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
Baron Flotow will have occasion to meet the Secretary of State this afternoon.
From In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf
Those of Balfe and Flotow are included because they were expressions of popular taste when our grandfathers enjoyed going to the opera.
From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
Friedrich von Flotow was born April 27, 1812, in the duchy of Mecklenberg-Schwerin, and in 1827 went to Paris, where he studied music under Reicha.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)
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