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Rákóczi March
The "Rákóczi March" (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Rákóczi-induló''), sometimes known as the "Hungarian March" was one of the unofficial state anthems of Hungary before Ferenc Kölcsey wrote the Himnusz. It was most likely composed by Nikolaus Scholl in 1820. The melody was later used in many famous compositions, most notably: La damnation de Faust (Hector Berlioz) and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 (Franz Liszt). Origins The "Rákóczi March" originates from the "Rákóczi Song" (Hungarian: ''Rákóczi-nóta),'' a melody that first appeared in the mid-17th century with various lyrics. The first widely known lyrics of this song is a Kuruc poem that was a lament complaining about the misfortune of the Magyars and the Habsburg oppression, and it called back Francis II Rákóczi, Francis Rákóczi II, the leader of the Hungarian uprising between 1703 and 1711, to save his people. Although tradition says that this version was the favourite song of Francis Rákóczi II and his cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Damnation De Faust
''La Damnation de Faust'' (English: ''The Damnation of Faust''), Op. 24 is a French musical composition for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a ''légende dramatique'' (" dramatic legend"). It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846. Background and composition history Berlioz read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's '' Faust, Part One'' in 1828, in Gérard de Nerval's translation. he recalled in his ''Memoirs''. : "...this marvellous book fascinated me from the first...I could not put it down. I read it incessantly, at meals, in the theatre, in the street." The work so impressed Berlioz that he composed a suite entitled ''Eight Scenes from Faust'', which became his Opus 1 (1829), though he later recalled all the copies of it he could find. He returned to the material in 1845, to make a larger work, with some additional text by Almire Gandonnière ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (November 5, 1989) was a Russian and American pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, timbre, and the public excitement engendered by his playing. Life and early career Horowitz was born on October 1, 1903, in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine).Schonberg, 1992. According to Nicolas Slonimsky, Horowitz was born in Berdichev, a city near Zhitomir in the Volhynian Governorate. However, his birth certificate states that Kiev was his birthplace. He was the youngest of four children of Samuil Horowitz and Sophia (''née'' Bodik), who were Jewish assimilation, assimilated Jews. His father was a well-to-do electrical engineer and a distributor of electric motors for German manufacturers. His grandfather Joachim was a merchant (and an arts-supporter), belonging to the First Merchant's Guild, which exempted him from having to reside in the Pale of Settlement. In order to make him appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Grande Vadrouille
''La Grande Vadrouille'' (; ), originally released in the United Kingdom as ''Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!'', is a 1966 French-British comedy film directed by Gérard Oury about French civilians who, in 1942, help the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber that has been shot down over Paris make their way through German-occupied France to safe territory. Plot On a summer day in 1942, a lost RAF bomber strays over Paris and is shot down by German flak. After agreeing to rendezvous in the Turkish baths at the Grand Mosque of Paris, the crew parachute out, but only three evade capture. Sir Reginald lands in the Vincennes Zoo and, given civilian clothes by a friendly zookeeper, heads for the baths. Peter Cunningham lands on the platform of a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, from where they escape the Germans and are hidden by a puppet show operator, Juliette; Augustin goes to the baths on Cunningham's behalf. Alan MacIntosh lands on the Opéra Garnier, where he is reluctantly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Kramer
Leopold Kramer (29 September 1869 – 29 October 1942) was an Austrian stage actor, stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Eye of the Buddha'' (1919) * ''Ungarische Rhapsodie'' (1928) * ''Frauenarzt Dr. Schäfer'' (1928) * ''Die geheime Macht'' (1928) * ''Sajenko the Soviet'' (1928) * ''The Woman on the Rack'' (1928) * ''Honour Thy Mother'' (1928) * ''Hungarian Rhapsody (1928 film), Hungarian Rhapsody'' (1928) * ''Was kostet Liebe?'' (1929) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) * ''The Ringer (1932 film), The Ringer'' (1932) * ''Ekstase'' (1933) * ''Two Good Comrades'' (1933) * ''The Racokzi March'' (1933) * ''Rakoczy-Marsch'' (1935) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 1869 births 1942 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian male stage actors Austrian male silent film actors Male actors from Prague Jewish Austrian male actors 20th-century Austrian male actors Actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Horn
