Kurt Weill

Biography Early Years Kurt Weill was born on 2 March 1900 in Dessau, Germany. The son of a cantor, Weill displayed musical talent early on. By the time he was twelve, he was composing and mounting concerts and dramatic works in the hall above his family\'s quarters in the Gemeindehaus. During the First World War, the teenage Weill was conscripted as a substitute accompanist at the Dessau Court Theater. After studying theory and composition with Albert Bing, Kapellmeister of the Theater, Weill enrolled at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, but found the conservative training and the infrequent lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck too stifling. After a season as conductor of the newly formed municipal theater in Lüdenscheid, he returned to Berlin and was accepted into Ferruccio Busoni\'s master class in composition. He supported himself through a wide range of musical occupations, from playing organ in a synagogue to piano in a Bierkeller, by tutoring students (including Claudio Arrau and...

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Iohann Mayer

An emissary of the Queen Christina of Sweden to the khan of the Tartars Islam Giray the 3rd, Iohann Mayer made a journey through Moldavia during May 1651. He was sent to accompany the Tartar messenger who had brought to the queen the letter of the khan that contained proposals of common operation against Poland and he was to hand over to the khan the answer of the queen as well. He passed through The White Citadel for the first time in December 1650 on his way towards Crimea. Now, in the summer of the next year, he was coming back on the same route and was finding again the same boatmen he had used six months earlier, on leaving. One cannot be aware of any other details of his winter journey towards Crimea, no other details about his itinerary through Moldavia he is most likely to have used to make his way to the khan` s court. His journey diary is preceded with the words: These are those that happened and occurred during my journey to Bakhchisaray and during the period I spent there,...

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Nicolae Sirius

Nicolae Sirius (n. 1950, Lupsanu, Calarasi) este poet si dramaturg. A parasit România în 1986. A trait sase luni într-un lagar din Austria. Devine cetatean australian din 1988. În 1995, ajunge în Germania, împreuna cu sotia, Hiroko Minakami, o valoroasa pianista japoneza. Câtiva ani mai târziu (1990), se stabileste în Japonia, unde traieste în prezent, alaturi de sotie si de cele doua fetite ale lor. A debutat cu poezie în Tribuna Ialomitei (1968), publicând apoi versuri în Luceafarul (1974) si în Caietul Debutantului (Editura Albatros, 1979). Consiliul Australian de Cultura si Arta i-a oferit doua burse guvernamentale (1989, 1990). Piesa sa de teatru Ultimul dictator, Cain, Abel si Dumnezeu a fost jucata în limba engleza de La Mama Theatre, în colaborare cu Melbourne International Festival (1990) iar Court House din Melbourne i-a pus în scena Castelul (1993). Balada timpului ce plânge, piesa de teatru scrisa în lagar, în 1986, a fost publicata în româna si, sub titlul Times weeps, în...

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Rahel Khalfi

Née à Tel –Aviv, où elle vit toujours. Fille de Miriam Baruch-Khalfi – sculpteur et poète, Rahel Khalfi a publié six livres de poèmes, dont Poèmes (שירים), Poèmes sous-marins et autres (תת ימים ואחרים שירים), Chute libre נפילה חופשית , Matière חומר , נוסעת סמויה (Voyageuse clandestine) et un recueil anthologique – Le plexus solaire - réunissant des poèmes publiés entre 1975 et 1999. Aussi bien pour ses activités littéraires que pour ses activités dans les médias - en tant que rédactrice d’émissions à la radio, réalisatrice de films de court métrage, enseignement dans le domaine de la cinématographie - Rahel Khalfi a reçu des prix en Israël et à l’étranger.

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Iñigo López de Mendoza

Don Íñigo López de Mendoza y de la Vega, Marquis of Santillana (August 19, 1398 - March 25, 1458) was a Castilian poet who held an important position in society and Literature during the reign of John II of Castile. He was born at Carrión de los Condes in Old Castile to a noble family which figured prominently in the arts. His grandfather, Pedro González de Mendoza, and his father, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Admiral of Castile, were both poets with close ties to the great literary figures of the time: Chancellor Lopez de Ayala, Fernán Pérez de Guzmán and Gomez Manrique. His mother, Doña Leonor de la Vega, was a wealthy heiress belonging to the House of de la Vega. Lopez de Mendoza's father died when he was five years old, which brought his family into financial difficulties. Part of his childhood was spent living in his grandmother's household, and in the home of his uncle, the future Archbishop of Toledo. As a youth, he spent time in the court king Alfonso V of Aragón, where...

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Mellin de Saint-Gelais

Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1490-1558), poet francez renascentist. *** Mellin de Saint-Gelais (or Melin de Saint-Gelays or Sainct-Gelais; c. 1491 – October, 1558) was a French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France. He was born at Angoulême, most likely the natural son of Jean de Saint-Gelais, marquis de Montlieu, a member of the Angoumois gentry. His forename was the French-Norman malapropism of the British wizard Merlin featured in Arthurian legends. He was close to his uncle Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1466-1502), bishop of Angoulême since 1494, himself a poet who had translated the Aeneid into French. Mellin, who had studied at Bologna and Padua, had the reputation of being doctor, astrologer and musician as well as poet. He returned to France around 1523, and soon gained favour at the court of the art-loving Valois ruler Francis I by his skill in light verse. He was made almoner to the Dauphin, abbot of Reclus in the diocese of Troyes and librarian...

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Pavel Coruț

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Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade, né le 2 juin 1740 à Paris et mort le 2 décembre 1814 à l'asile de Charenton, est un écrivain et un philosophe français, longtemps voué à l’anathème en raison de la part accordée dans son œuvre à un érotisme de la violence et de la cruauté (fustigations, tortures, incestes, viols, sodomie, etc). Le néologisme « sadisme », formé d’après son nom, est apparu dès 1834 dans le Dictionnaire universel de Boiste comme « aberration épouvantable de la débauche : système monstrueux et antisocial qui révolte la nature ». C’est Krafft-Ebing, médecin allemand, qui a donné à la fin du XIXe siècle un statut scientifique au mot sadisme, comme antonyme de masochisme pour désigner une perversion sexuelle dans laquelle la satisfaction est liée à la souffrance ou à l’humiliation infligée à autrui. Occultée et clandestine pendant tout le XIXe siècle, son œuvre littéraire est réhabilitée au XXe siècle, malgré une censure officielle qui dure jusqu’en 1960, la...

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