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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Ford
2orchestra works are numerous, and he has composed a Scène Bacchanale produced by Robert Newman at the Queen's Hall in 1897. Mr. Ford was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 1899.
4Forkel, Johann Nikolaus. 1749-1818.
5German writer and theorist, and also a skilful organist and harpist, who was born near Coburg and pursued his musical studies at Göttingen University. He was organist at the University church and later a doctor of philosophy and director of music there for many years, having been appointed to the post in 1778. While acting in that capacity, from 1779 to 1815, he conducted the weekly concerts of the Akademie. Forkel's theoretical works are of great value and his knowledge of musical literature was extensive. He was likewise an excellent pianist of the school of Bach, and composed numerous pieces of vocal and instrumental music. His transcriptions in modern notation of a number of ancient masterpieces, including masses of Okeghem, Josquin de Pres and others, were engraved and a proof taken, but the French invaders melted down the plates for cannon balls in 1806. The corrected proof sheets are now in the Berlin Library, and that institution likewise contains in manuscript Forkel's oratorio, Hiskias; two cantatas; symphonies; choruses; clavier concertos and variations for the harpsichord. Forkel wrote a work on the History of the Literature of Music, which is highly valuable to the student of music. It was published at Leipsic in 1792 and contains a valuable bibliography of musical writings up to about the end of the Seventeenth Century. He also wrote the first life of Bach, with a critical view of his compositions. This was published in 1820. Forkel's General History of Music in two volumes, published at Leipsic, 1788-1801, is his most celebrated work and contains a history of ancient as well as modern music. He wrote also a history of Italian Opera, with notes, which was published at Leipsic in 1789.
7Formes, Karl Johann. 1816-1889.
8One of the most renowned bassos of his time; was the son of a sexton at Mühlheim-on-the-Rhine. He gained the greater part of his musical education by singing in the church choir of his native town. The attention of the musical public was first directed to the young singer when he appeared for the benefit of the Cathedral fund at Cologne in 1841. The next year he made his debut in opera, his success leading to an engagement for three years. He sang in Vienna, and in 1849 appeared in London with a German company, assuming the part of Sarastro in The Magic Flute at the Drury Lane Theatre. The following year Formes appeared with the Italian Opera at Covent Garden, as Caspar in Der Freischütz, and sang there every season for fifteen years. He was also heard in Berlin and at the Philharmonic concerts in London. Formes' voice was one of the most beautiful ever heard, of wide compass, and wonderful quality and depth, and added to these attractions he had an exceptionally fine stage presence, an attractive personality and marked ability as an actor. He passed a goodly portion of his life in Russia and Spain, and in 1857 visited the United States, singing in most of the large cities. He led a wandering life, and seldom stayed long in one place. He was a very old man when he married, nearly seventy-two, and he took for his wife one of his pupils. They settled in San Francisco, where Formes sang in concert and taught music. He remained strong and active to the day of his death. He composed several pieces for the piano and organ, among others The Mill Wheel, a version of an old German folk-song, which is perhaps the best known of his compositions.
10Forster (fôr-shtêr), Georg. 1514-1568.
11He was born in Amberg, Germany, and was a physician by profession, but became interested in music and attained to a high place as a musician and editor of a large and valuable collection of German folk-songs. In 1534 he entered the University of Wittenberg, where he graduated as a physician, going to Amberg to practice, then to Würzburg and later, having been appointed to the post by the Duke of Bavaria, to Heidelberg, as physician and surgeon. He also went through the French campaigns. About 1544 Dr. Forster settled in Nuremberg, where he died. He rendered a distinct service to music by his collections of songs, which were ar-
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