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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

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and His Circle of Friends

Edvard Grieg and His Circle of Friends II

Humanity
Erwin Schulhoff’s “Menschheit”

Brahms on the Road
A Trip to Transylvania with Piano and Violin I

Napoleon Bonaparte: “Do Not Shriek Like You Usually Do”

Going Against the Composer’s Wishes: Mahler’s Sentinel’s Night Song

Red Roses!
Richard Strauss and Lotti Speyer

X’Mas with Johann Sebastian Bach

Leonard Bernstein
Four Anniversaries (1948) and Five Anniversaries (1949-51)

Inspired by the Beautiful Blue Danube

A Musical New Year in Vienna

Making Ballet Modern: Viganò and Beethoven

Music à la “Mode”
Phrygian Gates

Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565): Proto-Madrigalist

At the Center of the Musical Universe
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Prokofiev: Old Grandmother’s Tales

Lyrical Sax
Alexander Glazunov: Concerto for Alto Saxophone

Hidden meanings

Tracing the Influences: Schubert to García Lorca to Crumb

The Concerto Wrapped in Butter
Ignaz Moscheles: Piano Concerto No. 3 in G minor

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