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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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A Girl’s Best Friend: Ethel Smyth and Marco

Scandalous Tales of Society Told in Ceramic
Faustina Bordoni and Johann Adolf Hasse

Pursuing Protein in Classical Music

Casanova – A Life in Music

Mozart and his World: Salzburg II

Pretty Servants and a Mad King
Richard Wagner and Ludwig II

Ferdinando and his Magical Keyboard

Exploring Partitas
Johann Sebastian Bach

Lavender Marriage
Marc Blitzstein and Eva Goldbeck

Food for Thought
Mealtime With Franz Liszt

Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor (1915)

The Evolution of East-West Collaborations in Classical Music:
An Interview with Two Hong Kong Composers- Hong Hong Gianakon and Kwan Leung Ling

Tango Passion II
Astor Piazzolla and Amelita Baltar

At the Center of the Musical Universe
Franz Schubert V

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (1899-1901) / Willem Mengelberg: Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1939

Night and Day and Delius

How Influence Carries
Perilous Night From Cage to Johns to Crumb

BBC Proms 2015
Franz Schmidt: Symphony No. 2

Vagn Holmboe: “Moya”—7 Japanese Songs

Variations on the Goldberg I

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