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The Peter Cornelius Archive is an extensive collection maintained by the Mainz City Library , consisting of the composer’s personal items, documents, and musical works. It includes around 50 original music manuscripts, 58 notebooks with diaries, sketches, and poems, personal memorabilia like death masks, and over 2,600 letters.
"The Three Kings", [1] or "Three Kings From Persian Lands Afar", is a Christmas carol by the German composer Peter Cornelius. He set "Die Könige" for a vocal soloist, accompanied by Philip Nicolai's hymn "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" ("How Brightly Shines the Morning Star"), which he erroneously thought was an Epiphany hymn.
Peter Cornelius (1824–1874) Peeter Cornet (c. 1570/1580–1633) William Cornysh the younger (1465?–1523) Ronald Corp (born 1951) Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584–1654) Manuel Correia (c. 1600 – 1653) Gaspard Corrette (c. 1670–before 1733) Michel Corrette (1707–1795) Francesco Corteccia (1502–1571) Ramiro Cortés (1933–1984 ...
Operas by Peter Cornelius (1 P) Pages in category "Compositions by Peter Cornelius" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Baghdad) is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on The Tale of the Tailor and The Barber’s Stories of his Six Brothers in One Thousand and One Nights.
His arrangement of Three Kings by Peter Cornelius for solo voice and choir, published posthumously in 1957, also achieved great popularity as a choral work for Epiphany. [15] It was included in the first volume of the popular 1961 collection compiled by David Willcocks and Reginald Jacques, Carols for Choirs. [16]
"The Three B s" generally refers to the supposed primacy of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms in classical music.It was derived from an expression coined by Peter Cornelius in 1854, which added Hector Berlioz as the third B to occupy the heights already occupied by Bach and Beethoven.
Gunlöd is an opera in three acts by composer Peter Cornelius. [1] Cornelius also authored the work's libretto which is based on the story of Hávamál in the version found in the Edda, a literary work from Medieval Iceland which details Old Norse legends. [2]