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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1927
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1Kunste (Leipzig, 1818–47), by Ersch and Gruber, an enormous collection, containing many remarkable articles on music; and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts, begun in 1858, of which the sixth vol. concludes with the word 'Gypse.' It contains important articles (unsigned) by eminent musicians, members of the Académie, Méhul, Leseur, Berton, etc. Similarly La Grande Encyclopédie contains important musical contributions by Pougin, Ernst, Michel Brenet, Guittard, etc.
3In England, among cyclopædias, the earliest place is held by that of Rees (1819), the musical articles in which were written by the eminent Dr. Burney. In the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (begun 1875) the musical articles—restricted in number—were at first written by Franz Hueffer, and subsequently by W. S. Rockstro. The supplementary volumes of that edition devote much more space to music, and the articles are by various authors. The musical articles in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1903) are full and generally accurate. Chambers's Encyclopædia (1859–68 and 1888–92) on a smaller, and Brande's Dictionary (1842; 3rd ed. 1853) on a still smaller scale, contain good articles on musical topics, the former including the leading biographies.
5The early dictionaries were few and unimportant: A Short Explication of such Foreign Words as are made use of in Musick Books (1724), Grassineau (1740), Busby (1786), Danneley (1825), Jousse (1829), Wilson, or Hamilton's and Hiles's Dictionaries of Musical Terms—each a small 8vo volume—are specimens of the manner in which this department has been too long filled in England. As regards biography, the Dictionary of Musicians (2 vols. 8vo, 1822 and 1827), though good in intention, was imperfectly carried out. A great advance was made in the Dictionary of Musical Terms, edited by J. Stainer and W. A. Barrett (1 vol. 8vo, Novello, 1876, 2nd ed. 1898), and in a condensed version as one of Novello's Music Primers. The same series contains a Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by W. H. Cummings, revised edition by W. G. M'Naught (1916), and a Dictionary of Violin Makers, by C. Stainer. A Music Lover's Cyclopædia in one volume, compiled by Rupert Hughes, is conveniently arranged in two alphabets, one of musical terms, the other of musicians. A useful little Dictionary of Fiddlers, by A. Mason Clarke, was published by W. Reeves in 1895, and a curious work in dictionary form, on The Organ, written and published by John Warman, was begun in 1898. It is only fitting that brief mention should be made of the first edition of Sir George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 4 vols., of which the first part appeared in 1878, and the last, with the appendix, in 1889. The second and greatly enlarged edition (5 vols.) was edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland (1904–10). An American Supplement edited by Waldo Selden Pratt was published in America in 1920, and a New Encyclopædia of Music and Musicians, under the same editorship, also intended to supplement the second edition of this Dictionary, appeared in 1924. The Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by James D. Brown (Paisley, 1886) was the forerunner of his excellent British Musical Biography, written in collaboration with Stephen S. Stratton and published in 1897. David Baptie's Musicians of all Times, 1889, is less trustworthy. A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians, under the general editorship of Eaglefield Hull (1924), deals concisely with the biographies of musicians alive in the year 1880 and since. It includes a number of theoretic articles.
7An excellent work for its date and its intention was the Complete Encyclopædia of Music by John W. Moore (Boston, U.S.A., 1852), a large 8vo volume of 1000 pages, constructed on a popular basis. The Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians, edited by John Denison Champlin, junior, and William F. Apthorp (New York, 1889–91) is contained in three handsome volumes, and is well arranged; the Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker, Ph.D. (New York, 1900) is of distinct value in regard to American musicians, but the author's reliance on Riemann's Lexikon is perhaps rather too complete. A third edition, revised and enlarged by Alfred Remy, appeared in 1919.
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12DIDO AND AENEAS, opera in 3 acts, written by Nahum Tate; music by Purcell. The first performance took place between the years 1688 and 1690, at the boarding-school of Josias Priest at Chelsea.
14It was revived by the R.C.M. on the occasion of the bicentenary of Purcell's death (1895), has since been frequently given in England, and in 1926 in German (translation by Anton Mayer) at Münster.
16DIÉMER, LOUIS (b. Paris, Feb. 14, 1843; d. Paris, Dec. 21, 1919), French pianist, studied at the Conservatoire under Marmontel, Bazin and Ambroise Thomas, winning the first piano prize at the age of thirteen and that for fugue three years afterwards. In 1888 he succeeded Marmontel as professor of one of the higher pianoforte classes at the same institution. At the Paris Exhibition of 1889 he won especial fame in the compositions of the harpsichord masters of the past. A consequence of this was the creation of the Société des Instruments Anciens which, with his help, appeared often in London with great success. He established also a triennial competition for those among the male piano students of the Conservatoire who have obtained the first prize during the previous ten years. Diémer published a number of compositions, of which the following are the most important: a 'Concer'-
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