French Piano Music

[Dani_area_51]

Can't anyone post Robert Casadesus works? Mainly his piano sonatas and toccata... It would be great. Thank you.

[4candles]

You mention on your page Diane Andersen

Diane Andersen is also the only(?) pianist who has recorded all the piano works of the underrated Joseph Jongen (1873-1953). The composer's works are very accessible. I have volume 1, but vol. 2 is too expensive for me at the moment!

[pianojay]

Can't anyone post Robert Casadesus works? Mainly his piano sonatas and toccata... It would be great. Thank you.

Here you go:

http://www.mediafire.com/?489qffzqlll12

[Dani_area_51]

Can't anyone post Robert Casadesus works? Mainly his piano sonatas and toccata... It would be great. Thank you.

Here you go:

http://www.mediafire.com/?489qffzqlll12

Amazing! Thank you.

[Chromaticon]

A shoot in the dark... Works by Chrétien Urhan anyone?
Evcept for this:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Urhan,_Chr%C3%A9tien

[Caprotti]

I think he composed only a few pieces for piano, indeed not easy to find.
Even in Berlin just the Trois grand valses can be found.

Urhan-UTET.pdf

[HTIEKFR]

Hello
I'm looking for a piece by PAUL LACÔME / LA FERIA suite espagnole.
Thanks

[parag]

Hello
I'm looking for a piece by PAUL LACÔME / LA FERIA suite espagnole.
Thanks

Lacome_La Feria (tr.2h).pdf

nms

Parag

[WCosand]

Are Paul Lacombe and Paul Lacome two different composers?

[parag]

Are Paul Lacombe and Paul Lacome two different composers?

Yes...
Parag


Lacome [Lacome d’Estalenx], Paul(-Jean-Jacques)

(b Le Houga, Gers, 4 March 1838; d Le Houga, 12 Dec 1920). French composer. He studied with José Puig y Absubide, organist in Aire-sur-Adour, 1857–60. He won a prize in a magazine competition, with an operetta, Le dernier des paladins, and settled in Paris, where he wrote music criticism and had over 20 operettas performed between 1870 and the end of the century, when he returned to his native Gascony. The most successful of them in France was Jeanne, Jeannette et Jeanneton (1876), the libretto of which had been turned down by Offenbach, but Ma mie Rosette (1890) achieved greater popularity in Britain. His most widely familiar composition is probably the ‘Spanish Duet’ Estudiantina (no.4 of Duos à deux voix égales) which was published in 1882 and around which Waldteufel wrote a waltz of the same name. Besides operettas and songs, Lacome composed orchestral and chamber music and piano pieces. Lacome was a close friend of Chabrier, whose high opinion of him is evident from his letters. He has been criticized for a certain affected and showy quality to his invention, and it may be this that prevented his music from achieving still greater success.
WORKS

(selective list)

opérettes, in order of first Paris performance; for more detailed list see GroveO

L’épicier par amour (1), 1870; J’veux mon peignoir (1, G. Mancel), 1872; En Espagne (1, Mancel), 1872; La dot mal placée (3, Mancel), 1873; Le mouton enragé (1, Jaime and Noriac), 1873; Amphytrion (oc, 1, C. Nuitter and Beaumont), 1875; Jeanne, Jeannette et Jeanneton (3, C. Clairville and M. Delacour), 1876

Pâques fleuries (3, Clairville and Delacour), 1879; Le beau Nicolas (3, A. Vanloo and E. Letterier), 1880; La nuit de Saint Jean (oc, 1, M. de Lua-Lusignan and Delacour, after Erckmann-Chatrian), 1882; Madame Boniface (3, Clairville and E. Depré), 1883; Myrtille (oc, 4, Erckmann-Chatrian and M. Drack), 1885

Les saturnales (3, A. Valabrègue), 1887; La gardeuse d’oies (3, Letterier and Vanloo), 1888; Ma mie Rosette (3, J. Préval and A. Liorat), 1890; La fille de l’air (féerie, 3, Coignard brothers, after Liorat), 1890; Mademoiselle Asmodée (3, P. Ferrier and Clairville), 1891, collab. V. Roger; Le cadeau de noces (4, Liorat, Stop and A. Hue), 1893

