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On that day 04 December
Works
Sabinus
Set to a text by writer and musician, Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon, Sabinus is a tragic opera performed for the first time at the Académie Royale de Musique, in Versailles, on 4 December 1773. Chabanon...
Works
La Fille de Madame Angot
An opéra comique in three acts set to a libretto by Clairville, Paul Siraudin and Victor Koning, La Fille de Madame Angot was first performed at the Fantaisies-Parisiennes in Brussels on 4 December 18...
Persons
Friedrich BURGMÜLLER
Compositeur allemand, installé à Paris à partir de la monarchie de Juillet.
Focus
Romantic Harp
In early nineteenth-century France, the harp was a very modern instrument, replacing the “baroque” harpsichord and competing with the pianoforte in a quest for “classical” expression.
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