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Florent Schmitt
12+ albums
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Florent Schmitt (September 28, 1870, Blamont, Meurthe et Moselle – August 17, 1958 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French composer. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, studying under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, and Gabriel Fauré. In 1900 Schmitt won the Prix de Rome on his fourth attempt. Schmitt wrote 138 works with opus numbers. He composed examples of most of the major forms of music, except for opera. Today his most famous pieces are La tragédie de Salome and Psalm XLVII. The especially fine piano quintet in B minor, written in 1908, helped establish his reputation. Other works include a violin sonata (Sonate Libre), a late string quartet, a saxophone quartet, Dionysiaques for wind band, and two symphonies. He was part of the group known as the Apaches. His own style, recognizably impressionistic, owed something to the example of Debussy, though it had distinct traces of Wagner and Richard Strauss also. From 1929 to 1939 Schmitt worked as a music critic for Le Temps, in which role he created considerable controversy, not least for his indiscreet habit of shouting out verdicts from his seat in the hall. The music publisher Huegel went so far as to call him "an irresponsible lunatic". Having been one of the most often performed of French composers in the period between the two world wars, Schmitt afterwards fell into comparative obscurity, although he continued writing music till the end (and in 1952 he became a member of the Legion of Honor). He b
top songs
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Ombres, Op. 64: I. J'entends dans le lointain
1,7962Symphonie Concertante, Op. 82: II. Lent
1,5263Symphonie concertante for Orchestra and Piano, Op. 82: I. Assez animé
1,0264Tres lent
6005Musiques intimes, 2e recueil: Glas
4326Dionysiaques, Op. 62
4047Chant élégiaque, Op. 24
2688La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50: V. Quatrième tableau
2279Mirages, Op. 70: No. 1, A la mémoire de Claude Debussy
22410Une semaine du petit elfe ferme-l'oeil, Op. 58: V. La Ronde des lettres boiteuses
223albums
Schmitt: Piano Music
Schmitt: Symphonie concertante, Rêves & Soirs
Florent Schmitt: Symphonie concertante, Rêves & Soirs
Cincinnati Wind Symphony: Songs and Dances
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Satie & Compagnie
SCHMITT: La Tragedie de Salome
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé & Chant élégiaque
Schmitt: Suites from Antoine et Cléopâtre & Symphony No. 2
SCHMITT: Orchestral Works
SCHMITT : La Tragedie de Salome
Schmitt: Crépuscules - Ombres
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French Piano Trios, Vol. 1