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Georg Nikolaus von Nissen ( sometimes Nicolaus or Nicolai ; January 22, 1761 – March 24, 1826 ) was a Danish diplomat and music historian.
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Besides visiting composers, some legendary conductors have led the orchestra, including Artur Rodziński, Walter Damrosch, Sir Thomas Beecham, John Barbirolli, Andre Kostelanetz, Lorin Maazel, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Victor de Sabata, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Charles Münch, Paul Paray, Rafael Kubelík, Daniel Barenboim, István Kertész, Karl Richter, Antal Doráti, Leonard Slatkin, Andrew Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, Neeme Järvi, Kiril Kondrashin, Eugene Ormandy, Georg Solti, Alex Shkurko, Michael Kamen, Christopher Hogwood and Bruno Walter
Since the costs of the school surpassed the family's means, the boy was supported by public resources and spent his school years in a dwelling for poor students ; he was given special attention and instruction by the rector of the Gymnasium, Georg Nikolaus Köhler, who sparked his interest in languages, loaned him Greek texts, and devised special exercises in which the boy had to reconstruct intelligible texts from fragments.
* Princess Olga Alexandrovna Yurievskaya ( 7 November 1874 – 10 August 1925 ); married Georg Nikolaus, Count of Merenberg, a morganatic son of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau by his wife, Natalia Aleksandrovna, daughter of Alexander Pushkin.
* Georg Nikolaus von Nissen ( 1761 – 1826 ), Danish diplomat and writer, known as a biographer of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Donath performed works of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Richard Strauss, and has worked and recorded under Karl Richter, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Rafael Kubelík, Antal Doráti, Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti, Giuseppe Patanè, Daniel Barenboim, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, Colin Davis, Eugen Jochum, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta and Herbert von Karajan.
Froberger's compositions were known to and studied by, among many others, Johann Pachelbel, Dieterich Buxtehude, Georg Muffat and his son Gottlieb Muffat, Johann Caspar Kerll, Matthias Weckmann, Louis Couperin, Johann Kirnberger, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Georg Böhm, George Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Article: " Nissen, Georg Nikolaus ", in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, on line version.
According to the tale told in Georg Nikolaus von Nissen's draft biography of Mozart written in collaboration with Constanze, who married Nissen after Mozart's death, Mozart and Aloysia had a rather unpleasant encounter:
It was instigated at the behest of the Elector August of Saxony, and it was the joint work of a group of Lutheran theologians and churchmen of the latter sixteenth century, who met from April 9 to June 7, 1576 in Torgau, the seat of government for the Electorate of Saxony at the time: Jakob Andreä ( 1528 – 90 ), Martin Chemnitz ( 1522 – 86 ), Nikolaus Selnecker ( 1528 – 92 ), David Chytraeus ( 1531 – 1600 ), Andreas Musculus ( 1514 – 81 ), Christoph Körner ( 1518 – 94 ), Caspar Heyderich ( 1517 – 86 ), Paul Crell ( 1532 – 79 ), Maximilian Mörlin ( 1516 – 84 ), Wolfgang Harder ( 1522 – 1602 ), Daniel Gräser, Nicholas Jagenteufel ( 1520 – 83 ), Johannes Cornicaelius, John Schütz ( 1531 – 84 ), Martin Mirus ( 1532 – 93 ), Georg Listenius ( d. 1596 ), and Peter Glaser ( 1528 – 83 ); and a smaller set of this group ( Andreä, Chemnitz, Selnecker, Chytraeus, Musculus, and Körner ) a year later in Bergen Abbey, near Magdeburg, both from March 1 – 14, and in May, 1577.
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Contemporary portrait of Afonso V of Portugal, as depicted in the Itinerarium of Georg von Ehingen ( printed 1600, Augsburg, but based on earlier image c. 1470 )
Friedrich von Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel have also given lectures on aesthetics as philosophy of art after 1800.
The witch trials of the 17th century claimed hundreds of victims in Bamberg, reaching a climax between 1626 and 1631, under the rule of Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim.
The first duke was also honoured with Imperial titles: Emperor Joseph I created him a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1704, and in 1705, he was created Imperial Prince of Mindelheim ( once the lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg ).
group lasted until 1933 and included such notable members as Wilhelm Ostwald, Georg von Arco, Helene Stöcker
The effect of gravity on light was then explored by Johann Georg von Soldner ( 1801 ), who calculated the amount of deflection of a light ray by the sun, arriving at the Newtonian answer which is half the value predicted by general relativity.
It seems he was involved in the production of operas and involved in finishing the architectural designs of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff who had fallen ill.
There, he received a liberal education at the Lyceum, and Karl J. Windischmann drew his attention to the languages and literature of the East ( Windischmann, along with Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Johann Joseph von Görres, and the brothers Schlegel, expressed great enthusiasm for Indian wisdom and philosophy ).
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