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STOKES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS VOLUME II, 1908
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1of 1864 from the "Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale."
3Moritz (Landgraf of Hesse-Cassel) published a Lutheran hymnal, 1601, containing 24 tunes of his own composition; composed Latin psalms and motets; patronized Heinrich SCHUTZ; was forced to retire after embracing the Calvinistic creed. B. May 25, 1572; d. Mar. 14, 1632.
5Morlacchi (Francesco) composed a coronation cantata for Napoleon, Milan, 1808, while still a student, many highly successful operas including "Le Danaide," 1810, Rome; "Il Barbier de Seviglia," 1814; ten grand masses, a requiem for the King of Saxony, 1827, the Tuba Mirum, of which he professed to have been inspired by Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment"; was chapelmaster at Dresden; received the Golden Spur and the title of Count Palatine from Pope Pius VII in reward for the dedication of a Passion; and in short was a very successful musician of his time, though all his works are now forgotten; pupil of Zingarelli and of Padre Mattei. B. June 14, 1784, Perugia; d. Oct. 28, 1841, Innsbruck. See biography by Count Rossi-Scotti.
7Morley (Thomas) composed "It was a Lover and His Lass" for "As You Like It," the only original setting of a Shakespeare song of undoubted authenticity now extant; many madrigals, of which two appeared in "The Triumphes of Oriana," 1601; canzonets, ballets; compiled "The Whole Booke of Psalmes," services, a Burial Service; wrote "A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke," 1597, the only important work in English on modal music; played organ St. Paul's Cathedral; sang in Eng. Chapel Royal from 1592. Morley was a pupil of William Byrd, took the degree Mus. Bac. at Oxford, 1588, obtained a 21 years' monopoly of song book publications, 1598; and was the most popular and most fortunate of Elizabethan composers. B. 1557; d. about 1603.
9Morley (William) composed a double chant in D minor; sang Eng. Chapel Royal. Graduated Mus. Bac., Oxford, 1713; d. Oct. 29, 1731.
11Mormorando or Mormorosa. It. murmuring, whispering.
13Mornington, Earl of (Garrett C. W.), composed a chant in E flat, other church music, glees, madrigals, catches; founded Academy of Music, Dublin, 1757; taught music Dublin University, which gave him degree Mus. Dr.; was the father of Arthur, Duke of Wellington. B. Dangan, Ireland July 19, 1735; d. May 22, 1781.
15Morris Dance was highly popular at English rustic festivals, and is still in vogue in remote parts of England, the music being furnished by pipe and tabor. It was originally a costume dance, the characters being often those familiar from the Robin Hood ballads. Of Moorish or Spanish origin, the dance later became associated with many tunes, some in 4–4, others in 3–4 time.
17Morte. Fr. "Death," a hunting signal announcing that the game has been slain.
19Mortier de Fontaine played piano in various European music centres; said to have been first to perform in public the Beethoven sonata, Op. 106. B. May 13, 1816, Warsaw; d. May 10, 1883, London.
21Moscheles (Ignaz) composed 142 works, including concerto in G minor, Op. 60; Concerto pathétique, Op. 93; Sonata melancolique, Op. 49; "Hommage à Handel" for two pianos, Op. 92; 24 Études, Op. 70; three Allegri di Bravura, Op. 51; Characteristische Studien, Op. 95; toured Europe with great success as piano virtuoso; taught Mendelssohn and later joined that composer as first piano instructor in the newly founded Leipzig Conservatory. As a boy Moscheles proved an apt pupil at the Prague Conservatory under D. Weber; played a concerto of his own in public at 14; and shortly afterwards settled in Vienna, where he had lessons of Albrechtsberger and Salieri. In 1814 he scored Beethoven's "Fidelio" for piano under direction of the composer (Artaria & Co.), and then be
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