Also a brilliant pianist, in 1914 Schmidt took up a professorship in piano at the Vienna Conservatory, which had been recently renamed Imperial Academy of Music and the Performing Arts.

Producer Trevor Hill showed it to resident pianist Violet Carson who said " He's either quite brilliant or mad ".

Baroness von Wetzlar, his mother, who according to Wurzbach was occupied with his education during his childhood and early youth, was a brilliant amateur pianist.

Booth and Brennan learn that Yoder was a brilliant pianist, and hypothesize that his talent may have contributed to his death.

Alfonso is also the brilliant pianist whose tumbaos will be studied in this section.

His creative team included several arrangers, including the great Luis Bu, a brilliant pianist, Chaka Nápoles.

He was a brilliant pianist like his father, but he decided to turn to conducting.

Moszkowski then travelled successfully throughout Europe under the reputation of being an exceptional concert pianist and brilliant composer, having also gained some recognition as a conductor.

After winning second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition and first prize at the Vianna da Motta International Music Competition ( ex-aequo with Nelson Freire ), and especially after his brilliant victory at the ninth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow ( first prize ex-aequo with John Lill ), his career as a pianist began.

François was a keen jazz fanparticularly of the brilliant pianist Bud Powell, who lived and performed in Parisand claimed that jazz influenced his playing.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

Again and again he repeats the advice that nothing should be hazarded unless one's army is completely secure, a rule which he himself neglected with such brilliant results in 1796.

In the two opening chapters the speaker describes himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem (,, ;, ), presenting himself as a philosopher at the center of a brilliant court.

Notable among these was Ulrich von Hutten, a brilliant but erratic genius, who had thrown himself into the Lutheran cause and had declared that Erasmus, if he had a spark of honesty, would do the same.

The saga of Harold Hardrada narrates his expedition to the East, his brilliant exploits in Constantinople, Syria, and Sicily, his skaldic accomplishments, and his battles in England against Harold Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin, where he fell at Stamford Bridge in 1066 only a few days before Harold himself fell at the battle of Hastings.

In 1536 he was created cardinal-bishop of Palestrina by Pope Paul III, by whom he was employed on several important legations, notably as Paul's legate and first president of the Council of Trent ( 1545-47 ) and then at Bologna ( 1547-48 ), distinguishing himself as a brilliant canonist ( expert in Church law ) rather than as a theologian.

But, by a brilliant campaign in 1506, Julius succeeded in freeing Perugia and Bologna from their despots ( Giampolo Baglioni and Giovanni II Bentivoglio, respectively ), and raised himself to such a height of influence as to render his friendship of prime importance both to Louis XII of France and the Holy Roman Emperor.

He said he found himself enveloped in a brilliant light, and looked up to see what seemed like the sun falling directly onto his body, and he thought that he was having a heart attack.

At Freiburg in 1506 he published his first work, Ludicra logices exercitamenta and also proved himself a brilliant and subtle orator, although obsessed by an untamable controversial spirit and unrestrained powers of invective.

Darius did not believe that he had achieved the throne through fraud but through brilliant sagacity, even erecting a statue of himself mounted on his neighing horse stating " Darius, son of Hystaspes, obtained the sovereignty of Persia by the sagacity of his horse and the ingenious contrivance of Oebases, his groom.

A brilliant actor and mimic ( or so we are told, by Smith himself ), he is down to his last coin when a spaceman hires him to double for a public figure.

For Augustus, though at the outset he showed himself rather harsh because of the wars and the factional strife, was later able, in the course of time, to achieve a brilliant reputation for his kindly deeds ; Titus, on the other hand, ruled with mildness and died at the height of his glory, whereas, if he had lived a long time, it might have been shown that he owes his present fame more to good fortune than to merit.

He almost immediately endears himself to the unbearable and cynical Mrs Bramson, a testimony of his brilliant acting ability.

General Jackson went to the convent himself to thank the nuns for their prayers: " By the blessing of heaven, directing the valor of the troops under my command, one of the most brilliant victories in the annals of war was obtained.

He was a brilliant, driven man who did not spare himself and who enjoyed working with equally driven people.

After being called to the bar in 1838, Butt quickly established a name for himself as a brilliant barrister.

Born in Paris, he was called to the bar in 1879 and distinguished himself by brilliant pleadings in favour of socialist and anarchist leaders, defending Prince Kropotkine at Lyon in 1883, Louise Michel in the same year.

On, the English sighted Tromp and pursued to the south, sinking two Dutch ships before dark, but allowing De With to slip out and rendezvous the next day with Tromp off Scheveningen, right next to the small village of Ter Heijde, after Tromp had positioned himself by some brilliant manoeuvering to the north of the English fleet.

The summer campaign of 1645 opened with the defeat of Turenne by Mercy at Mergentheim, but this was retrieved in the brilliant victory of Nördlingen, in which Mercy was killed, and Enghien himself received several serious wounds.

He had become connected with the brilliant band of authors and politicians who led the Whig party, a connection to which he owed his appointment to the well-paid and easy post of commissioner of stamps ; but took no part in politics himself.

