Orchestral music by Florent Schmitt to be featured in 2026-27 concert season programs presented in Bochum, Bordeaux, Buffalo, Liège, Minneapolis, Pau, St. Petersburg-Clearwater and San José.

For afficionados of Florent Schmitt’s music, the upcoming 2026-27 season of orchestral concerts will include Schmitt compositions 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 et Cléopâtre and […]

The 2025-26 concert season features eight orchestral works by Florent Schmitt to be performed in Houston, Jena, Las Palmas, Palermo, St. Mary’s City, San José, Stockholm, Tokyo and Vienna.

June 25, 2025 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Chamber Music, Choral Music | tagged Angel Blue, Claire Levacher, Ensemble Knotrapunkte, Florent Schmitt, Gottfried Rabl, Houston Symphony, Ivan Meylemans, Jason Klein, Jena Philharmonic, Juraj Valcuha, Lied et Scherzo, Psalm 47, Psaume XLVII, Ryan Bancroft, Simon Gaudenz, Sinfonietta Shizuoka, Tomoya Nakahara, Tragedie de Salome | Leave a comment

For afficionados of Florent Schmitt’s music, the upcoming 2025-26 concert season will include symphonic works that cover a wide swath of the composer’s career, with eight compositions created over a 50-year period from 1890 to 1941. In addition to two acknowledged “big hits” (La Tragédie de Salomé and Psaume XLVII), the featured repertoire includes several […]

Florent Schmitt Goes to Germany: Reflets d’Allemagne (1902-05).

January 10, 2016 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers, Instrumental Music, Piano Four-Hand Music, Piano Music | tagged Allison Cullen, Berlioz, Chabrier, Classical Music, Classical Piano, Debussy, Desire Inghelbrecht, Edward Rushton, Elie Cohen, Faure, Florent Schmitt, Jason Klein, Jerome Bloch, Kenneth Fuchs, Lalo, Louis Laloy, Martin Munch, Massenet, Miravia Duo, Piano Duet, Piano Duo, Piano Music, Prix de Rome, Ravel, Reflections of Germany, Reflets, Reflets d'Allemagne, Rimsky-Korsakov, Robert Blot, Satie, Schmitt, Tony Aubin | 2 Comments

For music-lovers who aren’t very familiar with the music of Florent Schmitt, they may well think that the composer is German. Or at the very least, they might assume that the music bears a strong resemblance to Germanic musical style. Of course, for those who know Schmitt and his artistry, they realize that any “German” musical influence falls well-behind French influence […]