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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Adam
2in honor of the composer. He also wrote thirty-four chansons, seventeen rondeaux, seventeen motets, and sixteen part-songs.
4Adam von Fulda (ät'-äm fön fool'-dä). About 1450-after 1537.
5A Franconian monk, who was a musical theorist, a composer of sacred songs and the author of a famous treatise, The Theory of Music. He was one of the oldest of German musicians and his compositions were very highly considered in their day.
7Adamberger (ät'-äm-bërkh-ër), Valentin. 1743-1804.
8Famous tenor singer and vocal teacher. Born at Munich. He was a pupil of Valesi and on his advice went to Italy, where he was very successful under the Italian name Adamonti. In 1777 he visited London and sang at the King's Theatre, in Sacchini's Creso. At the command of Emperor Joseph, he returned to Vienna, where he made his first appearance in German opera in 1780 at the Hof-und-National-Theatre. Was an intimate friend of Mozart and was said by him to have been a man of whom Germany might well be proud. Mozart composed for him the part of Belmonte in the Seraglio, as well as a number of his fine airs.
10Adamowski (äd-ä-môf-shki), Timothée. 1858-
11A Polish violin-player of much distinction. He has made his home in the United States since 1879. Adamowski was born at Warsaw, studied under Kontchi at the Warsaw Conservatory and later under Massart at the Paris Conservatory. On coming to America, he traveled as soloist with Moritz Strakosch, also with Clara Louise Kellogg; and with a company of his own played in various of the large cities here. The Adamowski String-Quartet was organized in 1888 with Fidler, Kunz and Campnari as the other members. In 1890 it was reorganized, the members in addition to Timothée Adamowski being his brother Joseph, a very fine violoncellist, and Zach and Moldauer. Adamowski is known in this country not only as an eminent violin-player but also as a conductor. From 1890 to 1894 he was conductor of the summer concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Several of his songs have been published. He taught at the New England Conservatory from 1885 to 1886, the following year appeared in London, visited both Paris and London in 1895, and three years later was heard in Warsaw, where he appeared with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Musical Society. For some years he has been heard annually in London and Paris during the summer season. His Quartet gives annual concerts in the principal towns of the United States.
13Adams
14* Adams, Suzanne. 1873-
15Distinguished American operatic and concert singer. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a daughter of Mr. John Gedney Adams, and inherits a taste for music from both sides of the family. On the maternal side of Irish and Spanish ancestry, Suzanne Adams' appearance and personality bespeak the rich Celtic and Latin strains. She is instinctively dramatic, infusing into her roles her own personality. She early showed musical talent, went abroad for study and was a pupil of Jacques Bouhy in Paris. Her career has been, on the whole, an easy one. When she made her debut, as Juliet, at the Grand Opéra, Paris, in 1895, she was yielded appreciation by both critics and public. She remained at the Grand Opéra, Paris, for three years, where she sang the roles of Juliet, Marguerite, Gilda, and appeared in The Huguenots. Then followed a season at Nice, where she sang all her repertory. In 1898 she was engaged by Maurice Grau at Covent Garden, London. Suzanne Adams was very successful her first season in London, singing at the first state concert, at Buckingham Palace and before the Queen at Windsor Castle. In November, 1898, she made her debut in America, as Juliet, at the Auditorium, Chicago, and for successive seasons in America and England was one of the chief stars of the Grau Grand Opera Company. Both in America and England she has sung in concert tours. She sang every season at Buckingham Palace, was a great favorite with Queen Victoria, and sang Marguerite in Faust in the last performance ever given before the
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