"end of the bargain. Immune to the death penalty, he commits murder, but is sentenced to life in prison). Great achievements might be credited to a pact with the devil, from the numerous European Devil's Bridges to the violin virtuosity of Niccolò Paganini to the ""crossroad"" myth associated with Robert Johnson. The ""Bargain with the devil"" constitutes motif number M210 and ""Man sells soul to devil"" motif number M211 in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. It was usually thought that the person who had made a pact also promised the demon to kill children or consecrate them to the devil"
"a composer whose use of twelve tone technique parallels the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg was not happy about this and there was an exchange of letters between the men, following the novel's publication . Leverkühn, who may be based on Nietzsche, sells his soul to the Devil. Writer Sean O'Brien comments that ""written in the shadow of Hitler, ""Doktor Faustus"" observes the rise of Nazism, but its relationship to political history is oblique"" . Schoenberg was a painter of considerable ability, whose works were considered good enough to exhibit alongside those of Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky as fellow"
"Doktor, Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti, Joseph Fuchs, Raya Garbousova, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bruno Giuranna, Franco Gulli, Charles Libove, Erica Morini, André Navarra, Ruggiero Ricci, Leonard Rose, Toby Saks, Alexander Schneider, Janos Starker, Henryk Szeryng, Efrem Zimbalist, Felix Salmond, and Uto Ughi were just some of the top musicians who either purchased or had their treasured instruments maintained by him. His main publication was ""'I segreti di Stradivari'"", translated into many languages and sold worldwide. ""Simone Sacconi is recognized as one of the important contemporary violin makers. His book explains the construction techniques used by Stradivari with clarity and precision. It"
"Johann Georg Faust Johann Georg Faust (; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), also known in English as John Faustus , was an itinerant alchemist, astrologer and magician of the German Renaissance. ""Doctor Faust"" became the subject of folk legend in the decades after his death, transmitted in chapbooks beginning in the 1580s, and was notably adapted by Christopher Marlowe in his play ""The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus"" (1604). The ""Faustbuch"" tradition survived throughout the early modern period, and the legend was again adapted in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama ""Faust"" (1808),"
"The Fate of Faustina ""The Fate of Faustina"" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in March 1901. The story was also included as the third story in the collection ""The Black Mask"", published by Grant Richards in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1901. The noise of some Neapolitan organ-grinders outside their flat reminds Raffles of his time spent in Italy. Raffles finally tells Bunny what happened to him after he"
"Vianna da Motta also taught piano at Geneva at this time. Andreae arranged for Busoni to give concerts with his orchestra. Jarnach, who was 23 when he met Busoni in 1915, became Busoni's indispensable assistant, among other things preparing piano scores of his operas – Busoni referred to him as his ""famulus"". While in America Busoni had already carried out further work on ""Doktor Faust"" and had written the libretto of his one-act opera ""Arlecchino"" – He completed ""Arlecchino"" in Zürich and, to provide a full evening at the theatre, reworked his earlier ""Turandot"" into a one-act piece. The two"
"Cesare"",""Tamerlano"", and ""Rodelinda. The directors of the Royal Academy of Music decided to increase the appeal of the operas by bringing another internationally famous singer, the soprano Faustina Bordoni, to join the established London stars Cuzzoni and Senesino, as was reported in the London press - the ""Daily Journal"" wrote on 31 August 1725 'We hear that the Royal Academy (of) Musick, in the Hay Market, have contracted with famous Chauntess for 2500 ""l"". who is coming over from Italy against the Winter' with the ""London Journal"" adding ""'Signiora Faustina, a famous Italian Lady, is coming over this Winter to"
"with Faust during a French tour. The first meeting of Zappi W. Diermaier, Jean-Hervé Péron (of Faust), Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat (of Ulan Bator) was recently released as Collectif Metz/Faust. Ulan Bator performed in prestigious festivals such as Les Transmusicales de Rennes and Roskilde. Their albums ""Polaire""and ""Vegtable"" plus multiple live recordings were released in Italy by CPR. Afterwards, they signed to Sonica. In 1999, Ulan Bator recorded its (Young God Records), produced inside Michael Gira (Swans, The Angels of Light) together with Matteo Dainese. Later in 2002 they released """" from the Ego:Echo tours and demos. In late"
