Progetto Martha Argerich

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Ernest Chausson

Poème for Violin and Piano in E-flat Major Op. 25

 

Although he died when he was only forty-four, in 1899, Ernest Chausson was one of the most important French composers of the second half of the nineteenth century. He is remembered today mainly for two instrumental compositions: Poème for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25, and the Symphony, Op. 20. In his day, however, Chausson was recognised above all for his highly refined songs, which are still little known outside France. Poème, in E-flat Major – heard today in the version for violin and piano – was composed in 1896 and explicitly refers back to the musical language of César Franck, who had been Chausson’s teacher at the Paris Conservatory. Indeed, it is not difficult to notice more than a few thematic and stylistic analogies with Franck’s celebrated Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano in this inventively melodic, freely constructed and decidedly Romantic work.

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