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FRANZ ABT (1819-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANZ
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ABT (1819-1885)  ,
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German composer, was
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born on the 22nd of
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December 1819 at
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Eilenburg,
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Saxony, and died at
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Wiesbaden on the 31st of
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March 1885 . The best of his popular songs have become
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part of the recognized
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art-folk-
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music of
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Germany; his vocal
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works, solos, part-songs, &c., enjoyed an extra-
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ordinary
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vogue all over
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Europe in the
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middle of the igth
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century, but in spite of their facile tunefulness have few qualities of lasting beauty .
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Abt was kapellmeister at
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Bernburg in 1841, at
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Zurich in the same
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year and at
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Brunswick from 1852 to 1882, when he retired to Wiesbaden .

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