Current events, topics in tune with the times and discovery: two hours to do the "Tour de la question". Accompanied by Julie, Wendy Bouchard initiates the debate, invites listeners to exchange live, and surrounds herself with specialists to answer their questions.
Subject 2: Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi: These genius musicians who made History Do you know that Mozart was a Freemason?
That Beethoven was fascinated by Bonaparte? That François-Joseph Gossec put to music the French Revolution? That Strauss complied with the Nazis and that Shostakovich resisted Stalin? From Lully courtier the Sun King to Verdi cantor of Italian unity, Hector Berlioz supporter of the Three Glorious to Mikis Theodorakis facing the dictatorship of the colonels, these geniuses of Music have drawn in History with a great H all the fire and the passion that escapes from their scores ...
- Laure Dautriche , Journalist at Europe 1, musicologist and violinist Author of "These musicians who made history", released Thursday at Taillandier editions