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Bella Figura is a contemporary ballet choreographed by Jiří Kylián to music by Lukas Foss, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi and Giuseppe Torelli. The ballet was made for the Nederlands Dans Theater , and premiered on 12 October 1995, at AT&T Danstheater [ nl ] , The Hague.
Figura may refer to: Bella Figura, one act ballet by Jiří Kylián; Fgura, town in the south of Malta; Figura etymologica, rhetorical figure; Figura Serpentinata, style in painting and sculpture; Oliva figura, species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae (olives) translation of figure in some languages
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Giovanni Battista Draghi (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈdraːɡi]; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Italian: [perɡoˈleːzi;-eːsi]), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of ...
She founded and edited the journal la bella figura, which promoted the work of Italian-Americans. After a brief but successful run, she folded the journal when she decided to live in Italy. Before leaving the United States, she edited an anthology of poems that had appeared in the journal.
The Ryom-Verzeichnis or Ryom Verzeichnis [1] (both often abbreviated RV) is the standard catalogue of the music of Antonio Vivaldi created by Danish musicologist Peter Ryom. ...
The 1964 Grove's Dictionary defines the figure as "the exact counterpart of the German 'motiv' and the French 'motif '": it produces a "single complete and distinct impression". [3] To the self-taught Roger Scruton , [ 4 ] however, a figure is distinguished from a motif in that a figure is background while a motif is foreground: