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 24 March
Works
Kassya
After the success in 1833 of Lakmé, Delibes turned to another form of exoticism: captivated by the music of Central Europe, he worked with his friends Philippe Gille and Henri Meilhac on a new project...
Works
La Forêt enchantée op. 8
En 1877, tout en rêvant à un drame lyrique sur Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage de Chateaubriand, d’Indy compose son premier poème symphonique, La Forêt enchantée, d’après la ballade Harald du poèt...
Persons
Maria MALIBRAN
Fille du chanteur Manuel Garcia, Maria naît à Paris. Mais elle voyage dès son plus jeune âge, au gré des tournées de son père. C’est avec celui-ci, particulièrement sévère à son égard, qu’elle apprend...
Persons
Émile FABRE
Auteur dramatique, metteur en scène et administrateur de la Comédie-Française (1913-1936).
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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