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(frés-k6-bal’-dé), Girolamo, Ferrara, 1583—(buried) Rome, March 2, 1644; the greatest organist of his time, a revolutionist in harmony and important developer of fugue and notation; he was so famous that 30,000 people attended his first performance as organist of St. Peter’s, Rome (1610, or —14); pupil of Luzzacchi; organist at Mechlin probably 1607; c. org.-pcs., fugues, church-music, biog. by Haberl. (fro i’-dén-bérkh), etc.; Wm., Raubacher Hiitte, Pru ia, March 11, 1838—Schweidnitz, 22, 1928; studied in Leipzig; th.-cond. in various places; 1865, cond. of the Cecilia Singing Society, and the Synagogenverein, Wiesbaden; 1870, founded a Cons., and till 1886, cond. the Singakademie; later opera-cond. at Augsburg and (1889) Ratisbon;° 1895, choir dir. at Gedachtniskirche, Berlin; c. many operas, comic; symph. poem, etc. (fréd-z6-lé’-né), Erminia, Orvieto, 1818—Paris, 1884; soprano; début, 1838.