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1evidence, establishing Rouget de Lisle's claim beyond a doubt. The controversy is examined at length by Loquin in Les mélodies populaires de la France, Paris, 1879. The 'Marseillaise' has been often made use of by composers. Of these, two may be cited—Salieri, in the opening chorus of his opera, 'Palmira' (1795), and Grison, in the introduction to the oratorio 'Esther' (still in MS.), both evidently intentional. Schumann slyly alludes to it in the 'Faschingsschwank aus Wien,' uses it in his song of the Two Grenadiers with magnificent effect, and also introduces it in his Overture to 'Hermann und Dorothea.'
3A picture by Pils, representing Rouget de Lisle singing the 'Marseillaise,' is well known from the engraving. [The best account of the song is to be found in Tiersot's Chanson Populaire, pp. 281-286.]
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7MARSH, ALPHONSO, son of Robert Marsh, one of the musicians in ordinary to Charles I., was baptized at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Jan. 28, 1627. He was appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1660. Songs composed by him appear in 'The Treasury of Musick' (1669), 'Choice Ayres and Dialogues' (1676), and other publications of the time. He died April 9, 1681. His son ALPHONSO was admitted a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, April 25, 1676. Songs by him are contained in 'The Theater of Music' (1685-87), 'The Banquet of Musick' (1688-92), and other publications. He died April 5, 1692, and was buried April 9, in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. W. H. H.
9MARSH, JOHN, born at Dorking, 1752, a distinguished amateur composer and performer [was articled to a solicitor at Romsey in 1768], resided at Salisbury (1776-81), Canterbury (1781-86), and Chichester (1787-1828), in each of which places he led the band at the subscription concerts and occasionally officiated for the cathedral and church organists. He composed two services, many anthems, chants, and psalm tunes, glees, songs, symphonies, overtures, quartets, etc., and organ and pianoforte music, besides treatises on harmony, thorough-bass, etc. He died in 1828. A fully detailed account of his career is given in the Dictionary of Musicians, 1824, but it does not possess sufficient interest to be repeated here. W. H. H.
11MARSHALL, WILLIAM, a Scottish musician, born at Fochabers in Banffshire, Dec. 27, 1748. As a boy he entered the service of the Duke of Gordon, rising, during a thirty years' residence in the family, to the posts of butler, house-steward, and factor. He taught himself the violin, and became the best amateur performer of his day. His compositions, which are Strathspeys and a similar class of Scottish violin music, have been held in much favour, the best known being 'The Marquis of Huntley's,' and 'Miss Admiral Gordon's' Strathspeys; the latter being the air to which Burns wrote 'Of a' the airts the wind can blaw.' He married in 1773, and had a family, dying in his 85th year at Dandaleith, May 29, 1833. A number of his compositions appear in the Gow publications, but Stewart of Edinburgh issued a couple of small collections of his Strathspeys in 1781. A third and much fuller collection was published in 1822 and a later one, after his death, in 1847. An excellent portrait of Marshall is extant, engraved by Turner; it is reproduced in The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, book ii., 1895, where there is also much interesting information concerning him. F. K.
13MARSHALL, WILLIAM, Mus.D., son of William Marshall of Oxford, music-seller, born there 1806, was a chorister of the Chapel Royal under John Stafford Smith and William Hawes. He was appointed organist of Christ Church Cathedral and St. John's College, Oxford, in 1825, and was also organist of All Saints' Church from 1839. He graduated as Mus.B. Dec. 7, 1826, and Mus.D. Jan. 14, 1840. He resigned his Oxford appointments in 1846, and afterwards became organist of St. Mary's Church, Kidderminster. He was author of The Art of Reading Church Music (1842), the composer of some church music and songs, and editor (jointly with Alfred Bennett) of a collection of chants, 1829, and also editor of a book of words of anthems, 1840, fourth edition, 1862. He died at Handsworth, August 17, 1875.
15His younger brother, CHARLES WARD MARSHALL, born 1808, about 1835 appeared, under the assumed name of Manvers, on the London stage as a tenor singer, with success. In 1842 he quitted the theatre for concert and oratorio singing, in which he met with greater success. After 1847 he withdrew from public life. He died at Islington, Feb. 22, 1874. W. H. H.
17MARSICK, MARTIN PIERRE JOSEPH, violinist, was born on March 9, 1848, at Jupille, near Liège. At the age of eight he entered the Liège Conservatoire, studying under Desiré Heynberg, and gaining, two years later, the first prize in the preparatory class. In 1864 he secured the gold medal of the institution for 'exceptional merit.' In the following year and until 1867 he was pupil of Léonard (violin) and Kufferath (composition), and in 1868-69 of Massart at the Paris Conservatoire, the expense of his musical training being defrayed by a music-loving lady of distinction. In 1870-71 he was the recipient of a stipend from the Belgian government, and was enabled to proceed to Berlin to study under Joachim. Thus exceptionally equipped, he made a successful début, in 1873, at the 'Concerts populaires' in Paris, travelled a good deal in various European countries, founded a Quartet at Paris in 1877 with Rémy, Von Waefelghem, and Delsart, and in 1892 was appointed violin professor at the Conservatoire in succession to Massart. In 1895-96 he toured in the United States, and
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