Tag: Liszt

Antonio Salieri

(1750–1825) Works: • Axur, re d’Ormus (1788) • Les Danaïdes (1784) • Requiem (1804) • Tarare (1787) Salieri in Film: Amadeus 1984 Director: Miloš Forman Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham   Born August 18 1750 Legnago (Italia) Died May 7 1825 Vienna (Austria)…

Franz Liszt

(1811–1886) Liszt Ferenc Works: • A Faust Symphonie (1857) • Années de pèlerinage (1842) • Christus (1872) • Danse macabre (1865) • Dante Symphony (1857) • Études d’exécution transcendante (1852) • Fantasy and Fugue on the name “B.A.C.H.” (1856) •…

George Sand

(1804–1876) Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant Works: • Adriani (French) • Aldo le rimeur (French) • André (French) • Antonia (English) • Autour de la table (French) • Cadio (French) • Césarine Dietrich (French) • Consuelo, Tome 1 (1861)…

Nadar

(1820–1910) Gaspard-Félix Tournachon The artist’s works: Charles Baudelaire c.1854 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Corot 1855–1859 Getty Center, Los Angeles Pierrot riant 1855 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gioachino Antonio Rossini 1856 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gioachino Rossini 1856 Private collection Honoré…

Richard Wagner

(1813–1883) Wilhelm Richard Wagner Works: • Das Rheingold (The Ring of the Nibelung) (1869) • Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (1843) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) (1868) • Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) (1870) • Götterdämmerung…