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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Anerio
2service of Cardinal Aldobrandini. In 1594, Anerio succeeded to the place left vacant by the death of Palestrina, a post he occupied eight years. His unpublished work is scattered in various Roman libraries, some being in the Royal Library at Berlin, and some of his MS. music in the Hofbibliothek at Vienna. Of his published compositions, there are, among other works, several books of madrigals, two books of hymns, canticles and motets.
4Anerio, Giovanni Francesca. 1567-about 1620.
6Italian composer and chapelmaster, brother of the preceding. He was born at Rome about 1567, served as chapelmaster to the King of Poland about 1609, and in 1611 was appointed to a like post in the cathedral at Verona. After a period as instructor at the Jesuit College of St. Ignace he became chapelmaster, in 1613, at St. Maria di Monti, at Rome. He took holy orders in 1616, and died about 1620. He was the author of a great deal of church music, and also arranged Palestrina's Mass Papæ Marcelli for four voices. Grove states that he was one of the first Italians who made use of the quaver and its subdivisions.
8Anfossi (än-fôs'-sē), Pasquale. About 1736-1797.
10Italian operatic composer, very prolific but wanting in true creative power. The author of over forty operas, four masses, seven oratorios, and other church music. He was born near Naples, about 1736. After beginning the study of the violin he turned his attention to composition, studying harmony with Piccinni, who at this time was enjoying his greatest fame. Anfossi's first operas met with indifferent success, but the opera L'Incognita Perseguitata, produced in Rome in 1773, brought him both fame and fortune. The success was due, not altogether to its merits, but rather to the plottings and support of a group arrayed against Piccinni, to whom Anfossi had now turned traitor. His day in Rome, however, was not a long one. He left Italy, and brought out his operas in London, Paris, Berlin, Dresden and Prague. In later life he returned to Rome, and from 1792 to the time of his death, held the post of chapel-
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13master at the Lateran. During this period, he turned his attention to sacred compositions.
15Animuccia (än-ē-moot'-chä), Giovanni.
17An Italian composer who was called "Father of Oratorio." The exact date of his birth is unknown, but it was near the end of the Fifteenth Century or in the first years of the Sixteenth Century, probably about 1505. He was a pupil of Claude Goudimel and in 1555 he was appointed musical director at the Vatican, where he remained until his death in 1571. He was the predecessor of Palestrina and his music shows the same religious spirit and was undoubtedly a great advance upon that written before his time. Animuccia composed the famous Laudi, which were sung at the conclusion of the regular service of the Oratorio at St. Filipo and these are said to have been the foundation of the oratorios of the present time. He also composed many masses, motets and madrigals.
19Anshütz (än'-shüts), Karl. 1815-1870.
21Noted opera and orchestra conductor. Born in Coblentz, Germany, where his father was a well-known musician and had founded a musical school. His first studies were with his father. Later, he went to Dessau and studied under Friedrich Schneider. When he returned to Coblentz, in 1844, he took charge of his father's Musical Institute, but four years later he went to London and became leader of the orchestra at Drury Lane Theatre. At one of his concerts in London he gave Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with an orchestra of two hundred and fifty musicians and a chorus of five hundred singers. After conducting opera in Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow and all over Great Britain, he came to the United States, in 1857, with Ullmann's Italian Opera Company, which he conducted for three years. In 1862, he founded in New York the German Opera, which, unfortunately, was unsuccessful. He also helped to establish the New York Conservatory of Music and from 1860 to 1862 was conductor of the Arion Singing Society. He was a composer of some ability, his works being piano pieces and songs. He also wrote for brass instruments the Nine Symphonies of Beethoven,
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