Le baiser de Monsieur (1, J. Pradels and Mancel), 1895; La fiancée en loterie (3, A. Douane and C. de Roddaz) 1896, collab. Messager; Le maréchal Chadrou (oc, 3, H. Chivot, J. Gascogne and de Roddaz), 1898; Les quatre filles Aymon (3, Liorat and M.A. Fontenay), 1898, collab. Roger

ANDREW LAMB



Lacombe, Paul

(b Carcassonne, 11 July 1837; d Carcassonne, 5 June 1927). French composer. Although he travelled widely in Europe, he resided in his native town until his death. His only formal education was acquired from a local organist and former Paris Conservatoire pupil, François Teysserre, but he attentively studied the works of established masters. He was an admirer of Bizet, with whom he corresponded from 1866, and a personal friend of Saint-Saëns. In 1901 he was elected a corresponding member of the Institut and the following year he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.

Lacombe belonged to a generation of French composers who, inspired by the achievements of Mendelssohn and Schumann, wished to see symphonic and chamber music placed on a sound footing in France after the Franco-Prussian war. Many of his works were first performed by the Société Nationale de Musique, an organization he helped found in 1871 for the promotion of new French music. Although his compositions are technically assured, most of them lack the originality and spontaneity necessary to escape the powerful influence of contemporary German composers. Theatrical works are notably absent from his more than 150 opus numbers. He continued to compose until after his 80th birthday, and his output consists mainly of small piano pieces, chamber music, orchestral works and approximately 120 songs. His first violin sonata was performed by Sarasate in 1869 and his Third Symphony was awarded the prize of the Société des Compositeurs de Musique in 1886. Numerous works were left in manuscript.
WORKS

published in Paris unless otherwise stated

Chorus, orch: Mass; Requiem

Other vocal: c60 songs; 4 duets, incl. Nuit d’été (M. de Baure) (1902); 5 trios; c60 unpubd songs

Orch: c25 works, incl. 3 syms.; Ov. symphonique, op.22 (n.d.); Suite pastorale, op.31 (1875); Aubade printanière, op.37 (1884); Sous les étoiles, marche-nocturne, op.78 (Hamburg, 1896); Ov. dramatique; Légende symphonique; other MS works

Chbr: c15 works, incl. Pf Qt, op.101 (n.d.); 4 pf trios; 3 vn sonatas, opp.8 (1868), 17, 98; Vc Sonata, op.100 (n.d.); 3 morceaux de fantasie, op.10, vc, pf (n.d.); 4 morceaux, op.14, vn, pf (n.d.); Sérénade humoristique, pf, vn, vc, op.93 (1898)

Solo inst, orch: Divertissement, pf, op.40 (1885); Rapsodie, vn, op.51; Suite, pf, op.52; Sérénade d’automne, fl, ob, hp ad lib, str orch (n.d.); other MS works

Pf: c85 works, incl. 5 morceaux caractéristiques, op.7 (Leipzig, n.d.); 4 pièces, 4 hands, op.9 (1869); 2 idylles, op.11 (n.d.); Etude en forme de variations, op.18 (n.d.); Intermède de concert, op.38 (1887); Petits préludes, op.140 (1911); Marche dernière, op.150 (1917), also arr. orch (1918); Dialogue sentimental, op.151 (1917), also arr. orch (1917), vn/fl/bn/vc, pf (1917); Petite suite (New York, 1921); 2 pièces (1922); 2 berceuses; 3 suites; 7 impromptus; studies; waltzes; other MS pieces
BIBLIOGRAPHY

MGG1 (G. Ferchault) [with detailed list of works]

C.E. Curinier: Dictionnaire national des contemporains (Paris, 1889–1906)

L. Moulin: Le romantisme musical allemand et l’âme française: un classique français du piano: Paul Lacombe (Montauban, 1915–17)

L. Moulin: Paul Lacombe et son oeuvre (Paris, 1924)

J.-M. Fauquet, ed.: Edouard Lalo: correspondance (Paris, 1989)

JOHN TREVITT