The Harmonicon was an influential monthly journal of music published in London from 1823 to 1833. It was edited at one period by William Scrope Ayrton 1804 1885. Issues contained articles on diverse topics, including reviews of musical compositions, reviews of concert and opera performances, news of contemporary musicians and composers, features on music theory and the physics of sound, and biographical sketches of important musical figures. DEFAULTSORT Harmonicon, The Category Publications established in 1823 Category Monthly magazines Category Defunct magazines of the United Kingdom Category Publications disestablished in 1833 Europe music mag stub UK culture mag stub ... more details
Joseph Czerny June 17, 1785 ref cite book last Frank first Paul title Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon fur Musiker und Freunde der Musik year 1936 publisher Regensburg Gustave Bosse page 730 coauthors Wilhelm Altmann ref , Ho ovice January 7, 1842, Vienna, Austria was a composer , pianist , and piano teacher. ref name thayer cite book last Thayer first Alexander Wheelock title Thayer s life of Beethoven, Volume 2 year 1991 publisher Princeton UP isbn 9780691027180 pages 771 url http books.google.com books?id ND14o0R9VuUC&pg PA771 coauthors Elliot Forbes, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann, Henry Edward Krehbiel accessdate 10 December 2010 ref and Among his compositions is Variation music variation number 5 ref cite book last Grove first George title Grove s dictionary of music and musicians year 1910 publisher Macmillan page 233 url http books.google.com books?id 3Qw6AAAAIAAJ&pg PA233 coauthors John Alexander Fuller Maitland accessdate 10 December 2010 ref for Part II of the Vaterl ndischer K nstlerverein . Among his pupils were Leopoldine Blahetka 1809 1885 and Ludwig van Beethoven s nephew, Karl. ref name thayer His variations were not well received by the English magazine The Harmonicon His variations, seven in number, have nothing new in them they pursue the same track that has been beaten for many years past, and have, under various names, nauseated the ear during a long quarter of a century at least. ref cite journal title Review of Music Variations upon the Vienna Waltz journal The Harmonicon year 1823 volume 1 page 146 url http books.google.com books?id CuYqAAAAYAAJ&pg PA146 accessdate 10 December 2010 ref References Reflist Category 1785 births Category 1842 deaths Category Austrian composers composer stub ... more details
italictitle Otheruses Diplura disambiguation DISPLAYTITLE Diplura spider Taxobox name Diplura regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Arachnid a ordo Spider Araneae subordo Mygalomorphae familia Dipluridae genus Diplura genus authority Carl Ludwig Koch C. L. Koch , 1850 diversity link List of Dipluridae species Diplura diversity 20 species type species Diplura macrura Mygale macrura type species authority C. L. Koch, 1841 range map range map width 250px subdivision ranks Species subdivision Diplura annectens br Diplura argentina br Diplura cathariensis br Diplura erlandi br Diplura fasciata br Diplura garbei br Diplura garleppi br Diplura lineata br Diplura macrura br Diplura maculata br Diplura nigra br Diplura nigridorsi br Diplura paraguayensis br Diplura parallela br Diplura petrunkevitchi br Diplura riveti br Diplura sanguinea br Diplura studiosa br Diplura taunayi br Diplura uniformis br Diplura is a genus of funnel web tarantula s found in South America and Cuba belonging to the subfamily Diplurinae . They possess a lyra on their prolateral maxilla e. Diplura sp. can be distinguished from Trechona sp. by the number of seta e this lyra consists of. They differ from Harmonicon sp. by the leg formula 1423 in Harmonicon, rather than 4123 in other genera of the subfamily and the shape of the lyra bristles. References Aut Platnick, Norman I. 2008 http research.amnh.org entomology spiders catalog DIPLURIDAE.html The world spider catalog , version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History . http www.dipluridae.de Taxonomy, housing and captive breeding of Dipluridae sp. including key to all genera Ausserer, A. 1871a . Beitr ge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden Familie der Territelariae Thorell Mygalidae Autor . Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien 21 117 224. Baptista, R. L. C. and D. R., Pedroso 2005 . Diplura lineata Lucas, 1857 redescri o, sinon mias e notas sobre distribui o Araneae Dipluridae 239. B cherl, W., A Timotheo da Costa & S. Lucas 1971 . Revis o de alguns tipos de ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name The Golden Morning Breaks Type Album Artist Colleen musician Colleen Cover TheGoldenMorningBreaks.jpg Released May 23, 2005 Recorded Genre Ambient music Ambient Length 49 05 Label The Leaf Label Leaf small BAY48 small Producer Reviews Pitchfork Media 8.0 10 http www.pitchforkmedia.com article record review 16452 Colleen The Golden Morning Breaks link Allmusic Rating 4.5 5 Allmusic class album id r736948 pure url yes link Piero Scaruffi Rating 7.5 10 http www.scaruffi.com vol7 colleen.html link Last album Everyone Alive Wants Answers br 2003 This album The Golden Morning Breaks br 2005 Next album Mort Aux Vaches Colleen album Mort Aux Vaches br 2006 The Golden Morning Breaks is an album by Colleen musician Colleen , released in 2005. It takes on a more natural and less synthetic sound than its predecessor, 2003 s Everyone Alive Wants Answers , which was almost entirely sample music sampled . The cover art is by Iker Spozio. A video was made for the song I ll Read You a Story by Jon Nordstrom. Track listing Summer Water 3 39 Floating in the Clearest Night 2 36 The Heart Harmonicon 3 53 Sweet Rolling 4 04 The Happy Sea 3 00 I ll Read You a Story 6 51 Bubbles Which on the Water Swim 3 11 Mining in the Rain 3 11 The Golden Morning Breaks 5 22 Everything Lay Still 13 18 External links http www.posteverything.com artists release.php?id 10299 The Leaf Label s page for the album http www.lekplats.com videos.html Page featuring video for I ll Read You a Story DEFAULTSORT Golden Morning Breaks, The Category Colleen albums Category 2005 albums 2000s indietronica album stub fr The Golden Morning Breaks it The Golden Morning Breaks ... more details
James Kent 13 March 1700, Winchester 6 May 1776 was an English organist and composer. Kent was a chorister of Winchester Cathedral and the King s Chapel. He was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge , where he worked until about 1737. Then he was organist in Winchester of both the cathedral and the college. He retired in 1774 and was buried after his death in 1776 in the north aisle of the cathedral. He was a pupil of William Croft and assisted William Boyce composer William Boyce in publishing his collection of cathedral music. Works Anthems Hearken unto this, O Man. When the Son of Man. Give the Lord the honour due. Thine, o Lord, is the Greatness. etc. Sources http www.oxforddnb.com index 15 101015417 James Kent biography http www.ofchoristers.net Chapters WinchesterChoristers.htm Winchester Choristers http books.google.co.jp books?id HugqAAAAYAAJ&pg PA313&lpg PA313&dq James Kent composer &source bl&ots MGpz tc 6V&sig POz6Xu3jOFHmjMjyv2rEaZjd Lo&hl en&ei a4LoTJboD430ca6C0dwK&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 8&ved 0CE8Q6AEwBw v onepage&q James 20Kent 20 composer &f false Memoir of James Kent in The Harmonicon , Volume 8, pp. 313 314, by William Ayrton, accessed 21 November 2010 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kent, James ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION English organist and composer DATE OF BIRTH 13 March 1700 PLACE OF BIRTH Winchester DATE OF DEATH 6 May 1776 PLACE OF DEATH Winchester DEFAULTSORT Kent, James Category English composers Category Winchester Cathedral Category 1700 births Category 1776 deaths UK composer stub ... more details
