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Was a black Cuban musician and composer whose career started in rumba, and flowered in the rise of t

Was a black Cuban musician and composer whose career started in rumba, and flowered in the rise of the son. He was one of the most important composers of son music; in total he wrote about 327 numbers, mostly sones.

Was a Polish-German composer and conductor. In 1907 Waghalter secured a post as conductor at the Kom

Was a Polish-German composer and conductor. In 1907 Waghalter secured a post as conductor at the Komische Oper in Berlin, assisting Arthur Nikisch, where his reputation grew rapidly. This was followed by a brief tenure at the Grillo-Theater, the Stadttheater in Essen (1911–12). Waghalter’s appointment as principal conductor at the new Deutsche Opernhaus in Berlin established his position as a major figure in German music. The house was inaugurated under Waghalter’s direction on 7 November 1912 with a performance of Fidelio. Waghalter championed the music of Giacomo Puccini, whose operas had previously failed to win public acceptance in Germany. The first performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West in Germany was conducted by Waghalter in March 1913 at the Deutsche Opernhaus. Its triumphant reception secured for Puccini's operas a permanent place in the repertoires of Germany's opera houses. Waghalter also conducted the German debut performances of Tosca and La Bohème, and also of Ralph Vaughan Williams' second symphony in 1923.[2]

Was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannhe

Was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School.[2] Mozart who heard him at a concert in November 1777 wrote of him in a letter to his father: He may not be a sorcerer, but he is a very solid violinist indeed.[3] Fränzl carried the Mannheim violin technique, established by Johann Stamitz, one step further to real virtuosity. Mozart, quite a good violinist himself and thoroughly acquainted with the instrument, praised Fränzl’s double trill and said he had never heard a better one.

Was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim sch

Was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school. His aesthetic style is in line with that of the Sturm und Drang "movement" of German art and literature. His opera Günther von Schwarzburg, based on the life of the eponymous king (and described here), was an early German national opera, a performance of which Mozart and his sister attended, through which they met Anton Raaff, who was later to premiere a role in Idomeneo. This opera has recently been recorded on the label cpo.

Was a German composer and conductor. Ignaz Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. H

Was a German composer and conductor. Ignaz Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. He was the second of the three famous Lachner brothers. Lachner's brothers Franz and Vinzenz, were also composers. His older brother Franz was the best known, having heavily traded on his youthful friendship with Franz Schubert, certainly more than Ignaz who also knew Schubert. Ignaz was taught (as were the others) organ, piano and violin. Upon the latter instrument, he was somewhat of a prodigy, but despite this, his father insisted he become a teacher. After his father’s death, he studied violin with Bernhard Molique, a violin virtuoso and then joined his brother Franz in Vienna where he too befriended and was influenced by Schubert, not to mention Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially i

Was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.

Was a Sicilian dialectal poet.Born at Bagheria into a poor family, after having taken part in World

Was a Sicilian dialectal poet.Born at Bagheria into a poor family, after having taken part in World War I Buttitta joined the Italian Socialist Party and around this time started to write poetry in Sicilian. His first volume of poetry published was Sintim

Was the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author.

Was the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author.

Was a Slovene poet.Gruden was born in Nabrežina as first of ten children of Franc Gruden and Justin

Was a Slovene poet.Gruden was born in Nabrežina as first of ten children of Franc Gruden and Justina Košuta.

Was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influ

Was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th century music.[1] He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential

Is a Russian-born Jewish writer and poet. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily

Is a Russian-born Jewish writer and poet. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains, called "gariki" in Russian (singular: "garik," which is also the diminutive form of the author's

Is a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and an essayist.He graduated comparative literature

Is a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and an essayist.He graduated comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 1963. Since 1966 he worked in the Croatian daily Vjesnik, as a critic in daily newspapers, as a columnist of Wednesday's edition, and as a internal reviewer, as an editor and the author of texts in certain Vjesnik's editions. He was the editor-in-chief of Vjesnik in 2000.

Was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists. Igor was born in St.

Was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists. Igor was born in St. Petersburg in the family of an army engineer. Through his mother, he was related to Nikolai Karamzin.

Is an avant-garde French composer who released a series of studio albums in the 1970s and composed t

Is an avant-garde French composer who released a series of studio albums in the 1970s and composed the music for the Salvador Dalí opera Être Dieu. He was a contemporary of similar avant-garde electronic composers, such as Pierre Henry, who was also born and based in Paris.

