Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Standard Name: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | As a student she sang in the Oxford Bach Choir
. Mozart
was then unfashionable, and Kennedy boldly defended him against the prejudice of the choir's director. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 55 |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | In the years between the 1926 staging of The Constant Nymph and the appearance of Escape Me Never!, MK
co-wrote with Basil Dean
the play Come With Me (1934), and adapted Charles Dickens
's... |
Education | Vernon Lee | Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach
, who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms
, Goethe
... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian
, which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni |
Intertextuality and Influence | Candia McWilliam | All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists McWilliam, Candia. A Case of Knives. Bloomsbury. 187 |
Literary responses | Toni Morrison | O'Brien
, however, was overall dissatisfied with Jazz. She felt something was lacking, and missed the emotional nexus, the moment shorn of all artifice that brings us headlong into the deepest recesses of feeling... |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Peter Hall
, its first director, likened the play to Mozart
's music for its precision, lyricism, and sudden descents into pain which are quickly over because of a healthy sense of the ridiculous. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Leisure and Society | Sheenagh Pugh | She lists her interests as language, history, northern landscapes . . . snooker, mortality, cyberspace, and especially people. Pugh, Sheenagh. “Sheenagh Pugh”. Yahoo! GeoCities. |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | AR
published an English translation of Mozart
's opera Cosi fan tutte. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80: 358 |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | AR
's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante
and Eugenio Montale
. She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover
, who later... |
Textual Production | George Sand | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Noel Streatfeild | Apple Bough, 1962 (illustrated by Margery Gill
, published as Traveling Shoes in the USA), is remarkable from a feminist point of view for the name of the youngest child in the central family... |
Reception | Jane Taylor | Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
published her fifth and least-known novel, After the Death of Don Juan, a story related to but differing widely from Mozart
's opera Don Giovanni. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 173-4 |
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