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Legend" (Russian: Легенда, Legenda), Op. 54, No. 5 (also known as "The Crown of Roses" in some English-language sources) [1] is a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally written in 1883 as a song for solo voice and piano, it was subsequently arranged by Tchaikovsky for solo voice and orchestra (1884), and then for ...
Rhodanthe's name means "rose flower", a composite word made up by the Greek words ῥόδον meaning "rose", [3] and ἄνθος meaning "flower, blossom". [4] Rhodon is the origin the English word rose, and seems to have been borrowed into the Greek language from the East. [5]
[8] [9] [10] It gets its common name 'Chestnut Rose' from the large burred hips that look like chestnuts. [11] It was originally found in China in the early 1800s, where it had been growing for generations, [8] [12] [10] and it is rarely grown in European gardens. [12] It was then introduced to the botanic garden in Calcutta around 1824.
French operatic soprano Rose Caron as Brunhild at Théâtre de La Monnaie, Brussels, 1884 Some time later, Brunhild and Gudrun quarrel while washing their hair in the river. Brunhild says that she does not want the water that passes through Gudrun's hair to touch her own, because her husband Gunnar is braver.
The Legend of San Pietro al Monte or the Legend of the White Boar of Civate wants to explain the foundation of the church of the same name as an act of devotion of the Lombard King Desiderius. [108] Gammazita is a young girl, the protagonist of a Catania legend linked to the history of the Angevins of Sicily. Its name was also given to a site ...
An English Rose (Saint George Hare) English rose is a description, associated with English culture, that may be applied to a naturally beautiful woman or girl who is from or is associated with England. The description has a cultural reference to the national flower of England, the rose, [1] and to its long tradition within English symbolism.
What the Rose did to the Cypress is a Persian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book (1904), [ 1 ] with the note "Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office, and adapted, with some reservations, by Annette S. Beveridge."
The flowers are arranged in a small, compact, and flat or rounded inflorescence 1–3 cm (0.4–1.2 in) across consisting of several flowers. [12] The flowers are synoecious and fertile, the petals white and fused at the base forming a tube that flares into 5 lobes at the top; the stamens short (≤ 1mm) [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and hidden within the ...