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    Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, writer and music director. Ferdinand Hiller was born...
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    work, Mendelssohn took the advice of fellow composer Ferdinand Hiller to revise the piano part. Hiller wrote, "with his usual conscientious earnestness when...
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    the duties with Mendelssohn during his tenure, including Ferdinand David, Ferdinand Hiller, and Niels Gade. In 1885, the orchestra moved into a new hall...
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    under the direction of Ferdinand Hiller. Another Wagner detractor was the French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, who wrote to Hiller after attending Wagner's...
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    doctorate from the University of Giessen. Among his students were Ferdinand Hiller, Carl Almenräder, Carl Arnold and Carl Wolfsohn. See: List of music...
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    composer Friedrich Adam Hiller (c. 1767–1812), but he was not related to the musician Ferdinand Hiller. A theme from Hiller's opera Der Aerndtekranz (1771)...
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    Beethoven in Vienna on several occasions with his wife Elisabeth and pupil Ferdinand Hiller. Hummel would later perform at Beethoven's memorial concert. Hummel...
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    and his successors included Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1833–35), Ferdinand Hiller (1847-1850) and Robert Schumann (1850-1854). In 1864, the orchestra...
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  • 1833. The work was published in January 1834, and was dedicated to Ferdinand Hiller. These nocturnes display a more personal approach to the nocturne form...
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    Mondonville and Jules Van Nuffel, among others. Heinrich Schütz and Ferdinand Hiller composed settings in German. Handel used verses from the psalm for...
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  • Friedrich Adam Hiller (c. 1767–1812), German composer, son of Johann Adam Hiller Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), German composer (born Ferdinand Hildesheim)...
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    Lichnowsky, Schindler, the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel and his pupil Ferdinand Hiller. Many tributes and gifts were also sent, including £100 from the Philharmonic...
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    Die Zerstörung Jerusalems (oratorio) (category Compositions by Ferdinand Hiller)
    oratorio by Ferdinand Hiller to a libretto by Salomon Steinheim largely based on biblical texts from the Book of Jeremiah and the Psalms. Hiller composed...
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    assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to...
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    some of the greatest artists of her time. Both Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller went to great lengths to ensure that Lang learned the proper theory...
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    become acquainted with, among many others, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Ferdinand Hiller, Heinrich Heine, Eugène Delacroix, Alfred de Vigny, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner...
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    the age of nearly sixty-two Karl Ferdinand Sohn died on 25 November 1867 during a visit to his friend Ferdinand Hiller in Cologne. Anselm Feuerbach Marie...
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  • Mendelssohn (1809–1847) Otto Nicolai (1810–1849) Robert Schumann (1810–1856) Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885) Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) Julius Rietz (1812–1877) Richard...
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    (1896–1961) Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) Wilhelm Hill (1838–1902) Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885) Wilfried Hiller (born 1941) Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) Rudolf...
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    calling its villain Bertram "a poor devil". When his friend the composer Ferdinand Hiller suggested in conversation to Mendelssohn that he looked rather like...
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    Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. (UK: /ˈmɑːrkɒs/, US: /-koʊs, -kɔːs/, Tagalog: [ˈmaɾkɔs]; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the...
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  • Allen's mockumentary Take the Money and Run. Hillaire's grandfather was Ferdinand Hiller, a Frankfurt-born pianist and music educator, a student of the Austro-Hungarian...
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    him to study architecture. But he began taking music classes under Ferdinand Hiller and Isidor Seiss at the Cologne Conservatory in 1872. In 1876, he won...
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  • Adolf von Henselt (1814–1889) Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833) Henri Herz (1803–1888) Franz Hitz (1828–1891) Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885) Franz Hünten (1792–1878)...
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    and Ferdinand Hiller, Leipzig : Wigand, 1845. - Digitalized by the University and State Library Düsseldorf Literature by and about Ernst Ferdinand Oehme...
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    which allowed him to travel to Cologne (1875-78, where he studied with Ferdinand Hiller)... Mason (1917), p.3. Mason (1917), p.123. Mason (1917), p.285. Bowers...
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    Dresden on 4 December 1845, again with Clara Schumann, and the dedicatee Ferdinand Hiller as the conductor. Less than a month later, on 1 January 1846, the concerto...
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    protegee of Charlotte Cushman, and studied harmony with German composer Ferdinand Hiller at Cologne. She published a collection How to Sing an English Ballad...
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    for the Hiller Lock, using the algorithm Schmutzi. The study authors therefore concluded that the results of toxicological analyses of the Hiller Lock,...
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    Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (1766–67). Ferdinand Hiller, St. Cäcilia (1848), cantata for soloists and orchestra to the text...
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