DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

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who anticipate future financial disaster for the
individual [.leriVu luers turned out in sucli quantities,
may he consoled by the knowledge that
the teaching of amateurs has always heen con-
sidered an important branch of the school's
work ; one of its main objects is the dillusion
of musical knowledge throughout the people at
large, not merely the special training of public
performers. Among the chief profesyors at the
present day (1905) are :
Compoxiticn, etc.—Professor Prout, Dr. C. W, Pea.rce, Messrs.
Arthur Btirchiy, J. F. Biirnett, and Henry Gadeby.
£a,r Traininj. etc.—Dr. h\ G. Shiiu],
Ori/u?!.— Dr. C. J. Froat. Dr. C. Warwick Jordan, etc.
Sirigiii'j. —Mine. Bessie Cox. Mr. Ernest Ford, Mr. W. Ganz,
Signer Gustave Garcia, Mr. G. Hast, Mmt. Eugenie Joachim,
Messrs. A. Oswald, Baiitock Pierpoint, H, Sims Reeves. Arthur
Thompson, and A. Visetti.
Pianoffirte.— Ue-^^srs. A. Bai-clay. J. F. Barnett, F. Beri^er, J, B.
Calkin. Waddingtou Cooke. Stanley Hawley. and W. Stevensuii
Hoyt^;.
I'lD/irt.—Miss C. Gat«s, Messrs. A. Gibson, B, Hollander, A.
Payne. A. J. Slocoinbe, Henry Such, and Johannes Wolff.
Vtnlincell-o.—Mr. Hans Brouail, and Chev. E, de Munck.
Barp.—Mr. John Thomas.
Wind ln.'h, in 1857 Maitre de Chapelle of S.
Nicolas, and shortly after jirofessor of solfeggio
in the local Ecole communale. In 1860 he became
for some months a pupil of Lemmens, who
heard him play and was struck by his ability.
In 1871 he removed from Boulogne to Paris,
and was appointed organist of the church of the
Trinite, a post which he still fills. His playing
made a great inipres.sion on the general public
during the Paris Exliibition of 1S78. He is
one of the leading organ players of France, and
has considerable extempore power. For his
instrument he has publislied a 'Symphonic,'
(with orchestra), seven sonatas and many con-
certos, etc., and arrangements—
' Pieces de differents
styles, '
' L'Organiste pratique, ' and
* Archives dcs ilaitres de POrgne '
: also a .'^cenc
lyriqiie, ' Bielsazar,' for soli, chorus, and or-
chestra ; a hymn, ' Christns vincit,' etc, various
masses, motets, airs, and original pieces for
the harmonium. Guilmant is uo stranger to
England, having played at the Crystal Palace,
at Sheffield, and many other places. o.
GUIMBARDE. A French nauie, of unknown
derivation, for the Jew's-PIakp. v. pe p.
GUIRAUD, Ernest, son of aFrenchmusician,
was born at New Orleans, June 23, 1837,
brouglitupamongstniusic, andsawhis first opera,
' Roi David,' on the stage when only filteen.
He then came to Euroi)e and entered the Conservatoire,
where he obtained various distinc-
tions, ending with the Grand Prix de Rome in
1859 for his ' Bajazet et le joueur de flute.' His
first appearance before the European public was
made with a one-act opera, ' S3'lvie,' which he
wrote while in Rome, and which was brouglit
out at the Opera Comique, May 11, 1864. This
was followed al'ter a long interval by ' En Prison,'
also in one act (Tht'atre Lyrique, ilarch 5,
1869), and'Le Kobold' (July 2, 1870). Guiraud
served during the war, and was in two engagements.
His other operas have been 'Madame
Turlupin '
(1872), ' Piccolino '
(1876), 'Gretna
Green,' a ballet (1873). He also composed two
Suites for Orchestra, the second of \\hich was
performed at the Concerts Populaires, January
28, 1872. In November 1876 Guiraud was
chosen professor of harmony and accomjianiment
at the Conservatoire, in the room of Baptiste,
deceased. In July 1878 he was decorated with
the Legion of Honour, and in 1880 he was
a})pointed professor of advanced composition at
the Conservatoire, replacing A'"ictor Massr,
elected honorary professor. In 1879 his ' Pic-
' colino was given by Carl Rosa at Her Majesty's
Theatre in London. A new opera in three acts,
entitled * Galante A venture,' failed at the
Opi^ra Comique (March 23, 1882); but he
always retained an honourable position in
concerts, where he produced selections from
an unjiublished opera, ' Le Feu' (Concerts du
Chatelet, March 9, 1879, and Nov. 7, 1880),
an overture, ' Arteveld ' (do. Jan. 15, 1.^8:^), a
caprice for violin and orchestra, played by
Sarasate (do. April 6, 1884), an orchestral
suite in four movements (do. Dec, 27, 1885),
and lastly a * Chasse Fantastique, ' suggested
by a passage in Victor Hugo's ' Beau P:rn,
GJiiftcT'ii^ and Gythorn ; Span. Guitarra).
The Spanish guitar is the most general!}^
k'H'.wn modern rejn'esentative of the nunici'ous
;ily which includes also the kites and cithers.
The identity of the name with the Greek KiOdpa
is not to he mistaken, but the resemblance of
the Spanish and ancient (ireek instruments is
too remote to imply derivation. The guitar is
at once known by its Hat back, the sides i'ur\-ing