Top Results for 1904

The Thinker is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, first conceived around 1880 as part of his monumental doorway The Gates of Hell. It depicts a nude male figure seated on a rock, leaning forward with his chin resting on one hand, and was initially associated with Dante contemplating the...

Leoš Janáček’s Jenufa, composed in 1904, is a Czech opera exploring themes of love, social class, and family conflict. The work utilizes distinctive musical language reflecting spoken speech patterns, creating an intensely realistic dramatic experience. It's notable for its pioneering approach to op...

SS General Slocum was a wooden side-wheel passenger steamer that caught fire in New York City's East River on June 15, 1904. The vessel was carrying a church excursion, largely composed of women and children from the German-American community of Little Germany, when the disaster killed more than 1,0...

Bohemios is a zarzuela by Amadeo Vives that premiered in Madrid in 1904. The work draws narrative inspiration from Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, transposing the story of struggling artists into the Spanish zarzuela tradition. It demonstrates Vives' musical sophistication through its orchestration and...

SS Norge was a Danish passenger steamship operated by the Thingvalla Line and used mainly on routes carrying European emigrants to North America. On 28 June 1904, she struck Hasselwood Rock near Rockall in the North Atlantic and sank rapidly, leaving too little lifeboat capacity for those aboard; mo...

"Fascination" is a popular salon waltz composed in 1905 by the Italian musician Fermo Marchetti. Written in the style of a valse tzigane, the piece features expressive, gypsy-inspired melodies typical of early 20th-century light classical music. It gained enduring international recognition when dire...

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back is a 1904 political pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin analyzing the internal crisis and split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). The work documents the events of the party's Second Congress, where disagreements over party organization led to the divi...

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a 1904 novel by G.K. Chesterton set in a future England where London boroughs are revived as independent medieval city-states, considered one of his earliest and most imaginative works.

"La Main passe" is a one-act French farce by Georges Feydeau, first performed in 1904, that exemplifies the playwright's mastery of the bedroom farce genre and his characteristic use of rapidly escalating complications. The plot centers on a husband whose attempt to confront his wife's lover sets of...

Monsieur de la Palice is a French stage operetta based on the 16th-century nobleman whose legacy famously spawned the French term for a self-evident truth, lapalissade.

The Common Sense of Municipal Trading is a political and economic work by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1904 in connection with the Fabian movement. Shaw argues for municipal ownership and operation of services, while also discussing the practical limits of public enterprise, including man...

Monsieur de La Palisse is a French comic operetta by Claude Terrasse. The work belongs to the early-20th-century French tradition of light theater, in which sung numbers and spoken stage action are combined with comic situations. It is associated with the Parisian operetta repertoire and is of inter...

It Happened in Nordland is an American musical comedy by Victor Herbert that premiered in 1904. The story is set in the fictional Scandinavian region of Nordland and uses a royal or political setting for comic and satirical situations. The work belongs to the early twentieth-century American operett...