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    Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (French: [ɛʁnɛst alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɑ̃sɛʁmɛ]; 11 November 1883 – 20 February 1969) was a Swiss conductor. Ansermet was born in Vevey...
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    Olympics. Serge de Diaghileff's Russian Ballet Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet (Columbia Recording, 1916). Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold...
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  • conducted by Ernest Ansermet. British conductor Edward Clark, a friend and champion of Stravinsky and a former assistant to Ansermet at the Ballets...
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    work premiered at the Paris Opera on 15 May 1920 under the baton of Ernest Ansermet. The central dancer, Léonide Massine, created both the libretto and...
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    to Decca's London office. Decca released the stereo recordings of Ernest Ansermet conducting L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, including, in 1959, the...
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  • time for the premiere in Paris on 13 June that year under conductor Ernest Ansermet and danced by the Ballets Russes to choreography by Bronislava Nijinska...
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    performance from 1953, Deutsche Grammophon, (1947 concert suite) (mono) Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, studio recording from...
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    in « La Petite Maîtrise », Schola Cantorum de París, March 1933. Ansermet, Ernest. Un émouvant témoignage sur la destinée d'Henri Duparc, in « Revue...
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    orchestra of the Opéra was conducted by Walther Straram. Originally, Ernest Ansermet had been engaged to conduct the entire ballet season, but the musicians...
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    the dances of Le Dit des Jeux du monde early in 1921. Also in 1921 Ernest Ansermet conducted the avant-garde music of the ballet-pantomime Horace victorieux...
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    Philharmonique de Bruxelles on December 13, 1930, under the direction of Ernest Ansermet. The American premiere of the piece was given soon afterwards by Koussevitzky...
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  • the trombone with a gentle nobility at the conclusion. The conductor Ernest Ansermet remarked that this movement called to mind an aria of Bach while at...
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  • in Switzerland. They first lived at the home of his father's friend Ernest Ansermet, then later moving into their own home in Morges. It was here where...
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    his partnership with Diaghilev when the war ended. In December 1920 Ernest Ansermet conducted a new production in Paris, choreographed by Léonide Massine...
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  • Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, Decca, 1955 Régine Crespin, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, Decca, 1963 Victoria de Los...
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    include Evgeny Mravinsky at the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet at the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Robert Kajanus at the Helsinki...
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    clarinetists at the time. In 1919, a Swiss classical music conductor, Ernest Ansermet, wrote a tribute to Bechet. It was one of the earliest (if not the...
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    Dmitri Kitayenko, David Zinman, Pierre Monteux, Lorin Maazel, and Ernest Ansermet, use the 1903 version even though sleeve notes on their recordings...
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    who had known and worked with Debussy include those by Monteux and Ernest Ansermet, who both conducted the work on more than one recording. Well-known...
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    originally in mono only; some mock-stereo issues released on LP 1959 Ernest Ansermet Orchestre de la Suisse Romande taped in stereo Oct–Nov. 1958, abridged...
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    (crater) Stravinsky Fountain Stravinsky Inlet Related Earnest Andersson Ernest Ansermet George Balanchine Ballets Russes Nadia Boulanger Coco Chanel & Igor...
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  • Range Recordings) PayDay Ffrreedom Records (rave music) Go-Feet Slash Ernest Ansermet The Bachelors Bananarama ("Aie a Mwana" released under Deram, whilst...
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    known internationally. Its guest conductors included Bruno Walter, Ernest Ansermet, and Hans Knappertsbusch. Following the renaming of Petrograd to Leningrad...
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  • February 19 – Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899) February 20 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883) February 23 Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,...
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    Stanser Verkommnis (1481) 1982: Gotthard railway (opened 1882) 1983: Ernest Ansermet (b. 1883) 1984: Auguste Picard (b. 1884) 1985: European Year of Music...
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    during the 20th century, including Pierre Monteux (1911–16 and 1924), Ernest Ansermet (1915–23), Edward Clark (1919–20) and Roger Désormière (1925–29). Diaghilev...
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  • the war. In 1919, he succeeded Ernest Ansermet as musical director of Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. Although Ansermet gave Boult all the help he could...
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    (crater) Stravinsky Fountain Stravinsky Inlet Related Earnest Andersson Ernest Ansermet George Balanchine Ballets Russes Nadia Boulanger Coco Chanel & Igor...
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    choreography by Léonide Massine (who danced), and the orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet. The idea of the ballet seems to have come from Jean Cocteau. He had...
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    worked all night to have the music ready, assisted by Lord Berners and Ernest Ansermet. Czech composer Vítězslav Novák utilizes the main motif from Song of...
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