"Bordoni, to join established London favourites Francesca Cuzzoni and the star castrato Senesino in the company's performances. Many opera companies in Italy featured two leading ladies in one opera and Faustina (as she was known) and Cuzzoni had appeared together in opera performances in various European cities with no trouble; there is no indication that there was any bad feeling or ill-will between the two of them prior to their London joint appearances. The three stars, Bordoni, Cuzzoni and Senesino commanded astronomical fees, making much more money from the opera seasons than Handel did. The opera company would have been"
"has appeared on television shows in Chicago, New York City and Italy. His CDs feature well known artists like Antonella Pepe, Gianni Trevisani, Lorenzo Poli and Raffaele Chiatto who have appeared on CDs by Eros Ramazzotti, Claudio Baglioni, and Umberto Tozzi. Pat Girondi was a well-known Chicago trader and a trader in the electronic markets in Europe. In 1993 he founded what is known today as, ‘Errant Gene Therapeutics’. From 1995-2004 Girondi was a partner of the late John Walton. Girondi has won accolades for his work in the Orphan Disease field and in particular for his work for the"
"instrumental in securing the distributing rights for the Italian and other European territories for two of America's major labels, Motown Records and Atlantic Records, working directly with Berry Gordy (founder, Motown) and Ahmet Ertegun (co-founder, Atlantic), with whom he developed a close friendship. This agreement enabled the exposure to the Italian market for the two record labels' stable of artists, which at the time included Ben E. King, Otis Redding, James Brown, The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin and Wilson Pickett, who, in 1968, joined Fausto Leali at Sanremo for the hit song"
"been the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, along with Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. He has performed with Irwin Gage, Fritz Schwinghammer, Helmut Deutsch, Leonard Hokanson and Shinya Okahara: since 1996 he has regularly toured Japan with Okahara. He has made numerous recordings on CD, including with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs, Bach's ""St Matthew Passion"" with the Concentus Musicus Wien, under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and the recording of Busoni's ""Doktor Faust"", which in 2001 won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. Dietrich Henschel Dietrich Henschel (born 1967) is a German baritone."
"interaction with the demonic realm. Before Marlowe, there were few authors who ventured into this kind of writing. After his play, other authors began to expand on their views of the spiritual world. Doctor Faustus (play) The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was written sometime between 1589 and 1592, and might have been performed between 1592 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the"
"time there in 1895 and, two years later, during the long harsh summer of 1897, he stayed over again, with his brother Heinrich Mann, in a sojourn that provided the backdrop, nearly half a century later, for Adrian Leverkühn's pact with the Devil in Mann's novel ""Doktor Faustus"" Dante makes reference in the Inferno to advice given by Guido da Montefeltro to Pope Boniface VIII fraudulently enticing the surrender of Palestrina 1298 by offering the Colonna family an amnesty they never intended to honor, instead razing it to the ground afterward. In Voltaire's novel ""Candide"" a woman claims to be"
"Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play) would be deeply influential on later works of fantasy. In a work on alchemy in the 16th century, Paracelsus (1493 – 1541) identified four types of beings with the four elements of alchemy: gnomes, earth elementals; undines, water elementals; sylphs, air elementals; and salamanders, fire elementals. Most of these beings are found in folklore as well as alchemy; their names are often used interchangeably with similar beings from folklore. Literary fairy tales, such as were written by Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703), and Madame d'Aulnoy ((c.1650 - 1705)), became very popular, early in the"
"addition to his own compositions, theme and variations being the most popular, Paganini also performed modified versions of works (primarily concertos) written by his early contemporaries, such as Rodolphe Kreutzer and Giovanni Battista Viotti. Paganini's travels also brought him into contact with eminent guitar virtuosi of the day, including Ferdinando Carulli in Paris and Mauro Giuliani in Vienna. But this experience did not inspire him to play public concerts with guitar, and even performances of his own guitar trios and quartets were private to the point of being behind closed doors. Throughout his life, Paganini was no stranger to chronic"
