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The American History and Encyclopedia of music Music Biographies Vol.1, 1910
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1Beard
2Beard was proprietor and manager of Covent Garden. In the latter year he retired from public life, his retirement caused by an increasing deafness. He made his last appearance in public in the opera, Love in a Village. The exact date of Beard's birth is not known, but he lived to be considerably over seventy. In private life he was very highly esteemed.
4Beaulieu (bōl-yū), Marie Désiré. 1791-1863.
5French composer and writer on musical subjects. His real name was Martin, his father being an army officer of Niort. Beaulieu was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatory there under Kreutzer, Méhul and others. In 1810 he won the Grand Prize, but he did not take the five years of travel which it gave him but settled instead at Niort. In this place he founded quartet meetings and a Philharmonic Society in 1829, which became the Association Musicale de l'Ouest. This Society became one of the most successful musical organizations in France and through the energy and ability of its founder did much for musical culture in that country. Festivals were held each year, in different French cities, where the best musical compositions were performed. Beaulieu also founded, in 1866, a vocal society in Paris, called La Société de Chant Classique. At his death he left his fortune to endow both of these organizations. Beside his critical writings on musical subjects, Beaulieu composed a large number of works, some of the most important of which are the operas, Anacréon, and Philadelphie; the lyric pieces, Jeanne d'Arc, and Psyché et l'Amour; the oratorios, l'Hymne du Matin, l'Hymne de la Nuit and L'Immortalité de l'Ame. He also wrote orchestral works, hymns, masses and songs. His best work was, probably, a Requiem, composed in 1819, for the death of Méhul.
7Becher (běkh'-ěr), Alfred Julius. 1803-1848.
8Teacher, editor and composer. He was born, of German parentage, at Manchester, England, and met his death at Vienna, in which city he was tried by court-martial for political offenses and condemned to death. He left England in his childhood and went to live in Germany. Was trained for the profession of law, and practised for awhile at Elberfeld. He studied music at Heidelberg, Berlin, and elsewhere, and in 1840, was appointed teacher of harmony at the London Royal Academy of Music. The following year Becher moved to Vienna, where he served as musical critic of the Wiener Musik-Zeitung and the Sontagsblätter. Of extreme revolutionary views, as editor of Der Radikale, he came under the ban of the Government, and was shot by order of the court-martial. He is the author of many songs and pieces for the piano, and of the two pamphlets, Jenny Lind: eine Skizze ihres Leben; Das niederrheinische Musikfest, aesthetish u historisch betrachtet.
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11Becker
12Born in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Germans. Began studying, when very young, on the violin. Went to Leipsic in 1879, and studied the piano, violin and viola, also theory and composition under Reinecke, Jadassohn, Richter and others. When he returned to America, in 1882, he settled in Cleveland where he has since lived as a teacher and violinist. He organized the Schubert Quartet of Cleveland. His works consist of a cantata on Bayard Taylor's Deukalion; overtures to Byron's Lara and to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; an unfinished music-drama, Salammbô; several compositions for strings, violin music and songs. He has been called by some, "the greatest of American composers." His music is all in manuscript. Although much of it has been performed, none of it has yet been printed. Several of his works, which were given in Germany, won great favor.
14Becker, Albert Ernst Anton. 1834-1899.
15Talented German composer. Studied first at Quedlinburg, where he was born, and later at Berlin. Became teacher in Scharwenka's Conservatory in Berlin in 1881, and in 1891 became conductor of the Cathedral choir of Berlin. His first success as a composer was gained in 1861, when his Symphony in G minor was awarded a prize by a musical society in Vienna. His other compositions of note are a Mass in B minor; Reformation cantata; an oratorio; some orchestral and
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