A forgotten rivalry- the story of the viol and the cello in the eighteenth century

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

The Concert Spirituel venue at the Palais de Tuileries, which was destroyed in 1871 in the upheaval of the Paris Commune. The concerts took place on the second floor of the centre pavilion, in a lavishly decorated hall called the Salle de Cent Suisses (Hall of the Hundred Swiss Guards). It heralded the demise of the gamba.
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