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by Georg Predota March 7th, 2025 Tags: Ravel

Ravel at 150: A Legacy of Innovation 150 years ago, on 7 March 1875, the small village of Ciboure in the Basque region of France saw the birth of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Son of a Swiss engineer and a Basque

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All Of The Month Love Inspiration Anecdotes Interviews

1937 Posts

Show me the Money
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Christmas at the Opera I

Destination Beijing

The Sisters of the Prix de Rome
Nadia and Lili Boulanger

Sounds of Sorrow: Elegies and Laments II

Music in Exile II
Following the Money

Minors of the Majors
Manuel de Falla: Allegro de Concierto

Madness at the Lower Rhine Music Festival

At the Center of the Musical Universe
George Frideric Handel II

She’s Just a Little Mad, My Head Is on Straight
Kurt Weill’s 7 Deadly Sins

Danielpour’s Talking with Aphrodite and other works

The Scottish Inspiration
Sir Walter Scott

The Traveling Quartet – Chiayu’s Journey to the West

Roman Parties
Respighi: Feste Romane

Buried Treasures:
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Piano, Violin and Strings in D Minor (1822)

Carl Loewe: Songs of Longing
Julie von Jacob and Auguste Lange

Monteverdi and Jazz

A Walk in a Japanese Garden
Tōru Takemitsu

Erik Satie: “Like a nightingale with toothache”

Bibliographic Ghosts

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