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.
Le quatuor avec piano est peu pratiqué en France lorsque Fauré entreprend le sien dans l’été 1876. Le compositeur le dédie au violoniste belge Hubert Léonard, qui lui a prodigué ses conseils. L’œuvre ...
Although, in his memoirs, Massenet describes being completely bowled over by Francis de Croisset’s play staged at the Comédie-Française in 1901, he retained only its title and general outline. As a re...
Composed during the last months of the Great War and dedicated to the composer Pierre de Bréville – at the time professor of chamber music at the Paris Conservatory -, Guy Ropartz’s Trio for piano, vi...
Diémer studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers were Marmontel (piano), Benoist (organ), Bazin (harmony) and Ambroise Thomas (composition). Obliged to earn a living, however, he was unab...
A key figure in the history of French opera, Louis Gallet was born in Valence (Drôme) in 1835 and died in Paris in 1898. From a young age, he nurtured a passion for writing while teaching at the choir...
Librettiste, romancier, vaudevilliste et journaliste. Utilise le pseudonyme "Un monsieur de l'orchestre" pour ses chroniques au Figaro entre 1885 et 1900.
Romancier, poète, chansonnier, vaudevilliste français. Historiographe de Paulus, directeur du théâtre des Capucines et président de la SACEM (1895-1898 ; 1900 et 1901).
Peu d’artistes incarnent aussi bien le Paris des Années folles qu’Albert Willemetz. Issu d’une famille bourgeoise de la capitale, il se destine initialement à l’administration. Ces études de lettres l...
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The French cello school
The history of the cello in France in the nineteenth century falls into three chapters.