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Voluptuous Colors: Florent Schmitt’s Suite for Trumpet (1955)
Over his long composing career, Florent Schmitt wrote numerous concertante pieces showcasing nearly every instrument of the orchestra. As with a good number of other French composers, some of these works were written as examination pieces for students at the Paris Conservatoire . A representative example is Schmitt’s Suite en trois parties for Trumpet & Piano, Op. 133, a work he composed in 1955. Schmitt’s score isn’t the only piece for trumpet composed for students of the Conservatoire; other works composed during the first half of the 20th century included ones by Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Arthur Honegger, Philippe Gaubert, Olivier Messiaen, Guillaume Balay, André Chailleux, Jeanine Rueff and Theo Charlier. The Trumpet Suite is a late work: It is #133 out of a total of 138 opus numbers in the Schmitt catalogue – written when the composer was in his mid-80s. To my ears, the music bears no indication at […]
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