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STOKES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS VOLUME II, 1908
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11820. Mademoiselle sang with success in Paris opera, debut, 1819; retired, 1824, on her marriage to Conte di Sparre. Daughter of GIUSEPPE.
3Nalson (Rev. Valentine) composed morning and evening services in G; subchanter, York Cathedral, 18th century.
5Nanga. Negro HARP.
7Nanini or Nanino (Giovanni Bernardino) was among the first composers of the Roman school to add organ accompaniment to his church music, which included psalms, motets, a Venite, etc.; composed madrigals for five voices, published in Venice, 1588-98; chapelmaster in Roman churches; pupil of his brother GIOVANNI MARIA. D. after 1612. Giovanni Maria founded the first music school in Rome ever presided over by an Italian, where he and his brother may have numbered PALESTRINA among their assistants; composed the 6-part motet, "Hodie nobis coelorum rex," still annually sung on Christmas Day in the Sistine Chapel, canons, motets, madrigals; became chapelmaster of the Sistine Chapel, 1604; in boyhood chorister at Vallerano, later singer and chapelmaster to Roman churches; pupil of Gaudio Mell. B. between 1545 and 1550, Tivoli; d. Mar. 11, 1606, Rome.
9Nantier-Didiée (Constance Betsy Rosabella) sang mez. sop. rôles in opera, debut in "La Vestale," Turin, in Paris, 1851, creating Nancy in "Martha," Siebel in "Faust"; touring Europe, America, 1856. B. Nov. 16, 1831, Isle de Bourbon; d. Dec. 4, 1867, Madrid.
11Napier (William) published music in London, including a valuable "Collection of Original Scots Songs," 1790-94, and the ballad operas "Rosina," "Maid of the Mill." B. 1740, Scotland; d. 1812, Somers Town.
13Naples was for centuries one of the chief music centres of Italy, and, besides the historic SAN CARLO opera house, is the possessor of the Real Conservatorio di Musica, founded in 1808 as the successor of four earlier famous institutions. The first directors were Tritta, Paisiello, and Feneroli, who were succeeded, 1813, by Zingarelli. Under the administration of this famous maestro a preparatory school was added, the faculty strengthened, and the institution became one of the foremost in Europe. From 1837 to 1840 the management devolved upon Donizetti, who, in 1860, was replaced by Mercadante. Another period of prosperity followed. In 1861 Conti was appointed coadjutor to Mercadante, who had become blind. On Conti's death, 1868, Paolo Serrao Mercadante became president, and after his death, 1870, the management was left in the hands of a council of professors and alumni. An excellent library is attached to the institution. The first Naples Conservatory was that of Santa Maria di Loretto. John Tinctor, a Netherland musician, had conducted a music school in Naples toward the middle of the 15th century, which doubtless served as a model for the artisan Francesco, who, in 1535, began to give instruction to orphan children in his own home. So well did he succeed that Giovanni da Tappia, a Spanish priest, gave nine years of his life to begging from door to door throughout the Neapolitan territories to raise funds for the enlargement of the work, and Francesco's scholars were then installed in a well-appointed building near the church from which the Conservatory took its name. Finally the government gave this building to the school, conferring upon it the title of Conservatorio. It was enriched by bequests and at one time numbered 800 scholars. Scarlatti was among the most celebrated of the musicians who received their education there. San Onofrio a Capuana, which turned out such musicians as Gizzi, Piccinni, Jommelli, Paisiello, and Gizziello, was founded in 1576, conducted by the Confraternity dei Bianchi, and gave home and education to 120 orphans each year until 1797, when it was merged with Santa Maria di Loretto. De' Poveri di Gesu Cristo, founded by Marcello Foscarato di Nicotera, Order of St. Francis, housed and trained the foundlings of Naples. Feo, Greco, Durante, Vinci, Porpora, Pergolesi, and Gallo were all
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