Georges Schmitt: Lieder

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Label
Profil
Release Date
October 5, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHMITT, GEORGES
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Trio Cenacle
    • PERFORMER
      TRIO CENACLE
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 05, 2018
    • UPC
      881488180428
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PH18042
    • LABEL
      Profil
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Encore à toi, Mélodie

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    2. Un Rêve

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    3. Extase, Mélodie

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    4. Le Vase brisé, Mélancolie

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    5. Rappelle-toi, Mélodie

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    6. Au Bord de la mer, Nocturne

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    7. Il dort, Berceuse

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    8. Ne m'oublie pas, Nocturne

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    9. La Violette, Rêverie sentimental

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    10. Arabesque sur la Violette

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    11. Adieu aux hirondelles

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Nico Wouterse, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    12. Romance des quatre saisons

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    13. Nocturne

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    14. La Chanson de Mai, Bluette

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Nico Wouterse, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    15. Festiva, Miniature

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    16. A Mariette: Ce que j'aime, Badinage

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    17. Mimi Pinson, Chanson

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Evelyn Czesla, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    18. Le Cidre, Chanson

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Nico Wouterse, Michèle Kerschenmeyer

    19. Faust: La Chanson du rat

      Composer: Georg Schmitt

      Performer: Nico Wouterse, Michèle Kerschenmeyer


Georges Schmitt - a German-French "frontier runner" The German-French composer Georg (Georges) Schmitt was born in Trier, then a Prussian city on the banks of the Moselle, in 1821. At 14 years of age, he took over the office of cathedral organist from his deceased father. In 1844, though, he moved to Paris, the hub of European music, where he remained until his death in 1900. It was there that he assumed a prestigious post in 1849, taking over at the Great Organ in the Church of Saint-Sulpice. He became very active as a composer and writer, published organ works and papers on the organ and the reform of church music and also co-founded a congress that aimed to re-establish "true" church music. Schmitt was gradually forgotten after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. The performance of a comic opera and operettas at minor theatres and his participation in national composition competitions with cantatas and great choral symphonies did not give the composer the breakthrough he hoped for. Nonetheless, he published numerous piano pieces and songs as well as theoretical and educational works. This album features just about half of Schmitt's surviving French songs. They were individually published in Paris between 1855 and 1890 and some have survived in handwritten form. All the main genres of French song from this period are represented: mélodie, romance and chanson.