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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Agricola
2later teacher and cantor of the first Protestant School there. While engaged in the duties of schoolmaster he carried on the study of music by himself, and made such advance as to take rank as an authority. His most important work is his Musica instrumentalis deudsch. Mention should be made of his Musica figuralis deudsch; Rudimenta Musices; and Von den Proportionibus. Agricola also published the collections Ein kurtz deudsch Musica; Deudsch Musica und Gesangbüchlein; Ein Sangbüchlein aller Sonntags-Evangelien.
4Agujari (ä-goo-hä’rē), Lucrezia. 1743-1783.
5A very remarkable Italian singer. Mozart records that she possessed a "lovely voice, a flexible throat and an incredibly high range." She was born at Ferrara, Italy, the natural daughter of a man of high degree, and was generally referred to as La Bastardella. She received her training under Abbé Lambertini, made her debut in Florence, and sang with brilliant success in London and various towns of Italy. The prices she received were phenomenal for the times, five hundred dollars a night being paid her at one period of her career. She was married in 1780 to Colla, Court director to the Duke of Parma and a celebrated composer, who wrote most of her songs, and was the author of the opera Il Tolomeo, in which she created a great sensation at Milan.
7Aiblinger (i-bling-ër), Johann Kaspar 1779-1867.
8German composer, director and music collector, esteemed as a writer of church music. Wasserburg, Bavaria, was his native place and he died in Munich. He began the study of music in Munich, pursued the subject at Vicenza, Italy, for a number of years and settling in Vienna, founded in conjunction with the Abbé Trentino, the Odéon, its aim being the cultivation of classical vocal music. In 1819 he was called back to his own country, and for a period was director of Italian Opera in Munich, in 1823 becoming Court director. He returned to Italy in 1833 and resided at Bergamo, giving his attention to collecting ancient classical music. This collection is now in the Staatsbibliothek at Munich. Aiblinger was the author of ballets; an opera, Rodrigo e Chimene; and of much church music, masses, litanies, psalms, requiems and offertories. Riemann records that his church music was famous but his stage work much less successful.
10Alard (ăl-ăr), Jean Delphin. 1815-1888.
11Famous French violinist and teacher of Sarasate. Showed a wonderful talent for music very early. At the age of twelve, was sent to Paris, where he was allowed to enter the Conservatory as a listener only, not being accepted as a regular pupil. He made great progress, however, soon taking a second prize and shortly afterward a first, and after 1831 he began to be considered a great violinist. From 1843 to 1875 he was professor of the violin at the Paris Conservatory and was also leader of the Royal Orchestra, author of a Method for the Violin and also many fine violin compositions. His compositions are very popular and consist of concertos, études and fantasias for the violin, and duets for the violin and piano. He also wrote on musical subjects. His Method for the Violin has been translated into German, Spanish and Italian.
13Albani (äl-bä’-ni), Marie Emma. 1852-
14The stage name of Marie Louise Cecil Emma Lajeunesse, a distinguished prima donna. She was born near Montreal, of French Canadian parents. Her father was a teacher of the organ and harp. She received her first musical instruction in a convent in Montreal and in 1864 went with her family to Albany, New York, where she sang in the choir of the Catholic Cathedral, and attracted the attention of the bishop, who advised that she be sent to Europe to develop her voice. A concert for her benefit was given in Albany, and she went abroad with her father, studying first in Paris for two years and afterward in Milan with Lamperti. She made her debut in 1870, in La Sonnambula, at Messina, and has since sung in all the principal European countries with great success, and also in America. In 1878 she married Mr. Ernest Gye, the lessee of the Covent Garden Theatre. Madame Albani, besides singing in Italian, French and German opera, has been
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