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Ofanim , a long biblical cantata for two matched ensembles of wind, brass, and percussion, two boy choirs, female voice, and computer, is a highly operatic piece of the sort Puccini would have understood.

She has championed the music of Pauline Viardot-Garcia, herself a Rossini mezzo-soprano in the 19 th century, and led a campaign to rehabilitate Haydn's almost-mythological cantata Arianna a Naxos and his virtually unknown opera Orfeo ed Euridice .

He wrote his cantata for the Prix de Rome in July, 1830, "to the hard, dull noise of stray bullets, which whizzed above the roofs, and came to flatten themselves against the wall near his window.

The elders of the church, having heard a sacred cantata which he composed for the occasion performed under his direction in the following year, were most willing to accede to his application, but Bach, fearing that his independence would be threatened by the conditions attached to the position, withdrew at the last moment.

The boy was required to set to music the first part of a sacred cantata founded upon the 'First and greatest Commandment'-'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength' (Mark xii.

The death of a friend who had assisted the family with money gifts inspired him to write a cantata in his honour, but though it was performed at the funeral, no trace exists for us of this little outcome of gratitude on Beethoven's part.

Beethoven, of course, was amongst the invited guests on the occasion, and he seized the opportunity of submitting to the master a cantata which he had lately composed.

rose and cried "Hurrah!" Bagration also rose and shouted "Hurrah!" in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted it on the field at Schon Grabern.


young Rostov's ecstatic voice could be heard above the three hundred others.


He nearly wept.


"To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he roared, "Hurrah!" and emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor.


Many followed his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time.


When the voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging remarks.


The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside his plate, and proposed a toast, "To the health of the hero of our last campaign, Prince Peter Ivanovich Bagration!" and again his blue eyes grew moist.


"Hurrah!" cried the three hundred voices again, but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul Ivanovich Kutuzov:
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