The 2025-26 concert season features eight orchestral works by Florent Schmitt to be performed in Houston, Jena, Las Palmas, Palermo, St. Mary’s City, San José, Stockholm, Tokyo and Vienna.

Gottfried Rabl

For afficionados of Florent Schmitt’s music, the upcoming 2025-26 concert season will include symphonic works that cover a wide swath of the composer’s career, with eight compositions created over a 50-year period from 1890 to 1941.

In addition to two acknowledged “big hits” (La Tragédie de Salomé and Psaume XLVII), the featured repertoire includes several works that don’t show up on concert programs often – Antoine et Cléopâtre, Ronde burlesque. and the Janiana Symphony for Strings among them.

Juraj Valčuha

Bookending the 2025-26 events, as part of its season-opening weekend of concerts the Houston Symphony Orchestra will present Schmitt’s celebratory and thrilling Psaume XLVII in September, joined by soprano Angel Blue and two choral ensembles.

Ryan Bancroft

Then at the close of the concert season in June 2026, Ryan Bancroft and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will offer the two suites that Florent Schmitt created from his incidental music to André Gide’s 1920 Paris adaptation of Shakespeare’s drama Antony & Cleopatra.

Ivan Meylemans

Other items on offer during the season include the early-career Soirs, presented by Jeffrey Silberschlag and the Chesapeake Orchestra in June 2025.

The following month, Schmitt’s rarely performed Ronde burlesque (described by the composer as portraying “an underwater airplane combat”) will be presented by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria under the direction of Ivan Meylemans.

Jason Klein

Also of note, the rarely performed orchestral version of Florent Schmitt’s early-career Reflets d’Allemagne will be presented in San Jose, California in October by the Saratoga Symphony led by Jason Klein.

Simon Gaudenz

Schmitt’s best-known composition, La Tragédie de Salomé, will be played in concert in Germany this season, performed by the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra led by its music director Simon Gaudenz (November 2025) in a presentation that will include the female voices that are often omitted from concert performances of this music.

Claire Levacher

Also performing the score is the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra of Palermo, Italy, led by Claire Levacher.

Jeffrey Silberschlag

Additionally in continental Europe, conductor Gottfried Rabl and his Ensemble Kontrapunkte will perform Florent Schmitt’s Lied et scherzo in a February 2026 concert at the Musikverein in Vienna. This is the third year in a row that Maestro Rabl has included the music of Florent Schmitt in his Ensemble Kontrapunkte’s concerts at the Musikverein.

Last but not least, the Sinfonietta Shizuoka under the direction of Tomoya Nakahara will present Schmitt’s Janiana Symphony in Tokyo in January 2026, as part of a concert that features three additional French works for string orchestra by Rivier, Honegger and Roussel.

Sinfonietta Shizuoka concert program 1-30-26 Schmitt Rivier Honegger Roussel

Four great 20th century French works for string orchestra are featured in this January 2026 program by the Sinfonietta Shizuoka under the direction of Tomoya Nakahara.

Listed below are the details on each of these concerts:

June 27, 2025