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1and analyses of canon and fugue by Orlando Lasso, Marcello, Palestrina, etc. Dehn was a good practical musician and violoncellist. M. C. C.
3DE HOND, see CANIS.
5DEISS, MICHAEL, musician to the Emperor Ferdinand I. of Germany, for whose obsequies in 1564 he composed a motet for 4 voices, and 8 other pieces, published by Joannelli in his Thesaurus musicus. Other motets of his are contained in Schad's Promptuarium musicum. M. C. C.
7DEITERS, HERMANN (b. Bonn, June 27, 1833; d. Coblenz, May 11, 1907), studied at first law and philology, taking the degree of Doctor in both faculties in 1858.
9He held various scholastic appointments, successively at Bonn, Düren, Konitz, Posen and Coblenz, and had a place in the Cultusministerium at Berlin. After some early contributions to Bagge's Deutsche Musikzeitung and other musical papers, he wrote various important articles in the A.M.Z., such as 'Beethovens dramatische Compositionen,' 'R. Schumann als Schriftsteller,' 'Max Bruchs Odysseus,' etc. He published the first authoritative biography of Brahms in 1880 (English translation by Mrs. Newmarch in 1888), completed after the master's death by a new edition, 1898. Deiters's most important work was the revising and editing of A. W. Thayer's monumental life of Beethoven. The German translation from Thayer's original English (MS.) in the three volumes published during the author's lifetime (in 1866, 1872 and 1879) were his work. After Thayer's death, Dr. Deiters undertook to revise and complete the work; vol. i. of the new edition appeared in 1901, the fourth volume appearing before his death. (See Beethoven, Additional Bibliography; also Krehbiel.)
11DELABORDE, ÉLIE MIRIAM (b. Paris, Feb. 7, 1839; d. there, Dec. 9, 1913), an eminent French pianist and composer, a pupil of Alkan and Moscheles. On completing his studies he made successful tours in England, Germany and Russia. The war of 1870 drove him to London for a time with his 121 parrots and cockatoos. At the Hanover Square Rooms he gave a concert at which he played on a pedalier fitted to his pianoforte. In 1873 he was appointed professor at the Paris Conservatoire, and devoted himself to teaching with the greatest success. He wrote an overture, 'Attila'; an opéra-comique, 'La Reine dort'; 12 preludes, études and fantasias, for piano, a quintet for piano and strings, and songs. G. F.
13DE LA FERTE, P., see PAPILLON.
15DELARUE, L'ABBÉ GERVAIS (b. Caen, June 1751; d. there, 1833), fled to England in 1793, returning to France in 1798. He was a member of the London Society of Antiquaries and wrote Essais historiques sur les bardes, les jongleurs et les trouvères normands et anglo-normands, 3 vols. E. v. d. S.
17DELÂTRE, CLAUDE PETIT JAN, a composer (probably Flemish) of the mid 16th century, who was maître de chapelle at Verdun Cathedral, and later (1555) at Liège. In 1576 he was awarded a silver lyre at the St. Cecilia musical festival held at Evreux in Normandy, for one of his 'chansons' ('Ce riz plus doux'). An account of this, with some information about Delâtre's connexion with it, is given in a 16th-century manuscript which was later edited and published by MM. Bonnin & Chassant, under the title 'Puy de musique, érigé à Évreux, en l'honneur de madame sainte Cécile (Évreux, 1837).' (See Fétis and Q.-L., under Latre.)
19J. M.K.
21DELDEVEZ, ÉDOUARD MARIE ERNEST (b. Paris, May 31, 1817; d. there, Nov. 6, 1897), entered the Conservatoire in 1825, where he was pupil of Habeneck, Halévy and Berton.
23He obtained the 1st prize in 1833, the 2nd prize for fugue in 1837, and the 2nd Prix de Rome in 1838 for his cantata 'La Vendetta,' which he subsequently revised and printed (op. 16). As violinist, he played in various orchestras at the Théâtre Italien, Opéra and Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. He became 2nd conductor of that society (1860), then 1st conductor there (1872), and at the Opéra (1873) after G. Hainl, leaving it in 1877. He directed the orchestral class at the Conservatoire, 1873-85. The list of his compositions is to be found in Mes Mémoires (1890); they consist of chamber music, 3 symphonies, 'ouvertures de concert,' etc.; also dramatic works, ballets performed at the Opéra, 'Lady Henriette,' 'Eucharis,' etc. He was a learned musician and a pedagogue. He published an anthology of violinists (4 vols.) and theoretical works: Des principes de la formation des intervalles et des accords (1868); Curiosités musicales (1873); L'Art du chef d'orchestre (1878), etc.
25G. F.; rev. M. L. P.
27DELIBES, CLÉMENT PHILIBERT LÉO (b. St. Germain du Val, Sarthe, Feb. 21,1 1836; d. Paris, Jan. 16, 1891), came to Paris in 1848, and was admitted into the solfège class at the Conservatoire; at the same time singing in the choirs of the Madeleine and other churches.
29Having obtained a first prize for solfège in 1850, he studied pianoforte, organ, harmony and advanced composition under Le Couppey, Benoist, Bazin and Adolphe Adam. Through the influence of the last-named, he became accompanist at the Théâtre Lyrique in 1853, and also organist in the church of St. Pierre de Chaillot, and elsewhere, before his final appointment at St. Jean St. François, which he held from 1862-71. He devoted himself from an early period to dramatic composition, and after his first essay, 'Deux sous de charbon' (Folies Nouvelles, 1855), wrote several short comic operas for the Théâtre Lyrique—'Maître
311 Date verified by register of birth.
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