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	Engelbert Humperdinck- Composer
		Engelbert Humperdinck (born 1854 in Siegburg, Germany; died 1921 in Neustrelitz, Germany)- For most famous composers, we have long lists of the pieces they wrote.
		At one time he was even hired to tutor the son of the famous composer Richard Wagner.
		But he is famous only because he composed the beautiful opera, "Hansel and Gretel" for which his sister wrote the libretto (the words to an opera).
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	Engelbert Humperdinck
		Engelbert was asked who his agent was and he told them he was not in show business, but the attention he was given pushed him into the direction of becoming a singer.
		Engelbert’s tradition, over the years, is to hand out his famous red handkerchiefs at the end of each show, similar to the one that has the sweat of his brow from that night’s performance.
		Engelbert’s music has transcended time, and his passionate style of singing continues to reach the ears of people far and wide, serving to transport and inspire us, to embrace and uplift us, to promote feelings and emotions – the ingredients that are no doubt the essence of his long lasting success.
	www.engelbert.com /biography.html (900 words)

	Boppard Online - Engelbert Humperdinck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The composer Engelbert Humperdinck was born on 1st September 1854 in Siegburg and died on 27th September 1921 in Neustrelitz.
		Humperdinck's son Wolfram (born 1893) said in the biography of his father that the attractive and lively town situated conveniently on the romantic Central Rhine, bursting with history and surrounded by woodland hills and graceful valleys suited this nature-loving Rhineland composer.
		Between 1908 and 1909, E. Humperdinck allowed his beloved little palace to be arranged as a refuge for the composer of the fairytale opera "The Royal Children".
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	Welcome to Engelbert Humperdinck Official Web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Engelbert’s childhood was dominated by the love of his parents and his misery and insecurity about his appearance.
		Engelbert’s music has transcended time, and his honeyed, mellow voice still continues to reach out to people now – serving to transport and inspire us, to embrace and uplift us, and to provoke feelings and emotion, ingredients that are no doubt the essence of his long-lasting success.
		Engelbert continues to take great pleasure in every moment on stage, a place where he can lose his inhibitions and no longer be the child who was once shy.
	www.engelbert.com /biography.htm (921 words)

	Musicians and Composers/Columbine - Creative Keyboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		September 5, 1820 - Louis Kohler, the German pianist and composer of numerous piano studies, was born in Brunswick, Germany.
		He was an experimental composer who developed "prepared piano" by putting various things in a piano to make unusual sounds.
		September 8, 1841 - Anton Dvorak, the Czeck composer was born in Muhlhausen.
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	Learn - Engelbert Humperdinck - Arizona Opera
		Humperdinck is remembered for his first opera, the much-loved Hänsel and Gretel; his later, more ambitious operas never quite succeeded in gaining a firm place in repertory.
		His father was alarmed by these distractions from serious study, but on the enthusiastic advice of the composer Ferdinand Hiller, he agreed to let his son enter the Cologne Conservatory in 1872.
		Humperdinck was most successful as a music student, winning the Mozart Prize of Frankfurt in 1876, the Mendelssohn Prize of Berlin in 1879 and the Meyerbeer Prize of Berlin in 1881.
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	Engelbert Humperdick - The Unofficial Site - Welcome
		Until the late 1980s, Humperdinck had little say in which songs were selected for each album, a fact that might have supported claims that he was little more than a pawn of his label's executives.
		By the 1980s, Humperdinck was fast approaching his fifth decade of life, yet he was still producing albums regularly, performing sometimes more than 200 concerts in a year, and he was still a source of attraction for his female fans.
		The heirs of the romantic composer Engelbert Humperdinck had sued him for adopting his stage name, as they are not related to each other.
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	MetroActive Music \| Engelbert Humperdinck
		Humperdinck's enduring image as an MOR crooner and underwear outfielder was helped along by manager Gordon Mills, who did similar work with Tom Jones.
		But before Humperdinck could be sentenced to a stint on the Psychic Friends Network, he refinanced his net cool by collaborating with the most respected pair of tastemakers since Siskel and Ebert: Beavis and Butt-head.
		Engelbert Humperdinck holds forth on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m., at the Luther Burbank Center, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/01.16.97/music-9703.html (511 words)

	CNN.com - Engelbert Humperdinck is back - Feb. 18, 2003
		Engelbert Humperdinck, revving up on his Harley-Davidson in July, says he has one regret -- that he never pursued acting.; (inset) Humperdinck in 1968.
		Singer Engelbert Humperdinck has just one complaint about his female fans' habit of throwing their undergarments onstage as a show of appreciation: "I usually think it's a waste because none of the underwear fit me," he says with a laugh.
		Humperdinck continued his fame with albums such as 1969's gold-selling "The Last Waltz," 1972's "Another Time, Another Place" and hit singles such as 1976's "After the Lovin'." And he became -- along with friend Tom Jones -- a Las Vegas regular, playing to sold-out houses.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/18/people.watn.humperdinck (833 words)

