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Adolphe Adam

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Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847). Adam was also a noted teacher. Léo Delibes was among his pupils.

Top songs

  1. O Holy Night
  2. Giselle: No. 21 - Andante
  3. Giselle: Act I: Variation de Giselle
  4. Giselle: Valse
  5. Giselle: Andantino
  6. O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel)
  7. Giselle, Act I: Variation de Giselle
  8. Giselle / Act 2: Grand pas de deux: Adage
  9. O Holy Night (Arr. John Rutter)
  10. O Holy Night (Arr. J. Rutter)
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  1. Giselle, Act 1: Giselle's Variation
  2. Giselle: Act II: Variation 1: Andante
  3. Giselle, Act I: Introduction
  4. O Holy Night - Arr. John Rutter
  5. Giselle: Act I: Andante
  6. O Helga Natt (Adams Julsång)
  7. Giselle, Act 2: No. 14 Giselle’s Entrance and Variation
  8. Giselle: Act II: Valse
  9. O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel) - Orchestral Version
  10. Giselle, Act 1: No. 1 Pheasants' Entrance, Entrance of Hilarion
  11. Giselle, Act 1: No. 3 Giselle’s Entrance, Giselle and Albrecht first meet and are discovered by Hilarion
  12. Giselle: Act I: Introduction
  13. Giselle: Act I: Polacca
  14. Giselle, Act 1: Overture
  15. O Holy Night (From "Home Alone" Soundtrack)
  16. Giselle: Andante
  17. O Holy Night (Minuit chrétien)
  18. Giselle: Act I: Retour de la vendange et valse (The Grape-Pickers Return)
  19. Giselle: Act II: Ensemble des WIlis
  20. Giselle, Act 2: No. 18 Pas de Deux - second half (Alternative Version)
  21. Giselle: Act I: Pas seul - Pas de deux des jeunes paysans
  22. Giselle: Act II: Apparition de Giselle (Apparition of Giselle)
  23. O Holy Night - Voice
  24. Giselle, Act 2: No. 18 Giselle and Albrecht Pas de deux
  25. Giselle: Act I: Entree de Giselle
  26. Cantique De Nöel (O Holy Night)
  27. Giselle: Act I: Marche des vignerons (Grape-Pickers' March)
  28. Giselle, Act 1: Giselle's Variation (Alternative Version A)
  29. Giselle, Act 1: Peasant Pas de Deux - Adage, pas de deux
  30. Giselle, Act 1: No. 5 Mother looks for Giselle, and tells her and the peasants of the legend of the dangerous spirits of the forest
  31. Giselle: Act I: Entree joyeuse des vendangeurs et vendangeuses (Entry of the Grape-Pickers)
  32. Giselle: Act I: Pesante
  33. Cantique de Noël "O Holy Night / Minuit, chrétiens" (Orch. Gamley)
  34. Giselle, Act 1: Galop général - Girlfriends’ Dance, Ensemble Dance
  35. Variation De Giselle
  36. Giselle: No. 9 - Finale
  37. Giselle: Act I: Entree de Loys
  38. Giselle: Act I: Valse - Pas de vendanges
  39. O holy night - Arr. for Choir and Organ by John E. West
  40. Giselle, Act 1: No. 2 Albrecht's Entrance
  41. Giselle, Act 1: Peasant Pas de Deux - Girl’s First Variation
  42. Giselle: Act II: Entree d'Hilarion, scene et fugue des Wilis - Grand pas de duex
  43. Giselle, Act 2: No. 12 Ensemble Dance of the Wilis, Lead Wilis’ Variations, Myrtha’s Second, Variation, Lead Wilis and ensemble
  44. Giselle / Act 1: Introduction
  45. Giselle, Act 2: No. 21 Myrtha commands Albrecht to dance till he dies
  46. Giselle, Act 1: No. 4 Peasants return from grape harvest, Giselle’s waltz and group dance
  47. Giselle: Act II: Entree d'Hilarion
  48. Giselle: Act II: Entree du Prince et apparition de Giselle (The Prince Enters, Sees the Spectre of Giselle)
  49. Giselle: Giselle's variation
  50. Giselle: Act I: La chasse (The Hunt)
  51. Giselle: Act II: Apparition de Myrthe et evocation magique (Myrthe Appears - Magical Evocation)
  52. Giselle: Act I: Allegretto
  53. O Helga natt (Cantique de Noel, O Holy Night): Cantique de Noel
  54. Giselle: Act II: Finale
  55. Giselle / Act 2: No. 15 Grand pas de deux: a) Andante
  56. Giselle: Act I: Finale du 1er Acte et Scene de folie (Finale of Act 1 and Mad Scene)
  57. O helga natt
  58. Giselle, Act 2: No. 20 Giselle's Variation
  59. Giselle, Act 2: No. 10 Appearance of Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis
  60. Giselle, Act I: No. 1, Les vendangeurs
  61. Giselle, Act 1: Peasant Pas de Deux - Boy’s First Variation
  62. Giselle, Act 1: No. 5a Hilarion plots, Courtiers enter with Duke and Bathilde, Mother serves refreshments, Giselle and Bathilde meet, Bathilde gives Giselle a necklace, Intro to Peasant Pas de deux
  63. Giselle: Act I: Galop general
  64. Giselle: No. 1 - Allegro
  65. Giselle, Act 1: Peasant Pas de Deux - Boy’s Second Variation
  66. Adam: Giselle, Act 1: No. 5 Variation I
  67. Giselle, Act 1: Peasant Pas de Deux - Girl’s Second Variation, and Coda
  68. Giselle: Act I: Allegro un peu loure
  69. Giselle: Act I: Moderato
  70. Giselle, Act 1: Finale, Hilarion summons the return of the courtiers, Albrecht’s deception is revealed, Giselle’s mad scene and death
  71. Giselle, Act 2: No. 11 Myrtha’s First Variation, Myrtha summons the Wilis
  72. Giselle: Act II: Adagio
  73. Giselle, Act I: No. 2, Entrée du Prince
  74. Giselle: Act II: Pas des premieres Wilis (The Wilis Appear)
  75. Giselle, Act 1: No. 8 Albrecht’s Variation, Pas de Deux Giselle and Albrecht
  76. Giselle: Act I: Allegro moderato
  77. Giselle, Act 1: No. 7 Dance of the Peasants joined by Girlfriends
  78. Giselle: Act II: Variation de Loys
  79. Giselle: Act I: Allegretto pesante
  80. Giselle / Act 1: No. 1 Les Vendangeurs
  81. Giselle, Act 1: Exit of the Court
  82. Giselle, Act 2: No. 17 Hilarion is killed by the Wilis, Albrecht is confronted by Myrtha, Giselle enters and protects Albrecht
  83. O, Holy Night
  84. Giselle, Act 1: No. 6 Hilarion comes out of hiding
  85. Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night)
  86. Giselle: Act II: Variation 2: Andante moderato
  87. Giselle, Act I: No. 3, Loys seul – Entrée de Giselle
  88. Giselle: Act I: Scene d'Hilarion
  89. Giselle: Act I - Overture
  90. Giselle, Act 2: No. 13 Myrtha summons Giselle

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