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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

Clara Clemens and Ossip Gabrilowitsch

Violent and Unnatural Deaths in Opera II

Composing as Curating: In Touch with Listenpony

Hector Berlioz Plays a Trick on Music Critics

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)

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The Virulent Camel

Babe Magnet Gabriel Fauré
Marianne Viardot and Marie Frémiet

The Last Rose of Summer
Stevenson, Beethoven, Ries and Ernst

The Symbol of Love: Couperin’s Nightingale

Skipping Town: Christoph Willibald Gluck

Pelléas and Mélisande

Tango Passion I
Astor Piazzolla and Dedé Wolff

Movers and Shakers of the Music World
Sergey Diaghilev (1872-1929)

Richard Strauss and the Rise of Modernity

The Musical Honeymoon
Jacques Ibert’s Escales

The Harmony of the World
Kepler and Hindemith

Variations on Variations
Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B.

From the Cold to the Warmth: Geirr Tveitt’s From a Travel Diary

Cooking with Leonard

The Most Beautiful Note that Never Was
Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus

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