Michael William Balfe

Person · Open Library

Born

1808

Died

1870

Works

44

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Ireland

Active from

1808

Active to

1870

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,471

Total plays

6,907

Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 – 20 October 1870) was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl. After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works. He was also a noted conductor, directing Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre for seven years, among other conducting posts. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Micha

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 88,457x

2. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,917x

3. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,815x

4. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,815x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,543x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

William

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Place of birth

Dublin

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Knight of the Legion of Honour

Genre

opera

Instrument

voice

Image

Michael William Balfe - Atelier Nadar.jpg

Voice type

baritone

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