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 21 June
Works
Pelléas et Mélisande
Fauré composed the incidental music for Maeterlinck’s play in the spring of 1898 at the request of the English actress Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Campbell, née Cornwallis-West). To save tim...
Persons
LANGLOIS-FREVILLE
Artiste dramatique, comédien à l’Odéon (1852-1886), auteur de chansons français.
Persons
Hélène FLEURY
Première femme inscrite au palmarès du prix de Rome de composition musicale, Hélène Fleury demeure une figure encore bien méconnue. Cette native de l’Oise semble avoir été formée au conservatoire de V...
Persons
André HARFORT
Dessinateur et illustrateur. A travaillé notamment pour des magazines de mode, des agences de publicité, l'édition de romans populaires.
Focus
Pianistic Virtuosity
Inspired by the example of Paganini’s violin playing, Romantic composers made the piano the premier instrument of virtuosity.
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