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News
In the spotlight
On that day 23 April
Works
Guercœur
Magnard composa Guercœur entre 1897 et 1901, mais ne le vit jamais sur scène. Le 23 février 1908, Ropartz dirigea l’acte III au conservatoire de Nancy. Le 18 décembre 1910, Pierné dévoila l’acte I aux...
Works
Le Petit Faust
On 28 April 1869, the curtain of the Folies-Dramatiques rose on this three-act opéra-bouffe by Hervé, barely two months after Gounod had revealed his new version of Faust on stage at the Paris Opéra (...
Works
Mazeppa
À l’instar d’autres figures marquantes de son temps – tel son professeur Camille Saint-Saëns qui doit se tourner vers le Grand-Théâtre de Lyon pour créer Étienne Marcel en février 1879 –, Clémence de ...
Persons
Eugène PRÉVOST
Compositeur. Prix de Rome de composition musicale : 1er 2d prix 1829, Grand Prix 1831.
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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