Name: A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: J. A. Fuller-Maitland

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ SCHERZANDO, SCHERZOSO, playful, lively; a direction of frequent occurrence, indicating a passage of a light and cheerful character. It is occasionally used, in combination with some other direction, to indicate the style of a whole movement, as Allegro scherzando, Allegretto scherzando (Beethoven, Symphony No. 8) , etc., but its more usual and characteristic application is to a phrase which is to be played in a lively manner, in contrast to the rest of the movement or to some other phrase. ”

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ MOVEMENT. A definite and complete item in a musical composition, sometimes forming part of a large work, and sometimes single and independent. So called because each portion as a rule maintains the same rate of 'movement.' On the other hand, a 'number' in an opera or oratorio will often contain several movements. ”

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ In 1822 he went to the University of Vienna in order to study for the civil service, which he entered in 1827. As early as 1830 he completed an opera, on the libretto of Rossini's 'Donna del Lago,' which was performed by amateurs in a private house. In 1833 he studied counterpoint, etc., with Sechter, and in Oct. 1838 a 2-act opera, 'Turandot,' was given with success at the Kärnthnerthor Theatre. In this and his other musical compositions he adopted the pseudonym of 'J. Hoven.' Two years later a third opera, 'Jeanne d'Arc,' in 3 acts, was given in Vienna. ”

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ It is sometimes used in concerted music to give a momentary prominence to a subordinate part, as for instance in the Beethoven Quartet, op. 95, in the Allegretto, where the violoncello part is marked rinforzando, when it has the second section of the principal subject of the movement. ”

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ At the London Musical Society's concerto of June 29, 1882, she played David's concerto in E minor with great success, and since that time has held a high position among English artists, her style being pure and refined, and her power of interpreting works of a high intellectual order being very remarkable. ”

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ He is best known as having furnished the music for the celebrated Chant des Girondins, 'Mourir pour la Patrie,' the words of which were by Dumas, and which played so important a part in the revolution of 1848. ”

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ After several years' service, he abandoned his profession in order to devote himself to music. Although principally self-taught, he turned his studies to such good account that in 1871 he was made professor of composition at the Conservatorium at St. Petersburg. Not long afterwards he was appointed director of the free school of music in the same capital. Two operas by him have been represented at the Russian opera-house, 'Pakowitjanka,' Jan. ”

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J. A. Fuller-Maitland, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ The original parts are entitled 'Sinfonia Berchtolsgadensis'; the toy instruments employed are a 'cuckoo' playing E and G, a trumpet and drum in G, a whistle, a triangle, and a 'quail' in F. There are three movements, the last of which is played three times over, faster and faster each time. ”

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