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Camille Saint-Saëns
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Camille Saint-Saëns, né à Paris le 9 octobre 1835 et mort à Alger le 16 décembre 1921 est un pianiste, organiste et compositeur français de l'époque post-romantique. Il a écrit douze opéras, dont le plus connu est Samson et Dalila (1877), de nombreux oratorios, cinq symphonies, cinq concertos pour piano, trois pour violon et deux pour violoncelle, des compositions chorales, de la musique de chambre, des pièces pittoresques, dont Le Carnaval des animaux (1886). De plus, il occupe une place particulière dans l'histoire du septième art, puisqu'il est, en 1908, le tout premier compositeur de renom à composer une musique spécialement pour un film, L'Assassinat du duc de Guise.
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José Cura
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. José Cura (born December 5, 1962) is a prominent operatic tenor known for his intense and original interpretations of his characters, notably Verdi's Otello and Saint-Saëns' Samson, as well as for his unconventional and innovative concert performances. He is also able to perform high baritone roles with the extended lower parts of his vocal range. José Cura was born in Rosario, Argentina. He originally trained as an orchestral conductor, his vocal talents largely unrecognised until 1988.
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Mark Lundberg
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mark Lundberg (25 March 1958 - 15 August 2008) was an American opera singer who had an active international career from the 1980s up until his sudden death in 2008. He began his career as a bass, then progressed to portraying baritone parts, and finally settled as a dramatic tenor, winning acclaim portraying Wagnerian heroes like Siegfried, Tristan and other standards of the dramatic repertoire. Samson from Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah and the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello became "calling cards" for him. Standing at six and a half feet and possessing a big frame and a dark beard, Lundberg made a striking figure on stage. His shoulders measured 6 and a half feet around and the Denver Post once Described as "a big blonde bear of a man", a fitting description for such a large man
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Le Cygne
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Le cygne, or The Swan, is the 13th and penultimate movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. A melody for solo cello is accompanied by two pianos. The piece is in 6/4 time, with a key signature of G major and a tempo marking andantino grazioso. The slow cello melody is accompanied by almost constant broken chord figurations on the pianos. When performed as a separate movement, not in the context of The Carnival, The Swan is frequently played with accompaniment on only one piano.
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Carnival of the Animals (Ballet)
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carnival of the Animals is a ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon on New York City Ballet to Camille Saint-Saëns' eponymous music. The narration was written by John Lithgow, who also performed in the premiere, which took place on Wednesday, May 14th, 2003, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. Christopher Wheeldon (born 22 March 1973 in Yeovil, Somerset, England) is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8.
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List of 1905 Ballet Premieres
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with most of the audience seated on tiers or galleries on three sides of the dance floor. It has since become a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.
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The International Library of Music
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The International Library of Music
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Diana Yukawa
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Diana Yukawa is an Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1. Diana Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan to English ballet dancer Susanne Bayly and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa one month after her father died in the 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 disaster. Yukawa has lived in the United Kingdom since she was 2 months old and began learning violin when she was 5 years old. Because Diana was born after her father's death, his name was excluded from her birth certificate until July 2009. Yukawa played during a memorial service for the Japan Airlines Flight 123 victims on August 12, 2009. Her Japanese debut album La Campanella, released in 2000 on BMG RCA, became a No.1 best seller. It was released in the UK under the title Elegy in 2001
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Jane Bathori
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jane Bathori (born Jeanne-Marie Berthier, June 14, 1877 - January 25, 1970) was a French opera singer. Born in Paris, France, she was famous on the operatic stage and important in the development of contemporary French music. Bathori originally studied piano and planned for a career as concert pianist but soon turned to singing, making her professional debut sometime in 1898 at the small Théâtre de la Bodinière in the rue Saint-Lazare in a concert to honor the poet Paul Verlaine. That same year, her debut in the grands concerts began when she appeared at the Concerts du Conservatoire followed by performances in Gabriel Fauré's La Naissance de Vénus and Camille Saint-Saëns' Messe de Requiem. During the season 1899-1900 she made her mezzo-soprano operatic debut at Nantes.
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Jean Roger-Ducasse
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean Jules Amable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 - Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré. He succeeded Fauré as professor of composition, and in 1935 he succeeded Paul Dukas as professor of orchestration. His personal style was firmly rooted in the French school of orchestration, in an unbroken tradition from Hector Berlioz through Camille Saint-Saëns. Among his notable pupils are Jehan Alain, Claude Arrieu, Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk, Jean-Louis Martinet, and Francis George Scott.
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Raphael Severe
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raphael Severe is a young French clarinet prodigy who was born on 15 September 1994 in Rennes (France). Raphael Severe received a very early musical education from his mother, a Hungarian pianist and his father, a French clarinettist: the piano, the violin and the cello. Aged 8, he took up the clarinet at the Conservatoire of Nantes while continuing studying the piano. At 11, he gave his first soloist concert in China when he played Mozart's clarinet concerto with Yu Feng, the artistic director of the Beijing Opera Orchestra, conducting. At 12 he was a prize winner of five international competitions including the Tokyo International Competition where he won the first prize and the four special prizes.
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