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Art Babbitt was an American animator. He was born in 1907 and died in 1992. He animated for Disney, working on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio and Fantasia as well as others, and also worked for Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers.
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Mariano Fortuny was a Spanish painter. He was born in 1839 near Barcelona and died in 1874. He studied at Madrid, travelled in Morocco, and settled at Rome, where he became the centre of a school of artists in revolt against over-study of the 'masters'. In 1866 he went to Paris, where his pictures, mostly genre subjects from southern and oriental life, had a great success. Amongst the best known are A Spanish Marriage, A Fantasia at Morocco, The Academicians at Arcadia, The Seashore at Portici.
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Paul Dukas was a French composer. He was born in 1865 at Paris and died in 1935. His most popular work is the Sorcerer's Apprentice which was used by Walt Disney in his film Fantasia.
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The Neverending Story is a fantasy adventure starring Noah Hathaway and Barret Oliver in a story about a lonely boy taking refuge from bullies in an old bookshop and discovering a mysterious book depicting the land of Fantasia, into which he becomes drawn. The Neverending Story was directed by Wolfgang Petersen in 1984.
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Fantasia is a cultivated variety of potato.
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A capriccio is a musical piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme - a fantasia.
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In music a fantasia is a continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form or formal rules.
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Toccata is an old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
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