A rare live interview with French composer Florent Schmitt, conducted by Georges Charbonnier (1954).

Cliquez ici pour écouter l’interview de Schmitt/Charbonnier sur YouTube. For readers of the Florent Schmitt Website + Blog, we are pleased to provide a link to a rare taped interview of the composer, done in 1954 when Schmitt was 84 years old. The interview was conducted by Georges Charbonnier, an important executive producer at the French […]

Habeyssée (1947): Florent Schmitt’s rich and colorful suite for violin.

Even though he is justly famous for his highly colorful and opulent orchestrations, Florent Schmitt’s own instrument was the piano mainly (although he also played the organ and flute). And during his early years as a composer, much of what he created was a vast quantity of music for piano, as well as for voice […]