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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Marcello
2first and afterward turning his attention to singing and composition. In obedience to his father he studied law, but when he returned to Venice, on his father's death, he gave as much attention to music as to his legal practice. He held important positions under the government, being a member of the Council of Forty in 1711, and in 1730 receiving the appointment of Provveditore of Pola. Owing to the climate of Pola, his health gave out, and he was made Camerlango at Brescia, where he died. He was made Cavaliere of the Filarmonici of Bologna and also a member of the Pastori Arcadi at Rome. The work for which he is remembered is his Estro poetico-armonico, Parifrasti sopra i primi 50 Psalmi, Poesia di Girolamo Giustiniani, a work in eight volumes, which appeared in Venice in 1724 to 1727. They are written for one, two, three and four voices, with figured basses, sometimes with two violins and violoncello obbligati, and are considered very fine work of the kind. An English edition of them appeared in London, 1757. Besides his music, Marcello showed great ability as a poet, and is said to have written the libretto for Ruggieri's Arato in Sparta. The manuscript of many of his musical works may be found in various libraries and museums in Italy. Rossini is said to have used the whole of Marcello's twenty-first Psalm in his music for the overture of the Siege of Corinth.
4Marchand (mär-shän), Louis. 1669-1732.
5Known principally for his wild, extravagant life and his connection with Sebastian Bach. He was born at Lyons, became organist at the Cathedral of Nevers in 1684, later at Auxerre and at the Jesuit Church in Paris, and at other churches. He became very popular at Paris and soon attained to the position of organist at Versailles. His wild, dissipated life and a quarrel with the King ended in his exile in 1717. He then went to Dresden and again sought royal favor. The King of Poland wished to make him Court organist, but his Court chapelmaster, Volumier, strongly disapproving, had Bach come from Weimar in order to outdo M. Marchand. Bach challenged the Frenchman to a contest, but it proved too much for Marchand's courage, and he failed to appear. He then returned to Paris, as his sentence of banishment had been removed. There he became organist at St. Honoré, and was very popular as a teacher. He charged enormous prices for his lessons, but the money he received was not sufficient to pay his numerous expenses, and he died in poverty at Paris. He wrote an opera, Pyramus and Thisbe, which was never produced; and harpsichord and piano music. His works on the whole are poor and insignificant.
7Marchesi
8Brilliant dramatic soprano; a daughter of Mathilde and Salvatore Marchesi. Was born in Paris. She received her early education in a boarding-school at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and in 1878 was placed in a boarding-school in Paris. When only eleven years old she took violin lessons of Arthur Nikisch, then a student in the Vienna Conservatory, and when she went to Paris in 1878 she continued with Davela at the Paris Conservatory, and later with Colonne. Her beautiful soprano voice was carefully trained by her mother, who has done such wonderful work in forming female voices. She made her first appearance in Paris at a matinée musicale of her mother's school in 1881, but did not make her public debut until 1895, in Berlin. This was followed by severe illness, and it was not until 1896 that Blanche Marchesi appeared in London. She was well received, and soon made engagements to sing in all the important English concerts, appearing before Queen Victoria in 1897 and receiving from her the Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 1898 Marchesi made a notably successful tour in America. In 1899 she sang the Fidelio air at the Hallé concert at Manchester, her conductor being Hans Richter. Impressed by the beauty of her voice and by her pronounced ability, Richter persuaded her to appear in opera, and in 1900 she appeared as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre at the Prague Royal Opera House. After filling an engagement at the Brussels Royal Opera House, she sang two seasons in English Opera at Covent Garden, appearing in the roles of Isolde, Santuzza, Brünnhilde, Elsa, Elizabeth, Gioconda, Leonore, and Carmen. In 1904 she sang at the
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