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Paul Mann

Description:

Swiss composer Richard Flrli. While in college, he took composition lessons from the Romantic composer Hans Huber; after graduating, he studied composition with Josef Marx and conducting with Felix Weingartner, embarking on a career as a musician. While his compositional style carries a late-Romantic atmosphere influenced by his teachers Huber and Marx, his works are characterized by the incorporation of a variety of techniques, reflecting the influence of early 20th-century neoclassicism and impressionism. The ballet *The Magic Mirror* is music for the theatera passion he had harbored since his youthand can be described as a fairy tale for adults in which the turmoil arising from a secret romance between a man and a woman is enveloped in magical spells and dance steps. It is an entertaining work featuring music that blends various styles for each scene. His Little Ballet Music, composed nearly 30