Notre Dame de Paris
October, 2018
Photo by me
Notre Dame de Paris is on fire; the spire has collapsed and it seems that if the roof hasn't collapsed, it will very soon. There were renovations under way and it's possible that something went wrong with an electrical connection or something like that.
Two of the earliest composers for whom we have names, and whose compositions can be identified, worked at Notre Dame, Léonin and Pérotin. Their style is known in the US as Notre Dame polyphony.
On Flickr, I have a full album of photos I took last October of the great church. This is unimaginably sad, a tremendous loss for the world and for me personally.
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