Neef, Prtissia

Oct. 28, 1830, Came to America at II as immigrant: in midst of hard work studied mus* 22 AR3NSXY with his father and Singcnbeiger m Milwaukee, then with I them berg or, Wullner, and others in Geimany; conducted in Cleveland and T.wi voc; teacher m N Y. - s.*»!, (1900 People’s Symph Concerts, a succe ful attempt to give good 01 ch. concerts, with simple instruction, at low rates Arensky (a-r6n-ski), Anton Step a nov itch, comp i. b Nouunod, July 30, 1862, d. Tenoki, 1 inland, Pel) 25, 1906. Soil ol a ph jeuM, pupil ol Johannsen and ii.sk \ -Km snkov at St Petersburg Cons p»oL ol haimony and comp mipci'u! Cons Moscow 1883, lnembei of Council ol Synodal School oi Church Mus conductor, succeeding Balakuev, oi Impel lal Court Choir, 1895-1901, instructor at St. Pcteisburg Cons Composed 3 operas, cantatas, songs, 2 sjmphnmos, chamher music (pf. trio* esp(‘(*iall\ well-known) Sut>cnonty appeals chiefly in chamber mus and songs; operatic style is saul to bo a compromise between declamatory and melodic; chuich mus rather florid, often made effective use of folk-tunes Ariosti (a-n-os'-te), Attilio, compr b Bologna, 1660, d theie, abt 1740 Composed opera Dajnc 16S6, at Venice; conducted court theatre, Berlin, went to London, 1716, [wrote. Muzio Sccrola with Bononcmi and Handel, outshone by Ihmdel, w’as hononibly dismi ed from Italian o|>oru, 1727, and withdrew to Italy Composed 15 operas, 2 oratorios, and po ibly v)lumo of cantatas. Aristides (a -is-t i-des) Quin til i an us, writer. (1. Greece, abt. A. I). 160 One of most satisfactory writers on Greek music, author of treatise in three books in which the theory of the Aristoxenean School is presented in detail. Aristox'enos, writer, b. Tarontum, abt. 354 B. C To him we owe almost cnfircly our knowledge of ancient Greek music, lie came in contact with So crates, was pupil of Xenophilus, the Pythagorean, and of Aristotle **11 is services to music consisted in, firstly, the accurate determination of the scope of musical science lest it should ou the one hand ARNE degenerate into empiricism or on the other hand lose itself in mathematical physics, and, secondly, in the application to all the questions and problems of music of a deeper and truer conception of the ultimate nature of music itself. By these two discoveries he accomplished a revolution m the philosophy of the ai t.” (II S. Macron The Harmonr ics of A Oxford, 1902 )