Mulroney and provincial rival Claude Wagner were both seen as potentially able to appeal to Quebec, which had supported the federal Liberals for decades.

Initially, the favourite among Red Tories was Flora MacDonald ; however she did worse than expected while Clark placed a surprising third in a field of eleven on the first ballot of convention delegates, behind only Claude Wagner and Brian Mulroney.

While Clark's 1976 leadership rivals were prominent in that province, Claude Wagner had left politics and recently died, while Brian Mulroney was still bitter about his loss and turned down an offer to serve under Clark.

Their music is often seen as a reaction against the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Despite his sometimes acerbic comments on Wagner, Claude Debussy utilised leitmotifs in his opera Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1902 ).

After the season, on December 8, 1899, Chesbro was traded with George Fox, Art Madison, John O ' Brien, and $ 25, 000 ($ in current dollar terms ) to the Louisville Colonels for Honus Wagner, Fred Clarke, Bert Cunningham, Mike Kelley, Tacks Latimer, Tommy Leach, Tom Messitt, Deacon Phillippe, Claude Ritchey, Rube Waddell, Jack Wadsworth, and Chief Zimmer.

Claude Wagner, ( April 4, 1925 – July 11, 1979 ) was a judge and politician in the Province of Quebec, Canada.

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During the year 1965, he launched J ' ai choisi de me battre: petite histoire très personnelle du séparatisme québécois, de Maurice Duplessis à Claude Wagner, a book of 160 pages, published by Club du livre du Québec in Montreal.

* J ' ai choisi de me battre: petite histoire très personnelle du séparatisme québécois de Maurice Duplessis à Claude Wagner ( 1965 )

They include Willhelm II, Emperor Franz Joseph I, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Liberace, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Dodie Smith, Max Reger, Richard Wagner, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich.

The writing very much carries with it the heritage of Richard Strauss ( although the influences of a number of other composers can be discerned-Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf for example, as well as Claude Debussy's harmonic palette in evidence in " Nacht "), through the expansiveness of gesture and ' opening of new vistas ,' and that of Richard Wagner.

He finished fourth in the contest, and threw his support to Claude Wagner, who lost on the final ballot to Joe Clark.

The front-runner going into the convention was Claude Wagner, a former Liberal Minister of Justice in the government of Quebec.

Horner, Hellyer and Nowlan all withdraw and endorse Claude Wagner.

He entered under the court sculptor Johann Wolfgang von der Auwera to Prince – Bishop of Würzburg around 1756 who died that year — Wagner then took his master's widow as his bride, she was named Maria Cordula Curé ( daughter of Claude Curé ).

The film features music by Claude Debussy, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi as well as Russian folk songs.

His favorite composers were Bach, Wagner and Claude Debussy.

In 1946, he starred in a rare comic performance, Angel on My Shoulder, playing a gangster whose early death prompts the Devil ( played by Claude Rains ) to make mischief by putting his soul into the body of a judge, only to have his new identity turn the former criminal into a model citizen.

It was renamed in honor of Claude W. Pettit, a judge and former dean of the college.

In court, Claude makes an eloquent speech in which he calmly tells the judge the full details of the events which had provoked him to commit the crime of murder, and he admits his guilt.

* Claude Luse, former federal judge

In May 1963, a group of prominent Canadian thinkers — including Alan Jarvis, director of the National Gallery of Canada ; novelists Hugh MacLennan and Gabrielle Roy ; J. Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist ; and Claude Robillard, town planner — met for three days at the Seigneury Club in Montebello, Quebec.

He also had a single prominent scene as a commander of Roman centurions in the film described at the time as the most expensive ( and financially ruinous ) British film enterprise ever made, Gabriel Pascal's production of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains.

Alexis Claude de Clairaut ( or Clairault ) ( 3 May 1713 – 17 May 1765 ) was a prominent French mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, and intellectual.

In July 1931 he was appointed Brigade Major to 6th Experimental Brigade at Blackdown, under Archibald Wavell-along with Richard O ' Connor and Claude Auchinleck the most significant influences on his career and his most prominent supporters.

In 1958 disagreements on the organisational role of a political group led to the departure of some prominent members including Claude Lefort and Henri Simon to form Informations et Liaison Ouvrières.

Despite health concerns, particularly regarding the condition of his hands, Ysaÿe was at his best when performing, and many prominent composers dedicated major works to him, including Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, and Ernest Chausson.

More recently the children of exiled Chileans have made their own successful mark in music with acts like internationally acclaimed DJ Ricardo Villalobos, producer and one half of Super Collider ( along with Jamie Lidell ) Cristian Vogel, DJ Luciano, Alejandro Vivanco, Pier Bucci, Cuti Aste, Bitman & Roban, Claude Roubillie and Electrodomesticos being prominent names.

He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

He was also close to Claude " Mustard " Pott, the prominent bookie, and was favourite uncle to Pott's daughter Polly, who sported on the lawns of Ickenham Hall as a child.

Some of the most prominent pioneers among the group, including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette, began as critics for the famous film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.

It was created on 7 October 1919 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to his younger brother Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and his heirs male lawfully begotten.

Some of the most prominent pioneers among the group, including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette, began as critics for the famous film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.

Hamel was prominent in the early history of aviation in Britain, and in particular that of Hendon airfield, where Claude Graham-White was energetically developing and promoting flying.

However, modernism in music became increasingly prominent and important ; among the most important modernists were Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, and post-Wagnerian composers such as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who experimented with form, tonality and orchestration.

In 1664 he ceded the island in three equal parts to three prominent citizens of Ville-Marie: Jacques Le Ber, sieur de Saint-Paul et Senneville ; Claude Robutel de Saint-André, sieur de La Noue ; and Jean de la Vigne, who transferred his portion to Jacques Le Ber's sister Marie in 1668.

Hawes influenced a great number of prominent pianists, including André Previn, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, Claude Williamson, Pete Jolly, Toshiko Akiyoshi and others.

His daughter grew up to marry a prominent Terre Haute lawyer, Claude Matthews, who was elected governor of Indiana in 1896.

Ciccolini is a celebrated interpreter and advocate of the piano music of the French composers Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie as well as that of less prominent composers such as Déodat de Séverac, Jules Massenet, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Alexis de Castillon.

Other names speculatively mentioned as co-authors of The Kybalion include Harriet Case ( Paul Foster Case's wife at the time ), Mabel Collins ( a prominent Theosophical writer ), Claude Bragdon ( an architect, Theosophist, and writer on " mystic geometry "), and Claude Alexander ( a well-known stage magician, mentalist, proponent of crystal gazing, and New Thought author ).