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Florent Schmitt
Born: September 28, 1870; Blâmont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Died: August 17, 1958; Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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Schmitt was a prolific composer for all his long life -- notching 138 opus numbers, including every genre except for opera -- but the works he is remembered for were written in his youth. He was difficult to pigeonhole, and has been called everything from conservative to neo-Romantic to revolutionary. His music, characterized by rhythmic energy, refined orchestration, and tonal harmony, combines his admiration for impressionism and the beginning
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A contre voix, Op. 104 (1)
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A tour d'anches, Op. 97 (3)
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Andantino for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 30 no 1 (4)
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Antoine et Cléopatre, Op. 69 (1)
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Chants alizés, Op. 125 (1)
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Chants du Soir (1)
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Choruses (6), Op. 81 (1)
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Dionysiaques for band, Op. 62 (2)
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Dionysiaques, Op. 62 (9)
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En bonnes voix, Op. 91 (1)
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Feuillets de voyage, Op. 26 (1)
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Hasards, Op. 96 (3)
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In memoriam Gabriel Fauré, Op. 72 (2)
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La retardée, Op. 90 no 3 (1)
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La tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 (10)
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Le palais hanté, Op. 49 (3)
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Le petit elfe ferme-l'oeil, Op. 73 (1)
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Le Tragédie de Salomé, ballet, Op. 50 (1)
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Légende, Op. 66 (7)
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Lied et Scherzo, Op. 54 (3)
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Miniatures (6) for Marimba (1)
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Mirages, Op. 70 (2)
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Mirages, Op. 70: no 1, Et Pan, au fond des bis lunaires, s'accouda (1)
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Monocantes (4), Op. 115: no 2, Cantique de Siméon (1)
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Musiques intimes, Op. 16 (2)
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Musiques intimes, Op. 29 (2)
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Nuits romaines, Op. 23 (1)
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Ombres, Op. 64 (1)
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Ombres, Op. 64 no 1: J'entends dans la lointain (2)
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Pièce pour le tombeau de Debussy, for piano, Op. 70/1 ("Et Pan, ou fond des blès lunaires, s'accouda (1)
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Pièces romantiques, Op. 42 (1)
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Prélude...pour une suite à venir (1)
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Psalm 112, Op. 135, No. 1 (1)
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Psaume 47, Op. 38 (3)
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Quartet for Flutes, Op. 106 (1)
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Quartet for Saxophones, Op. 102 (1)
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Quintet for Piano and Strings in B minor, Op. 51 (2)
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Quintet for Piano and Strings in B minor, Op. 51: Lent (2)
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Rapide (1)
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Reflets d'Allemagne, Op. 28 (2)
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Rêves, for orchestra, Op. 65 (1)
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Rhapsodies (3) for 2 pianos, Op. 53 (2)
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Rhapsodies (3) for 2 Pianos, Op. 53: Rapsodie viennoise (1)
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Salammbô: Suite (1)
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Scherzo & Pastorale, for chamber ensemble (1)
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Sextet for 6 Clarinets, Op. 128 (1)
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Small Gestures, Op. 92 (1)
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Soirs, 8 pieces for small orchestra, Op. 5 (1)
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Sonatine en trio, Op. 85 (1)
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Songe de Coppélius, Op. 30 (3)
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Suite en Rocaille, for flute, viola, cello & harp, Op. 84 (1)
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Suite en rocaille, Op. 84 (2)
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Suite for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 133 (2)
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Suite sans epirit de suite, Op. 89 (1)
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Symphonie Concertante, for orchestra & piano, Op. 82 (1)
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Tombeau de Claude Debussy: Et Pan, au fond des blés lunaires, s'accouda (1)
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Très Lent (1)
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Trios (3), Op. 99 (1)
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Une semaine du petit elfe ferme-l'oeil, Op. 58 (2)
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Valses nocturnes (3), Op. 31 (1)
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Valses nocturnes (3), Op. 31: no 1 (1)
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Biography |
by Hector Bellman
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Schmitt was a prolific composer for all his long life -- notching 138 opus numbers, including every genre except for opera -- but the works he is remembered for were written in his youth. He was difficult to pigeonhole, and has been called everything from conservative to neo-Romantic to revolutionary. His music, characterized by rhythmic energy, refined orchestration, and tonal harmony, combines his admiration for impressionism and the beginning of the reaction against it. It contains from echoes of Franck to anticipations of Stravinsky. Dutilleux wrote that Schmitt "gave back to the French school certain notions of grandeur."
Schmitt only got interested in music during his teenage years, and studied in Nancy and later in Paris with Massenet and Fauré. He won the Prix de Rome in his fifth attempt, aged 30. From Rome he sent his first masterpiece, the choral-orchestral Psalm 47 (1904). Three years later he wrote a ballet, later rearranged as symphonic poem, La tragédie de Salomé, whose violence was uncommon in French music and which became his most famous piece. He was a member of the Societé Musicale Indépendante in 1908, director of the Conservatoire de Lyon (1922-1924), and music critic for Le Temps (1929-1939). In 1932, he appeared as soloist in his Symphonie Concertante for piano and orchestra in Boston. In 1938 he was appointed President of the Societé Nationale de Musique. Other important works were his Piano Quintet (1908), a string quartet, the Sonata Libre en deux parts enchainées for violin and piano, and two symphonies, the last of which was premiered only two months before his death. |
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