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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Ashton
2Ashton is rather unique in his recreations, which comprise among other things, writing letters to the press, over five hundred of these having been published, and restoring and repairing the graves of distinguished persons.
4Ashton, Joseph N.
5Musical educator, who was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He received the degree of A.B. from Brown University in 1891, and that of A. M. from Harvard University two years later. From 1895 to 1898 he was instructor of musical history and theory at Brown University, associate professor from 1898 to 1904 and faculty editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly from 1900 to 1904. From 1896 to 1904 he was organist at North Church, Salem, and the following year organist at the First Baptist Church of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Since 1905 he has been organist at the First Parish Church of Brookline, Massachusetts, and during 1907-1908 was acting professor of music at Wellesley College. He taught privately in Boston from 1895 to 1899, and since 1904. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists and the Harvard Musical Association and also of the Phi Beta Kappa.
7Asioli (ä-s-ē-ō'-lē), Bonifacio. 1769-1832.
8Italian dramatic composer and writer on musical subjects. A very precocious musician. Began to study at five and at eight had written three masses; a series of twenty sacred works; a concerto for the piano and for the violin; and several sonatas. When he had completed his studies at Parma he was made conductor at his native town, Correggio. From 1787 to 1796 he lived in Turin and in 1799 settled in Milan, where in 1808 he was appointed censor and professor of composition and singing at the new Conservatory at Milan. He visited Paris in 1810 and in 1813 returned to Correggio where he remained until his death, composing, and directing a school of music which he had established. Asioli's works consist of seven operas, one of which is comic; an oratorio, Jacob; a very large number of masses, cantatas, motets and songs; also chamber-music; a symphony; an overture; sonatas, concertos and organ pieces. He also wrote several very fine text-books on music.
10Attwood
11Astorga (das-tôr'-gä), Emanuele, Baron d'. 1681-1736.
12Son of a Sicilian nobleman, who was beheaded for political reasons. His mother died at the same time from the shock of her husband's execution, and the boy was placed in the Convent of Astorga in Spain, by the Princess Orsini, maid of honor to the wife of Philip V. Here he completed his musical education which had been begun, probably under Scarlatti. When he left the convent he was given the title of Baron d'Astorga, through his patroness, and was sent on a diplomatic mission to the Court of Parma in 1704. Here he became involved in a love affair with the niece of the Duke of Parma and to break it off was sent by the Duke to Vienna in 1705. After this for years he led a life of travel and adventure, visiting England, Italy, Spain and Portugal and finally going to Bohemia where he died. Astorga's most important compositions are his great Stabat Mater for four voices; an opera, Dafni; and nearly one hundred beautiful cantatas.
14Attwood, Thomas. 1765 or 1767-1838.
15Distinguished composer and organist. He entered the Chapel Royal as chorister at the age of nine and remained there five years. At sixteen he attracted the attention of the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., and was sent by him to Italy for study. After working at Naples for two years he went to Vienna, and studied with Mozart, who considered him very talented. In 1787 he returned to England where he became organist of a large London church, was a member of the Prince of Wales' band and teacher of several members of the royal family. In 1796 he was made organist of St. Paul's Cathedral and in the same year was appointed composer to the Chapel Royal. In 1821 he became organist of George IV.'s private chapel and in 1836 of the Chapel Royal. Attwood was a charter member of the Philharmonic Society and was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music when it was founded in 1823. When he died he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, under the organ. Attwood enjoyed the friendship of both Mozart and Mendelssohn. His work as a composer seems to have been done in two
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