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VICTOR RECORDS Number 3)
GOTTERDAMMERUNG—Continued
giving her the Nibelung’s Ring as a pledge of faith. This ring he had obtained when he slew the dragon Fafner, and as the opera progresses he is doomed to suffer the consequences of the fatal curse, invoked on every possessor of the Ring by Alberich, from whom it was forcibly taken by Wotan.
(For complete illustrated description see “‘ Victor Book of the Opera’’)
SIEGFRIED’S DEATH—ACT IIT GOTTERDAMMERUNG RECORDS °
Zu neuen Thaten (DidI Not Send Thee) (Scenel) Jn German Gadski|87098|1 Helle Wehr! Heilige Waffe! (Haft of War!) German Johanna Gadekil87082 |
VICTOR BOOK OF THE OPERA
Fliegt heim (Immolation Scene) Jn German Johanna Gadski|/88185 | Fantasia— Siegfried and Brunnhilde, Act I—Finale of Scene I, “‘ Siegfried's |
Horn Call’’—Finale of Opera—Pryor’s B and Rheingold Sel.—Conway’s B\35315 |
Siegfried’s Funeral March and Die Walkiire— Ride of Valkyries— Vessella’s B 35369 | GOTTSCHALK, LOUIS M. (1829-1869), Compositions by— |
See “Day by Day,” ‘Holy Ghost,” “Last Hope,” “*Pasquinade ”’ | |
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and “Softly Now the Light” GOUNOD, CHARLES FRANCOIS (1818-1893) (Goo-noh’)
Compositions by (For Gounod’s ‘“‘ Faust,” ‘‘Romeo et Juliette,” ““ Queen of Sheba” and “‘ Ave Maria,” see those titles.)
Greatest French composer. Born Paris, 1818. Father, artist, died when Gounod was 5. Taught first by mother. Entered Conservatory, won Prix de Rome, 1837. Became organist in San Luigi church and contemplated becoming priest. In 1850, his Mass having made success in England, was asked to write a work for the Paris Académie. Opera Sapho, produced 1851, not a success. Other compositions not important till 1859, when his masterpiece Faust appeared. Wrote many |té other operas, only Romeo being successful. Last years devoted to sacred GOUNOD compositions, his oratorio, Redemption one of the greatest of its kind. Faust most popular of all operas, given 1,500 times in Paris alone. Entire work recorded by the Victor, with the greatest of all-star casts. Gounod died Paris, 1893.
RECORDS OF GOUNOD COMPOSITIONS | |
Colombe, La—Entr’acte and Traviata—Entr’acte—Orchestre Symphonique 17661 10) .75 Funeral March of a Marionette Sousa’s Band 31081 12) 1.00 Jésus de Nazareth Jn French Pol Plancon 85065 12/3.00 Le Soir (At Evening) Jn French Maurice Renaud 91072 10 2.00 Messe Solennelle—Sanctus—Trinity C and Coronation and Doxology—T rinity C,35110 121.25 March Romaine and Fruhlingslied (Spring Song) Victor Concert Orch 17186 10 .75 Mireille—Valse In French Bessie Abott 88129 12 3.00 Nazareth—Christmas Song and First Nowell—Lyric Quartet 17647, 10 .75 Nazareth—Christmas Song—Croxton and Yule-Tide—Pryor’s B2znd 35261 121.25
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