Chemin de Fer
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Chemin de fer is the French term for railway. It may refer to:
- Musée Français du Chemin de FerMusée Français du Chemin de FerThe Cité du train , the French national railway museum is the biggest railway museum in the world, this one being situated in Mulhouse...
, the French National Railway Museum - Baccarat Chemin de Fer, a variation of the card game, Baccarat.
- one of several railway companies in Europe
- one of several railway companies in Canada
- Le chemin de ferLe chemin de ferLe chemin de fer , Op. 27, is a programmatic étude for piano composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan in 1844,, frequently cited as the first musical representation of a railway...
, Op. 27, an étude composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan in 1844. - Étude aux Chemins de Fer, the seminal 1948 composition of electronic musicElectronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
, specifically musique concrèteMusique concrèteMusique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
, by Pierre SchaefferPierre SchaefferPierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...
, constructed from railway sounds. - a poem by Elizabeth BishopElizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
, from her first book North and South (Houghton Mifflin, 1946) - a play by Georges FeydeauGeorges FeydeauGeorges Feydeau was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He is remembered for his many lively farces.-Biography:Georges Feydeau was born in Paris, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau and Léocadie Bogaslawa Zalewska. At the age of twenty, Feydeau wrote his first comic...
, French playwright and a precursor to the dada movement. First performed in the United States on May 28th 1969 at the Taper Theater, Los Angeles. (Suzanne Grossman and Paxton Whitehead, 1968)