The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1884 |
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... produce a spatulate appearance , such as is afforded by certain humming - birds known as " Racquet- tails " ( HUMMING ... produced by the Motmot itself nibbling off the barbs , and this extraordinary statement , though for 66 The same ...
... produce a spatulate appearance , such as is afforded by certain humming - birds known as " Racquet- tails " ( HUMMING ... produced by the Motmot itself nibbling off the barbs , and this extraordinary statement , though for 66 The same ...
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... produced with an effect which com- pletely eclipsed Hasse's new opera , Ruggiero , composed for the same festivity . The empress Maria Theresa was so delighted with it that in addition to his fee she pre- sented Wolfgang with a watch ...
... produced with an effect which com- pletely eclipsed Hasse's new opera , Ruggiero , composed for the same festivity . The empress Maria Theresa was so delighted with it that in addition to his fee she pre- sented Wolfgang with a watch ...
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... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked out ...
... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked out ...
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... produced at Schön- brunn , 7th February 1786. Not quite three months later , on 1st May , he produced his marvellous Le Nozze di Figaro , the libretto for which was adapted from Beaumarchais by the abbé Da Ponte . The reception of this ...
... produced at Schön- brunn , 7th February 1786. Not quite three months later , on 1st May , he produced his marvellous Le Nozze di Figaro , the libretto for which was adapted from Beaumarchais by the abbé Da Ponte . The reception of this ...
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... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked out ...
... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked out ...
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