Seven important compositions of Florent Schmitt to be featured in the upcoming 2017/18 concert season by orchestras in Bern, Cleveland, Cluj, Guanajuato, London, Lyon, Milwaukee, Mons and Paris.

The international Bachtrack website is in the process of uploading its global database of classical music programs for the upcoming season. Although it isn’t an exhaustive listing of every professional artistic group, the site covers nearly all of the major orchestras, opera and ballet companies and other important ensembles around the world, making it the “go-to” […]

American conductor JoAnn Falletta talks about the release of her new NAXOS recording of Florent Schmitt’s Antony & Cleopatra and The Haunted Palace with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

October 22, 2015 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Andre Gide, Antoine et Cleopatre, Antony & Cleopatra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Edgar Allan Poe, Florent Schmitt, Georges Pretre, Gide, Haunted Palace, Jacques Mercier, JoAnn Falletta, Klaus Heymann, Leif Segerstam, Leon Botstein, Palais Hante, Poe, Schmitt, Virginia Symphony, Yan-Pascal Tortelier | 1 Comment

“Florent Schmitt’s music should be mentioned in the same breath as Debussy and Ravel.” — JoAnn Falletta, American Orchestra Conductor In March of this year, the American conductor JoAnn Falletta recorded two important works by Florent Schmitt: the 1904 symphonic etude Le Palais hanté, Opus 49 and the two suites of incidental music for André […]

Florent Schmitt and the French Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe: Le Palais hanté (1904)

December 10, 2012 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Piano Four-Hand Music | tagged Andre Girard, Camille Chevillard, Classical Music, Cristian Macelaru, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, George Jellinek, Georges Pretre, Halbreich, Haunted Palace, Le Palais Hante, Leon Botstein, Manuel Rosenthal, Mihai de Brancovan, Music, Nones, Poe, Sir Henry Wood, Symbolists, Thomas Loewnheim | 2 Comments

What is it in the French psyche that makes so many of its people attracted to the “dark side” in literature? Whether it’s the symbolists like Maurice Maeterlinck and Paul Verlaine, the noir novels of David Goodis or the dissolute stories and poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (as translated masterfully by Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane […]