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  • Lassen is in the middle of composing some fine choruses for the two "Fausts," which Devrient is intending to get up here in two evenings, in conformity with his new scenic arrangement.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • "We've both done a lot of 'Fausts' since then in other places," Bascetta says.

    Home 2009

  • "The Fausts are all other relatives of a Wold Newton meteor strike survivor."

    Archive 2010-01-01 Sean Levin 2010

  • "The Fausts are all other relatives of a Wold Newton meteor strike survivor."

    Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 5 Sean Levin 2010

  • "The Fausts are gypsies," his father told me -- reassuring words to a woman who can't decide where she wants to live next.

    Chris Gray Faust: Hometown Honey: A Visit to Tiny Atlantic, Iowa 2010

  • And our thanks to the Fausts in the Tupelo area of sending I-Reports.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2008 2008

  • There were many fewer Fausts in the 20th century as belief in god and adherence to organized religion began to fade Stravinsky appropriated some of the Faust story for his opera "The Rake's Progress" and Busoni wrote a big bear of an opera called "Doktor Faust".

    Archive 2007-02-01 Will 2007

  • There were many fewer Fausts in the 20th century as belief in god and adherence to organized religion began to fade Stravinsky appropriated some of the Faust story for his opera "The Rake's Progress" and Busoni wrote a big bear of an opera called "Doktor Faust".

    DesignerBlog Will 2007

  • Of making Fausts in music there once seemed to be no end--Gounod, Berlioz, Schumann, Liszt and Boito among others wrote major works based on the gigantic, two part play in the 19th century.

    DesignerBlog Will 2007

  • Of making Fausts in music there once seemed to be no end--Gounod, Berlioz, Schumann, Liszt and Boito among others wrote major works based on the gigantic, two part play in the 19th century.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Will 2007

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