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Stèle pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas, Florent Schmitt’s heartfelt tribute to...
This special music supplement accompanying the May/June 1936 issue of La Revue musicale contained piano pieces contributed by nine composers — all friends or students of Paul Dukas. Of the composers of...
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Five orchestral works by Florent Schmitt to be featured in 2026-27 concert...
Florent Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé (from sketch artwork, 1912). For afficionados of Florent Schmitt’s music, the upcoming 2026-27 season of orchestral concerts will include Schmitt compositions...
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Pianist Peter Donohoe talks about the music of Florent Schmitt and recording...
“Florent Schmitt’s music is very extravagant and complex, and he often wrote for immense forces — the Symphonie concertante being a prime example. Overall, the piece possesses a very powerful...
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Conseil tenu par les rats (The Rats’ Council): Florent Schmitt’s humorous...
Florent Schmitt seated at the doorway to his study at his home in St-Cloud, France. (Photo: ©1953 Lipnitzki/Roger-Viollet) In 1953, Florent Schmitt composed Fables sans morales, settings of four fables...
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“Florent Schmitt has been the victim of a caprice of time”: Émile...
“A genius essentially dynamic, fed by strong rhythms and dark and violent colors …” — Émile Vuillermoz, French arts critic and author Three biographies of Florent Schmitt (l-r): Hucher (1953); Ferroud...
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Experiencing Florent Schmitt’s imposing Piano Quintet (1902-08) in concert:...
A vintage score to Florent Schmitt’s Piano Quintet (1902-08), inscribed by the composer to his composer-colleague Vincent d’Indy. (Click or tap on the image for a larger view.) Live concert...
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Florent Schmitt’s Trois danses (1935/39) gets its moment in the sun at last.
After decades of obscurity, suddenly both the piano and orchestral versions of Schmitt’s suite receive new recordings – as well as renewed attention from performers. A vintage copy of the score to...
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Pianist Clément Canonne talks about his second recording devoted to the solo...
Clément Canonne’s second recording of music by Florent Schmitt encompasses all the solo piano scores created by the composer during the 1930s. Clément Canonne records Florent Schmitt’s piano music from...
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“Compositions remarkable for their strength and logic”: Norman Demuth’s...
Florent Schmitt in 1957. (Photo: René Pari) When Florent Schmitt passed away in August 1958 at the age of nearly 88 years, the noted composer Henri Dutilleux penned this memorable epitaph about his...
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Çançunik: Florent Schmitt creates a composition intended for radio broadcast...
The cover page of a vintage copy of the score for Florent Schmitt’s Cancunik, Op. 79, a suite in two parts for orchestra, inscribed by conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier at the time of the work’s premiere...
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A journey into Florent Schmitt’s Symphonie concertante (1932): Conductor Yan...
“I’d never before seen a score as mind-blowing as the Symphonie concertante …” — Yan Pascal Tortelier, Conductor Emeritus, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Philharmonic conductor emeritus Yan Pascal...
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“Keenly alert features, a sharp eye — more like a banker or statesman than a...
Leonard Liebling (1874-1945) was an American-born music critic, writer, pianist, librettist and sometime-composer who is best-known for being editor-in-chief of the weekly journal Musical Courier from...
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The making of Yan Pascal Tortelier’s newest Florent Schmitt recording: An...
“It is one of the most important recordings of my entire career.” — Yan Pascal Tortelier, French conductor Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier (l.) and pianist Peter Donohoe at the recording sessions for...
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A link with music history: French composer Pierrette Mari’s remembrances of...
In a September 2025 interview, the 96-year-old composer shares her recollections of Florent Schmitt and his distinctive personality. Pierrette Mari (Photo: ©James Bihouise, ca. 2020) In this year of...
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Experiencing Florent Schmitt’s Psalm 47 (1904) in concert: An eyewitness...
Fanfare Magazine music critic Steven Kruger shares his reaction to the first U.S. staging of the Psaume since 2019. A poster announcing the Houston Symphony’s 2025-26 season-opening weekend of...
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Pianists Genevieve Fei-wen Lee and Brian Hsu talk about preparing and...
Pianists Brian Hsu and Genevieve Fei-wen Lee, photographed at Garth Newel Music Center following their performance of music by Florent Schmitt and Maurice Ravel (August 17, 2025). On August 17, 2025...
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Beauty in the shadow of conflict: Florent Schmitt’s wartime choral work Cinq...
“We shortchange Florent Schmitt if we don’t admire in him, along with his formidable power, that quivering sensitivity to which we owe some of the most moving pages of contemporary music.” — Louis...
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The 2025-26 concert season features six orchestral works by Florent Schmitt...
Gottfried Rabl For afficionados of Florent Schmitt’s music, the upcoming 2025-26 concert season will include symphonic works that cover a wide swath of the composer’s career, with six compositions...
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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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“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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