Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

The Freischoeffen also provided the subject for Berlioz's unfinished opera Les francs-juges, the overture to which provided the signature tune for ' Face to Face ', the well-known early series of British television interviews, conducted by the Rt Hon John Freeman MBE.

The opera was unfinished at the time of Puccini's death in 1924 and was completed by Franco Alfano in 1926.

In 1832-34 he completed the opera " Ryno, the errant knight " left unfinished on the death of the young composer Eduard Brendler.

The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov.

Homage has been paid to Weber by 20th century composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Mahler ( who completed Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos and made revisions of Euryanthe and Oberon ) and Hindemith ( composer of the popular Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ).

In Germany, Frank Wedekind introduced the femme-fatale of his first " Lulu " play, Earth Spirit ( 1895 ), in a Pierrot costume ; and when the Austrian composer Alban Berg drew upon the play for his opera Lulu ( unfinished ; first perf.

Khovanshchina, a more obscure opera, was unfinished and unperformed when Mussorgsky died, but it was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and received its premiere in 1886 in Saint Petersburg.

Halévy about completing his old tutor's unfinished opera Noé.

In 1920, Vincent d ' Indy published a study of Dukas's music ; Debussy remained a lifelong friend, though feeling that Dukas's music was not French enough ; Saint-Saëns worked with Dukas to complete an unfinished opera by Guiraud, and they were both engaged in the rediscovery and editing of the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau ; Fauré dedicated his Second Piano Quintet to Dukas in 1921.

Compositions such as his settings of Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, various art songs on poems by Verlaine, the opera Pelléas et Mélisande with a libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck, and his unfinished sketches that illustrate two Poe stories, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, all indicate that Debussy was profoundly influenced by symbolist themes and tastes.

( Later in life Cui championed the music of this late colleague of his, to the point of making the first completion of Mussorgsky's unfinished opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi.

He left sixty pages of an unfinished opera, Manuel Venegas, in 1897, in a desperate attempt to finish before he lost his mind completely ; after mid-1899 he could make no music at all and once even tried to drown himself, after which he was placed in a Vienna asylum at his own insistence.

His epitaph is taken from one account of his remarks concluding the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot: " Qui finisce l ' opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto " (" Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died ").

* At the point where Puccini left off writing the finale of his unfinished opera, Turandot: " Here Death triumphed over art ".

Berlioz claimed to have written the fourth movement in a single night, reconstructing music from an unfinished project, the opera Les francs-juges.

In the same year, following the death of Carl Maria von Weber, Weber's widow asked Meyerbeer to complete her husband's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos.

" Schoenberg would later use a notation without a traditional clef in the Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1942 ), A Survivor from Warsaw ( 1947 ) and his unfinished opera Moses und Aron, which eliminated any reference to a specific pitch, but retained the relative slides and articulations.

* Salammbô ( Mussorgsky ), an unfinished opera, based on Flaubert's novel, on which Modest Mussorgsky worked between 1863 and 1866

* Za Bakdaz ( 2007 ) – posthumous compilation of an " unfinished opera "

* The Emerald Isle ( 1901 ; completion of the opera left unfinished by Sullivan at his death )

* Eugene Aram ( opera in four acts, unfinished, libretto based on Bulwer Lytton and Thomas Hood, performed as a recitation in 1892 )

The comical Italian opera diva first appears in King Ottokar's Sceptre, and is also in The Seven Crystal Balls, The Calculus Affair, The Castafiore Emerald, Tintin and the Picaros, The Red Sea Sharks, and would have appeared in the unfinished Tintin and Alph-Art.

At her request Schoenberg's ( ultimately unfinished ) piece, Die Jakobsleiter was prepared for performance by Schoenberg's student Winfried Zillig.

* Die Jakobsleiter ( early 1920s ), an unfinished oratorio by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg

After this Doderer returned to an earlier, unfinished project, Die Dämonen, which appeared in 1956 to much acclaim.

Die Hochzeit ( The Wedding ) is an unfinished opera by Richard Wagner which predates all his completed works in the genre.

Yet there are many shared textual commonalities with Die Feen, so it is possible that substantial or substantive parts of this unfinished work may be existent there.

