1) American folk rock group 2) Ballet by Igor Stravinsky 3) Greek boy name 4) He married Eurydice 5) Husband of eurydice 6) Legendary Greek musician 7) Lover of eurydice 8) Mythical being 9) Mythical descender 10) Offspring of Apollo 11) Son of Calliope 12) Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet
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[Telemann] Orpheus (full title: Die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe oder Orpheus, The Wonderful Constancy of Love, or Orpheus) is an opera in three acts by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first performed in a concert version at the Theater am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg on 9 March 1726. The anonymous libretto is based on Orp...
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[ballet] Orpheus is a thirty-minute ballet created by choreographer George Balanchine in collaboration with composer Igor Stravinsky in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by the Ballet Society, which Balanchine founded together with Lincoln Kirstein and of which he was ballet master. Sets and costumes were created by I...
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[role-playing game] Orpheus is a role playing game by White Wolf Game Studio, set in a microcosm of the World of Darkness. Unlike the other World of Darkness game lines, Orpheus has a specifically planned metaplot and a set number of books that were published. Although it uses the same system as White Wolf`s other games, ghosts and spirits ...
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• (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
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(from the article `Cocteau, Jean`) ...works. In the long poem L`Ange Heurtebise the poet engages in a violent combat with an angel that was to reappear continually in his works. His ...
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ancient Greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills. He became the patron of a religious movement based on sacred writings said to be ... [5 related articles]
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Mythical Greek poet and musician of Thrace; the son of
Apollo and the Muse
Calliope. Orpheus ventured into Hades, ...
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Mythological figure famed for his singing.
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Or'phe·us noun [ Latin
Orpheus , Greek ....]
(Gr. Myth.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
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Orpheus was a musician. He was one of the argonauts.
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Orpheus was a mythical Greek poet and musician. The son of Apollo and a muse (possibly Calliope), he married Eurydice, who died from the bite of a snake.
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[
n] - (Greek mythology) a great musician
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The white grape variety is an interspecific new variety between (Vitis amurensis x Vitis vinifera) F2 x Irsai Olivér. The hybrid was crossed in Hungary in 1965. It is cultivated in small quantities in the Etyek-Buda and Kunság areas. In 2016, two hectares of vineyard area were designated (statistics Kym Anderson).
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noun (Greek mythology) a great musician; when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed
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Mythical Greek poet and musician of Thrace; the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. Orpheus ventured into Hades, the underworld, to bring back his wife Eurydice, who had died from a snakebite. His lyre playing was so charming that Pluto granted her return to life, but on condition that Orpheus walked ahead without looking back. He turned at th...
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Famed musician; son of Apollo and Muse Calliope; husband of Eurydice.
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a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever. · (italics) a ballet (1947) with music by Stravinsk...
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