literature in France. He was the older brother of the artist Léon Viardot (1805–1900). Viardot was born in a provincial family, his father was a liberal...

reproductions – including an interesting lithograph (1851) from her nephew Léon Viardot. Other documents have a more sentimental value: they include Malibran's...

orchestration from the Italian version and resisted proposals by Viardot and the theatre's director Léon Carvalho to modernize the orchestration. In the end Camille...

artists in Paris. He was frequently invited for dinner with Louis Viardot and Pauline Viardot-Garcia in rue Douai 50, where Turgenev occupied the top floor...

impetus by, and provided a central role for, the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot. It was presented only nine times in its initial production, but was a...

Saint-Léon. Saint-Léon, a "very indifferent" composer, was primarily a dancer and choreographer, but also played violin. For the premiere Saint-Léon had...

Tiersen Charles Trenet Christian Vander Sylvie Vartan Boris Vian Pauline Viardot, opera singer and composer Pedro Winter Zazie Pierre Abélard Louis Althusser...

composer met in Rome were the singer Pauline Viardot and the pianist Fanny Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn. Viardot became of great help to Gounod in his...

Legion of Honor. Soubies 1905. Van Deusen 2007. Viardot 1883, p. 35. Grunchec 1985, p. 147. Viardot 1883, p. 36. Johnston 1999, pp. 36–37. McDermott...

discharge had become an accountant for various theatres in Belgium. Pauline Viardot, who at that time lived in a chateau near Brussels, happened to hear Cabel...

Vestris (1760–1842), dancer Gaétan Vestris (1729–1808), dancer Pauline Viardot (1821–1910), opera singer, composer Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), poet,...

Gobbi 1841 1920 Hungarian Friedrich Hegar 1841 1927 Swiss Louise Héritte-Viardot 1841 1918 French Joseph Friedrich Hummel 1841 1919 Austrian Felip Pedrell...

Varèse (1883–1965) Gilet Velut (flourished in early 15th century) Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) Louis Vierne (1870–1937) Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732–33)...

influenced by national, and not folk music. The soprano and composer Pauline Viardot was a close friend of Chopin and his lover George Sand, and she made a...

1863 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha translation by Louis Viardot 2 vols. folio 370 Hachette and Co., Paris, and Cassell and Co., London...

2002, pp. 67–68. Montrosier & Fraipont 1881, p. 33. Perkins 1886, p. 370. Viardot 1883, p. 34. Montrosier & Fraipont 1881, p. 34. Enault 1881, p. 94. Vazzana...

Among the visitors to Nohant were Delacroix and the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, whom Chopin had advised on piano technique and composition. Delacroix...

Cenerentola (1902) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Cendrillon (1904) by Pauline García-Viardot Aschenbrödel (1905) by Leo Blech, libretto by Richard Batka Das Märchen...

and Émile Reiber, «Elephant» Vase, 1878 Gabriel Viardot, Paris, pair of armchairs, c. 1880 Gabriel Viardot, mirror with frame, c. 1880 Édouard Lièvre and...

Killmayer Josephine Lang Emilie Mayer Hector Berlioz Charles Gounod Pauline Viardot César Franck Camille Saint-Saëns Georges Bizet Emmanuel Chabrier Henri...

Quarterly Review. 67 (2): 253. doi:10.1093/fs/knt012 – via Project MUSE. Viardot 1884, p. 303. Mérot 1995, p. 300; Lesné & Waro 2011, p. 34. Zolotov, Y...

Vetter (1666–1734) Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560 – 1627) Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548 – 1611) Gerard Victory (1921–1995)...

Pauline Viardot, who had enormous success in the role of Fidès). Later, in 1851, he mounted Gounod's first opera, Sapho, as a favor to Viardot, who sang...

like-minded younger sister, Pauline Viardot (1821–1910), was also an important teacher of voice, as were Viardot's contemporaries Mathilde Marchesi, Camille...

landowner Heinrich von Bock. Charles Gounod meets the soprano Pauline Viardot in Rome. She convinces him to compose opera. Johannes Brahms meets the...

of the three main roles were Jeanne-Anaïs Castellan as Berthe, Pauline Viardot as Fidès, and Gustave-Hippolyte Roger as Jean. A sensational success at...

edition of 31 motets), doctoral dissertation. "Clara Schumann and Pauline Viardot: The Two Oldest Friends of the Century" (unpublished). "George Rickey Foundation—About"...

opera, Sapho, in 1851 at the urging of his friend, the singer Pauline Viardot; it was a commercial failure. He had no great theatrical success until...

Louis Welden Hawkings, English painter (born 1849) 18 May — Pauline García-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (born 1821) 27 June — Gustave Emile Boissonade...

suggested to the Spanish mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot that she should sing the role. Carvalho, who had heard Viardot in a concert, decided he wanted her to perform...