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111Michael Tippett — Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer. Michael Tippett In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large scale choral works, four symphonies, five string …
112Frederick Delius — Frederick Albert Theodore Delius CH (29 January 1862 ndash; 10 June 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. LifeDelius s parents were German. Julius and Elise Pauline Delius had… …
113Edmund Henry Barker — (1788 ndash;March 21, 1839), English classical scholar, was born at Hollym in Yorkshire. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a scholar in 1807, but left the university without a degree, being prevented by religious scruples from taking the… …
114George of Trebizond — (1395 ndash; 1486), Greek philosopher and scholar, one of the pioneers of the Renaissance, was born on the island of Crete, and derived his surname Trapezuntius from the fact that his ancestors were from Trebizond.At what period he came to Italy… …
1151928 in music — Events* April 27 Igor Stravinsky s ballet Apollon musagète is premiered in Washington * September 11 Leoš Janáček s String Quartet No. 2 , Intimate Letters , is premiered in Brno * September 12 Anton Webern s String Trio is premiered in Siena *… …
116Joseph Justus Scaliger — (August 5, 1540, Agen – January 21, 1609, Leiden) was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian …
117Johann Jakob Reiske — (December 25, 1716 ndash; August 14, 1774) was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics.BiographyReiske was born at Zörbig, in Electoral Saxony.From the… …
118Epistle — An epistle (pronounced [ɪˈpɪsəl] ) (Greek επιστολη, epistolē, letter ) is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of persons, usually a letter and a very formal, often didactic and elegant one. The letters in the New Testament from… …
119William Whiston — Infobox Scientist name = William Whiston birth date = birth date|1667|12|09|df=y birth place = Norton, Leicestershire, England death date = death date and age|1752|08|22|1667|12|09|df=y death place = Lyndon, Rutland, England nationality = United… …
120Richard Bentley — (January 27, 1662 ndash; July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic. Early life Bentley was born at Oulton near Leeds, West Yorkshire. His grandfather had suffered for the Royalist cause following the English Civil War …
