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Ernest Reyer
Ernest Reyer , 1823-1909, French composer and critic, whose name originally was Louis Étienne Ernest Rey. Largely self-taught, he was strongly influenced by Berlioz, whom he succeeded as critic of the Journal des débats. He composed little besides operas, the most successful of which...
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Ernest Augustus
Ernest Augustus 1771-1851, king of Hanover (1837-51) and duke of Cumberland, fifth son of George III of England. At the accession of his niece Queen Victoria, the crowns of England and Hanover were separated, since succession in Hanover was only through the male line. Ernest Augustus had been assoc...
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Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton 1860-1946, American writer and artist, b. England. His name was originally Ernest Seton Thompson. His stories and paintings of wildlife, especially Wild Animals I Have Known (1898, new ed. 1942), were standard works on nature study and wood lore for boys and girls in the fir...
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André Ernest Modeste Grétry
André Ernest Modeste Grétry , 1741-1813, French operatic composer. Enormously prolific and successful in his lifetime, he was a master of the 18th-century opéra comique. His works combined the melodic grace of Italian opera with the imagination, delicacy, and dramatic interest o...
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Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson 1873-1939, American landscape painter, b. San Francisco. He studied art in Kansas City, in New York City under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and in Paris. On returning to New York he joined the independent artists' group called the Eight . His impressionist landscapes won him many awa...
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Ernest Newman
Ernest Newman 1868-1959, English music critic. He joined the staff of the Manchester Guardian in 1905, the Birmingham Daily Post in 1906, the London Observer in 1919, and The Times of London in 1920. Outstanding among his writings is his Life of Richard Wagner (4 vol., 1933-46, repr. 1976...
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Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton
Ernest Thompson Sinton Walton 1903-95, Irish physicist, educated at Methodist College (Belfast), Trinity College (Dublin), and Cambridge. He became a fellow of Trinity College in 1934 and professor of natural and experimental philosophy there in 1946. The 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded joi...
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Saxe-Coburg
Saxe-Coburg , Ger. Sachsen-Coburg, former duchy, central Germany. A possession of the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin , it was given by Ernest the Pious (d. 1675) of Saxe-Gotha to his son Albert. On Albert's death (1699) it passed to his younger brother, John Ernest, duke of Saxe-Saalfe...
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Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Ansermet , 1883-1969, Swiss conductor. For several years he was a high-school mathematics teacher. He began his conducting career in Germany and toured with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1915 to 1923. In 1918 he founded the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva and remained its director ...
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Ernest Boyd
Ernest Boyd 1887-1946, American critic and author, b. Dubin, Ireland. In the British consular service, he resigned in 1920 and settled in New York City, where he became an important literary figure. He contributed editorials to periodicals, wrote criticism on European literature, and translated mod...
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