Six orchestral works by Florent Schmitt to be featured in 2026-27 concert season programs presented in L’Aigle, Bochum, Bordeaux, Buffalo, Liège, Lyons-la-Forêt, Minneapolis, Pau, Rouen, St. Petersburg-Clearwater and San José.

For afficionados of Florent Schmitt’s music, the upcoming 2026-27 season of orchestral concerts will include works by the composer that are both familiar and rare. In addition to one of Schmitt’s acknowledged “biggest hits” La Tragédie de Salomé, the featured repertoire includes several works that don’t show up on concert programs very often — Antoine […]

French composer Louis Aubert’s essay about the “dual character” of Florent Schmitt’s musical artistry (1937).

When Florent Schmitt died in August 1958, fellow composer Henri Dutilleux wrote a memorable epitaph in honor of his older compatriot: “Florent Schmitt was the last of that great family to which Ravel, Dukas, and Roussel belonged. He remains one of them who, by a happy assimilation of German and Central European influences, recalled the […]