Following the Rosicrucian example, an Egyptian imagery pervaded the European Freemasonry of the time and its imagery, such as the eye on the pyramid — still depicted on the Great Seal of the United States ( 1782 ), which appears on the United States one-dollar bill — and the Egyptian references in Mozart's Masonic-themed Die Zauberflöte ( The Magic Flute, 1791 ), and his earlier unfinished " Thamos ".

Left unfinished or unpublished were works titled " The Ray of Hope ," " Battle Without Song ," " To Live and Die in Dixie ," " The Q Secret ," " Codsack Chronicles ," and " Recollections of a Loner.

With these tragedies, to which may be added Die Rechte des Herzens ( The Rights of the Heart ) and Das Fräulein von Scuderi ( The Lady of Scuderi ), the comedy Hans Frey, and an unfinished tragedy on the subject of Agnes Bernauer, Ludwig ranks immediately after Christian Friedrich Hebbel as Germany's most notable dramatic poet at the middle of the 19th century.

Robert Musil wrote the well-known novel The Man without Qualities, Stefan Zweig published a multitude of essays, stories and novels, Karl Kraus edited the magazine Die Fackel ( The Torch ), for which he wrote almost all articles by himself, Franz Werfel wrote some of his best novels, e. g. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh which narrates the Armenian tragedy of 1915, and after Franz Kafka's death, his life-time friend Max Brod began to publish Kafka's unfinished novels.

Three months later on the evening of December 28, 1881 Virgil Earp was ambushed and seriously wounded on the streets of Tombstone by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.

Three weeks later at the Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Manassas ), Hill was placed on the Confederate left along the unfinished railroad cut and held it against repeated Union attacks.

A vocal version of " Promenade " ( the first live version of which appears on Pictures at an Exhibition ) replaces the missing sections of " The Three Fates "; a new otherwise untitled " Drum Solo " by Carl Palmer ( similar but not identical to a section of " Tank ") is added between " Rave Up " and " Lucky Man "; " Lucky Man " is followed by an unfinished alternate take of " Take a Pebble ", complete with some studio banter ; then an unreleased take of " Knife Edge ", lacking vocals and final section ; and finally two versions of " Lucky Man ", the first being Greg Lake's original demo, the second an unreleased complete band version.

Three of his works have survived: a conclusion to the version of the Tristan legend left unfinished by Gottfried von Strassburg ; Rennewart, a continuation of Willehalm, left unfinished by Wolfram von Eschenbach ; and fragments of a version of Cligès based on that of Chrétien de Troyes.

The first preliminary was inspecting the unfinished length of frieze, a jumble of roughcast and finish coats, all in bad condition.

This massive text, which Roger Bacon would later sarcastically describe as weighing as much as a horse, was unfinished at his death ; his students, William of Middleton and John of Rupella, were charged with its completion.

His most notable work, Vom Kriege ( On War ), was unfinished at his death.

Claudius ' temple was left unfinished after only some of the foundation had been laid down.

He was able to start the devolution process, and worked endlessly on creating the Scotland Act, popularly known as Smith's " unfinished business ".

" The work was unfinished at Eusebius ' death.

His unfinished history Athens: Its Rise and Fall was published posthumously.

( This chapter was left unfinished by the author.

The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished.

In 1949, while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold ( the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II ), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break.

Two days after Tycho's unexpected death on October 24, 1601, Kepler was appointed his successor as imperial mathematician with the responsibility to complete his unfinished work.

The Grammar was continued in three volumes, treating principally derivation, composition and syntax, the last of which was unfinished.

Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.

The success of the novel and its serialized nature also allowed many imitators to publish pamphlets concerning the Shandean characters and other Shandean-related material even while the novel was yet unfinished.

An unfinished poem, Avarchide, in imitation of the Iliad, was the work of his old age and has little merit.

Bloch has had lasting influence in the field of historiography through his unfinished manuscript The Historian's Craft, which he was working on at his death.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Michelangelo designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica on or before 1564, although it was unfinished when he died.

The temple was left unfinished during the years of Athenian democracy, apparently because the Greeks thought it hubristic to build on such a scale.

They either argue that it was left unfinished or say that earlier sources, such as Richard Eden's The Decades of the New Worlde Or West India ( 1555 ) and Desiderius Erasmus's Naufragium / The Shipwreck ( 1523 ), sufficiently account for some of the phrasing and images in The Tempest.

The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal ( now Ca ' Rezzonico ) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.

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