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Abendempfindung an Laura", K. 523, is a song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dated June 24, 1787, in Vienna, written at the time of the opera Don Giovanni and Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Text [ edit ]
When the band released a Greatest Hits cassette in Iran, a leaflet in Persian was included with translation and explanations. [44] In the explanation, Queen states that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is about a young man who has accidentally killed someone and, like Faust , sold his soul to the devil.
The arrival of the Queen of the Night. Stage set by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) for an 1815 production "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" ("Oh, don't tremble, my dear son") is the first aria performed by the Queen of the Night (a famous coloratura soprano role) in Mozart's singspiel The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte).
Alice Verlet as Queen of the Night, 1912. The first singer to perform the aria onstage was Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, who at the time was 32. By all accounts, Hofer had an extraordinary upper register and an agile voice and apparently Mozart, being familiar with Hofer's vocal ability, wrote the two blockbuster arias to showcase it.
Estimates of Queen's total worldwide record sales to date have been set as high as 300 million. [182] In the United Kingdom, Queen have now spent more collective weeks on the UK Album Charts than any other musical act (including the Beatles), [183] and Queen's Greatest Hits is the best-selling album of all time in the United Kingdom. [184]
Their English was word-perfect." [138] Later that year Queen performed for more than 150,000 on 9 October at Monterrey (Estadio Universitario) and 17 and 18 at Puebla (Estadio Zaragoza), Mexico. [139] Though the gigs were successful, they were marred by a lack of planning and suitable facilities, with audiences throwing projectiles on stage.
Ganz kleine Nachtmusik (German for Quite (or Very) Little Night Music), K. 648, [1] also known as Serenade in C, [2] is a composition for string trio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), written in the mid to late 1760s.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.