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  • 111Cui, César — ▪ Russian composer in full  César Antonovich Cui  born Jan. 6 [Jan. 18, New Style], 1835, Vilna [now Vilnius], Lithuania, Russian Empire died March 24, 1918, Petrograd [St. Petersburg], Russia  Russian composer of operas, songs, and piano music.… …

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  • 112Glazunov, Aleksandr — ▪ Russian composer in full  Aleksandr Konstaninovich Glazunov  born July 29 [Aug. 10, New Style], 1865, St. Petersburg, Russia died March 21, 1936, Paris, France  the major Russian symphonic composer of the generation that followed Tchaikovsky… …

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  • 113Mussorgsky, Modest — ▪ Russian composer Introduction in full  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , Mussorgsky also spelled  Musorgsky  or  Moussorgsky  born March 9 [March 21, New Style], 1839, Karevo, Russia died March 16 [March 28], 1881, St. Petersburg  Russian composer… …

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  • 114MOUSSORGSKI (M. P.) — Moussorgski incarne l’image de la Russie éternelle, avec ses troubles, ses complexités, sa richesse de fonds et d’inspiration reproduite par le mode d’expression qui lui est le plus naturel: la musique. Il n’en reste pas moins un musicien… …

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  • 115Orientalism — For the book by Edward Said, see Orientalism (book). Anonymous Venetian orientalist painting, The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus, 1511, the Louvre. The deer with antlers in the foreground is not k …

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  • 116Simon Barere — (OldStyleDate|1 September|1896|20 August – April 2, 1951) was a Jewish born, Russian American pianist. (His Russian surname Барер is transliterated Barer , however, as an adult he changed the spelling to Barere in order to reduce the frequency of …

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  • 117List of asteroids named after people — This is a list of asteroids named after people, both real and fictional.cience Mathematicians *1001 Gaussia (Carl Friedrich Gauss) *1005 Arago (François Arago) *1006 Lagrangea (Joseph Louis Lagrange) *1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky) *1859 …

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  • 118The Bartered Bride — Bedřich Smetana …

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  • 119List of compositions for piano and orchestra — This is a list of musical compositions for piano and orchestra. See entries for concerto and piano concerto for a description of related musical forms.Piano ConcertosA*Luigi Abbiate **Piano concerto *Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille **Grand… …

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  • 120Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) — Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 in 1906–07. The premiere was conducted by the composer himself in St. Petersburg on 8 February 1908. Its duration is approximately 60 minutes when performed uncut; cut… …

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