Janiana: Florent Schmitt’s Rich, Robust Symphony for String Orchestra (1941)

We know that Florent Schmitt’s penultimate work was the Symphony No. 2, composed in 1957 and premiered in 1958 by Charles Munch and the French National Radio Orchestra a few months before the composer’s death at age 87. The question is, which composition stands as Schmitt’s first essay in the genre?  Because in fact, the […]