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The fascinating story of L’Arbre entre tous (1939-40), Florent Schmitt’s...
Premiered in May 1940 — mere weeks before the fall of France — the piece was shelved thereafter, with the unpublished score and parts languishing in the archives of the Bibliothèque national de France...
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“A forlorn sky, a low horizon and the slow, monotonous falling of snow”:...
The NAXOS Grand Piano recording of solo piano music by Florent Schmitt, released in 2021. In 2021, the NAXOS label’s Grand Piano imprint issued a CD featuring solo piano music of Florent Schmitt...
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Fresh takes on French children’s ballets (Debussy, Ravel, Roussel, Schmitt).
Bruno Belthoise and Grégoire Pont are revitalizing the stories of French children’s ballets more than a century after their creation. Florent Schmitt, photographed at about the time he composed the...
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A musical time capsule is unearthed in provincial France.
The Charente summer home of soprano Marthe Bailloux and her military husband yields a trove of noteworthy artifacts from France’s “Golden Age” of art and music. The onetime summer home of the Bailloux...
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Four Florent Schmitt orchestral works are featured in the new 2024-25 season...
In addition to multiple presentations of Schmitt’s best-known composition La Tragédie de Salomé, music-lovers will be treated to several works from the composer’s early and late career. Four orchestral...
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Florent Schmitt and four decades of the Parisian salon.
The French composer played a major role over four decades as both a host and a participant in Paris’ salon culture. The house and gardens of Florent Schmitt in St-Cloud were the venue for countless...
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Budding originality: Florent Schmitt’s Trois mélodies for voice and piano...
The Salle Érard in Paris was the site of many premieres of works by major French and Belgian composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Those premieres included compositions by...
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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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