The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... received a com- mission to write an opera for the following Christmas . At Bologna he found firm friends in the venerable Padre Martini and the still more famous sopranist Fari- nelli . At Florence he became so tenderly attached to ...
... received a com- mission to write an opera for the following Christmas . At Bologna he found firm friends in the venerable Padre Martini and the still more famous sopranist Fari- nelli . At Florence he became so tenderly attached to ...
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... received by Aloysia Weber | with coldness almost amounting to contempt ; and in June 1779 he returned to Salzburg , hoping against hope that he might make some better terms with the archbishop , who re- lented so far as to attach a ...
... received by Aloysia Weber | with coldness almost amounting to contempt ; and in June 1779 he returned to Salzburg , hoping against hope that he might make some better terms with the archbishop , who re- lented so far as to attach a ...
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... received a commission to write an opera for the next season , with a fee of 100 ducats . Da Ponte furnished a libretto , founded on Tirso de Molina's tale , El Convidado de Piedra , and entitled Il Don Giovanni . By 28th October 1787 ...
... received a commission to write an opera for the next season , with a fee of 100 ducats . Da Ponte furnished a libretto , founded on Tirso de Molina's tale , El Convidado de Piedra , and entitled Il Don Giovanni . By 28th October 1787 ...
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... received numerous commissions for finished pictures . But his health was seriously impaired , he was suffering from heart - disease and from continued nasal hæmorrhage ; and , returning to his native city , he died there on 8th ...
... received numerous commissions for finished pictures . But his health was seriously impaired , he was suffering from heart - disease and from continued nasal hæmorrhage ; and , returning to his native city , he died there on 8th ...
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... received a tolerable education , chiefly under Catholic priests . He was fond of reading , furtively studying Pope's Homer and other works at the book - stalls , and fonder still of drawing.1 When eleven years old Mulready was employed ...
... received a tolerable education , chiefly under Catholic priests . He was fond of reading , furtively studying Pope's Homer and other works at the book - stalls , and fonder still of drawing.1 When eleven years old Mulready was employed ...
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