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1him ample opportunities for carrying out his natural proclivities to investigation and critical inquiry into the methods of the past. His works include a Latin Grammar, a Greek Epigraphy, a Manual of Classical Philology (2nd ed., Paris, 1883-84, 2 vols.) and Archæological researches in Tunis. His editorship of the Revue des Études Grecques (1888 and following years) was marked by valuable researches into the music of ancient Greece, and his translation of the hymns discovered at Delphi gave rise to much discussion.
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5REINAGLE, JOSEPH, senior, said to have been born near Vienna, and to have served in the Hungarian army. In 1762 he was at Portsmouth, where his sons were born. By the influence of the Earl of Kelly, he was appointed in 1762 trumpeter to the king, presumably in Scotland, as he appears to have at that time removed to Edinburgh. See SCHETKY.
7ALEXANDER REINAGLE was probably his eldest son; he was born in 1756 at Portsmouth. He accompanied his younger brother, HUGH, to Lisbon, and after his death, went to America about 1786, dying at Baltimore, Ind., Sept. 21, 1809. His name is attached to 'A Collection of the most Favourite Scotstunes with Variations for the Harpsichord by A. Reinagle, London, printed for and sold by the author,' folio. This scarce and rudely printed volume is advertised in Aird's 'Selection,' vol. ii. 1782, and though bearing 'London' as an imprint was most likely issued from Glasgow.
9The second son, JOSEPH REINAGLE, junior, was born at Portsmouth in 1762, and was first intended for the navy, and next apprenticed to a working jeweller in Edinburgh. He took up music as a profession, and studied the French horn and the trumpet under his father and subsequently the violoncello under J. G. C. Schetky, who had married his sister. He became a noted player at the Edinburgh concerts, but abandoned the instrument as a consequence of his brother's superior skill on it, resuming it after Hugh's death. He became violin and viola player and leader of the orchestra at St. Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. He came to London, and was one of the second violins at the Handel Commemoration in 1784. In the following year he became associated with Haydn and Salomon and played at their concerts. Early in the 19th century he removed to Oxford, and died there in 1836. His published works include 'Twenty-four progressive lessons for the pianoforte' 1796. 'Duets for the Violoncello' quartets for strings, besides an Introduction to the Art of Playing the Violoncello, which ran through several editions. In Gow's 'Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels' are some airs by Mr. Joseph Reinagle; one, 'Dumfries Races,' became well known.
11The third son, HUGH, became a proficient violoncellist, and went to Lisbon for the benefit of his health in 1784; he died there of consumption, March 19, 1785.
13ALEXANDER ROBERT REINAGLE, the son of the younger Joseph, was born at Brighton, August 21, 1799, and settled with his father in Oxford, where he became teacher, organist, and a well-known figure in musical circles. He was organist of the church of St. Peter in the East. He composed a number of sacred pieces, including the well-known 'St. Peter' psalm-tune. He also wrote and compiled many books of instruction for the violin and violoncello. He died at Kidlington near Oxford, April 6, 1877.
15His wife, CAROLINE REINAGLE (née ORGER) was born in London in 1818, and married Reinagle in 1846. She was associated with her husband as a teacher, and wrote some technical works for the pianoforte, besides a concerto, and several chamber compositions. She also attained some success as a pianist. She died March 11, 1892. F. K.; with additions from Musical Times, 1906, pp. 541, 617, and 683.
17REINE DE SABA, LA. See QUEEN OF SHEBA.
19REINE TOPAZE, LA. Opéra-comique in three acts; words by Lockroy and Battes, music by Victor Massé. Produced at the Théâtre Lyrique, Dec. 27, 1856. In English, as 'Queen Topaze,' at Her Majesty's Theatre, Dec. 24, 1860.
21REINECKE, CARL HEINRICH CARSTEN, composer, conductor, and performer, director of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig, the son of a musician, born June 23, 1824, at Altona, was from an early age trained by his father, and at eleven performed in public. As a youth he was a first-rate orchestral violin-player. At eighteen he made a concert tour through Sweden and Denmark, with especial success at Copenhagen. In 1843 he settled in Leipzig, where he studied diligently, and eagerly embraced the opportunities for cultivation afforded by the society of Mendelssohn and Schumann, with a success which amply shows itself in his music. In 1844 he made a professional tour with Wasielewski to Riga, returning by Hanover and Bremen. He was already in the pay of Christian VIII. of Denmark, and in 1846 he again visited Copenhagen, remaining there for two years. On both occasions he was appointed court-pianist. In 1851 he went with the violinist Otto von Königslöw to Italy and Paris; and on his return Hiller secured him for the professorship of the piano and counterpoint in the Conservatorium of Cologne. In 1854 he became conductor of the Concertgesellschaft at Barmen, and in 1859 Musikdirector to the University of Breslau. On Julius Rietz's departure from Leipzig to Dresden in 1860 Reinecke succeeded him as conductor at the Gewandhaus, and became at the same time professor of composition in the Conservatorium. Between the years 1867 and
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