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The American History and Encyclopedia of music Music Biographies Vol.1, 1910
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1Borodin
2it. The opera was successfully produced at St. Petersburg in 1890, and at Kiev in 1891. He also started two other operas, one on Mei's the Betrothed of the Tsar, which was never finished, and Mlada, which Rimsky-Korsakoff completed and presented in 1892. With Rimsky-Korsakoff, Leadov, and Glazounov he wrote a quartet on the tones B-la-f, in honor of their publisher Belaieff, and Grove mentions his contribution of the Polka, Marche Funèbre, and Requiem to the twenty-four variations and fourteen pieces for piano on the Chopsticks Waltz, called the Paraphrases, in which he was joined by Liszt as well as the other members of his own school.
4Bortniansky (bôrt-nyän'-shkî), Dimitri Stepanovich. 1752-1825.
5A Russian composer and choirmaster, to whom belongs the credit of reducing Russian church music to a system. He was born at Gloukoff, a village of Russian-Poland, studied music under Galuppi in St. Petersburg and Venice, and continued his musical education at Rome, Naples, and Bologna. An opera, Quinto Fabio, was produced at Modena in 1778, his Creonte having been given in Venice two years earlier. In 1779 he returned to Russia and was appointed director of the Empress' Church choir; in which he instituted many reforms, writing for the choir a mass and over forty concertos. Bortniansky was the author of much church music, and his compositions rank high. Tschaikowsky edited a complete edition of his works in ten volumes.
7Borwick, Leonard. 1868.
8Celebrated English concert pianist, a distinguished pupil of Clara Schumann. He was born in Essex, England, his father being a lover of music and an amateur violoncellist. Leonard Borwick began piano lessons at five, at the age of eleven was a pupil of Henry Bird, and four years later was sent to Germany, where he studied at Frankfort under Marie Schumann and later with Clara Schumann. After completing his studies with Clara Schumann, he made his debut in Frankfort, playing Beethoven's E flat concerto. His London debut took place at a Philharmonic concert, and here he played Schumann's concerto. Before the Philharmonic Society of Vienna he gave Brahms D minor concerto. He has often played with the famous Joachim Quartet, and has had a very successful career, touring in Germany, Norway, and Sweden, and appearing frequently in London and Paris. He is very fond of the classics and is an excellent interpreter of Saint-Saëns and Liszt.
10Boschi (bôs'-kē), Giuseppe.
11A noted bass singer of the Eighteenth Century. Of his early and later life nothing is known; he is thought to have been a native of Viterbo, Italy, but of the date of his birth, under whom he received his training, and where he first appeared, there is no knowledge. In 1711 he was engaged by Handel to sing in his operas in London, and though at that time bass-parts were proportionally small, Boschi succeeded in making a name for himself. He sang in Handel's Argante, Radamisto, Floridante, Ottone, Flavio, Giulio Cesare, and Tamerlane; in Bononcini's Astar tus, Crispo, Farnace, and Calfurnia; and his powerful voice was heard in the works of several other composers. He made his last London appearance in 1828. Boschi's wife, Francesca Vanini, was a celebrated contralto singer.
13Bosio (bô'zī-ō), Angiolina. 1830-1859.
14An Italian singer, whose short career was most brilliant. She was immensely popular in St. Petersburg. While singing there she came to her death, falling a victim to the uncon genial climate, and dying very sud denly, at the height of her career. She was born at Turin, a member of a family of musicians and actors, and became famous as a mezzosoprano and operatic actress. She studied at Milan, and in that city made her first appearance, at the age of sixteen. She met with pronounced success at Verona, appeared at Copenhagen and was urged to remain. In Madrid she was most enthusiastically received but not in Paris. She visited America, singing in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, where she was very well liked. In 1851, soon after her return to Europe, she married a Greek gentleman named Xindavelonis. She
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