Hymne à l’eté: Florent Schmitt’s deliriously ecstatic a cappella choral composition for eight-part mixed choir and soloists (1913).

May 1, 2022 · by Phillip Nones | in Choral Music, Vocal Music | tagged ACP, Alfredo Casella, Alistair Hinton, Armand Silvestre, Association chorale professionnelle, Choral Music, Debussy, Eric Ericson Chorus, Fernand Lamy, Florent Schmitt, Frederick Delius, Gabriel Astruc, Hymne a l'ete, Inghelbrecht, Jean Chantavoine, Jean-Marie van Bronkhorst, John McLaughlin Williams, Kenneth Fuchs, Margaret Cobb, Mark Hayes, Pierre-Octave Ferroud | Leave a comment

Vocal music comprises an important component of Florent Schmitt’s catalogue of works. Throughout his long career the composer would return again and again to the human voice, creating many sets of songs along with a wide range of secular and sacred choral music. One of the most intriguing of these works is the a cappella […]

Keyboard musician Emmanuel Pélaprat talks about Florent Schmitt’s Chant de guerre (1914) and preparing transcriptions for the Musiciens et la Grande Guerre series of recordings (Editions Hortus).

April 6, 2019 · by Phillip Nones | in Chamber Music, Composers, French Composers, Instrumental Music, Organ Music, Vocal Music | tagged Alain Louvier, Alberic Magnard, Alfredo Casella, Ayme Kunc, Benjamin Godard, Camille Chevillard, Chant de guerre, Charles Dalmores, Didier Maes, Editions Hortus, Elise Hall, Emmanuel Pelaprat, Flor Alpaerts, Florent Schmitt, Jerome Granjon, Joseph Jongen, Lefebure-Wely, Legende, Leon Tonnelier, Maurice Rosenfeld, Mission du centenaire, Musiciens et la Grande Guerre, Mustel, Nick Barnard, Philippe d'Anchald, Sandrine Chatron, Schmitt, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Sonia Sempere, W.L. Hubbard | Leave a comment

One of the most artistically significant and vital projects to come out of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War I is a group of 35 recordings published by Editions Hortus in its Musiciens et la Grande Guerre series. These recordings have been issued over a five-year span – each one based on […]

Florent Schmitt and Igor Stravinsky: A Consequential Musical Relationship

February 8, 2015 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Choral Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Alfredo Casella, Andrew Porter, Ballet, Ballets Russes, Camille Mauclair, Classical Music, Composers, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, Henri Busser, Henry Hadley, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Igor Stravinsky, Jerry Rife, L'Oiseau de Feu, La Tragedie de Salome, Le Sacre du Printemps, Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, Maurice Ravel, Mavra, Oriane et le Prince d'amour, Petrouchka, Pierre Lalo, Pierre Monteux, Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Classical Music, Schmitt, Serge Diaghilev, Serge Sudekeine, Stephane Deneve, Stravinsky, The Firebird, The Rite of Spring, Vasily Nijinsky, Vera Stravinsky | 2 Comments

Throughout his long life and composing career, Florent Schmitt would forge many personal friendships with his counterparts. He was at the center of musical life in Paris, maintaining particularly close relationships with Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Gabriel Pierné, Paul Dukas, Gabriel Fauré, Guillaume Lekeu and numerous other French composers. He also had decades-long friendships with composers […]