| | 60 sonatas for pianoforte alone, many Robespierre | | others with accompaniments, fugues, guillotined | | studies (Gradus ad Parnassum), (1794). | | symphonies. Also an instruction book | | for the pianoforte. Netherlandish | | Painters:-- | | Van Os, Vanloo, | | Clementi and Beethoven, by their Van Spaendonk, | | compositions for the pianoforte, Scheffer, | | especially promoted the perfecting and Pienemann, | | the popularity of the pianoforte. Hodges, Kuipers, | | Ommegang, | | Viotti (Giovanni Battista), born Wonder, | | 1753 at Piedmont, died 1824. etc. | | Violinist, and founder of a new school | | of violin-playing. Many concertos and French Painters:-- | | other instrumental compositions. Joseph Vernet | | (1714-1789), | | Greuze, Vien, | | Cimarosa (Domenico), born 1754 at David, Isabey, | | Naples, died 1801. Composed 75 Drouais, Gerard, | | Operas, a Requiem, Masses, etc. Gros, Ingres, | | Regnauld, | | Dalayrac (Nicolas), born 1753 in Guerin, Horace | | Languedoc, France, died 1809. Composed Vernet (born | | 56 Operas. 1789), etc. | | | | Shield (William), born 1754 in Denmark sets the | | London, died 1829. Composed Operas, example of | | canzonets, instrumental trios. Author abolishing the | | of a Treatise on Harmony. slave trade | | (1791). | | Storace (Stephan), born 1763 in | | London, of Italian origin, died 1796. France abolishes | | Composed 14 Operas with English words. slavery in her | | colonies (1794). | | Gerber (Ernst Ludwig), born 1746 in | | Saxony, died 1819. Author of two Abolition of the | | biographical Dictionaries of slave trade by | | Musicians, and of some books of the English | | instruction on music. Parliament | | (1807). | | Schulz (Johann Peter), born 1747 at | | Lueneburg, in Germany, died 1800. Vaccination is | | Several Operas, Oratorios, choruses, introduced by Dr. | | etc. Jenner (1796). | | | |