February 2025

Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise and Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel

For this comparative essay, I have chosen Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14, published in 1915, and Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel, painted in 1847. Firstly, Cabanel’s work is a blend of emotion and passion that captures the exact moment of Lucifer’s expulsion from Heaven. This Romantic work differs from previous depictions of this

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