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Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
Don Juan, Op. 20, is a tone poem in E major for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888. The work is based on Don Juans Ende , a play derived from an unfinished 1844 retelling of the tale by poet Nikolaus Lenau after the Don Juan legend which originated in Renaissance -era Spain. [ 1 ]
Variations for guitar on "Là ci darem la mano" (1828) by Hector Berlioz (lost) Nicolas-Charles Bochsa: Air varié sur "Là ci darem la mano", Op. 73, No. 2 (harp) Variations on "Là ci darem la mano", Op. 2 (1827) for piano and orchestra, by Frédéric Chopin; Réminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418 for solo piano, by Franz Liszt
Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni , is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
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The opus Six Romances was composed in 1878 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) for voice and piano, and was published as Opus 38 later that year. Of these six songs, "Don Juan's Serenade" was the most successful, becoming one of the best-known works among the approximately 100 romances that Tchaikovsky composed during his lifetime.
Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre ("Don Juan or The Feast of Stone") is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan Tenorio. [1] The aristocrat Dom Juan is a rake who seduces, marries, and abandons Elvira, discarded as just another romantic conquest. Later, he invites to dinner the statue of a man whom he recently ...
Peter Jones for Record Mirror described the song as "a sure-fire hit for Dave Dee, that well-known raver on the scene whose affinity with Don Juan is becoming more and more known. This is essentially a Spanish contribution to the team’s tour of the world, musically – a jolly, hard-hitting, brass-augmented sound which comes off immediately".