William M. Goodrich 21 July 1777 in Templeton, Massachusetts Templeton , orcester County, Massachusetts 15 September 1833 was an Organ builder in the United States . William M. Goodrich of Boston, Massachusetts was an important American builder of a large number of notable Organ music pipe organs from its inception in 1805 until its closure in 1833. His Father Ebenezer Goodrich was Farmer in Templeton. His brother name was also named Ebenezer Goodrich. His brother in law was Thomas Appleton . Goodrich had a major part in introducing free reeds. blockquote In June, 1811, Maelzel s Pan Harmonicon was brought to Boston, from Europe, and Mr. Goodrich was employed in putting it up, and in exhibiting it. In September, 1811, it was taken down, and removed to New York, where it was put up for exhibition. In doing this, also, Mr. Goodrich was employed. It was afterwards removed to other cities blockquote ... Most of the dates, contained in this account of his life, were given by Mr. Goodrich to the writer, altogether from memory. It Is possible, therefore, that some portion of them may not be strictly persons, whose inclinations and pursuits corresponded with his own. ref The New England Magazine, Band 6, from 1834, Page 25 45, http books.google.at books?id ZN0XAQAAIAAJ&dq William 20Goodrich 20organ&pg PA25 v onepage&q William 20Goodrich 20organ&f false Online ref Wikisource http en.wikisource.org wiki William M. Goodrich Biography William M. Goodrich Notes Reflist See also Anton Reinlein Persondata NAME Goodrich, William M. ALTERNATIVE NAME SHORT NOTICE US Organ builder BIRTHDAY 21 July 1777 BORN Templeton Massachusetts Templeton , Massachusetts DIED 15 September 1833 STERBEORT DATE OF BIRTH 1777 DATE OF DEATH 1833 DEFAULTSORT Goodrich, William M Category 19th century American people Category American musical instrument makers Category Clockmakers Category People from Boston, Massachusetts Category 1777 births Category 1833 deaths de William M. Goodrich ... more details
grand harmonicon objectview.aspx?page 1&sort 0&sortdir asc&keyword glass &fp 1&dd1 18&dd2 0&vw 1&collID 18&OID 180015146&vT 1 Grand Harmonicon, Baltimore, ca. 1830 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... more details
Vincent Wing 1619 1668 was an English astrologer and astronomer, professionally a land surveyor. Life He was the eldest son of Vincent Wing 1587 1660 of North Luffenham , Rutland , where he was born on 9 April 1619. The family was of Welsh origin. He acquired some self taught knowledge of Latin, Greek, and mathematics, In 1648 he became known as joint author, with William Leybourn , of Urania Practica . In the following year he published independently A Dreadful Prognostication , containing astrological predictions. His Harmonicon Coeleste appeared in 1651 his major work, entitled Astronomia Britannica , in 1652 2nd ed. 1669 . This was a complete system of astronomy on Copernican principles, and included numerous tables it followed Seth Ward bishop Seth Ward in formulating Kepler s second law . ref Derek Gjertsen, The Newton Handbook 1986 , p. 613. ref It was followed in 1656 by Astronomia Instaurata , and in 1665 by Examen Astronomiae Carolina , exposing the alleged errors of Thomas Street , who promptly retaliated with a castigation of the envy and ignorance of Vincent Wing. Wing issued ephemerides for twenty years 1652 1671 , the most accurate of the time according to John Flamsteed , who maintained a correspondence with him. He also wrote for the Stationers Company an almanac styled Olympia Domata , the annual sale of which averaged 50,000 copies. The publication was continued by his descendants at irregular intervals until 1805. Wing resided at North Luffenham, but occasionally came to London for learned company. He contracted Tuberculosis consumption , of which he died on 20 September 1668, aged 49. His friend and biographer John Gadbury commended his wit. He became involved in controversis, and sides were taken in these disputes Flamsteed speaks of Wing s sectaries. A convinced astrologer, he edited in 1668 George Atwel s Defence of the Divine Art , drew the scheme of his own nativity published in Gadbury s Brief Relation , and is said to have made a correct ... more details
