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Franz Anton Maulbertsch Franz Anton Maulbertsch
MAULBERTSCH, FRANZ ANTON (1724– Read more
Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner , 1824-96, Austrian composer. He was appointed organist at the Linz cathedral in 1856 before becoming court organist in Vienna in 1868, where he later taught at the conservatory and university. He established a reputation as a virtuoso organist on trips to France in 1869 and to... Read more
Heinrich Anton De Bary Heinrich Anton De Bary
De Bary, (Heinrich) Anton (b. Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 26 January 1831; d. Strassburg, Germany [now Strasbourg, France], 19 January 1888) botany. Heinrich Anton de Bary Read more
Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg , 1874-1951, Austrian composer, b. Vienna. Before he became a U.S. citizen in 1941 he spelled his name Schönberg. He revolutionized modern music by abandoning tonality and developing a twelve-tone, "serial" technique of composition (see serial music ). Except for periods... Read more
cantata cantata
cantata [Ital.,=sung], composite musical form similar to a short unacted opera or brief oratorio , developed in Italy in the baroque period. The term was first used in 1620 to refer to strophic variations in the voice part over a recurrent melody in the bass accompaniment. Gradually the cantata... Read more
Friedrich Anton Mesmer Friedrich Anton Mesmer
Friedrich Anton Mesmer , or Franz Anton Mesmer , 1734-1815, German physician. He studied in Vienna. His interest in "animal magnetism" developed into a system of treatment through hypnotism that was called mesmerism. It seems now that Mesmer was actually treating psychosomatic illness, but an... Read more
Stefan Wolpe Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe , 1902-72, German-American composer. Of Jewish ancestry, he went to live in Palestine in 1933, but settled in the United States in 1938. Wolpe wrote several operas and cantatas and a good deal of chamber music. His style embraces many elements, from folk music to modern jazz to a form... Read more
Anton Stepanovich Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky , 1861-1906, Russian composer; pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. After 1882 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory and became (1895) conductor of the Imperial Chapel Choir. He wrote operas, including A Dream on the Volga (Moscow, 1890), chamber... Read more
Anton van Diemen Anton van Diemen
Anton van Diemen , 1593-1645, Dutch colonial official. As governor-general for the Dutch East India Company in the East Indies after 1636, he captured Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Malacca from the Portuguese. He sent Abel Tasman on exploring voyages. Tasman called an island that he found (1642) Van... Read more
Paul Anton de Lagarde Paul Anton de Lagarde
Paul Anton de Lagarde , 1827-91, German Orientalist. Lagarde was one of the most important biblical critics and Middle Eastern philologists of his century. His work included studies in Iranian, Syriac, Greek, Arabic, and Aramaic, but perhaps his best-known contributions were to the criticism of the... Read more

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