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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Adams
2late Queen. She possesses several gifts presented her by Victoria, among them an autographed photograph and a diamond and sapphire bracelet. Suzanne Adams was married to Leo Stern, the celebrated English violoncellist in 1898, toured with him in this country in 1902 and 1903, and the latter year settled in London, where she has a house and now makes her home. On his death, which occurred in 1904, she retired from the stage for a year. In 1905 she returned to public life. She sings in opera, concerts, and oratorios, and appears regularly at Covent Garden. In November, 1907, at the Auditorium, Chicago, she made her first appearance on the vaudeville stage Suzanne Adams has won eminent success as Juliet, Marguerite, Gilda, Micaela, Zerline, and Donna Elvira, and is especially fond of Mozart roles.
4Adams, Thomas. 1785-1858.
5English organist and composer. He was a pupil of Busby and was organist for several large English churches in succession. He obtained a position at St. Paul's Church by competition, playing with twenty-eight other organists. He also superintended the performances on the Apollicon, an organ of peculiar construction. He excelled in extemporizing and did a great deal of work for organ builders in testing new organs. Adams wrote many pieces for the organ, including fugues, interludes, voluntaries and variations. He also published piano-pieces and many vocal selections, anthems, hymns and sacred songs. He was known as "the Thalberg of the organ."
7Addison, John. 1765-1844.
8English composer of operettas much admired in their day, and doublebass player. The son of an ingenious mechanic, he early evinced a taste for music, and as a child learned to play on the flute, flageolet, bassoon and violin. His marriage to a singer, Miss Williams, niece of the bass singer, Reinhold, led him to adopt music as a profession. His wife obtaining an engagement at Liverpool, he accepted a place in the orchestra there, playing first violoncello and then doublebass, from now on in his orchestra work, confining himself to the latter instrument. He continued his musical career in Dublin, here having opportunity to improve in composition. At Manchester, Addison was persuaded to enter into the business of cotton manufacture, but this proving unsuccessful he returned to the musical profession. He composed several operas for Covent Garden and the Lyceum, the most successful being The Sleeping Beauty, and The Russian Impostor. He had considerable vogue as a teacher of singing, and for many years played doublebass at the opera and at concerts. Mrs. Addison sang successfully at Vauxhall Gardens, and at Covent Garden Theatre, appearing as Rosetta in Love in a Village and in other roles. She was highly esteemed as an opera singer.
10Adler
11Adler, Guido. 1855-
12Famous German writer and theorist on music. He was born in Moravia and was educated at Vienna at the Gymnasium, the Conservatory and the University. In 1874, with Mottl and Wolf, he founded the academic Wagner Society, which later became an important organization. In 1878 he took the degree of Doctor of Laws and in 1880 of Doctor of Philosophy, while in 1881 he became teacher of musical science at the University. In 1882 he was sent as delegate to the International Liturgical Congress at Arezzo, of which meeting he wrote a detailed report. With Spitta and Chrysander, he founded in 1884 the Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft, of which he was editor for a year. In 1885 he was made professor of the science of music at the University of Prague and in 1898 was appointed to the same position at the University of Vienna, where he succeeded Hanslick. Since 1894 he has been editor-in-chief of the Series of Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Oesterreich. He has also written important treatises on counterpoint and harmony.
14Adler, Vincent. 1826-1871.
15A young composer who lived in Paris and belonged to the school of Stephen Heller. He was born in Hungary, studied at Pesth, Vienna, and Paris, and was professor at the Geneva Conservatory in 1865. Author of many interesting piano pieces, and some vocal music. His compositions are light in character.
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