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2015-03-19 11:37:50
Who smeared Dutilleux as a Nazi collaborator when he was, in fact, a Résistant?
[…] indépendance de la France) et Louis Durey replié, alors, en zone non occupée. En octobre 1941, un manifeste pour la profession est rédigé par Claude Delvincourt. Il paraît dans le numéro clandestin de L’Université libre aux côtés de ceux en direction des universitaires, des intellectuels de zone non-occupée, des médecins, des écrivains et des plasticiens. Autour de ce manifeste se regroupent entre l’automne 1941 et le printemps 1942 : Henri Dutilleux mais aussi Roland Manuel, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Charles Munch, Manuel Rosenthal, Henry Barraud, Irène Joachim, Monique Haas, Marcel Mihalovici et Geneviève Joy. Leur devise « L’Art n’a pas de patrie, certainement. Mais les artistes en ont une ». Autour du journal clandestin Musiciens d’Aujourd’hui dont le titre est dessiné par le plasticien André Fougeron, le groupe développe une résistance originale, spécifique sur plusieurs fronts. Musiciens d’Aujourd’hui tiré à 1 600 exemplaires, Le musicien patriote […]
2014-03-16 23:51:25
"Pure Music Masterpiece": Florent Schmitt’s Sonate libre for Violin and Piano (1918-19).
Within Florent Schmitt’s musical output are a half-dozen works that feature the violin. Perhaps the most significant of them is his Sonate libre, Op. 68, a work he composed in 1918-19 at Artiguemy, his country retreat in the Hautes-Pyrenees. First recording: Jean Fournier and Ginette Doyen (1959). The formal title of the music is a real mouthful: Sonate libre en deux parties enchaînées, ad modem Clementis aquæ. Evidently, Schmitt was using a play on words in the title – a reference to French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau’s newspaper L’Homme libre which later became known as L’Homme enchaîné. The French novelist and musicologist Benoît Duteurtre has written that the Sonata’s title “perfectly sums up the spirit of a work that is at the same time magnificently constructed and astonishingly free in expression.” He likens the style to Olivier Messiaen’s early works that were to come along a number of […]
2013-10-20 06:24:50
L’Eventail de Jeanne: When Florent Schmitt teamed up with his compatriots to create an “omnibus” ballet.
Throughout classical music history, “omnibus” compositions have been rather rare – and they’ve been often forgotten shortly after their celebrated premieres. The composers of “Hexameron” … led by Liszt. Perhaps the earliest one of these interesting concoctions that has at least remained on the fringes of the repertoire is Hexameron — a morceau de concert put together in the late 1830s under the aegis of Franz Liszt — to which some of the leading composers of the day contributed. Hexameron consists of a theme, variations and finale – with the theme coming from Vincenzo Bellini’s opera The Puritans. The musicians who contributed variations to Hexameron included Frédéric Chopin, Karl Czerny, Henri Herz, Johann Pixis and Sigismund Thalberg, in addition to Liszt. Originally written for piano, Liszt also created a version of Hexameron for piano and orchestra. Having listened to that rendition, my conclusion is that the […]
2012-01-01 23:18:00
JANUARY 2 Today in classical music history
Cristobal MORALES 1512 Birth of Spanish composer, choral director and vocalist Cristobal MORALES in Seville. d-Malaga, 14 JUN 1553.1678 Opening of the Gaensemarkt Theater, Hamburg's first opera house.1726 Death of Italian composer Domenico Zipoli in Córdoba, Argentina. b-Prato, 16 OCT 1688. Search Domenico Zipoli.1732 Birth of Bohemian composer ofchurch music and organist Franz Xaver BRIXI in Prague. d- 14 OCT 1771. aka Frantisek Xaver BRIXI. Search Frantisek Xaver BRIXI.1747 Death of French composer, violinist and conductor Jean-Fery Rebel in Paris. b-Paris 18 APR 1666. Search Jean-Fery Rebel.1753 Death of Italian contralto Marie Maddalena Pieri. Born 1683 ? in Florence. Created Tamerlano in Tamerlano (Vivaldi)Sang in premiere of Carceriere de se Stesso (Orlandini) Bajazate (Leo) […]
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