Death and Transfiguration (German: Tod und Verklärung), Op. 24, is a tone poem for orchestra by Richard Strauss. Strauss began composition in the late...
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The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII...
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1988, pp. 282 and following. Whelan, James, Out of the Ashes: The Life, Death and Transfiguration of Democracy in Chile, 1989, pp. 511-512 and 519-520. CHILE...
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The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The...
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Symphonic poem (section Other countries and decline)
(Ophelia), and developing the music from these principles. In Death and Transfiguration, a sprightly melody in a major key evokes childhood. Some piano and chamber...
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Wilfrid Brambell (category 1985 deaths)
based on Steptoe and Son. He achieved recognition in many films. In 1982 he appeared in Terence Davies's film Death and Transfiguration, playing a dying...
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Ein Heldenleben (section Structure and analysis)
sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Death and Transfiguration. Strauss began work on the piece while staying in a Bavarian...
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Richard Strauss (category 1949 deaths)
including Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine...
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Four Last Songs (section Premiere and first recording)
dies etwa der Tod?" ("Is this perhaps death?"), Strauss musically quotes his own tone poem Death and Transfiguration, written 60 years earlier. As in that...
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The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death is a 1965 album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey. Originally issued in a hand-lettered...
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