This essay was first published here in September 2015.

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Jean-Féry Rebel's revolutionary symphony "Les Élémens" still stands, nearly three centuries after its composition, as man's supreme artistic attempt to imagine chaos and creation, and the beginning of time itself... (essay by Stephen Klugewicz)

The Music of Chaos & Creation: Jean-Féry Rebel's "Elements"

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