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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

Minors of the Majors
Hector Berlioz: 9 Melodies, Op. 2

Vivaldi and Bach
All musical thoughts are cumulative

Masterworks Inspired and Dedicated to Ignacy Paderewski

Works Disliked By Their Composers! Part II

The Pure Blood, or an Opera of Extreme Sensitivity

Death Penalty for Smoking!

A Nordic Fairytale
Jean Sibelius and Aino Järnefelt

Minors of the Majors
Felix Mendelssohn: “On New Year’s Day,” Op 79, No.2

Minors of the Majors
Robert Schumann:
Introduction and Concert Allegro, Op. 134

Minors of the Majors
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: String Sextet in A Major

Shaking for Queen Victoria

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
“Truly There Would Be Reason to Go Mad Were It Not for Music.”

A Bird of a different feather!
Richard Strauss and Pauline Maria de Ahna

Exercises in the lofty French style
Franz Liszt and Assorted

Let’s meet in the Rat hole!
Franz Liszt and Marie d’Agoult I

Getting to Zero
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 0 in D Minor, “Nullte”

Brett Dean’s The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Mathilde Schoenberg and Richard Gerstl
Muse and Femme Fatale

Messing about in Boats

A Tour of Spain: Albéniz’ Suite Española

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