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Adolphe Adam

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Adolphe Charles Adam (24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer and music critic. [1]

37 relations: AllMusic, Alsace, Boston, Boulevard du Temple, Christmas carol, Comédie en vaudevilles, Conservatoire de Paris, Coppélia, Eugène Scribe, Eugène Sue, Ferdinand Hérold, Flower Duet, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Geneva, Giselle, La dame blanche, Lakmé, Léo Delibes, Le Corsaire, Le postillon de Lonjumeau, Le toréador, List of ballets by Adolphe Adam, List of operas by Adam, Louis Adam, Montmartre Cemetery, Naxos Records, O Holy Night, Ogg, Opéra-National, Organ (music), Prix de Rome, Pump organ, Revolutions of 1848, Si j'étais roi, Sylvia (ballet), Théâtre Lyrique, Timpani.

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alsace

Alsace (Alsatian: ’s Elsass; German: Elsass; Alsatia) is a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boulevard du Temple

The Boulevard du Temple, formerly nicknamed the "Boulevard du Crime", is a thoroughfare in Paris that separates the 3rd arrondissement from the 11th.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol (also called a noël, from the French word meaning "Christmas") is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, and which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season.

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Comédie en vaudevilles

The comédie en vaudevilles was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened through lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville songs.

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Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris (English: Paris Conservatory) is a college of music and dance founded in 1795 associated with PSL Research University.

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Coppélia

Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: The Girl With The Enamel Eyes) is a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.

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Eugène Scribe

Augustin Eugène Scribe (24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist.

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Eugène Sue

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (26 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist.

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Ferdinand Hérold

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833), better known as Ferdinand Hérold, was a French operatic composer of Alsatian descent who also wrote many pieces for the piano, orchestra, and the ballet.

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Flower Duet

The "Flower Duet" is a famous duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé, first performed in Paris in 1883.

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François-Adrien Boieldieu

François-Adrien Boieldieu (16 December 1775 8 October 1834) was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Giselle

Giselle (French: Giselle, ou les Wilis) is a romantic ballet in two acts.

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La dame blanche

La dame blanche (The White Lady) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu.

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Lakmé

Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.

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Léo Delibes

Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French composer of the Romantic era (1815–1910), who specialised in ballets, operas, and other works for the stage.

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Le Corsaire

Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.

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Le postillon de Lonjumeau

Le postillon de Lonjumeau (The Postillion of Lonjumeau) is an opéra-comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by 'Adolphe de Leuven' and 'Brunswick' (pen names of Adolphe von Ribbing and Léon Lévy).

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Le toréador

Le toréador, ou L'accord parfait (The Toreador, or The Perfect Agreement) is an opéra comique in two acts by the French composer Adolphe Adam with a libretto by Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage.

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List of ballets by Adolphe Adam

This is a list of the complete ballets of the French opera and ballet composer Adolphe Adam (1803–1856).

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List of operas by Adam

This is a list of the complete operas of the French opera composer Adolphe Adam (1803–1856).

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Louis Adam

Louis Adam or Jean-Louis Adam (born as Johann Ludwig December 3, 1758, Alsace, France – April 8, 1848) was a French composer, music teacher, and piano virtuoso.

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Montmartre Cemetery

Montmartre Cemetery (Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century.

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Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music.

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O Holy Night

"O Holy Night" ("Minuit Chretiens!" or "Cantique de Noël") is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) written by a wine merchant and poet, Placide Cappeau (1808–1877).

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Opéra-National

The Opéra-National was a Parisian opera company that the French composer Adolphe Adam founded in 1847 to provide an alternative to the two primary French opera companies in Paris, the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France.

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Pump organ

The pump organ, reed organ, harmonium, or melodeon is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame.

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Revolutions of 1848

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People's Spring, Springtime of the Peoples, or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848.

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Si j'étais roi

Si j'étais roi (English: If I Were King) is an opéra comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam.

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Sylvia (ballet)

Sylvia, originally Sylvia, ou La nymphe de Diane, is a full-length ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed by Louis Mérante to music by Léo Delibes in 1876.

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Théâtre Lyrique

The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century (the other three being the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre-Italien).

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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References

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

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