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.
"Indra," by Flotow, absorbs all the delicate attentions of our artistic direction; and this wretched medley will be given the day after tomorrow as festival opera.
From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Francis Hueffer
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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