Dancing Demons and Underwater Airplanes: Florent Schmitt’s Phantasmagorical Ronde burlesque (1927)

August 11, 2015 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Alfred Hertz, Cybelia, Edwin Evans, Emile Vuillermoz, Fabien Gabel, Fermand Quiinet, Florent Schmitt, Gaston Poulet, Henri Tomasi, Henry Prunieres, Lionel Salter, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Petros Petridis, Pierre Stoll, Ronde burlesque, Schmitt, Serge Koussevitzky, Symphonie Concertante | 2 Comments

Within the catalogue of Florent Schmitt’s compositions are a goodly number of brilliant orchestral showpieces that exploit the colors of the orchestra to the fullest degree. One of the most interesting and effective of these also happens to be one of the shortest — the Ronde burlesque, Opus 78. This piece was composed in 1927 during a time […]