The dreaded "Concours" at the Paris Conservatoire is a rite of passage. For more than a century, the Conservatoire has commissioned new pieces for these end of term musical exams. In 1899, one of the ...
The name André Messager may not be familiar today, but he was a major force in French music around the turn of the 20th century. An admired conductor of both Wagner and contemporary works – he led the ...
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