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Jean de Brunhoff Jean de Brunhoff
Jean de Brunhoff , 1899-1937, French author and illustrator of children's books, b. Paris. He wrote and illustrated The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant (1932), the tale of a kind, gentle, elegantly attired elephant king in the Edwardian mold. Babar, in fear for himself and his family, flees... Read more
Babar Babar
Babar the elephant hero of a series of picture-books, written and drawn by Jean de Brunhoff (1899–1937) and then by his son Laurent (1925– ); Babar as a young elephant has lived with people, but has returned to the jungle to become king of the elephants with his cousin and... Read more
Babur Babur
Babur [Turk.,=lion], 1483-1530, founder of the Mughal empire of India. His full name was Zahir ud-Din Muhammad. A descendant of Timur (Tamerlane) and of Jenghiz Khan, he succeeded (1494) to the principality of Fergana in central Asia. His early life was spent in an ultimately unsuccessful... Read more
Francis Poulenc Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc , 1899-1963, French composer and pianist. He was one of Les Six , a group of French composers who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Erik Satie . The spontaneity and lyricism of Poulenc's style are best adapted to small forms—piano pieces such as Mouvements... Read more
Wanda Landowska Wanda Landowska
Wanda Landowska , 1879-1959, Polish-French harpsichordist and pianist, studied at the Warsaw Conservatory. She taught piano (1900-1912) at the Schola Cantorum, Paris, and harpsichord (1912-19) at the Berlin Hochschule. She established her École de Musique ancienne in Paris in 1925. In 1940,... Read more
nocturne nocturne
nocturne [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Chopin in the writing of his 19 nocturnes for piano. Others who have written nocturnes include Gabriel Fauré and... Read more
Shirley Horn Shirley Horn
Shirley Horn 1934– Jazz singer, pianist Played Piano in Grandma Read more
Les Six Les Six
Les Six , a short-lived group of six young early 20th-century French musicians. They were united by their adverse reactions to the extravagant impressionism of French composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel and the overwrought romanticism of Germans such as Richard Wagner and... Read more
Rhone-Poulenc S.A Rhone-Poulenc S.A
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Sir Donald Francis Tovey Sir Donald Francis Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey , 1875-1940, English pianist and musicologist, grad. Oxford, 1898. As a pianist he appeared in England and on the Continent after 1900 and in the United States in 1925 and 1927. He was professor of music (1914-40) at the Univ. of Edinburgh. Although he was an accomplished... Read more

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