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21The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) — The Stone Guest ( Каменный гость in Cyrillic, Kamennyj gost in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky. The libretto was taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin s like named play in blank verse (part of his… …
22overture — n. 1. Proposal, offer, proposition. 2. (Mus.) Orchestral introduction to an opera, oratorio, etc …
23Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky While the contributions of the Russian nationalistic group The Five were important in their own right in developing an independent Russian voice and consciousness in classical music, the compositions of Pyotr Ilyich… …
24Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) — Munich, September 1910. Final rehearsal for the world premiere of Mahler s Eighth Symphony, in the Neue Musik Festhalle. The Symphony No. 8 in E flat major by Gustav Mahler is one of the largest scale choral works in the classical concert r …
25overture — /oh veuhr cheuhr, choor /, n., v., overtured, overturing. n. 1. an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement, etc.; a formal or informal proposal or offer: overtures of peace; a shy man who rarely made… …
26Southeast Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The classical literatures of Southeast Asia can be divided into three major regions: the Sanskrit region of… …
27Frederick Delius — Frederick Albert Theodore Delius CH (29 January 1862 ndash; 10 June 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. LifeDelius s parents were German. Julius and Elise Pauline Delius had… …
28The Fair at Sorochyntsi — ( ru. Сорочинская ярмарка, Sorochinskaya yarmarka , Sorochyntsi Fair ) is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on Nikolay Gogol …
29Doktor Faust — Operas by Ferruccio Busoni Die Brautwahl (1912) Turandot (1917) Arlecchino (1917) Doktor Faust (1925) …
30Die Entführung aus dem Serail — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart …
