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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

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Leaving it to the Imagination
Anatoly Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake, Op. 17

Orchestral Pipe Dreams
Symphonic Works with Organ III

Giving the Lark New Wings
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Composing as ‘Treasure Hunting’
In Touch with Composer Sylvia Lim

Steve Reich & Beryl Korot
A Relationship of Shared Ideas

And the Winner is…….
Chamber and Solo Music Competition at the 1948 Olympics

Beethoven’s Lairs
“Sailerstätte 1055/6”

A Work Symbolic of the World: Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Quarantine Symphony

Sleep gently my Count Keyserlingk

Musical Tributes: Straussiana, Brahmsiana, Tartiniana and Tocatta Bachiana

An arranged and happy marriage
Claudio Monteverdi and Claudia Cattaneo

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77

Appealing to the Melting Pot
Stephen Foster and the American Experience

The Sorrowful Mother

Super Couple
Giaochino Rossini and Isabella Colbran

Carl Maria von Weber: Inspired by Turandot
“Overture and Marches” for Turandot, Op. 37

Beethoven’s Lairs
“Ossolynskisches Schloß, Baden”

In Praise of the Fat One!
Ignaz Schuppanzigh

Maurice Ravel: Mysteries of the Brain

Felix Mendelssohn and His Circle of Friends

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