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Jenő Zádor
1894 births | 1977 deaths | american composers | hungarian composers | opera composersJenő Zádor (5 November 1894 Bátaszék-4 April 1977 Hollywood, CA) was a Hungarian-born American composer. He studied at the Vienna Music Academy and in Leipzig with Max Reger. He taught from 1921 at the new Vienna City Conservatory and later at the Budapest Academy of Music. On the outbreak of World War II he emigrated to the USA, where he became a successful composer of film scores for Hollywood. He also wrote a number of operas in which the characterization and orchestration are worthy of note, and orchestral pieces in a style that owed something to Reger and Richard Strauss, including the popular Hungarian Caprice (1935) and concertos for such instruments as the cimbalom (1969) and accordion (1971).
Operas
- Diana (1923)
- A holtak szigete (1928)
- Revisor (1928)
- X-mal Rembrandt (1930)
- The Awaking of Sleeping Beauty (1931)
- Asra (1936)
- Christoph Columbus (1939)
- The Virgin and the Fawn (24 October 1964)
- The Magic Chair (1966)
- The Scarlet Mill (1968)
- Revisor [rev] (1971 )
- Yehu, a Christmas Legend (1974)
Atnafu Abate
1977 deaths | ethiopian politiciansLieutenant Colonel Atnafu Abate (late 1930s - 1977) was an Ethiopian military officer and a leading member of the Derg, the military junta which rdeposed Emperor Haile Selassie and ruled the country for the next several years.
The Ottaways point out that Lt. Col. Atnafu was seen as "A symbol of the rebellion of a conservative, nationalistic, and religious peasantry against the corruption and abuses of the aristocracy. ... He early projected the image of the officer devoted to the traditional values of motherland, flag and church."Marina and David Ottaway, Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution (New York: Africana, 1978), p. 131
Renato Curi
1953 births | 1977 deaths | football (soccer) midfielders | footballers who died on the pitch | italian footballers | people from the province of ascoli piceno | perugia calcio players | serie a players24 (0) 81 (7) }}
Renato Curi (September 20, 1953 — October 30, 1977) was an Italian footballer best famous for his tenure as Perugia mainstay in the 1970s until his death during a league game against Juventus.
