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5 unusual facts about Mary Jane Phillips-Matz


Carlo Baucardé

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane, Verdi: A Biography, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Carlo Guasco

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane, Verdi: A Biography, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-19-313204-7

Clare Ann Matz

Clare Matz was born in New York, one of the five children of Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and the poet and literary historian Charles A. Matz Jr.

Francesco Maria Piave

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane (1993), Verdi: A Biography, London & New York: Oxford University Press.

Teresa Saporiti

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane, Verdi: A Biography, Oxford University Press, 1933, p.


Candlemass

After the breakup of his first band Nemesis, bassist Leif Edling started his own band under the name Candlemass with vocalist Johan Längqvist, drummer Matz Ekström, guitarist Mats "Mappe" Bjorkman and Klas Bergwall.

Debbie Matz

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry succeeded Matz as FFIEC chairman in April 2013.

Delaware Park Racetrack

Matz is one of several mid-Atlantic trainers to perform on the national stage, along with Barclay Tagg, perennial leading trainer Tim Ritchey and J. Larry Jones, trainer of 2007 Kentucky Derby runnerup Hard Spun, who is also based at Delaware Park.

Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach

Johanna Matz and Hardy Krüger, the stars of the German adaptation, briefly appear in the English-language version as the young couple waiting to use the coin-operated telescope at the top of the Empire State Building, cameo roles William Holden and Maggie McNamara of the American cast play in the German version.

Gare de Montdidier

The station formerly also allowed connections to the metre-gauge lines in the Somme operated by the Société générale des chemins de fer économiques from Albert via Rosières and from Noyon via Roye-sur-Matz (Oise region).

Il trovatore

Including work on Trovatore, other projects consumed him, but a significant event occurred in February when the couple attended a performance of Alexander Dumas filss The Lady of the Camellias as result of which Verdi's biographer, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, reports that the composer revealed that, after seeing the play, he immediately began to compose music for what would later become La traviata.

Rudolf Matz

Leonard Rose called Matz, "perhaps the greatest cello theoretician in the world." Janos Starker said, "Rudolph Matz's dedication and expertise has produced much needed material for the young cellist."

The Margita and Rudolf Matz Memorial Collection will be set up in the apartment, once famed for its encounters with musicians and its intimate concerts (in 1967, for instance, Matz was visited here by celebrated cellist Mstislav Rostropovich).


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