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===Music=== The Spanish composer [[Manuel de Falla]] worked on a dramatic [[cantata]] based on Verdaguer's ''L'Atlántida'', during the last 20 years of his life.<ref> Garcia, Carlos. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408124219/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbO0U3BMEfo ''MANUEL DE FALLA.- ATLÁNTIDA'']. 16 September 2013. Via YouTube.]</ref> The name has been affixed to symphonies by [[Jānis Ivanovs]] (Symphony 4, 1941),<ref>collectionCB2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZN83Q11GZg ''Janis Ivanovs (1906-1983) : Symphony No. 4 « Atlantida » (1941) 1/2 **MUST HEAR**'']. 17 May 2012. Via YouTube.</ref> [[Richard Nanes]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160306175412/http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1538965 ''Sym No.1 'Atlantis-The Sunken City': I. Andante/II. Scherzando'']. Recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1990s. Via cduniverse.com.</ref> and Vaclav Buzek (2009).<ref>COMPONIST56. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUUfewPZa8 ''Symphony Atlantis 1st mvt part 1 "The Last Day" / Vaclav Buzek'']. 10 March 2009. Via YouTube.</ref> There was also the symphonic celebration of [[Alan Hovhaness]]: "Fanfare for the New Atlantis" (Op. 281, 1975).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/122552| title =Hovhaness - Concerto No. 2 for Guitar and Strings, Op. 394|publisher= Presto Classical}}</ref> The Bohemian-American composer and arranger [[Vincent Frank Safranek]] wrote ''Atlantis (The Lost Continent) Suite in Four Parts''; I. Nocturne and Morning Hymn of Praise, II. A Court Function, III. "I Love Thee" (The Prince and Aana), IV. The Destruction of Atlantis, for military (concert) band in 1913.<ref>''The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music'' by William H. Rehrig, ed. by Paul Bierley. Westerville OH: Integrity Press, 1991. vol. 2, pp. 655–656</ref> The [[opera]] ''[[Der Kaiser von Atlantis]]'' (''The Emperor of Atlantis'') was written in 1943 by [[Viktor Ullmann]] with a [[libretto]] by [[Petr Kien]], while they were both inmates at the [[Nazi]] concentration camp of [[Theresienstadt Ghetto|Theresienstadt]]. The Nazis did not allow it to be performed, assuming the opera's reference to an Emperor of Atlantis to be a satire on [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]. Though Ullmann and Kiel were murdered in [[Auschwitz]], the manuscript survived and was performed for the first time in 1975 in Amsterdam.<ref>Beaumont, Antony (2001), in [[Amanda Holden (writer)|Holden, Amanda]] (Ed.), ''The New Penguin Opera Guide'', New York: Penguin Putnam. {{ISBN|0-140-29312-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Karas|first=Joža|author-link=Joža Karas|year=1990|title=Music in Terezín, 1941–1945|location=Hillsdale, New York|publisher=Pendragon Press}}</ref><ref>Unknown author (26 April 1977), [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/apr/26/archive-1977-death-takes-holiday "From the archive: Death takes a holiday"], ''The Guardian'' (London), 26 April 1977; reprinted on 26 April 2014</ref> [[File:Atlantis_Monsu_Desiderio.jpg|thumb|right|[[François de Nomé]]'s ''The Fall of Atlantis'']] [[File:N.Roerich_"Gibel Atlantidy".jpg|thumb|right|upright=1|Nicholas Roerich's ''The Last of Atlantis'']] [[File:Terror Antiquus by L.Bakst (1908).jpg|thumb|right|upright=1|[[Léon Bakst]]'s vision of cosmic catastrophe]]
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