See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

MICHAEL See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

ANDREW AGNUS See also:

• COSTA, GIOVANNI (1826–1903)
• COSTA, LORENZO (146o-r535)
• SIR MICHAEL ANDREW AGNUS COSTA (1808-1884)

COSTA (1808-1884)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British musical conductor and composer, the son of See also:

• CAVALIERE, EMILIO DEL

Cavaliere Pasquale See also:

• COSTA, GIOVANNI (1826–1903)
• COSTA, LORENZO (146o-r535)
• COSTA, SIR MICHAEL ANDREW AGNUS (1808-1884)

Costa, a Spaniard, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples on the 14th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 18o8 . Here he became at an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age a See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar at the Royal See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of See also:

• MUSIC

Music . His See also:

• CANTATA (Italian for a song or story set to music)

cantata L'Immagine was composed when he was fifteen . In 1826 he wrote his first See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera Il Delitto Punito; in 1827 another opera Il sospetto funesto . To this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period belong also his See also:

• ORATORIO

oratorio La Passione, a See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

Mass for four voices, a Dixit See also:

• DOMINUS (from an Indo-European root dam-, cf. Gr. Sapav, to subdue, and Eng. " tame ")

Dominus, and three symphonies . The opera Il Carcere d'Ildegonda was composed in 1828 for the Teatro Nuovo, and in 1829 Costa wrote his Malvina for Barbaja, the impresario of See also:

• SAN

San Carlo . In this latter See also:

• YEAR

year he visited See also:

• BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham to conduct Zingarelli's Cantata Sacra, a setting of some verses from See also:

• ISAIAH
• ISAIAH, ASCENSION OF

Isaiah ch. xii . Instead, however, of conducting, he sang the See also:

• TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone)

tenor See also:

• PART

part . In 183o he settled in See also:

• LONDON

London, having a connexion with the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King's See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre . His See also:

• BALLET

ballet See also:

• KENILWORTH

Kenilworth 'was written in 1831, the ballet Une Heure a Naples in 1832, and the ballet See also:

• SIR

Sir Huon (composed for See also:

• TAGLIONI, MARIA (1804-1884)

Taglioni) in 1833 . In this latter year he wrote his famous quartet Ecco quel fiero istante . Malek Adhel, an opera, was produced in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1837 .

In 1842 he wrote the ballet music of See also:

• ALMA

Alma for Cerito, and in 1844 his opera See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don See also:

• CARLOS, DON (1545-1568)
• CARLOS, DON (1788-1855)
• CARLOS, DON (CHARLES MARIA DE LOS DOLORES JUAN ISIDOR.E JOSEPH FRANCIS QUIRIN ANTONY MICHAEL GABRIEL RAPHAEL) (1848—1909)

Carlos was produced in London . Costa became a naturalized Englishman and received the See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

• KNIGHTHOOD

knighthood in 1869 . He conducted the opera at Her See also:

• MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

Majesty's from 1832 till 1846, when he seceded to the See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian Opera at Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden; he was conductor of the Philharmonic Society from 1846 to 1854, of the Sacred See also:

• HARMONIC

Harmonic Society from 1848, and of the Birmingham festival from 1849 . In 1855 Costa wrote See also:

• ELI (Hebrew for "high"? i Sam. chaps. i.-iv.)

Eli, and in 1864 Naaman, both for Birmingham . Meanwhile he had conducted the See also:

• BRADFORD
• BRADFORD, JOHN (1510?—1555)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1590—1657)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1663—1752)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1827—1892)

Bradford (1853) and See also:

• HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERICK (1685–1759)

Handel festivals (1857–188o), and the See also:

• LEEDS
• LEEDS, THOMAS OSBORNE

Leeds festivals from 1874 to 1880 . On the 29th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1884 he died at See also:

• BRIGHTON

Brighton . Costa was the See also:

• GREAT

great conductor of his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, but both his musical and his human sympathies were somewhat limited; his compositions have passed into oblivion, with the exception of the least admirable of them—his arrangement of the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• ANTHEM

anthem .