Vasseur

(vds-stir), Léon (Félix Aug. Jos.), Bapaume, Pas-de-Calais, May 28, 1844—Paris, 1917; studied Ecole Nie der meyer; organist Versailles Cath.; cond. Folies Bergéres and the Concerts de Paris (1882); prod. over 30 light operas; c. also ma es, etc. Va ilen’ko, Sergei Nikiforovich, b. Moscow, March 31, 1872; writer; pupil of the Cons., winning gold medal, rgo01; c. cantata “The Legend of the Sunken City of Kitesch’’ (given as an opera, Moscow, 1903); “Epic Poem’ for orch., choral “ Nebuchadnezzar,” and “Daphnis,’ etc. Vatielli (va-ti-él’-lé), Francesco, b. Pesaro, Jan. 1, 1877; pupil of Liceo Ro ini, 1905 librarian at Bologna, teacher and writer on history; c. intermezzi, etc. Vau corbeil (v6-kér-bé’), Aug. Emanuel, Rouen, 1821—Paris, 1884; 1880, dir. the Opéra; c. comic-opera, etc. Vaughan-Williams, Ralph; liams, Ralph Vaughan. (vi’-vré-néts), Mauritius, Czegied, Hungary, July 18, 1858— Budapest, Aug. 5, 1913; studied Pesth Cons., and with R. Volkmann; cath. cond. at Pesth; c. 4-act opera “Ratcliff” (Prague, 1895), succ. 1-act opera “‘Rosamunda” (Frankfort-on Main, 1895), oratorio, 5 ma es, a symph., etc. Vecchi(i) (vék’-ké-[é]), (1) Orazio, Modena, 1550—Feb. 19, 1603; noted composer; from 1596 maestro Modena cath.; his ‘‘mus.-comedy”’ “‘Amfiparna o,” in which the chorus joined in all the mus., even the monologues, appeared the same year as PERI’S \(q. v.) ‘‘Dafne’’; c. also madrigals, etc. (2) Orfeo, Milan, 1540—ca. 1604; maestro, and composer.