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- French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890)
- United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964)
How To Use Franck In A Sentence
- But the cyclic structure he evinced in his own First Symphony is something quite different from what one will find in Schumann or Franck or any other cyclic symphonist of the 19th century.
- Franck's dark-light violin sonata, mysterious, ardent and far more than the sum of its parts when played as majestically as here, forms the centrepiece of this seriously beguiling disc. French Impressions: Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk – review
- Thus the drained portion of Mr. Francke's pocosin gave me a result on analysis equal in value to the best of the Hyde county soils. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
- But to be Franck is to be polite, cultured and dignified enough to accept the hand dealt by the game's fates.
- The celebrity thing is already going full bore. iTunes just uploaded the recordings Anne made for Sony, including: ⢠Prokofiev Violin Concertos ⢠American Album ⢠Lalo/Bruch: Symphonie espagnole/Scottish Fantasy ⢠Franck/Strauss: Violin Sonatas Laurence Vittes: Nexus of the Arts: Anne Akiko Meyers, Keith Olbermann and Antonious Stradivarious
- Aristophanes do report his marueylous nature, because hee was a man but by shape onely, in qualities hee was the capitall enemie of mankinde, which he confessed franckely vtterly to abhorre and hate. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
- This two CD set of Franck's complete organ works contains all of the above-mentioned pieces.
- Fine specimens of wurtzite, stannite, bismuthinite, and franckeite are relatively common at Llallagua.
- Mention should also be made of the exhibit of N.J. Nayrolles, who displays a portiere which is an exact reproduction of one executed for the president of the French Republic; the curtains of M. Waré; the linen drapery and robe de chambre of antique velvet and old Colbert lace of Mme. Franck; infants 'wardrobes of Mme. Susse; the embroideries of Mme. Leroudier; the bonnets of Mme. Esther Mayer and M. Auguste Petit; the corsets and petticoats of Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
- Actually, some figures of the period, such as Hans Denck and Sebastian Franck, did; but latitudinarianism was itself regarded as a heresy.