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See also: born at Ragusa on the 8th of See also: January 1588
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His See also: father, Franco See also: Gundulich, once the Ragusan See also: envoy to Constantinople and councillor of' the republic, gave him an excellent See also: education
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He studied the " humanities " with the Jesuit, Father Muzzi, and philosophy with Father See also: Ricasoli
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After that he studied See also: Roman See also: law and See also: jurisprudence in general
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He was member of the See also: Lower Council and once served as the
1 Air-dried See also: guncotton will contain 2 % , or less of moisture.chief magistrate of the republic
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He died on the 8th of See also: December 1638
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A born poet, he admired much the See also: Italian poets of his See also: time, from whom he made many See also: translations into Servian
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It is believed that he so translated See also: Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata
.
He is known to have written eighteen See also: works, of which eleven were dramas, but of these only three have been fully preserved. others having perished during the See also: great See also: earthquake and fire in 1667
.
Most of those dramas were translations from the Italian, and were played, seemingly with great success, by the amateurs furnished by the See also: noble families of Ragusa
.
But his greatest and justly celebrated See also: work is an epic, entitled See also: Osman, in twenty cantos
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It is the first See also: political epic on the Eastern Question, glorifying the victory of the Poles over See also: Turks and Tatars in the See also: campaign of 1621, and encouraging a See also: league of the Christian nations, under the guidance of Vladislaus, the See also: king of Poland, for the purpqse of driving away the Turks from
See also: Europe
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The fourteenth and fifteenth cantos are lost . It is generally believed that the Ragusan See also: government suppressed them from consideration for the Sultan, the See also: protector of the republic, those two cantos having been violently See also: anti-See also: Turkish
.
Osman was printed for the first time in Ragusa in 1826, the two missing cantos being replaced by songs written by Pietro Sorgo (or Sorkochevich)
.
From this edition the learned Italian, See also: Francesco Appendini, made an Italian See also: translation published in 1827
.
Since that time several other See also: editions have been made
.
The best are considered to be the edition of the See also: South See also: Slavonic See also: Academy in Agram (1877) and the edition published in Semlin (1889) by Professor Yovan Boshkovich
.
In the edition of 1844 (Agram) the last cantos, fourteen and fifteen, were replaced by very See also: fine compositions of the Serbo-Croatian poet, Mazhuranich (Mazuranic)
.
The See also: complete works of Gundulich have been published in Agram, 1847, by V
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Babukich and by the South Slavonic Academy of Agram in 1889
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GUNG'L, JOSEF (1810-1889), Hungarian composer and conductor, was born on the 1st of December 181o, at Zsambek, in Hungary
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After starting See also: life as a school-teacher, and learning the elements of See also: music from Ofen, the school-choirmaster, he became first oboist at See also: Graz, and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th regiment of See also: Austrian artillery
.
His first composition, a HungarianSee also: march, written in 1836, attracted some
See also: notice, and in 1843 he was able to establish an orchestra in Berlin
.
With this See also: band he travelled far, even (in 1849) to See also: America
.
It is worth recording that Mendelssohn's complete Midsummer See also: Night's Dream music is said to have been first played by Gung'l's band
.
In 1853 he became bandmaster to the 23rd See also: Infantry Regiment at Briinn, but in 1864 he lived at See also: Munich, and in 1876 at See also: Frankfort, after (in 1873) having conducted with great success a series of See also: promenade concerts at Covent Garden, See also: London
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From Frankfort Gung'l went to See also: Weimar to live with his daughter, a well-known See also: German See also: opera See also: singer and See also: local prima donna
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There he died, on the 31st of January 1889
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Gung'l's dances number over 300, perhaps the most popular being the " Amoretten," "Hydropaten," "See also: Casino," "Dreams on the Ocean" waltzes; " In Stiller Mitternacht " polka, and " Blue Violets " mazurka
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His Hungarian march was transcribed by See also: Liszt
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His music is characterized by the same.easy flowing melodies and well-marked rhythm that distinguish the dances of Strauss, to whom alone he can be ranked second in this kind of composition
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