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La Paloma", "The Dove" in English, is a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was written by the Spanish Basque composer Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) around 1860 after a visit to Cuba.
List of English songs by George Frideric Handel HWV Title Voice Composed Notes Text 226 Hunting Song or The morning is charming Tenor 1743 Voice in treble clef. Autograph, which survives, presented to Legh in 1751 by Charles Legh. Composed in London 228-1 The unhappy Lovers: As Celia's fatal arrows flew Soprano c. 1730 228-2
In the UK, where the group took "Paloma Blanca" to a number 10 chart peak, the recording by Jonathan King achieved number five. [ 42 ] "I Am a Cider Drinker" is a cover version of the song created by The Wurzels in 1976, which contains a number of references to rural West Country life, including scrumpy , rabbit stew , combine harvesters and ...
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
Handel was a gifted organist, and his organ concertos were a "draw" to his oratorios. Handel's organ playing supplied an element of virtuosity which was probably missing from the singing because his oratorios were written for less highly trained singers than the operas. We know that he would have improvised at the organ to some extent. [2]
The Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, is a work for solo piano written by Johannes Brahms in 1861. It consists of a set of twenty-five variations and a concluding fugue, all based on a theme from George Frideric Handel's Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in B ♭ major, HWV 434. They are known as his Handel Variations.
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George Baker Selection was a pop-rock band from Assendelft, the Netherlands.The band is best-known for the 1969 song "Little Green Bag"; the 1975 world-wide hit "Paloma Blanca" (one of the most played songs in history), and the 1985 Pan European hit "Santa Lucia by Night".