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Albert Roussel
12+ albums
Classicalfrench20th Century Classicalfrancecomposer
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Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (April 5, 1869 - August 23, 1937) was a French composer. Born in Tourcoing, France, Roussel's earliest interest was not in music but mathematics. He spent a time in the French Navy, and in 1889 and 1890 he served on the crew of the frigate Iphigénie. These travels affected him artistically, as many of his musical works would reflect his interest in far off, exotic places. After resigning from the Navy in 1894 he began to study music seriously with Eugène Gigout, then continuing his studies until 1908 at the Schola Cantorum (one of his teachers there was Vincent D'Indy). While studying, he was also busy teaching; his students included Satie and the young Edgard Varèse. During World War I he served—as did Ernest Hemingway—as an ambulance driver on the Western Front. Following the war, he bought a summer house in Normandy, where he devoted most of his time to composition. Roussel was by temperament a classicist. While his early work is strongly influenced by impressionism, he eventually found a personal style which was more formal in design, with a strong rhythmic drive, and with a more distinct liking for functional tonality than is evident in the work of his more famous contemporaries (for instance Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and Stravinsky). Roussel's training at the Schola Cantorum, with its emphasis on rigorous academic models such as Palestrina and Bach, left its mark on his mature style, which is characterized by contrapuntal textures. Whi
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Segovia, Op. 29
1,2092Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42: II. Adagio
6133Le festin de l'araignee, Op. 17 (arr. R. Dubinsky): The dance of the mayfly —
3834Segovia, Op.29
3265Le festin de l'araignee (The Spider's Banquet), Op. 17: Part 1: Prelude - Un Jardin (A Garden)
3046Les nuages s'accumulent dans le ciel (The clouds gather)
3007L'enchantement dionysiaque (The Dionysian spell)
2908Roussel: Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, Pt. 2: XIII. Funérailles de l'Éphémère
2899Roussel: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 7, "Le poème de la forêt": II. Renouveau
25710Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42: III. Vivace
202albums
Albert Roussel: Bacchus and Aradne (complete), Suite in F
Roussel, A.: Bacchus Et Ariane (Bacchus and Ariadne) / Symphony No. 3
Roussel: Bacchus Et Ariane / Le Festin De L'Araignee
Roussel: Le festin de l'araignée - Padmâvatî Suites
Chamber Music (French Flute Quintets) - Tournier, M. / Schmitt, F. / Pierne, G. / Francaix, J. / Roussel, A.
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Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Debussy: 6 Épigraphes antiques - Poulenc: Les biches
Albert Roussel Edition
Roussel, A.: Symphony No. 1, "Le Poeme De La Foret" / Resurrection / Le Marchand De Sable Qui Passe
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Andrés Segovia - The Art of Segovia
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane & Le Festin de L'araignée
Roussel: Promenade Sentimentale, Complete Piano Music
Roussel: Évocations, Pour une fête de printemps & Suite in F Major