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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

The Holiday Sound – The Classics

The Devils Did It – II

Orchestral Pipe Dreams
Symphonic Works with Organ II

The Louisiana Connection
Father and Son Win the Prix de Rome

Mozart in London I

In the Air: Respighi’s Birds

Feats of Social Climbing
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Holst: The Planets

Gustav Mahler: Fünf Lieder nach Rückert (Rückert Songs)

Love on a cosmic scale
Olivier Messiaen, Claire Delbos and Yvonne Loriod

Mapping the Musical Genome
The Merikanto Family

A Fantasy About a Fantasia: Henry Purcell and Elliott Carter

Tango Beyond Piazzolla – II. Troilo and Di Sarli

Sergei Prokofiev: Salvation for Modern Music?

Presidential Music
Thomas Jefferson and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The West’s Fascination With the East

Mozart’s Musical Journey
19 May 1789: “Spanking on your little kissable arse”

Stretching Time, Stretching Meaning – Viderunt Omnes

Zorba the Greek

The whores—embraces—lust—my innocence saved!
Robert Schumann and Christiane Apitzsch

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