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  2. Le cygne - Wikipedia

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    "Le cygne", pronounced [lə siɲ], or "The Swan", is the 13th and penultimate movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. Originally scored for solo cello accompanied by two pianos, it has been arranged and transcribed for many instruments but remains best known as a cello solo.

  3. Tim Fain - Wikipedia

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    A native of Santa Monica, California, [3] Fain is the son of Gordon and Margery Fain. He began studying violin at age of seven with his father, a neurophysiologist at University of California, Los Angeles, and at age of 10, he performed Beethoven’s Spring Sonata for his fifth-grade classmates.

  4. The Carnival of the Animals - Wikipedia

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    The Carnival of the Animals (French: Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including "The Swan", by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. About 25 minutes in duration, it was written for private performance by two pianos and chamber ensemble; Saint-Saëns prohibited public performance of the work during his ...

  5. Albert Markov - Wikipedia

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    Albert Markov (Russian: Альберт Александрович Марков), is a Russian American violinist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue.He is the only concert violinist of the 20th and 21st century who composed major music works which are published, performed and recorded commercially [citation needed] on Sunrise label and published by G. Schirmer.

  6. Vinteuil Sonata - Wikipedia

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    The Chilean composer Jorge Arriagada created his version of Vinteuil's violin sonata for Raoul Ruiz's 1999 film Le Temps retrouvé (Time Regained). There is a scene where it is played in a salon . Korean composer Sangin Lee wrote La petite phrase de Vinteuil for clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass in 2018.

  7. The Swan (Baudelaire) - Wikipedia

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    Note the alliterations in [s], expression of a sigh, in the line Je pense à mon grand cygne , avec ses gestes fous (I think of my great swan with its mad gestures), and in [i] in the lines Comme les exilés, ridicule et sublime / Et rongé d’un désir sans trêve ! (Like exiles , ridiculous and sublime / And gnawed by incessant desire). The ...

  8. Einar Aaron Swan - Wikipedia

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    Swan was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts to Finnish parents who had immigrated to the United States at the turn of the century; he was the second of nine children. His father was a keen amateur musician and before Einar Swan had entered his teens, he played violin, clarinet, saxophone and piano.

  9. John Joseph Merlin - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] As Cox's chief mechanician, Merlin worked with him to create pieces such as Cox's barometric clock (before 1768 [15] [16]) and the Silver Swan (1773 [14]). In addition Merlin acted as a manager and curator of Cox ' s Jewelry Museum in Spring Gardens , which became a favored gathering-place of fashionable London between 1772 and 1775.