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Cornet (other)
A cornet is a brass instrument that closely resembles the trumpet. Cornet or Kornet may also refer to: Military * Cornet (rank), a commissioned officer rank in cavalry troops, once the bearer of the Troop's flag or Cornet * 9M133 Kornet, a Russian anti-tank guided missile * ''Fähnrich'', an Austrian and German officer candidate rank since 1899, previously a Cornet (who carried the cornet/flag) c. 1480 in Germany Name * Adele Passy-Cornet (1838–1915), née Cornet, German opera singer * Alizé Cornet (born 1990), French tennis player * Bruno Cornet (born 1977), Paraguayan fencer * Franziska Cornet (1808–1870), German opera singer * George Cornet (1877–1952), Scottish water polo player * Henri Cornet (1884–1941), French cyclist * Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet (1815–1882), Dutch painter * Jan Cornet (born 1982). Spanish actor * Jordi Cornet (1965–2021). Spanish politician * Joseph-Aurélien Cornet (1919–2004), Belgian ethnologist * Julius Cornet (1793–1860), Austrian oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornet
The cornet (, ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B, though there is also a soprano cornet in E and cornets in A and C. All are unrelated to the Renaissance and early Baroque cornett. History The cornet was derived from the posthorn by applying rotary valves to it in the 1820s, in France. However, by the 1830s, Parisian makers were using piston valves. Cornets first appeared as separate instrumental parts in 19th-century French compositions.''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Micropedia, Volume III, William Benton, Chicago Illinois, 1974, p. 156 The instrument could not have been developed without the improvement of piston valves by Silesian horn players Friedrich Blühmel (or Blümel) and Heinrich Stölzel, in the early 19th century. These two instrument makers almost simultaneously invented valves, though it is likely th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Cornet
Nicolas Cornet (Amiens, 1572 – Paris, 1663) was a French Catholic theologian. Life He studied at the Jesuit college of Amiens, took the doctorate of theology at the University of Paris, 1626, and soon became president of the Collège de Navarre and syndic of the University of Paris, Sorbonne (faculty of theology). In this latter capacity he reported to the assembly of the Sorbonne, 1649, seven propositions, two taken from Antoine Arnauld's ''Fréquente Communion'' and five from the ''Augustinus (Jansenist book), Augustinus'' of Jansenius. In spite of strong opposition created by members of the faculty who, with , appealed to Parliament and by Jansenists like De Bourseis in "Propositiones de gratiâ in Sorbonnæ facultate prope diem examinandæ, propositæ Cal. Junii 1649", and Arnauld in "Considérations sur l'entreprise faite par M. Cornet, syndic de la faculté, en l'assemblée de Juillet 1649", he succeeded in having the Assembly of the Clergy of 1650 denounce the five p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornet Bay
Cornet Bay is a bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ... in the U.S. state of Washington. Cornet Bay was named after John Cornet, a pioneer settler. References Bays of Island County, Washington Bays of Washington (state) {{IslandCountyWA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sălătrucel River
Sălătrucel is a commune located in Vâlcea County, Muntenia Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the seldom used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in R ..., Romania. It is composed of four villages: Pătești, Sălătrucel, Seaca and Șerbănești. References Communes in Vâlcea County Localities in Muntenia {{Vâlcea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holod (river)
The Holod is a right tributary of the river Crișul Negru in Romania. It discharges into the Crișul Negru in Râpa. Its length is and its basin size is . A. Indrieș, A. Indrieș and R. Indrieș The upper reach of the river, upstream of the village of Luncasprie is known as the Vida. The Vida dam is located on this river. The Holod flows through the villages Luncasprie, Sitani, |
Bucureșci (river)
The Bucureșci is a left tributary of the river Crișul Alb in Romania. It discharges into the Crișul Alb in Crișcior Crișcior ( hu, Kristyor, german: Kreischquell) is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Eu .... e-calauza.ro Its length is and its basin size is . References Rivers of Romania Rivers of Hunedoara County {{Hunedoara-river-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaideeni
