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The opera corpus — is a list of nearly 2,500 works by more than 775 individual opera composers. Some of the works listed below are still being performed today but many are not. The principal works of the major composers are given as well as those of historical… … Wikipedia
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Isolde — f English: the name of the tragic mistress of Tristram in the Arthurian romances. There are several different versions of the story. The main features are that the beautiful Isolde, an Irish princess, is betrothed to the aged King Mark of… … First names dictionary
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Composition of the music — The composition of the operatic tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung occupied Richard Wagner for more than a quarter of a century. Conceived around 1848, the work was not finished until 1874, fewer than two years before the entire cycle was given… … Wikipedia
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Chronology for the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914 — Cross references to entries in the main entry section are in boldface. 1. Napoleonic Wars, 1800 1815 1799–1804: The Consulate ends the France’s revolutionary period. A dictatorship by Napoleon Bonaparte with the formal trappings of a republic … Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914
Tristan — by Gottfried von Strassburg (ca. 1210) GOTTFRIED VON STRASSBURG’s version of the TRISTAN story sets in with a highly significant prologue in which the narrator characterizes true love as a quasi eucharistic experience, possible only for… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
Gottfried von Strassburg — (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan , which is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach s Parzival and the Nibelungenlied , as one of the great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages. He is… … Wikipedia
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Tristan and Iseult — The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan (Tristram) and the Irish princess Iseult… … Wikipedia
Le Morte d'Arthur — The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (begun 1881), detail, by Edward Burne Jones (d. 1898), greatly influenced by Le Morte d Arthur throughout his career. Le Morte d Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for the death of Arthur … Wikipedia
