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.
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On that day 19 April
Works
Les Cloches de Corneville
C’est comme pianiste et transcripteur que Planquette débute dans les cafés-concerts. Il y joue de nombreuses de ses piécettes en clôture de soirée, suscitant l’intérêt de Cantin, directeur des Folies ...
Persons
Alexandre-Pierre-François BOËLY
Born into a long line of musicians, some of whom officiated at the court of Versailles, Boëly was first taught from the age of five by his father, a countertenor at the Sainte-Chapelle who was also a ...
Persons
Germaine TAILLEFERRE
Germaine Tailleferre reçoit ses premières leçons de piano de sa mère avant d’entrer au Conservatoire de Paris – contre l’avis paternel – en 1904. Elle s’y révèle brillante élève et obtient les prix d’...
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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