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Seelewig or Das geistliche Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel genant Seelewig (The Sacred Forest Poem or Play of Rejoicing called Seelewig) is an opera in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue by the German composer Sigmund Theophil Staden.
Oxford was the Royalist headquarters, home to Charles I and his new Royal parliament. It was therefore a target for the Parliamentarian army, who laid siege in 1644. This map shows the city's defences as well as the Parliamentarian counter-works to the east.
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The most famous German-born opera composer of the era, Handel, wrote four operas for Hamburg at the beginning of his career but soon moved on to write opera seria in Italy and England. [5] In 1738, the Theater am Gänsemarkt went bankrupt and the fortunes of serious opera in German went into decline for the next few decades.
Events from the year 1644 in England. This is the third year of the First English Civil War , fought between Roundheads ( Parliamentarians ) and Cavaliers ( Royalist supporters of King Charles I ).
Weber's masterpiece was the first great German Romantic opera. [48] 1823 Euryanthe (von Weber). Despite its weak libretto, Euryanthe had a great influence on later German operas, including Wagner's Lohengrin. [49] 1823 Semiramide (Rossini). This is the last opera that Rossini composed in Italy. [50] 1825 La dame blanche (François-Adrien ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas (died 1704) [2] December 23 – Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Peruvian organist and composer (died 1728) date unknown. Maria Cattarina Calegari, Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun (died after 1675) [3] Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, Czech organist and composer (died ...