Scan 49
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Auber
2tinctively French in character, being very smooth and melodious and combining grace and ease.
4Audran (ō-drän), Edmond. 1842-1901.
5French dramatic composer. Son of Marius Pierre Audran, who was a well-known tenor singer and vocal teacher. Studied at the Ecole Niedermeyer, Paris, where he gained the prize for composition in 1859. Settled with his father at Marseilles in 1861 and became organist and musical director at St. Joseph's Church. Audran is best known as a comic opera composer, producing in all nearly thirty operas and operettas, the most successful of which are Olivette; The Mascot; The Grand Mogul; Madam Suzette and La Poupée, among the others being La Chercheuse d'Esprit; Gillette de Narbonne; L'Ours et la Pache; La Cigale et le Fourmi; L'Oncle Célestin; Monsieur Lohengrin; and Les Petites Femmes.
7* Auer (ow'ēr), Leopold. 1845- one of two readings
8* Auer (ow'ěr), Leopold. 1845- one of two readings
9Brilliant Hungarian violinist. He showed great talent for music very early, and during the Revolution of 1849 as a four-year-old boy excited great enthusiasm, by marching as a drummer before the troops. Studied first at the Prague Conservatory and then at the Vienna Conservatory with Dont from 1857 to 1858 and afterwards with Joachim. Went to Düsseldorf, in 1863, as leader of the orchestra, and in 1866 to Hamburg in the same capacity. In 1868 he went to St. Petersburg, where he still lives, as solo violinist to the Czar and in the Imperial Orchestra. On the death of Henri Wieniawski, in 1880, Auer succeeded him as professor of violin at the Conservatory of St. Petersburg, and there, while acting as conductor of the Symphony concerts of the Imperial Musical Association he has introduced to the Russian people many important works, notably Berlioz's Requiem and Schumann's Manfred. Auer founded a quartet at St. Petersburg which became one of the leading musical organizations of the city, until it was broken by the death of Davidoff, the violoncellist.
11Auguez, Numa. 1847-1903.
12Admirable French barytone singer and teacher. He was born at Saleux, and became a pupil of the Paris Conservatory in 1867. For ten years, from 1871 to 1881, he sang at the Grand Opéra, Paris, and then went for a season to Italy. When Lamoureux gave the famous production of Lohengrin to the Parisians, May 3, 1887, Auguez made a marked impression in the part of the Herald. Throughout France he was greatly esteemed as a concert singer. In Paris, his name became associated with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Berlioz's Damnation of Faust. In 1899 he was appointed a professor of singing at the Paris Conservatory.
14Aus der Ohe (ows'-dēr-ō-ē), Adele. 1860- one of two readings
15Aus der Ohe (ows'-děr-ō-ě), Adele. 1860- one of two readings
16German pianist. Daughter of a professor at Hanover University. When but seven years of age she was placed, by the advice of von Bülow, under Kullak, in his conservatory at Berlin. She was only ten when she played with orchestra at a concert in Berlin, and but twelve when she became a pupil of Liszt. She remained with Liszt seven years, and was a favorite pupil, her playing of his concertos and rhapsodies being regarded as marvelous. She made her debut in America in 1886. She is the author of several songs and pieces for the piano.
18Aylward, Theodore. 1730-1801.
19English composer and organist. Very little is known of his early life. He is said to have been a good scholar and was already known as a composer in 1755. After 1760 he was organist of several London churches successively and in 1771 was appointed professor of music in Gresham College. He was assistant director of the Handel Commemoration in 1784, and in 1788 was organist and director of the choristers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He received the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music from Oxford University in 1791. His works consist of music for the dramas, Harlequin's Invasion, Midsummer Night's Dream, Cymbeline and others; six lessons for the organ; elegies and glees; eight canzonets for soprano voices; songs and church-music in manuscript.
21Ayrton, Edmund. 1734-1808.
22English organist and director, for many years master of the children at the Chapel Royal, London, and author of some music. He was born at Ripon, studied the organ under Dr. Nares, organist at York Minster, and
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