Abell, John (b. 1653, d. in or after 1716), singer and composer, was born in Aberdeenshire and was admitted as a 'gentleman of his majesty's chapel extraordinary' on 1 May 1679, about which time he is listed among the musicians of the king's private music, as singer, lutenist, and violinist. ...
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Abell, John (b. 1653, d. in or after 1716), singer and composer
W. B. Squire
revised by Nicholas Salwey
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Albani [married name Gye], Dame Emma [née Marie Louise Cécile Emma Lajeunesse] (1847–1930), singer
John Rosselli
Albani [married name Gye], Dame Emma [née Marie Louise Cécile Emma Lajeunesse] (1847–1930), singer, was born on 1 November 1847 at Chambly, Quebec, Canada, one of three surviving children of Joseph Lajeunesse, organist, and his wife, Mélina Mignault (d. 1856)...
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Albani, Dame Emma (1847–1930)
Maker: Walery
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Dame Emma Albani (1847–1930) by Walery, pubd 1889 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Aleyn, John [J. Alanus] (d. 1373), composer
Andrew Wathey
Aleyn, John [J. Alanus] (d. 1373), composer, probably came from Pattishall, Northamptonshire. He is first recorded on 29 April 1361 in possession of a chantry in the church of St James Garlickhythe, London. By Michaelmas 1362 he was a clerk and chaplain in the household chapel of ...
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Allan, (Maria Caterina) Rosalbina Caradori- [Carradori-] (1800–1865), singer
W. B. Squire
revised by John Rosselli
Allan, (Maria Caterina) Rosalbina Caradori- [Carradori-] (1800–1865), singer, was born in Milan. Her father, Baron de Munck, was an Alsatian and a colonel in the French army. Her mother, whose maiden name, Carradori, she adopted (and always so spelt in Italy), came from ...
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Allan, (Maria Caterina) Rosalbina Caradori- (1800–1865)
Maker: John Hayter
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(Maria Caterina) Rosalbina Caradori- Allan (1800–1865) by John Hayter, pubd 1827 [as Cresea in Medea in Corinto by Simone Mayr] © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Anonymous IV (fl. 1250–1280), music theorist
Nicky Losseff
Anonymous
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Arditi, Luigi (1822–1903), conductor and composer
John Warrack
Arditi, Luigi (1822–1903), conductor and composer, was born on 16 July 1822 in Crescentino, Piedmont, the son of Maurizio Arditi and his wife, Caterina Colombo. He studied the violin with Carossini and Capitani in his home town, with Caldera in Turin, and with ...
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Arne, Michael (1740/41–1786), musical performer and composer
See Arne family
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Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710–1778)
Maker: William Humphrey
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Thomas Augustine Arne (1710–1778) by William Humphrey, pubd 1778 (after Robert Dunkarton, c. 1770) © Copyright The British Museum
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Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710–1778), composer and musical performer
David J. Golby
Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710–1778), composer and musical performer, was born in King Street, Covent Garden, London, on 12 March 1710, the son of Thomas Arne (bap. 1682, d. 1736) [see under Arne family], upholsterer and undertaker, and his second wife, Anne, ...
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Ashwell, Thomas (b. c. 1478, d. in or after 1524), composer
Roger Bowers
Ashwell, Thomas (b. c. 1478, d. in or after 1524), composer, is of unknown parentage. He was admitted a chorister of St George's Chapel, Windsor, on 29 October 1491, and left on 14 January 1493; so brief a career indicates that he had been recruited by impressment, fully trained, from some other choir. Thereafter he made his career as a church musician. During 1502–3 he was a lay singing-man of the choir of the collegiate church of ...
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Bach, Johann Christian (1735–1782)
Maker: Thomas Gainsborough
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Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782) by Thomas Gainsborough, 1776 [replica] © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bach, Johann Christian (1735–1782), composer
Stephen Roe
Bach, Johann Christian (1735–1782), composer, was born on 5 September 1735 in Leipzig, Saxony, the sixth and youngest son and the eleventh of the thirteen children of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer, and his second wife, Anna Magdalena (1701–1760), daughter of Johann Caspar Wilcke...
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Balfe, Michael William (1808–1870), composer
Clive Brown
Balfe, Michael William (1808–1870), composer, the third child of William Balfe and his wife, Kate, née Ryan, was born at 10 Pitt Street, Dublin, on 15 May 1808. The family moved to Wexford when he was two years old. Balfe received his first musical instruction from his father, a competent violinist and dancing-master, and continued to study violin with ...
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Balfe, Michael William (1808–1870)
Maker: Herbert Watkins
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Michael William Balfe (1808–1870) by Herbert Watkins, late 1850s © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Balfe, Victoire [Victoria] [married namesVictoire Crampton; Victoire Fernández de Velasco, duchess of Frías in the Spanish nobility] (1837–1871), singer
G. C. Boase
revised by John Rosselli
Balfe, Victoire [Victoria] [married namesVictoire Crampton; Victoire Fernández de Velasco, duchess of Frías in the Spanish nobility] (1837–1871), singer, the second daughter of the composer Michael William Balfe (1808–1870) and his wife, the singer Lina Roser, was born in the rue de la Victoire, Paris...
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Banastre [Banaster], Gilbert (d. 1487), composer and poet
Jonathan Hall and Magnus Williamson
Banastre [Banaster], Gilbert (d. 1487), composer and poet, is of obscure origins, but was possibly related to (or even the son of) Henry Banaster (d. 1456) of Southwark, a yeoman of Henry VI's household. His mother, Alice, was still alive when he made his will. A birth date not later than ...
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Barbirolli, Sir John [formerly Giovanni Battista] (1899–1970), conductor and cellist
Michael Kennedy
Barbirolli, Sir John [formerly Giovanni Battista] (1899–1970), conductor and cellist, was born Giovanni Battista at 12 Southampton Row, London, on 2 December 1899, the elder son and second of the three children of an émigré Italian violinist, Lorenzo Barbirolli (1864–1928), and his Parisian wife, ...
