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May 15, 2024 · It is the most prominent use of the trombone in Mozart’s entire catalog. Requiem in D Minor, K 626, requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, left incomplete at his death on December 5, 1791. Until the late 20th century the work was most often heard as it had been completed by Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Sussmayr.
- Betsy Schwarm
6 days ago · Finnish language, member of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken in Finland. At the beginning of the 19th century, Finnish had no official status, with Swedish being used in Finnish education, government, and literature. The publication in 1835 of the Kalevala, a national epic poem based on Finnish folklore, aroused ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1 day ago · Signature. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as ...
May 17, 2024 · Jean Sibelius (born Dec. 8, 1865, Hämeenlinna, Fin.—died Sept. 20, 1957, Järvenpää) was a Finnish composer, the most noted symphonic composer of Scandinavia. Sibelius studied at the Finnish Normal School, the first Finnish-speaking school in Russian-held Finland, where he came into contact with Finnish literature and in particular with ...
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4 days ago · Kaleva, and his sons are important heroic figures in Estonian, Finnish and Karelian mythology. In the Finnish epic Kalevala, he is an ancient Finnish ruler. Hence, the Finnish word "Kalevala" means "land of heroes". [citation needed] The first version of the Kalevala, called the Old Kalevala, was published in 1835, consisting of 12,078 verses.
- Elias Lönnrot
- 1835
3 days ago · Jean Sibelius. Jean Sibelius ( forename in the French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃] surname in the Finland Swedish: [siˈbeːliʉs] ⓘ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; [1] 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and ...
May 9, 2024 · Johan Vilhelm Snellman (born May 12, 1806, Stockholm, Swed.—died July 4, 1881, Kirkkonummi, Fin.) was a Finnish nationalist philosopher and statesman who was an important figure in the movement to establish Finnish as a national language. In 1835, when Snellman became a philosophy instructor at the University of Helsinki, Finland was a grand ...