	Composer Humperdinck The Engelbert And His Family Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Humperdinck, borrowed from the composer of such operas as Hansel and Gretel..
		This Englebert Humperdinck is the composer of the famous (for two reasons).
		Composer: Adelheid Wettee, Engelbert Humperdinck’s first and most successful opera began life as a commission from his sister Adelheid Wette, who asked him.
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	Engelbert Humperdinck
		Engelbert's CD, "Vie Dance Album", was his first album in the dance genre.
		Humperdinck has always enjoyed a healthy rivalry with Tom Jones, and the two actually partnered for ten years and shared Gordon Mills as manager for many, many more.
		Humperdinck eventually parted company with Mills to employ his own son in the same capacity, and his daughter Louise, often appeared along side Dad singing duos and solos.
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	BC News
		The German composer Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) began work on his most famous opera after his sister asked him to compose music for a play for her children.
		The opera was based on the Brothers Grimm story about a brother and sister who are abandoned by their parents in a forest and who narrowly escape being eaten by a witch who lives in a gingerbread house.
		Humperdinck is often confused with the popular English singer (originally named Gerry Dorsey) who appropriated the composer’s memorable name in the 1960s at the suggestion of a manager.
	www.brooklyn.cuny.edu /bc/spotlite/news/index.php?link=120205 (332 words)

	Humperdinck
		Humperdinck was most successful as a music student, winning the Mozart Prize of Frankfurt in 1876, the Mendelssohn Prize of Berlin in 1879 and the Meyerbeer Prize of Berlin in
		Humperdinck's successful blending of a children's story with his own, rather monumental, orchestral world has made Hänsel und Gretel the only post-Wagnerian work to consider a successful synthesis of the German master's style.The simplicity of the proposal suited the composer's unpretentious nature.
		As the opera, Hänsel and Gretel developed from folksongs to a Singspiel and finally to opera, the composer began to question the aesthetic wisdom of his choice.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /humperdinck.html (1157 words)

	Eons: Engelbert: Love gets better after 50
		Engelbert Humperdinck once stopped a Beatles song from hitting No. 1.
		Humperdinck - the name comes from a 19th-century composer, chosen by a long-ago manager to make the singer Gerry Dorsey stand out from other acts - saw his first big hit, "Release Me," hit the charts in 1967 (beating out the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever").
		Many of the questions that Eons members posted for him were about tour dates, and whether Humperdinck would be performing in their parts of the U.S. or world.
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	Humperdinck gets honorary music doctorate - Boston.com
		Engelbert Humperdinck has been made an honorary doctor of music by a university in his English hometown.
		Entertainer Engelbert Humperdinck holds his scroll after receiving an honorary degree of Doctor of Music at De Montfort Hall at Leicester University, Leicester England Friday Jan. 27, 2006.
		Engelbert Humperdinck was presented with the honorary degree for his tireless charity work and services to his home city, Leicester.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/01/28/humperdinck_gets_honorary_music_doctorate (228 words)

	Engelbert Humperdinck Biography - AOL Music
		Humperdinck was first and foremost a vocal composer who is most known for his operas Hansel und Gretel and Konigskinder.
		His music was composed at an auspicious time for fairy tales because the contemporary musical extremes included Wagnerian drama and lifelike depictions from other composers.
		During the course of his musical career, which began at the piano-playing age of seven, he won numerous awards and honors, especially the Mozart Prize of Frankfurt am Main, the Mendelssohn Prize of Berlin, the Meyerbeer Prize of Berlin, and an honorary membership in the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
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	Engelbert Humperdinck
		Engelbert Humperdinck, born May 2, 1936 in what was then known as Madras, India as Arnold George Dorsey, is a well-known pop singer.
		He was raised in Leicester, England and adopted the stage name Engelbert Humperdinck, after the German opera composer of the same name.
		Humperdinck has sold about 150 million records and has established himself as one of the world's premiere live performers in a number of sold-out tours.
	www.artistopia.com /engelbert-humperdinck (1093 words)

	Buy Engelbert Humperdinck Tickets - Cheap Engelbert Humperdinck Concert Shows Tickets At Onlineseats
		As the butt of innumerable grade-school jokes and generally considered the cheesiest of all pop music cheese-brokers, Engelbert Humperdinck's incredible, seemingly unstoppable popularity among women of a certain, uh, advanced age is something of a marvel.
		Humperdinck has always enjoyed a healthy rivalry with Tom Jones, and the two actually partnered for ten years and shared a manager for many, many more.
		Humperdinck eventually parted company with the manager to employ his own son in the same capacity.
	www.onlineseats.com /engelbert-humperdinck-tickets/index.asp (925 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Factual - Desert Island Discs Engelbert Humperdinck
		Engelbert Humperdinck is one of Britain's most successful entertainers.
		He was born Arnold George (Gerry) Dorsey in 1936 in India and was one of ten children. At the age of 10 his family returned to the UK and Leicester.
		In 1965 his manager changed his name to Engelbert Humperdinck but it was still two years before his chance arrived.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20041219.shtml (275 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Humperdinck is generally known for his fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel, a Christmas favourite.
		His career brought him into early contact with Wagner and he became music tutor to the composer’s son Siegfried Wagner.
		If Hänsel und Gretel remains the best known of Humperdinck's operas, recent revivals abroad of Die Königskinder (The King's Children), another fairy-tale opera, suggest a renewal of its popularity.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/humperdinck.html (140 words)

