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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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Mozart’s Musical Journey
12 March 1785: Violin Sonata No. 32, K. 454

Fauré and the French Harp

In the Musical Service to Catherine the Great of Russia

Trying to Stay Busy: An Interview With Peter Breiner

Everyone Wants a Goldberg

Mozart does Bach and Handel

“Art has to deal with eternal Questions”
Arvo and Nora Pärt

Aaron Copland: Inspired by Paderewski and Boulanger

“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Shakespeare and Music III: The Tempest

Victoria Bond: Ancient Keys

Archduke Rudolph of Austria: The Sickly Muse

Mozart Makes Another Quodlibet

The Organist and the Poetess
Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger and Franziska von Hoffnaaß

Pietà by Richard Blackford
A Stabat Mater for Our Troubled Times

The Twelve Days of Christmas
Musicological Journey through the Holidays

Mixing Genres: Tsintsadze’s 24 Preludes for Piano

Escaping COVID-19
Feel-Good Music II

Music for the Puppet Theatre
Verdi and Donizetti

Listening to Bach with New Ears

Alfred Schnittke: Moz-Art à la Haydn

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