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename Imperatrice image caption sire Caruso horse Caruso grandsire Polymelian GB dam Cinquepace horse Cinquepace damsire Brown Bud sex Filly foaled 1938 country United States colour Dark bay or brown breeder W. H. LaBoyteaux owner W. H. LaBoyteaux to 1947 Meadow Farm after 1947 trainer record 31 11 7 2 earnings 37,255 race New England Oaks, New Rochelle Handicap, Test Stakes , Fall Highweight Handicap . awards honours updated unreferenced date October 2009 Imperatrice 1938 1972 was an American Thoroughbred Horse racing racehorse and broodmare . She was the Wiktionary dam Etymology 2 dam of Somethingroyal and 2nd dam of United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing U.S. Triple Crown champion and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Hall of Fame inductee, Secretariat horse Secretariat by Bold Ruler . A Bay horse Bay mare bred in New Jersey, Imperatrice was bred by W.H. Laboyteaux. In 1947 Imperatrice was purchased by Christopher Chenery Christopher Chenery s Meadow Stud. She raced 31 times with 11 wins, 7 shows, and 2 places. Some of her winning efforts included the New England Oaks, New Rochelle Handicap, the Test Stakes , and the Fall Highweight Handicap . Imperatrice lived to the age of 34. She was the dam of winners Imperial Hill Hill Prince , Scattered Whirlaway , Speedwell Bold Ruler , Squared Away2 Piping Rock and was the 3rd dam of successful New York sire Cure the Blues through daughter Speedwell . Influence Imperatrice s influence is not limited only to Thoroughbreds, but Quarter Horses as well, as Imperatrice is the 4th dam of legendary Quarter Horse Dash For Cash through daughter Scattered. Imperatrice is considered to be a Reines de Course. ref http www.reines de course.com reine list.htm List of Reines de Course Bot generated title ref Breeding Pedigree name Imperatrice f Caruso m Cinquepace ff Polymelian fm Sweet Music mf Brown Bud mm Assignation fff Polymelus ffm Pasquita fmf Harmonicon fmm Ivette mff Brown ... more details
William Ayrton 22 February 1777 8 May 1858 , ref cite book last Sadie first Stanley ed authorlink Stanley Sadie year 1992 title The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , vol. 1, p. 264, Leanne Langley William Ayrton publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford id ISBN 978 0 19 522186 2 ref was an English impresario and music critic. Ayrton was the younger son of Dr. Edmund Ayrton , and was born in London. On 17 May 1803 he married Marianne, the daughter of the composer Samuel Arnold . In 1816 he went abroad to engage singers for the Italian opera at the Her Majesty s Theatre King s Theatre , of which he undertook the direction in the following year, producing for the first time in England Mozart s Don Giovanni , and introducing to English audiences such great artists as Giuditta Pasta , Violante Camporese, Gaetano Crivelli and Giuseppe Ambrogietti. In spite of a very successful season Ayrton was obliged by the disputes of the company to retire from the direction. In 1821 he again under the management of John Ebers took the post of musical director, but owing to the factious opposition he encountered from the committee he was again forced to resign. The remainder of his life he devoted entirely to literary pursuits, in which, both as a critic and writer in music, he occupied for many years a position far in advance of his contemporaries. From 1823 to 1833 he edited and contributed largely to the Harmonicon, a periodical the value of which has hardly been exceeded by any of its successors. In 1834 5 he published his Sacred Minstrelsy, and in 1834 5 6 the work known as the Musical Library, one of the earliest and best cheap collections of vocal and instrumental music. Ayrton was a F.R.S. , a F.S.A. , and one of the original members of the Royal Institution and the Athen um Club . He died at Bridge Street, Westminster, on 8 March 1858. References reflist DNB wstitle Ayrton, William Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ayrton, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHOR ... more details
