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The Ernest Hemingway Cottage, also known as Windemere, was the boyhood summer home of author Ernest Hemingway, on Walloon Lake in Michigan, United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. [2] [3]
The title of the piece was inspired by "The Garden of Paradise", a fairy tale [1] by Hans Christian Andersen that was translated into French and published in 1907.[2]: 194 Debussy was known to have an affinity towards Andersen's stories, and it has been theorized that the author's character Zephyr – the West Wind – would have "appealed" to the composer when he was writing the prelude.
Each prelude is a well-known example of early-20th-century American classical music, as influenced by jazz. The three pieces, when played together consecutively, typically run about a total of five minutes. Gershwin originally planned to compose 24 preludes called The Melting Pot for this group of works. [1]
Pour le piano (For the piano), L. 95, is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy.It consists of three individually composed movements, Prélude, Sarabande and Toccata.The suite was completed and published in 1901.
[3] [6] 1893–95 I/3 The Magic Fountain: Lyric drama Broadcast performance, BBC 1977 Libretto: Delius [3] [6] 1895 I/4 Koanga: Lyric drama Elberfeld, 30 March 1904 Libretto: Charles Francis Keary, after George Washington Cable [3] [6] 1897 I/5 Folkeraadet: Incidental music Christiania, October 1897 Play by Gunnar Heiberg [3] [6] 1900–01 I/6
"Prelude" is a song about the time right before Ragnarök, the lyrics explaining how the Sun and the Moon are devoured by the wolves Sköll and Hati respectively, how the wolf Fenris breaks free from his bonds and the serpent Jörmungandr washes ashore to poison the entire world.
Six Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35, is a piano composition by Felix Mendelssohn.Combining freshly composed preludes with several earlier composed fugues, he composed the entire collection in a plan based on alternating minor and major keys (E minor, D major, B minor, A-flat major, F minor, B-flat major).
Morceaux de fantaisie (French for Fantasy Pieces; Russian: Пьесы Фантазии, Pyesy Fantazii), op. 3, is a set of five piano solo pieces composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1892. The title reflects the pieces' imagery rather than their musical form, as none are actual fantasies .