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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1910
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1Mosenthal
2Mosenthal (mō'-zěn-täl), Joseph. 1834-1896.
3Conductor and musical writer; born at Hesse-Cassel, Germany, but was identified with the music of New York City during the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. He received a thorough musical education, being the pupil of Bott, Kraushaar and Spohr, under whom he led the second violins of the Court Orchestra for four years. Coming to America in 1853 he immediately became identified with musical work in New York, playing for a time in Jullien's Orchestra and in 1860 becoming organist at Calvary Church, where he remained until 1878. He was a member of the famous Mason and Thomas String Quartet, playing second violin, and for forty years he played first violin in the Philharmonic Orchestra. Besides this work he was a prominent teacher in New York. He was the conductor of the New York Mendelssohn Glee Club, and died while conducting a rehearsal of this organization.
5Moskowa (môshk'-vä), Joseph Napoléon Ney, Prince de la. 1803-1857.
6Eldest son of Marshal Ney; a musical writer and composer who contributed greatly to the advancement of music in France. He was born in Paris, and as a child showed great musical ability, composing a mass which was performed at Lucca. He acquired recognition for several articles which he had written for various periodicals, among them the Revue des deux Mondes and the Constitutionnel, and with Adolphe Adam, he founded the Société des Concerts de musique religieuse et classique, and published for that society a catalog of the works in its fine collection, which catalog is now extremely rare. He was a friend of Delsarte and of the composer Niedermeyer whom he assisted in founding the École de musique Religieuse. In 1831 he composed a mass for voices and orchestra which was given by the pupils of Choron's School with great success, and in 1840 he brought out his one-act-opera, Le Cent-Suisse, at the Opéra Comique, following it in 1855 by another one-act comic piece entitled Yvonne. Moskowa was also a brigadier-general under Napoleon III. He died in St. Germain-en-Laye.
8Moszkowski
9Mosonyi (mō-sôn'-yē), Michael Brandt. 1814-1870.
10A piano-player and composer; one of the ablest representatives of Hungarian music; born at Boldog-Aszony, Hungary. In 1834 he went to Presburg, where for seven years he taught piano in the household of Count Pejachevits. In 1842 he moved to Pesth where he met Liszt, who admired him greatly and in 1857 wished to produce his German opera, Maximilian, in Weimar, but by suggesting several changes so discouraged its author that he threw the manuscript into the fire. About 1860 his compositions began to assume a distinctly national tone, and he began to write under the nom de plume, Mosonyi, his name in the Magyar tongue, in stead of using Michael Brandt, as formerly. In 1861 he produced his Hungarian opera, Szep Ilonka, and soon followed this by Almos, which, however, he never finished. He also wrote a funeral symphony for Count Szechenyi; his symphonic poem, Triumph and Mourning of the Honved; Studies for the improvement of Hungarian Music; Childhood's Realm, besides an overture with the national song Szozat and other songs national in character.
12Moszkowski (mōsh-kōf'-shkī), Moritz. 1854-
13Pianist and composer; born at Breslau, Silesia. He studied first at Breslau and the Conservatory in Dresden, then at Stern's Conservatory and Kullak's Academy in Berlin, in which city he has lived for over thirty years. His first concert, given in Berlin in 1873, was brilliantly successful and was followed by many others in Berlin, Paris, Warsaw and London. In 1897 he went to Paris to live and in 1899 he was made a member of the Berlin Academy. Although primarily a writer of chamber-music, he has produced an opera, Boabdil and a ballet, Laurin. His piano compositions are full of gaiety and life and are very popular. Among them are Spanish dances for piano; Concertstücke for violin and piano; a Humoresque; a Tarantella; his piano composition for four hands, entitled From Foreign Parts, in which he portrays vividly the characteristics of various nationalities, Spaniards Hungarians, Russians and Italians. He has also written two orchestral suites,
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