File George Hogarth.jpg thumb George Hogarth George Hogarth 6 September 1783 12 February 1870 was a Scottish newspaper editor , music critic , and musicologist . He authored several books on opera and Victorian musical life in addition to contributing articles to various publications. Born in Carfraemill, Scottish Borders , Hogarth studied law at the University of Edinburgh . He practiced law during the first two decades of the 19th century counting among his clients Sir Walter Scott . He first worked as a music critic for The Harmonicon during the 1820s and early 1830s. From 1846 1866 he worked as a music critic for The Daily News UK The Daily News , a paper which was founded by the novelist Charles Dickens . He had previously met Dickens in 1834 while they were both working for the Morning Chronicle . In 1836 Dickens married Hogarth s eldest daughter Catherine Dickens Catherine . One of his younger daughters, Georgina Hogarth Georgina , was Dickens housekeeper, adviser, and, after Dickens death, the editor of The Letters Of Charles Dickens From 1833 To 1870 . From 1850 1864 Hogarth served as the Royal Philharmonic Society s Secretary. During the last years of his life he worked as an editor for the Evening Chronicle . He died in London in 1870 at the age of 86. He is buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery . Works Lives of celebrated musicians Beethoven 1800, R. Cocks & Co., London Musical history, biography, and criticism being a general survey of music, from the earliest period to the present time 1835, J.W. Parker, London Memoirs of the musical drama, Vol. 1 1838, R. Bentley, London Memoirs of the musical drama, Vol. 2 1838, R. Bentley, London Musical history, biography, and criticism, Vol. 1 1838, Da Capo Press, New York Musical history, biography, and criticism, Vol. 2 1838, Da Capo Press, New York Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England, Vol. 1 1851, R. Bentley, London Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England, Vol. 2 1851, ... more details
of 1810 to 1812 with Johann Nepomuk M lzel s Pan Harmonicon that was sent to Boston and then exhibited in several towns. M rzel had a very good relationship to Vogler while in Europe so his Pan Harmonicon ... In June 1811 a cuious instrument called a Pan Harmonicon was brought to Boston. It was invented by Maelzel ... to complete, with the assistance of others, a Pan Harmonicon, in imitation of that of Maelzel. Mr. Savage ... more details
Year nav topic 1816 science The year 1816 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Mathematics John Farey, Sr. John Farey notes the Farey sequence . ref Philosophical Magazine 47 385 6. 1816. ref Medicine Ren Laennec invents the stethoscope . ref cite book first R. T. H. last Laennec title De l Auscultation M diate ou Trait du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur location Paris publisher Brosson & Chaud year 1819 chapter preface ref Caleb Parry publishes An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, Cause and Varieties of the Arterial Pulse , describing the mechanisms for the pulse . ref cite web title Parry, Caleb Hillier url http www.whonamedit.com doctor.cfm 397.html work Whonamedit? accessdate 2011 02 27 ref Mineralogy Johann Fischer von Waldheim publishes Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite in Moscow , the first scientific treatise on the mineral turquoise . Physics Sir David Brewster 1781 in science 1781 1868 in science 1868 discovers stress birefringence . Technology The Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill , a temporary iron wire footbridge erected across the Schuylkill River , north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , is the first wire cable suspension bridge in history. ref cite journal last Peterson first Charles E. title The Spider Bridge a curious work at the Falls of Schuylkill, 1816 journal Canal History and Technology Proceedings volume 5 date 22 March 1986 pages 243 59 ref Johann Nepomuk Maelzel begins production of the metronome with a scale. ref cite journal first J. de Vos last Willems url http books.google.com books?id HugqAAAAYAAJ&pg PA17 title The Metronome journal The Harmonicon volume 8 year 1830 accessdate 2011 05 18 ref Rev. Robert Stirling obtains a patent in the United Kingdom for the Stirling engine Stirling hot air engine . approx. date Simeon North in New England produces a practicable milling machine for working metal. ref cite book authorlink Diana Muir first Diana last Muir title Reflectio ... more details
