"Those of you that have visited Paris will know it’s a city in which the past lives in tandem with the present. This is especially true when it comes to its musical life. Indeed, to walk by lamplight from Montparnasse to Montmartre is to be consumed by centuries of sound, to relive its many golden ages as if they were all unfolding at once. It’s impossible to talk of Paris without mentioning La Belle Époque, a period between the 1870s and the dawn of the First World War in which France’s cultural and artistic climate flourished, leading to the creation of some of the most intoxicating musical works of the day. Before the likes of Debussy, Saint-Sans, Bizet, Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel, Germany was regarded as the centre of European musical excellence. ...”
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