Ernest Reyer, the Glossary
Louis Étienne Ernest Reyer (1 December 1823 – 15 January 1909) was a French opera composer and music critic.[1]
Table of Contents
41 relations: Baden-Baden, Benvenuto Cellini (opera), Brussels, Counts and dukes of Aumale, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Dominoes, Edda, French Algeria, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Joseph Méry, Journal des débats, Jules Barbier, Kalidasa, La Monnaie, La statue, Le Lavandou, Legion of Honour, Les Troyens, Libretto, Louise Farrenc, Marseille, Michel Carré, Music school, Nibelungenlied, Notary, One Thousand and One Nights, Opéra-Comique, Order of the Red Eagle, Paris, Paris Opera, Provence, Richard Wagner, Rouen, Salammbô, Salammbô (Reyer), Shakuntala (play), Sigurd (opera), Théâtre Lyrique, Théophile Gautier, Völsunga saga.
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with France, and forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) north-east of Strasbourg, France.
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Benvenuto Cellini (opera)
Benvenuto Cellini is an opera semiseria in four tableaux (spread across two or three acts) by Hector Berlioz, his first full-length work for the stage.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Counts and dukes of Aumale
The County of Aumale, later elevated to a duchy, was a medieval fief in Normandy, disputed between France and England during parts of the Hundred Years' War.
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Der Ring des Nibelungen
(The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.
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Dominoes
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces.
Edda
"Edda" (Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) is an Old Norse term that has been applied by modern scholars to the collective of two Medieval Icelandic literary works: what is now known as the Prose Edda and an older collection of poems (without an original title) now known as the Poetic Edda.
French Algeria
French Algeria (Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; unofficially Algérie française, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France.
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.
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Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor. Ernest Reyer and Hector Berlioz are 19th-century French composers, French male opera composers and French opera composers.
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Joseph Méry
Joseph Méry (21 January 179717 June 1866) was a French writer, journalist, novelist, poet, playwright and librettist.
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Journal des débats
The Journal des débats (French for: Journal of Debates) was a French newspaper, published between 1789 and 1944 that changed title several times.
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Jules Barbier
Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 182516 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.
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Kalidasa
Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.
La Monnaie
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (italic,; italic; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium.
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La statue
La statue (The Statue) is an opera in three acts and five tableaux by Ernest Reyer to the libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on tales from One Thousand and One Nights and La statue merveilleuse, an 1810 carnival play (pièce foraine) by Alain-René Lesage and Jacques-Philippe d'Orneval.
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Le Lavandou
Le Lavandou (Lo Lavandor) is a seaside commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.
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Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.
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Les Troyens
Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts, running for about five hours, by Hector Berlioz.
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Libretto
A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.
Louise Farrenc
Louise Farrenc (31 May 1804 – 15 September 1875) was a French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher of the Romantic period. Ernest Reyer and Louise Farrenc are 19th-century French composers.
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Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
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Michel Carré
Michel Carré (20 October 1821, Besançon – 27 June 1872, Argenteuil) was a prolific French librettist.
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Music school
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music.
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Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied (Der Nibelunge liet or Der Nibelunge nôt), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German.
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Notary
A notary is a person authorised to perform acts in legal affairs, in particular witnessing signatures on documents.
One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Opéra-Comique
The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs.
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Order of the Red Eagle
The Order of the Red Eagle (Roter Adlerorden) was an order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.
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Provence
Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
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Rouen
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France.
Salammbô
Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert.
Salammbô (Reyer)
Salammbô is an opera in five acts composed by Ernest Reyer to a French libretto by Camille du Locle.
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Shakuntala (play)
Abhijñānaśākuntalam (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्, IAST: Abhijñānaśākuntalam), also known as Shakuntala, The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, and many other variants, is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Śakuntalā told in the epic Mahābhārata and regarded as the best of Kālidāsa's works.
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Sigurd (opera)
Sigurd is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by the French composer Ernest Reyer on a libretto by Camille du Locle and Alfred Blau.
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Théâtre Lyrique
The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century (the other three being the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre-Italien).
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Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
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Völsunga saga
The Völsunga saga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and the destruction of the Burgundians).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Reyer
Also known as Reyer.