Clarens is a small village in the municipality of
MontreuxMontreux is a municipality in the district of Vevey in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population of 23,800.- History and geography :...
, in the canton of
VaudVaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne. The name of the Canton in Switzerland's other languages are Vaud in Italian , Waadt in German and Vad in Romansh.-History:Along the lakes, Vaud was inhabited in...
, in
SwitzerlandSwitzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
.
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Clarens is a small village in the municipality of
MontreuxMontreux is a municipality in the district of Vevey in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population of 23,800.- History and geography :...
, in the canton of
VaudVaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne. The name of the Canton in Switzerland's other languages are Vaud in Italian , Waadt in German and Vad in Romansh.-History:Along the lakes, Vaud was inhabited in...
, in
SwitzerlandSwitzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
.
Here the Russian composer
Igor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of...
wrote his ballets
The Rite of SpringThe Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre du Printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and original set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, all under...
and
PulcinellaPulcinella is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on an 18th-century play — Pulcinella is a character originating from Commedia dell'arte. The ballet premiered in Paris on 15 May, 1920 under the baton of Ernest Ansermet. The dancer Léonide Massine created both the libretto and choreography, and Pablo...
, and Tchaikovsky his
Violin Concerto in Re MThe Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878, is one of the best known of all violin concertos. It is also considered to be among the most technically difficult works for violin.-Instrumentation:...
in march 1878.
Here died
Paul KrugerStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger , better known as Paul Kruger and affectionately known as Uncle Paul was State President of the South African Republic...
, Hero of South African independence from
BritainThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
.
The anarchist and
geographerA geographer is a scientist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's physical environment and human habitat.Though geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
Élisée ReclusÉlisée Reclus , also known as Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork over a period of nearly 20 years: La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes...
resided in Clarens.
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