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Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos
Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos (May 1, 1860 – May 19, 1951) was a French pianist. Born in Toulouse, she studied first there and then at the Paris conservatory, where she would one day teach. Several composers dedicated compositions to her, and she toured Europe and North America and produced recordings at the turn of the 20th century. Early life Marie-Aimée Miclos was born in Toulouse.Marie Roger-Miclos
Sophie Drinker Institut.
Hugues Imbert
"Mme. Roger-Miclos"
''Guide musical'' (February 25, 1894): 196–198.
She studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse and the

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Léopold-Émile Reutlinger
Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (17 March 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a Peruvian-born French photographer. He came from a successful German-Jewish family of photographers. His uncle, Charles Reutlinger, founded the family's photography business, and his father was the photographer Émile Reutlinger. His son, Jean Reutlinger, was also a prominent photographer. Life Born in Callao, Peru, Reutlinger became a photographer like his uncle and his father. He lived in Callao until 1883 and then, at his father's insistence, entered the studio in Paris, which his father had been running alone since 1880. He took over the studio from his father after 1890. Like his uncle, he took photographs of popular actresses and opera singers from the beginning. Soon, he also took fashion and advertising photos and photographed stars of the entertainment venues, including the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère, both in Paris. The photographs were either sold to magazines and newspapers or reprodu ...
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1860 Births
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Musicians From Toulouse
A musician is someone who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate a person who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters, who write both music and lyrics for songs A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usuall ...; conductors, who direct a musical performance; and performers, who perform for an audience. A music performer is generally either a singer (also known as a vocalist), who provides vocals, or an instrumentalist, who plays a musical instrument. Musicians may perform on their own or as part of a Musical ensemble, group, band or orchestra. Musicians can specialize in a musical genre, though many play a variety of different styles and blend or cross said ...
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19th-century French Classical Pianists
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ...
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1951 Deaths
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Charles-Amable Battaille
Charles-Amable Battaille (30 September 1822 – 2 May 1872) was a French operatic bass. Appreciated both for his voice and his acting skills, he premiered the main bass roles for the works represented at the Opéra-Comique between 1848 and 1857, and is especially notable as the first singer of the role of Peter the Great in Meyerbeer's ''L'Étoile du nord'' (1854). Life Born in Nantes, son of a doctor, he studied medicine in Caen where he was admitted as a doctor. He returned to Nantes, but decided to enter the Conservatoire de Paris in 1845 where he was a student of Manuel Garcia. François-Joseph Fétis and Arthur Pougin, « Charles-Amable Battaille », ''Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique : Supplément et complément'', vol. 1, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1878, p. 53-5Read online He won first prizes in singing, opera and opéra comique in 1847 Andrew Gann, « Charles-Amable Battaille », ''Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe sià ...
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Africa (Saint-Saëns)
''Africa'', Opus number, Op. 89, is a Fantasia (music), fantasia for piano and orchestra by Camille Saint-Saëns. Composed in 1891 during a stay in Egypt, this Piano concerto, concertante piece is marked by its mosaic-like structure and interplay of various themes, blending African musical elements with European Musical composition, compositional techniques. Written during a period of personal grief following his mother's death, Saint-Saëns dedicated ''Africa'' to the pianist Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos, to whom he had pledged a new composition. The work is held in a single Movement (music), movement and calls for outstanding technical virtuosity, agility, and a certain lightness of touch from the soloist, also reflecting Saint-Saëns's own formidable pianistic skill. The premiere on 25 October 1891 was met with great acclaim, and subsequent performances took place around the globe, Saint-Saëns even considering it a signature work. History Following the loss of his mother i ...
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (, , 9October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns), Second Piano Concerto (1868), the Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns), First Cello Concerto (1872), ''Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), Danse macabre'' (1874), the opera ''Samson and Delilah (opera), Samson and Delilah'' (1877), the Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, Paris, La Madeleine, the official church of the Second French Empire, Fr ...
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