lyric drama
81Iain Hamilton (composer) — Iain Ellis Hamilton (June 6 1922 Glasgow ndash; July 212000 London) was a Scottish composer. He was educated in London where he became an apprentice engineer, and remained in that profession for the next seven years. He undertook the study of… …
82American Opera Company — The American Opera Company was a short lived opera company founded in New York City in February, 1886. [“American Opera Organized” in the New York Times , February 26, 1886.] It was the brain child of Jeannette Meyers Thurber who had just founded …
83Joan Lamote de Grignon — i Bocquet (7 July 1872 ndash; 11 March 1949), was a Catalan Spanish pianist, composer and orchestra director.Joan Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona, the son of parents of French descent Lluis Lamote de Grignon and Elena Bocquet. In …
84Shelley,Percy Bysshe — Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1792 1822. British romantic poet whose works include “To a Skylark” (1820), the lyric drama Prometheus Unbound (1820), and “Adonais” (1821), an elegy to John Keats. * * * …
85cantata — /keuhn tah teuh/, n. 1. a choral composition, either sacred and resembling a short oratorio or secular, as a lyric drama set to music but not to be acted. 2. a metrical narrative set to recitative or alternate recitative and air, usually for a… …
86Brian, Havergal — ▪ British composer in full William Havergal Brian born Jan. 29, 1876, Dresden, Staffordshire, Eng. died Nov. 28, 1972, Shoreham, Sussex English musician and self taught composer. In his youth Brian played the violin, organ, piano, and… …
87Chadwick, George Whitefield — ▪ American composer born Nov. 13, 1854, Lowell, Mass., U.S. died April 4, 1931, Boston composer of the so called New England group, whose music is rooted in the traditions of European Romanticism. Chadwick studied organ and music theory in …
88Müller, Friedrich — ▪ Austrian linguist born March 6, 1834, Jemnik, Austria [now Jemnice, Czech Republic] died May 25, 1898, Vienna Austrian linguist who worked on many different languages and language families; he is often cited for his contributions to the… …
89Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt — (24 February 1884 2 August 1964) was a French composer and ethno musicologist. She was born in Paris and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux, Vincent d Indy and Maurice Emmanuel …
90Aria da Capo — Employing traditional characters and images of harlequinade, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay crafted a classic one act play and one of her most enduring literary achievements. Constructed as a song in three parts, as its title suggests, Aria da… …
