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Professor, and soon after received a call to a so that the congregation may easily sing the
court concertmeistership at Dresden. This, chorale-tune while the trained choir provide the
however, his love for Joachim and for Berlin, harmonies. The chorale-tune is in the ujiper
where he had advanced sufficiently to lead the part, but the harmonies are not always mere
Quartets alternately with his chief, induced him note-for-note counterpoint as in a modern hymntune.
for a long time to hesitate to accept, notwithstanding
A few specimens of these settings are
the very high terms offered. At given in Schbberlein's Schatz. Other published
length, however, he did accept it, and became works of Raselius are Teutsche Spriiche ans den
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(in 1877) joint conoertmeister with Lauterbaoh Sonntaglichen Evangelia . . .,' 53 German
at the Dresden opera, and chief teacher in the Motets a 5 (Nuremberg, 1594), and 'Neue
Couservatorium. He retired in 1898, after Teutsche Spriiche auf die . . . Test und
which time he only taught a few favoured Aposteltage . . .,' 22 Motets a 5-9, described
pupils; he died in Dresden, May 16, 1903. as composed on the 12 Modes of the Dodecachordon
Though a virtuoso of the first rank he followed
(Nuremberg, 1595). Besides these
in the footsteps of Joachim by sacrificing display published works there remain in MS. several
to the tiner interpretation of the music, and collections of Latin and German motets and
succeeded in infusing a new spirit into chambermusic
at Dresden. He composed symphonies, the author of a historical work, a chronicle of
magnificats by Raselius. He is also known as
quartets, sonatas, and songs, some of which Ratisbon, originally written both in Latin and
have been printed. They are distinguished for German, of which only the German edition
earnestness, and for great beauty of form, and survives. Raselius remained at Ratisbon till
a quartet was performed in Dresden in the 1600, when he received a pressing invitation
winter of 1878 which aroused quite an unusual from the Elector Palatine Frederick IV. to
sensation. In 1874 Eappoldi married a lady return to Heidelberg as Hofcapellmeister. This
nearly as distinguished as himself, Laura. higher post of honour he was not permitted to
Kahree, who was born in Vienna, Jan. 14, retain long, as death carried him olf on Jan. 6,
1853, and whose acquaintance he made many 1602. A monograph on Raselius by J. Auer of
years before at Prague. Her talent, like his, Amberg appeared as a Beilage to Eitner's
showed itself very early. On the nomination
of the Empress Elisabeth she became a EASOUMOWSKY,! Andreas Kyeillo-
Monatshefte of 1892. J. K. M.
pupil of the Conservatorium at Vienna, under VITSCH, a Russian nobleman to whom Beethoven
Dachs and Dessoff, from 1866 to 1869. After dedicated three of his greatest works, and whose
taking the first prize, she made a toumee to the name will always survive in connection with
principal towns of Germany, ending at Weimar. the Rasoumowsky ' Quartets ' (op. 59). He was
There she studied under Liszt, and matured the son of Kyrill Rasum, a, peasant of Lemeschi,
that beauty of touch, precision, fire, and a village in the Ukraine, who, with his elder
intelligence, which have raised her to the first brother, was made a Count (Graf) by the
rank of pianists in Germany, and which induced Empress Elisabeth of Russia. Andreas was
Herr von Biilow—no lenient critic—to praise bom Oct. 22, 1752, served in the English and
her playing of Beethoven's op. 106 in the Russian navies, rose to the rank of admiral,
highest tei-ms. She was the worthy colleague of and was Russian ambassador at Venice, Naples,
her husband in the best concerts of Dresden. G. Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Vienna. In England
RASELIUS, Andreas, was born at Hahnbach
his name must have been familiar, or Foote
near Amberg in the Upper Palatinate some would hardly have introduced it as he has in
time between 1562 and 1564. He was the son '
The Liar (1762). At Vienna he married, in
of a Lutheran preacher, who had studied at 1788, Elisabeth Countess of Thun, one of the
Wittenberg under Melanohthon, and whose original
'three Graces,' elder sister of the Princess Carl
name. Easel, Melanchthon latinised into Lichnowsky [see vol. ii. p. 723a] ; and on March
Easelius. From 1581tol584 Andreas attended 25, 1792, had his audience from the Emperor
the then Lutheran University of Heidelberg, of Austria as Russian ambassador, a post which
taking his degree as Magister Artium in the he held with short intervals for more than
latter year. In the same year he was appointed twenty years. He was a thorough musician,
cantor and teacher at the Gymnasium of an excellent player of Haydn's quartets, in
Ratisbon, then conducted under Lutheran which he took second violin, not improbably
auspices. In his capacity as cantor he published studying them under Haydn himself. That,
in 1589 a Musical Instruction book with the with his connection with Lichnowsky, he must
title Hexachordiim seu Quaestiones Musicae have known Beethoven is obvious ; but no direct
Praclicae sex capitibus comprehensae, which was trace of the acquaintance is found until May
still in use at Ratisbon in 1664. In 1599 26, 1806 (six weeks after the withdrawal of
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appeared his 'Regenspurgischer Kirchen-Contrapunkt,'
which contains simple settings a 5 of glot—has marked on the first page of the
Fidelio '), which Beethoven—in his usual poly-
51 of the older Lutheran Psalm-tunes and
chorales. The fuU title describes them as set
1 Raautnoffaky and Eaaoumoffaky are forms used by Beethoven
in various dedicat ons.