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1active and unprecedentedly successful as a teacher. Among his pupils are to be found the names of Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Toscha Seidel, Kathleen Parlow and Isolde Menges.
3Like Joachim, he plays a great deal to his pupils during lessons, but is careful not to stifle individuality; hence the variety of style to be noticed in the playing of the artists he has launched into the world.
5His works and arrangements, though not of major importance, are full of charm. He has also published Violin Playing as I teach it (New York, 1921) and My Long Life in Music (New York, 1923).
7AUFFSCHNAIDTER (AUFSCNAITER), BENEDIKT ANTON, Kapellmeister at the cathedral of Passau from c. 1695-1730, published 'Cymbalum Davidis,' vesper-psalms a 4 v. with strings, 1729; 'Aquila clangens,' 4-part offertories with strings, 1719; 'Concorsa discordia,' Sonatas a 2 violins, 2 violas, violoncello (Noribg., 1695); masses and other church music; 6 overtures, etc. (Eitner.)
9AUFLÖSUNGSZEICHEN, the German name of the sign for the natural, the sharp and the flat, when these are used to restore the original notes after their temporary alteration by means of ACCIDENTALS (q.v.)
11AUFTAKT (Ger.). See UP-BEAT; RHYTHM.
13AUGARTEN, the well-known public garden on the Au, or meadow, between the Danube and the Donau-Canal, in the Leopoldstadt suburb of Vienna, interesting to the musician from its having been, like our own Vauxhall and Ranelagh, the place of performance—often first performance—of many a masterpiece. It was dedicated to the public by the Emperor Joseph II., and was opened Apr. 30, 1775. At first it appears to have been merely a wood; then a garden—'the Tuileries garden of Vienna'—but after a time a concert-room was built, and in 1782 summer morning concerts were started by Martin, a well-known entrepreneur of the day, in association with Mozart, then at the height of his genius. Mozart mentions the project in a letter (May 18, 1782) to his father, and the first series of the concerts opened on May 26, under brilliant patronage, attracted alike by the novelty of music so nearly in the open air, by the beauty of the spot, and by the excellence of the music announced. The enterprise changed hands repeatedly, until, about the year 1799, the concerts were directed by Schuppanzigh, the violin-player, of Beethoven notoriety. They did not, however, maintain their high character or their popularity, but had to suffer the inevitable fate of all similar institutions which aim over the heads of those whom they wish to attract. In 1813 they were in the hands of the 'Hof-Traiteur' and Wranitzky the musician. By 1830 performers of eminence had ceased to appear. But the musical glories of the Augarten cannot be forgotten. Here Mozart was to be seen and heard in at least one series of concerts, at each of which some great symphony or concerto was doubtless heard for the first time; and here Beethoven produced one (if not more) of his masterpieces—the Kreutzer sonata, which was played there (May 1803) by Bridgetower and himself, the two first movements being read from autograph and copy dashed down only just before the beginning of the concert. Besides this, his first 5 symphonies, his overtures, and 3 first pianoforte concertos were stock pieces in the programmes of the Augarten. The concerts took place on Thursday mornings, at the curiously early hour of half-past seven, and even seven. Mayseider, Czerny, Stein, Clement, Linke, Moscheles, and many other great artists were heard there. (The above information is obtained from Hanslick's Concertwesen in Wien, and Ries's Notizen.)
15AUGENER LTD., Music Publishers, proprietors of Augener's Edition and of The Monthly Musical Record (see PERIODICALS, MUSICAL), 18 Great Marlborough Street, 63 Conduit Street, and 57 High Street, Marylebone, London, W.1.
17This business was founded at 86 Newgate Street as Augener & Co., in 1853, by George Augener, who retired from the business in 1910, and died Aug. 25, 1915, in his eighty-sixth year. In 1896 the trade name and goodwill of Robert Cocks & Co. (q.v.), founded 1823, was acquired. The business was incorporated as a company, Oct. 11, 1904.
19Since 1873 the company and its predecessor have held the sole agency for Peters' Edition. The company is assignee of all works in this edition which enjoy copyright protection in Great Britain.
21In 1878 the firm began printing its own publications at 6 Lexington Street, W.1; the premises were added to from time to time until 1911, when a modern printing works was built at 287 Acton Lane, W.4. Between 1873 and 1905 nineteen medals and certificates for excellence were secured at various exhibitions in all parts of the world.
23For the last 40 years the firm has been particularly identified with the publication of educational music, and especially with pianoforte music, and in the last 30 years many volumes of music for various examining bodies have been published.
25The catalogue of Augener's Edition embraces a very large collection of the classics, as well as a considerable number of works by modern composers; there is also an extensive catalogue of sheet music.
27AUGMENTATION. This term is used to express the appearance of a musical theme in notes of double the original value, e.g. crotchets for quavers, minims for crotchets, etc., and is
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