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Albinoni, Tommaso (1671-1750)
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Italian composer and violinist.
Born in Venice, he became one of the first composers to write concertos for solo violin.
He wrote prolifically - his output included about fifty operas - and was much admired by Bach,
who wrote keyboard fugues on themes by him (Bach Gesellschaft, xxxvi, page 173, 178).
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Andreae, Volkmar (1879-1962)
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Swiss composer and conductor, principal of the Zurich Conservatoire from 1914 until 1939.
His works include two symphonies, two operas - Ratcliff (Duisburg, 1914) and Abenteuer des Casanova (Dresden, 1924), chamber music, choral music and songs.
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Andriessen, Hendrik (born 1892)
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Dutch composer and organist.
His works, many of them religious, include Masses and a Te Deum.
He also wrote three symphonies, chamber music and songs.
His son, Juriaan Andriessen (born 1925), is a composer, pianist and conductor.
He has written a sinfonia concertante for brass and orchestra, incidental music and chamber music.
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Andriessen, Willem (1887-1964)
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Dutch composer and pianist, who became director of the Amsterdam Conservatory in 1937.
He wrote a piano concerto, a scherzo for orchestra, and choral music.
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Anet, Jean-Baptiste (1661-1755)
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French violinist, who studied with Corelli in Rome and who was described by Philippe-Louis Daquin (son of the composer)
as the greatest violinist that had ever existed. He was one of the
first violinists to appear at the Concert Sprirituel, founded by
Philidor in Paris in 1725.
His compositions, apart from the evidence of virtuosity, are unimportant.
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Anfossi, Pasquale (1727-1797)
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Italian opera composer, a pupil of Picinni, whose influence shows itself in an inclination to sentimentality.
Anfossi in turn influenced the young Mozart, particularly through his La finta giardiniera (Rome,1774), the libretto of wich was reset by Mozart in the following year.
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Antheil, George (1900-1959)
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U.S. composer and pianist, pupil of Bloch.
He spent part of his life in France, winning notoriety by the performance in Paris of his Ballet Mecanique (1925).
The score includes various mechanical devices for producing sound, among them aeroplane propellers and motor-horns.
His first opera, Transatlantic (Frankfurt, 1930), made use of jazz rhythms. His other operas include Helen Retires (New York, 1934), and Volpone (after Jonson).
Two works for piano solo, the sonata Sauvage and Airplane sonata,
created a scandal when first performed, but his later music proved more
conservative. From 1939 he wrote a quantity of music for Hollywood
films, and in 1945 produced a extremely entertaining autobiography, Bad
Boy of Music. Apart from music, his interests included glandular
criminology (on wich he wrote two books) and military prophecy (wich also yielded a book); in addition he wrote a regular "advice to the lovesick" column.
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