Experiencing Florent Schmitt’s sonic spectacular Symphonie concertante (1932) in performance: An eyewitness report from Tokyo.

February 15, 2023 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Andre Jolivet, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chausson, Florent Schmitt, Mario Ishiguro, Schmitt, Shin-ichi Numabe, Symphonie Concertante, The Rite of Spring, TMSO, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Tomoki Sakata, Yan-Pascal Tortelier | 4 Comments

On Valentine’s Day 2023, Japanese pianist Tomoki Sakata presented Florent Schmitt’s stunning Symphonie concertante, Op. 82 in concert with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yan-Pascal Tortelier. The Symphonie concertante was the centerpiece of an all-French program presented at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall that also included music by Gabriel Fauré (the Prélude from […]

Musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra talk about the music of Florent Schmitt and La Tragédie de Salomé.

April 20, 2015 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Cleveland Orchestra, Danse sacrale, Eliesha Nelson, Florent Schmitt, Igor Stravinsky, John Clouser, La Tragedie de Salome, Le Sacre du Printemps, Lionel Bringuier, Mark Satola, Salome, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring | Leave a comment

On April 16 and 18, 2015, The Cleveland Orchestra performed Florent Schmitt’s 1907/10 ballet La Tragédie de Salomé for the first time in over 70 years. Not only was it the first time the Cleveland musicians had played this work with the orchestra, for most, it was their first time ever performing any music of […]

Florent Schmitt and Igor Stravinsky: A Consequential Musical Relationship

February 8, 2015 · by Phillip Nones | in Ballet, Choral Music, Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Alfredo Casella, Andrew Porter, Ballet, Ballets Russes, Camille Mauclair, Classical Music, Composers, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, Henri Busser, Henry Hadley, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Igor Stravinsky, Jerry Rife, L'Oiseau de Feu, La Tragedie de Salome, Le Sacre du Printemps, Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, Maurice Ravel, Mavra, Oriane et le Prince d'amour, Petrouchka, Pierre Lalo, Pierre Monteux, Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Classical Music, Schmitt, Serge Diaghilev, Serge Sudekeine, Stephane Deneve, Stravinsky, The Firebird, The Rite of Spring, Vasily Nijinsky, Vera Stravinsky | 2 Comments

Throughout his long life and composing career, Florent Schmitt would forge many personal friendships with his counterparts. He was at the center of musical life in Paris, maintaining particularly close relationships with Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Gabriel Pierné, Paul Dukas, Gabriel Fauré, Guillaume Lekeu and numerous other French composers. He also had decades-long friendships with composers from other […]