Honoré de Balzac

Poet

Honoré de Balzac

1799 - 1850

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac,[1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Taken from Wikipedia. Read more here.

Read or download La Comédie humaine for free here on Gutenberg Press, or listen to it on audiobook here on LibriVox.

Song List

This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.

Nuits Adieux (Farewell Nights) (1996) Kaija Saariaho

Help us with a Donation

Enjoying Discover Song? Help us with a donation

Make a Donation

Select Tickets