#french composers

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Composed 1904-1905

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Can u do French composer Maurice Ravel in D3? :3

Wonder what he’s afraid of…

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man I wonder what my life would be like if I never got into Ravel’s music, good thing we’ll never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Cécile Chaminade

(8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944)

Happy Birthday, Cécile!

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Pancrace Royer at Work on His Opera Zaïde, reine de Grenade Jean-Marc Nattier (French; 1685–1766) ca. 1750 Pastel on paper mounted on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Portrait of Michel Richard de Lalande in an Architectural Frame with Musical Instruments Simon Thomassin (French; 1654–1733) after the painting by Jean-Baptiste Santerre (French; 1651–1717) 1726 Engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Frontispiece to: Œuvres de Monsieur de Lalande

Inscribed in the cartouche: Mortels, C’est de ce beau Délire Que sontnez parmy vous ces accords si touchants, Á deux Divinitez Lalande doit ses Chants. Appollon le forma, C’est Louis que l’inspire.

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Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (French; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Albert Roussel and Olivier Messiaen, but in an idiosyncratic style.

Some of his notable compositions include a piano sonata, two symphonies, the cello concerto Tout un monde lointain… (A whole distant world), the violin concerto L'arbre des songes (The tree of dreams), the string quartet Ainsi la nuit (Thus the night) and a sonatine for flute and piano. Some of these are regarded as masterpieces of 20th-century classical music.[1] Works were commissioned from him by such major artists as Charles Munch, George Szell, Mstislav Rostropovich, the Juilliard String Quartet, Isaac Stern, Paul Sacher, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Simon Rattle, Renée Fleming, and Seiji Ozawa.

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Olivier Messiaen

( 10 December 1908 - 27 August 1992 )

Happy Birthday, Olivier!