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Also, cannon shots are heard at the end of Rush's "Overture". [50] "The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim" (Episode 5, Series 2, of the British drama series, Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990)), the title character plays a record of the 1812 Overture so that the cannon fire will mask the sound of him breaking into his own safe. [51]
Specifically, during the first half of the 1920s, he composed Offrandes, Hyperprism, Octandre, and Intégrales. He took American citizenship in October 1927. After arriving in the US Varèse commonly used the form 'Edgar' for his first name but reverted to 'Edgard', not entirely consistently, from the 1940s.
John Stafford Smith (bapt. 30 March 1750 – 21 September 1836) was an English composer, church organist, and early musicologist.He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and a friend of his son Johann Christian Bach.
Offenbach by Nadar. Jacques Offenbach (/ ˈ ɒ f ən b ɑː x /; [n 1] 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
Sousa composed "Anchor and Star" while leading the Navy Battalion Band during World War I. He dedicated it to the U.S. Navy and it was named after the U.S. Navy's emblem. The Trio features a bugle call which is then superimposed with another melody. Instead of a break strain, there's a second Trio strain. [138]
Arms of the Polish Soulima family, from which Stravinsky's family descended. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia—a town now called Lomonosov, about thirty miles (fifty kilometers) west of Saint Petersburg—on 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882.
Elgar was the first composer to take full advantage of this technological advance. [112] Fred Gaisberg of HMV, who produced Elgar's recordings, set up a series of sessions to capture on disc the composer's interpretations of his major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations , Falstaff , the first and second symphonies, and the cello ...
Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...