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Works
Dante
Born in 1265 in Florence, Dante Alighieri was a poet and prominent political figure. Although he played an active role in safeguarding his city’s autonomy against papal ambitions, he is mainly known f...
Works
Le Dieu bleu
After the success at the Paris Opéra of La Fête chez Thérèse (1910), Hahn was commissioned by Diaghilev to compose the music for a ballet; the impresario wanted French musicians to compose for the Bal...
Works
Les Éolides
Alors qu’il s’était montré précurseur avec Ce qu’on entend sur la montagne (1846), César Franck entreprend la composition des Éolides, suite au succès des poèmes symphoniques de Saint-Saëns ou de ses ...
Works
Ossiane
“Mme Jaëll would have invented Wagner, had Wagner not invented her.” This somewhat sarcastic remark from Oscar Commettant, which appeared the day after the performance of excerpts from Ossiane at the ...
Persons
Raoul LAPARRA
Fils d’un négociant bordelais, Raoul Laparra entre à 11 ans au Conservatoire de Paris et reste quinze ans au sein de l’institution : son cursus en piano, achevé chez Louis Diémer, est sanctionné par u...
Focus
The "ode-symphonie"
Although the “ode-symphonie” is little known today, it was one of the many expressions of Romanticism in music, and much in vogue after 1850.
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