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AMBROS, AUGUST WILHELM (1816—1876)

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AMBROS, AUGUST WILHELM (1816—1876)

AMBROS, See also:
AUGUST (originally Sextilis)
AUGUST WILHELM (1816—1876) , See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian composer and historian of See also:

MUSIC

music, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Mauth near See also:

PRAGUE (Ger. Prag; Bohemian Praha)

Prague. His See also:

FATHER

father was a cultured See also:

man, and his See also:

MOTHER

mother was the See also:

SISTER

sister of R. G. Kiesewetter 1773—18.50), the musical archaeologist and See also:

COLLECTOR

collector. Ambros was well educated in music and the arts, which were his abiding See also:

PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion; but he was destined for the See also:

law and an See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official career in the Austrian See also:

CIVIL

civil service, and he occupied various important posts under the See also:

MINISTRY

ministry of See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice, music being the employment of his leisure. From 185o onwards he became well known as a critic and See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay-writer, and in 186o he began working on his magnum See also:

OPUS ('O7rois)

opus, his See also:

HISTORY

History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1864 in five volumes, the last two (1878, 1882) being edited and completed by See also:

OTTO

Otto Kade and Langhaus. Ambros became See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of the history of music at Prague in 1869. He was an excellent pianist; and the author of numerous compositions somewhat reminiscent of Mendelssohn. He died at See also:

Vienna on the 28th of See also:

JUNE

June 1876.

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