"with The Royal Ballet at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the London Coliseum. He has appeared at festivals and tours in Canada, New Zealand, Europe and in the UK and has had residencies at many London nightclubs as well as a month in cabaret at The Casino in Monte Carlo, Paris and Dubai. He was the magic and effects supervisor to Cameron Mackintosh for the West End production of ""The Witches of Eastwick"" and ""Ducktastic"", directed by Kenneth Branagh. He was a consultant on the South London Theatre's Spring 2007 production of ""Dr Faustus"". He was also a"
"Doktor Faust Doktor Faust is an opera by Ferruccio Busoni with a German libretto by the composer himself, based on the myth of Faust. Busoni worked on the opera, which he intended as his masterpiece, between 1916 and 1924, but it was still incomplete at the time of his death. His pupil Philipp Jarnach finished it. More recently, in 1982, Antony Beaumont completed the opera using sketches by Busoni which were previously thought to have been lost. Nancy Chamness has published an analysis of the libretto to ""Doktor Faust"" and a comparison with Goethe's version. ""Doktor Faust"" was given its"
"Ingegnosi Academy. He was also very engaged in composing sacred and instrumental music, of which the keyboard pieces stand out: they shaped the modern conception of the ""concert"" as well as ""sonate"" composed in the same time in London and Vienna: his works for harpsichord, as observed by Fausto Torrefranca, anticipate some themes of Mozart and Clementi. Simultaneously, he devoted himself to teaching organ and composition at his father’s music school. Their most celebrated student was the famous opera composer, Luigi Cherubini. Felici’s career was unexpectedly interrupted by tuberculosis, which was the cause of his death at the young age"
"1663 to 1665). Marco Faustini, like his brother, collaborated with leading composers of his time including Francesco Cavalli, Pietro Andrea Ziani and Antonio Cesti, and hired famous singers such as Anna Renzi, Antonia Coresi and Vincenza Giulia Masotti. During his years as an impresario, he staged numerous plays of famous librettists of the time including Aurelio Aureli, Francis Small, Nicolò Minato, Nicholas Beregan, Pietro Angelo Zaguri and Cristoforo Ivanovich. Faustini's brother's last works remained unfinished, which he completed. Faustini's papers are stored at the Scuola Grande di San Marco, which represent a major source of information on the theatre work"
"British premiere of Busoni's ""Doktor Faust"", which took place on 17 March 1937. In 1939, Leslie Woodgate described the operation and function of the various BBC choirs, including the Choral Society, in an interview with ""The Musical Times"". Under Leslie Woodgate, the Choral Society achieved maturity; and all accounts of the period agree that the occasions which marked that maturity were the concerts given at the end of the 1930s under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. When Toscanini was first persuaded to come to England, he would not consider working with an amateur chorus, but eventually he accepted the challenge"
"of its series of Raffles adaptations. The Fate of Faustina ""The Fate of Faustina"" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in March 1901. The story was also included as the third story in the collection ""The Black Mask"", published by Grant Richards in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1901. The noise of some Neapolitan organ-grinders outside their flat reminds Raffles of his time spent in Italy. Raffles finally tells Bunny"
"""On the Christian Doctrine"", written in the late fourth century. Here, he stated that people who consulted augurs were entering """"quasi pacts"""" (covenants) with demons. The idea of the diabolical pact made with demons was popularised across Europe in the story of Faust, likely based in part on the real life Johann Georg Faust. As the late medieval gave way to the early modern period, European Christendom experienced a schism between the established Roman Catholic Church and the breakaway Protestant movement. In the ensuing Reformation and Counter-Reformation, both Catholics and Protestants accused each other of deliberately being in league with"
"Marlowe's nemesis. Roy Kendall, however, has persuasively argued that he was framed for a capital crime the following year by an unnamed man with whom he went drinking, a crime about which a ballad was even written. The details of the cup-stealing scene in ""Doctor Faustus"" between ""Dick"" and ""Robin"" in fact seem so similar to those of the Baines case that it may well have been an addition made after 1594, in December of which year this Richard Baines was hanged at Tyburn. Richard Baines Richard Baines (""fl"". 1568–1593) was an Elizabethan double agent, informer and ordained Catholic priest."
