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VAISSEAU FANTÔME. P. 213 a, note 1, add date of death of P. L. P. Dietsch, Feb. 20, 1865.

VALENTINO. Add that he came to London in 1839, and gave concerts at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. [See vol. iii. p. 40 b.]

VALLERIA. Add that she remained with the Carl Rosa company until 1886 inclusive, and created the principal parts on the production of ‘Nadeschda’ and ‘The Troubadour.’

VALLOTTI, P. Francescantonio, was a native of Piedmont, where he must have been born about the year 1700, since Dr. Burney, who saw him in 1770, says that he was then ‘near seventy years of age.’ He had long before this time attained a high reputation as the best Organist, and one of the best Church Composers, in Italy. To his skill on the Organ he owed the appointment of Maestro di Cappella, at the Church of S. Antony, at Padua, which he held with honour until his death. His Compositions for the Church are very numerous. In 1770 he composed a Requiem for the funeral of Tartini; but his magnum opus was a theoretical work, entitled ‘Della Scienza teorica, e pratica, della moderna musica.’ The original plan of this treatise embraced four volumes: Vol. I., treating of the scientific or mathematical basis of Music; Vol. II., of the ‘practical elements’ of Music, including the Scale, Temperament, the Cadences, and the Modes, both ecclesiastical and modern; Vol. III., of Counterpoint; and Vol. IV., of the method of accompanying a Thorough-Bass.