Gerard Hengeveld - Gerard Hengeveld Gerard Hengeveld (1910 - 2001) was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions include two piano concertos, a violin sonata, and a sonata for cello. Hengeveld was an able interpreter and performer of the music of Bach for piano and harpsichord. He gave regular concerts in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Some of his concerts were captured on record. Gerard Hengeveld died on Sunday, October 28, 2001 in Bergen, the Netherlands. He was 90 years old..
Pianist - Feltsmann Annie Fischer Edwin Fischer Leon Fleischer Walter Gieseking Emil Gilels Jacob Gimpel Katrine Gislinge Misha Goldstein Richard Goode Glenn Gould Lola Graham Gary Graffman Hélène Grimaud Friedrich Gulda Horatio Gutierrez Clara Haskil Ingrid Haebler Gerard Hengeveld Myra Hess Angela Hewitt Vladimir Horowitz Stephen Hough Peter Jablonski Jeno Jando William Kappel Julius Katchen Freddy Kempf Wilhelm Kempff Olga Kern Evgeny Kissin Stephen Kovacevich Katia Labèque Marielle Labèque Lang Lang Josef Lhévinne John Lill Dinu Lipatti Eugene List Franz Liszt Yvonne Loriod Louis Lortie Radu Lupu Maura Lympany Joanna MacGregor Hephzibah Menuhin Ivan Moravec Benno Moiseiwitsch John Nakamatsu John Ogdon Garrick Ohlsson Gerhard Oppitz Ignace Paderewski Vlado Perlemuter Murray Perahia Alfredo Perl Egon Petri Maria Joao Pires Mikhail Pletnev Maurizio Pollini Viktoria Postnikova André Prévin Eduaro del Pueyo Livia Rev Karl Richter.
Jean Sebastien Gerard - Jean Sebastien Gerard Known by the alias Jess, a Musician who wrote chiptunes mainly on the Atari ST during the 1990s..
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was an British poet and Jesuit priest, whose verse has been widely admired for the vividness of its expression. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biographical information 2 The Reintroduction of Sprung Rhythm to English Verse 3 Hopkins' Most famous Poems 4.
Gerard Barbara - Gerard Barbara Gerard A. Barbara was a New York City Fire Department Assistant Deputy Chief, and a proud and prominent Yankees fan. He died in the September 11 2001 World Trade Center disaster. see: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/met_MISSING_1004_barbara.html http://www.legacy.com/LegacyTribute/Tribute.asp?Page=TributeStory&PersonId=122591 http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/fdny/html/memorial/wtc/barbara_gerard_ac_cmdctr.html.
Gerard David - Gerard David Anounciation from 1506, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gerard David (ca. 1455 – 1523) was an artist known for his brilliant use of color; he was a master of the early Dutch Renaissance..
Gerard Hoffnung - Gerard Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung was born in Berlin in 1925 and went to London in 1939 as a schoolboy refugee. Although he died at the early age of 34 years, he achieved in his short life enough to fill a whole series of lifetimes. Artist, teacher, cartoonist, caricaturist, musician and tuba player, broadcaster and raconteur, a much sought after speaker at the Oxford and Cambridge Unions and prison visitor, a Quaker - these were all facets of a creative personality. Hoffnung published a series of books depicting conductors and orchestral instrumentalists. However, he is probably most remembered for his two Music Festivals held at the Festival Hall in London. Both these featured humorous musical works commissioned especially for the event and written by the then contemporary.
Gerard van Velde - Gerard van Velde Gerard van Velde (b. November 29, 1971 in Heerde, The Netherlands), speedskater. Gerard van Velde is a sprinter. Van Velde has entered a second skating career. Being the best Dutch sprinter during the early 1990s still was not enough for medals during the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. Frustrating was his fourth place on the 1000 meters in the 1992 Olympics, missing the bronze by one hundredth of a second. The introduction of the clap skate initially proved too much him: he could not get used to the skating technique this new type of skate required. Instead, he turned a hobby into a profession by becoming a salesman of second hand luxury cars. Fate had other plans for him, though. Another skater invited.
Gerard Kuiper - Gerard Kuiper Gerard Peter Kuiper, born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper (1905 - 1973) was an American astronomer, born in the Netherlands. Kuiper has discovered a number of satellites (moons) of the planets in the solar system, and suggested the existence of a belt outside Neptune's orbit, now named the Kuiper belt. In the 1960s, Kuiper also helped identifying landing sites on the moon for the Apollo program. External Link Gerard Peter Kuiper: NASA KAO's Namesake.
Gerardus Mercator - famous Flemish cartographer, remembered for the Mercator projection named after him. Born Gerard de Cremere (or Kremer) in Rupelmonde. "Mercator" is the Latinized form of his name. It means "seller" or "marketer". Educated in 's-Hertogenbosch and at the University of Louvain. He travelled extensively, which provoked a keen interest in geography. He returned to Louvain and worked with Gemma Frisius and Gaspar Myrica. They worked together from 1535 to 1536 to construct a terrestrial globe. Later, Mercator produced a map of Palestine (1537), another map of the world (1538) and a map of Flanders (1540). Mercator was charged with heresy in 1544 and spent seven months in prison. In 1552, he moved to Duisburg where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map of Europe (1554) and he taught.
Gerard Slevin - Gerard Slevin Gerard Slevin (born November 1, 1919) was born in Cork, Ireland. Slevin was assistant to Edward McLysaght, the Chief Herald of Ireland, from 1944 to 1954, at which time he succeeded McLysaght. He held this position for 27 years until he retired in 1981. Slevin also designed the flag of the EU, a circle of 12 golden stars on a deep blue background, and in recognition of this was made a member of the Academie Internationale d'Heraldique..
Gerard Christopher - Gerard Christopher Gerard Christopher (born 1959) is an American Actor. He was the second actor to play the role of "Superboy" in the series of the same name (1989-1992). He has performed in a number of telemovies, and was a guest star on day time soaps such as Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place and Sunset Beach. His most recent film role (as of 2003) was "Zack" in the movie The First of May (1999)..
Gerard Reve - Gerard Reve Gerard Reve (December 14, 1923) is a Dutch writer. Publishing first under the name Simon van het Reve and Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, he became known as Gerard Reve. Gerard Reve is the brother of Karel van het Reve. Bibliography (selection) De avonden (The Evenings, 1947) The Acrobat and Other Stories (1956) Op Weg naar het Einde (Approaching the End, 1963) Nader tot U (Nearer to Thee, 1966) Lieve Jongens (Dear Boys, 1973) De vierde man (The Fourth Man, 1981).
Gerard of Cremona - Gerard of Cremona Gerard of Cremona (Gherardo) (Cremona, Lombardy, ca 1114 — Toledo, 1187), the translator of Ptolemy’s Astronomy (and mistakenly credited as translator of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine; see below) from Arabic texts found in Toledo, was one of a small group of scholars who invigorated medieval Europe in the 12th Century by transmitting Greek and Arabic traditions in astronomy, medicine and other sciences, in the form of translations into Latin, which made them available to every literate person in the West. Dissatisfied with the meager philosophies of his Italian teachers, Gherardo went to Toledo before 1144. There he learned Arabic, initially so that he could read Ptolemy's Almagest, which retained its traditional high reputation among scholars, even though no Latin translation existed. Although we.
Gerard Collins - Gerard Collins Gerard Collins, (b.1938), Irish Fianna Fáil politician. James Gerard Collins was born in October 1938 in Abbeyfeale County Limerick. He was educated locally and at University College Dublin. After leaving college he became a teacher. Between 1965 and 1967 Collins served as assistant general secretary of Fianna Fáil. In 1967 he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil candidate. In 1970 he was appointed Minister for Posts and Telegraphs under Jack Lynch. During his tenure as Minister he introduced a law which prohibited organisations committed to violence from making media broadcasts. In 1972 he sacked the RTÉ authority becaused he felt that they disobeyed this order. Between 1977 and 1981 Collins served as Minister for Justice. In March 1982 he became Minister.
Gerard Adriaan Heineken - Gerard Adriaan Heineken Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841? - March 18, 1893) was the founder of Heineken. In 1863, at the age of 22, he decided to purchase brewery 'Den Hoyberg.' Here he started to brew a new beer. Gerard Adriaan's emphasis on quality was soon rewarded with Heineken beer's winning important international prizes. Gerard Adriaan Heineken was the world's first brewer to found his own laboratory for quality control. He attracted a pupil of Louis Pasteur to head this laboratory. This scientist, Doctor Elion, isolated a yeast strain of superior quality, the Heineken A-yeast. Even today, it gives Heineken its unique taste and guarantees its quality. At that time of Gerard Adriaan Heineken's death, the brewery had grown to become one of the largest and most.
Gerard Colby - Gerard Colby Gerard Colby (earlier known as Gerard Colby Zilg) is a former vice-president of the National Writers Union where he is/was quite active by having various chair positions. From 1997-2001 he had the chair of the Vermont section. He worked on .. "Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain" (1974) as the author. The book was the subject of a landmark federal case that won promotional rights for authors. It was re-released as "Du Pont Dynasty" in 1984. "Thy Will Be Done, the Conquest of the Amazon" (1995) as co-author with Charlotte Dennett. "Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press" (2002) as collaborator. The book is an anthology on the current state of investigative journalism in the US and was a.
Gerard de Malynes - Gerard de Malynes Gerard de Malynes (1586-1641) was an independent merchant in foreign trade, an English commissioner in Belgium, a government advisor on trade matters, assay master of the mint, and commissioner of mint affairs. He also wrote the two books "The Canker of Englands Common Wealth" in 1601 and "The Maintenance of Free Trade" in 1622. Another important work of his was the (descriptively named) treatise "Consuedo, vel, Lex Mercatoria: or, The Law Merchant: Divided into three parts, according to the Essential Parts of Traffick Necessary for All Statesmen, Judges, Magistrates, Temporal and Civil Lawyers, Mint-Men, Merchants, Mariners and Others Negotiating in all Places of the World" He was a supporter of ideas similiar to mercantilism..
Balthazar Gerards - Gerards was born in 1557 in Vuillafans, France number 3 in the street now called Rue Gerard. He came from a Roman Catholic family with 11 children and was a great admirer of Philip II, the king of Spain and the Netherlands. He studied law on the University of Dole, a nearby city in Provence. Even before the reward Philip II offered, he told his fellow students that he would put a knife in William the Silent's heart. Philip II offered his reward of 25000 crowns on William the Silent, calling him a 'pest on the whole of Christianity and the enemy of the human race'. It is quite obvious Balthazar Gerards' year of death is 1584. Preparations After the ban was published he came to Luxemburg where he learned that.
Katherine Heigl - a renowned international modelling agency. Almost immediately, she made her debut in a magazine advertisement, and soon followed this with an inaugural television appearance in a national commercial for Cheerios breakfast cereal. Following a number of commercials and modeling assignments for Sears and Lord & Taylor, Katherine made her big-screen debut in "That Night" (1992), which starred Juliette Lewis and C. Thomas Howell. It was then that she realized that acting rather than modeling was her passion. In 1993, Katherine appeared in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed depression era drama "King Of The Hill" before landing her first leading role as a rebellious teenager alongside Gerard Depardieu in "My Father The Hero" (1994). During this time, Katherine continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her academic studies with work on films.