"the London salon of Lady Cunard, where at various times he encountered Ezra Pound, Joseph Duveen and the Irish novelist George Moore. On visits to Florence he cemented his friendship with Norman Douglas, who wrote an introduction to Acton's translation of a lubricious 18th-century memoir of Giangastone de' Medici, ""The Last of the Medici"", privately printed in Florence in 1930 as part of the Lungarno Series. A fourth collection of poems, ""This Chaos"", was published in Paris by Acton's friend Nancy Cunard, though the Giangastone translation pointed in a more promising direction. History was indeed to prove far more congenial"
"of an earlier four-piece band, Dr Faustus, featuring Sartin and Kirkpatrick alongside melodeon player and singer Tim van Eyken and concertina player Robert Harbron. Sartin and Kirkpatrick had been playing together for a number of years, and were looking to expand their work with others to explore traditional English music. Sartin met van Eyken and Harbron while performing the Mick Ryan opera A Day’s Work at Salisbury Playhouse. The band’s name came from the traditional tune ""Dr Fauster’s Tumblers"" rather than the Christopher Marlowe play of the same name. The early years of the band were spent playing for the"
"recordings include ""Rigoletto"" with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Carlo Bergonzi under Rafael Kubelík, Liu in ""Turandot"" with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, ""I Pagliacci"" with José Carreras, ""Cavalleria rusticana"" with Plácido Domingo, ""Norma"" with Tatiana Troyanos, Verdi's ""Otello"", ""Adriana Lecouvreur"" and ""Andrea Chénier"". The last three were all collaborations with Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes and conductor James Levine. Scotto recorded (either in studio or in live performance) the complete Puccini soprano repertoire with the exceptions of Turandot, Magda in La rondine and Minnie in La fanciulla del West. Many of these were recorded with Lorin Maazel for Columbia"
"composition of them. The clown is seen as the archetype for comic relief. ""Doctor Faustus"" is based on an older tale; it is believed to be the first dramatization of the Faust legend. Some scholars believe that Marlowe developed the story from a popular 1592 translation, commonly called ""The English Faust Book"". There is thought to have been an earlier, lost German edition of 1587, the ""Historia von D. Johann Fausten"", which itself may have been influenced by even earlier, equally ill-preserved pamphlets in Latin (such as those that likely inspired Jacob Bidermann's treatment of the damnation of the doctor"
"theories of the mathematicians, and interplanetary stories in general."" However, the anthology's contents (unfortunately representative of the worst of magazine's early years) meant the book took years to sell out; for many years during the 1930s ""Weird Tales"" carried advertisements for the book at the ""reduced price of only fifty cents."" Wright also edited a short-lived companion magazine, ""Oriental Stories"" (later renamed ""Magic Carpet Magazine"") which lasted from 1930 to 1934. Wright (nicknamed ""Plato"" by his writers) was also noteworthy for starting the commercial careers of three important fantasy artists: Margaret Brundage, Virgil Finlay, and Hannes Bok. Each of the"
"some were enormously popular. The star soprano Francesca Cuzzoni had partnered with internationally renowned castrato Senesino as the leading performers in a long series of Italian operas by Handel and other composers for the Academy, and to increase audience interest, the directors decided to import another celebrated singer from Italy, soprano Faustina Bordoni, so that the operas would have not one but two leading ladies onstage. This was a common practice in opera houses of the day in Italy and Cuzzoni and Faustina, as Bordoni was called, had appeared together in various European cities without incident. In a room of"
"the audience and the two sopranos exchanged insults and came to blows onstage. The rest of the opera was cut, the performers going straight to the short final chorus, and the scandal was gleefully repeated in the newspapers, in satirical skits on other stages, and in mock-heroic verse, bringing the entire form of Italian opera into a certain amount of disrepute in London. Handel continued to supply operas for the trio of star singers, Senesino, Cuzzoni and Faustina (as she was known) however, even though these singers received astronomical fees, much more than he received for composing the works, which"
"Doctor Faustus (play) The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was written sometime between 1589 and 1592, and might have been performed between 1592 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later. The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them—that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a"
"McTeer as the Evil Angel and Anton Lesser as the Emperor. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast a full radio adaptation of the play with Kenneth Welsh as Faustus and Eric Peterson as Mephistopheles and later released it on audio cassette () in 2001 as part of its ""Great Plays of the Millennium"" series. Two live performances in London have been videotaped and released on DVD: one at the Greenwich Theatre in 2010 and one at the Globe Theatre in 2011 starring Paul Hilton as Faustus and Arthur Darvill as Mephistopheles. ""Doctor Faustus"" has raised much controversy due to its alleged"