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Albin, Eleazar, active 1713-1759

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  • active 1713-1759

Eleazar Albin was an English naturalist and watercolourist illustrator who wrote and illustrated several books, including “A Natural History of English Insects” (1720), “A Natural History of Birds” (1731–38), and “A Natural History of Spiders and Other Curious Insects” (1736). He has been described as one of the great entomological book illustrators of the 18th century.

Albinoni, Tomaso, 1671-1750

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  • 1671-1750

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was born on June 8, 1671, in Venice, Republic of Venice.

He was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos. He is best remembered today for a work called "Adagio in G minor," attributed to him but largely written by Remo Giazotto, a 20th-century musicologist and composer who was a cataloguer of the works of Albinoni.

He died on January 17, 1751, in Venice, Republic of Venice.

Albisi, Abelardo, 1872-1938

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  • 1872-1938

Abelardo Ernesto Albisi was born on June 14, 1872, Cortemaggiore, Province of Piacenza, Italy.

He was an Italian flutist, instrument maker, and composer. He studied at Conservatorio di Parma Arrigo Boito (1882-1890). He was the principal flutist of the La Scala orchestra in Milan. In 1910, he invented the Albisiphon baritone flute. In 1913, Albisi had joined forces with Luigi Vanotti, an established maker of woodwind instruments in Milan, to produce his novel, T-shaped vertical flute. He became a flute professor at the Geneva Conservatoire in 1919.

He died on January 11, 1938.

Alchevsʹkyĭ, Hryhoriĭ Oleksiĭovych, 1866-1920

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  • 1866-1920

Gregory Alchevsky was born in 1866 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then the Russian Empire, the son of the wealthy industrialist and banker Aleksey Alchevsky.

He was a Russian and Ukrainian composer. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kharkiv University in 1887 and continued his studies at the Moscow Imperial Conservatory. Alchevsky became famous as a composer, music critic, public figure, and voice teacher, making a notable contribution to Ukrainian music. Concerned about the development of musical culture in Kharkiv, he organized a balalaika orchestra and several amateur string orchestras. His musical compositions include a symphonic poem, arrangements of Russian and Ukrainian folk songs, and music set to the words of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Apollon Maykov, Mikhail Lermontov, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, and Yakov Polonsky.

He died in 1920 in Moscow, Russia.

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