fétis; Mendel; Grove.
17OSGOOD, GEORGE LAURIE, born of American parentage, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, April 3, 1844, still living, 1890. Tenor singer, pupil in 1860–62, on the organ and in counterpoint, of J. K. Paine in Cambridge; in 1866 went to Europe and studied, in Berlin, composition under Haupt and singing under Ferdinand Sieber; in Halle the German Lied under Robert Franz; and in Milan Italian vocal methods under Lamperti. After a successful concert tour in Germany, he returned to America in 1872; he made a concert tour with Theodore Thomas in 1872–73, singing with success in the principal cities of the United States. He then settled in Boston as a teacher of singing and tenor singer. Since 1875 he has conducted the Boylston Club, and since 1882 he has been choir master of Emman-
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