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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1910
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1Mills
2he became honorary member in 1866. In 1859, 1867 and 1878 he made concert tours through Germany, each time being warmly received. He died in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was a most successful teacher and has done much for the promotion of music in New York. All of his compositions are for piano and are graceful and light in form. Some of them are Alpine Horn, transcription; Murmuring Fountain; two Tarantelles; Recollections of Home; Fairy Fingers; the poïka, Toujours gai; and Barcarole vénitienne. Besides the Philharmonic Society, Mills was a member of the Tonkünstler Verein of Cologne, and of the Arion Society of New York.
4Mingotti (mēn-gōt'-tī), Regina. 1728-1807.
5Celebrated singer of Italian opera; born of German parentage at Naples. On the death of her father she was placed in an Ursuline Convent and here received her first musical instruction, remaining until her fifteenth year. While still very young she married Mingotti, impresario of the Dresden Opera, who immediately placed her under the care of Porpora, with whom she made rapid progress. Very soon after her debut in Dresden she had attained such popularity as to have become the rival of Faustina-Hasse. She left the Dresden Opera in 1751 to appear during two seasons under Farinelli's management in Madrid, and in 1754 went to England, where she became immensely popular. She toured Italy, and in 1772 settled in Munich, where she lived until 1787, retiring then to Neuburg-on-the-Danube, where she died.
7Minoja (mē-nō'-yā), Ambrosio. 1752-1825.
8Italian composer of opera and church-music; born at Ospitaletto, near Brescia, Italy. He studied under Nicolo Sala at Naples, and in 1772 succeeded Lampugnani at the Teatro della Scala, Milan, where from 1789 to 1809 he was maestro al cembalo at La Scala, and from 1814 to 1824 Inspector of Studies at the Conservatory. He wrote the opera, Zenobia, in Rome in 1788, and the opera, Tito nelle Gallie, given at La Scala, Milan, in 1787. An excellent singing-teacher, he wrote Solfeggi, and Lettere sopra il canto. He composed a march and a funeral symphony on the death of General Hoche, for which he obtained a gold medal from Bonaparte, and on that hero's coronation as King of Italy he wrote a Veni Creator and a Te Deum, which were performed in Milan Cathedral.
10Mirecki (fränts mē'-rēk-ē), Franz. 1794-1862.
11Piano composer; born at Cracow; began his career as pianist at four, appearing in concert when only six. Going to Vienna in 1814 he studied piano and composition with Hummel, and harmony with Preindl, and became acquainted with Moscheles, Beethoven, Salieri and Pixis. In 1816 he went to Venice to study, then was for several years in Paris and finally went to Milan and other cities of Italy. About 1825 he became director of the San Carlo Theatre, but soon after went to England, and in 1826 returned to Genoa, where he taught vocal music. In 1838 he became director of the School of Dramatic Singing, and he died in Genoa in 1862. It is said that he was at one time a member of the Conservatory at Paris. He arranged a beautiful edition of Marcello's celebrated psalms, in which work he is said to have been helped by Cherubini. He wrote oratorios; symphonies for grand orchestra; sonatas for piano and violin; and several collections of mazurkas and polonaises. He also wrote a treatise on instrumentation, Trattato intorno agli strumenti ed all' instrumentazione.
13Miry (mē'-rē), Karel. 1823-1889.
14Writer of operas; born at Ghent, where he studied harmony and counterpoint of Mengal, and later of Gevaërt at the Ghent Conservatory, afterward going to Paris to complete his education, but returning to Ghent to lead an orchestra in one of the local theatres. In 1857 he was appointed professor of counterpoint and composition at the Conservatory. He wrote eighteen Flemish operas and operettas for Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent, among these being Brigitta, La Lanterne magique and Charles-Quint, Bouchard d'Avesnes, Maria van Burgondie, De Keizer bij de Boeren, De occasie maakt den dief, Brutus en Cesar, Le Mariage de Marguerite, La Saint Lucas, given in Ghent; Anne Mie, Ees Engel op Wacht, Drie Köningen Avond, in
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