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STOKES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS VOLUME II, 1908
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1composers, Harry Rowe Shelley, Rubin Goldmark, and Harvey Worthington Loomis. The Conservatory was chartered by a special Act of the Congress of the United States in 1891. The director in 1908 was Wassily SAF-ONOFF, who was for a decade at the head of the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1908 also conductor of the New York Philharmonic Society. He trained the National Conservatory Orchestra, which was a feeder of the leading American orchestras. Mr. Safonoff also had a piano class. The Conservatory faculty for 1907–8 also included Adèle Margulies Leopold Lichtenberg, Eugène Dufriche, Leo Schulz, S. Camillo Engel, Hugo Riesenfeld, Bruno Oscar Klein, and Henry T. FINCK.
3National Training School for Music was founded in London, 1873, by the Prince Consort, and was merged in the Royal College of Music, 1882. The Duke of Edinburgh (later of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) was chairman of the council, and the principals were Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir John Stainer. Among the pupils was Eugène d’Albert.
5Nationalied. Ger. National song.
7Natural. Sign employed to cancel an accidental in NOTATION; white digital.
9Natural Harmonics. Those produced by division of an open string.
11Natural Key. Key of C major.
13Natural Modulation. Diatonic MODULATION.
15Natural Tones. Those produced by wind instruments without overblowing or the use of valves or keys.
17Nau (Maria Dolores) sang sop. in opera, debut Paris Opéra, 1836, as the Page in “Huguenots”; toured America, 1848-50; pupil of Paris Conservatoire and of Mme. Cinti-Damoreau; of Spanish parentage. B. New York, Mar. 18, 1818; retired, 1856.
19Naudin (Emilio) sang ten. in opera, debut, 1845, Cremona; created Vasco in “Africaine,” 1865; pupil of Panizza. B. Oct. 23, 1823, Parma; d. 1890, Boulogne.
21Naumann (Johann Gottlieb) composed “Cora,” “Amphion,” Stockholm, 1776–78, and in all 23 operas, 13 oratorios, 21 masses, an “Unser Vater” to Klopstock’s words, and probably the “Dresden Amen,” which Wagner employed in “Parsifal”; chapelmaster at Dresden; pupil of Tartini and Padre Martini. B. Blasewitz, near Dresden, April 17, 1741; d. Oct. 23, 1801. Dr. Emil composed the opera “Loreley,” 1889 (posth.), “Judith,” the oratorio “Christus der Friedensbote”; wrote on music; organist of the Leipsic Thomaskirche; pupil of Mendelssohn and Hauptmann. B. Sept. 8, 1827, Berlin; grandson of JOHANN GOTTLIEB; d. June 23, 1888, Dresden. Karl Ernst, Ph.D., composed the first sonata for viola; edited publications for the Bach Gesellschaft; played organ, Jena; pupil of Wenzel, Lange, Hauptmann, and Richter, Leipsic, and of Schneider, Dresden. B. Aug. 15, 1832, Freiburg; add. Jena.
23Nava (Gaetano) taught harmony and singing 38 years, Milan Conservatory; composed masses; wrote “Method of Singing” and books of solfeggi. B. May 16, 1802, Milan; d. Mar. 31, 1875, Milan.
25Navarraise. Jules Massenet’s two-act lyric episode, to book by J. Claretie and H. Cain, was first performed June 20, 1894, at Covent Garden, London, and first presented in America by the Manhattan Opera House company, New York, 1907–8. Anita, a girl of Navarre, is betrothed to Araquil, sergeant in the Spanish army which is attacking the Carlist chief Zuccaraga. They meet, but their rapturous love scene is interrupted by Remigio, a thrifty peasant, father of Araquil. He declares his son shall not marry Anita unless she can obtain a dowry of 2000 douros. Araquil is promoted lieutenant, but this does not console him. Anita overhears the royalist general, Garrido, offer a fortune to any one who can take or kill Zuccaraga. Anita sees in this her only opportunity of obtaining a dowry, and when Garrido confirms his offer, leaves for the Carlist camp. Meantime Araquil has been vainly seeking the girl. His comrades tell him she has gone to the Carlists, and he rushes out to prove, the
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