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You can use this site to access a wide array of informational resources relating to France’s musical heritage of the 19th century. You’ll find articles on people, works and topics authored by musicologists and historians collaborating with Palazzetto Bru Zane.

In the spotlight

Person

FAURÉ Gabriel

(1845 - 1924)

On that day 10 October

Benvenuto Cellini (Wailly & Barbier / Berlioz)

Works

Benvenuto Cellini

First published in 1728, Benvenuto Cellini’s Vita captivated Romantic Europe. The Florentine goldsmith was seen as a modern-day hero, embodying creative freedom, seen as being above the law. But when ...

Persons

Agathe Sophie SASSERNÒ

Poétesse, membre de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon.

CROS Charles

Persons

Charles CROS

Poète et conteur.

Persons

Jacqueline DESPAS

Compositrice. Née à Tours et morte à Paris.

Focus

The French cello school

The history of the cello in France in the nineteenth century falls into three chapters.

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