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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.1 Ed.3, 1904
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124, 1846; d. thore, Dec. 19, 1914) librettist to Saint-Saëns; also a musical writer; wrote the librettos of 'Phryné,' 'L'Ancêtre,' 'La Gloire.'
2– ANGELI, ANDREA D' (b. Padua, Nov. 9, 1868), studied at the local conservatoire and university and took his Ph.D. degree by an essay on Greek music. Apart from his activity as a teacher of Italian literature at the college at Calegari, he is a writer on musical subjects, and has composed a successful opera, 'L'Innocente,' masses, a Stabat Mater, chamber music, etc.
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4ANGIOLINI, GASPARO (b. Milan, c. 1740 ?), a famous choreograph who not only invented the plots of his ballet-dramas, but also composed the music for them, which was of considerable merit. He was a highly cultured artist as is shown by his Lettere al signor Noverre sugli pantomimi and Riflessioni sopra l'uso de programmi ne' balli pantomimi, as well as by his intimate friendly relations with Rousseau, Voltaire and Metastasio. He was ballet-master at Vienna and St. Petersburg (1760), whence he returned to Milan and Rome, for which towns he wrote and composed a number of ballets.
5ANGLEBERT, JEAN HENRI D' (b. 1635), was a pupil of Chambonnières. He became organist to the Duke of Orleans in 1661, and in 1664, chamber musician to Louis XIV. as harpsichordist and spinet-player. His 'Pièces de clavessin avec la manière de les jouer; diverses chaconnes, ouvertures et autres airs de M. de Lully, mis sur cet instrument . . .' (1689), in which a tendency to enlarge the form of the suite is noticeable, are a testimony to the importance of dramatic music in contemporary taste. Besides original compositions, there are in this book overtures, favourite dances, etc., taken out of Lully's operas, popular melodies, 'vaudevilles,' arranged for the harpsichord; also organ fugues. One of the pieces, 'Les Folies d'Espagne,' with 22 variations, was treated afterwards by Corelli (op. 5). The book is also valuable as containing a good table of the agréments used at the time. It is reprinted in vol. xix. of the 'Trésor des pianistes.'
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7A set of 5 fugues on variants of a common subject has been reprinted by Guilmant in No. 25 of his 'École classique de l'orgue.' The book contains also a 'Quatuor sur la Kyrie à trois sujets tirés du plainchant,' the chief interest of which lies in the fact that each of the 4 parts is played on a separate keyboard (3 manuals and pedals), thus showing that the device known as 'thumbing' was practised at a very early date in France, though it appears to have been unknown in any contemporary school of organ music.
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9BIBL.—A. PIERO, Les Clavecinistes, 1924; VICTOR CAPOUL; FÉLIX.
10ANGLIA, (1) GERVASIIUS DE (c. 1450), an English musician. Four songs of his are in Codex 37 of the Liceo, Bologna; a fifth, in the same Codex, 'Patrem omnipotentem' a 3 v., is signed 'Anglicanum patrem,' but it is doubtful whether this refers to the same person. One song of his is in Codex 92 of the Trient Cathedral Archives (now in the Hofburg, Vienna ?). In the Trient Codices there are also some songs signed 'Anglicus' which Haberl (Jahrb. 1897, 25) tries to identify with Lionel (Power). Eitner, however, thinks it more likely that it refers to Gervasius as Power is never designated as Anglicus. (2) ROBERT, a singer in the Papal Chapel, 1492.
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12ANGLO-FRENCH MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, LTD., THE (Registered Office, 95 Wimpole St., W.1), was founded in 1916 for the purpose of supplying the British music teacher with educational works, both classical and modern, to replace those German publications the supply of which had been cut off by the war (1914). In pursuance of this object it has published a large number of carefully selected and well-edited original works by British composers, which are eminently adapted to the requirements of modern educational methods. Control of this company was acquired by the Oxford University Press in 1925.
13ANGRISANI, CARLO (b. Reggio, c. 1760), a bass singer. After singing at several theatres in Italy, he appeared at Vienna, where, in 1798 and 1799, he published two collections of 'Notturni' for 3 voices. In 1817 he sang at the King's Theatre, London, with Fodor, Pasta, Camporese, Begrez, Naldi and Ambrogetti.
14J. M.
15ANIMATO, or CON ANIMA (Ital.), 'with spirit,' a direction for performance seldom found in the works of the older masters, who usually employed 'Con spirito' or 'Spiritoso.' The use of the expression does not necessarily imply a quickening of the time, though modern composers frequently use it in that sense.
16ANIMUCCIA, the name of two Italian church composers reputed to have been brothers. Pitoni doubted the relationship, but the contemporary evidence of Poccianti, who speaks of Paolo as 'Animuccia, laudatissimi Joannis frater,' may be accepted.
17(1) GIOVANNI (b. Florence, c. 1500; d. Rome, Mar. 1571) was the more eminent of the two. He studied music under Claude Goudimel, and in 1555 was made maestro at the Vatican, retaining that post until his death. The date of his death has been questioned, but it is proved by two entries in the Vatican Archives, one of his death in Mar. 1571, and the other of the election of Palestrina in his place in April following. More than one passage in the dedications of his published pieces shows that he was touched by the same religious spirit of responsibility which filled the soul of Palestrina; and the friendship of Saint Filippo Neri,
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