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.
An oratorio composed by Saint-Saëns in 1875 to a “poème biblique” by Louis Gallet, Le Déluge was performed for the first time on 5 March 1876 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, where it was enthusiastically ...
“Saint-Saëns is entitled to have a flop at the Opera.” With these flippant words transcribed by Saint-Saëns himself, Charles Gounod tried to convince Vaucorbeil, the director of the Académie Nationale...
Parisian by birth, Émile Jonas entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1841 (at the same time as Hervé) to take classes in harmony (Bazin), piano (Le Couppey) and composition (Carafa). He finished his stud...
L’Autrichien Alfred Jaëll reçoit ses premières leçons de piano et de violon de son père Eduard. Après avoir suivi l’enseignement de Carl Czerny, il devient l’élève d’Ignaz Moscheles à Vienne. Il se pr...
Le fils de Joseph Hasselmans (1814-1902) – violoniste, compositeur et chef d’orchestre formé à la harpe par Antoine Prumier au Conservatoire de Paris – naît à Liège alors que son père est chef d’orche...