Musicologist Suddhaseel Sen talks about the artistry of Florent Schmitt and the importance of his “orientalist” compositions.

August 15, 2017 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Albert Roussel, Balzan Research Project, Bibliotheque Nationale, Chabrier, Dutilleux, Edward Said, ESRA Congress, European Shakespeare Research Association, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, Herodiade, Honegger, La Sulamite, Lionel Salter, Mediatheque Musicale Mahler, Messiaen, Naresh Sohal, Orientalism, Padmavati, Rabindranath Tagore, Reinhard Strohm, Schmitt, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Suddhaseel Sen, Villa-Lobos | 3 Comments

Musicologist, author and teacher Suddhaseel Sen comes to his appreciation of Western classical music from an interesting angle. A native of the Indian subcontinent, Dr. Sen made his first musical discoveries there, long before coming to the West for a range of music-related studies and research. Today, Dr. Sen is back in India as Assistant Professor of Humanities […]