Nabokov, Nicolas [Nikolay]
Nidaros. See Trondheim. Nidecki, Tomasz Napoleon
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Nidaros.See Trondheim. Nidecki, Tomasz Napoleon(b Studzianka, nr Radom, 2 Jan 1807; d Warsaw, 5 June 1852). Polish composer, conductor and teacher. In 1822 he began to study the piano with Alojzy Stolpe, the violin with Józef Bielawski and the organ with Wilhelm Würfel; he also studied composition with Elsner at the Warsaw School for Music and Dramatic Art and in the Higher School of Music (1824–7) and was awarded a grant to study in Vienna (1828–31). There, in 1833, he became conductor of the Leopoldstadt theatre orchestra, and composed vaudevilles and musical comedies. In 1838 he returned to Warsaw, where he taught in the singing school attached to the Wielki Theatre; he was appointed deputy conductor of the opera, and in 1840 took over from Karol Kurpiński as director and permanent conductor. He staged a number of first Polish performances of operas: Bellini's Norma, Flotow's Martha, Moniuszko's Loteria and works by Donizetti and Verdi. In 1841 he conducted with great success Elsner's oratorio Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi. He acted as choirmaster for churches in Warsaw, and composed masses and other religious works; until 1850 he also taught singing in a Warsaw school. He translated Adam's opera Le brasseur de Preston into Polish. WORKSstagefirst performed in Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt, unless otherwise stated
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BIBLIOGRAPHYWurzbachL F. Hadamowsky: Das Theater in der Wiener Leopoldstadt 1781–1860 (Vienna, 1934) Z. Jachimecki: ‘Sukcesy kompozytora polskiego w Wiedeńskim Teatrze Muzycznym przed stoma laty: Napoleon Tomasz Nidecki (1807–52)’ [The achievements of Polish composers at the Vienna Musical Theatre 100 years ago: Napoleon Tomasz Nidecki], Kurier literacko-naukowy, no.8 (1934), 4–5 K. Michałowski: Opery polskie (Kraków, 1954) L.T. Błaszczyk: Dyrygenci polscy i obcy w Polsce działający w XIX i XX wieku [Polish and foreign conductors working in Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries] (Kraków, 1964) A. Mrygoń and M. Burchard: ‘Katalog poloników muzycznych w zbiorach austriackich’ [Catalogue of Polish music in Austrian collections], Szkice o kulturze muzycznej XIX w., ed. Z. Chechlińska, v (Warsaw, 1984), 161–336 IRENA PONIATOWSKA Niebuhr, Johann.See Neubauer, Johann. Niecks, Friedrich [Frederick](b Düsseldorf, 3 Feb 1845; d Edinburgh, 24 June 1924). British music scholar and author of German birth. From his father, an orchestral musician, teacher and conductor at Düsseldorf, he learnt the elements of music and the violin, starting at the age of six or seven. He then studied with a local organist and, subsequently, under Wilhelm Langhans, Julius Grunewald and Leopold Auer (violin) and Julius Tausch (composition and piano). When he was 13 he made his first appearance as a violinist at a concert of the Musikverein at Düsseldorf, playing Bériot's second concerto; at about the same time he became a regular member of the theatre and subscription concerts orchestra, playing in it for more than eight years. Ill-health in his mid-teens, however, forced him to abandon a public career as a solo instrumentalist and he turned to teaching instead. In 1868 Niecks was induced by Alexander Mackenzie to leave Düsseldorf and settle in Scotland, where later that year he became the viola player in Mackenzie's Edinburgh quartet, as well as organist and teacher at Dumfries. In 1875 a letter written to The Monthly Musical Record led to a permanent engagement with that paper, and in 1879 Niecks became a regular contributor to The Musical Times. Meanwhile his general education had been from private teachers, by self-tuition and at Leipzig University (1877–8), where he devoted his attention chiefly to philosophy, with a special leaning towards psychology and aesthetics, fine arts and history. He lectured at the Royal Institution in March 1890. Niecks was appointed Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University (1891), a post he occupied for 23 years. There he conducted the last two of the annual Reid concerts (1892–3), which were then discontinued in favour of historical chamber music concerts each winter. He inaugurated the teaching of music in the university and also instituted a scheme of graduation in the subject, gaining the admission of women to his classes, which numbered well over 100 lectures in each session. He took British nationality in 1880, and in 1898 Trinity College, Dublin, granted him an honorary doctorate. In 1907 he married Christina Struthers, who edited his valuable biography, Robert Schumann, for posthumous publication. This and his earlier biography of Chopin (1888) were long considered classics in their subject areas. Niecks's correspondence and other documents relating to his life are held in collections in London and Edinburgh (GB-Lbl, En, Er and Eu).
ed. C. Niecks: Robert Schumann (London, 1925/R) [Preface by A. Mackenzie] Articles in MMR, ix–liii (1879–1923); MT, xix–li (1878–1910); PMA, xvi (1889–90), xxvi (1899–1900), xxix (1902–3)
BIBLIOGRAPHYF.G. Edwards: ‘Frederick Niecks’, MT, xl (1899), 585–93 [incl. portrait] W. Saunders: ‘Emeritus-Professor Frederick Niecks, Mus.D., LL.D.’, MMR, xlv (1915), 246–9 [incl. list of Niecks's articles, criticisms etc. in MMR] ‘Dr Niecks: a Pioneer of Musical Culture’, The Times (25 June 1924) [obituary] A. Eaglefield Hull: ‘A Great Personality: Professor Frederick Niecks’, MMR, liv (1924), 225–9 [incl. extended version of list in Saunders, 1915] W. Saunders: ‘The Passing of a Mighty Personality’, Scottish Musical Monthly, v (1924), 204–5 A.C. Mackenzie: A Musician's Narrative (London, 1927) H.G. Farmer: A History of Music in Scotland (London, 1947/R), 394–5, 525 ROBIN H. LEGGE/DUNCAN J. BARKER Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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