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The Chapel Royal of Naples was the sacred musical establishment of the Spanish court in Naples which began with the Crown of Aragon Catalan Aragonese Court of Naples, ref Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples p33 Allan W. Atlas 2008 Thus at precisely the midpoint of the fifteenth century, Naples could boast one of the largest chapels in the musical mainstream. ref and continued to the Habsburgs ref The Royal Chapel in the time of the Habsburgs music and ceremony p162 Juan Jos Carreras L pez, Bernardo Jos Garc a Garc a, Tess Knighton 2005 chapter 13 The Royal Chapel in the Etiquettes of the Viceregal Court of Naples during the Eighteenth Century Dinko Fabris The structure of the most prestigious musical institution in Naples, remained almost unaltered over two centuries of Spanish rule as regards the model created during the period of the Aragonese court. From the end of the fifteenth century, its musical resources consisted of both singers and musicians ... ... ref the Bourbons , and Joseph Napoleon . ref The Harmonicon 214 1823 The family of the Bourbons being compelled to quit Naples, King Joseph Napoleon, who ascended the throne, confirmed Paisiello in his situation of Master of the Chapel Royal, of Composer and Director of Music to the Household and Chapel, ... ref Maestri di cappella, vice masters and organists Masters of the chapel included The first maestro Diego Ortiz arrived in the entourage of Viceroy Pedro de Toledo in 1540, another Spanish successor, a Flemish maestro, then another Fleming Giovanni de Macque 1599 1614 , the first Italian Giovanni Maria Trabaci 1614 46 , the Neapolitans Andrea Falconieri 1647 56 , and Filippo Coppola 1658 80 , then the Venetian Pietro Andrea Ziani 1680 84 , followed by Alessandro Scarlatti 1684 , then again 1708 25 , alternating in his absences with Francesco Mancini 1708, then again 1725 1737 , ref Journal of the American Musicological Society Volumes 24 25 American Musicological Society 1971 1725 Francesco Mancini, p ... more details
wise to avoid direct contact with the larger members Diplura sp., Harmonicon sp., Linothele sp., and Trechona ..., Cuba Harmonicon small Frederick Octavius Pickard Cambridge F. O. P Cambridge , 1896 small French Guiana ... more details
Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel 1777 28th September 1826 was the inventor of the first successful metronome . He also invented the componium , an automatic instrument that could make endless variations on a musical theme. Winkel was born in Lippstadt ,1777, settled in Amsterdam shortly after 1800, and in 1814, while experimenting with pendulums , he discovered that a pendulum weighted on both sides of the Lever pivot could beat steady time, even for the slow tempos often used in European classical music . Winkel donated the first model of his musical cronometer , dated November 27, 1814, to the Hollandsch Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten in Amsterdam. Unfortunately he did not appropriately protect his idea, and by 1816, Johann Maelzel Johann Nepomuk M lzel added a Scale to the Instrument and patented it as M lzel Metronome, which remains in use to this day. Thus, even today M lzel often incorrectly receives credit for what was rightly Winkel s creation. The original model is preserved in a Dutch museum. AMSTERDAM. On the 28th September died in this city, M. Winkel, well known for his skill in mechanical science, particularly as applied to music. As a proof of his talents, we need only mention the Componium, or Musical Improvisatore , which excited great interest amongst connoisseurs, particularly at Paris. Several other specimens of musical mechanism do honour to his talents but in private life he was modest, and others often obtained credit for inventions which M. Winkel might justly have claimed. The Metronome, usually called Maelzel s, ought to bear the name of Winkel, for the original idea was his although it is true that Maelzel brought to perfection the instrument which was invented by the Dutch mechanic. Revue Encyclopidique. ref The Harmonicon, Band 4,Teil 1, William Ayrton 1826, Seite 250 http books.google.at books?id p8IJAQAAMAAJ&dq Winkel 20Metronom&pg PA250&ci 96 2C382 2C405 2C202&source bookclip Online ref German Text would need tran ... more details
