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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1Mathews
21893, and the following year he became editor of the Musical Independent, which went out of existence at the time of the Chicago fire, 1871. From 1877 to 1887 he was musical critic on the staffs of the Chicago Herald, Record, and Tribune, and was one of the best of western critics. In 1891 he founded the magazine, Music, of which he was editor and one of the chief contributors until this magazine was incorporated in the Philharmonic in 1903. Mathews has written some excellent books on musical subjects, among them being The Great in Music; Popular History of Music; Music and Its Ideals; How to Understand Music; Complete School of Pedals; many collections of music for teaching; special editions of works of Chopin and Schumann; a revised edition of Mason's Technics; The Masters and Their Music; a Dictionary of Musical Terms; Primer of Musical Forms; and How to Understand Music. Beside his writings Mr. Mathews is a successful piano-teacher.
4Mathias (mä-tē'-äs), Georges Amédée Saint Clair. 1826-
5French teacher and composer; born in Paris, where he studied under Bazin, Barbereau, Halévy, Savard, at the Paris Conservatory, and took composition of Kalkbrenner, and piano of Chopin. He was given the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1872. He wrote overtures to Hamlet and Mazeppa; five morceaux symphoniques for piano and strings; two piano concertos; six piano trios; a symphony; Œuvres choisis pour le piano; Études de Genre; Études de style et de mécanisme; a collection of two and four-hand piano-pieces, and the preface to Daily Exercises from Chopin's works.
7* Mathieu (măt-yū), Emile. 1844-
8Teacher and composer; born of Belgian parentage at Lille, France. Both his father and his mother were professors of music at the music school at Louvain, and it was there that he received his first instruction. Later, at the Royal Conservatory at Brussels, he studied piano under Dupont, harmony under Bosselet, and counterpoint and fugue with Fétis. In 1869 he won the second Prize of Rome for his cantata, La Mort du Tasse, and from 1867 to 1873 he taught at the school of music at Louvain, where he acted as director from 1891 to 1898. In 1898 he became director of the Royal Conservatory at Ghent, where he is still to be found. He was made Chevalier of the Order of Léopold in 1898, corresponding member of the Belgian Royal Academy in 1897, and member in 1901. He has written the opéras, Georges Daudin, Bathyle, l'Échange, La Bernoise, l'Enfance de Roland, Richilde; the cantatas, Le Songe de Colomb, Debout Peuple, Torquato Tasso's dood, La Dernière Nuit de Faust; the ballet, Funeurs de Kiff; children's cantatas, l'École Fraternelle, and Les Bois; Le Hoyoux; Le Serbier; Freyhir; French and Flemish songs; Te Deums; three symphonic poems for orchestra; a violin concerto, and some male choruses.
10Mattei (mät-tā'-ē), Abbate Stanislao. 1750-1825.
11Favorite pupil and intimate of Giambattista Martini, the great theorist and musical savant; was born at Bologna. He attended the Latin school, and later, at the advice of Martini, entered into his novitiate at the Minorite Convent, becoming the confessor and constant companion of Padre Martini immediately after his ordination. From 1770 he acted as Martini's deputy, and after his death, in 1784, succeeded him as maestro di cappella at the Convent of the Franciscans. In 1798, on the suppression of the monasteries, Mattei lived with his mother and began to teach, later becoming maestro di cappella of San Petronio and teacher of counterpoint at the Liceo Filarmonico in 1804. Among his many distinguished pupils were Rossini, Donizetti, Perotti, Bertolotti and Robuschi. In 1790 and 1794 he was president of the Filarmonico, also member of the Subalpine Académie, and after 1824 of the Institut de France. Most of his works are preserved in the Libraries of San Giorgio and the Minorite Convent at Bologna, and include his Prattica d'accompagnamento sopra bassi numerati, in three volumes; eight masses; an intermezzo; La Bottega de Libraio; and many offertories; psalms; hymns; motets and other church-music.
13Mattei, Tito. 1841-
14Noted Italian pianist, composer and conductor; was born at Campobasso.
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