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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1Arne
2torios, Abel, and Judith. His masque of Alfred contains among other fine songs the well known Rule Britannia. His settings of Where the Bee Sucks, in The Tempest, and of the songs in As You Like It and other Shakespearian plays are considered very beautiful. Doctor Arne was the first to introduce female voices into oratorio choruses.
4Arnold, Johann Gottfried. 1773-1806.
5German violoncellist and composer, who wrote for the violoncello, piano, flute and other instruments. He was a native of Würtemberg, and son of the schoolmaster of Niedernhall. Showed such devotion to music and so much ability that he was apprenticed by his father, to the music-director, in the town of Künzelsau. He came under this rigorous master at the age of eleven and remained with him until he was sixteen. He entered into a brief engagement at Wertheim, and later made concert tours in Germany and Switzerland, the while devoting himself to study with untiring zeal. He enjoyed the instruction of Willmann and Bernard Romberg. He became first violinist of the theatre in Frankfort in 1798, and in that city won an enviable reputation, both as player and teacher. He was able to give considerable time to composition. But his career came to an untimely close. He died when he was only thirty-three years old, his health undermined, it is thought, by too arduous work in his youth.
7Arnold, Maurice Strothotte. 1865-
8American composer. Born in St. Louis. Studied first with his mother, who was a good pianist and from whom he probably inherited his musical ability. When fifteen years old he went to Cincinnati, where he studied at the College of Music for two years. In 1883 he went to Berlin and studied counterpoint and composition with Vierling and Urban. Later he entered the Cologne Conservatory, where he studied with G. Jensen, Wuellner and Neitzel and finally went to Breslau and worked under Max Bruch. While at Breslau he wrote his cantata, The Wild Chase. He now returned to St. Louis, where he taught and also traveled as an opera-conductor and violinist. Later, Arnold was instructor of harmony at the National Conservatory under Dvořák.
10Arnoldson
11In a number of his compositions, especially his Plantation Dances, Arnold has made use of the negro plantation idea, not by introducing negro melodies but by embodying the African spirit in his own work. Arnold has also written two comic operas; a Dramatic Overture; a Valse Elegante, for eight hands for the piano; a Danse de la Midway Plaisance and a Tarantelle for the orchestra; also a fugue for eight hands; a Minstrel Serenade for violin and piano; part-songs and some solos. His violin sonata, which has not been published, is also in the African style. He is at work upon a symphony and a book on Some Points in Modern Orchestration. Arnold is at present musical director of the Progressive Stage Society of New York.
13Arnold, Samuel. 1740-1802.
14English composer and vocalist. Born in London. His musical talent developed very early. He was educated in the Chapel Royal and by his twenty-third year he had made such progress that he was engaged as composer for the Covent Garden Theatre, where he brought out his first opera, The Maid of the Mill, in 1765. In 1769, he purchased Marylebone Gardens, where he gave dramatic and musical entertainments. Though at first successful, he finally lost money in this enterprise. In 1763 he received the degree of Doctor of Music from Oxford University. In 1783 he succeeded Doctor Nares, as organist and composer to the Chapel Royal, and became organist at Westminster Abbey in 1793. In 1786 he proposed bringing out a complete edition of Handel's works, but was unable to complete it. Arnold wrote forty-three operas, musical after-pieces and pantomimes. He also produced a number of oratorios, the best of which was The Prodigal Son, others being The Resurrection, Abimelech, The Cure of Saul, and Elisha. His most important work was his Cathedral Music, which is a collection in score of the most valuable and useful cathedral services by the English composers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Arnold died, in 1802, from injuries received in a fall.
16Arnoldson, Sigrid. 1864-
17Celebrated Swedish soprano, daughter of Oscar Arnoldson, the noted
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