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Throughout the ages France has had music which seems to reflect a national character. This comes in part from its early foundation as a political entity and its comparatively early centralization on a single city, Paris. There has been also a persistent delight in orderliness, which has given French music and architecture a classical balance at times when wild abandon has been rampant throughout the rest of Europe… France’s musical history is therefore interesting for its continuity rather than for its diversity, at least in mood, while in style, French conservatism has sometimes led to revolution, in art as in politics.
Denis Arnold / Richard Langham Smith
Oxford Companion to Music
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Roussel: Symphony No.3 in g (1930)
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