The new scholarly-critical edition of the score of Rameau’s “ballet héroïque” Les Indes galantes finally clears up its convoluted source history. At the first performance,on 23 August 1735, it consisted of a prologue and three acts: Le Turc généreux, Les Incas du Pérou and Les Fleurs. But Les Fleurs already proved controversial in the early performances, and from 11 Septemberof that same year it w…

Paris, l'Auteur, Foucault, s.d. (après 1709)Le volume comporte six cantates françaises et deux cantates italiennes.Présentation par Bertrand Porot : Les poèmes des cantates - Sujets des cantates - Traduction française des textes des cantates italiennes.Musique de qualité, très caractéristique du style français de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Certaines cantates sont courtes et d'un abord ai…

Par WOLFF FELICIEN. C'est le succès de sa Symphonie concertante avec trompette solo qui amena Félicien Wolff à composer en 1959 dans le même esprit son trio pour cuivres, d'exécution difficile, et aussi, pour répondre à la demande des classes du conservatoire de Grenoble la même année, un prélude et fugue pour trio d'instruments à vent beaucoup moins difficile. Plusieurs variantes (trois clarinett…

Par STEFANELLI MATTHIEU.   L’œuvre fut composée entre 2010 et 2011 à la suite d’une vision particulièrement émouvante d’un coucher de soleil aux mauve et pourpre, ainsi que d’un fond bleu pastel. Bien entendu, mon imaginaire m’a conduit ensuite à tenter d’évoquer un ciel plus tourmenté, composé de nuages gris et de gouttes de pluie fines, d’orages… Aussi, ces regards tournés vers les cieux m’ont…

Un compositeur de l'instant. Par ROBERT MICHEL. Préface de François-Henri Houbart. L'ouvrage de Michel Robert permet de bien cerner le personnage tellement attachant et non dénué d'humour, parfois taquin, qu'était Pierre Cochereau, organiste de Notre Dame de Paris de 1955 à 1984 et qui, en matière d’improvisation, reste une référence tant il continue de fasciner. L’auteur de cet écrit nous livre d…

Par HAYDN JOSEPH. Haydn Symphony No.69 in C major (Laudon) (Hob.I:69) (Full Score) Letters of the composer have come down to us only on a few of Haydn’s symphonies, amongst them the “Laudon” Symphony Hob. I:69. In one of these letters, Haydn agrees to the publisher’s suggestion to name the symphony after the widely known and favoured general Gideon Ernst von Laudon (1717-1790). By using this nam…

Haydn's Symphony #26 received its nickname 'Lamentazione? during his lifetime, though it is unclear whether this stems directly from the composer.This work probably originated no later than 1770. Its first and second movements quote excerpts from Gregorian chants used in Holy Week. In Haydn's day it was customary to play individual movements in church services, and it may be assumed that these two…

Haydn's Symphony #26 received its nickname 'Lamentazione? during his lifetime, though it is unclear whether this stems directly from the composer.This work probably originated no later than 1770. Its first and second movements quote excerpts from Gregorian chants used in Holy Week. In Haydn's day it was customary to play individual movements in church services, and it may be assumed that these two…

Haydn's Symphony #26 received its nickname 'Lamentazione? during his lifetime, though it is unclear whether this stems directly from the composer.This work probably originated no later than 1770. Its first and second movements quote excerpts from Gregorian chants used in Holy Week. In Haydn's day it was customary to play individual movements in church services, and it may be assumed that these two…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Octet in F major Op. post. 166 D 803 for Clarinet (in B-flat), Bassoon, Horn, Violin (2), Viola, Violincello, Double Bass “I have done little new by way of lieder. In compensation I have tried my hand at several instrumental things, for I have composed two quartets for Violins, Viola and Violincello [A minor, D 804; D minor, D 810] and an octet [F major, D 803] and will write y…