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... wrote the music for his choir . You see that only a thorough musician could serve in so important a post . Purcell was such a man . Not only did he write solemn anthems for the church service , but he wrote beautiful tunes for poetry ...
... wrote the music for his choir . You see that only a thorough musician could serve in so important a post . Purcell was such a man . Not only did he write solemn anthems for the church service , but he wrote beautiful tunes for poetry ...
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... wrote great music . MORNING DEVOTIONS IN THE BACH HOME In the German Protestant Church of St. Thomas , where Bach spent so many fruitful years at the organ , Good Friday was a solemn season . For the services of that day , Bach wrote ...
... wrote great music . MORNING DEVOTIONS IN THE BACH HOME In the German Protestant Church of St. Thomas , where Bach spent so many fruitful years at the organ , Good Friday was a solemn season . For the services of that day , Bach wrote ...
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... wrote Faust . Thomas ( to'ma ' ) wrote Mignon . CHARLES FRANÇOIS GOUNOD Both were indebted to Goethe , the German poet , for their themes . Faust , like Der Freischütz , is an old German legend whose hero sells his soul to the Evil One ...
... wrote Faust . Thomas ( to'ma ' ) wrote Mignon . CHARLES FRANÇOIS GOUNOD Both were indebted to Goethe , the German poet , for their themes . Faust , like Der Freischütz , is an old German legend whose hero sells his soul to the Evil One ...
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