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4 days ago · Thomas Ades, British composer, pianist, and conductor whose diverse compositional oeuvre, ranging from solo pieces to operas, established him as one of the most-skilled classical music artists of his generation. His opera Powder Her Face attracted international attention, as did his large symphonic work Asyla.
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1 day ago · He became the most significant London playwright of the late 18th century with plays like The School for Scandal and The Critic. Sterne published his famous novel Tristram Shandy in parts from 1759 to 1767. The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is a genre which developed during the second half of the 18th century.
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2 days ago · Edward Elgar, c. 1900. Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO ( / ˈɛlɡɑːr / ⓘ; [1] 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the ...
4 days ago · A Vast Obscurity celebrates a number of notable anniversaries in the creative arts, including the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death, the 460th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, as well as the centenary of the death of Song Easel’s featured composer, Gabriel Fauré. The work of poets plays a central role in this year’s series, with ...
1 day ago · Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871), Swiss composer and one of the most famous virtuoso pianists of the 19th century, wrote a fantasia on "God Save the Queen". Johan Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) wrote Variations on God Save the King in D major, Op. 10 and quoted the tune briefly in his Freudenfest-Ouverture in D major, S 148.
- September 1745; 278 years ago
- God Save the Queen, (when the UK monarch is female)
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4 days ago · The Origins of the English Gentry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521862673X; 341pp.; Price: £50.00. Professor Coss has written a splendid analysis of the changing aristocracy of the two hundred years after 1150 that will be required reading for the next century or so.
2 days ago · Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780198229100; 396pp.; Price: £118.00. Crime and the law, particularly during the period of the Hanoverian Bloody Code, has been a popular area of research for a quarter of a century. The publications that emerged from Edward Thompson and the ...