Vaideeni is a commune located in Vâlcea County, Oltenia, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Cerna, Cornetu, Izvoru Rece, Marița and Vaideeni. Natives * Dan Adamescu Dan Grigore Adamescu (20 September 1948 – 24 January 2017) was a Romanian businessman who was the founder of The Nova Group, and was the second richest Romanian in 2013. In 2016, he was sentenced to four years and four months in jail for brib ... References Communes in Vâlcea County Localities in Oltenia {{Vâlcea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poduri
Poduri is a commune in Bacău County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Bucșești, Cernu, Cornet, Negreni, Poduri, Prohozești and Valea Șoșii. The Poduri archeological site of the late Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture is significant due to its thirteen habitation levels that were constructed on top of each other over many years. Geography Poduri sits in the central-western part of the county, on the right bank of Tazlăul Sărat river. It lies around 4 km (2.5 miles) southeast of its nearest town Moinești. It is crossed by county road DJ117, which links west of Moinești (where it ends in DN2G) and south of Berzunți and Livezi (where it ends in DN11). Natives *Eugen Chirnoagă *Platon Chirnoagă Platon Chirnoagă (October 24, 1894 – March 29, 1974) was a Romanian brigadier-general during World War II. Chirnoagă was born in 1894 in Poduri, Bacău County, one of eight children of Gheorghe Chirnoagă, a teacher, and his wife, Olimp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brusturi, Bihor
Brusturi ( hu, Tataros) is a commune in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ... with a population of 3,469 people. It is composed of eight villages: Brusturi, Cuieșd (''Kövesd''), Loranta (''Loránta''), Orvișele (''Orvisel''), Păulești (''Felsőtótfalu''), Picleu (''Szóvárhegy''), Țigăneștii de Criș (''Cigányfalva'') and Varasău (''Varaszótanya''). References Brusturi Localities in Crișana {{Bihor-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Severin Cornet
Severin Cornet ( – March 1582) was a Franco-Flemish singer, conductor and composer. He was born about 1530 in Valenciennes and studied music in Naples. After completing his education, he served for a while at Mechlin, took a position as singer in Antwerp, and later a position as music director for the Archduke in Innsbruck where he worked from 1572 until 1581. He composed a number of vocal works, including polyphonic madrigal A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number o ...s and French chansons in the Italian style, and published a book of '' villaneche'' in Antwerp in 1563 with Genoese sponsorship. Cornet died in Antwerp. References External links *Parmi di star by Severin Cornet, The King's Singers, from YouTube 1530s births 1582 deaths Dutch male classical composers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón Gómez Cornet
Ramón Gómez Cornet (1 March 1898 - 9 April 1964) was an Argentine painter. He was one of the forerunners of the modern Argentine painting. Biography Ramón Gómez Cornet was the son of Ramon Gomez, former Minister of Interior on Hipólito Yrigoyen's government and National Senator for Santiago del Estero province, and Rosario Palacio Achával Cornet. Began his studies at the Normal School in his province to continue them in the Colegio Marista of Lujan later passing to the School Charles Magne. Gómez showed his artistic abilities since a young age: in his early twenties he drew portraits of his maternal grandparents, Manuel Cornet Diaz - Deputy for the National Congress in 1882 - and his wife Doña Rosario Palacio Achával, found today in the Historical Museum of Santiago del Estero. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Córdoba, and then traveled by the main art centers of Europe, where he lived for several years, and Africa, gathering experiences that, while tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimon De Cornet
Raimon de Cornet (, also spelled ''Ramon de Cornet''; floruit, fl. 1324–1340) was a fourteenth-century Toulousain priest, friar, Philologist, grammarian, poet, and troubadour. He was a prolific author of verse; more than forty of his poems survive, most in Occitan language, Occitan but two in Latin language, Latin. He also wrote letters, a didactic poem (sometimes classed as the last ''ensenhamen''), a grammar, and some treatises on computation (i.e. practical mathematics). He was the "last of the troubadours" and represented ''l'esprit le plus brillant'' (the most brilliant spirit) of the Consistori del Gay Saber, "Toulousain School". He appears in contemporary documents with the titles ''Sir, En'' (sir, also ''mossen'') and ''Frare'' (brother, also ''fray'', ''frai'', or ''frayre''). Raimon's ''Masterpiece, magnum opus'' is his ''Doctrinal de trobar'' (doctrines of composition) composed around 1324 and dedicated to Peter, Count of Ribagorza. The ''Doctrinal'' follows the gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
