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The Phoenician Women (Ancient Greek: Φοίνισσαι, Phoinissai) is a tragedy by Euripides, based on the same story as Aeschylus' play Seven Against Thebes. It was presented along with the tragedies Hypsipyle and Antiope. With this trilogy, Euripides won the second prize.
A Valentine Out of Season, for prepared piano (1944) A Book of Music, for two prepared pianos (1944) Crete, for piano (1944–45) Dad, for piano (1944–45) Mysterious Adventure, for prepared piano (1945) Soliloquy, for piano (1945, originally part of Four Walls) Experiences No. 1, for two pianos 4 hands (1945) Three Dances for two prepared ...
Illustration of the woman of Thebez dropping the millstone on Abimelech, from Charles Foster, The Story of the Bible, 1884. The woman of Thebez is a character in the Hebrew Bible, appearing in the Book of Judges. She dropped a millstone from a wall in order to kill Abimelech. Abimlech had laid siege to Thebez and entered the city. The residents ...
1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani (adapting Merian's engraving); Timoclea pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well.. Timoclea or Timocleia of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλεία) is a woman whose story is told by Plutarch in his Life of Alexander, and at greater length in his Mulierum virtutes ("Virtues of Women").
Mendelssohn was also aware of arrangements of some of the earlier Lieder for piano duet by Carl Czerny. [11] Many others have made various arrangements of individual songs, including for orchestra, chamber ensemble, or solo instrument with piano accompaniment. One such example is the arrangement of 22 of the songs by Mendelssohn's student, the ...
Anne-Victorine Savigny (1844–1916), [4] or Anne-Victorine de Savigny, was a French clairvoyant and palm reader. [5] She is the main source of reference for the name Madame de Thèbes. Savigny was born in Ménilmontant, a neighborhood in Paris. She first worked as a cashier before becoming a tutor for a bourgeois family in 1877.
Biblical Songs (Czech: Biblické písně) is a song cycle which consists of musical settings by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák of ten texts, selected by him, from the Book of Psalms. It was originally composed for low voice and piano (1894, Op. 99, B. 185). The first five songs were later orchestrated by the composer (1895, B. 189).
Schumann's 1841 Fantasia for piano and orchestra, in form similar to Weber's Konzertstück, was later rewritten and expanded with two further movements into his Piano Concerto Op. 54. [4] When the soloist is a vocalist, the piece rather belongs to the concert aria genre. Some concert pieces are written for instrumental soloists exclusively ...