Six Poemes Arabes is Louis Aubert's largest and most orchestral work for voice and piano. The poetry, taken from Franz Toussaint's Jardin des caresses is highly evocative, and frequently borders on the erotic. A young man ...

I attempt to show in this thesis that Beethoven's musical concepts were deeply enriched through the influence of Freemasonry and other types of ancient philosophical and esoteric thought. The composer integrated these ...