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The Mortier company started in 1898 as a vending agent for the Parisian organ builder Gavioli & Cie, in a period when the French and German organ industry was in full bloom.
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Mortier and company
This resulted in the creation of the new Ballet du XXième Siècle which became the theatre's new ballet company until 1987 when Béjart and his Ballet left la Monnaie after a conflict with Gérard Mortier.
A note of uncertainty about the company's future emerged in November 2008, when Gérard Mortier, who was scheduled to begin his first official season as General and Artistic Director of the company in 2009, abruptly resigned.
Mortier needed a replacement when Maurice Béjart, who had held the position of Director of Dance for over 20 years, suddenly left and took his company with him.
The company was founded by Theophile Mortier ( 1855 – 1944 ).
In 1906 Mortier started to build organs himself, as an annex of the Gavioli company.
Mortier and 1898
Mortier is an organ manufacturer from Antwerp, Belgium that made orchestrions, fairground organs, and mostly dance organs from 1898 until 1950.
Mortier and for
This was a trap on the part of Kutuzov, laid for the sole purpose of convincing Mortier that he had retreated further toward Vienna, when he had actually crossed the Danube in force, and lay concealed behind the ridges above the village.
They were chosen in favor of the pair of their cousin, Nike Wagner, and Gérard Mortier, who had placed a late bid for the directorship on 24 August.
Mortier remained in Spain for two campaigns, winning the victory of Ocaña in November 1809.
Bernard Foccroulle succeeded Mortier in 1991 and served for fifteen seasons, maintaining and even expanding the reputation Mortier had gained in the 1980s.
He defeated Hans " The Great " Mortier in less than a minute with the Figure-4 in Madison Square Garden, and teamed with Handsome Johnny Barend to take 2 out of 3 falls via pin from Sammartino and Bobo Brazil, with Rogers pinning Sammartino for the final fall.
This could have proved disastrous for Beresford, but Mortier had been recalled to Paris leaving Latour-Maubourg in command at Badajoz, and he was more concerned with repairing the fortress's defences than confronting the Allied army.
* VTM 120 ( Véhicule Tracteur de Mortier )-Mortar towing vehicle, can carry 70 bombs for the Thomson-Brandt MO-120 mortar.
In 2006 he gave his debut as an opera director, staging Mozart's Don Giovanni for the Opéra National de Paris at Palais Garnier, when the theater's general manager was Gerard Mortier.
Jan Mortier, Former Rapporteur for President Mikhail Gorbachev ’ s World Political Forum, the Commission on Globalisation and the NGO Process of the Community of Democracies, Editorial Advisory Board Member of World Peace News, New York.
Civitatis s and the Executive Director Jan Mortier jointly drafted the Document for Ministerial Consideration that was then presented to the Ministers of State at the Fourth intergovernmental meeting of the Community of Democracies.
Mortier and organ
Theophile Mortier was originally the manager of a dance hall, in which there was always a Gavioli organ playing.
* Fairground organs, with a photograph of a colorful 112-key Mortier dance organ
Mortier and Gavioli
From age 14 on, well-known musical instrument factories such as Bruder, Gavioli, Mortier and DeVreese were employing him in Waldkirch and Paris .< ref >
Due to internal operations difficulties, Gavioli could after a while not deliver enough orders and Mortier began to manufacture the dance organs under his own name.
Mortier and &
Plan and view of Hamburg in 1730, from an 18th-century Covens & Mortier atlas
Mortier and French
* 1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( d. 1835 )
* July 28 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( b. 1768 )
* February 13 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( d. 1835 )
However, the Allies didn't know that the reinforcements of Bernadotte, Mortier and Davout had already been within the supported distance, and could be called in need by forced marches from Iglau and Vienna respectively, raising the French forces to 75, 000 troops, thus sharply reducing the inferiority in number.
In 1922 she married Pierre Mortier and took French nationality.
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, 1st Duc de Trévise ( 13 February 176828 July 1835 ) was a French general and Marshal of France under Napoleon I.
His conduct of the French occupation of Hanover, bringing about the Convention of Artlenburg, led Napoleon to include Mortier in the first list of marshals created in 1804.
A combined force of Russians and Austrians, under over-all command of Mikhail Kutuzov enticed Mortier to send Théodore Maxime Gazan's 2nd Division into a trap and French troops were caught in a valley between two Russian columns.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Gérard Mortier engaged the French conductor Sylvain Cambreling as La Monnaie's music director, and Cambreling restored the playing of the orchestra to its former level.
Before his departure Soult had consolidated his gains in Extremadura by garrisoning Badajoz with 11, 000 French troops under the command of Marshal Édouard Mortier.
Mortier also sent two cavalry regiments under General Marie Victor Latour-Maubourg to invest Alburquerque ; the 6, 000 strong garrison there surrendered before French reinforcements needed to be brought up.
On returning to Badajoz after his successful foray into Portugal, Mortier had left one infantry and three cavalry regiments at Campo Maior, under Latour-Maubourg, to dismantle its defences ; Beresford's appearance on 25 March caught the French by surprise.
General Oudinot commanded the French forces on the right bank and general Mortier those on the left.
Treviso was taken in 1797 by the French under Mortier, who was made duke of Treviso.
General Oudinot commanded the French forces on the right bank and general Joseph Mortier, those on the left.
Mortier and was
Upon Karajan's death in 1989, the festival was modernized by director Gerard Mortier, succeeded by Peter Ruzicka in 2001.
Mortier over-extended his line of march and Gazan's division was surrounded by Kutuzov's Coalition army ; Gazan lost 40 percent of his force in the Battle of Dürenstein.
When General Manager designate Gerard Mortier withdrew from NYCO, the revival, along with the rest of Mortier's programming, was canceled.
In 1836 he was named grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor in succession to Marshal Mortier, and in 1838 commander of the National Guards of the Seine département, an office which he held until 1842.
Mortier was born at Le Cateau-Cambrésis on 13 February 1768, son of Charles Mortier ( 17301808 ) and wife Marie Anne Joseph Bonnaire ( b. 1735 ), and entered the army as a sub-lieutenant in 1791.
After Austerlitz, Napoleon dispersed the Corps and Gazan received the Legion of Honor, but Mortier was simply reassigned.
In 1806 Mortier was again in Hanover and north-western Germany.
A ball grazed the king's forehead, and his horse, with those of the Duke of Nemours and of the Prince de Joinville, was shot ; Marshal Mortier was killed, with seventeen other persons, and many were wounded ; but the king and the princes escaped essentially unharmed.
From 2005 until 2007, Flimm was the director of the RuhrTriennale, following founding director Gerard Mortier.
During the 1980s Gerard Mortier was general director of la Monnaie.
The river crossing was successful, because the Russians were too weak on its front section, and because they had been deceived by feints Division Ménard at Vogelsang / Stilli and by the Division Mortier at Wollishofen the main thrust in Dietikon.
" Mortier had reportedly been promised a $ 60 million annual budget, which was cut to $ 36 million due to the economic climate.
Leslie Mortier Shaw ( November 2, 1848March 28, 1932 ) was an American businessman, lawyer and politician.
Paixhans also invented a " Mortier monstre " (" Monster Mortar "), using 500 kg bombs, which was used to terrible effect in the Siege of Antwerp in 1832.
A crucial role was played by a member of the Board of Directors, Marc Mortier who consulted the Prime Minister of Belgium, Wilfried Martens, in order to establish an organisation named Foot Invest, to get the team financially back on track.
In 1988, he was approached by Gerard Mortier, then the head of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels.
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