Programme 61: about Music- The Art of Listening: Musical Fingerprints Part 10

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In the next programme in the series, we are looking at Musical Fingerprints Part 10.
What are these?
These are the unique characteristics of individual composers, instruments, periods of music, musical styles and specific compositional types that an observant listener will immediately identify.
Today we look at the Keyboard music of the Piano in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Even if this is something you already know, join me anyway for music by Debussy, Ravel, Schoenberg, Bartok and Schumann
4 Jul 2024 English South Africa Music History · Music Commentary

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