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Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (June 8, 1820 – March 19, 1902) was a Swiss orientalist and Professor of Arabic in London and Cambridge. Biography.
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (Dutch: [ˈɑndreː riˈjøː], French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁjø]; born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Rieu and his orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act. [1] He resides in his native ...
Rieu can refer to: André Rieu (born 1949), Dutch violinist and conductor; Annette Rieu, a character in Jeanne Galzy's 1929 novel L'Initiatrice aux mains vides (Burnt Offering) Bún riêu, a Vietnamese meat; D. C. H. Rieu (1916–2008), scholar; Charloun Rieu (1846–1924), French farmer and poet; Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1820–1902), Swiss ...
At Rieu's studios in Maastricht, the orchestra has recorded a wide range of classical, popular and folk music, and music from cinema and musical theatre. His lively orchestral presentations, in tandem with effective marketing, have attracted worldwide audiences to this subgenre of classical music.
Rieu was born in London, [1] the youngest child of the Swiss Orientalist Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1820–1902), and his wife Agnes, daughter of Julius Heinrich Hisgen of Hamburg. [2] He was a scholar of St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford, gaining a first in Classical Honours Moderations in 1908.
Bill Le Sage (1927–2001), British jazz musician, descendant of a Valenciennes journeyman silkweaver, Jacques Le Sage, and his son, also a journeyman silkweaver, Pierre Le Sage (born Leiden, died Spitalfields, married into the Le Grand family of Saint-Quentin. Later Le Sage descendants in Spitalfields married with the Levesques, weavers ...
Emma Kok (born 12 March 2008) [1] [2] is a Dutch singer. She rose to prominence in 2021 after winning the tenth season of The Voice Kids.In 2023, her performance of "Voilà" with André Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra went viral, amassing nearly 80 million views on YouTube.
Louis Rieu was the son of Charles Pierre Henri Rieu, a Swiss-born orientalist who spent his career in Britain and the grandson of the Swiss soldier and politician Jean-Louis Rieu; his brother was the classicist E. V. Rieu. He was educated at University College School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford. [1]