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The new encyclopedia of music and musicians, 1929
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1for strings, a sextet, quartet and 2 trios for piano and strings, a suite for two violins, 4 sonatas for violin, 1 each for viola and for 'cello, the oratorio Die Könige in Israel (incomplete), 9 cantatas, 7 sets of a cappella choruses, many piano-pieces, songs and duets (including Swedish folk-songs). Author of critical essays (1888). List of works by Bagge.
3Norris, Homer Albert (Wayne, Me. 1860–1920, New York). American organist, pupil of the New England Conservatory (Boston) and of Guilmant, Dubois, Godard and Gigout, from 1892 at the Ruggles Street Church in Boston and in 1904–13 at St. George's in New York. He was active in promoting acquaintance with French methods of teaching composition, publishing text-books in harmony (1896) and counterpoint (1899). Wrote the oratorio St. John the Baptist, the cantata Nain, a setting of Whitman's The Flight of the Eagle for three soli, about 60 songs, pieces for organ and for piano. A.
5Norris, Thomas (n. Salisbury, 1741–1790, n. Stourbridge). English tenor and organist, choirboy under Stephens, from 1765 organist at St. John's College, Oxford, and from 1776 at Christ Church Cathedral there. From 1760 he was a favorite singer at provincial festivals and at the Handel Commemorations. Wrote several anthems, glees and catches, besides 6 symphonies for small orchestra. G.
7Noskowski, Sigismund (Warsaw, 1846–1909, do.). Able Polish conductor and composer, trained at the Warsaw Musical Institute and by Kiel and Raif, at first music-master at the Warsaw Blind Institute (where he invented a notation for the blind), from 1876 town-director at Constance and from 1881 again in Warsaw, in 1881–92 conductor of the Musical Society, from 1904 assistant-conductor of the Philharmonic and from 1906 also assistant at the Opera, besides teaching at the Conservatory from 1888. Wrote the operas Livia Quintilla, 1900, Wyrok, 1907, and The Battle at the Boundary-Wall, 1909, the ballet The Feast of Fire, 1902, music for Kraszewski's The Cottage near the Town, 2 operettas, many cantatas, the choral ballad Jasio, 3 symphonies (including From Spring to Spring, 1903), the symphonic poem The Steppe, the overture The Eye of the Sea, orchestral variations on an original theme (Mountain Fantasy) and also on a theme from Chopin's Prelude in A, Gipsy Dances for orchestra, 3 string-quartets, a piano-quartet, piano-pieces, part-songs and songs, with 2 collections of folk-songs (1892, 1900), and text-books in harmony (1902) and counterpoint (1908).
9Nössler, Karl Eduard (Reichenbach, 1863). Saxon organist, pupil of the Leipzig Conservatory, in 1885–87 conductor at the Bremen Opera, from 1888 organist at the Frauenkirche and since 1893 at the Cathedral (succeeding Reinthaler), besides from 1887 conducting men's choruses. He has the title of royal professor. Has written a symphony, an overture, the fairy-play Dornröschen, the patriotic hymn Der Schutz- und Schirmherr, motets, choruses, songs and piano-pieces.
11Noté, Jean (Tournai, 1860–1922, Brussels). Gifted Belgian operatic baritone, pupil of the Ghent Conservatory, appearing in 1886 at Lille, then at Brussels, Lyons and Marseilles, from 1893 at the Paris Opéra and in 1908–09 at the Metropolitan, New York. He sang at the premières of Bruneau's Messidor (1897), Rousseau's Cloche du Rhin (1898), Vidal's La Bourgogne (1898), Hüe's Roi de Paris (1901) and Hillemacher's Orsola (1902). His repertory extends from Rossini to Wagner.
13Notker (830–912). 9th C. G.
15Nottebohm, Martin Gustav (Lüdenscheid, 1817–1882, Gratz). Eminent Westphalian Beethoven specialist, pupil of L. Berger, Dehn, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Sechter, from 1846 living in Vienna. Published two of the Skizzenbücher (1865, '80), a thematic catalogue (1864, 2d ed. 1868, reprint with biography by Kastner, 1913), Beethoveniana, 1872, with Neue Beethoveniana (in Musikal. Wochenblatt from 1875, collected by Mandyczewski, 1887), and Beethovens Studien, 1873 (exercises under Haydn, Albrechtsberger, etc., one vol. only). Author also of a thematic catalogue of Schubert's works (1874) and Mozartiana, 1880. He rendered more or less assistance on the standard editions of Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn and Mozart as well as that of Beethoven. Wrote a piano-quartet, piano-trios and some piano-pieces. G.
17Noufflard, Georges Frédéric (1846–1897, Lugano). French critic and writer, long resident in Florence. Author of a life of Berlioz (1885), and works on his Symphonie Fantastique (1888), on Verdi's Otello (1887) and on Wagner's Lohengrin and his conception of his own work (2 vols. 1891–93, incomplete).
19Nouguès, Jean (Bordeaux, 1876). French composer, writing an opera at fifteen and then studying at Paris and making a sensation with the showy Quo Vadis? in 1909. Has written the operas Le Roi du Papagey (1891), Yannha, 1901, Thamyris, 1904, La Mort de Tintagiles, 1905, Quo Vadis?, 1909, Chiquito, 1909, L'Auberge Rouge, 1910, La Vendetta, 1911, L'Aiglon, 1912, and L'Éclaircie, 1914, the ballets La Danseuse de Pompéi, 1912, and Narcisse, 1913, and the pantomime Le Désire, la Chimère et l'Amour, 1906.
21Nourrit, Adolphe (Paris, 1802–1839, Naples). Gifted, but short-lived, French operatic tenor, pupil of Garcia, making his début at Paris in 1821 and in 1825–37 his father's successor as leading artist at the Opéra, resigning through jealousy of Duprez and, though touring with success in Belgium, southern France and Italy, finally committing suicide. His eminence as singer and actor was attested by the number of works specially written for him or at whose premières he assisted, including La Muette de Portici (1828), Guillaume Tell (1829), Robert le Diable (1832), La Juive (1835), Les Huguenots
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