Nicola Montani
Nicola A. Montani, KCSS, who was born in New York in 1880 and died in 1948, was a conductor, composer, arranger, and publisher of sacred music. Montani founded the St. Gregory Guild and the Society of St. Gregory. In 1920, he published the famous and Catholic Choir Book, containing mainly his own editions and compositions, similar to Oreste Ravanello's work.
He was a Knight Commander of St. Sylvester.
Montani published "Essentials in Sight Singing" - a modern method of Selfeggio, Book I, Parts One and Two of the Complete Work Fundamentals. Published by the C.C. Birchard & Company in Boston. ©1931, printed October 1936. Foreword by J. Lewis Browne.
References[]
- Adoramus Bulletin: Online Edition, June 2004, Volume X, Number 4: Hymns, Hymnals, Composers and Choir schools: Philadelphia's Historic Contributions to Catholic Liturgical Music
External links[]
- Works by Nicola Aloysius Montani at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Nicola Montani at Internet Archive
- Free scores by Nicola Montani at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Categories:
- American performers of Christian music
- American male composers
- American composers
- 1880 births
- 1948 deaths
- Composers awarded knighthoods
- Conductors (music) awarded knighthoods
- 20th-century conductors (music)
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs