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He Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1939
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1Aylward (al'-wär'd), Th., ca. 1730—1801; teacher and composer.
2Ayrton (är'-tūn), (1) Edm., Ripon, Yorks, 1734—Westminster, 1808; composer. (2) W., London, 1777—1858; son of above; writer and editor.
3Azzopardi (äd-zō-pär'-dē), Francesco, conductor and theorist at Malta, 1786.
4Azevedo (äth-ä-vā'-dhō), Alexis Jacob, Bordeaux, 1813—Paris, 1875; writer.
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7Babbi (bäb'-bē), Christoph (or Cristoforo), Cesena, 1748—Dresden, 1814; violinist and composer.
8Babbini (bä-bē'-nē), Mat., Bologna, 1754—1816; tenor, début, 1780.
9Ba'bell, Wm., ca. 1690—Canonbury, England, 1723; organist, teacher and composer; son of a bassoon-player.
10Baccusi (bak-koo'-sē), Ippolito, monk; composer and cathedral cond., Verona, 1590.
11Bac'fark (or Bacfarre), Valentin (rightly Graew (grāv), Kronstadt, 1507—Padua, 1576; lutenist and writer.
12Bach (bākh), the name of a Thuringian family prominent for two centuries in music and furnishing so many organists, Kapellmeisters and cantors that town musicians were called "the Bachs," after them. Outstanding were: (1) Bach, Jn. Sebastian, Eisenach, March 21, 1685—Leipzig, July 28, 1750; youngest son of Jn. Ambrosius B. and Elizabeth (née Lammerhit), of Erfurt; early left an orphan; both parents died when he was 10, his father having begun teaching him the violin. He went to the home of his brother Jn. Christoph, who taught him the clavichord, but forbade him inspection of a MS. vol. of works by Frohberger, Buxtehude, etc., obtaining it secretly B. copied it by moonlight for 6 months, though near-sighted, with results fatal to his eyes in later life. This desire to study other men's work characterised his whole career. At 15 his fine soprano voice secured him free tuition at St. Michael's Ch. in Lüneberg (he having already attended the Ohrdruff Lyceum). He went on foot on holidays to Hamburg to hear the great Dutch organist Reinken, and at Celle he heard the French instr. music used in the Royal Chapel. He studied also the work of Böhm, organist at Lüneberg, and practised violin, clavichord and org. often all night; 1703, in the Weimar ct.-orch.; 1704, organist at Arnstadt; 1705, walked 50 miles to Lübeck to hear Buxtehude, and stayed till a peremptory recall from the Church at Arnstadt; 1707, organist at Mühlhausen. On Oct. 17, he m. Maria Barbara Bach, his cousin, who bore him 7 children, of whom 4 died, leaving a daughter, Wm.-Friedemann, and K. P. E. (See below.) 1708, he played before the Duke at Weimar, and was made ct.-organist; 1714 Konzertmeister. In his vacations he made clavichord and org. tours. 1714, he furnished the organ-music for a service conducted in the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, and produced a cantata. Dresden, 1717, he challenged Marchand, a French organist of high reputation, who was afraid to compete. 1717 Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold of Anhalt, at Köthen, and composed much orch.- and chamber-music. In 1719 he revisited Halle, to meet Handel, but he had just gone to England. 1720, his wife died. He applied for the organ of the Jacobskirche, Hamburg. B. was now famous, but a young rival offered to pay 4,000 marks for the place and got it. In 1721 he m. Anna Magdalene Wülken, daughter of the ct.-trumpeter at Weissenfels. She bore him 13 children, 9 of them sons, of whom only 2 survived him: Jn., Christoph, Fr., and Jn. Christian. His second wife had a fine voice and musical taste, and wrote out the parts of many of his cantatas; for her he prepared 2 books of music. In May, 1723, cantor at the Thomasschule, Leipzig, vice Jn. Kuhnau; also organist and dir. of mus. at the Thomaskirche and the Nicolaikirche, continuing as "Kapellmeister vom Haus aus." to Prince Leopold. He was made, 1736, hon. cond. to the Duke of Weissenfels, and court-composer to the King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony. He kept his place at Leipzig for twenty-seven years, and there wrote most of his sacred music. He often visited Dresden, where he could hear the Italian opera, cond. by Hasse. Frederick the Great having asked to hear him, on May 7, 1747, with his son Wilhelm Friedemann,
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