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| The Poodle Springs Story |
"The Poodle Springs Story" is the working title of an unfinished novel by Raymond Chandler. It was first published in 1962 in Raymond Chandler Speaking, and later completed by Robert B. Parker as Poodle Springs.
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Robert B. Parker | Poodle Springs | ||
| La rondine |
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La rondine (The Swallow) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the...
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Lorenzo Ferrero | La rondine by Giacomo Puccini - Third version completed by Lorenzo Ferrero | |
| Symphony No. 3 |
Edward Elgar's Third Symphony was incomplete at the time of his death in 1934. Elgar left 130 pages of sketches which the British composer Anthony Payne worked on for many years, producing a complete symphony in 1997, officially known as "Edward...
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Anthony Payne | Edward Elgar: the sketches for Symphony No 3 elaborated by Anthony Payne | ||
| Viola Concerto |
Béla Bartók wrote his Viola Concerto (BB128) in July-August 1945, in Saranac Lake, New York, while suffering from the terminal stages of leukemia. It was a response to a commission by William Primrose. Along with the Piano Concerto No. 3, it is his...
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Tibor Serly | |||
| Viola Concerto |
Béla Bartók wrote his Viola Concerto (BB128) in July-August 1945, in Saranac Lake, New York, while suffering from the terminal stages of leukemia. It was a response to a commission by William Primrose. Along with the Piano Concerto No. 3, it is his...
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Csaba Erdelyi | |||
| Viola Concerto |
Béla Bartók wrote his Viola Concerto (BB128) in July-August 1945, in Saranac Lake, New York, while suffering from the terminal stages of leukemia. It was a response to a commission by William Primrose. Along with the Piano Concerto No. 3, it is his...
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Peter Bartok | |||
| Paul Neubauer | |||||
| Nelson Dellamaggiore | |||||
| Die drei Pintos |
Die drei Pintos (The Three Pintos) is a comic opera of which Carl Maria von Weber began composing the music, working on a libretto by Theodor Hell. The work was completed about 65 years after Weber's death by Gustav Mahler.
In 1821, Theodor Hell...
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Gustav Mahler | |||
| Khovanshchina |
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Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, Hovánščina, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | ||
| Turandot |
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Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work...
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Franco Alfano | ||
| Turandot |
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Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work...
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Luciano Berio | ||
| Prince Igor |
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Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, Knyaz' Igor) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince Igor...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | ||
| Prince Igor |
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Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, Knyaz' Igor) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince Igor...
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Alexander Glazunov | ||
| Lulu |
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Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904).
Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a...
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Friedrich Cerha | ||
| Rodrigue et Chimène |
Rodrigue et Chimène (English: Rodrigo and Ximena) is an unfinished opera in three acts by Claude Debussy. The French libretto, by Catulle Mendès, is based on the plays Las Mocedades del Cid by Guillén de Castro y Bellvís and Corneille's Le Cid which...
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Edison Denisov | |||
| Zhenitba |
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Zhenitba (Russian: Женитьба, Zhenit'ba, Marriage) is an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy (1842). The Marriage is a satire of courtship and cowardice, which centres around a young...
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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | ||
| Zhenitba |
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Zhenitba (Russian: Женитьба, Zhenit'ba, Marriage) is an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy (1842). The Marriage is a satire of courtship and cowardice, which centres around a young...
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Alexander Tcherepnin | ||
| Night on Bald Mountain |
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Night on Bald Mountain is a composition by Modest Mussorgsky that exists in at least two versions — a seldom performed 1867 version or a later (1886) and very popular 'fantasy for orchestra' arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, A Night on the Bare...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | ||
| The Fair at Sorochintsï |
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The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Russian: Сорочинская ярмарка, Sorochinskaya yarmarka, Sorochyntsi Fair) is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is...
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Vissarion Shebalin | ||
| Aschenbrödel |
Aschenbrödel or Aschenbroedel (Cinderella) is a ballet written by Johann Strauss II. He had written all the principal parts of the ballet, and was intending to fill in the orchestration as time permitted. However, Strauss died in 1899, and it was...
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Josef Bayer | |||
| String Quartet |
The String Quartet in C minor, op. 35, was begun by Ernest Chausson in 1898 and the composer had fully scored all but part of the third and last movement before he died in an accident in 1899. Relying on the drafts left behind by Chausson, Vincent d...
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Vincent d'Indy | |||
| Maddalena |
Maddalena is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto, based on a play by Magda Gustavovna Lipen. Written between 1911 and 1913 while Prokofiev was still a student at Saint Petersburg Conservatory and...
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Edward Downes | |||
| Requiem |
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The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791, during the last year of the composer's life. The requiem was Mozart's last composition and is one of his most popular and respected works, although the...
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Franz Xaver Süssmayr | ||
| Universe Symphony |
The Universe Symphony is an unfinished work by American classical music composer Charles Ives.
The date of composition is unknown, but he probably worked on it periodically between 1911 and 1928. Intended to be a "spatial" composition for two or...
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Larry Austin | |||
| Noé |
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Noé (Noah) was the last opera of the composer Fromental Halévy.
The opera's libretto is by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, who had written the book for the composer's first opera to reach performance, L'artisan, (1827). Noé is based on the...
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Georges Bizet | ||
