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  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand Hiller
    Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, writer and music director. Ferdinand Hiller was born...
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  • Friedrich Adam Hiller (c. 1767–1812), German composer, son of Johann Adam Hiller Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), German composer (born Ferdinand Hildesheim)...
    2 KB (275 words) - 15:07, 11 December 2023
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    under the direction of Ferdinand Hiller. Another Wagner detractor was the French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, who wrote to Hiller after attending Wagner's...
    120 KB (14,184 words) - 05:16, 3 August 2024
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    Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. (UK: /ˈmɑːrkɒs/, US: /-koʊs, -kɔːs/, Tagalog: [ˈmaɾkɔs]; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the...
    222 KB (18,492 words) - 17:40, 3 August 2024
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    calling its villain Bertram "a poor devil". When his friend the composer Ferdinand Hiller suggested in conversation to Mendelssohn that he looked rather like...
    96 KB (12,122 words) - 20:34, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to...
    96 KB (11,832 words) - 19:39, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand Porsche
    Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-Bohemian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG. He is best known...
    38 KB (4,208 words) - 02:44, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, dictator and kleptocrat who served as the tenth...
    377 KB (37,306 words) - 08:38, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East...
    48 KB (5,636 words) - 20:54, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand VII
    Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808...
    32 KB (2,837 words) - 18:52, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles-Valentin Alkan
    2017. Hiller, Ferdinand, ed. R. Sietz (1958–70). Aus Ferdinand Hiller's Briefwechsel (1826–1861): Beitraege zu einer Biographie Ferdinand Hillers (7 vols...
    77 KB (10,241 words) - 16:07, 10 July 2024
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    Leland (Hans Breitmann). Vol. 4. London: William Heinemann, 1893. Hiller, Ferdinand. Erinnerungsblätter (Leaves of Remembrance). Köln (Cologne), 1884...
    19 KB (2,748 words) - 16:08, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Psalm 93
    Mondonville and Jules Van Nuffel, among others. Heinrich Schütz and Ferdinand Hiller composed settings in German. Handel used verses from the psalm for...
    18 KB (1,693 words) - 01:55, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Die Zerstörung Jerusalems (oratorio)
    Die Zerstörung Jerusalems (oratorio) (category Compositions by Ferdinand Hiller)
    oratorio by Ferdinand Hiller to a libretto by Salomon Steinheim largely based on biblical texts from the Book of Jeremiah and the Psalms. Hiller composed...
    5 KB (547 words) - 23:56, 4 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
    Ferdinand I (Italian: Ferdinando I; 12 January 1751 – 4 January 1825) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1816 until his death. Before that he had been...
    24 KB (1,700 words) - 12:27, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michael Beer (poet)
    his last years in Paris where he was acquainted with Heinrich Heine, Ferdinand Hiller and Felix Mendelssohn, who was an occasional chess-partner. Beer's...
    6 KB (688 words) - 02:18, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
    Charles William Ferdinand (German: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand; 9 October 1735 – 10 November 1806) was the prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
    38 KB (4,071 words) - 16:29, 10 June 2024
  • the music publisher Johann André, in 1792–93. Other pupils include Ferdinand Hiller, Désiré Magnus, and Aloys Schmitt. In 1805, Vollweiler moved to London...
    3 KB (339 words) - 07:37, 17 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Johann Adam Hiller
    composer Friedrich Adam Hiller (c. 1767–1812), but he was not related to the musician Ferdinand Hiller. A theme from Hiller's opera Der Aerndtekranz (1771)...
    11 KB (1,432 words) - 06:49, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    Abdul-Jabbar (/kəˈriːm æbˈduːl dʒəˈbɑːr/ kə-REEM ab-DOOL jə-BAR; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. (/ælˈsɪndər/ al-SIN-dər); April 16, 1947) is an American...
    165 KB (15,179 words) - 17:18, 31 July 2024
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