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Dictionary of music, 1908

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1foundry, near Weilburg (daughter of the director), d. Feb. 26, 1893, Wiesbaden. She attended school and the Conservatorium at Wiesbaden, then became pupil of Sieber and Stockhausen; she appeared in public from 1882 with ever-increasing success, and was especially unrivalled in the rendering of Brahms' compositions (Rhapsodie, Op. 53). In 1892 she married the Dr.jur. W. A. Fr. Hardtmuth, Wiesbaden.
3Spiess, (1) Johann Martin, teacher of music and organist at Heidelberg, afterwards at Berlin. He published choral-melodies: "Davids Harfenspiel in 150 Psalmen auf 342 Liedermelodien" (1745; also as "Geistliche Liebesposaunen in 342 Liedermelodien"), and "26 geistliche Arien" (1761).
4(2) Meinrad, b. Aug. 24, 1683, Honsolgen (Swabia), d. July 12, 1761, as Prior of Yrsee Monastery, in Bavarian Swabia. He entered the Benedictine monastery, Yrsee, took the vows in 1702, and was ordained priest in 1708. In 1710 his abbot sent him to Munich in order to complete his musical training under Gius. Ant. Bernabei. S. was then, from about 1712 to 1749 or 1750, musical director of the Yrsee College (about 1750 P. Anselm Schwink, who performed the duties of this office for 25 years, is mentioned). In 1743 S. became member of the Mitzler Musical Society in Germany. He published: "Antiphonarium Marianum," for soprano or alto with two violins and organ (1713); "Cithara Davidis" (1717; vesper psalms a 4 with strings and organ); "Philomele ecclesiastica" (1718; motets for solo voices, two violins, and organ); "Cultus latreutico-musicus" (1719; 6 masses and 2 requiems a 4 with strings and organ); "Laus Dei in Sanctis ejus" (1723; offertory, for same); "Hyperdulia musica" (1726; Litanies to the Virgin, for same); 12 sonatas for two violins, double-bass (violone), and organ (1734); and "Tractus musicus compositorio practicus d. h. Musikalische Traktat" (1745, German).
6Spillflöte. (See SPITZFLÖTE.)
8Spina (music publishing house). (See SCHREIBER and CRANZ.)
10Spindler, Fritz, pianist and composer, b. Nov. 24, 1817, Wurzbach (near Lobenstein), studied under Fr. Schneider in Dessau, and settled in Dresden (1841) as teacher of music, where he lived many years. S. published over 300 works, mostly brilliant salon pieces; but amongst them there are some more serious ones, such as: 2 symphonies (a third is still in manuscript), a pf. concerto, many sonatinas for teaching purposes, and some chamber music (quartet for strings, pf. quartet, trios). Died Dec. 26, 1905.
12Spinett (Ital. Spineta). (See PIANOFORTE. The name S. is traced by Adr. Bianchieri ("Conclusioni," etc., 1608) to the clavier-maker, Joh. Spinetus, who flourished in Venice about 1503.
14Spiridio, Berthold, famous organist, Carmelite monk in the monastery of St. Theodor, near Bamberg. He published: "Neue und bis dato unbekannte Unterweisung, wie man in kurzer Zeit nicht allein zu vollkommenem Orgel und Instrumente schlagen, sondern auch zu der Kunst der Komposition gänzlich gelangen mag" (1670); parts 2-4 under the title "Nova instructio pro pulsandis organis, spinetis, manuchordiis," etc. (1671-79); part 5 as "Musikalische Erzgruben in 10 neu erfundenen Tabellen mit 5 Stimmen" (1683); further, a selection from the same: "Toccate, ricercari e canzoni francesi intavolati da B. S." (1691), "Musica Romana D. D. Foggiae, Carissimi, Gratiani aliorumque, etc." (a 3 with two violins, 1665); and "Musica Theoliturgica" (a 5 with two violins, 1668).
16Spirito (Ital.), spirit.
18Spitta, (1) J. Aug. Philipp, b. Dec. 27, 1841, Wechold (near Hoya, in Hanover), d. April 13, 1894, Berlin, son of the well-known poet, author of "Psalter und Harfe." He studied philology at Göttingen, and filled the post of teacher at the Ritter- and Domschule, Reval (1864-66), at the Gymnasium, Sondershausen (until 1874), and at the Nikolai-gymnasium, Leipzig, where he took part in founding the "Bachverein" (1874) In 1875 S. was appointed professor at the University for the history of music, and permanent secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin; besides these appointments, he filled the post of teacher at the Royal High School for Music, of which he was deputy-director. In 1891 he was appointed Government Privy Councillor. His musical reputation and his rapid career date from the appearance of the first volume of his biography of Johann Sebastian Bach (1873-80, 2 vols.), which, besides the biography, carried out with all manner of learned historical research, also gives intelligent appreciations of the separate works of Bach. S. himself, in his prominent post at Berlin, trained a goodly staff of young men of promise, who undertaking systematically the different fields of labour still lying fallow, investigated music history. Besides the Bach biography, S. published a critical edition of the organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude (1875 and 1876, 2 folio volumes), which contains important historical notices; undertook a complete edition of the works of Heinrich Schütz (16 vols.; complete, 1896); and wrote a short sketch of the life of Bach in Waldersee's "Vorträge" (1880); "Zur Musik," collected articles (1892), etc. S. was formerly one of the contributors to the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, to the Monatshefte für Mus.-Gesch., etc., and from 1884 published, jointly with Chrysander and G. Adler, a Vierteljahrschrift für Musikwissenschaft, which contains special and unusually valuable historical studies. A vast undertaking, prompted by S., was the

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