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Like many jazz composers today, Edmund Dédé (1827-1901) was an American composer who found success only after emigrating to Paris. Born in New Orleans, the son of free Creoles of color who came to the Louisiana city from the French West Indies around 1809, Dédé studied clarinet under his father, a bandmaster, and subsequently violin and theory with several other European and free black musicians. His 1852 song 'Mon pauvre coeur' ('My poor heart') is the oldest surviving piece of sheet music by a New Orleans' Creole of color. Five years later Dédé left for Paris, where he composed not only light cabaret music but also ballets, operettas, string quartets, overtures, and a cantata. His music was published and he was accepted as a member of
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French artistic societies. His return to New Orleans in 1893 was brief, for he found the prejudice and segregation intolerable.
The selection of Dédé's output recorded on this disc represents the genres in which he was most prolific: waltzes, polkas, songs for solo voice and choruses, and piano music. The quality of the dances is as high as that of the Viennese Strausses, and the vocal pieces are every bit as endearing as those of Stephen Foster. The performances, stemming from the 1999 Hot Springs Music Festival, are exceptional; director Richard Rosenberg and Naxos are to be commended for bring this engaging music to disc. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Chicago by Edmond Dédé
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: by 1891; France
Date of Recording: 6/1999
Venue: Horner Hall, Hot Springs Civic Center
Length: 8 Minutes 35 Secs.
Notes: Orchestrated: Edmond Dédé (1891)
2.
Tond les chiens, coup les chats by Edmond Dédé
Performer:
David Sachs (Piano)
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Voices
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 3 Minutes 59 Secs.
Language: French
3.
Merliton fin de siècle by Edmond Dédé
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: Horner Hall, Hot Springs Civic Center
Length: 3 Minutes 54 Secs.
4.
Rêverie champêtre by Edmond Dédé
Period: Romantic
Written: 19th Century
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: Horner Hall, Hot Springs Civic Center
Length: 2 Minutes 56 Secs.
5.
En chasse by Eugène Arcade Dédé
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: Horner Hall, Hot Springs Civic Center
Length: 4 Minutes 12 Secs.
Notes: Orchestrated: Edmund Dédé (1891)
6.
Mephisto masqué by Edmond Dédé
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; France
Date of Recording: 6/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 4 Minutes 22 Secs.
7.
Battez aux champs by Edmond Dédé
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Voices
Period: Romantic
Written: 1865; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 5 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: French
8.
El Pronunciamento by Edmond Dédé
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 3 Minutes 12 Secs.
9.
Cora La Bordelaise by Edmond Dédé
Performer:
David Sachs (Piano)
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Voices
Period: Romantic
Written: 1881; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
Language: French
10.
Mon pauvre couer by Edmond Dédé
Performer:
Emily Eagen (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: by 1852; New Orleans, Louisia
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 3 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: French
11.
Chicago by Edmond Dédé
Performer:
Gary Hammond (Piano),
Mary Scott Spry (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: by 1891; France
Date of Recording: 6/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 5 Minutes 28 Secs.
12.
Mon Sous Off! by Edmond Dédé
Performer:
David Sachs (Piano)
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Voices
Period: Romantic
Written: 1876; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: First Christian Church, Hot Springs
Length: 4 Minutes 32 Secs.
Language: French
13.
Françoise et Tortillard by Edmond Dédé
Performer:
Jennifer Foster (Soprano),
Brandon Brack (Tenor)
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1877; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: Horner Hall, Hot Springs Civic Center
Length: 5 Minutes 29 Secs.
Language: French
14.
Mon Sous Off!cier by Edmond Dédé
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 19th Century; France
Date of Recording: 06/1999
Venue: Horner Hall, Hot Springs Civic Center
Length: 7 Minutes 18 Secs.
15.
Mephisto masqué by Edmond Dédé
Performer:
Kabin Thomas (Tuba)
Conductor:
Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; France
Date of Recording: 6/1999
Venue: Horner Hall, Hot Springs Civic Center
Length: 5 Minutes 28 Secs.
Sound Samples
Tond les chiens, coup' les chats
Mirliton fin de siecle: Mirliton fin de siècle
Reverie champetre: Rêverie champêtre
Mephisto masque: Méphisto masqué (for piano)
Chicago (arr. for piano solo): Chicago
Francoise et Tortillard: Ouverture
Francoise et Tortillard: Rondeau
Francoise et Tortillard: Duo
Francoise et Tortillard: Quadrille et galop final
Mephisto masque: Méphisto masqué (for orchestra)
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