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Musical biographies / 2 The American history and encyclopedia of music / W.L. Hubbard, ed, 1908
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1Moscheles
2Egypt. His most important composition for that year was the overture, Joan of Arc. During the winter of 1836 and 1837 Moscheles gave three piano concerts, which were then a novelty in London, and after an immense amount of labor brought out and himself conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with brilliant success at a Philharmonic Society concert. His compositions for that year were two studies written during his vacation. Moscheles inaugurated the season of 1838 by a series of historical concerts, and during the winter of 1838 to 1839 held chamber concerts every Saturday at his own home. During this winter he wrote the study in A and Liebesfrühling and worked on an edition of Beethoven's work. In 1839 he appeared with Ferdinand David at the second concert of the Philharmonic Society, playing his Pastoral Concerto on this occasion. The following year he was appointed Court pianist to Prince Albert. During this year he prepared for publication his Recollections of Beethoven, and brought out Méthode des Méthodes, written with Fétis. In 1841 he again conducted the Ninth Symphony at a Philharmonic concert. During his holidays at Boulogne he wrote the serenade and a tarentella and arranged Beethoven's Septet as a piano duet.
4The year 1846 was an important one for Moscheles and marked a turning point in his career. In January he accepted the position of head of the department for playing and composition at the Leipsic Conservatory, which enabled him to work at the side of his beloved Felix Mendelssohn. His four matinées for Classical Piano Music of that year were very successful, and after a brilliant farewell concert he left for Germany. After stopping at Frankfort, where he first met Jenny Lind, he arrived in Leipsic and immediately took up his duties at the Conservatory and began that system of careful teaching and that friendly service to his pupils which made him greatly beloved by them. His friendship with Mendelssohn and his family was a source of great pleasure to both musicians, and on Mendelssohn's death a year later he grieved not only for a great musician cut off from his work but also for a friend. During a visit to England in 1861 he played at the Philharmonic concert, and on another visit in 1866 he composed his Familienleben while at the seaside surrounded by children and grandchildren. Thus working at the Conservatory and spending vacations in travel to various countries he passed a long and useful life. His death occurred at Leipsic, March 10, 1870. He was a thorough disciple of classic music. As a piano-player he ranked with Hummel. He wrote a great number of compositions of rare excellence. Some of the more important are Concerto Pathétique, Hommage à Handel for two pianos, Concerto in G minor, Alexander Variations, Twenty-four Studies, Concerto Pastoral, Characteristic Studies, the grand fantasia, Souvenirs of Ireland, grand trio for piano, violin and cello, Grand Sonate Symphonique and Duo Concertant on the Gypsy March from Preciosa, written with Mendelssohn. With Fétis he wrote his Méthode des Méthodes for piano.
6Mosel (mō'-zēl), Ignaz Franz. 1772-1844.
7Composer and conductor; a native of Vienna. A pupil of Joseph Fischer from 1812 to 1816, he conducted the first festivals of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreude for which services he was ennobled and given the title of Hofrath. From 1820 to 1829 he held the position of conductor and vice-director of the two Court theatres and from 1829 until his death he was the chief custodian of the Imperial Library. For Paradies, the blind pianist, he arranged Haydn's Creation and Così fan tutti for two pianos, and he also arranged the Creation, Cherubini's Deux journées and Médée for string quartet besides translating the text and putting additional instrumentation to some of Haydn's oratorios for the use of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreude. Among his own compositions are the opera, Cyrus und Astyages; the comic operas Die Feuerprobe and Der Mann von vierzig jahren; the cantata, Hermes und Flora; overtures, entr'actes; dances and songs. Of his writings on musical subjects there are Über das Leben und die Werke des Antonio Salieri; Versuch einer Ästhetik des dramatischen Tonsatzs; Über die Original partitur des Requiems von W. A. Mozart; Die Tonkunst in Wien während der letzten fünf Decennien, and Geschichte der Hofbibliothek.
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