Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901), Italian operatic composer, whose works stand among the greatest in the history of Italian opera. Born on October 10, 1813, in Roncole in the former duchy of Parma, he first studied music in the neighbouring town of Busseto. Then, upon being rejected in 1832, because of his age, by the Milan Conservatory, he became a pupil of the Milanese composer Vincenzo Lavigna. He returned to Busseto in 1833 as conductor of the Philharmonic Society.
Early Works At the age of 25 Verdi again went to Mila
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949), German composer and conductor, a leading composer for the modern orchestra and a master of composing for the human voice. Born June 11, 1864, in Munich and educated at the University of Munich, Strauss was the son of an eminent horn player, Franz Strauss, and was trained in music from the age of four. From the age of 21 he was a successful conductor, first at Meiningen and later at Munich. He continued to conduct important orchestras and in major opera houses in Germany and Austria for most of his life. From
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-84), Czech composer, the founder of the Czech national school, and, with his compatriot Antonín Dvorák, its greatest representative in the 19th century. Smetana was born March 2, 1824, in Litomyšl, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), and trained as a pianist in Prague. With the help of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt, he established a fashionable music school in Prague in 1848. Dissatisfied with life under the Austrian domination of Bohemia, he accepted an appointment at Göteborg, Sweden, as con
Schubert, Franz Peter (1797-1828), Austrian composer, whose songs are among romantic masterpieces in that genre and whose instrumental works reflect a classical heritage as well as 19th-century romanticism. Schubert was born on January 31, 1797, in Vienna. The son of a parish schoolmaster, he became a choirboy in the Imperial Chapel in 1808 and began studies at the Konvict, the school for court singers. He played violin in the school orchestra.
Earliest Works His first songs, among them “Hagars Klage” (Hagar'
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844-1908), Russian composer and musical theorist, one of the greatest composers of the Russian nationalist school, and a great master of orchestration. Rimsky-Korsakov was born on March 18, 1844, in Tikhvin, near Novgorod. He studied piano as a child. In 1856 he was enrolled at the Naval Academy at Saint Petersburg but continued his musical studies. In 1861 Rimsky-Korsakov became an associate of the Russian composer Mily Balakirev, the dominant figure of a group of young, nationally conscious Russia
Archimedes (287-212 BC), pre-eminent Greek mathematician and inventor, who wrote important works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and educated in Alexandria, Egypt. In pure mathematics he anticipated many of the discoveries of modern science, such as the integral calculus, through his studies of the areas and volumes of curved solid figures and the areas of plane figures. He also proved that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of a cylinder that circumscribes the
The most original and influential of the 19th-century Russian nationalist composers. Born March 21, 1839, in Karevo, Mussorgsky was educated privately and at a military academy in Saint Petersburg. When he was 18 years old Mussorgsky met the Russian nationalist composer Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, through whom he joined the circle of Russian nationalist composers now known as The Five. In 1858 he resigned from military service to devote himself to music; after 1863 he supported himself as a government clerk. Musically, Mussorgsky was
Czech composer, a leading European composer of the 19th century, and the foremost representative of the Czech national school in composition. Dvorák was born in Nelahozeves, a small Bohemian village near Prague, on September 8, 1841. As a child he learned to play the violin and often entertained guests at his father's inn. He studied (1857-59) at the organ school in Prague, then joined the concert band of Komzák and later the orchestra of the National Theater, Prague. He first received marked public recognition in 1873, when his c
French composer, who was a principal force in the development of 19th-century musical romanticism. Berlioz was born in La Côte-Saint-André on December 11, 1803, and was originally educated in medicine in Paris. Abandoning medicine, he studied music from 1823 to 1825 at the Paris Conservatoire under the French composer Jean François Le Sueur and the Czech composer Anton Reicha. In 1830 he won the Prix de Rome. He became a librarian at the Paris Conservatoire in 1838, toured the Continent and Great Britain several times as a conductor b
Norwegian polar explorer, born in Borge, and educated at the University of Christiania (now the University of Oslo). He entered the Norwegian navy in 1894 and spent the following nine years studying science. From 1903 to 1906 he led his first important expedition in the small sloop Gjöa. During this voyage he sailed successfully through the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and determined the position of the north magnetic pole. His next expedition (1910-12) sailed in a larger ship, the Fram, and gained fame as one of th
Použitie: 1.k vyjadreniu zvyku (I get up at 7.30. – Vstávam o 7.30 hod). 2.k vyjadreniu skutočnosti, ktorá má trvalú platnosť alebo je platná po dlhú dobu – zvyk. (We come from Spain. – Pochádzame zo Španielska.; I live in Oxford. – Bývam v O.)
