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Ozymandias is the pseudonym of the Swiss pianist and composer Christophe Terrettaz. After several years studying classical piano, Christophe Terrettaz started to compose seriously. His first work, "Isolement", was produced in 1996 by the German label "Weisser Herbst". His second album, "Ahara", was released in 1998 by the cult label "World Serpent". In 1999, Mark Ellis of Elijah's Mantle and Christophe Terrettaz collaborated on "The Soul of Romanticism'" a spoken-word album based on poems of Shelley, Byron, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. This work exposes the elements of romanticism through the voice of Ellis Mark and the music of Ozymandias. The...

Karol Maciej Korwin-Szymanowski (1882-1937), was a Polish composer and pianist, Born on the 3rd October 1882 in Tymoszowka, Poland, he lived between the death of Chopin and the rise of the post-World War II generation of Grażyna Bacewicz and Witold Lutosławski. His style developed in three distinct stages: from a strong affinity with Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabin and fellow countryman Frédéric Chopin, to flavourings of the Orient, the Mediterranean, and the impressionism of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, to a nationalist final period influenced by Polish folk music and the Eastern Church. Even when writing in a Polish idiom, Szymanowski...