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On that day 13 June
Works
Les Vêpres siciliennes
Après avoir remanié I Lombardi pour l’Opéra de Paris (rifacimento de 1847 titré Jérusalem), Verdi accepta le défi d’une partition composée spécialement pour la « grande boutique » et directement en fr...
Persons
Max d’ OLLONE
Born into an aristocratic family in Besançon, Max d’Ollone began composing at a very young age and caught the attention of Gounod, Saint-Saëns and Massenet. A pupil of Lavignac, Gédalge and Massenet a...
Persons
Henri BROD
The oboist, Henri Brod, was also a composer and instrument builder. In 1818, he was awarded a Premier Prix at the Paris Conservatoire in the class of Gustav Vogt. Fétis soon came to regard him as supe...
Persons
Henri de MONTAUT
Peintre et graveur. Rédacteur en chef de L'art et la mode. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1871). Signe Henri de Hem ; Hy ; Monta.
Focus
La virtuosité pianistique
Inspirés par le modèle violonistique de Paganini, les compositeurs romantiques ont fait du piano l’instrument par excellence de la virtuosité.
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