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Engelbert Humperdinck   Listen
Engelbert Humperdinck

noun
1.
German composer of six operas and other incidental music (1854-1921).  Synonym: Humperdinck.






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... composers must see that they are all enormously influenced by Wagner's principle. The last of the old style was Massenet, and he is dead. We see Richard Strauss, an extreme Wagnerian, only without the master's full powers; Engelbert Humperdinck, who is a user of the leitmotif and a most skilled orchestrator, though his motifs are not so powerful as Wagner's or even Strauss's; Pietro Mascagni, a Mozartean composer; Bruneau, an extreme Wagnerian; Glazounov and Mossourgsky ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones



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