Clarens, Switzerland
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Clarens is a small village in the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.
Here the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballets The Rite of Spring and Pulcinella, and Tchaikovsky his Violin Concerto in Re M in march 1878.
Here died Paul Kruger, Hero of South African independence from Britain.
The anarchist and geographer Élisée Reclus resided in Clarens.
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