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| x United States Congress |
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William Howard Taft | Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln Memorial |
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct...
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| x Zadie Smith |
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Nick Laird | On Beauty |
Zadie Smith (born 25 October 1975) is an English novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors.
Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith in the northwest London borough of Brent – a...
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| x Israel Joshua Singer |
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Yasha Singer | The Brothers Ashkenazi |
Israel Joshua Singer (November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Poland - February 10, 1944 New York) was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisroel Yehoyshue (Yeshue) Zinger the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva...
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| x Tom Robbins |
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Fleetwood Star Robbins | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins (born July 22, 1936) is an American author. His novels are abstract, often wild stories with strong social undercurrents, a satirical bent, and obscure details. He is probably best known for his novel Even Cowgirls Get...
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| x E. L. Doctorow |
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Jason Epstein | Billy Bathgate |
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is an American author.
Edgar Lawrence ("E.L.") Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent. He attended city...
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| x Frank Martin | Paul Sacher | Petite symphonie concertante |
Frank Martin (September 15, 1890 – November 21, 1974) was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.
He was born in Geneva, the tenth and last child of Charles Martin, a Calvinist pastor. Before he started school, he...
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| x Max Brooks |
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Henry Michael Brooks | World War Z |
Maximillian Michael "Max" Brooks (born on May 22, 1972 in New York City) is an American author and screenwriter.
From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live.
Brooks is the author of The Zombie Survival Guide, a...
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| x Aleksey Vayner | Radomir Kovacevic | Impossible Is Nothing | |||
| x Michael Cera |
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Radomir Kovacevic | Impossible is the Opposite of Possible |
Michael Austin Cera (pronounced /ˈsɛrə/; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Superbad, Juno, and Year One. Cera received two Canadian Comedy Award Best Actor nominations in 2008 for his work in...
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| x Stewart Wallace | Paul S. Woerner | Harvey Milk | |||
| x Mary Shelley |
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William Godwin | Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus ...
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| x Willa Cather |
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Carrie Miner | My Ántonia |
Willa Siebert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark....
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| Irene Miner | |||||
| x L. Frank Baum |
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Maud Gage | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's...
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| x Mark Twain |
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Susy Clemens | The Prince and the Pauper |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great...
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| Clara Clemens | Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc | ||||
| Olivia Langdon Clemens | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | ||||
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| x Jules Verne |
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Alexandre Dumas | Mathias Sandorf |
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
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| x Whitehouse |
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Peter Kürten | Dedicated to Peter Kürten |
Whitehouse is a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.
The name Whitehouse was chosen both in mock tribute to the British moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse and in...
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| x Roman Senate |
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Trajan | Temple of Trajan |
The Roman Senate was a political institution in Ancient Rome. It was one of the most enduring institutions in Roman history, being founded before the first king of Rome ascended the throne (traditionally dated to 753 BC). It survived the fall of the...
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| x Norman Mailer |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | Cannibals and Christians |
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe,...
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| x F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Zelda Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's...
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| x Herman Melville |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne | Moby-Dick: or, The Whale |
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and novella Billy Budd, the latter...
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| Mount Greylock | Pierre: or, The Ambiguities | ||||
| x Oscar Wilde |
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Robert Baldwin Ross | The Importance of Being Earnest |
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late...
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| Lord Alfred Douglas | Salome | ||||
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton | Lady Windermere's Fan | ||||
| x Helen Fielding |
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Nellie Fielding | Bridget Jones's Diary |
Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is an English author, best known for the novel Bridget Jones's Diary (winner of the 1998 British Book of the Year award) and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason. In 2003, she...
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| x Robert De Niro |
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Robert De Niro, Sr. | A Bronx Tale |
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and producer.
De Niro is well-known for what some people call method acting and portrayals of conflicted, troubled characters and for his enduring collaboration with...
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| x John Woo |
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Martin Scorsese | The Killer |
John Woo Yu-Sen (born 1 May 1946) is a Chinese film director and producer from Hong Kong. Recognized for his stylized films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong...
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| x Jean-Luc Godard |
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John Cassavetes | Detective |
Jean-Luc Godard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔˈdaʀ]) (born on 3 December 1930) is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".
Godard was born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris. He...
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| Edgar G. Ulmer | |||||
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| x Larry Cohen |
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Bernard Herrmann | God Told Me To |
Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen (born July 15, 1941) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. Although he writes and produces for others, he is best known for directing his own low-budget, satirical, and inventive horror films and...
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| x Cornelia Funke |
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Brendan Fraser | Inkspell |
Cornelia Caroline Funke (IPA: /'fʊŋkə/) (FOON-ka ) was born on December 10, 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. She is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English...
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| x Martin Scorsese |
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Catherine Scorsese | Kundun |
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his...
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| x Richard Donner |
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Dar Robinson | Lethal Weapon |
Richard Donner (born 24 April 1930) is an American film director, film producer, and comic book writer. The production company The Donners' Company is owned by Donner and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner. After directing the horror film The...
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| x Monty Python |
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Keith Moon | Life of Brian |
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made...
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| x Robert Altman |
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Dan Blocker | The Long Goodbye |
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his...
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| x Quentin Tarantino |
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Timothy Carey | Reservoir Dogs |
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization...
