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...K 356, both performed in 1791. Efforts to combine it with a keyboard enjoyed only a passing vogue. Among the last to write for it was the French composer Hector Berlioz in his Fantasia on The Tempest of 1830; a decade later it was replaced by the growing family of free reeds.
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The play opens with a storm raised by Prospero, who years earlier, as the rightful duke of Milan, had been set adrift in a boat with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda, by his usurping brother, Antonio. Prospero, more interested in his books and his magic than in the pragmatics of ruling Milan, had left himself vulnerable to this overthrow. Arriving at an island, Prospero proceeded to make...
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The Tempest is a milestone in Renaissance landscape painting, with its dramatization of a storm about to break. Here is the kind of poetic interpretation of nature that the Renaissance writers Pietro Bembo and Jacopo Sannazzaro evoked. This feeling for nature is probably also intimately related to, though not directly derived from, the philosophical...
...Italy), derives from the style of the mature work of Bellini. In only a few years Giorgione passed from this style of painting, through the turbulence of the dramatic landscape with storm clouds of “The Tempest” (c. 1505; Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia), to the dreamy landscape of the “Pastoral Concert” (c. 1510; Louvre). In the latter, Giorgione...
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...As the play begins, Prospero raises the tempest in order to cast onto the shores of his island a party of Neapolitans returning to Naples from a wedding in Tunis: King Alonso of Naples, his son Ferdinand, his brother Sebastian, and Prospero’s brother, Antonio.
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...Symphony No. 6, and he dedicated Symphony No. 8 to her. After his death in 1911 Alma had an affair with Oskar Kokoschka, who painted her many times, most notably in “The Tempest” (1914; “Die Windsbraut”). In 1915 she married the architect Walter Gropius; they were divorced after World War I. She married the writer Franz Werfel in 1929. In the late...
...Kokoschka and Alma Mahler) (1912) and Self-Portrait, Pointing to the Breast (1913). Kokoschka’s most important painting of this period, The Tempest (1914), shows the artist and Alma Mahler resting together in a huge cockleshell in the midst of a raging sea. In this blue-and-gray composition, all the forms are described by...
