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Abraham in c. 1948.

Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English musicologist, editor and music critic. He was particularly respected as an authority on Russian music.

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Gerald Abraham

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Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English musicologist, editor and music critic. He was particularly respected...

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Gerald Abrahams

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Gerald Abrahams (15 April 1907 – 15 March 1980) was an English chess player, author, and barrister. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess...

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Night on Bald Mountain

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Bare Mountain music which Mussorgsky prepared for Sorochintsy Fair. — Gerald Abraham, musicologist and an authority on Mussorgsky, 1945 It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's...

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Oxford History of Western Music

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the Renaissance (1300–1540) (ed. Gerald Abraham, Anselm Hughes, 1960) The Age of Humanism (1540–1630) (ed. Gerald Abraham, 1968) Opera and Church Music (1630–1750)...

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Gerald Ford

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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (/ˈdʒɛrəld/ JERR-əld; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the...

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Frank Llewellyn Harrison

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vol. 3: Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300–1540, ed. Anselm Hughes & Gerald Abraham (London, 1960), pp. 82–106 & 303–348. "Faburden in Practice", in: Musica...

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Diabelli Variations

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reply. "Eloquent pauses", in von Lenz's words. "Absurd silences", for Gerald Abraham. Barry Cooper sees it as a humorous piece, in which Beethoven "seems...

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Romanticism

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Thoreau Fagundes Varela Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder William Wordsworth Gerald Abraham M. H. Abrams Donald Ault Jacques Barzun Frederick C. Beiser Ian Bent...

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Pictures at an Exhibition

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design for the décor of a picturesque scene in the ballet Trilby." Gerald Abraham provides the following details: "Trilby or The Demon of the Heath, a...

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Alexander Scriabin

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even banned Scriabin's music from broadcasts in the 1930s. In 1935, Gerald Abraham called Scriabin a "sad pathological case, erotic and egotistic to the...

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James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music

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by lectures and other appropriate instruction". The first holder was Gerald Abraham, who had been director of the BBC's Gramophone Department. The chair...

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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University Press. pp. 348–349. Cooper, Martin (1946). "The Symphonies". In Gerald Abraham (ed.). Music of Tchaikovsky. New York: W. W. Norton. OCLC 385829. Druckenbrod...

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Modest Mussorgsky

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after the premiere, views on Mussorgsky's music changed drastically. Gerald Abraham, a musicologist, and an authority on Mussorgsky: "As a musical translator...

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Musical Opinion

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British writers on music of the time. Regular contributors included Gerald Abraham, Eric Blom, Dmitri Calvocoressi, Eaglefield Hull, Alfred Kalmus, Basil...

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Deaths in March 1988

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Venda. Tan Siew Sin, 71, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance. Gerald Abraham, 84, English musicologist, editor and music critic. Billy Butterfield...

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Gerald Shur

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Protection Program. Gerald Shur was born on October 18, 1933, in The Bronx, New York, the son of Rose (Nissell) Shur, a homemaker, and, Abraham, general manager...

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Manfred Symphony

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Music of Tchaikovsky (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1946), ed. Gerald Abraham. ISBN n/a. Tchaikovsky Research MP3 files of excerpts from the 4 movements...

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Abraham Beame

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Abraham David Beame (né Birnbaum; March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001) was an American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who was the...

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Robert Forbes Combe

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Combe won the tournament ahead of several strong masters, including Gerald Abrahams, William Winter, Harry Golombek and Stuart Milner-Barry. He was the...

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Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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List of Works, p. 279 ed. Abraham, Gerald, Music of Tchaikovsky (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1946). ISBN n/a. Abraham, Gerald, "Operas and Incidental...

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Abrahams

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physicist Emanuel M. Abrahams (1866–1913), American businessman and politician Esther Abrahams (1771–1846), English criminal Gerald Abrahams (1907–1980), British...

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