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Potpourri No. 1 for Violin & String Trio, Op. 5 (1832) Theme and Variations for String Quartet, Op. 6. Violin Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 7 (1805) Theme and Variations for String Quartet, Op. 8. 2 Concertant Duos for 2 Violins, Op. 9 (1808) Violin Concerto No. 4 in B minor, Op. 10 (1805) Allegro moderato.
Potpourris became especially popular in the 19th century. The opera overtures of French composers , such as François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775–1834), Daniel Auber (1782–1871) and Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833), or the Englishman Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) belong to this type.
Orris root is often included as one of the many ingredients of ras el hanout, a blend of herbs and spices used across the Middle East and North Africa, primarily associated with Moroccan cuisine . Orris root has been used in tinctures to flavour syrups; its taste is said to be indistinguishable from raspberry. [ 10]
The word "potpourri" comes into English from the French word pot-pourri. The French term has two connotations. It is the French name for a Spanish stew with a wide variety of ingredients called olla podrida, a specialty of the city of Burgos. [citation needed] The word pot in French has the same meaning as it does in English (and as olla does ...
Potpourri No. 4 in B major, Op. 24, by Louis Spohr, was completed in 1808. The work was one of several compositions that Spohr, a noted violinist, wrote to provide a virtuoso encore when performing more serious chamber works such as Beethoven 's Opus 18 [1] string quartets. Written for a virtuoso first violin, with accompanying string trio ...
Louis Spohr. Louis Spohr ( [ˈluːi ˈʃpo:ɐ], 5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, [ 1] later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig was a German composer, violinist and conductor . Highly regarded during his lifetime, [ 2] Spohr composed ten symphonies, ten operas, eighteen violin concerti, four clarinet ...
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary.Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", [1] the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant ...
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