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Ernest Fanelli
11+ albums
frenchImpressionistClassicalromanticImpressionism
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Ernest Fanelli (1860–1917) was a French composer of Italian descent who is best known for sparking a controversy about the origins of Impressionist music when his composition Tableaux Symphoniques was first performed in 1912. George Antheil asserted that Fanelli was "one of the greatest inventors and musical iconoclasts of all time", but he remains an obscure figure. Fanelli was born in Paris on 29 June 1860, his family having emigrated to France from Bologna. He studied music at the Paris Conservatoire for a few years from 1876, but was expelled because of his disputes with the teaching staff. He continued in self-taught studies of composition and began to create his own works. In 1912 Fanelli was seeking work as a musical copyist, and submitted a manuscript to Gabriel Pierné as an example of his neat handwriting. Pierné was intrigued by the music itself, which Fanelli told him was one of his own compositions, Tableaux Symphoniques, written nearly 30 years earlier. Pierné found evidence of radical musical innovations anticipating the recent work of Claude Debussy. He arranged for Thebes, the first part of the Tableaux, to be performed, creating a sensation in the musical press. Pierné later performed several other works by Fanelli. Debussy himself reviewed the work, taking a sceptical view that Fanelli had "an acute sense of musical ornamentation" but that it "dragged [him] towards such an extreme need of minute description" that it made him "lose his sense of direction.
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D'apres Le Roman de la Momie: I. Thebes: Devant le palais de Tahoser (Lydia Drahosova, Mezzo-Soprano)
362D'apres Le Roman de la Momie: I. Thebes: Devant le palais de Tahoser (Lydia Drahosova - мezzo-soprano; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra \ Adriano)
243D'apres Le Roman de la Momie: I. Thebes: Sur le Nil
134D'apres Le Roman de la Momie: I. Thebes: Sur le Nil (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra \ Adriano)
125D'apres Le Roman de la Momie: I. Thebes: Rentree triomphale du Pharaon (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra \ Adriano)
106Two Pieces, Op. 42: No. 2, To be sung on the Water
107Agnus Dei, Op. 11
98Two Pieces, Op. 42: No. 1, Twelfth Night
89The Monk and his Cat
710D'apres Le Roman de la Momie: II. Fete dans le palais du Pharaon: Danse grotesque de bouffons egyptiens (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra \ Adriano)
6albums
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Symphonic Pictures
FANELLI: Symphonic Pictures
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Ernest Fanelli: Symphonic Pictures
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Tableaux Symphoniques
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Fanelli - The Romance of the Mummy - Bourgault-Ducoudray - Adriano
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The Romance of the Mummy
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Ernst Fanelli: Symphonic Pictures
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Symphonic Pictures ("The Romance of the Mummy")
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Fanelli
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Fanelli's Romance of the Mummy, Bourgault-Ducoudray's Adriano
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Fanelli : Tableaux Symphoniques - Bourgault-Ducoudray : Rhapsodie Cambodgienne