Cortez; / or, The Conquest of Mexico. / Opera / in Three Acts / Performed at The Theatre Royal Covent Garden / November 5t. 1823. / The Whole of the Music / composed by / Henry R. Bishop / 1823. / NB: The Overture to "The Law of Java" was used instead / of this Introduction. [manuscript]. [1823?]
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Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
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Conquistador and explorer. From the description of Hernán Cortés correspondence, circa 1542. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980322 Hernán Cortés led the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 and the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. He was governor of New Spain between 1522 and 1527 before returning to Spain and being named the Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca. Cortés returned to Mexico between 1530 and 1541 where he explored the northwestern part of Mexico and its Pacif...
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Bishop, Henry R.
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Henry R. Bishop, English composer. He served as musical director of the top theatres in London, including and Covent Garden, King's Theatre and Drury Lane. Throughout his career, Bishop composed, contributed to, or arranged around 130 stage works, and selections from some 70 of them were published. These published volumes contain 48 overtures, 190 airs and ballads, 53 display songs, 73 duets and trios, 150 glees and ensemble pieces, and 340 melodramas, marches, and ballet airs. From ...