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| x Bruce Joel Rubin |
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Sondra Rubin | My Life |
Bruce Joel Rubin (b. March 10, 1943, Detroit, Michigan) is a screenwriter best known for the supernatural romance, Ghost for which he won the 1991 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
His other writing credits include: Jacob's Ladder, Deep Impact,...
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| x Clint Eastwood |
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Sergio Leone | Unforgiven |
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including...
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| Don Siegel | |||||
| x Roman Polański |
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Sharon Tate | Tess |
Roman Raymond Polanski (Polish: Roman Rajmund Polański; born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically-acclaimed director of both art house and...
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| x Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina |
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Pope Gregory XIV | Stabat Mater |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between February 3 1525 and February 2 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition....
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| x Giuseppe Verdi |
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Gioacchino Rossini | Messa per Rossini |
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppːe ˈverdi]; October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century. His works...
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| x Aram Khachaturian |
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David Oistrakh | Violin Concerto |
Aram Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Ара́м Ильи́ч Хачатуря́н, Aram Il'ič Xačaturjan; Georgian: არამ ხაჩათურიან) (June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) (born in Tiflis, Russian Empire) was a Soviet-Armenian composer whose works...
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| x Eugène Ysaÿe |
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Jacques Thibaud | Sonata for solo violin, op. 27-2 |
Eugène Ysaÿe (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn iza.i]; July 16, 1858 – May 12, 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor. His brother was pianist and composer Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918). He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan...
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| Manuel Quiroga | Sonata for solo violin, op. 27-6 | ||||
| Joseph Szigeti | Sonata for solo violin, op. 27-1 | ||||
| Fritz Kreisler | Sonata for solo violin, op. 27-4 | ||||
| George Enescu | Sonata for solo violin, op. 27-3 | ||||
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| x Francis Poulenc |
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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge | Flute Sonata |
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French pronunciation: [fʀɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʀsɛl pulɛ̃k]; January 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber...
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| Wanda Landowska | Concert champêtre | ||||
| x Malcolm Williamson |
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John Ogdon | Piano Concerto No. 3 |
Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO (honorary), CBE (21 November 1931 – 2 March 2003) was an Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 to 2003.
Williamson was born in Sydney and studied composition and horn at the...
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| x Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
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Franz Liszt | Piano Concerto |
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer,...
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| Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky | Russian Easter Festival Overture | ||||
| Alexander Borodin | |||||
| x Leopold Mozart |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Angloise |
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen...
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| x Alban Berg |
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Alexander von Zemlinsky | Lyric Suite |
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a...
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| Hanna Fuchs-Robettin | Three Pieces for Orchestra | ||||
| Arnold Schoenberg | |||||
| x Igor Stravinsky |
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Arthur Rubinstein | Piano-Rag-Music |
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor' Fjodorovič Stravinskij) (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and...
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| Arthur Rubinstein | Trois mouvements de Petrouchka | ||||
| John F. Kennedy | Elegy for J.F.K. | ||||
| Nadia Rimsky-Korsakov | Pastorale | ||||
| Claude Debussy | Symphonies of Wind Instruments | ||||
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| x Claude Debussy |
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Louis Fleury | Syrinx |
Achille-Claude Debussy (French pronunciation: [aʃil klod dəbysi]) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he...
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| Claude-Emma Debussy | Children's Corner | ||||
| x Gabriel Fauré |
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Elisabeth, comtesse Greffulhe | Pavane |
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic...
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| x Hans Rosbaud |
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Hans Rosbaud (July 22, 1895, Graz, Austria – December 29, 1962, Lugano, Switzerland) was an Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of the twentieth century. As a youth, he studied music at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am...
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| x Max von Schillings | Heidelberg University Faculty of Philosophy and History | Mona Lisa |
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925.
Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful...
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| x Heitor Villa-Lobos |
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Tomas Teren | Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin...
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| Gustavo Capanema | Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7 | ||||
| x Manuel de Falla |
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Ricardo Viñes | Nights in the Gardens of Spain |
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music.
Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of 9 he was introduced to his first piano professor....
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| x Antonio Vivaldi |
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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor | La Cetra |
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a baroque composer and Venetian priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a...
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| x Saul Bellow |
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Pat Covici | Herzog |
Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to have won...
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| x Josef Mysliveček |
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Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies | Il Bellerofonte |
Josef Mysliveček (March 9, 1737 – February 4, 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Outside of the Czech Republic, his reputation is substantially sustained from his close...
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| x Kurt Vonnegut |
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Mary O'Hare | Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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| Gerhard Müller | Slapstick | ||||
| Stan Laurel | Timequake | ||||
| Oliver Hardy | |||||
| Seymour Lawrence | |||||
| x Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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Israel Joshua Singer | The Family Moskat |
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער) (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American Nobel Prize-winning author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.
Isaac Bashevis...
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| x Robert Louis Stevenson |
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S. L. O. | Treasure Island |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel...
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| Charles Baxter | Kidnapped | ||||
| x Irving Stone | Jean Stone | Depths of Glory |
Irving Stone (July 14, 1903 San Francisco, California – August 26, 1989) was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities. His best known works are Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of...
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| x Evelyn Waugh |
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Nancy Mitford | The Loved One |
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (pronounced /ˈiːvlɨn ˈwɔː/ ) (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One...
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| x Bernard Malamud |
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Max Malamud | The Natural |
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914, Brooklyn, New York – March 18, 1986) was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The...
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