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Grove's Dictionary Of Music And Musicians Vol I A. To E., 1904
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1part of the arranger. Those additional accompaniments will always best fulfil their object in which most reverence is shown for the author's original intentions. [See articles by Professor Prout in the Monthly Musical Record for 1891, on Franz's edition of the 'Messiah.' Also Musical Times, May and June 1891.] E.P.
3A DEUX MAINS (Fr.). 'For two hands.' A term applied to music for one performer on the piano, as contradistinguished from A QUATRE MAINS, etc.
5ADLER, GUIDO, a distinguished writer on music, born Nov. 1, 1855, at Eibenschütz in Moravia, was educated at the academical Gymnasium at Vienna, and at the Conservatorium, where he was pupil of Bruckner and Dessoff. In 1874 he went to the university, and took part with Mottl and K. Wolf in the foundation of an 'Academische Wagnerverein'; he was appointed as a university teacher of musical science in 1881, and in 1882 was a representative of Austria at the international liturgical congress held at Arezzo. In 1884 he founded, in association with Chrysander and Spitta, the useful publication called Vierteljahrschrift für Musikwissenschaft, in 1885 was appointed professor of musical science at Prague, and in 1898 succeeded Hanslick in a similar professorship at Vienna. He has edited the compositions of Ferdinand III., Leopold I., and Joseph I., and since 1894 has been editor-in-chief of the series of Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Oesterreich; his capital edition of Froberger, in two vols., appeared in 1903, and various musical treatises are enumerated by Riemann, from whose lexicon the above particulars are taken.
7ADLGASSER, ANTON CAJETAN, born April 3, 1728, at Inzell in Bavaria. After being a pupil of Eberlin's, he was sent to Italy by the Archbishop of Salzburg, and recalled thence to the post of organist to the cathedral and cembalist to the court at Salzburg, where he died Dec. 21, 1777, from an apoplectic stroke while at the organ. Adlgasser was noted both as organ player and contrapuntist. His works remain mostly in MS. [A list is given in Eitner's Quellen-Lexikon.] C. F. P.
9AD LIBITUM (Lat.). At the pleasure of the performer, as regards time and expression. In the case of arrangements—'with violin or flute ad libitum'—it signifies that the solo instrument may be left out or exchanged at pleasure.
11ADLUNG, JACOB, born at Bindersleben, Erfurt, Jan. 14, 1699; a theologian, scholar, and musician. His taste for music came late; the clavier, organ, and theory, he learned from Christian Reichardt the organist, who though not a musician of the first rank was truly devoted to his art. After the death of Buttstedt in 1727 Adlung received his post as organist of the Evangelical church, were he was soon known for his masterly playing, and in 1741 became professor at the Rathsgymnasium of Erfurt. In 1736 his house and all his possessions were burnt, but the undaunted man was not discouraged. He taught both music and language, wrote largely and well on music, and even constructed instruments with his own hands; and thus made a successful resistance to adverse fortune till his death, July 5, 1762. Three of his works are of lasting value in musical literature: (1) Anleitung zur musik. Gelahrtheit, with a preface by Joh. Ernst Bach (Erfurt, 1758); a 2nd edition, issued after his death, by J. A. HILLER (Leipzig, 1783). (2) Musica mechanica Organœdi, etc. (Berlin, 1768), a treatise in two volumes on the structure, use, and maintenance of the organ and clavicymbalum. This contains additions by J. F. AGRICOLA and J. L. Albrecht, a translation by the former of a treatise on the organ by BEDOS DE CELLES, and an autobiography of Adlung. (3) Musikalisches Siebengestirn (Berlin, 1768). (See Hiller's Lebensb. ber. Musikgelehrten.) C. F. P.
13ADOLFATI, ANDREA, born in Venice 1711, date and place of death unknown; was a pupil of Galuppi, conductor of the music in the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, and in that of the Annunziata at Genoa, the latter from about 1750 till his death. His principal operas are 'L'Artaserse,' 'L'Arianna,' 'Adriano in Siria,' and 'La Gloria ed il Piacere,' the first produced in Rome in 1742, the three last in Genoa in 1750-52. Another 'La Clemenza di Tito,' dated 1753, is preserved in the Hofbibliothek, Vienna. After that date Adolfati was appointed maestro di cappella to the Princess of Modena. He left also sacred compositions, chiefly Psalms. 'Arianna' is said to contain an air in quintuple time. M. C. C.
15ADRIEN, or ANDRIEN, MARTIN JOSEPH, called ADRIEN L'AINE, born at Liége, May 26, 1767; a bass singer, taking alternate parts with Chéron at the opera in Paris from 1785 to 1804; afterwards choirmaster at the opera. In March 1822 he succeeded Laîné as professor of declamation at the École Royale de Musique, and died Nov. 19, 1824 (?) a victim to the exaggerated system of declamation then in vogue. His voice was harsh, and his method of singing bad, but he had merit as an actor. He composed the 'Hymne à la Victoire' on the evacuation of the French territory in 1795, the hymn to the martyrs for liberty, and an 'Invocation à l'Etre suprême,' 1793. His brother J. ADRIEN was born at Liége about 1768, and died about 1824; he published five collections of songs (Paris, 1790-1802), and was for a short time choirmaster at the Théâtre Feydeau. Another brother, FERDINAND, born 1770, died about 1830, was a teacher of singing in Paris, choirmaster of the opera (1798-1800) and composer of songs. M. C. C.
17A DUE (Ital., 'In two parts'), or A 2. This expression is used in two exactly opposite
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