Conductor Fabien Gabel talks about his musical journey with French composer Florent Schmitt.

May 24, 2022 · by Phillip Nones | in Film Music, French Composers, Instrumental Music | tagged Abel Gance, Alain Altinoglu, Didier van Moere, Fabien Gabel, Florent Schmitt, JoAnn Falletta, Leon-Paul Fargue, Marie Perbost, Napoleon, Nicolas Altstaedt, ONF, Orchestre National de France, Psalm 47, Psaume XLVII, Reves, Schmitt, Szymanowski, Tragedie de Salome | 2 Comments

On May 12, 2022, the French conductor Fabien Gabel stepped up to the podium in the auditorium of Maison de la Radio in Paris to lead the Orchestre National de France in two works by Florent Schmitt: the symphonic picture Rêves, Op. 65 (dating from 1915) and the large-scale choral work Psaume XLVII, Op. 38 (composed […]

In a concert season upended by COVID-19, Florent Schmitt’s original scoring of La Tragédie de Salomé (1907) gets its moment in the sun at last.

February 1, 2021 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Alain Altinoglu, Desire Inghelbrecht, Florent Schmitt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Pierne, Julien Masmondet, La Tragedie de Salome, Les Apaches, Loie Fuller, Natalia Trouhanova, Patrick Davin, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Robert d'Humieres, Ropartz, Schmitt, Sinfonietta Shizuoka, The Tragedy of Salome, Tomoya Nakahara, Tristan Pare-Morin | Leave a comment

The 2020-21 season includes performances of the small-orchestra version in Japan, Germany and France. As is so well-known to music-lovers everywhere, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on concert-going the world over. For too many orchestras and chamber ensembles, the entire 2020-21 season has been a total bust — or at the very least, upended […]

Five important compositions of Florent Schmitt to be featured in the upcoming 2020-21 concert season by orchestras in Clermont-Ferrand, Duluth, Houston, Indianapolis, London, Lucerne, Osaka, Paris, Québec City, Rochefort, St. Louis, Saratoga Springs, Strasbourg and Tokyo.

April 21, 2020 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, Instrumental Music | tagged Alain Altinoglu, American Modern Orchestra, Dirk Meyer, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Fabien Gabel, Florent Schmitt, Gustavo Dudamel, Janiana, Julien Masmondet, Legende, Orchetsra Francais des Jeunes, Roberto Fores Veses, Schmitt, Scott Terrell, Stephane Deneve, Tomoya Nakahara, Tragedie de Salome, Vienna Philharmonic, Wilson Poffenburger | Leave a comment

In a classical music world turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, orchestras are bravely stepping forward in the 2020-21 concert season to commemorate French composer Florent Schmitt’s 150th birthday anniversary. The international Bachtrack website is in the process of uploading its global database of classical music programs for the coming season. Although it doesn’t […]

Late bloomer? Florent Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé (1907/10) is now making a splash with regional orchestras and student ensembles.

November 17, 2019 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Alain Altinoglu, Daniel Meyer, Daniel Myssyk, Dirk Meyer, Eckart Preu, Fabien Gabel, Florent Schmitt, Gottfried Rabl, Ivan Meylemans, Paul Daniel, Romain Dumas, Ronald Zollman, Salome, Schmitt, Thomas Loewenheim, Tragedie de Salome, Tragedy of Salome | 2 Comments

Of Florent Schmitt’s major compositions, undoubtedly the one that has achieved the greatest fame over the decades is the ballet La Tragédie de Salomé, which Schmitt created for the dancer Loïe Fuller who presented the hour-long “mimed drama” at the Théâtre des Arts (now the Théâtre Hébertot) in Paris in 1907. That original version of La […]