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Peter Branscombe

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Peter John Branscombe (7 December 1929 in Sittingbourne, Kent – 31 December 2008 in St Andrews, Scotland) was an English academic in German studies, a musicologist, and a writer on Austrian cultural history. [1]

27 relations: Biedermeier, Cricket, Dulwich College, Egon Wellesz, Eva Badura-Skoda, Ferdinand Raimund, Franz Schubert, German studies, Heinrich Heine, Historical criticism, Johann Nestroy, Joseph Haydn, Kent, Musicology, Otto Erich Deutsch, Posse mit Gesang, Richard Wagner, Sittingbourne, St Andrews, The Herald (Glasgow), The Magic Flute, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Theater in der Leopoldstadt, University of St Andrews, Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Worcester College, Oxford.

Biedermeier

The Biedermeier period refers to an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848, during which the middle class grew in number and arts appealed to common sensibilities.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Dulwich College

Dulwich College is a boarding and day independent school for boys in Dulwich in southeast London, England.

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Egon Wellesz

Egon Joseph Wellesz (Vienna, 21 October 1885 – Oxford, 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.

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Eva Badura-Skoda

Eva Badura-Skoda (née Halfar) is a German/Austrian musicologist.

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Ferdinand Raimund

Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; 1 June 1790 – 5 September 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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German studies

German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms.

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Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic.

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Historical criticism

Historical criticism, also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism, is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts in order to understand "the world behind the text".

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Johann Nestroy

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music.

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Otto Erich Deutsch

Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist.

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Posse mit Gesang

Posse mit Gesang ("farce with singing", plural: Possen) is a form of popular German-language music drama, that developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").

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Sittingbourne

Sittingbourne is an industrial town situated in the Swale district of Kent in south east England, from Canterbury and from London.

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St Andrews

St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Edinburgh.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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Theater in der Leopoldstadt

The Theater in der Leopoldstadt (also: Leopoldstädter Theater) was an opera house in Vienna, founded in 1781 by Karl von Marinelli, following the Schauspielfreiheit (ending of the court's monopoly on entertainment) by Joseph II in 1776.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Wienbibliothek im Rathaus

The Wienbibliothek im Rathaus (Vienna Library in City Hall), formerly known as the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek (Vienna City and State Library), is a library and archive containing important documents related to the history of Vienna, Austria.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Branscombe

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