Chaminade - Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.21
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Composer: Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 - 13 April 1944)
Work Title: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.21
Performer: Joanne Polk (piano)
0:00 - I. Allegro appassionato
6:46 - II. Andante
13:49 - III. Allegro
Chaminade was a French composer and pianist. Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey on piano, Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick on violin, and Benjamin Godard in music composition, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical education. Her first experiments in composition took place in very early days, and in her eighth year she played some of her music to Georges Bizet, who was much impressed with her talents. She gave her first concert when she was eighteen, and from that time on her work as a composer gained steadily in favor. She wrote mostly character pieces for piano, and salon songs, almost all of which were published.
She toured France several times in those earlier days, and in 1892 made her debut in England, where her work was extremely popular.[2]Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department of the Paris Conservatory championed her works. She repeatedly returned to England during the 1890s and made premieres there with singers such as Blanche Marchesi and Pol Plançon, though this activity decreased after 1899 due to bad critical reviews.
Chaminade married a music publisher from Marseilles, Louis-Mathieu Carbonel, in 1901, and on account of his advanced age, the marriage was rumored to be one of convenience. He died in 1907, and Chaminade did not remarry.
In 1908 she visited the United States, where she was accorded a hearty welcome. Her compositions were tremendous favorites with the American public, and such pieces as the Scarf Dance or the Ballet No.1 were to be found in the music libraries of many lovers of piano music of the time. She composed a Konzertstück for piano and orchestra, the ballet music to Callirhoé and other orchestral works. Her songs, such as The Silver Ring and Ritournelle, were also great favorites. Ambroise Thomas once said of Chaminade: "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman." In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. In London in 1903, she made gramophone recordings of seven of her compositions for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company; these are among the most sought-after piano recordings by collectors, though they have been reissued on compact disk. Before and after World War I, Chaminade recorded many piano rolls, but as she grew older, she composed less and less, dying in Monte Carlo on 13 April 1944.
Chaminade was relegated to obscurity for the second half of the 20th century, her piano pieces and songs mostly forgotten, with the Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107, composed for the 1902 Paris Conservatoire Concours, her most popular piece today.
Chaminade's sister married Moritz Moszkowski, also a well-known composer and pianist like Cécile.
Many of Chaminade's piano compositions received good reviews from critics, but some of her other endeavors and more serious works were less favourably evaluated, perhaps on account of gender prejudices. Most of her compositions were published during her lifetime and were financially successful. Her music has been described as tuneful, highly accessible and mildly chromatic, and it may be regarded as bearing the typical characteristics of late-Romantic French music.
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1st movement: • Cécile Chaminade - Pia...
2nd movement: • Cécile Chaminade - Pi...
3rd movement: • Cécile Chaminade - Pia... 
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0:00 - I. Allegro appassionato
6:46 - II. Andante
13:49 - III. Allegro
She wrote from the heart. This music is easy on the ears and hard on the hands. Brings me joy to listen to this.
Actually, everything she wrote fits pretty comfortably in the hands (even though it is highly technical) like much of Chopin and Moszkowski. You can tell she had a great understanding of the economy of the instrument
Great piece, very convincingly played. Thanks, Pentameron, and thanks Joanne Polk for bringing many undeservedly obscure pieces (like this, and Louis Farrenc's work) to our attention.
She had a prismatic finesse and probing sensibility that the other 19th century master composers seemed to lack.
For me it is a beautiful piece nevertheless, beyond the influences...it is possibile recognize the typical creativity of Chaminade for melodie and themes.
Why dont pkay this beautifull music more often in concert halls?
Superb! Thank you!
You're welcome, and thanks for watching!
She later put the Finale as an Etude, op. 35 no. 4
Chaminade is the best 🔥😍
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1:17
Too short....I want more. Particularly the last movement.
Last movement is more difficult than the rest of the sonata...
Hello! I would like to make a big video about Cécile Chaminade and use your recording. Is it posible?
This particular video is a merged version of three score-videos made by another channel called Alejandro Diaz. The links are in the end of the description. Credit to Joanne Polk for the performance.
@@PentameronSV Thanks)
1:04 sounds like bach tho
I said the same thing when I first heard it too. Lol
It’s a fugue
Except it has parallel fifths in the fugal entry
Many composer did Fugue...it is a form...not belongs to Bach ! even he wrote this form for the first time..I doesn't know ...but it has no importance...
Very influenced by Schumann the brillant main theme lacks a very convincing development - I have the feeling as she was seen as Salon composer she wanted to compose something 'serious'. The last movement for example is of similar style to her Toccata. Chopins Piano Sonata 1, 5th Movement, is more convincing in comparison. All in all beautiful composition
Now that you mentioned it, no wonder I felt something was missing as I first listened to this sonata. Thanks for watching!
Well, maybe Schumann was influenced by hers. Remember that female composers were disadvantaged and therefore not very well-known. Some of them had to publish under their brother's name, like Mendelssohn's sister.
tho tho dang Schumann was born before chaminade
@@hagenseah4306 doesnt mean he couldn't get influenced by her, tho.
They probably influenced each other, just like the rest of the romanticism composers, I guess.
@@marcosorrentiakaditirambo9306 Why are you talking about stuff you have no idea? Chaminade was born one year AFTER Schumann died