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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1910
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1Monk
2teacher, but later he studied piano with Henry Field, and organ with George Field. He went to London where he studied vocal music in Hullah's classes and solo with Henry Philips. In England he held several appointments under G. A. Macfarren as organist and in 1844 he went to Ireland to become organist and musicmaster in the newly organized College of St. Colomba. In 1847 he settled in Oxford, where he was one of the founders of the University Motet and Madrigal Society. In 1848 he graduated as Bachelor of Music at Oxford and was made lay precentor, organist and musicmaster of the new College of St. Peter's at Radley. In 1856 he received his degree of Doctor of Music, and in 1859 he became choirmaster and organist at York Cathedral, succeeding Dr. Cambridge. He died at Radley. His compositions consist of a Veni Creator Spiritus, Anthems and a Service. With Rev. R. C. Singleton he edited the Anglican Chant Book; the Anglican Choral Service Book; the Anglican Hymn Book; and with Sir F. A. G. Ousley, The Psalter and Canticles and Anglican Psalter Chants. He compiled the librettos of Sir George Macfarren's Oratorios, John the Baptist, Joseph, and The Resurrection. He is also well known as an astronomer, and in 1871 became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
4Monk, William Henry.. 1823-1889.
5Organist and musical director; born in London; received his musical training from Thomas Adams, J. A. Hamilton and G. A. Griesbach. After acting as organist in Eton Chapel, Pimlico, St. George's Chapel, Albemarle Street, and Portman Chapel, St. Marylebone, he became musical director at King's College, London, in 1847, and in 1849 was made organist. In 1874 he succeeded Hullah as professor of vocal music. He was appointed professor at the School for the Indigent Blind in 1851 and organist of St. Mathias, Stoke Newington in 1852, and also delivered lectures on music at the London Institution, Edinburgh, and the Royal Institution, Manchester. In 1876 he became a professor in the National Training School for Music and in 1878 he began to teach in Bedford College, London. He died in London. Beside his work as a teacher he was, for a while, editor of The Parish Choir and one of the editors of Hymns, Ancient and Modern, and he composed Te Deums; Kyries; anthems and other church-music.
7Monsigny
8The Parish Choir and one of the editors of Hymns, Ancient and Modern, and he composed Te Deums; Kyries; anthems and other church-music.
10Monpou (môn-poo), François Louis Hippolyte. 1804-1841.
11Composer of songs and opera; born in Paris. When only five he was a chorister at Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois and when nine he sang at Notre Dame. In 1817 he entered Choron's school and two years later went as organist to Tours. He proved incapable of filling this position and returned to Choron, becoming assistant at his school and studying harmony with Porta, Chelard and Fétis. After this he held the post of organist at St. Nicholas des Chants, St. Thomas d'Aquin and the Sorbonne. He began his career of song composer in 1828 with the publication of a nocturne for three voices written to Beranger's Si j'étais petit oiseau, and afterward composed many songs to the words of the poets of the romantic school, among them de Musset and Victor Hugo. In 1835 he began to compose operas and in five years produced Les deux Reines; Perugina; La chaste Suzanne; Le Luthier de Vienne; Un Conte d'Autrefois; La Reine Jeanne; La Planteur, and Piquillo. This tremendous amount of work broke down his health and he died at Orleans. The instrumentation and general composition of his operas is very poor and they are now all forgotten.
13Monsigny (môn-sên-yē), Pierre Alexandre. 1729-1817.
14French dramatic composer; born at Fauquemberge, near St. Omer, in the province of Artois. He studied the violin with no thought of becoming a musician. In 1749, soon after his father's death, he obtained a clerkship in the offices of the Chamber of Accounts of the Clergy of France. Was later appointed maître d'hôtel to the Duc d'Orléans and was enabled to help his family by the large salary he received. Inspired by hearing Pergolesi's Serva Padrona he studied harmony with Gianotti, doublebass in the Opéra orchestra, who taught after Rameau's system. After five months' instruction, Monsigny wrote Les Aveux indiscrets, which was produced successfully at the Theatre de la Foire in 1759. For the same theatre he composed Le Maître en droit; Le Cadi dupé, which attracted the libret-
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