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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Wikipedia  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the classical repertoire. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. .... 1 (Op. 13), a work conceived in January based on chants heard in Russian...
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Feodor Chaliapin - Wikipedia  Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive ... Feodor Chaliapin was born into a peasant family on February 1 (OS), 1873 in Kazan, ... under the baton of one of the 20th century's most dynamic opera conductors, ... This dish is known in Japan as a Chaliapin Steak to this day.
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Russian composer crossword clue - Poker  Jun 16, 2016 ... ... kissed him on the forehead LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" Born in 1873, this Russian was famous for works like the one heard here...
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J! Archive - Show #4970, aired 2006-03-31  One of the largest artificial lakes in the world, it straddles the border .... Born in 1873, this Russian was famous for works like the one heard here...
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Four Examples of Russian Music in American Popular Culture - Art ...  Aug 12, 2015 ... Appropriated Russian songs include classical pieces like The Flight of the ... Here is some Russian music that is commonly used in American popular culture. ... of the Feodor Chalyapin (1873-1938), a famous Russian opera singer. .... So many of works have been used in American popular culture that one...
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Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky  But his parents did not pay attention to his musical capabilities. ... performances of very famous musicians, such as Clara Schumann, and also frequented the Italian ... Rubinstain's brother Nikolay to teach at the newly founded Moscow Conservatory. ... Early in 1866 he began work on his first symphony "Winter Daydreams".
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Five Pivotal Ukrainian Classical Music Figures - WQXR  Monday, March 10, 2014 ... With the conflict in the Ukraine dominating the headlines in recent weeks, the ... Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka, a small town in the Eastern ... Reinhold Glire before entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory. ... Valentin Silvestrov is best known as one of the favorite composers of his...
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Prince Igor - Wikipedia  Prince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander ... Borodin returned to Prince Igor in 1874, inspired by the success of his .... The actual given name of the historical Yaroslavna is Yefrosinya (Russian: .... Prince Igor is a staple of Russian opera, but has not travelled well abroad.
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Lev Tolstoy - Tchaikovsky Research  Apr 9, 2016 ... One of the towering figures of Russian literature, Tolstoy was born into a noble ... In 1852, he had completed his first novel (Childhood), which eventually ... culminating in A Confession (1882), What I Believe (1884), and later The .... to come by, Tchaikovsky had imagined him to be "almost like a demigod".
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Wikipedia  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of ... Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects. .... broke free from it, this did not stop him in his memoirs from extolling the older composer's talents as a critic and improviser. ...... My Musical Life.
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With the composition of his tone poem Finlandia ... - Seattle Symphony  Early in 1899, the government of Czar. Nicholas II issued the ... Finlandia. This piece was performed for the first time in July 1900 and quickly became. Sibelius's most ... a hymn-like theme, the most famous melody Sibelius ever wrote. The new...
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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai | San Francisco Classical Voice  Composer of Scheherazade and several great operas, Rimsky-Korsakov was ... Early life: Rimsky-Korsakov's family was poor but aristocratic. ... The most famous are Alexander Glazunov, one of the first, and Igor Stravinsky, one of the last. ... list of his works is that fast-buzzing encore favorite, The Flight of the Bumblebee.
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The piece seen here is by this pop artist who started out graffitiing ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... She's the famous American folk artist seen here # Quiz # Question. 0:29 ... Russian-born artist whose work is seen here # Quiz # Question. 0:29.
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Russian Masterpieces Program Notes | Artosphere Festival  Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff are composers who loom larger-than-life in the ... Both men were born into affluent families well before the Russian Revolution of ... Rachmaninoff toured even more extensively, first as a virtuoso pianist and ... Here is a concerto filled with melodies so memorable, they became popular songs.
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Russian Composers Of The Early Essay  Extra Credit Paper Chapter 17 The great Russian composers of the early ... and reorchestrated Mussorgsky\'s opera Boris Godunov in 1896 after the deaths of the ... works Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade, and the Russian Easter Overture.
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Anton Chekhov - Famous Russian People. Russian celebrities ...  His fame of a brilliant story writer is never-fading, and his plays are shown all over the ... His next collection In the twilight won him the Pushkin Prize in 1888.
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Read the concert program notes - CityMusic Cleveland  Russian-born Prokofiev wrote his first opera (The Giant) when he was nine years old. ... Each character in Prokofiev's musical fairytale is represented by a different ... a mellifluous clarinet, [P03] Peter's grumpy grandfather by a bassoon, [P04] the ... Playful Pizzicato  pizzicato is where the players pluck the strings instead of...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky  Russiapedia Literature Prominent Russians  Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of Russias greatest writers, one whose works are ... in 1839  different sources suggest suicide and murder by his own serfs, while, .... his best-known novels, Crime and Punishment (Prestuplenie i nakazanie).
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Masterpiece Theatre | Doctor Zhivago | Essays + Interviews | Boris ...  From Lyric Poet to Epic Novelist: Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) ... Blok, writer Andrei Bely, and poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose writing would greatly influence Pasternak. ... He wrote two books in 1917, My Sister Life and Themes and Variations. The Bolshevik Revolution and World War I would delay their appearance for five...
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lenin - Search-ID  ... Moscow since 1924 & gets a change of clothes every 3 years; Despite the uncanny resemblance in the photo seen here, it's actually this Russian born in 1870...
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The Music of Lithuania - a Historical Sketch - Vytas Nakas  1698) remain as one of the oldest written sources of Lithuanian music. ... the course of the nineteenth century, the czarist government embarked on a ... Another early Lithuanian composer was Vincas Kudirka (1858-1899), who wrote the words ... and was not heard in Lithuania until four years after the premiere of Graina.