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He Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1939
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1Prussian State Library; 1906, dir. of Deutsche Musiksammlung; 1904, critic, "National-Zeitung"; a prolific and scholarly writer on a great number of musical subjects; ed. letters of Wagner and Brahms, etc.
2Altnikol (ält'-nē-kōl), Jn. Chp., d. Naumberg, 1759; son-in-law and pupil of J. S. Bach; organist and composer.
3Altschuler (ält'-shōōl-ēr), Modeste, conductor; b. Mohilev, Russia, Feb. 15, 1873; studied Moscow Cons., 'cello, orch., with Arensky, Safonoff, Taneieff; European tour with Moscow Trio; came to America as 'cellist and teacher, 1900; founded Russian Symph. Orch., New York, 1903; cond. many first perf. of Russian works with this group, now disbanded. Res. Los Angeles.
4Alvarez (äl-vā'-rēth), (1) Fermin Maria, b. Saragossa; d. Barcelona, 1898; c. popular songs, etc. (2) (äl-vā'-rēz), stage name of Albert Raymond Gourron; Bordeaux, 1861—Nice, Feb. 1, 1933; tenor; pupil of A. de Martini; début at Ghent, later at Paris Opéra as leading tenor for many years; 1898 Met. Op. House, New York.
5Alvary (äl-vā'-rē), Max (rightly Achenbach), Düsseldorf, 1856—Datenberg, Thuringia, Nov. 8, 1898; eminent Wagnerian tenor; début at Weimar.
6Alvsleben, Melitta. Vide OTTO-ALVSLEBEN.
7Amadé (äm-ä-dā), (1) Ladislaw, Baron von, Kaschau, Hungary. 1703—Felbar, 1764; poet and composer. (2) Thaddäus, Graf von Pressburg, 1782—Vienna, 1845; pianist.
8Amadei (äm-ä-dā'-ē), R., Loreto, Italy, Nov. 29, 1840—Dec. 13, 1913; succeeded his father as organist and conductor.
9Amati (ä-mä'-tē), a family of famous violin-makers at Cremona, Italy. (1) Andrea, 1530 (?)—1611 (?), evolved the violin from the viol; his younger bro., (2) Niccolò, made fine bass-viols 1568–86. A.'s 2 sons, (3) Antonio, 1555—1638, and (4) Geronimo, d. 1630, produced violins of the same style. The most famous was Geronimo's son, (5) Niccolò, Sept. 3, 1596—Aug. 12, 1684, who built the "Grand Amatis," large violins of powerful tone; his label is "Nicolaus Amati Cremonens. Hieronimi filius Antonii nepos. Fecit anno 16—"; he trained Andrea Guarneri and Antonio Stradivari. (6) His son Giralomo, the last of the family, was inferior. (7) Giuseppe A., b. 17th cent., Bologna, a violin-maker, may have been of the same family. (8) V. (called Amatus), Cimmina, Sicily. 1629—Palermo, 1670, conductor and composer. (9) Antonio and (10) Angelo, brothers, and organ-builders at Pavia, ca. 1830.
10Amato (ä-mä'-to), Pasquale, b. Naples, March 21, 1878; barytone; début Naples, 1900; sang at Milan, then at Trieste, etc.; 1909, Manhattan Opera; from 1911 Met. Op., singing leading rôles in variety of operas for a decade; heard widely in concerts and opera in U. S. and Europe; res. in Louisiana, opera dir. at University.
11Ambrogetti (äm-brō-jēt'-tē), G., sang 1807—1838, basso-buffo.
12Ambros (äm'-brōs), Aug. W., Mauth, near Prague, Nov. 17, 1816—Vienna, June 28, 1876, eminent historian and critic.
13Ambrose (Ambro'sius), Trèves A. D. 333—Milan April 4, 397; Bishop of Milan, regulated (384) and developed Western church-music by introducing ritual as practised in the Eastern Church; the adoption of the four authentic church-modes was probably due to him; he has been called "The Father of Christian Hymnology," though his authorship of the so-called Ambrosian Hymn is discredited further than the translation of the text into the "Te Deum"; it is improbable that he was acquainted with the use of letters for notation.
14Am(m)erbach (äm'-ēr-bākh), Elias Nikolaus, ca. 1530—Leipzig, 1597; organist, theorist and composer.
15Amfitheātrov, Daniele, b. Russia, 1901; assoc. cond. Minneapolis Symph. 1937.
16Amiot (äm-yō), Father, b. Toulon, 1718; Jesuit missionary and writer on Chinese music.
17Am(m)on (äm-mōn), (1) Blasius, b. in the Tyrol—d. Vienna, June, 1590, court-sopranist, later Franciscan friar, composer. (2) Jn. Ands., Bamberg, 1763—Ottingen, 1825; virtuoso on the Waldhorn.
18Am'ner, (1) John, b. late 16th cent.—d. 1641; organist. (2) His son Ralph, bass at Windsor, 1623—1663.
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