Masters of French Music

Mons. Edouard Schuré has endeavoured to trace the musical physiognomy of Saint-Saëns in the following lines, occurring in the preface written by him to the interesting "Profils...

These are golden words, involving a precept that should be seriously taken to heart by those who are inclined to pass a hasty verdict upon works exhibiting tendencies of a novel...

This act is perhaps the best from a musical point of view. In it Massenet has given full rein to his fancy, and has composed dance music of a really superior kind, which he has...

"We come to an extremely pleasant composition, a 'salon trio,' during which it is possible to look around without completely losing the musical thread; neither heavy nor light,...

From his earliest age he displayed exceptional musical aptitudes, and showed signs of an undoubted vocation for the career in which he was destined so conspicuously to shine. In...

It may be that the early influences of the _milieu_ in which he was thrown may have had something to do with developing a tendency he exhibited later on of setting Oriental subj...

A curious incident in connection with the first performance of this opera was that the composer, doubtless anxious to seek perfect rest after his prolonged labours, and desirous...

If "Cinq Mars" and "Polyeucte" were both destined to accentuate this fact, "Le Tribut de Zamora," given at the Grand Opéra in 1881, confirmed it without further doubt. This last...

_Grande comme la Lyre et vibrante comme elle, Vous avez eu dans l'Art un éclat nonpareil. Vision trop rapide, hélas! que nul soleil Dans l'avenir jamais ne nous rendra plus bell...

Born in 1839, this artist is the author of several operas denoting aptitudes of no mean order, although devoid of any distinctive originality. Passing by such early works as "Sa...

It would appear to be almost needless to attempt to give a description of the music that Gounod has wedded to Messrs. Michel Carré and Jules Barbier's operatic version of "Faust...

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Trio in F, piano, violin & violoncello, No. 1, op. 18. Trio in E minor, piano, violin & violoncello, No. 2, op. 92. Quartet in B flat, piano, violin, viola & violoncello, op. 41...