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1FITZWILLIAM COLLECTION, THE
3music at the Haymarket Theatre, where he produced an operetta called 'Love's Alarms' (1854) and music for some minor pieces. About 1855 he married Miss Ellen Chaplin, a member of the Haymarket Company, well known as Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. His compositions were distinguished by an intelligence which gave promise of great excellence when he should have fully mastered the technicalities of his art—a hope disappointed by his early death, after a lingering illness, on Jan. 20, 1857. Besides the songs above mentioned, he wrote music for 'The Green Bushes,' 1845; 'Anything for a Change,' 1846, 'Queen of a Day,' comic opera; and published a Te Deum, and a hymn, 'O incomprehensible Creator.' A quartet from the former is given by Mr. Hullah in his 'Sacred Music for Family Use.'
5W. H. H.
7FITZWILLIAM COLLECTION, THE. In the year 1816 Viscount Fitzwilliam died, leaving to the University of Cambridge, of which he was a member, the annual interest on £100,000 in money, and a large number of valuable paintings, books, engravings, and other works of art. Of these a collection of music, MS. and printed, forms a portion. Its most prominent features are the Virginal Book formerly called 'Queen Elizabeth's'; a volume of anthems in the handwriting of Henry Purcell, and another in that of Dr. Blow, containing various pieces not yet printed; and a miscellaneous collection embracing the works of more than 250 composers, mostly of the 17th and 18th centuries, and chiefly of the Italian school; as for instance Clari, 3 masses, 3 Dixit Dominus, a Stabat, a Confitebor, etc.; Leo, a Mass, 2 Miserere, 3 Dixit—a 5, a 8 (in autograph) and a 10; an Oratorio etc.; Colonna, a Magnificat, a Confitebor, a Domine ad adjuvandum, a Beatus vir, a Dixit, etc.; Jommelli, a Miserere, a Dixit (a 8), 2 Operas, an Oratorio, etc.; Bononcini, a Mass (a 8), an Opera, a Psalm, Cantatas, etc.; Pergolesi, a Mass, a Kyrie, and Gloria (a 10), portions of a Dixit, etc.; Durante, a Messa de' Morti (a 8), a Litany and Motets. In addition to these there is the autograph of a Symphony in F, 'di me Giuseppe Haydn 787,' and some interesting MSS. in Handel's autograph. Kelway is said to have been employed by Lord Fitzwilliam to collect for him in Italy. The Catalogue, by J. A. Fuller Maitland and Dr. A. H. Mann (the latter of whom contributed a valuable analysis of the Handel sketches) was published in 1893. By the generosity of the late J. Pendlebury, M.A., of St. John's College, a large collection of important musical compositions, mainly modern works, was given and bequeathed to the Museum.
9The contents of the Virginal Book were published by permission of the authorities, edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire (finished 1899). See VIRGINAL MUSIC.
11A portion of the above music was published by the late Vincent Novello in 1825 as
13FITZWILLIAM MUSIC.—The list is as follows ('Orch.' implies orchestral accompaniment):—
15Bonno, Cum Sancto.
16Bononcini, Eterna fac.
17Do, In te Domine. Orch.
18Do, Sanctus. Orch.
19Do, Te ergo quae sumus.
20Cafaro, Amen.
21Carissimi, Dulce te.
22Do. Et sic laudabimus.
23Do. Gaudamus omnes.
24Do. O felix anima.
25Do. Surgamus, eamus.
26Clari, Amen. Orch.
27Do. Cujus animam. Orch.
28Do. Cum Sancto. Orch.
29Do. Cum Sancto. Orch.
30Do. Cum Sancto.
31Do. De profundis. Orch.
32Do. Domine Deus. Orch.
33Do. Gloria Patri, Alto Solo. Orch.
34Do. Gloria Patri. Orch.
35Do. Gratias agimus.
36Do. Kyrie eleison. Orch.
37Do. Kyrie eleison. Orch.
38Do. Laetatus sum. a 8.
39Do. O quam tristis. Orch.
40Do. Quae moerebat. Orch.
41Do. Quando corpus. Orch.
42Do. Quando corpus.
43Do. Qui tollis.
44Do. Sancta Mater.
45Do. Sicut erat. Orch.
46Do. Sicut erat. Orch.
47Do. Stabat Mater. Orch.
48Do. Tecum principium.
49Conti, Amen.
50Colonna, Domine ad adjuvandum. Orch.
51Colonna, Gloria Patri.
52Do. Paratum cor.
53Do. Sicut erat.
54Durante, Cantate Domino.
55Do. Protextisti me Deus.
56Ferree, Adoramus Te.
57Jommelli, Confirma hoc Deus.
58Leo, Amen, a 10. Orch.
59Do. Christus factus est.
60Do. Cum Sancto Spiritu. Orch.
61Do. Dixit Dominus, a 8. Orch.
62Do. Kyrie eleison.
63Do. Qui tollis. Orch.
64Do. Qui tollis.
65Do. Sicut erat. Orch. (Dixit in A).
66Do. Sicut erat, a 10. Orch. (Dixit in D).
67Do. Tu es Sacerdos (Dixit in A).
68Do. Tu es Sacerdos. Orch. (Dixit in D).
69Do. Tu es Sacerdos. Orch. (Dixit in C).
70Lupi, Audivi vocem, a 6.
71Vittoria, Regina Coeli.
72Martini, Sicut erat. Orch.
73Do. Sicut erat, a 6. Orch.
74O. Lasso, Sicut ablactatus.
75Palestrina, Et incarnatus.
76Pergolesi, Dominus a dextris a 6. Orch.
77Do. Gloria Patri. Orch.
78Do. Juravit Dominus.
79Do. Sicut erat.
80Perti, Adoramus Te.
81Stradella, Dove Battista.
83FLADT, ANTON, eminent oboist, born 1775 at Mannheim, studied under Ramm, succeeded Lebrun in the orchestra at Munich (1790). He travelled much, visiting Vienna (1793), Italy, the Tyrol, the Rhine, Saxony, Prussia, England (1798), Bohemia, Hungary, and France. When in London the Prince of Wales made him liberal offers to remain in England. After 1810 he resided entirely at Munich. He composed three concertinos for oboe and orchestra, and some pieces for two flageolets.
85M. C. C.
87FLAGEOLET (Old Fr. flajol). The modern form of the old Flûte-à-bec, straight flute or Fipple Flute. The upper part consists of a plain tubular mouthpiece, leading to a cavity, in which is a sounding-lip exactly resembling that of an open pipe in the organ. The air is shaped by a thin groove into a flat sheet, which strikes against the feather-edge of an aperture formed in the intermediate part of the instrument. The vibrations thus originated pass into a conical tube, which, unlike the organ-pipe, is furnished with lateral holes, and sometimes with keys. The fundamental note of the speaking throat, being coerced by different lengths of consonant tube, gives a simple scale; which can be extended by forcing wind in more strongly, and thus producing the first two or three harmonics of the ground tone.
89The simplest form of the Flageolet is the ordinary tin whistle with six holes. This consists of a conical tube of metal stopped at the top by a square block of wood, except in a narrow anterior fissure. Below the fissure is a gap, the lower edge of which is flattened so as to cut and intercept the stream of air. In more elaborate instruments a chamber is added above containing a moist sponge intended to hold back the condensed moisture of the breath.
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