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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1Musicale' of Paris. In 1939, after the Spanish civil war, he contributed in Barcelona to the 'Enciclopedia Espasa', the Spanish edition of Riemann's Dictionary, and the 'Diccionario Hispánico'. In 1942 he returned to Santiago, where he became engaged on musicological investigations at the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales of the University of Chile. As a composer he had orchestral and chamber-music works performed in Spain, France, Rumania and other countries. Among his compositions are 'Lamentaciones huilliches', 'Fiesta araucana' and two ballets, 'Quiray' and 'Otoñales' for orchestra; 'Albada y cantar' for string sextet; many shorter works for various combinations of instruments and voices besides pianoforte pieces and songs.
3N. F.
5La Ville de Mirmont, Jean. See Fauré (4 songs).
6LAVOIX, Henri (Marie François)1 (b. Paris, 26 Apr. 1846; d. Paris, 27 Dec. 1897).
7French writer on music. He was educated at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, where he took the degree of bachelier, while studying harmony and counterpoint with H. Cohen. His writings on musical history are as follows: 'Les Traducteurs de Shakespeare en musique' (1869), 'La Musique dans l'imagerie du moyen-âge' (1875), 'La Musique dans la nature' (1877), 'Histoire de l'instrumentation' (1878, crowned by the Institut), 'Le Chant, ses principes et son histoire' (with Th. Lemaire), 'La Musique du siècle de Saint Louis', 'Histoire de la musique', 'Histoire de la musique française' and many articles in magazines, etc. He was appointed librarian of the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1865.
9G. F., rev. M. L. P.
11LAVOLTA. See VOLTA.
12LAVOTTA, János de Izsépfalva et Kevelháza (b. Pusztasfodémes, 5 July 1764; d. Tállya, 11 Aug. 1820).
13Hungarian violinist and composer. His family belonged to the nobility and his father, a senior civil servant in the Council of the Governors-General at Pozsony (Pressburg), was himself a keen amateur of music and violinist. There are few reliable details of his life, except references in the diaries of his contemporaries, but many anecdotes of romantic colouring and doubtful authenticity have survived concerning his personality. By his tenth year he already played the violin: it is likely that he received some instruction from his father, who, aware of his son's ability for and fondness of music, entrusted him to Bonaventura Sabodi, a musician at Pozsony. He is said to have studied also with a regimental bandmaster stationed at Pozsony for a time
151 Known as Lavoix fils, to distinguish him from his father, the Conservateur of the collection of coins in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
17and finally with Joseph Zistler, a violinist in Cardinal Josef Batthyány's orchestra. On the death of his mother his father remarried, but his relations with his stepmother became so unsatisfactory that he deserted home in 1784 and enlisted in the army. His father obtained his release with much difficulty and sent him to Vienna to continue his musical studies. His progress there was rapid: in about a year he is said to have become extremely popular in the Viennese fashionable circles. He left the city early in 1786, visited Fraknó (an Esterházy estate, now Forchtenau, Austria) and arrived at Pest probably towards the end of 1786. There he began to study law, but did not neglect his violin. He gave a number of recitals, playing his own compositions, and his reputation grew quickly. To support himself he became a clerk in the Chancellery, where he remained until 1791. He then became tutor to the sons of Count Károly Zichy before he devoted himself entirely to music.
19In 1792-93 Lavotta was musical director to the Pest-Buda Hungarian Theatre. On 22 Mar. 1793 he gave a benefit concert to mark his farewell to the company. Nearly all the remainder of his life was spent in restless wanderings. He took to drink, which undermined his health and caused his death. Thus between 1797 and 1799 he lived at Miskolc (eastern Hungary). In 1802-4 he was musical director of the Kolozsvár theatre company, but apparently could not resign himself to theatrical routine. He turned up in Pest again and supported himself with violin lessons; András Fáy, writer and patron of music, studied with him there in 1805. He went from one squire's residence to another; at the house of the Ábrányis he spent a longer period. His wanderings seemed to come to an end in 1816, when he opened a music-shop and gave music lessons at Debrecen, but the progress of his illness forced him to give up any settled existence, and from 1817 he was again on his rounds, though he spent most of his time in bed. He was seriously ill when he visited a close friend of his at Tállya, a doctor under whose care he seemed to make satisfactory progress. One day when he went to fetch his prescription he succumbed to a sudden heart attack in the chemist's shop.
21The romantic episodes of Lavotta's life inspired two stage works: Jenő Hubay's opera 'Lavotta szerelme' ('Lavotta's Love') and an operetta with the same title, by Izsó Barna, first performed at the Budapest Popular Opera on 13 Apr. 1917. As one of the three violinist-composers known as the "virtuoso triumvirate", Lavotta was an outstanding exponent of verbunkos music, which flourished particularly from the last decades of the 18th to the first of the 19th century.2 Although Bihari's instinct-
232 See VERBUNKOS.
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