Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences

Music and the Arts in France – 1925 is an international Conference and Festival that takes 1925 as the confluence for exploring key composers for whom it was a significant date.

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1925 was the year of Ravel’s 50th birthday, of Satie and Caplet’s deaths, and the birth of Boulez. The Conference and Festival will draw widely on music and sister arts surrounding these figures, such as Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, Neoclassicism and Abstraction. The year 1925 was marked by some significant musical and artistic moments, including the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes that not only sought to honour the Allied countries of the First World War while demonstrating the artistic might of Paris, but also engendered the term Art Deco to describe the new international modernist style.

With 1925 as the nexus, its compass will reach from Ravel’s birth in 1875 to and beyond Boulez. Working with our artistic partners and collaborators, including the Leeds International Piano Competition, Leeds Lieder, Art Sung and the University of Leeds International Concert Series, the Conference will have a prominent public-facing performance element, including Masterclasses, concerts and featuring new compositions inspired by the Conference and Festival themes.

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