Search results for: “French”


  • Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy, more commonly known as Claude Debussy, was an emblematic French composer whose work served as a cornerstone for the music of the 20th century. His innovative approach to…


  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers of the 18th century. He is remembered for his work as a music theorist and composer of opera. Early Life…


  • Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride – Operas by Christoph Gluck

    From the Grand Théâtre de Provence, Dmitri Tcherniakov stages two of Gluck’s French operas in a single production where Iphigenia, the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, engaged in war against…


  • Fernando Sor

    …by patriotic lyrics. However, Sor’s resistance was short-lived. The defeat of the Spanish army saw Sor accepting an administrative position in the French government, earning him the label of an…


  • Georges Bizet

    Born into a family of musicians, Georges Bizet was a French composer whose music has become synonymous with the romantic era. Despite a life cut short by an early death,…


  • Frédéric Chopin

    …Warsaw (now Poland). His father, Nicholas, was a French émigré who was working as a bookkeeper, and his mother, Justyna, was a relative of the Skarbeks, a prominent Polish family….


  • Erik Satie

    Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, known after 1884 as Erik Satie, was an avant-garde French composer and pianist whose work set the stage for later musical movements such as minimalism, repetitive…


  • Maurice Ravel

    …Ravel honed his skills under the tutelage of Gabriel Fauré, a revered French composer. His time at the conservatoire was marked by a gradual but profound evolution in his musical…


  • Gaetano Donizetti

    …of operas, written in both Italian and French, and his work is widely recognized as a bridge between the styles of Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti’s operas are renowned…


  • Igor Stravinsky

    …tales. However, his most important work from this period was “The Wedding,” a ballet-cantata that combined Russian village wedding songs with Stravinsky’s unmistakable flair for modernist orchestration. The French Period:…


  • Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre

    Danse Macabre is a composition by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, first performed in 1875. It is based on a poem by Henri Cazalis, which explores the old French superstition of…


  • Fauré – Requiem, Op. 48 – Pie Jesu

    Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) was a renowned French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. His influential musical style impacted many composers of the 20th century. Fauré’s mastery of the French art…