He felt himself victimized when he learned that the purchasers knew of a project of building the Massachusetts State House at the top of the hill, and he sent his son John Singleton Copley, Jr., then at the beginning of his brilliant legal career, to Boston in 1796 seeking to annul the arrangement.

Congressman David Outlaw wrote about the honor: " Col. Bragg having, no thanks to them, won for himself a brilliant reputation, is now the object of the most fulsome adulation.

Astley himself was a brilliant rider.

Michels was considered a brilliant pupil of Max Weber.

Although its Caucasian pieces were as brilliant as the earlier efforts, the book alienated the core of Pasternak's refined audience abroad, which was largely composed of anti-communist White emigres.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Sigurður sees the saga's convincing narrative and characters as evidence that a single brilliant author composed it.

The brilliant soundtrack composed by Sohail Rana contributed enormously to the film's success and is considered to be his magnum opus.

Each flower is approximately five centimeters in diameter and composed of five notched, brilliant red petals which extend into a long tube.

Despite being a strong atheist, he composed brilliant devotional songs like " Harivarasanam ", Guruvayoor ambalanadayil, Chethi mandaram thulasi, Nithya vishudhayam kanya mariyame etc.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

Charles Osborne: " Cards on the Table is one of Agatha Christie's finest and most original pieces of crime fiction: even though the murderer is, as the author has promised, one of the four bridge players, the ending is positively brilliant and a complete surprise.

Lasker gave a brilliant answer on the chessboard, winning four of the first five games, and playing a type of chess Tarrasch could not understand.

Thus, for the first four decades of the 19th century, the RSE's members published brilliant articles in two different journals.

Its most distinguished representative was Jean de Vales, of Montech, who made excellent translations from Virgil and Persius, and wrote a brilliant burlesque of the former in the manner of Scarron ( Virgile deguisat, 1648 ; only four books published ).

In the beginning of the ' 90s, FK Austria enjoyed its so far last successful era: three championship titles ( seasons 1990 – 1991, 1991 – 1992, 1992 – 1993 ; but less brilliant goal differences (+ 39, + 37, + 46 ) than the seasons 1983 – 1984, 1984 – 1985, 1985 – 1986 (+ 56, + 68, + 71 )), three cup titles ( seasons 1989 – 1990, 1991 – 1992, 1993 – 1994 ) as well as four Super cup titles ( Austrian national champion vs. Cup winner ) ( 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 ) were won.

In order to ensure that the discovery is not tarnished by the reputation that NASA has developed, the President sends four leading civilian scientists ( Michael Tolland, a famous oceanographer and TV personality ; Corky Marlinson, a brilliant but eccentric astrophysicist ; Norah Mangor, a prickly glaciologist and Wailee Ming, a palaeontologist ) to the Arctic to verify the meteorite's authenticity.

He discovered a brilliant young director named John Ford who later went on to earn four Academy Awards.

The last of the Russian Shuyskys were four brothers-Vasily Ivanovich Shuysky ( briefly Russian tsar as Vasily IV ), Dmitry Ivanovich Shuisky ( infamous for having poisoned his brilliant cousin, Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Skopin-Shuysky ), Alexander Ivanovich Shuysky, and Ivan Ivanovich Shuysky " Pugovka " (" the Button ").

Spin wrote that " single Stutter delivers four brilliant pop songs ".

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars and called it " a movie filled with drama and excitement, unfolding a plot of brilliant complexity ".

His fielding was also singled out for praise as he took four catches, two of them regarded as brilliant.

In a sequence of four brilliant marriages she wed the eldest, but illegitimate, son of the 6th Earl Waldegrave ; then his brother, the 7th Earl ; the elderly, wealthy and well-connected politician George Harcourt ( 1785 – 1861 ); and, finally, the politically ambitious Chichester Fortescue, later Lord Carlingford.

He left a considerable body of music: brilliant pieces for piano including four sonatas and collections for young pianists, many concertos ( four for piano, two for violin, one of each for cello and clarinet ), two symphonies, and a ballet as well as vocal and orchestral works.

: A royal blue pennant on a white field or background with a white circle on a blue pennant divided by four parts ; each of the four parts of the circle containing a blue symbol, i. e., a building symbolizing education and the arts ; a cogged wheel and square symbolizing labor and industry ; a pilot wheel symbolizing our lakes and rivers and all activities identified with them ; a microscope symbolizing research, skilled craftsmanship and progress-all of these symbols combined point out the beauty, harmony and brilliant future of our City.

Hamza demonstrated brilliant leadership for four years under al-Ḥākim ’ s direction.

This is exactly the form of vision which Villwamangalam Swamiyar was believed to have had when he faced westward after the " Prathishta " ( installation ) of Kizhukkavu Bhagavathy, Chottanikkara Devi appears at this moment clad in glittering clothes brilliant ornaments and fine jewellery with her four arms bearing varam, Abhayam, Shank and Chakram ( Offering gift and refuge ) to her ardent devotees.

The female cone may reach eighty centimetres long, weigh thirty four kilograms and have brilliant orange-red seeds.

Another knee injury restricted him to just four games in 1984, but in his final season he showed traces of brilliant form – kicking nine goals against Carlton in Round 10.