Was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zoshi).he fir

Was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zoshi).he first studied haikai poetry under Matsunaga Teitoku, and later studied under Nishiyama Soin of the Danrin School of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse. Scholars have described numerous extraordinary feats of solo haikai composition at one sitting; most famously, over the course of a single day and night in 1677, Saikaku is reported to have composed at least 16,000 haikai stanzas,[1] with some rumors placing the number at over 23,500 stanzas.[2]

Was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in the Al Akhbar and Al-Ahram newspapers

Was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in the Al Akhbar and Al-Ahram newspapers. He is known to have written many novels that have been adapted in films.

Was an author, manga writer (not artist), and film producer also known under the pseudonym Asao Taka

Was an author, manga writer (not artist), and film producer also known under the pseudonym Asao Takamori (????, Takamori Asao?). His real name is Asaki Takamori (????, Takamori Asaki?). The pseudonym was used since he was writing for a rival magazine at the time. Having multiple names would not allow overlaps by the two magazines[1]. He is known for fighting and sports themes, with images of heroic young men with the occasional fine details as he moves from one topic to another. He had married Pai Ping-ping and fathered a daughter, Pai Hsiao-yen.

Is an Indian music composer, singer, and lyricist. He has composed over 4,000 songs and provided fil

Is an Indian music composer, singer, and lyricist. He has composed over 4,000 songs and provided film scores for more than 800 Indian films in various languages in a career spanning more than 30 years.[1][2] He is based in Chennai, the fourth largest city in India and the centre of the Tamil film industry (colloquially known as Kollywood).

She is also a weekly columnist for the Mexican newspaper ExcTlsior[1] and contributor for Radio Trec

She is also a weekly columnist for the Mexican newspaper ExcTlsior[1] and contributor for Radio Trece[2] in the metropolitan area of DF.These days she is in the ongoing production (Argentina[3][4], Chile[5][6] and Guatemala [7][8][9]) of the special series that the Government of Finland, through the Inter-American Development Bank [10], has sponsored in MTV for the pro-social project "Agents of Change" to which ] that counts more than six thousand young people with registered development plans

Was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist.Voronca was of Jewish ethnicity. In his early ye

Was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist.Voronca was of Jewish ethnicity. In his early years, he was connected with Eugen Lovinescu's Sburatorul group, making his debut in 1922 in the Sburatorul literar (symbolist pieces inspired by the works of George Bacovia and Camil Baltazar). Voronca's poems of the period, gloomy and passive in tone, are in marked contrast to his later works.

Is a South Korean author and the founder of a variety of mind-body training methods, including Dahnh

Is a South Korean author and the founder of a variety of mind-body training methods, including Dahnhak, Dahn yoga, Brain Respiration, Brain Education, and DahnMuDo. Lee began teaching his methods in a park in the 1980s, and since that time the practice has developed into an international network of for-profit and non-profit entities

Was a leading contemporary Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turki

Was a leading contemporary Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "Ikinci Yeni"; "The second new generation") and was very influential among Turkish literary circles

Was a Georgian writer, poet, journalist and lawyer who spearheaded the revival of the Georgian natio

Was a Georgian writer, poet, journalist and lawyer who spearheaded the revival of the Georgian national movement in the second half of the 19th century, during the Russian rule of Georgia. Today he is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of mode

Was a German-born Yiddish theatrical producer and composer for Yiddish theatrical works. He was acti

Was a German-born Yiddish theatrical producer and composer for Yiddish theatrical works. He was active in Poland, Ukraine and the United States. Throughout the 1920s, until he emigrated to USA. He was able to obtain passage to America by being granted a passport by Russian authorities solely for Ilya Trilling and then getting a friend to change the word Ilya to "familya", meaning family in the native language. This forgery paid off and the entire family emigrated to America through Ellis Island, never to return to Europe. He continued his work in the Yiddish theater in America. His children and their offspring are still in the United States. They live in California, Pepper Pike, Ohio, Sharon, Massachusetts, Missouri, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, and many other locations.

Was a Croatian poet from the Republic of Ragusa.The life of Crijevic, one of the more scholarly poet

Was a Croatian poet from the Republic of Ragusa.The life of Crijevic, one of the more scholarly poets of his time, was stormy and restless. It was marked by a strong intolerance to the barbarism around him. Linguistically, he was closer to Latin than to Slavic (Croatian). This torment found ventilation in his nostalgia for the times when which no language other than Latin had been officially used in Dubrovnik (Ragusa).