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246. 'Veni Creator,' for chorus, solo quartet, and orchestra (Birmingham Festival, 1891).
347. (a) Highland Ballad for violin and orch. (Westminster Orchestral Society, 1893). (b) Barcarolle and Villanelle for violin.
448. Two Choral Odes for Buchanan's 'Bride of Love' (1893).
549. Oratorio, 'Bethlehem' (Royal Choral Society, 1894).
650. Three Sonnets of Shakespeare.
751. 'Phebe,' comic opera by B. C. Stephenson (not performed).
852. Overture, 'Britannia' (Royal Academy of Music Commemoration Concert, May 17, 1894).
953. 'From the North,' nine pieces for violin and pf. (three of them were scored and played at the Philharmonic, 1895).
1054. Three Songs.
1155. Scottish Concerto for pf. and orch. (Philharmonic, played by Paderewski, 1897).
1256. Comic Opera, 'His Majesty' (Savoy Theatre, Feb. 20, 1897).
1357. Overture, Entr'actes, and Incidental Music to 'The Little Minister' (Haymarket Theatre, Nov. 6, 1897).
1458. Three Preludes and Vocal Music to 'Manfred' (written for the Lyceum Theatre, but not performed). (Nos. 2 and 3, 'Pastoral' and 'Flight of Spirits,' performed at the London Musical Festival, 1899. No. 1, 'Astarte,' performed at Arthur Newstead's Concert, Dec. 12, 1904.)
1559. Five Recitations with pf. accompaniment.
1660. Six Rustic Songs.
1761. Preludes, Entr'actes, and Incidental Music to 'Coriolanus' (Lyceum Theatre, April 15, 1901).
1862. Opera, 'The Cricket on the Hearth,' in three acts (Julian Sturgis, not yet produced; the overture was played at the Philharmonic, July 2, 1902).
1963. Coronation March.
2064. Suite for orchestra, 'London Day by Day' (Norwich Festival, 1902).
2165. 'The Knights of the Road,' operetta (Palace Theatre, Feb. 27, 1905).
2266. Cantata, 'The Witch's Daughter' (Leeds Festival, Oct. 1904).
2367. Canadian Rhapsody for orchestra (Philharmonic, 1905).
25In addition to these there are many songs without opus numbers; also the following:—
27Morris Dance and Processional March for orchestra.
28'Firm in her native strength,' for chorus and orchestra.
29'With wisdom, goodness, grace,' part-song.
30'To Singers,' part-song.
31The 'Willow Song,' from 'Othello.'
32'Indian Réverie,' song (published in Punch, Jan. 7, 1903).
34MACKINTOSH, JOHN, born in London, 1767, an eminent performer on the bassoon, who from 1821 to 1835 held the first place in all the principal London and provincial orchestras. He produced a full, rich, and powerful, but somewhat coarse tone. [He died in London, March 23, 1844.] His son ALPHONSO was a violinist.
36MACKINTOSH, ROBERT, a Scottish musician and famous composer of Strathspey reels, etc., nicknamed 'Red Rob.' He was from the Highlands (probably from the Vale of Athole), and was established as a musician in Skinner's Close, Edinburgh, in 1773. At various addresses in the northern capital he advertised himself as teacher of the violin, and he organised concerts; ultimately conducting the orchestra at the Theatre Royal. He removed to London in 1803, and died there in Feb. 1807. He was a clever violinist, and his Scottish dance music is of considerable merit. He published four books of compositions and arrangements as under:—'Airs, Minuets, Gavottes, and Reels' (1783); 'Sixty-eight new Reels' (1792); a second book (1793); 'A Third Book of Sixty-eight new Reels' (1796); and 'A Fourth Book of new Strathspey Reels,' circa 1804-5; all, except the last, which was published in London, being issued in Edinburgh, in folio. It is said that Mackintosh gave the first professorial lessons on the violin to Nathaniel Gow, on the latter's first coming to Edinburgh.
38ABRAHAM MACKINTOSH, his son, was born in Edinburgh, June 15, 1769, and followed his father's profession. He published 'Thirty new Strathspey Reels,' Edinburgh, folio (1792), and some other works. He removed about the beginning of the 19th century to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was established in 1807 as a musician and a teacher of dancing. For many interesting details of the Mackintosh family, see the late Mr. John Glen's work, 'The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music,' book i., 1891.
40F. K.
41MACKLEAN, CHARLES, a violinist and composer who, living in Edinburgh in 1737, published in that year 'Twelve Solos or Sonatas for a Violin and Violoncello,' op. prima. R. Cooper, for the author, 1737. It is doubtful whether he is the same Charles M'Lean mentioned on the title-page of 'A Collection of Favourite Scots Tunes . . . by the late Mr. Chs. M'Lean and other eminent Masters,' ob. folio, circa 1772. This last-named collection is of some antiquarian interest.
43F. K.
44M'LEOD, PETER, according to Brit. Mus. Biog., was born at West Calder, Midlothian, May 8, 1797, and died at Bonnington, near Edinburgh, Feb. 10, 1859. He published several collections of original airs to the words of Scottish poets, as 'Original National Melodies of Scotland' (1838), 'Original Scottish Melodies,' 'New National Songs, the melodies never before published,' etc., and was the composer of many now favourite Scots songs, 'Oh! why left I my hame?' being among the most famous of these. His collection of 'Original Scottish Melodies' was published with a view to the completion of the Burns Monument in Edinburgh, and the profits of it enabled this to be effected.
46F. K.
47M'MURDIE, JOSEPH, Mus.B., born in 1792 in the parish of St. Bride, London, graduated at Oxford in 1814. He was a pupil of Crotch, and composed many glees (principally for the Concentores Sodales) and songs, and made numerous arrangements for the pianoforte. He was for some time a director of the Philharmonic Society. He died at Merton, Surrey, Dec. 23, 1878.
49W. H. H.
50MAÇON, LE. Opéra-comique in three acts; words by Scribe and Delavigne, music by Auber. Produced at the Opéra Comique, May 3, 1825; in England at the St. James's Theatre, March 13, 1850.
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53MACPHERSON, CHARLES, born in Edinburgh, May 10, 1870, the son of the burgh engineer and city architect. He entered the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1879, and remained there till 1887, when he was appointed choirmaster under Dr. Pearce at St. Clement's, Eastcheap. Sir George Martin gave him organ-lessons during his residence in London. After holding the post of private organist to the late Sir Robert Menzies, at Weem, Perthshire, and Mme. de Falbe, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, in succession, he was appointed in 1895 sub-organist of St. Paul's. He had entered the Royal Academy
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