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Voiles is a musical composition for solo piano by French composer Claude Debussy that was composed in 1909. It is the second piece in Debussy's first book of préludes , published in 1910. The title may be translated as either veils or sails ; both meanings can be connected to the musical structure (see below).
Le Vin herbé is a secular oratorio (Oratorio profane) in three parts, composed by Frank Martin. It is based on the medieval story of Tristan and Iseult, as reconstructed by Joseph Bédier in 1900. Martin set excerpts of the novel to music for twelve vocalists and a chamber ensemble of seven strings and piano. The work was premiered in concert ...
Le vent dans la plaine: Animé (The Wind in the Plain) 3. La puerta del Vino: Mouvement de Habanera The title refers to one of the gates of the Alhambra in Granada (a city previously evoked in La soirée dans Grenade) 4. «Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir»: Modéré ("The sounds and fragrances swirl through the evening air") 4.
The Voiles de Saint-Tropez is a regatta that takes place once a year in the gulf of Saint-Tropez, Var, France. Sailboats during the 2007 regatta.
Literature. v. t. e. Jacques Perret (September 8, 1901, Trappes, Yvelines – December 10, 1992, Paris) was a French writer best known for his novel Le Caporal Épinglé (1947), which tells the story of his captivity in Germany and of his escape attempts. This novel would later be adapted into a film by famous French director Jean Renoir in 1962.
Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées, Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit, Seul, inconnu, le dos courbé, les mains croisées, Triste, et le jour pour moi sera comme la nuit. Je ne regarderai ni l'or du soir qui tombe, Ni les voiles au loin descendant vers Harfleur, Et, quand j'arriverai, je mettrai sur ta tombe
Originally formed under the Ancien Régime and re-established in 1934, [3] the Chevaliers du Tastevin are based at the 12th-century château of the Clos de Vougeot in the Côte d'Or region of Burgundy, France. With chapters worldwide, called Sous-Commanderies, in view of its Gallic heritage, the name and ceremonial titles are usually styled in ...
Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə / lay MIZ-ə-RAHB(-əl), - RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz (/ l eɪ ˈ m ɪ z / lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by ...