
French Classics and Rarities
Sat, Sep 21
|Temppeliaukion Church
Florent Schmitt: Sonatine en Trio, op. 85 for flute, clarinet and piano, Alberic Magnard: Quintet for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and piano op. 8, Emmanuel Chabrier: Larghetto for horn and piano, Francis Poulenc: Sextet for piano and wind quintet.


Time & Place / Aika ja paikka
Sep 21, 2019, 7:00 PM
Temppeliaukion Church, Lutherinkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Details / Lisätietoja
From the early decades of the 19th century, Paris gradually turned into the music capital of Europe. As a diverse and cosmopolitan city, it grew into a melting pot of many different cultures and traditions, a milieu that served as inspiration for the composers heard in this program. Although Florent Schmitt was widely performed in his lifetime, and also much admired by such figures as Igor Stravinsky, his music has ended up suffering from neglect. While often showing influences of Wagner and Strauss, his Sonatine en Trio shows the composer in a different light, with clear influences of neo-classicism. The quintet for piano and winds by Alberic Magnard is rightly considered one of the finest French turn-of-the-century chamber works, and clearly presages music by Poulenc, Roussel and many other important French composers. Though nowadays often referred to as a minor figure, the influence of Emmanuel Chabrier on other artists was…
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