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Montezuma II, depicted in An Illustrated History of the New World (1870), p. 51. The Aztec emperor is the title character in several 18th-century operas: Motezuma (1733) by Antonio Vivaldi; [162] Motezuma (1771) by Josef Mysliveček; Montezuma (1755) by Carl Heinrich Graun; and Montesuma (1781) by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli.
Montezuma had its start in 1851, when the railroad was extended to that point. [5] The city was named after the famous Aztec leader by soldiers returning from the Mexican American War and was incorporated in 1854. [6] Montezuma is home to a thriving Mennonite community, founded when 10 to 15 Mennonite families moved from Virginia in the 1950s. [7]
A headdress made of quetzal feathers, popularly referred to as Montezuma II's crown. Moctezuma's headdress measures measures 130 by 178 centimeters. [ 23 ] It includes the green uppertail coverts of the quetzal bird, the turquoise feathers of the cotinga , brown feathers from the squirrel cuckoo, pink feathers from the roseate spoonbill, and ...
The libretto is very loosely based on the life of the Aztec ruler Montezuma who died in 1520. The first performance was given in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice on 14 November 1733. (In earlier reference books the opera is referred to as Montezuma, but since the reappearance of the original manuscript this has been corrected to Motezuma.)
Moctezuma I (c. 1398 –1469), also known as Montezuma I, Moteuczomatzin Ilhuicamina (Classical Nahuatl: Motēuczōmah Ilhuicamīna [motɛːkʷˈs̻oːmaḁ ilwikaˈmiːna]) or Huehuemoteuczoma (Huēhuemotēuczōmah [weːwemotɛːkʷˈs̻oːmaḁ]), was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan.
Montezuma, an 1884 opera by Frederick Grant Gleason; Montezuma (Sessions opera), a 1963 opera by Roger Sessions; Montezuma, or La Conquista, a 2005 opera by Lorenzo Ferrero; Montezuma, a 1980 film score by Hans Werner Henze "Montezuma", a song from the 1994 album Apurimac II by Cusco "Montezuma", a song from the 2011 album Helplessness Blues by ...
Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved dwellings located in Camp Verde, Arizona, which were built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, [4] between approximately AD 1100 and 1425. The main structure ...
The Spanish colonization of the Americas reached the mainland during the reign of Hueyi Tlatoani Moctezuma II (Montezuma II). In 1521, Hernán Cortés , along with an allied army of other Native Americans, conquered the Aztecs through siege warfare, psychological warfare, direct combat, and the spread of disease.