In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

The Russian composer Edison Denisov, whose father was a radio-physicist, was named after the inventor.

* Edison Denisov, musician

The group has given hundreds of world premieres and some of the most important composers include Thomas Adès, Louis Andriessen, Georges Aperghis, Harrison Birtwistle, Benjamin Britten, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Edison Denisov, James Dillon, Hugues Dufourt, Pascal Dusapin, Ivan Fedele, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Luca Francesconi, Francisco Guerrero, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jonathan Harvey, Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, György Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Conlon Nancarrow, Roger Reynolds, Wolfgang Rihm, Giacinto Scelsi, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis.

* Edison Denisov: Sur la Nappe d ' un étang glacé, for nine instruments and tape ( 1991 )

Edison Denisov in Sortavala, Summer 1975.

Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia into the family of a radio physicist, who gave him the very unusual first name Edison, in honour of the great American inventor.

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* Yuri Kholopov & Valeria Tsenova: Edison Denisov, Harwood Academic publ., 1995

* Edison Denisov at " Wanadoo "

* Interview with Edison Denisov in Ruza Composers Colony near Moscow, July 1988

* Interview with Edison Denisov by Bruce Duffie, May 16, 1991

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Shostakovich reportedly told fellow composer Edison Denisov that he had always loathed anti-Semitism.

Thomas Edison with his second phonograph photographed by Mathew Brady in Washington, April 1878

Photograph of Edison with his phonograph ( 2nd model ), taken in Mathew Brady's Washington, DC studio in April 1878.

In April 1896, Thomas Armat's Vitascope, manufactured by the Edison factory and marketed in Edison's name, was used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.

Decommissioned on December 1, 1983, Thomas A. Edison was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on April 30, 1986.

* 27 April 1877 — Edison files for a patent on a carbon ( graphite ) transmitter.

* April 15 – The General Electric Company is established through the merger of the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General Electric Company.

Beginning in March 1892, Eastman and then, from April 1893 into 1896, New York's Blair Camera Co. supplied Edison with film stock.

Over the years, portions of Piscataway were taken to form Raritan Township ( March 17, 1870, now Edison ), Dunellen ( October 28, 1887 ), Middlesex ( April 9, 1913 ) and South Plainfield ( March 10, 1926 ).

Portions of the township were taken to form Rahway ( April 19, 1858 ), Raritan Township ( March 17, 1870, now Edison Township ) and Roosevelt ( April 11, 1906, now Carteret ).

* April 1896-Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City

The Latham brothers and their father, Woodville, had retained the services of former Edison employee Eugene Lauste and then, in April 1895, Dickson himself to develop a film projection system.

* 27 April 1877: Thomas Edison files telephone patent application.

After ten previews, a revival directed by José Quintero and choreographed by Bertram Ross opened on April 11, 1971 at the Edison Theatre, where it closed after one performance.

Dickson left Edison in April 1895, joining with inventors Herman Casler, Henry Marvin and businessman Elias Koopman to incorporate the American Mutoscope Company in New Jersey in December 1895.

On 15 April 1892 Thomson-Houston and the Edison General Electric Company merged to form General Electric ( GE ).

The first commercially exhibited motion pictures in the United States were from Edison, and premiered at a Kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14, 1894.

On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter placed the Edison and Ford Winter Estates on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years.

In April 2001, Consolidated Edison filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that they had tripled the compensation of McGrath, to $ 9 million.