French piano music : an anthology
by Isidor Philipp
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Piano music is as essential to France as the opera is to Italy or lieder to Germany. This anthology, a broad cross-section of French piano music, selects and presents 44 short piano works ranging from 1670 to 1906. Twenty-eight composers, all French or active in France, are featured: Jacques Champion de Chambonni#65533;res , Jean-Baptiste Lully, Andr#65533; Campra, Fran#65533;ois Couperin, Andr#65533;-Cardinal Destouches, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Jean-Fran#65533;ois Dandrieu, Jean-Philippe show more Rameau, Fran#65533;ois Dagincourt, Louis-Claude Daquin, Johann Schobert, Fran#65533;ois-Joseph Gossec, Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, Georges Mathias, Camille Saint-Sa#65533;ns, L#65533;o Delibes, Th#65533;odore Dubois, George Bizet, Emmanuel Chabrier, Jules Massenet, Charles-Marie Widor, Gabriel Faur#65533;, Benjamin Godard, Vincent d'Indy, C#65533;cile Chaminade, Camille Erlanger, Gabriel Piern#65533;, and this volume's editor, the well-known pianist, composer, and teacher Isidor Philipp. Some of the pieces are extremely popular and favorites with pianists at all levels. Others, although equally important, are more obscure. Included is a wide range of compositions: courantes, passepieds, sarabandes, gigues, gavottes, preludes, minuets, waltzes, romances, scherzos, caprices. Works of special interest include Rameau's "The Hen," Gossec's "Gavotte," Saint-Sa#65533;ns' "Song Without Words," Lully's "Courante in E Minor," and Couperin's "Les Papillons." show lessTags
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