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Franz Peter Schubert (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁants ˈʃuːbɛɐ̯t]; 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer.
Although he died at the age of 31, Schubert was a prolific composer, having written some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. Appreciation of Schubert's music during his lifetime was limited, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, among others, discovered and championed his works in the 19th century. Today, Schubert is seen as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era in music and he remains one of the most frequently performed composers.
Schubert was born in Himmelpfortgrund (now a part of Alsergrund), Vienna, on 31 January 1797. His father, Franz Theodor Schubert, the son of a Moravian peasant, was a parish schoolmaster; his mother, Elisabeth Vietz, was the daughter of a Silesian master locksmith, and had also been a housemaid for a Viennese family prior to her marriage. Of Franz Theodor's fourteen children (one illegitimate child was born in 1783), nine died in infancy; five survived. Their father was a well-known teacher, and his school in Lichtental, a part of Vienna's 9th district, was well attended. He was not a musician of fame or with formal training, but he taught his son some elements of music.
Actors: Yûsaku Yara (actor), Fûrin Cha (actor), Hiromasa Taguchi (actor), Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Hôchû Ôtsuka (actor), Shôzô Iizuka (actor), Jûrôta Kosugi (actor), Haruka Tomatsu (actress), Hozumi Gôda (actor), Hiroshi Yanaka (actor), Mariya Ise (actress), Minako Kotobuki (actress), Yûki Kuroda (actor), Ikuko Tani (actress), Hiroshi Shimozaki (actor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy,Actors: Steve Schirripa (actor), Stefan C. Schaefer (producer), Stefan C. Schaefer (actor), Stefan C. Schaefer (writer), Olaf de Fleur Johannesson (writer), Olaf de Fleur Johannesson (producer), Olaf de Fleur Johannesson (director), Hilmir Snær Guðnason (actor), Jóhann G. Jóhannsson (actor), Sharon Angela (actress), Örn Árnason (actor), Garrett P. Fennelly (miscellaneous crew), Benedikt Erlingsson (actor), Ashley Springer (actor), Jóhann Sigurðarson (actor),
Plot: Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system. He introduces himself to the team and begins his analysis of these poor creatures were once human but, due to unproductive or lackluster lives, have been reborn as angels. They are condemned to complete a near impossible list of 1571 tasks in the hope of being reborn as human once more. But the report is not Oleg's only task in Iceland, as Lewis, a young man in New York, is about to find out. Accidentally undetected by the system for twenty years, he was born and raised human. But now his human life will be erased and his life as a Circledrawer begins. As Oleg continues his report in Iceland, Lewis is placed in the care of two seasoned Circledrawers, Marcus and Moses, who introduce him to their strange limbo reality, including: the women who govern it (including Sharon Angela of the "Sopranos"), the attention-starved Human Protector (Steve Schirripa of the "Sopranos") who assists in transitioning, and the wonders of batteries, flashlights, and prostitute nights. But can Lewis really leave his former human life behind? And is there something Oleg isn't sharing about his mission to Iceland and the true identity and calling of Lewis? Welcome to the clumsy, humorous, pathetic bureaucrats of the after- and before-life. Welcome to THE CIRCLEDRAWERS.
Keywords: angelActors: Thomas Grimm (director), Jonas Kaufmann (actor), Franz Welser-Möst (actor), László Polgár (actor), Michael Volle (actor), Claus Guth (miscellaneous crew), Günther Groissböck (actor), Christoph Strehl (actor), Juliane Banse (actress), Christian Schmidt (costume designer), Ruben Drole (actor), Orchester der Oper Zürich (actor), Irène Friedli (actress), Wolfgang Beuschel (actor), Chor des Opernhaus Zürich (actor),
Genres: Drama, Music,Actors: Isolde Barth (actress), Oliver Storz (writer), Hartmut Köhler (producer), Klaus Doldinger (composer), Eva-Maria Kurz (actress), Doris J. Heinze (producer), Barbara Rudnik (actress), Matthias Brandt (actor), Regina Ziegler (producer), Horst Sachtleben (actor), Christopher Buchholz (actor), Stefan Kurt (actor), Christof Wackernagel (actor), Oliver Storz (director), Karoline Eichhorn (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Hans-Michael Rehberg (actor), Matthias Fuchs (actor), Reiner Heise (actor), Beate Hasenau (actress), Sigi Rothemund (director), Walter Kreye (actor), Rufus Beck (actor), Henning Schlüter (actor), Veit Stübner (actor), Karoline Eichhorn (actress), Marek Wlodarczyk (actor), Irmgard Riessen (actress), Wolfgang Kaven (actor), Dorothea Kaiser (actress), Ulli Stephan (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Pál Sándor (miscellaneous crew), István Bujtor (actor), Zsuzsa Bíró (miscellaneous crew), Ila Schütz (actress), Zdenkó Tamássy (composer), Tamás Major (actor), Sándor Simó (director), Mari Töröcsik (actress), István Avar (actor), Tibor Molnár (actor), János Kovács (actor), Sándor Simó (writer), János Gosztonyi (actor), Mária Ronyecz (actress), Géza Böszörményi (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Manfred Borges (actor), Günther Simon (actor), Axel Triebel (actor), Hans Hendrik Wehding (composer), Willi Brückner (miscellaneous crew), Gisela May (actress), Renate Küster (actress), Erich Mirek (actor), Rolf Möbius (actor), Paul R. Henker (actor), Karl Kendzia (actor), Ingeborg Wilfert (costume designer), Harald Sawade (actor), Christa Wernicke (editor), Jochen Sehrndt (actor),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Harry Baur (actor), Abel Gance (writer), Abel Gance (director), Jane Marken (actress), Georges Saillard (actor), Roger Blin (actor), Jany Holt (actress), Enrico Glori (actor), Marcel Dalio (actor), André Nox (actor), Georges Paulais (actor), Jean-Louis Barrault (actor), Jean Debucourt (actor), Philippe Richard (actor), Marguerite Beaugé (editor),
Plot: 1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi, whom Beethoven loves but who marries a count, regrets that decision, but by then he and Thérèse are engaged. When Beethoven loses Juliette, he moves to the mill at Heiligenstadt; realizing he's becoming deaf, profound depression sets in. He rejects suicide, holding on to remembered sound and to his work, a dedication assisted by Thérèse and others. In later years, we see his devotion to an ungrateful and thieving nephew, his poverty, the isolation of deafness, and the love of friends.
Keywords: beethoven, classical-music, deaf-composer, deafness, depression, experiments-in-sound, fickle-woman, homosexual-subtext, love-thwarted, love-triangleActors: Karl Ritter (producer), Heli Finkenzeller (actress), Hermann Erhardt (actor), Beppo Brem (actor), Josefine Dora (actress), Margarete Haagen (actress), Erika von Thellmann (actress), Elise Aulinger (actress), Franz Loskarn (actor), Theodor Danegger (actor), Kurt Meisel (actor), Paul Richter (actor), Oskar Sima (actor), Georg Jacoby (director), Walter Forster (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: John Beal (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Charles Boyer (actor), Sam Hardy (actor), Sam Hayes (actor), Jean Hersholt (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Cornelius Keefe (actor), Lee Kohlmar (actor), Ferdinand Gottschalk (actor), Torben Meyer (actor), Bert Moorhouse (actor),
Plot: Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. They see each other, fall in love and marry. They honeymoon all over Europe and are happy back home until Constance finds him with a society divorcee and leaves him.
Keywords: adultery, alcohol, auld-lang-syne, butler, composer, concert, divorce, drunk, heartbreak, jealousy