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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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The Eccentric Knight
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote op. 35

Pigs in and around Music

The Creative Power of Love!
Isaac Albéniz and Rosina Jordana

Famous Composers as Subjects of Opera II

Ancient and Modern and Left-Handed: Korngold’s Suite

Abandoned at the Altar
Maxwell Davies’ Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot

Oscar Wilde in Music: The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Muses and Musings
Oh! Susanna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Nancy Storace

Fanciful Stories in Music
Dittersdorf: “Ovid Symphonies” III

Reimagining Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons for Voices

The Top Ten Loves of Franz Liszt’s Life

Bach Babies in Music
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

Beethoven’s Lairs
“Ungargasse 5”

A Cut above the Rest!
Theodore Billroth

Albert Schweitzer – Bach, Peace and Cats

Symphonic Transformations
From Weber to Hindemith to Lawrence

The Many Kinds of Winter

Edvard Grieg and His Circle of Friends

The Poet for the Modern Age

Mozart’s Musical Journey
20 March 1784: Piano Concerto No. 14, K. 449

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