Flotow
Americannoun
noun
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The band made its biggest impression adapting classical compositions into popular swing numbers: notably “My Reverie,” from the Claude Debussy piano piece “Rêverie,” and “Martha,” from the Friedrich von Flotow opera of the same name.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2017
He wrote his own libretto and decked it out with orchestral preludes, choruses, solos, duos, even a quintet, in a way that indicated he probably knew the works of Weber and Flotow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among my most pleasant recollections of those days is that connected with Von Flotow, the future composer of "Martha."
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
Think how interested you'd be in a yellow and black bird singing the Spinning Song from Martha, while you couldn't accuse the bird of having stolen it from Flotow, could you?
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
Flotow belonged to the petty nobility of Mecklenburg.
From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
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