Category
French Composers
Another composer in our French Composers' Names series: Jean-Claude Risset. Well, composer and resea... Learn how to pronounce Risset's name in French!
Author
Thomas Deneuville
French composer Germaine Tailleferre (1893-1983) is best-known today as the only female member of th...
Author
Kendra Leonard
What better day to post this than on his birthday? Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The pianist and composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) was admired by the British Queen Victoria, for...
Author
Thea Derks
I don’t really know why it took me so long to feature Erik Satie in this French Composers̵...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
“In 1967, a young astronomer detected in the heavens a rapidly varying radio signal, in the fo...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Yesterday, somebody Googled Pelleas et Melisande Pronunciation and landed on I Care if You Listen. I...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
After a brief Facebook/Twitter survey, Nadia Boulanger emerged as a good candidate for this French C...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Born in Paris from an aristocratic family, d’Indy studied with César Franck at the Conservatoi...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The third composer in this French composers' names series that was part of Ensemble l'Itinéraire (al...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Our next installment in our French Composers' Names series is one of the most exciting French compos...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Bank holiday here in the US today (Columbus Day) so you will get two MP3s for the price of one. This...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
This week’s composer might be more famous among movie buffs than concert goers. Indeed, in 198...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
This week’s composer is Hugues Dufourt, another clever chap. Born in 1943 in Lyons, Dufourt tr...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Another post request from a Google+ friend. This time, I’ve been asked to record the pronuncia...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
A kind reader recently asked me in a comment to cover some titles of Olivier Messiaen pieces. Of cou...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Part of the new generation of French composers, Eric Tanguy (born in 1968 in Caen—the capital of the...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Charles Koechlin is, without a doubt, one of the most important (and influential) French composers o...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
This French composer’s name is extremely easy to pronounce for English speakers. Apart from th...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
This next composer in our French Composers’ Names series is Henri Dutilleux, a French composer...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
I can’t really tell how famous this week’s composer is in the US. In almost 5 years in N...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
This week’s installment in our French composers’ names series is another member of Les S...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
This week’s composer was also known as a music critic, and orchestrator (for Saint-Saëns for i...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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