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STOKES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS VOLUME II, 1908
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1lin Royal Academy of Music, 1904; composed the operas "Agnes Bernauer," Weimar, 1880; "Ramin," "Fürst und Sänger," the festival play "Eberstein," Carlsruhe, 1881; a string quartet; the song cycle "Pan in Busch." In boyhood a chorister, Mottl entered the Imperial Conservatory, Vienna, studied under Hellmesberger, won all the prizes offered; became conductor of the Vienna Wagner Society, and in 1876 assisted in staging "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at Bayreuth. B. Aug. 29, 1856, Unter St. Veit, near Vienna; add. Berlin.
3Motus. L. Motion.
5Mounsey (Anne Sheppard) composed the oratorio "The Nativity," 100 songs, 40 part-songs; played organ; pupil of Logier. B. April 17, 1811, London; m. W. Bartholomew; d. June 24, 1891. Elizabeth played organ, piano, guitar; published works for all three instruments; sister of ANN SHEPPARD. B. Oct. 8, 1819; d. Oct. 3, 1905, London.
7Mountain (Henry) played violin; published music in Dublin, 1785–90. Joseph played violin, led Covent Garden Orchestra. B. Dublin; son of HENRY; d. London. Sarah, Sophia or Rosoman became a favourite singer at the Haymarket and Covent Garden; pupil of Charles Dibdin. B. Sadler's Wells, 1768; daughter of circus people named Wilkinson; m. JOSEPH; d. July 3, 1841, Hammersmith.
9Mountain Sylph. John Barnett's opera in two acts, to book by J. T. Thackeray, was first performed Aug. 25, 1834, at the English Opera House, London.
11Mount-Edgcumbe (Richard, Earl of) wrote "Musical Reminiscences," 1825; composed the opera "Zenobia." B. Sept. 13, 1764; d. Sept. 26, 1839.
13Mountier sang in London opera under Handel; in early life chorister at Chichester Cathedral. B. Chichester; d. after 1733.
15Mount of Olives. Ludwig van Beethoven's oratorio "Christus am Oelberg" is so called in the English version. Owing to the aversion of the British to representations of Christ on the stage, the story has been changed to that of David, and in this mutilated form the work was sung at the Bristol Festival, 1905.
17Mouret (Jean Joseph) composed the opera "Ariane," 1717; "Les Triomphe des Sens," 1732, other operas and ballets; conducted at Paris Concerts Spirituels and Académie Royale. B. April 16, 1682; d. Dec. 22, 1738, Charenton.
19Mousquetaires de la Reine. J. F. E. Halévy's three-act opera, to book by St. Georges, was first performed Feb. 3, 1846, at the Paris Opéra Comique.
21Moussorgsky or Mussorgski (Modeste Petrovich) composed the operas "Boris Godounov," St. Petersburg, 1874; "Kovanstchina," 1880; "The Matchmaker"; songs, including several groups devoted to child life; "The Destruction of Sennacherib," and "Joshua Navin," for chorus and orchestra; mixed chorus from "Œdipus," female chorus from "Salammbô," and the unfinished opera "The Fair at Sorochinsk." Pupil of Balakirev and follower of Dargomiskey, this composer abandoned a career in the army to devote himself to music, but was soon obliged to accept a government clerkship. Losing this employment, the greater part of his life was spent amid sordid surroundings, and toward the last he wrecked himself by the use of drugs and stimulants. B. Mar. 16, 1835, Karevo, Pskov; d. Mar. 16, 1881, St. Petersburg.
23Mouth. Part of the organ pipe whence the sound proceeds as opposed to the foot, where the wind enters.
25Mouth Organ. PAN'S PIPES.
27Mouthpiece. The cup or beak-shaped end of the tube of wind instruments to which the lips are applied.
29Mouton (Jean) composed nine masses, 75 motets and psalms, some chansons; became singer to Louis XII and Francis I of France, canon of Therounne and of St. Quentin; real name De Hollingue; pupil of Josquin. B. Somme, about 1475; d. 1522.
31Movement. Division of a sonata or symphony; part of a composition more or less complete in itself; MOTION; whether of melody or parts.
33Mozart (Leopold) wrote a Method
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