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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.4, Ed.3, 1908
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1Craig-y-Nos Castle. The remains were temporarily deposited in London at the Kensal Green (R.C.) cemetery, and afterwards removed to a grave in the principal avenue at Père Lachaise, Paris.
3The career of Adelina Patti as a public singer was the longest on record: reckoned from her first appearance in 1850 at New York, as a child of seven, to her farewell in London, it extended over a period of fifty-six years. It was, in many other respects as well, a career without parallel; for she stood alone among the operatic prime donne of her time, the sole inheritor of the title 'diva' which descended to her from Giulia Grisi, and in the general opinion the last of the illustrious line of great coloratura sopranos that included Catalani and Pasta. At the same time, such was her genius, such the extraordinary nature of her vocal gifts, apart from the flexibility and the haunting beauty of her organ, that among the forty-two operas in which she sang there were comprised works of every calibre and every style and, with but few exceptions, she triumphed in them all. A complete list of these forty-two operas is given below. From her girlhood in America to the time when she created the rôle of Aida at Covent Garden (1876) she had been accustomed to sing heavy as well as light parts; but it was during the years that followed the latter event that her surprising dramatic development occurred; while the irresistible fascination of her singing remained unimpaired and incomparable to the end.
5MOZART.—'Don Giovanni.'
6ROSSINI.—'Il Barbiere di Siviglia,' 'Mose in Egitto,' 'La gazza ladra,' 'Otello,' 'Semiramide.'
7BELLINI.—'La Sonnambula,' 'I Puritani.'
8DONIZETTI.—'Lucia di Lammermoor,' 'Linda di Chamouni,' 'Don Pasquale,' 'L' elisir d'amore,' 'La figlia del reggimento.'
9VERDI.—'Il Trovatore,' 'Giovanna d' Arco,' 'La Traviata,' 'Luisa Miller,' 'Ernani,' 'Rigoletto,' 'Aida.'
10MEYERBEER.—'Dinorah,' 'Les Huguenots,' 'L'Étoile du nord,' 'L'Africaine.'
11FLOTOW.—'Martha.'
12GOUNOD.—'Faust,' 'Mireille,' 'Roméo et Juliette.'
13AUBER.—'Les Diamans de la couronne,' 'Fra Diavolo.'
14THOMAS.—'Hamlet.'
15BIZET.—'Carmen.'
16DELIBES.—'Lakmé.'
17GOMEZ.—'Il Guarany.'
18D'IVRY.—'Les Amants de Vérone.'
19CAMPANA.—'Esmeralda.'
20LENPEVRE.—'Velleda.'
21RICCI.—'Crispino e la Comare.'
22PONIATOWSKI.—'Gelmina.'
23COHEN.—'Estella' ('Les Bluets').
24PIZZI.—'Gabriella.'
25POLLONNAIS.—'Dolores.'
27BIBL.—HERMAN KLEIN, The Reign of Patti, authorised biography.
29H. K.
31(2) CARLOTTA (b. Florence, 1840; d. Paris, June 27, 1889), elder sister of Adelina, was educated as a pianist under Herz, but abandoned the piano in favour of singing. She made her début in 1861 at New York as a concert-singer, and afterwards fulfilled an engagement there in Italian opera, and was successful; but soon after abandoned the stage on account of her lameness. She made her début in England, Apr. 16, 1863, at a concert at Covent Garden Theatre, attracted attention on account of her remarkable facility of execution and a compass extending to f'''. She obtained a position here in concerts as an accomplished soprano leggiero, and was for several seasons a great attraction at promenade and other concerts. In 1872 she sang at the Philharmonic Society Mozart's florid aria, 'Nò, che sei non capace,' with great success. She made several tours in the provinces, on the Continent, and in North and South America. She married, Sept. 3, 1879, Ernst de Munck, the Belgian violoncellist. She finally settled in Paris as a teacher, and lived there till her death.
33(3) CARLO, their brother (b. Madrid, 1842; d. St. Louis, U.S.A., Mar. 17, 1873), was taken to America, like his sisters, when a child, studied the violin, and at the age of 20 became leader at the New Orleans Opera-House, afterwards at New York and the Wakefield Opera-House, St. Louis, Missouri.
35A. C.
37PATRICK, NATHANIEL (d. Worcester, Mar. 1594/95), organist and composer. It seems likely that he was the son of Dr. Gyles Patricker, who for many years was the cathedral physician and lived in the parish of St. Michael's, Worcester, where Nathaniel was buried. Nathaniel was Master of the Choristers at Worcester Cathedral from about 1590 until his death. He married, on Sept. 23, 1593, Alice (or Eleanor) Hassard. Their only child died as an infant. Patricker's will was proved at Worcester on May 25, 1595; it is printed in full, together with an interesting inventory of his goods, in Sir Ivor Atkins's The Early Occupants of the office of Organist … of the Cathedral Church of … Worcester. Patricker's widow married Thomas Tomkins (q.v.), who succeeded him as organist of Worcester Cathedral.
39Text of his Service in G is to be found among the early MS. partbooks in Worcester, Durham, Ely and elsewhere. It was printed in Arnold's Cathedral Music, but wrongly ascribed there to Richard Patricker, a lay-clerk at Westminster Abbey, c. 1616-26. It has more recently been printed under the editorship of J. E. West.
41In 1597 licence was granted at the Stationers' Hall to print a work entitled:
43'Songes of Sundrye Natures whereof some ar Divine, some are Madrigalles and the rest Psalmes and Hymnes in Latin composed for 5 and 6. voyces and one for 8. voyces by Nathanaell Patricker sometyme Master of the children of the Cathedrall Churche c. Worcester and organist of the same.'
45Patricker died two years before this, and it is pretty certain that the book was never printed. Three madrigals by this composer are in B.M. Add. MSS. 17,786-91, and another fragment is in B.M. Add. MSS. 18,936-39.
47E. H. F.
49PAUER, (1) ERNST (b. Vienna, Dec. 21, 1826: d. May 9, 1905), pianist and eminent teacher. His father was first minister of the Lutheran church, director of the theological seminary in Vienna, and superintendent-general of the Lutheran churches of the Austrian Empire; his mother was a Streicher, of the great pianoforte-making family. He
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