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1PAGLIACCI, opera in 2 acts (said to be founded on an actual incident), words and music by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. Produced Teatro del Verme, Milan, May 21, 1892; Covent Garden, May 19, 1893; New York, Grand Opera House, June 15, 1893; in English, Rouseby Opera Co., Leicester, 1893. Known in Germany as 'Bajazzi,' and in France as 'Paillasse.'
3PAGLIARDI, GIOVANNI MARIA (b. Florence, mid-17th cent.), maestro di cappella to the Duke of Tuscany, 2nd half of 17th cent.; to the church of Gesù di Genova, Rome, c. 1663; to S. Apollinare, Rome, 1665. He composed operas, melodramas, motets, sacred songs, vocal duets, etc. (Q.-L.).
5PAHISSA, JAIME (b. Barcelona, Oct. 7, 1880), Spanish composer, a pupil of MORERA, who has written operas, symphonic works and numerous pieces for PF. His opera 'La presó de Lleida' (1906), founded on a Catalan ballad, brought him fame. He followed it with 'Canigó' (1910), also on a ballad subject, 'Gala Placidia' (1913), 'La Morisca' (1919) and 'Marianela' (1922).
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9PAINE, JOHN KNOWLES (b. Portland, Maine, U.S.A., Jan. 9, 1839; d. Cambridge, Mass., Apr. 25, 1906), American organist and composer, and for twenty years professor of music at Harvard University, received his earliest musical instruction from Hermann Kretschmar in the city of his birth.
11In 1858 he went to Berlin, where for three years he studied in the Hochschule für Musik under Haupt, Wieprecht and Teschner. He had chosen the organ to be his solo instrument, and became so proficient that he gave organ concerts in several German cities before returning to his native land in 1861. Going back to the United States he gave organ concerts and taught. There was at the time no chair of music in any American university (see DEGREES IN MUSIC: AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES). On Mar. 29, 1862, Paine was appointed instructor in music at Harvard University to serve for the remainder of the year, and on June 2, 1873, assistant professor of music to serve from Sept. 1 of that year. After two years, during which time he laboured zealously to win recognition for his art in scholastic circles by giving lessons in harmony and counterpoint (music having been raised to the dignity of an elective study at Harvard in 1870-71), he was appointed full professor (Aug. 30, 1875), being the first incumbent of a chair of music in an American university. From 1862-82 he also served as college organist. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Harvard in 1869, and that of D.Mus. from Yale in 1890. He resigned his professorship in May 1905, to take effect the following September, and died after a very brief illness. A minute on his life and services which appeared in the Harvard University Gazette, on June 1, 1906, mentioned his services in the following words:
13'From the beginning of his career as a teacher, he regarded it as a sacred duty to justify the recognition of music as an academic study, and to familiarise the College public with the best music. For years it was his practice to supplement his regular instruction by a series of pianoforte recitals of the works of the great masters, prefaceing each work with a few well-chosen remarks about the personality of the composer and the significance of his music. These recitals, given in the evening in the lecture-room of Boylston Hall, were always well attended by students, to many of whom they furnished the first opportunity to hear classical music.'
15Paine was neither a rapid nor a voluminous composer, and his significant works are all in the larger forms. A Mass in D was performed by the Singakademie in Berlin under his direction in Feb. 1867. In 1873 he attracted attention by producing, first in Portland and then in Boston (Handel and Haydn Society), an oratorio entitled 'St Peter.' A symphony in C minor followed, which Theodore THOMAS (q.v.) took into his repertory in 1876 as he did later another symphony in A entitled 'Spring,' op. 23 (1880), and a symphonic poem entitled 'An Island Fantasy' (1882). It was also due to the interest of Thomas that Paine composed a cantata entitled 'A Song of Promise' for the Cincinnati Festival of 1888. During the first two decades of his creative career Paine was an uncompromising exemplar of conservatism in musical composition, but liberal notions found expressions in the music to 'Oedipus Tyrannus,' especially the truly noble introduction written for a performance of Sophocles's tragedy under the auspices of Harvard University's Department of the Classics in May 1881. After the first performances at the Sanders Theatre the tragedy was given in English with Paine's music at public theatres in Boston and New York. For the Harvard Classical Club's performance of the 'Birds' of Aristophanes in 1901, Paine also wrote incidental music. For the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876 he made a setting of a hymn written by the poet Whittier, for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 a 'Columbus March and Hymn,' and for the Exposition held in St. Louis in 1904 to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase a 'Hymn of the West,' the words by Edmund Clarence Stedman. Of his other works in the larger forms mention may be made of an overture, 'As You Like It'; a symphonic poem 'The Tempest'; three cantatas, 'Phoebus Arise' (1882), 'The Realm of Fancy,' words by Keats (1882), and 'The Nativity,' words by Milton, composed for the Festival of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston in 1883. H. E. K.
17PAISIBLE (b. Paris, 1745; d. St. Petersburg, 1781), violinist, was a pupil of Gaviniès, through whose influence he became a member of the orchestra of the Concert Spirituel, and one of the musicians attached to the household of the Duchesse de Bourbon Conti. Imbued with an
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