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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 19 September

ELWART Antoine

Persons

Antoine ELWART

Compositeur.

DUBEL Yvonne

Persons

Yvonne DUBEL

Soprano

DEVAL Marguerite

Persons

Marguerite DEVAL

Marguerite Brulfer, dite Marguerite Deval.Chanteuse et comédienne française.

Persons

Paul WACHS

Organiste et compositeur.

Persons

Marcelle HEUCLIN

PIaniste.

Persons

Marie DAVID

Femme de lettres. Pseudonyme de Caroline Eugénie Saffray. Écrit aussi sous le pseudonyme : Raoul de Navery

Focus

Romantic Harp

In early nineteenth-century France, the harp was a very modern instrument, replacing the “baroque” harpsichord and competing with the pianoforte in a quest for “classical” expression.

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