The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 11Americana Company, 1904 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Italy : b . Bastide , Lot , France , 25 March 1771 ; d . Pizzo , Calabria , Italy , 13 Oct. 1815. He was the son of a pros- perous innkeeper of La - Bastide - Fortunière , near Cahors , France , and had a remarkable career . While ...
... Italy : b . Bastide , Lot , France , 25 March 1771 ; d . Pizzo , Calabria , Italy , 13 Oct. 1815. He was the son of a pros- perous innkeeper of La - Bastide - Fortunière , near Cahors , France , and had a remarkable career . While ...
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... Italy for Austria with his mother in 1815 ; started for the United States in 1824 , but was shipwrecked on the Spanish coast , and held prisoner for a time ; arrived in Boston in 1825 ; and in 1827 married an heiress of Borden- town ...
... Italy for Austria with his mother in 1815 ; started for the United States in 1824 , but was shipwrecked on the Spanish coast , and held prisoner for a time ; arrived in Boston in 1825 ; and in 1827 married an heiress of Borden- town ...
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... Italy . Unswayed by the influence of the dazzling schools of Tus- cany or Flanders he has confined himself to Spanish faces , to Spanish atmosphere and scen- ery , and has realized a manner and color of his own . If he has sacrificed in ...
... Italy . Unswayed by the influence of the dazzling schools of Tus- cany or Flanders he has confined himself to Spanish faces , to Spanish atmosphere and scen- ery , and has realized a manner and color of his own . If he has sacrificed in ...
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... Italian composers form- ing a school of their own . The first of the old Italian school was Costanza Festa , a ... Italy . Zarlino taught Scheidt , Praetorius and Schiedemann , while the elder Gabrieli had Hans Leo Hassler as a ...
... Italian composers form- ing a school of their own . The first of the old Italian school was Costanza Festa , a ... Italy . Zarlino taught Scheidt , Praetorius and Schiedemann , while the elder Gabrieli had Hans Leo Hassler as a ...
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... Italy to be just called the " Mother of Music . " The school was established in England too by Henry Purcell ( 1658-95 ) , who even introduced the Italian musical signs and expression - marks into his native country . Purcell , who was ...
... Italy to be just called the " Mother of Music . " The school was established in England too by Henry Purcell ( 1658-95 ) , who even introduced the Italian musical signs and expression - marks into his native country . Purcell , who was ...
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