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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1910
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1Mayer
2Prague. Studied law until 1861. He studied music with C. F. Pietsh. In 1862 he abandoned legal work and became conductor of the Musical Society of Graz, a position which he held until 1870, when he resigned to devote himself to teaching. He numbered among his pupils W. Kienzl, Reznicek, F. Weingartner, F. Busoni and Sahla. Among his compositions are three symphonies, songs and part-songs, his overture Sardanapel, the symphonic poem Helene, the Östliche Rosen, and the Slavisches Liederspiel. He died in Graz.
4Mayr (mir), Johann Simon. 1763-1845.
5Operatic composer; born at Mendorf, Bavaria, but identified with the music of Italy. His musical talent was early cultivated by his father, the village schoolmaster and organist, and at the age of ten he entered the Jesuit Seminary at Ingolstadt. He became musical tutor for a nobleman named de Bessus, who sent him to study with Lenzi at Bergamo, in which city he spent the most of his life. Mayr found Lenzi a most inefficient teacher, and was just about to return to Germany when a canon of Bergamo, Count Presenti, sent him to Venice to study with Bertoni. Thrown on his own resources by the death of his patron, he took the advice of Piccini and began to write operas. In this he was very successful, producing more than seventy operas from 1794 to 1814. In 1802 he was made maestro di cappella of Santa Maria Maggiore at Bergamo, a position which he liked so well that he could not be induced to visit Paris, Dresden, Lisbon or London, and even declined the position of censor to the Milan Conservatory in 1807. He was professor of composition at the Musical Institute of Bergamo, founded in 1805 and reorganized in 1811, in which capacity he did much for the cause of music, and taught many great musicians, among them Donizetti. He was very benevolent, founding the Scuola caritatevole di Musica and the Pio Instituto di Bergamo for needy musicians and their widows. Seven years after his death, in 1845, the city of Bergamo erected a monument in his honor, and in 1875 removed his remains with those of Donizetti to Santa Maria Maggiore. His works were Italian in character and were performed chiefly in Italy. Among them are some early songs published in Ratisbon; some masses and vespers; his oratorios, Jacob a Labano fugiens, David, Tabiae matrimonium, and Sisaræ; his opera, Saffo, ossia i rita d'Apollo Leucadio; Lauso e Lidia; Medea; Rosa bianca e Rosa rossa; Lodoiska and Ginevra di Scozia. He also wrote a life of Capuzzi and a book on Haydn.
7Mayseder (mi'-zā-dēr), Joseph. 1789-1863.
8Violin virtuoso, whose brilliance and elegance of execution won for him the foremost position on the concert-stage at Vienna, his native town. At the age of eight he became the pupil of Suche and Wranitzky, making his first public appearance in Augarten in 1800. Eleven years later he received the Gold Salvator Medal, and in 1816 he entered the Court Chapel, becoming solo-violin in the Court Theatre in 1820, and chamber-violinist to the Emperor in 1835. While still very young, Schuppanzigh, who took great interest in him, gave him the position of second violin in his famous quartet. As early as 1812 he was considered by Spohr himself to be the greatest violinist in Vienna. He received the order of Franz-Joseph from the Emperor of Austria in 1862. In concert work he gave concerts with Merk, the violoncellist, and with Hummel, Moscheles and Giuliani, but after 1837 he never appeared in public. He could scarcely be prevailed upon to play in strange cities, and his only performance when he visited Paris in 1826 was at a small gathering of distinguished musicians, among them Kreutzer, Lafont, Cherubini, Baudiot, Habeneck and Viotti. He was greatly admired for beauty and purity of tone and surety of touch. He published sixty-three works, with the exception of one mass, all being chamber-music, concertos, polonaises, quartets, études and duets for violin, and trios and sonatas for piano.
10Mazas (mă-zăs), Jacques Féréol. 1782-1849.
11Violin virtuoso and composer; born at Béziers. In 1802 he began three years of study at the Paris Conservatory under Baillot and won the first violin prize. His performance of a violin concerto written for him by
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