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La Tragédie de Salomé: Florent Schmitt’s most famous composition … 15...
Salome: Painting by French Symbolist Artist Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) Without question, La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 is Florent Schmitt’s most famous composition. Composed in 1907 and revised in...
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First-ever recording of Florent Schmitt’s ballet Le petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil...
The English-language version of the children’s book, printed by A. Tolmer in Paris for Duffield Publishing Co. (1923). Timpani, the French CD label that specializes in recording unfamiliar French...
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The Invencia Piano Duo Completes its Florent Schmitt Series on the NAXOS...
The Invencia Piano Duo’s Tenth Anniversary recital featured the music of Florent Schmitt and Paul Bowles. One of the most intriguing recent projects involving the music of French composer Florent...
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L’Eventail de Jeanne: When Florent Schmitt teamed up with his compatriots to...
Throughout classical music history, “omnibus” compositions have been rather rare – and for the most part, they’ve been forgotten shortly after their celebrated premieres. The composers of “Hexameron” …...
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Florent Schmitt’s Crépuscules (1898-1911): Richly evocative tone painting in...
Composed between 1898 and 1911, Florent Schmitt’s Crépuscules, Op. 56 is a set of four pieces for solo piano that was published in 1913. It’s one of the most compelling French piano works of the...
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Lied et Scherzo (1910), Florent Schmitt’s Incredible Piece Featuring the...
One of the most interesting works by Florent Schmitt is his Lied et Scherzo, Op. 54, which he composed in 1910. Paul Dukas (1965-1935): Florent Schmitt’s “Lied et Scherzo” was dedicated to his fellow...
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Elegance and Class: Florent Schmitt’s Quartet Pour presque tous les temps...
The Ensemble Martinu’s 2008 recording of Florent Schmitt’s quartet “Pour presque tous les temps” is stunning. One of the last works created by the French composer Florent Schmitt was a quartet he...
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Janiana: Florent Schmitt’s Rich, Robust Symphony for String Orchestra (1941)
Jane Evrard and L’Orchestre feminin de Paris premiered Florent Schmitt’s “Janiana” Symphony in 1942. We know that Florent Schmitt’s penultimate work was the Symphony No. 2, composed in 1957 and...
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Florent Schmitt and the Flute
For a composer who wrote many pages of chamber and instrumental music featuring nearly every instrument of the orchestra, Florent Schmitt’s compositions featuring the flute are comparative few....
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Originality, Eclecticism … and Female Voices: Florent Schmitt’s Six Chœurs...
Music lovers who know Florent Schmitt’s stunning Psaume XLVII (1904) might wonder what other choral music may have come from the composer’s pen. Premiere recording of Florent Schmitt’s Six Choeurs:...
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Excitement on Steroids: Five Live Concert Recordings of Florent Schmitt’s...
A sonic “experience”: Florent Schmitt’s Psalm 47. For many classical music lovers, nothing can compare to a live performance. While studio recordings promise greater precision and better sound quality...
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Spanish flautist Roberto Casado talks about Florent Schmitt’s Sonatine en...
Roberto Casado The Spanish flautist and chamber musician Roberto Casado discovered the music of Florent Schmitt as part of a quest to find new repertoire pieces in the French Impressionist tradition....
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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...
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Introït, récit et congé: Florent Schmitt’s tour de force for cello and...
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Florent Schmitt’s teacher and mentor. Over his seven decades-long composing career, Florent Schmitt would pen three concertante works for cello. The early Chant élégiaque...
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“Pure Music Masterpiece”: Florent Schmitt’s Sonate libre for Violin and Piano...
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,...
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French Cellist Henri Demarquette talks about the Music of Florent Schmitt and...
Vigorous passion: French cellist Henri Demarquette. The recent release of the premiere recording of Florent Schmitt’s Introït, récit et congé, Op. 113, has given lovers of French music and cello music...
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Brilliance and Sophistication: Florent Schmitt’s Trois Rapsodies (1904)
One of the most satisfying of Florent Schmitt’s extensive trove of music for piano duet and duo – and the one that is my personal favorite of all of them – is Trois Rapsodies, Op. 53, a work he...
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A Surprising Collaboration and Friendship: Florent Schmitt and Frederick...
Frederick Delius (1862-1934): Florent Schmitt prepared piano/vocal transcriptions for four of the composer’s operas between 1894 and 1902. One interesting yet virtually unknown early chapter in Florent...
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Forgotten Records: Resurrecting noteworthy recordings of Florent Schmitt’s...
There’s no question that in the past two decades, the breadth and depth of French composer Florent Schmitt’s music that has made it to the microphones has increased dramatically. Nearly every year, we...
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The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Announces the North American Premiere...
Le Palais hanté is also planned for performance and recording. The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performing at Kleinhans Music Hall. North American classical music lovers are in for a treat this...
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