Made an overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1826, went gentle into that good night on Nov. 4, 1847 in Leipzig
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Romantic Period (1820-1910) Flashcards | Quizlet  On November 4, 1847, six months after the death of his beloved sister Fanny, ... One of the greatest early examples of a concert overture is Mendelssohn's ... full incidental music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, written for the new ..... Composers of the late Romantic period may be classified into three groups:...
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Program Notes | Symphony Silicon Valley  Leipzig, Germany November 4, 1847). A Midsummer Night's Dream--Overture--1826, Nocturne and Scherzo--1842 ... the works of Shakespeare, whose collected plays had been translated into German 25 years earlier. ... and as a result he had the integrity and confidence in his own work that made him dare to be original.
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Felix Mendelssohn - Wikipedia  His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the overture The...
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Music History 102  For inspiration, many Romantic composers turned to the visual arts, to poetry, drama and ... comic works has been described as "the perfect distillation of comedy into music. ... Died: London, June 5, 1826 ... Died: Leipzig, November 4, 1847 ... an overture based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" which was so...
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Program Notes: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Stockton Symphony ...  Jan 23, 2016 ... Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Complete Incidental ... with the basses gently knocking on the bodies of their instruments, ... Born in Hamburg, February 3, 1809; died in Leipzig, November 4, 1847. The enchanted realm of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture .... So, good night, with la lullaby!
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) - Wikipedia  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romance fantasy film of William ... of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. ... The play, which is categorized as a comedy, is one of Shakespeare's most .... Verree Teasdale as Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus...
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On This Day: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture Debuts in Moscow  On Aug. 20, 1882, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky introduced his 1812 Overture, which commemorated Russia's defeat of Napoleon, at the 1882 Moscow Exhibition. ... On Nov. 2, 1893, six days after premiering his final work, the Symphony No.
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Richard Strauss: SALOME  The Open Music History Project  Apr 14, 2013 ... Five months after its world premier, the opera had its Austrian ... weaker gender through which some kind of degeneration was imminent. ... dancing before Herod, and requesting the head of John the Baptist as a reward. ... Then she asks for him to kiss her, and he refuses her a third time. .... Remember Me.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet) - Wikipedia  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's play of the same name.
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Brahms' Lullaby - Wikipedia  Cradle Song is the common name for a number of children's lullabies with similar lyrics, the original of which was Johannes Brahms' "Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht" ("Good evening, good night"), Op. 49, No. ... In 1922, Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger arranged the Wiegenlied as one of his "Free...
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Tchaikovsky - eClassical  than the composer, restored to Tchaikovsky the mother he lost when he was still a teen. .... Classical Vienna, Tchaikovsky's harmonic inventiveness can be said to have .... The music of a ballet is not invariably bad, there are good ... Sleeping Beauty (premiered at the Mariinsky in 1890) and The Nutcracker (the Mariinsky,.
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Program Notes::A Midsummer Night's Dream  Victoria Symphony ...  He wrote a great deal of undistinguished music throughout this period, seemingly as a ... The work is in four movements; the first, entitled Pezzo in Forma di Sonatina, starts ... A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, Op. 21 and Incidental Music, Op. 61 ... Night's Dream to match the Overture written so many years before, and...
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A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial ...  Relent , sweet Hermia ; and , Lysander , yield Thy crazed title to my certain right . ...... When I had at my pleasure taunted her , And she in mild terms begg'd my patience , I ..... You shall find of the king a husband , madam ; you , sir , a father . ...... PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE To sing a song that old was sung , From ashes...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Analysis of Lines 5-20 of the Epilogue  Dec 6, 2011 ... ... good night unto you all, / Give me your hands, if we be friends, / And Robin shall restore amends. This is a very peaceful ending, but again,...
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MENDELSSOHN: Suite from A Midsummer Night's Dream Die erste ...  He composed his Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream in the midsummer of ... the music was first heard in a private performance of the play on October 18, ... lost everything Mozart wrote before he turned eighteen, we would hardly feel the...
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Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Music of Two Worlds  Jan 14, 2015 ... of his career: the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, which many years later he expanded into incidental music to accompany a full production of the ..... Dream, which was written in the 1590s -- more than 200 years before Mendelssohn .... 2015 YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS FOR SCHOOLS 18...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) - TCM.com  German director Max Reinhardt's sumptuous productions of the classics, ... director fled the Third Reich in 1934 and announced plans to direct a stage tour of the ... A Midsummer Night's Dream was far from the smoothest in Warners' history. ... and lighting would have on how she appeared on screen and had learned to find...
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Notes Atlanta SO - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Suite No. 1 from the ballet Nutcracker, Opus 71a ... March 19, 1892, with the composer conducting the Russian Musical Society ... I. Miniature Overture; Allegro giustoThe sprightly Overture features light .... critic, Eduard Hanslick, to write one of the most (in)famous reviews in music.
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William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I - Infoplease  Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, and Attendants. Theseus. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon:...
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PROGRAM NOTES Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream  Mendelssohn composed this overture in 1826 for performance at home, where it was first played as a piano ... Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opp. 21 and 61 ... Mendelssohn was the most astonishing child prodigy among composers. ... He was born into a wealthy German Jewish family and grew up in a.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wikipedia  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta. ... Peter Quince and his fellow players Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Robin .... He also liked the "handsome women" of the cast.