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Clément Broutin
Clément Jules Broutin (4 May 1851 – 27 May 1889) was a French composer. Life Born in Orchies, Broutin studied with Victor Delannoy at the Conservatoire of Lyon from 1871 before joining the Conservatoire de Paris. There he was a pupil of Émile Durand for harmony, César Franck for organ and Victor Massé for musical composition. After an honorary mention in 1877 he won the First Grand Prix de Rome with the three-part scene ''La Fille de Jephté'' based on a text by Édouard Guinant. During his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the prize, Broutin composed ''Sinai'', a work for soloists choir and orchestra, which was premiered in 1881 in the hall of the Paris Conservatory. The work was received coolly by the audience, but critics praised it for the excellent quality of the composition, its exquisite taste and great intelligence. In the following years he composed a number of songs and piano pieces, several orchestral pieces and an opera. Most of his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchies
Orchies (; nl, Oorschie) is a commune in the department of Nord in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. Orchies is the biggest town of the Pévèle. It is especially known for its ''Musée de la chicorée'', the museum of chicory. Orchies is twinned with Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of the United Kingdom. The French Romantic composer Clément Broutin (1851–1889) was born in Orchies. Transport Orchies railway station is served by TER Hauts-de-France. The station is situated on a junction between the Fives–Hirson railway and the Somain–Halluin railway. Population Heraldry See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Guiraud
Edmond Guiraud (22 March 1879 – 18 April 1961) was a 20th-century French playwright, librettist, and actor from the Cévennes region in southern France. Biographie Edmond Guiraud lived many years in Roquedur in the Gard department. He had a career as a playwright before World War I. He became a film actor after World War II, and acted in two films by Jean Gehret, shot in the Cévennes. His widow, Jeannine Guiraud, donated the musée Cévenol in le Vigan the archives of her husband in order to create an "Edmond Guiraud fund". Edmond Guiraud is buried at the . Libretto *1912–1914: '' Marie Victoire'', four-act opera by Ottorino Respighi Theatre * 1904: ''L'Ouvrier de la dernière heure'' * 1907: ''Anna Karénine'': (after the novel by Leo Tolstoy) * 1907: ''Zizi'' * 1908: ''Le Poussin'' * 1910: ''Le Cœur d'Angélique'' * 1911: ''Moïse'' * 1911: ''Marie-Victoire'' * 1914 : ''La Sauvageonne'', Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, 27 May * 1922: ''Vautrin'', ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Romantic Composers
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19th-century French Male Musicians
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Composers
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his mist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1851 Births
Events January–March * January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion. * January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly. * January 23 – The flip of a coin, subsequently named Portland Penny, determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. * January 28 – Northwestern University is founded in Illinois. * February 1 – '' Brandtaucher'', the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German port of Kiel, but the designer, Wilhelm Bauer, and the two crew escape successfully. * February 6 – Black Thursday in Australia: Bushfires sweep across the state of Victoria, burning about a quarter of its area. * February 12 – Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia. * February 15 – In Boston, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Dayot
Armand Dayot, (19 October 1851 – 2 October 1934), was a French art critic, art historian and leftist politician. He was born in Paimpol, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. He founded the journal ''L'Art et les artistes'' and the Breton liberal organisation les Bleus de Bretagne. He became successively the head of the prefecture of Oran, head of the Ministry of Arts in the cabinet of Léon Gambetta, and inspector general of the Ministry of Fine Arts. In Brittany he was the principal force behind the Bleus de Bretagne, which promoted modern pro-liberal thought in the province. Dayot's principal contribution was to organise the creation of statues to revolutionaries and freethinkers.Loic Thomas, "Armand Dayot et la ligue des bleus de Bretagne", ''Colloque - les Bleus de Bretagne de la revolution a nos jours'', Archives departmental de Saint-Brieuc, 1990, pp. 351-62 Dayot's thinking on the relationship between the arts and politics was deeply influenced by the work of John Ruskin and Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time. His most famous works are the novels '' The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (1831) and '' Les Misérables'' (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as (''The Contemplations'') and (''The Legend of the Ages''). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play '' Cromwell'' and drama ''Hernani''. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera ''Rigoletto'' and the musicals '' Les Misérables'' and ''Notre-Dame de Paris''. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment. Though he was a committed royalist when young, Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
