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24 RANDHAETINGER RANELAGH HOUSE AND GARDENS
of Professors. In the autumn of 1857 he conducted
a series of Italian operas at St. James's
Theatre, and in 1879-85 the Carl Rosa Company.
[He conducted grand opera under Harris's
management at Drury Lane and Covent Garden
in 1887-98. He conducted the Queen's Hall
Choral Society in 1896-97, but his most important
position of this kind was the conductorship
of the Norwich Festival, which he held
with great success from 1881 to 1905 inclusive.]
Mr. Kandegger's published works are numerous
and important. They comprise a dramatic
cantata (words by Mme. Rudersdorff), entitled
' Fridolin," composed for the Birmingham Festival,
and produced there with great success,
August 28, 1873; two soprano seenas— 'Medea,'
sung by Mme. Eudersdorff at the Gewandhaus,
Leipzig, in 1869, and 'Saffo,' sung by Mme.
Lemmens at the British Orchestral Society,
March 31, 1875 ; the 150th Psalm, for soprano
solo, chorus, orchestra, and organ, for the Boston
Festival, 1872 ; Funeral Anthem for the death
of the Prince Consort, twice p'erformed in
London ; a soena, 'The Prayer of Nature,' sung
by Edward Lloyd at a Philharmonic concert in
1887 ; and a large number of songs and concerted
vocal music for voice and orchestra or
PF. He is also the author of the Primer of
Singing in Novello's series. As a teacher of
singing, Mr. Bandegger has a large number of
pupils now before the English public as popular
singers. (See the Musical Times for 1899, p.
653 if.) G.
EANDHARTINGER, Benedict, an Austrian
musician, memorable for his connection
with Schubert. He was born at Ruprechtshofen,
in Lower Austria, July 27, 1802 ; at ten years
old came to the Convict school at Vienna, and
was then a pupil of Salieri's. He afterwards
studied lor the law, and for ten years was Secretary
to Count Szfohenyi, an official about the
Court. But he forsook this line of life for
music ; in 1832 entered the Court Chapel as a
tenor singer ; in 1844 became Vioe-Court-Capellmeister,
and in 1862, after Assmayer's death,
entered on the full enjoyment of that dignity.
His compositions are more than 600 in number,
comprising an opera, Konig Enzio ' '
; 20 masses
60 motets ;
symphonies ;
quartets, etc. ; 400
songs, 76 4 -part songs, etc. Of all these,
124, chiefly songs, are published ; also a vol.
of Grepk national songs, and a vol. of Greek
liturgies. His acquaintance with Schubert
probably began at the Convict, and at Salieri's
though as he was Schubert's junior by five years,
they can have been there together only for a
short time ; but there are many slight traces of
the existence of a close friendship between them.
He was present, for example, at the first trial
of the D minor String Quartet (Jan. 29, 1826),
and he was one of the very few friends who
visited Schubert in the terrible loneliness of his
last illness. But for Randhartinger it is almost
certain that Schubert's 'Schbne Miillerin' would
never have existed. He was called out of his
room while Schubert was paying him a visit,
and on his return found that his friend had
disappeared with a volume of W. Miiller's
poems which he had accidentally looked into
while waiting, and had been so much interested
in as to carry off. On his going the next day
to reclaim the book, Schubert presented him
with some of the now well-known songs, which
he had composed during the night. This was
in 1823. It is surely enough to entitle Randhartinger
to a perpetual memory.
He had a brother Josef, of whom nothing
is known beyond this—that he was probably
one of the immediate entourage of Beethoven's
coffin at the funeral. He, Lachner, and
Schubert are said to have gone together as
torch-bearers (Kreissle von Hellbprn's ScJmbert,
p. 266). G.
EANDLES, Elizabeth, an extraordinary
infant musical prodigy and performer on the
pianoforte. She was born at Wrexham, August
1, 1800, and played in public before she was
fully two years of age. Her father, a blind
harper and organist of Wrexham, of some degree
of local fame (1760-1820), placed her under
John Parry the harper, and afterwards took
her on tour to London, where she attracted
much attention, and was made a pet of by the
Royal family. A second visit to London was
undertaken in 1808, and a concert for her
benefit given in the Hanover Square rooms.
At this Madame Catalani and other singers
and instrumentalists gave their gratuitous services.
Sir George Smart conducting. She settled
in Liverpool as a music teacher about 1818,
and died there in 1829. f. k.
RANELAGH HOUSE AND GARDENS
were situated on the bank of the Thames,
eastward of Chelsea Hospital. They were
erected and laid out about 1690 by Richard
Jones, Viscount (afterwards Earl of) Ranelagh,
who resided there until his .death in 1712. In
1733 the property was sold in lots, and eventually
the house and part of the gardens came
into the hands of a number of persons who
converted them into a place of public entertainment.
In 1741 they commenced the erection
of a spacious Rotunda (185 feet external, and
150 feet internal diameter), with four entrances
'
through Surrounding it was an
arcade, and over that a covered gallery, above
which were the windows, sixty in number. In
the centre of the interior and supporting the
roof was a square erection containing the
orchestra, as well as fireplaces of peculiar
construction for warming the building in
winter. Forty-seven boxes, each to contain
eight persons, were placed round the building,
and in these the company partook of tea and
coffee. In the garden was a Chinese building,
and a canal upon which the visitors were