Money, money, money
Of course musicians compose "for the beauty of the art"! However, it is also the case that the material realities of life have to be considered too... A meal, a place to stay, a family to feed, a château to pay for are sometimes the more prosaic motivations of some of the musicians who have left their mark on the history of music. Questions of money, court musicians, cash-in-hand commissions and working for food will be on the menu of Pierre Solot, the great money-maker of this evening, who will reveal all the tricks composers used to turn notes into money!
Programme
Works by HAYDN, MOZART, SCHOENBERG, MOUSSORGSKI, LEHÁR...
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When music is scorned or, on the contrary, exploited by political regimes: Pierre Solot and the OPRL take you down the dark corridors of political censorship...
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