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Igor Stravinsky – Elegy for Solo Viola
…concerto from Stravinsky, he declined and Bartok took the offer instead. Germain Prevost commissioned the Elegy to honor Alphonse Onnou, along with works by Darius Milhaud. This somber token of…
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Georges Bizet
…music to Alphonse Daudet’s play L’Arlésienne became instantly popular. However, it was Bizet’s final opera, Carmen, that would catapult him to enduring fame. Although the opera’s themes of betrayal and…