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1. Details of the business The name of the company will be the GEORGE-BAKERY. I will start initially as sole trader. Then if I have achievement, I would change it to the private limited company with two or three shareholders.
2. Personal details
After studies I started worked as business manager in U.S.Steel Košice. Then I have worked as director of bakery nearly 5 years. I have a lot of experiences with managment bakery. I studied on Technical University of Košice – faculty of Economics. I can spea
American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born on August 1, 1819, in New York, into a family that had declined in the world. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the United States he taught and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18-month voyage he deserted the ship
American writer of novels and short stories that epitomized the mood and manners of the 1920s—the Jazz Age, as he called it. Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St Paul, Minnesota, and sent to local Roman Catholic boarding schools. At Princeton University he mostly ignored formal study, instead receiving his education from writers and critics, such as Edmund Wilson, who remained his lifelong friend. In 1917 he left Princeton to take an army commission, and in training camps he revised the first draft of his novel originally e
American novelist and short-story writer, whose style is characterized by crispness, realistic dialogue, and emotional understatement. His use of deliberately uncomplicated vocabulary, sentence structure, and paragraph structure makes his style distinctive and poweful. His writings and his personal life exerted a profound influence on American writers of his time, and many of his works are regarded as classics of American literature. Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, and educated at his local high school. He bec
Americans are a mobile nation. The average owner stays in a house only five years, before moving somewhere else. Due to low interest rates, the majority of families in the USA own their own homes. Usually these are separate houses with yards. Houses in US are still very inexpensive compared to Europe. There is a dark side to families moving so much, and such distances. Family ties are not nearly so strong in the US as in other countries. Some parents and grown children living on opposite coasts may only visit each other twice a year. LIVING IN
This book is devided to the six short stories wich are connected together with some characters and with main theme-the robotics.The stories are telling by Dr.Susan Calvin-psychologist
Three laws of robotics: 1.A robot must not injure a human being ,or allow a human being to come to harm.
2.A robot must obey the orders given by human beings unless they conflict the First Law
English Literature, literature produced in England, from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present. The works of those Irish and Scottish authors who are closely identified with English life and letters are also considered part of English literature. For other Irish and Scottish authors.
Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, Era This period extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman-French conquest of England. The Germanic tribes from Europe who overran England in the 5th centu
Rudolf born on 18th July 1552. He was not well-balance person suffering from psychic illness. He had a genetic presumption to it. His father Maxmilián II had married his cousin Mary of Spanish. And Rudolf ´s grandmother had got a psychic disorder too. Eccentric Rudolf stayed single, but he kept relation with Katherine Stradová. They had got a few children, one of them was Julius Caesar d´Austria, madman, who killed a girl in Č. Krumlov. He became king when he was 20 and Emperor when he was 24 years old, after his father’s death. Rudolf h
In our country young people leave their parents when they are married. It is time when they are ready for their own life, they want to have more freedom and want to live like they want. Here are people who stay with parents only while they finish school and then they leave parents be-cause they go to school in other town or maybe other country. But here are people who live with parents while it is possible. In present when young people can travel all over the world it isn’t very often phenomenon. Present is very modern age when everything is