Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo, arguably France's greatest literary figure, wrote poetry, plays, and novels with equal facility, and while his novels (including Notre Dame de Paris [aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame] and Les Misérables) are his most influential works today, his works in all three genres have inspired composers of not just classical, but popular music. During the Romantic era, there was hardly a single French composer who didn't set at least one of Hugo's works, few Italian opera composers who didn't at least consider one of his plays, and while his influence was strongest in those two countries, it was also felt worldwide. His writing also had a profound impact on other writers, calling for an end to the neo-Classicism that had dominated French literature, particularly its deliberate elegance and restraint in expression and choice of subjects, introducing "orientalist" influences, and insisting on juxtaposing humor and tragedy, as well as the ugly and the beautiful. (This emphasis on freedom found particular resonance in Giuseppe Verdi and sparked several of his wars with censorship in Italy, particularly over Rigoletto, based on Le roi s'amuse.) Though his later writing in particular, he tended to be sentimental and moralizing, his trailblazing spread Romanticism throughout Europe, and his humanism inspired Tolstoy. Despite his populism, he was well aware of his fame and influence and not modest about it; for example, he declared that the city should be renamed Hugo in his honor. His writing brought him early fame, earning him membership in the Legion of Honor at the age of 23 and membership in the prestigious Academie Française at 39. He was also controversial from an early age; the premiere of his play Hernani in 1830 actually sparked brawls and riots. Like Beethoven, Hugo was first deeply inspired by Napoleon and later, deeply disillusioned; he was even exiled from France in 1851 for his highly vocal criticism of and opposition to Napoleon III. In 1870, he returned to Paris, where he was lionized by both political and literary circles.
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Água Pura e Leve e Cristalina / Violão
World - Released by Tratore on 17 Feb 2021
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Menina Que Mexeu Com o Meu Coração / Forró
World - Released by Victor Hugo [dist. Tratore] on 14 Nov 2022
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Les Misérables: Volume 4: The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue St. Denis - Book 10. The 5th of June, 1832 (Unabridged)
Miscellaneous - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 3 Sep 2022
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Vol. 1 (Unabridged)
Literature - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 28 Aug 2020
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Les Misérables: Volume 4: The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue St. Denis - Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations (Unabridged)
Miscellaneous - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 1 Sep 2022
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Les Misérables - Volume 1: Fantine (Unabridged)
Miscellaneous - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 1 Oct 2022
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Les Misérables: Volume 5: Jean Valjean - Book 6: The Sleepless Night (Unabridged)
Miscellaneous - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 14 Sep 2022
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Book 9 (Unabridged)
Literature - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 29 Jul 2020
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Book 5 (Unabridged)
Literature - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 25 Jul 2020
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Les Misérables: Volume 2: Cosette - Book 7: Parenthesis (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables: Volume 5: Jean Valjean - Book 7: The Last Draught from the Cup (Unabridged)
Miscellaneous - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 15 Sep 2022
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Les Misérables: Volume 4: The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue St. Denis - Book 9: Whither are They Going? (Unabridged)
Miscellaneous - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 2 Sep 2022
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The Man and the Cannon (Unabridged)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 14 Jan 2023
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Tropicalisimo- Tropical Salsa
Latin America - Released by LAS Records UK on 1 Jan 2002
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