Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |
Other editions - View all
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Classic Reprint) Theodore Baker No preview available - 2017 |
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: Supplement 1949 Theodore Baker,Nicolas Slonimsky No preview available - 1949 |
Common terms and phrases
April Bach ballet became Berlin Boston Breslau Brussels cantata capp cellist cello chamber-music choral choruses church-music Coll comp composer compositions concert-tours concerts cond conductor court début director dramatic Dresden edited Engl études father flute Friedrich fugue German Grand Grand Opéra Hamburg instrs Italian Italy Johann July June Kapellm Karl Kassel La Scala Leipzig Leipzig Cons London male ch March masses Milan motets Munich musician Musik musique Naples numerous opera Opéra-Comique operettas oratorio orch orchestral organ organist overtures Paris Paris Cons part-songs Petrograd pf.-concerto pf.-pieces pf.-quartet pf.-trio Philh pianist piano pieces poem Prague prize prod prof psalms publ Pupil quartets rôles Rome Royal sang Sept singer singing soli solo sonatas songs string-quartet studied succ success Suite symph symphonies teacher tours trios Univ Venice Vienna violin violinist vocal voices vols Wagner Weimar wrote York
Popular passages
Page 449 - Les Danses des morts, dissertations et recherches historiques, philosophiques, littéraires et musicales sur les divers monuments de ce genre qui existent ou qui ont existé tant en France qu'à l'étranger, accompagnées de la Danse macabre, grande ronde vocale et instrumentale...
Page 415 - The Troubadours: A History of Provencal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages. By FRANCIS HUEFFER.
Page 56 - The First Verse of every Psalm of David, with an Ancient or Modern Chant, in Score, adapted as much as possible to the Sentiment of each Psalm.
Page 83 - The Singing Master's Assistant" (1776), "Music in Miniature" (1779). "The Psalm Singer's Amusement " (1781), " The Suffolk Harmony : Containing Tunes, Fugues and Anthems " (1786), " The Continental Harmony " (1794). Billings was, in his rough way, a pioneer of good church-music in America ; he first used the pitch-pipe, introduced the 'cello into church-choirs, and is said to have originated concerts in New F.ngland.
Page 237 - ENGEL'S (CARL) Music of the Most Ancient Nations ; particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, And Hebrews; with Special Reference to the Discoveries in Western Asia and in Egypt. With 100 Illustrations. 8vo. 16s. ENGLAND (HISTORY or) from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713—83. By LORD MAHON (now Earl Stanhope). Library Edition, 7 Vols. 8vo. 93«.
Page 240 - Rossini, sa vie et ses œuvres" (1854); " Vie et aventures des cantatrices célèbres, précédées des musiciens de l'Empire, et suivies de la vie anecdotique de Paganini
Page 343 - An Historical Enquiry respecting the Performance on the Harp in the Highlands of Scotland, from the earliest times until it was discontinued about the year 1734; to which is prefixed an account of a very ancient Caledonian harp, and of the harp of Queen Mary.
Page 353 - Bédos et tous les progrès et perfectionnements de la facture jusqu'à ce jour, précédé d'une notice historique sur l'orgue, et suivi d'une Biographie des principaux facteurs d'orgues français ou étrangers (3 vols., Paris, 1849; new ed.
Page 279 - Landesbibliothek" at Kassel. Fuhr'mann, Martin Heinrich, b. abt. 1670; d. abt. 1736 as Lutheran cantor in the \Verder Gymnasium, Berlin (since 1704) ; an admirer of Mattheson, and an eminent theorist and critic. He publ. a series of theoretical and polemical treatises ; his earliest pedagogical work is " Musikalischer Trichter, dadurch ein geschickter Informator seinen Informandis die edle Singekunst nach heutiger Manier bald und leicht einbringen kann
Page 417 - A Grammar of Counterpoint"; "The History of Modern Music" (1862); "The Third or Transition Period of Musical History " (1865) ; "The Cultivation of the Speaking Voice"; "Music in the House " (1877) ; and numerous historical and scientific mus.