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.
News
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On that day 05 December
Persons
Gustave VAËZ
Pseudonyme de Jean Nicolas Gustave van Nieuwenhuysen. Librettiste et traducteur de livrets d'opéra.
Persons
Edmond STOULLIG
Journaliste. Employé des postes. Directeur, aux côtés d'Édouard Noël, des Annales du Théâtre et de la musique (à partir de 1875).
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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