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Hugues Cuénod, the Glossary

Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod (26 June 19026 December 2010) by Margalit Fox, The New York Times (7 December 2010), 24 heures (7 December 2010), The Guardian (8 December 2010) was a Swiss classical tenor, sometimes placed in the haute-contre category, and music educator known for his performances in international opera, operetta, both traditional and musical theatre, and on the concert stage, where he was particularly known for his clear, light, romantic and expressive poised interpretation of mélodie (French art song).^[1]

Aix-en-Provence Festival

The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in July.

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Art song

An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians is a major reference work in the field of music, originally compiled by Theodore Baker, PhD, and published in 1900 by G. Schirmer, Inc. The ninth edition, the most recent edition, was published in 2001.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Bitter Sweet (operetta)

Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts, with book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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Centenarian

A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years.

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Christiane Jaccottet

Christiane Jaccottet (born Christiane Wachsmuth, Lausanne, Switzerland 18 May 1937; died Rivaz, 26 October 1999) was a harpsichordist who recorded the works of many composers including Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.

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Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

The Conservatoire de musique de Genève is a music school in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Corseaux

Corseaux is a municipality in the district Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Die Fledermaus

(The Flittermouse or The Bat, sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.

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Duke of Marlborough (title)

Duke of Marlborough (pronounced) is a title in the Peerage of England.

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Erik Satie

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Ernst Krenek

Ernst Heinrich Krenek (23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer.

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Eugene Onegin (opera)

Eugene Onegin (Ru-Evgeny_Onegin.ogg), Op.

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Evangelist (Bach)

The Evangelist in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is the tenor part in his oratorios and Passions who narrates the exact words of one of the Four Evangelists of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther, in recitative secco.

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Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.

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Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut (also Machau and Machault; – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music.

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Harpsichordist

A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord.

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Haute-contre

The haute-contre (plural hautes-contre) was the primary French operatic tenor voice, predominant in French Baroque and Classical opera, from the middle of the seventeenth century until the latter part of the eighteenth century.

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (– 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).

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Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.

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Joel Cohen (musician)

Joel Cohen is an American musician specializing in early music repertoires.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Johann Strauss II

Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (Johann Strauß Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist.

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John Dowland

John Dowland (– buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer.

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Jonny spielt auf

Jonny spielt auf (Jonny Strikes Up), Op. 45, is a German-language Zeitoper with words and music by Austrian composer Ernst Krenek about a jazz violinist.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Losena) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud.

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Lotte Lehmann Foundation

The Lotte Lehmann Foundation, named for the German soprano Lotte Lehmann, was founded in 1999, and served to preserve and perpetuate her legacy, and to honor her dream of bringing art song into the lives of as many people as possible.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Madrigal

A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers.

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Margalit Fox

Margalit Fox (born April 25, 1961) is an American writer.

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Mélodie

A mélodie is a form of French art song, arising in the mid-19th century.

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Mézières, Vaud

Mézières is a former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Music in the Elizabethan era

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), English art and high culture reached a pinnacle known as the height of the English Renaissance.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer.

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Nicolas Slonimsky

Nicolas Slonimsky (– December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (Никола́й Леони́дович Слoнимский), was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer.

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.

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Nimbus Records

Nimbus Records is a British record company based at Wyastone Leys, Ganarew, Herefordshire.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise". Hugues Cuénod and Noël Coward are gay singers.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Operetta

Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera.

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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Plácido Domingo

José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.

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Radio France

Radio France is the French national public radio broadcaster.

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Ray Lynch

Raymond Lynch (born July 3, 1943) is an American guitarist, lutenist, keyboardist, and composer.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of people held by a host.

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Same-sex marriage in Switzerland

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Switzerland since 1 July 2022.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugues_Cuénod

Also known as Hughes Cuénod, Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod.

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See also

20th-century Swiss male opera singers

Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

Alumni of the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

Diction coaches

French-language singers of Switzerland

People from Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District

Swiss LGBT singers

Swiss centenarians

Swiss gay musicians

Swiss music educators

Swiss operatic tenors

Swiss people of English descent

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