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altissimo, and she had two good ootavea helow
but Mozart himself heard her at Parma in 1770,
and says of her ^ that she had a lovely voice, '
a flexible throat, and an incredibly high range.
She sang the following notes and passages in
my presence ' :
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Ten years later, in speaking of Mara, he says,
' She has not the good fortune to please me.
She does too little to be compared to a Bas-
tardella —
though that is her peculiar style
and too much to touch the heart like an Aloysia
Weber. '^ Leopold Mozart says of her, 'She is
not handsome nor yet ugly, but has at times a
wild look in the eyes, like people who are sub-
ject to convulsions, and she is lame in one foot.
Her conduct formerly was good she has, con-
sequently, a good name and reputation.'
Agujari made a great sensation in the car-
nival of 1774 at Milan in the serious opera of
'II Tolomeo,' by Colla, and still more in «,
cantata by the same composer. In 1780 she
' Swedish musical periodical Musikalisk Tids-
married Colla, who composed for her most of
the music she sang. She sang at the Pantheon
Concerts for some years, from 1775, receiving
a salary at one time of £100 a night for singing
two songs, a price which was then simply enor-
mous. There is an amusing account of her in
Mme. D Arblay's Memoirs of Dr. Burney. She
died at Parma, May 18, 1783. J. M.
AGUS, Hbnei, born in 1749, died 1798
composer and professor of solfeggio in the
Conservatoire of Paris (1795). The only
works attributed with certainty to him, are
1 Letter o( March M, OTO. ^ Letter of Hov. 13, IMO.
AHNA
educational. Another Agus, named Joseph,
is the author of a number of works, which
display more learning than genius, and consist
of trios for strings, duets, glees, catches, etc.,
published in London, where' he lived for some
time, and six duos concertants for two violins,
published by Barbieri (Paris) as the op. 37 of
Bocoherini.
AHLE, JoHANN RoDOLPH, church composer,
born at Miihlhausen in Thuringia, Dec. 24,
1625 educated at Gbttingen and Erfurt.
;
In
1646 he became organist at Erfurt, and in
1654 held the same post in the Blasiuskirche at
his native place, where in 1656 he was appointed
member of the senate and in 1661 burgomaster.
He died in full possession of his powers July
8, 1673. His published compositions include
Gompendium pro tonellis (1648), a treatise on
singing which went through three editions ;
'Geistliohen Dialogen' (1648), 'Sinphonien,
Paduanen, Balletten Thuringische Lust-
'
;
'
garten,' a series of church compositions, which
appeared in 1657, 1658, 1663, 1665 400 ;_
'geistliohe Arien,' 'geistliche Concerte,' and
'
Andachten on
' the Sundays and Festivals,
all
etc. etc. He cultivated the simple style of the
choral, avoiding polyphonic counterpoint. His
tunes were for long very popular, and are still
sung in the Protestant churches of Thuringia
amongst others that known as Liebster Jesu,
wir sind hier. '
'
A selection of his vocal works,
edited by Herr J. Wolf, is in vol. 5 of
DenkT/iciler Deutscher Tonkunst, in the preface
to which is a complete list of Abie's com-
positions. See also Sammelbdnde of the Inter.
Mus. Gesellschaft, ii. 393. Able left a son,
Johann Georg, born 1650, who succeeded to
his father's musical honours, and was made
poet laureate by the Emperor Leopold I. He
died Deo. 2, 1706. His hymn tunes were once
popular, but are not now in use. f. g.
AHLSTROEM, Olof, born August 1 4, 1 7 5 6 ;
a Swedish composer, organist at the church of
St. Jakob, Stockholm, and court accompanist
; composed sonatas for pianoforte (Stockholm,
1783 and 1786), cantatas, and songs, and
edited with Boman WaMa, svenska Folkdansar
och FolMedar, a collection of Swedish popular
airs. He was also editor for two years of a
fbrdrift. Hedied August 11, 1835. m. c. c.
AHNA, Heinrich Karl Hermann de, was
born, June 22, 1835, at Vienna, where he was
trained as a violinist by Mayseder. He also
received instruction from Mildner in Prague,
and was already at the age of twelve making
public appearances in Vienna, London, etc.
Two years later he received the appointment
;
of Chamber Virtuosoto the Duke of Coburg
Gotha, but in 1851 an entire change came
over his manner of life. He forsook the
musical for a military career, joined the
Austrian army as a cadet, and remained a