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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1Momigny
2gium. When twelve years old he was organist at St. Omer, and a little later at the Abbey of Sainte-Colombe, and in 1785 at Lyons. During the Revolution he retired to Switzerland, and in 1800 he went to Paris, where he founded a music business and taught, later removing to Tours. He wrote Complet d'Harmonie et de Composition d'apres une Théorie Neuve, which purported to be a new discovery in regard to theory of music, but which does not seem to have been important. He was also musical editor of the Encyclopédie Méthodique, a work interrupted by the Revolution. He has composed string quartets; violin sonatas; trios; sonatas for piano and violin; première année de leçons de piano; and sonatas and other pieces for piano.
4Monasterio (mō-näs-tā'-rī-ō), Jesus de. 1836-1903.
5Eminent Spanish violinist, who was instrumental in developing a knowledge of classical music in Spain; born at Potes in Santander province. From his seventh year he was under royal patronage and was given the best instruction Madrid could furnish. In 1845 he made a debut as a child prodigy, and from 1849 to 1851 he was a pupil of De Bériot at the Brussels Conservatory, returning to Madrid in 1852 and scoring an immediate success. In 1861 he made a successful tour through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, and at Weimar he was offered the post of Court chapelmaster, which he declined, preferring to return to his native land. He was professor of violin, and in 1894 became director at the Madrid Conservatory, and he was also Court violinist. He is said to have formed the Quartet Society in Madrid in 1861. He died at Santander. He wrote many successful compositions for violin, among them Adieux a l'Alhambra, and two ecclesiastical compositions without accompaniment.
7Mondonville (mōn-dōn-vē'-yū), Jean Joseph Cassanea. 1711-1772.
8French violinist and dramatic composer; born at Narbonne. His musical ability appeared very early, and after studying violin he traveled about, finally settling at Lille. In Paris in 1737 he produced three of his motets with such success that in 1744 he was appointed to succeed Gervais as superintendent of the Royal Chapel, Versailles. In 1752 when strife, known as Guerre des Bouffons, arose between factions upholding the Italian or French Opera, Mondonville was appointed representative of National Art, and under the patronage of Mme. de Pompadour achieved success for his opera, Titon et l'Aurore. Owing to this success he became director of the Concerts Spirituels in 1755, conducting the concerts with pronounced success and producing three oratorios, Les Fureurs de Saül, Les Israëlites au mont oreb, and Les Titans. He wrote a number of operas, none of which was successful, among them being Isbe; Le Carnival du Parnasse; La serva Padrona; Daphne et Alcimadura; Les Fêtes de Paphos; Thesée; Pscyhé; Vénus et Adonis; Bacchus et Erigone, written for Mme. de Pompadour's Theatre in Versailles; and the ballet, Les Projets de l'Amour, as well as violin sonatas and concertos, pieces for harpsichord and violin, trios and motets.
10Moniuszko (mō-nī-oosh'-kō), Stanislaw. 1820-1872.
11Dramatic composer; born in the department of Minsk, Lithuania. He first studied under August Freyer in Warsaw, then went to Berlin, where from 1837 to 1839 he was the pupil of Rugenhagen. He settled in Wilna as teacher and organist in the church of St. John, remaining until 1858 when he became chapelmaster of the Opera in Warsaw, where in 1846 he had produced his first opera, Halka. He later became professor at the Warsaw Conservatory. He died at Warsaw in 1872, and twenty years later a branch of the Warsaw Musical Society was organized to publish his manuscript works, and to found a museum. Among his compositions are The Bohemians; Jawnutz; Music for Hamlet; The Paria; The New Don Quixote; The Countess; The Haunted Castle; Betty; The cantatas, Milda, Goddess of Beauty and Viola; a descriptive composition, Night in the Apennines, besides the hymn, Madonna, for solo, chorus and orchestra; a mass; piano-pieces and songs.
13Monk, Edwin George. 1819-1900.
14Organist and composer of church music; born at Frome, Somersetshire, England. His father was his first
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