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  • Procedute dal Canto eroico e funebre per il sottotenente caduto in Albania.

    odysseas elytis | calendar of an invisible april « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • Again, in the Marcia funebre, the Savall performance is astonishing for the mood it conjures.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Again, in the Marcia funebre, the Savall performance is astonishing for the mood it conjures.

    Beethoven was always hip Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Procedute dal Canto eroico e funebre per il sottotenente caduto in Albania.

    Odysseus Elytis - Biography 1979

  • (As, for example, Bossuet in 1669 in his oraison funebre over Henriette Marie, wife of Charles I).

    France Through Canadian Eyes 1917

  • L'eloge funebre que M. Naigeon a consacre a la memoire de M. le

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • She played no marche funebre upon her piano, even though Chopin’s romantic lamentation was then at the top of nine-tenths of the music-racks in the country, American youth having recently discovered the distinguished congeniality between itself and this deathless bit of deathly gloom.

    Chapter 28 1918

  • She played no marche funebre upon her piano, even though Chopin's romantic lamentation was then at the top of nine-tenths of the music-racks in the country, American youth having recently discovered the distinguished congeniality between itself and this deathless bit of deathly gloom.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

  • When Wagner heard the Symphonic funebre et triomphale he was forced to admit Berlioz's “skill in writing compositions that were popular in the best sense of the word.”

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • It was the Symphonie funebre et triomphale for two orchestras and a choir, and the Te Deum for orchestra, organ, and three choirs, which Berlioz loved (whose finale Judex crederis seemed to him the most effective thing he had ever written [99]), as well as the Imperiale, for two orchestras and two choirs, and the famous

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

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