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708 in Willis's Rooms. Line 12 from bottom, for 1752 read 1757. P. 194a, l. 25, for it is now vacant read in 1878 the Right Hon. Earl Beauchamp was appointed. Line 33, add that in 1887 Dr. Stainer was succeeded as director of the music by Dr. J. F. Bridge and Mr. Eaton Faning. Since 1881 two prizes of £10 and £5 respectively, have been awarded annually for the two best madrigals. From the list of present members all names except those of Drs. Stainer and Bridge, and Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, are to be omitted.

MÄNNERGESANGVEREIN, Add that the Cologne Choral Union gave a set of ten concerts in St. James's Hall in June, 1883.

MAGNIFICAT. Add to references at end of article,, vol. ii. p. 25,, vol. ii. p. 546, and, vol. iv. p. 664.

MAHILLON,, wind-instrument makers. This firm was founded at Brussels by C. Mahillon (born 1813, died 1887), in 1836. Three of his sons are now in the business, Victor (see below), Joseph, who conducts the Brussels business, and Fernand who manages the London branch established in 1884, in Leicester Square, and removed in 1887 to Oxford Street.

, of the firm of wind-instrument makers, above mentioned, a writer of important works on acoustics and musical instruments, and the honorary and zealous custodian of the Museum of the Brussels Conservatoire, was born in that city, March 10, 1841. After studying music under some of the best professors there, he applied himself to the practical study of wind-instrument manufacture and was taken into his father's business in 1865. He started a musical journal 'L'Echo Musical' in 1869 and continued it until 1886, when his time became too much occupied to attend to its direction. In 1876 he became the honorary curator of the museum of the Conservatoire, which, begun with Fétis's collection of 78 instruments, has been, through his special knowledge and untiring energy increased (1888) to upwards of 1500! An important contribution to it, of Indian instruments, has been a division of the fine collection of the Rajah Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore, between the Brussels Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. Mr. Victor Mahillon has published two very important works, besides three synoptical tables of harmony, voices and instruments. The first is 'Les Eléments d'Acoustique musicale et instrumentale,' an octavo volume published in 1874, which gained for him at Paris in 1878 the distinction of a silver medal. The other is the catalogue of the Conservatoire, which has appeared in volumes annually from 1877, and is of the highest interest. As well as these noteworthy works he has contributed to the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica several historical and technical articles of great value upon wind instruments, both wood and brass. As soon as Mr. Victor Mahillon could introduce a workshop into the Conservatoire he did so, and he has there had reproductions made of many rare instruments which, through their antiquity, or the neglect of former owners, had become too much deteriorated for purposes of study. Among these reproductions the Roman Lituus and Buccina in the Music Loan Collection at Kensington, in 1885, will be remembered as prominent objects of interest in the fine selection contributed under Mr. Mahillon's auspices by the Brussels Conservatoire. He intends to reproduce from authentic sources, if he has not already fulfilled that intention, the complete families of wind-instruments that were in use in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Mr. Victor Mahillon's services to the Inventions Exhibition of 1885, in the above-named contribution of instruments to the Loan Collection, and the historical concerts under his direction performed by professors and students of the Brussels Conservatoire, at which several rare instruments were actually played upon in contemporary compositions, were so highly appreciated by the Executive Council of that Exhibition that a gold medal was awarded to him. [ A. J. H. ]

MALBROUGH. Last line but one of article, for Dec. 15 read Dec. 13.

MALLINGER,, born Feb. 17, 1847, at Agram, Croatia, was first taught singing there by her father, a professor of music, and Professor Lichtenegger, later by Gordigiani and Vogl at the Prague Conservatorium from 1863–66, and finally by Richard Lewy at Vienna. On the recommendation of Franz Lachner she was engaged at Munich, where she made her début as Norma, Oct. 4, 1866. She was the original Eva in the 'Meistersinger,' June 21, 1868. She made her débuts at Berlin as Elsa, April 6, and Norma, April 9, 1869. She was an excellent actress and a great favourite, married the Baron Schimmelpfennig von der Oye at Berlin, and remained there during her whole musical career. On leave of absence she played with success at Vienna, Munich, etc., and in Italian opera at St. Petersburg and Moscow, but with indifferent success. Her parts included Donna Anna, Fidelio, Jessonda, Valentine, Leonora ('Trovatore'), Iphigenia, Euryanthe, Susanna, Zerlina, Mrs. Ford, etc. About 1871 a certain section of the Berlin public tried to establish her claim as leading singer as against Pauline Lucca, the then reigning favourite. Endless quarrels ensued on their account, which culminated at a performance of the 'Nozze,' Jan. 27, 1872, where they were both playing. On Lucca's entry as Cherubino she was hissed—in consequence of which she broke her contract in the following autumn and left for America. It is rumoured that Mme. Mallinger having lost her voice has become a 'dramatic' actress, and will appear shortly at the Königstadter Theatre, Berlin. [ A. C. ]

MALTEN,, born at Insterburg, Eastern Prussia, was taught singing by Gustav