Camilla Martha Horn (25 April 1903 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions. Biography The daughter of a civil servant, Horn was educated as a dressmaker and worked at Erfurt. In 1925, together with Marlene Dietrich, she worked as an extra in the German film '' Madame Wants No Children'', and later she was seen in a musical review by director Alexander Korda. She made her great breakthrough in 1926, when she replaced Lillian Gish as "Gretchen" in F. W. Murnau's UFA production of ''Faust''. In 1928 she sailed for Hollywood, where she played opposite John Barrymore in '' Tempest'' and '' Eternal Love''. She returned to Europe, and in the 1930s refused to follow the official line of the Nazis and was prosecuted for a monetary offense. After the war the British tribunal at Delmenhorst convicted her for minor offenses (among them travell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 in film, 1927 film ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis''. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s. Early life and career Gustav Fröhlich was born an illegitimate child in Hanover and was raised by foster parents. Before becoming an actor, he worked for a short time as an editor of a provincial newspaper and as the author of popular novels. During World War I, he also volunteered for duty in occupied Brussels as a press supervisor. Weimar Republic Gustav Fröhlich began his stage career in the early 1920s at minor theatres in Germany. He quickly achieved more important roles and appeared as ''The Prince of Homburg (play), The Prince of Homburg'' at the Deutsches Theater (Berlin), Deutsche Theater under the direction of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakoczy-Marsch
''The Rakoczi March'' () is a 1933 drama film directed by Gustav Fröhlich and Steve Sekely and starring Fröhlich, Leopold Kramer and Camilla Horn. It was a co-production between Austria, Germany and Hungary.Dassanowsky p. 49 It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Márton Vincze. A separate Hungarian-language version, ''Rákóczi induló'', was made. Cast German-language version * Gustav Fröhlich as Oberleutnant Tarjan * Leopold Kramer as Graf Job * Camilla Horn as Vilma, his daughter * Paul Wagner as Rittmeister Arpad Graf Job, his son * Ellen Frank as Erika, his niece * Tibor Halmay as Leutnant Lorant * Margit Angerer as the recital singer * László Dezsőffy as the watchman * Anton Pointner as Merlin, Job's neighbour * Charles Puffy as the vet * Willi Schur as Mischka, Tarjan's batman * Rudolf Teubler as the peasant * Otto Treßler as the regimental doctor * Peter Wolff as Fähnrich Bilitzky Hungarian-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kossuth Rádió
Kossuth Rádió (, formerly known as ''MR1-Kossuth Rádió'', ''Rádió Budapest'' and ''Budapest I.'') is a public-broadcasting radio station in Hungary, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the seven national radio channels produced by MTVA. It was established in 1925 as Rádió Budapest and named after Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian national hero, in 1949. The main Hungarian-language radio station can be heard all over Europe and the Middle East, as it broadcasts with 2 MW of transmission power on 540 kHz AM from transmitter Solt (the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world) and several FM stations, covering Hungary and the neighbouring countries. It is the second most popular radio station in Hungary (as 2013) with 1.38 million listeners (14% of the total population) daily. History It was established in 1925 as ''Radio Budapest'' and broadcast from Csepel (then suburb of Budapest, now part of the city) with a 2 kW Telefunken-ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Defence Forces
The Hungarian Defence Forces (, ) is the national defence force of Hungary. Since 2007, the Hungarian Armed Forces has been under a unified command structure. The Ministry of Defence maintains political and civil control over the army. A subordinate Joint Forces Command coordinates and commands the HDF corps. In 2020, the armed forces had 22,700 personnel on active duty. In 2019, military spending was $1.904 billion, about 1.22% of the country's GDP, well below the NATO target of 2%.Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: Military Expenditure Database sipri.org, accessed 18 July 2020 (download data for all countries from 1949 to 2019 as an Excel spreadsheet). In 2016, the government adopted a resolution in which it pledged to increase defence spending to 2.0% of GDP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Erkel
Ferenc Erkel ( , ; November 7, 1810June 15, 1893) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes, which are still often performed in Hungary. He also composed the music of "Himnusz", the national anthem of Hungary, which was adopted in 1844. He died in Budapest. Biography Erkel was born in Gyula to an originally Danube Swabian Erkel family, a son of Joseph Erkel who was a musician. His mother was the Hungarian Klára Ruttkay. The libretti of his first three operas were written by Béni Egressy. Beside his operas, for which he is best known, he wrote pieces for piano and chorus, and a majestic ''Festival Overture''. He acquainted Hector Berlioz with the tune of the Rákóczi March, which Berlioz used in '' The Damnation of Faust''. He headed the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra (founded in 1853). He was also the director and piano teacher of the Hungarian Academy of Music until 1886. The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (, ; , ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education. Life Born in Kecskemét, Kingdom of Hungary, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. In 1900, he entered the Department of Languages at the University of Budapest and at the same time Hans von Kössler's composition class at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music. After completing his studies, he studied in Paris with Charles-Marie Widor for a year. In 1905 he visited remote villages to collect songs, recording them on phonograph cylinders. In 1906 he wrote a thesis on Hungarian folk song, "Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong". At around this time Kodály met fellow composer and compatriot Béla Bartók, whom he took under his wing and introduced to some of the methods involved in folk song collecting. The two became life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
