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Originally posted by mercia View PostRopartz connection to Brittany ?
Ropartz was associated with the Breton cultural renaissance of the era, setting to music the words of Breton writers such as Anatole Le Braz and Charles Le Goffic. He also supported Breton regional autonomy, joining the Breton Regionalist Union in 1898.Pacta sunt servanda !!!
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Originally posted by Oddball View PostQu Xiao-song
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by mercia View Postor even Brittany [is that the same thing ? ]
Breton is the adjective referring to things and people from Brittany... or have I misunderstood?
Coming new to this and not sure which are answers... Have we only got Ropartz so far?
Originally posted by mercia View Post............... a well-known moneylender in literature .... ?
is that Shakespeare ?
Any good?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by mercia View Postvery good, so Faure employed in Brittany, Ropartz born in Brittany
organistic "evangelical poems" .............. from Brittany ?
I have a godson in Rennes, and he and his bro (and their dad) are singing in Fauré's Requiem in April in their school chapel, I can't wait"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostAh! I'd forgotten Jean Langlais was from north-east of Rennes
Guy Ropartz - Guingamp - Un soir sur les chaumes
Jean Langlais - La Fontenelle - Poemes evangeliques
Faure - employed Rennes - Shylock opus 57
I do hope C will be a French region
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Nice to have a Breton question to start the weekend
I should be back in an hour or so with a C unless Flay has bought one in Asda for us?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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