Joseph haydn most famous piece
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Sterling Hayden
American actor (1916–1986)
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor, and Marine. A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in Westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). In the 1960s, he became noted for supporting roles, perhaps most memorably as General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Hayden's success continued into the New Hollywood era, with roles such as Irish-American policeman Captain McCluskey in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), alcoholic novelist Roger Wade in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), elderly peasant Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976), and chairman of the board Russell Tinsworthy in 9 to 5 (1980). With a distinctive "rapid-fire baritone" voice and an imposing stature at 6 ft 5 in (196
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List of compositions by Joseph Haydn
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Classical Music | Baritone
Recorded on 10/12/2004, uploaded on 01/13/2009
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In Johann Gabriel Seidl’s poem Der Wanderer an den Mond(“The Wanderer Speaks to the Moon”), the narrator compares himself to the moon above him. He, like his celestial companion, wanders from land to land. Yet, that is where their similarities end. The narrator goes on to muse on their differences—he wanders on troubled, while the moon is peaceful and pure. He finds no place of rest in his wandering; the moon, he says, is at home wherever it is in the night sky. Finally, he remarks that happy is the man who always “stands on native ground” wherever he is.
Schubert set Seidl’s poem in 1826, only two years before his death and the year preceding the composition of the great Winterreise song cycle. The vocal melody of Schubert’s setting is simple, almost of folk-like origin. The first two stanzas are nearly identical and differ only in their endings. The accompaniment, also, is simple consisting of a steady bass line with chords above it, mimicking slightly strummed ch
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