Corelli
Americannoun
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Arcangelo 1653–1713, Italian violinist and composer.
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Marie Mary Mackay, 1854?–1924, English novelist.
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Arcangelo (arˈkandʒelo). 1653–1713, Italian violinist and composer of sonatas and concerti grossi
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Marie , real name Mary Mackay . 1854–1924, British novelist. Her melodramatic works include The Sorrows of Satan (1895) and The Murder of Delicia (1896)
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After concluding that club life wasn’t a future, Tetelman began listening to recordings of Luciano Pavarotti, Enrico Caruso, Franco Corelli and Jonas Kaufmann to understand how they used their voices.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2024
Residents on the Corelli estate pay a fee to First Port management company, appointed by Persimmon, for maintenance of the area.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2024
Matthew Polenzani wanted to make something clear: He just isn’t a powerhouse tenor like Mario Del Monaco or Franco Corelli, two 20th-century greats.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022
Mackay himself was a wide-ranging man of letters, as well as the father — via a servant — of Marie Corelli, at one time the best-selling novelist in England.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019
One great shift in consort music made by Corelli and his imitators from the 1680s onwards was to strip back its traditionally contrapuntal texture.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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