	Engelbert Humperdinck Tickets - Buy Engelbert Humperdinck Tickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Engelbert Humperdinck was born May 2, 1936 in what was then known as Madras, India as Arnold George Dorsey.
		Engelbert Humperdinck has sold about 150 million records and has established himself as one of the world's premiere live performers in a number of sold-out tours.
		Engelbert Humperdinck was influenced by Johnny Mathis among other greats and is still busy touring.
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	Book Engelbert Humperdinck Booking Corporate Event, Private Party - Your Booking Agent for Engelbert Humperdinck
		The smooth-voiced ballad singer Engelbert Humperdinck was born Arnold George Dorsey on May 2, 1936, in Madras, India.
		Mills decided to re-invent Dorsey, gave him the name of the 19th-century classical German opera composer (Hansel and Gretel), and introduced him to the world as the enigmatic balladeer Engelbert Humperdinck.
		Still, when he is not goofing around on stage, Humperdinck can sing a ballad like few others.
	www.grabow.biz /Contemporary/EngelbertHumperdinck.htm (643 words)

	Engelbert Humperdinck turning 70 - Boston.com
		As long as he can sing and dance, Engelbert Humperdinck says, he'll never turn 70 years old -- at least not in his heart.
		He is returning to his hometown of Leicester, England, to celebrate with his family, Humperdinck said by phone from Las Vegas, where he spent the weekend performing.
		The odd-sounding moniker was borrowed from the German composer of the 19th century opera "Hansel and Gretel."
	www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2006/05/01/engelbert_humperdinck_turning_70?mode=PF (275 words)

	GMTV - Engelbert Humperdinck on GMTV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Next year Engelbert is celebrating 40 years in the business and has a New Greatest Hits package including some brand new songs coming out for Mother's Day.
		Born Arnold George Dorsey, Engelbert took his stage name after the famous German opera composer and has been a legend in the international music industry ever since, with over 140 million records sold and as one of the world's premiere live performers.
		Engelbert was made an honorary doctor of music by the University of Leicester in January 2006
	www.gm.tv /index.cfm?articleid=23423 (372 words)

	Engelbert Humperdinck 02-05-36 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		Engelbert Humperdinck (Madras, India, 2 mei 1936) heeft wereldwijd 150 miljoen platen verkocht.
		Engelbert Humperdinck, born May 2, 1936 in what was then known as Madras, India as Arnold George Dorsey, is a well-known pop singer of the 1950s-present.
		Of Anglo Indian ethnicity, he was raised in Leicester, England and adopted the stage name Engelbert Humperdinck, after the German opera composer of the same name.
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		Composed the incidental music for the original 1911 stage production of Karl Vollmoeller's full-length religious pantomime "The Miracle", directed by Max Reinhardt.
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	Engelbert Humperdinck - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Prayer from $1Haensel and Gretel$1 By Engelbert Humperdinck.
		Prayer from $1Hansel and Gretel$1 By Engelbert Humperdinck.
		Composed the opera Hänsel und Gretel (1893) (libretto by Adelheide Wett).
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/humperdi (1081 words)

	Engelbert Humperdinck - Celebs on their motorcycles
		He spent his wedding night in a tree house and his bachelor night on a mattress in the front room of Sean Barry-Weske's house in South London.
		Took his stage name from the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck.
		Engelbert was made an honorary doctor of music by the University of Leicester in January 2006.
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	THE PRODUCTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Over 100 years ago, the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) conceived of a children’s theatre production of the story that would incorporate folksongs.
		Although the opera is decidedly original in its construction, Humperdinck's veneration of Richard Wagner may be heard in more than one passage.
		To this day, the opera remains a Christmas favorite, although the rest of Humperdinck’s music is rarely performed.
	www.liunet.edu /cwis/cwp/tilles/guides/hg_production.html (325 words)

	Engelbert Humperdinck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Engelbert Humperdinck, born Arnold George Dorsey in 1936, was one of ten children who grew up in a Leicester, England, family.
		After a bout with tuberculosis, he changed his name again, this time to Engelbert Humperdinck (after the Austrian composer of Hansel and Gretel).
		Over the years he has won Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for "Entertainer of the Year" in 1988 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/teeth/soundtrack/hum.html (105 words)

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