This Day in the Arts: April 5
1902:
Maurice Ravel’s Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) premieres. (A pavane is a slow processional dance that was popular in European courts during the 16th and 17th centuries.)
1908:
Herbert von Karajan, one of the world’s most-recorded conductors, is born in Salzburg, Austria. He conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for 35 years.
