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AYRTON.
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Ayrton, William 20-L-1
Ayrton, William, author and composer,
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son of Edmund Ayrton, born London. Feb. 24,
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1777. IJe married a daughter of Dr. Samuel
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Arnold, and in 1801 unsuccessfully competed
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for the Gresliam professorship of music.
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He was successively editor of the Morning
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Chronicle, 1813-26 ; Harmonicon, 1823-33 ;
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and Examiner, 1837-51. Member of Royal
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Society, Antiquarian Society, Atheuseum
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Club, Philharmonic Society, etc. He died
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London, May 8, 1K58.
London, May 8, 1858.
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Works. — Sacred Minstrelsy : a collection of
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sacred music by the great masters of all ages
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and nations . . . with biographies. London,
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] 835, 2 vols. Knight's Musical Library (edited ),
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1884, etc., 8 vols. Duets : Fair and fair ; Oh !
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oh ! memory. Songs, etc., etc.
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Ayton, Fanny 20-L-18
Ayton, Fanny, soprano vocalist, born
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Macclesfield, 1806. She studied under Man-
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ielli at Florence, and first appeared at Venice
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in opera, 1825, in Coccia's " Clotilda." In
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February, 1827, she appeared in London as
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]Siiuetta in Rossini's " La Gazza Ladra," at
Ninetta in Rossini's " La Gazza Ladra," at
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the King's Theatre. She afterwards sang in
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London, Birmingham, and elsewhere, both in
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opera and oratorio. The date of her death
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remains in doub , but was subsequent to 1832
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as she appeared in February of that year in a
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version of Meyerbeer's " Robert le Diable."
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Babell, William 20-L-30
Babell, William, violinist and composer,
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born 1690. He studied under Dr. Pepusch,
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and became a member of the Royal Band.
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He was also organist of All Hallows Church,
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Bread Street, London. He died London, Sep-
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tember 23, 1723.
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WoEKS. — XII. solos for a violin or hautboy,
Works. - XII. solos for a violin or hautboy,
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with a bass fijiur'd for the harpsichord. Lon-
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don [1720]. XII. solos for a violin, hoboy, or
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German flute, with a bass figur'd for the
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harpsichord. London [1723]. Twelve solos
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for the flute or hoboy. Op. 2. Six concertos
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for the piccolo, flute, and violins. Suits of
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harpsichord and s} inuet lessons collected from
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the most celebrated masters' works. London
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[1712]. Book of the lady's entertainment, or
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banquet of musick, being a choice collection
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of aires and duets curiously set and fitted to
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the harpsichord or spinnet (four books with
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varying titles). London [1710-25].
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Baber, Miss Colbourne 20-L-50
Baber, Miss Colbourne (Mrs. Harrison
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White); soprano vocalist of jiresent lime,
White); soprano vocalist of present time,
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born at Hobart, Tasmania. Pupil of Madame
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Lucy Chambers. Appeared at Melbourne
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Opera House; toured through India, China,
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and Japan. Now settled in Sydney, N.S.W.
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Bache, Constance 20-L-56
Bacfie, Constance, pianist and writer,
Bache, Constance, pianist and writer,
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born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, the youngest
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child of the Rev. Samuel Bache (1804-1876),
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Minister of the Church of the Messiah, Bir-
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mingham. Her musical talent was fostered
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by her brother, Walter Bache, and she studied
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at the Conservatorium, Munich, becoming,

BACHE.
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later on, a pupil of Klindworth and Fritz
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Hartvigson. An accident to her right hand
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put a stop to the public career open to her,
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but she ]3layed occasionally at concerts in Bir-
but she played occasionally at concerts in Bir-
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mingham, up to the year 1883, when she
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settled in London as a teacher, devoting,
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however, much of her time to musical litera-
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ture and translations, of which the following
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are the most important : — Liszt : Oratorio, St.
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Elizabeth (see Bache, Walter) ; Letters, 2.
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vols. (Grevel, 1894) ; words of many of his
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songs. H. von Bulow — Letters and literary
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remains (Unwin, 1896), Wagner: — Descriptive
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sketch of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (for
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Richter concert programmes). Heintz : Ana-
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lyses of Wagner's " Tristan " (1891) ; Meister-
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singer (1891) ; " Parsifal " (1892). Schumann :
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"The Rose's Pilgrimage ;" Scenes from Goe-
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the's "Faust." Mozart: Libretto of "Bas-
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tian and Bastienne " (1894). Humperdinck :
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Libretto of " Hansel and Gretel ;" Lobe's
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Catechism of Music, and Von Bulow's anno-
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tated editions of Cramer, Chopin, etc. Con-
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stance Bache is the composer of the songs,
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" To my Love " and " The rain is falling."
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Bache, Francis Edward 20-R-26
Bache, Francis Edward, composer and.
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pianist, eldest son of the Rev. Samuel Bache,
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born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, September
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14, 1833. In early childhood he showed ex-
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traordinary aptitude for music, studying the
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pianoforte, organ, and violin, making such
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progress in the last, under Alfred Mellon, that
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he was given a place in the Festival Orchestra
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in 1846, when Mendelssohn produced "Elijah."
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Upon leaving school in 1849, he took lessons
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from Mr. James Stimpson, but soon left for
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London, where he studied with Sterndale
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Bennett. In 1853 he went to Leipzig, study-
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ing under Haujitmann and Plaidy, and took
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organ lessons from J. G. Schneider at Dresden,
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in 1854. He gave his first concert in Bir-
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mingham, at the beginning of December, 1855,
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but his health was already failing, and he
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spent the winter in Algiers. Here he gave a
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concert, in March, 1856, and his playing
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created a marked impression. From Algiers
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he went to Leipzig, and thence to Rome,
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where he spent the next winter. In 1857 he
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returned home, wintering in Torquay ; back
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in Birmingham, April, 1858, he gradually
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sank, and expired August 24, before he had.
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completed his 25th year. His capacity for
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work knew no bounds ; he was always com-
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posing ; and only a few weeks before his death
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he gave a concert, chiefly of his own works,
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but he was unable, though present, to take
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his part in the performance. He was a
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thinker, and in a series of letters, written in
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1856, advocated the establishment of a per-
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manent orchestra in Birmingham, pointing
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out the great artistic results that should fol-
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low. The letters were not considered suitable
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for the pages of the journal to which they


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