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Prélude … pour une suite à venir (1948) and Songe (1942): Two worthy piano...
Florent Schmitt, photographed in about 1940. The catalogue of Florent Schmitt’s compositions is extensive, consisting of some 138 opus-numbered items (actually, two numbers weren’t used by the composer...
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The music of Florent Schmitt features prominently in the new 2024 version of...
The new soundtrack, prepared by Simon Cloquet-Lafollye, includes nearly an hour of music taken from four Florent Schmitt orchestral scores. The epic film Napoléon is rightly viewed as one of the...
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Members of the quintet Le Bateau ivre talk about their musical journey as an...
Members of the quintet Le Bateau ivre. (Photo: Heyoung Park) In my years of interfacing with professional classical musicians, I’ve noticed how frequently friendships that had been established during...
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“A wide canvass for the language of sound”: Florent Schmitt’s De vive voix...
Florent Schmitt photographed in 1957, two years after composing De vive voix. (Photo: René Pari) Within the catalogue of compositions by Florent Schmitt are a large number of choral works, great and...
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French composer Louis Aubert’s essay about the “dual character” of Florent...
When Florent Schmitt died in August 1958, fellow composer Henri Dutilleux wrote a memorable epitaph in honor of his older compatriot: “Florent Schmitt was the last of that great family to which Ravel,...
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Just released: A brilliant new recording featuring late-career piano music by...
The new release on the Urborigène Records label, performed by French pianist Clément Canonne, includes two world premiere recordings plus an unpublished 1950 piano sonata that later became the wind...
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An 80th Birthday Tribute to Florent Schmitt
The town of Saint-Cloud honored its longtime resident Florent Schmitt on the occasion of his 80th birthday, presenting a gala concert featuring his recent compositions. The program booklet for Florent...
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Trois chants en l’honneur d’Auguste Comte: Florent Schmitt’s tribute to the...
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (1798-1857), France’s preeminent philosopher and thinker of the 19th century. (1856 lithograph by Eugène Signol, after an 1852 oil painting by Antoine Etex.)...
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“This musician of immensity and altitudes”: French music journalist and...
Florent Schmitt, photographed in the garden of his home in St-Cloud, France (1950). Several months ago, I published an article about an 80th birthday tribute event honoring Florent Schmitt that was...
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“Florent Schmitt likes our imperfect planet”: Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky...
“Florent Schmitt likes our imperfect planet; the planet reciprocates.” — Nicolas Slonimsky, musicologist, composer and conductor Nicolas Slonimsky (born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, 1894-1995), was...
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