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3 unusual facts about Ernest Fanelli


Ernest Fanelli

Fanelli was supported by Judith Gautier, the daughter of Theophile Gautier, whose novel The Romance of the Mummy had inspired the Tableaux Symphoniques.

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Fanelli's most notable composition, Tableaux Symphoniques d'apres le Roman de la Momie was a symphonic poem in a series of "tableaux" illustrating the novel The Romance of the Mummy by Théophile Gautier.

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Ezra Pound recalls an episode in which he was sitting in a restaurant listening to Fanelli play a composition on the piano when Debussy walked in.



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