Around the turn of the 20th Century, the Habanera became a popular musical form. One of its best-known examples is Habanera -also known as the aria L’amour est un oiseau rebelle– from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. The tango-like rhythm from Cuba apparently offered something exotic. This Habanera forms part of a collection of […]
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Jules Massenet composed his opera Thaïs, Comedie lyrique en trois actes in 1894, based on a libretto which follows the story from Thaïs by Anatole France. The opera is enacted in ancient Egypt. One of the Entr’ Actes from this opera became one of the popular themes of these days, the Meditation. It is a
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This is an arrangement of La Serenata -also called Angels’ Serenade- from the collection Legende Valaque by Gaetano Braga (1829 – 1907). He was mainly known for his operas, I guess the reason why there is a guitar arrangement of this piece: people liked to play their hits at home. Federico Sacchi, a nineteenth century
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