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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.4, Ed.3, 1908
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1Saint-Saëns's 'Fantasia havanaise,' both violin (Thibaud) and orchestra; Falla's 'El amor brujo' suite; Borodin's symphony in B minor; Rimsky-Korsakov's 'La Grande Pâque russe' overture; Roussel's 'Le Festin de l'araignée'; Vuillemin's 'En Kernéo'; D'Indy's 'Sinfonie sur un chant montagnard'; Mozart's concerto in C minor (K. 491) (pianoforte, R. Viñes); Brahms's 'Tragic' overture; Beethoven's violin concerto (Erica Morini); C. von Franckenstein's 'Rhapsody for Orchestra'; Delius's 'Eventyr'; Bartók's dance suite; Mendelssohn's 'Ruy Blas' overture; Schumann's PF. concerto (Cortot); Mozart's symphony in G minor; Delius's 'Brigg Fair'; Franck's symphonic variations (Cortot); Chabrier's rhapsody 'España.' 1926-27. This season including the centenary of Beethoven's death, the Society secured the co-operation of the ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY (q.v.) for a performance of the 'Missa Solennis' in D under Allen. This, the sixth concert of the season, was held (Mar. 24, 1927) at the Albert Hall. The others were at Queen's Hall as usual. Weber's 'Oberon' overture marked the centenary of that composer's death. Sibelius's 'En Saga'; Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony'; Falla's 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' (pianoforte, A. Rubinstein); Ravel's 'Rapsodie espagnole'; Schumann's symphony in B flat; Prokofiev's 'Love for three Oranges'; Respighi's 'The Fountains of Rome'; Franck's 'Psyche'; Berlioz's 'Sinfonie fantastique'; Bax's 'In the Fairy Hills'; Brahms's symphony in D. Myra Hess, Pablo Casals, and Albert Sammons were engaged to play concertos and Elisabeth Schumann to sing.
3For further details of the Society's transactions, including copies of seven letters from Mendelssohn to Sterndale Bennett, the reader is referred to The Philharmonic Society of London from its foundation 1813 to its Fiftieth Year, 1862, by George Hogarth (8vo, London, 1862), and History of the Philharmonic Society of London, 1813-1912, by Myles Birket Foster (London, 1912). The Society itself has published the Documents, Letters, etc., relating to the bust of Beethoven presented to the Society by Frau Fanny Linzbauer, translated and arranged by Doyne C. Bell (4to, London, 1871); and, in the Programme book of Feb. 5, 1880, five hitherto unprinted letters from Mendelssohn to the Society. (See also LIBRARIES.)
5N. C. G., incorporating material by S. L.
6PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, see NEW YORK.
7PHILIBERT. See JAMBE DE FER.
8PHILIDOR, a numerous family of French musicians, whose proper family name was Danican. The name by which they are known was (according to B. de La Borde in his Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne) bestowed by Louis XIII. on Michel Danican, a native of Dauphiné, who died in Paris about 1659, as one of the King's musicians in the Grande Écurie, which he had entered in 1651. He played the oboe, the cromorne,1 and tromba marina, and his skill on the first-named instrument was such as to procure him the royal compliment above referred to, Filidori having been an eminent oboist of Siena. Michel did not bear the sobriquet as a surname. He left no issue, so that the actual founder of the family was (1) Jean, probably his brother, from whom all the rest were descended. Jean had three sons, (2) André 'l'aîné,' (3) Jacques 'cadet,' and (4) Alexandre. The two elder sons of Jean each became the father of four musical sons; by his first marriage with Marguerite Mouginot, André 'l'aîné' had sixteen children, the musicians being (5) Anne, (6) Michel, and (7) François; and by his second, with Elizabeth Le Roy, he had five more children, of whom one was the most celebrated of the family, (8) François André.
10The four musical sons of Jacques, who by his wife, Elizabeth Hanique, had twelve children, were (9) Pierre, (10) Jacques, (11) François and (12) Nicolas. All these are noticed below in accordance with this numbering.
12(1) Jean (b. circa 1620; d. Paris, Sept. 8, 1679) became in 1659 fifer in the Grande Écurie, and at his death was first player of the cromorne and marine trumpet, as well as an oboist and drummer. He is said to have composed dance-music, preserved in the 25th volume of the collection due to his son André.
14(2) André ('Philidor l'aîné') (b. circa 1647 a; d. Dreux, Aug. 11, 1730), succeeded his uncle Michel as fifth player of the same instruments in the Grande Écurie. Supposing him to have been twelve at that time, he would have been born about 1647. He married young, and the exertions necessary for the support of his numerous family were no hardship to one of his active and laborious disposition. He was a member of the Grande Écurie, the Chambre and the Chapelle, of Louis XIV.; played the bassoon, cromorne (his two best instruments), oboe, marine trumpet and even the drum when required; and after competing, at the King's request, with Lully in writing bugle-calls, fanfares and military marches,3 composed divertissements for the court. Of these were produced, in presence of the King or the Dauphin, a comic divertissement, 'Le Canal de Versailles' (July 16, 1687), 'Le Mariage de la Couture avec la grosse Cathos' (1688), and 'La Princesse de Crète,' an opéra-ballet, the autograph of which was in his valuable collection of unpublished music. To these three works should be added 'La Masquerade du vaisseau marchand,' produced at Marly before Louis XIV., Thursday, Feb. 18, 1700, and hitherto unnoticed. The splendid collection referred to included all the dance-tunes in favour at court from the reign of Henry III. to the end of the 17th century; all the divertissements and operas of Lully and a few other composers; a selection of old airs, bugle-calls, military marches, and fanfares for the court hunting-parties; and finally all the sacred music in use at the Chapelle. André formed
161 Or Krummhorn.
172 The date 1662 has also been given.
183 Ch. Ballard published in 1685 a first book of 'Pièces de trompettes et timbales à 2, 3 et 4 parties.' This curious collection is not mentioned in any of the biographies, although the catalogue in Thoinan's study on the Philidors contains the 'Suite de danses' (1699) and the 'Pièces à deux basses de viole, basse de violon et basson' (1700).
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