Other people2 John Parry disambiguation John Parry File JohnParry.png frame right John Parry 18 February 1776 in Wales 1776 &ndash 8 April 1851 in Wales 1851 , commonly known by his bardic name Bardd Alaw , was a Wales Welsh harp ist and composer. Biography Parry was born in Denbigh , in northern Wales, the son of a stonemason. He taught himself to play the fife on an instrument that he made himself from a piece of cane, and a dance master who lived nearby taught him the rudiments of the clarinet, which he used to accompany singers in church. ref name flageolets http www.flageolets.com biographies parry.php John Parry , flageolets.com, accessed 9 February 2010 ref In 1793, Parry joined the Denbighshire militia s volunteers band, becoming its conductor in 1797. He became a master of the harp, the clarinet and the flageolet and learned to play many other instruments. In 1807, he left the band and settled in London, where his son, the entertainer John Orlando Parry , was born. At a concert at Covent Garden , in the same year, he performed on two flageolets set together in frame. It is thought that this inspired the flageolet maker William Bainbridge to invent his double flageolet. ref http www.flageolets.com articles onflageolets.php John Parry, On Flageolets , Harmonicon Part II , 1830, pp. 499 500 The Pleasant Companion The Flageolets Site ref Parry subsequently became this instrument s most famous player, teacher and proponent. ref http flageolets.com biographies parry.php Biography of John Parry The Pleasant Companion The Flageolets Site ref By 1809, he began to compose and publish vocal compositions, especially ballads, and simple pieces for the harp and piano, as well as duets for flute and other wind instruments. He also became a facile orchestrator. The same year, he was appointed musical director at Vauxhall Gardens and composed much of the music performed there. ref name flageolets Parry soon published a collection of Welsh melodies, for which the Cambrian So ... more details
review appeared in The Harmonicon London Longman etc., 1832 , Vol 10, p. 216. ref His daughter by his ... had that clever dog Burney s Musical Tour in my eye. ref Memoir of Dr. Burney, Mus. Doc., F. R. S. In The Harmonicon ... more details
Meyerbeer operas Il crociato in Egitto The Crusade in Egypt is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer , with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi . It was first performed at La Fenice theatre, Venice on 7 March, 1824 . The part of Armando was sung by the famous castrato , Giovanni Velluti castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti the opera was probably the last ever written to feature a castrato. It is the last of Meyerbeer s series of operas in Italian language Italian , and became the foundation of the composer s international success. Early performances and reception After its successful Venetian premiere, Il Crociato was the first of Meyerbeer s operas to be performed in London His Majesty s Theatre , 3 June 1825 , also with Velluti in the cast . This encouraged Gioacchino Rossini Rossini , who was then managing the Com die Italienne Th tre Italien , to arrange for its performance in Paris , where the role of Armando was taken by the mezzo soprano , Giuditta Pasta . Over the next twenty to thirty years the opera was performed in almost every major opera house in Europe, and even in Mexico City , Havana and Constantinople . The opera formed the basis for the composer s future great success. As remarked by the critic of the London magazine The Harmonicon in 1825 Of all living composers, Meyerbeer is the one who most happily combines the easy, flowing and expressive melodies of Italy with the severer beauties, the grander accomplishments, of the German school. This formula of combining the strengths of both operatic schools, as well as of dramatic stage spectacle and flexible and imaginative use of the orchestra, whilst fully displayed in Il crociato , was to produce maximum effect with Meyerbeer s series of Grand Opera s, commencing with Robert le Diable opera Robert le diable in 1831. While it has not been staged complete in the 20th century there have been concert performances in both London and New York which were recorded on LP. A staged revival was promised in Venice for ... more details
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