Alphonse Leduc Collection

Descended from a long line of musicians, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was the personification of music in the eyes of her contemporaries; but her work as a composer was for a long time overshadowed by...

A composer and conductor of genius, Eugène Bozza (1905–1991) left us several operas, ballets, large-scale symphonic and choral works, but his worldwide reputation is derived mainly from his many chamb...

George Friedrich Handel (1685–1759) made symbolic use of the harp, as an instrument capable of stirring great emotion. In 1720, he published a collection of eight Suites de pièces pour clavecin – suit...

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) tackled nearly every musical genre and left a body of works that is typically French, in which gaiety, cheekiness and spontaneity rub shoulders with melancholy, ten­derness...

A pupil of the famous composer of his time Nicola Porpora, Pietro Domenico Paradisi (c. 1707 – c. 1791) gained a reputation through his teaching of singing and harpsichord. In 1754, he published a col...

A composer and conductor of genius, Eugène Bozza (1905–1991) left us several operas, ballets, large-scale symphonic and choral works, but his worldwide reputation is derived mainly from his many chamb...