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- for the events in fourteenth century French life through his pastorelles ... The English composer Edward Elgar wrote an overture titled Froissart ...7 KB (1,008 words) - 23:43, 12 May 2025
- Latin word buculus (young bull) via the French word, bugleret. The first ... bugle, although it was derived from the French cornet de poste (post horn). ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- his governess taught him Russian, German, French, and geography, he also received ... descending whole-tone-scale in the famous overture. This is associated with ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 12:11, 31 May 2025
- where he started work on a setting of a French libretto by Jean-François ... commissioned him to write a symphony, an overture, and a composition for chorus ...6 KB (953 words) - 03:37, 27 March 2025
- wars" of the ‘60s were between the French and British dancing teachers ... In the 1990s, the French group called the Gypsy Kings of Spanish descent ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- "oboe" is a corruption of the French word for oboe, hautbois, ... The Baroque oboe first appeared in French courts under Jean-Baptiste ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 18:29, 31 July 2025
- Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French ... Rome, a musical award established by the French government to sponsor promising ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:06, 25 June 2024
- any help from formal teachers. In 1898 he wrote an overture for the school orchestra which received positive reviews—"a dynamic talent"; and ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- heavy influence of Schumann and Brahms. French influence comes to the fore ... * Tragic Overture (1895) * Triumphant Overture (1896) * Violin concerto ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 15:03, 20 May 2024
- early works such as the String Octet, the Overture to A Midsummer Night's ... power of his genius. The Octet and his Overture to A Midsummer Night's ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- from a certain destruction, since the French had their eye on the statue ... himself many enemies, especially in the French and Italian consuls, who ...10 KB (1,519 words) - 12:55, 22 May 2024
- (January 29, 1782 – May 13, 1871) was a French composer who became an important ... and piquant of melody—characteristically French. Le maçon (1825) was his ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- based on the Danish saga of Palnatoke. (A French edition of his book, written ... against tyranny with the history of the French revolution. ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813 – March 29 1888) was a ... Alkan completed a full translation into French of both the Old Testament ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- (William Tell (opera))—the end of the overture is popularly known for being ... Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French, and welcomed ...21 KB (3,212 words) - 12:50, 22 May 2024
- Although Telemann absorbed the French and Italian styles as well as ... . Here he acquainted himself with the French style of Lully and Campra ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel ... Count Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium to a wealthy ...15 KB (2,259 words) - 09:21, 29 April 2025
- in at least 70,000 total casualties. The French Grande Armée under Emperor ... The French Grande Armée had begun its invasion of Russia in June ...24 KB (3,590 words) - 11:34, 20 September 2023
- In 1885, he became instructor in French and German at the Princeton ... neutral support for his new hosts on the French battlefields of World War ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 02:04, 18 December 2024
- Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French ... [[Image:Overture.jpg|250px|thumb|300px|The Overture to [[Tannhäuser ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 04:35, 3 November 2025
