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The American History and Encyclopedia of music Music Biographies Vol.1, 1910
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1Altès
2the violin under Habeneck, and harmony and composition with Bazin and Carafa. In 1845, he became a member of the Opéra band, in 1871, was appointed deputy-conductor of the Opéra, and from 1879 to 1887 held the post of conductor. Among his compositions are a string-quartet, a sonata for piano and violin, and a symphony. In 1881 he received the decoration of the Legion of Honor.
4Altès, Joseph Henri. 1826-1895.
5French flute-player, brother of the preceding. He was born at Rouen, and studied under his father, beginning music at a very early age. Became a pupil at the Paris Conservatory, and from 1868 to 1894, was a professor there. He was an excellent flute-player, played at the Grand Opéra, Paris, and wrote considerable music for the flute.
7Alvarez (äl-vä-rä), Albert Raymond. 1860-
8French operatic tenor. A man of splendid physique and a very fine actor. Born at Bordeaux. Began his musical studies when very young. At the age of eighteen he entered the army as musical conductor, but after five years gave up his military career and went to Paris to study music. Made great progress at the Conservatory, shortly making his debut at the Royal Opera in Ghent and his first appearance in Paris in 1892, at the Grand Opéra, as Faust. He made successful tours in Spain, Russia and England, and in 1898-1899 visited the United States. His repertory includes forty-five operas, in eleven of which he created the principal parts. He has been most successful in Romeo and Juliet, Aida, and Le Prophète.
10Alvary (äl-vä-rē), Max. 1858-1898.
11German dramatic tenor. His real name was Achenbach, his father being the celebrated painter, Andreas Achenbach. He was born at Düsseldorf, and made his debut at Weimar. He won great fame as a Wagnerian singer, and was most successful in the role of Siegfried. While the possessor of a very good voice, he was especially remarkable for his handsome presence. He visited the United States many times, enjoying a great success here in 1884-1889. Alvery died in 1898 at his country-seat in Thuringia.
13Ambros
14Amati (ä-mä'-tē) family.
15Italian family of celebrated violin-makers, who lived and worked at Cremona in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Andrea, born about 1520, was the first celebrated member of the family. He was, perhaps, a pupil of one of the great violin-makers of Brescia, but his violins differed greatly from those made before his time. Very few of his instruments are to be found, those preserved being of a small pattern, with beautiful wood and amber colored varnish and of a very graceful outline. Nicolo, his younger brother, made excellent bass viols and his two sons, Antonio and Geronimo, produced violins larger than their father's and greatly improved upon his model. The work of these brothers was very important in the development of the violin. The most noted of the six famous Amati was Geronimo's son, Nicolo, who lived from 1596 to 1684. In the main, he kept to the Amati model in making his violins, but he made many improvements, his proportions being better, his outlines more graceful and the thickness of the wood being better calculated, his instruments thus gaining greatly in power and intensity of tone. Most of his instruments were small, but he made some large violins, called Grand Amatis. These are very high priced. Andrea Guarnieri and Antonio Stradivari were his pupils. Geronimo, his son, the last of the Amatis, was an inferior maker and did nothing to increase the fame of the family.
17Ambros, August Wilhelm. 1816-1876.
18Noted writer on musical history and criticism, also composer and pianist. Born near Prague, Bohemia, and educated at the University of Prague. Ambros studied law and until his fiftieth year was in the Austrian Civil Service, but he devoted all his leisure time to music, learned to play the piano alone and studied composition and counterpoint without a teacher. After 1850 he published a series of essays on musical topics, and in 1860 he was engaged by the publisher, Leuckart, to write a History of Music. This was his life work and he all but accomplished it, in the most brilliant manner. Unfortunately, he died before completing the fourth volume. After his death, the fourth volume was finished from notes and a fifth
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