Hommages Musicaux [Sound Recording]

Hommages Musicaux [Sound Recording]

Description

Ever since 16th century France the term tombeau (French for "tomb" or "tombstone") has denoted a set of poetic or musical compositions honoring the memory of a person, whether eminent or ordinary, real or imaginary. While the authorships of literary tombeaux were quite often collective, music tombeaux were usually created by individual composers and performers (i.e. Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin). It is no surprise that the death of the profoundly influential Claude Debussy (1862-1918) prompted Revue Musicale, a foremost music publication in Paris, to commission pieces from some leading European composers and performers, for a collection of works eulogizing the great composer. Each one of these musicians contributed to Tombeau in a unique and innately personal way, most of the works later becoming known as both individual pieces and parts of larger compositions). Encouraged by the success of Tombeau de Claude Debussy, Revue Musicale came up with another collection honoring the preeminent French composer and pedagogue Gabriel Faure (1845-1924). Composed by seven of Faure's best-known pupils (all French except for the Rumanian Enesco), the suite was completed and published by 1922, while the composer was still alive.

Publication Date

2007

Document Type

Audio Recording

Publisher

Albany Records

City

Albany, New York

Disciplines

Music

Comments

Composers: Paul Dukas, Albert Roussel, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Eugene Goosens, Bela Bartok, Florent Schmitt, Igor Stravinsky, Maurive Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, George Enescu, Louis Aubert, Charles Koechlin, Paul Ladmirault, and Jean Roger-Ducasse

Hommages Musicaux [Sound Recording]

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