Johann Strauss, the younger, I don't know if his Orchestra ever performed in London, but it certainly did in Saint-Petersburg.
Name That Historical Person
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Модéст Петрóвич Мýсоргский Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky one of the group of composers known as "the mighty handful" the most famous members of which were: Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin.
He was a member of a Ririkind Boyar family.
Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, a graduate of the Saint-Petersburg Conservatory he left Russia after the Revolution only returning in 1936 in the midst of "the Great Terror," the year he composed Peter and the Wolf. He was denounced for "anti-democratic formalism" in 1948.
Felix Mendelssohn
From the incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream." It became popular as a wedding piece when Victoria, The Princess Royal (Empress Frederick of Germany) chose it for her wedding in 1858. She very much liked the works of Mendelssohn.
Richard Wagner. It is from his opera "Lohengrin"
Many churches try to discourage its use.
Name the author of the book on which the musical containing the following song is based, and name the book.
Name the author of the book on which the musical containing the following song is based, and name the book.
Name the author of the book on which the musical containing the following song is based, and name the book.
Name the author of the book on which the musical containing the following song is based, and name the book.
Correct, from Les Miserables, not Don Quixote. Was Don Quixote ever a musical?Oh shit sorry, I meat Victor Hugo, honestly :embarassed:
(was thinking of the impossible dream)
Name the author of the book on which the musical containing the following song is based, and name the book.
