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1The opera corpus — is a list of nearly 2,500 works by more than 775 individual opera composers. Some of the works listed below are still being performed today but many are not. The principal works of the major composers are given as well as those of historical… …
2Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — This article is about the 19th century composer. For other uses, see Tchaikovsky (disambiguation). Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolay Kuznetsov, 1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tcha …
3Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union — Soviet Union …
4Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich — born May 7, 1840, Votkinsk, Russia died Nov. 6, 1893, St. Petersburg Russian composer. Sensitive and interested in music from his early childhood, Tchaikovsky turned to serious composition at age 14. In 1862 he began studying at the new St.… …
5Natalia Brasova — Countess Brasova World War I postcard of Brasova. The caption states that she established military hospitals in Gatchina, Lvov and Kiev with her own money. Spouse (1) Sergei Mamont …
6performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
7literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
8Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
9Kalmyk people — Kalmyks …
10Baron Ernst Gideon von Laudon — (German: Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon (originally Laudohn or Loudon ) (February 2, 1717 in Tootzen, now Latvia ndash; July 14, 1790 in Nový Jičín, now Czech Republic) was an Austrian field marshal, one of the most successful commanders of the …
