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Marriage, The

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Marriage, The

Unfinished opera by Mussorgsky (libretto taken from Gogol's comedy), composed 1864. It was never performed in Mussorgsky's lifetime, but was produced with piano accompaniment in St Petersburg on 1 April 1909, and with orchestra in Petrograd on 26 October 1917 with Mussorgsky's Sorotchintsy Fair. Podkolesin hires a marriage broker in pursuit of Agafya.

Comic opera by Martinů (libretto by composer, after Gogol); composed 1952, first performed NBC TV, New York, on 7 February 1953.



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Dabney's; it could not but be crushed and killed by her early disappointment, the cold duty of her first marriage, the dislocation of the heart's principles, consequent on a second union, and the unkindness of her southern husband, which had inevitably driven her to connect the idea of his death with that of her comfort.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The government too of Epidamnus was changed from a quarrel that arose from an intended marriage; for a certain man having contracted his daughter in marriage, the father of the young person to whom she was contracted, being archon, punishes him, upon which account he, resenting the affront, associated himself with those who were excluded from any share in the government, and brought about a revolution.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
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