DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

JOEDAN JOSEFFY 545
same county, which he exchanged for the
Rectory of Paston, Northamptonshire. He is
said to liave been presented to the Perpetual
Curacy of Nayland, Surt'olk, in 1776, but his
name does not occur in the registers until 1784.
In Jan. 1784 he published A Treatise on the
Art of Music, which gained him considerable
reputation. In March 1789 he published by
subscription his op. 2, ' Ten Church Pieces for
the Organ, with Four Anthems in score [a
psalm tune and a doul.ile chant], composed for
the use of the Church of Nayland in Surtblk,
and published for its benefit.' This publication
contained his well-known hymn tune 'St.
Stephen.' In 1798 he became Rector of
HoUingbourne, Kent. He was the author of
many theological, philosophical, and miscellaneous
works, which were published in tw'elve
vols, in 1801 and in si-K in 1810. He died at
Nayland, Jan. 6, 1800, and was buried in the
vestry of the church on Jan. 14. A second
edition of his "treatise on music was published
at Sudbury in 1827. [See the Did. of Nat.
Biocj.^ w. II. H.
JORDAN, AER.4HAM, sen. and jun. , belonged
to an ancient family located in Maidstone
in the 15th century. The elder, who was
a distiller, but had a mechanical turn, devoted
himself to organ -building, and removed to
London, where he made many fine instruments.
He instructed his son Abraham in the same
business. The Jordans deserve especial notice
as being the inventors of the swell, which was
in the form of a sliding shutter, and was first
applied to the organ which they built for St.
Magnus's Church, London Bridge, in 1712. In
1720 they built the organ of the Duke of Chandos
at Cannons, on which Handel used to play.
This was sold by auction in 1747, after which
they repaired it and conveyed it to Trinity
Church, Gosport. See Byheld, Jokd.a.n, and
Bkidoe, vol. i. p. 428. v. he p.
JORRAM, a Highland boat-song sung to
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A JOER.iM. (Perthshire.)
accompany and give time to the pull of the oars
in a rowing-boat. The two here given, taken
from the Rev. Patrick M'Donald's excellent
Collection of Highland, Vocal airs never hitherto
published, 1783, are noteworthy as traditional
melodies current for this purpose in Perthshire
and in Skye respectively. It is interesting to
compare these with the Italian barcaroles and
the boat-songs of other nations. r. K.
JOSEFFY, Rafael, a distinguished and
highly accomplished pianist, was born in Hunfalu,
Hungary, on July 3, 1852. His youth was
spent in Miskolcz, and there, when a boy of
eight years, he began his study of the pianoforte.
Although he was not in any respect an infant
prodigy, his father made him continue his studies
in Budapest, under Brauer, who years before
had been the teacher of Stephen Heller. Josetfy
entered the Conservatorium at Leipzig when he
was fourteen years old ; here he came under the
instruction of E. F. Wenzel chiefly, though he also
had a few lessons from Moscheles. He remained
at Leipzig for only two years, and in 1868 went
to Berlin to study with Carl Tausig, with whom
he remained for two 3^ears, and whose intluenee
upon his style and artistic ideals was decisive.
Another potent influence was exerted upon the
young man by Liszt, with whom in "Weimar he
spent the summers of 1870 and 1871.
Josert'y made his first public appearance in
Berlin in 1872, where he ivas received with
marked appreciation ; he thereafter gave a
number of concerts in Vienna, and in most of
the continental musical centres, that brought
him the reputation of a virtuoso of remarkable
technical powers. His style at this time, as
described by Hanslick, was of great brilliance,
showing Tausig's influence in a thorough development
of his technique, his clearly and
sharply chiselled phrasing, and the rich varietyof
but it was lacking in some
his touch and tone ;
of the finer qualities of poetic insight. So it
was when he went to the United States in 1879,
where he has ever since made his home ; but
his extraordinary mastery of all the resources
and nuances of this instrument won him the
instant recognition of the New York public when
he made his American debut in thatcity inl879,
with an orchestra under Dr. Damrosch. Ho
soon after played with the Philharmonic orches-
tra, and subsequently made many ajipearances
in New Y'ork and other American cities with
Theodore Thomas and his orchestra, constantly
enhancing his reputation, and making
more secure liis place as one of the foremost of
modern pianists. "With advancing years his
artistic nature has ripened and deepened and
he has put his transcendant technical powers at
the service of a richer and mellower musical
style. The breadth and catholicity of his taste
and his wide sympathy with diverse schools
have always been notable, and he plays Mozart,
Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt,
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