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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

Muses and Musings
Anna and the Red Priest: Anna Girò and Antonio Vivaldi

Interview With Japanese Composer Naoko Ikeda

The Figaro Line and Cherubino

At the Center of the Musical Universe
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ring Bells! Sing Songs!: The Musical V

The Exotic Egyptian Girl

Art Imitating Life
Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci

Welcoming Spring: Delius’ Four Old English Lyrics

It only happens every 5000 years:
Wagner, Cosima and Judith

Psychoanalysis of a Dysfunctional Family
Richard Strauss: Elektra

Resistance is Futile
Ferruccio Busoni and Gerda Sjöstrand II

“Good composers borrow, Great ones steal!”

Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
Music is built on primitive memory structures

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Inspired by a Certain Tristesse

Paganini Makeovers

The Lighter Side of Music
French Cabaret

Music and Emotions
Homesickness: Tan Dun and his Eight Memories in Watercolour

String Quartets at War: George Crumb and Ge Gan-Ru

Carl Loewe: Impressions from the Orient

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