Florent Schmitt

Schmitt was a prolific composer for those his extended life — notching 138 opus amounts, including every genre aside from opera — however the works he’s remembered for were written in his youth. He was challenging to pigeonhole, and continues to be called from traditional to neo-Romantic to innovative. His music, seen as a rhythmic energy, sophisticated orchestration, and tonal tranquility, combines his admiration for impressionism and the start of the response against it. It includes from echoes of Franck to anticipations of Stravinsky. Dutilleux had written that Schmitt “offered back again to the French college particular notions of grandeur.” Schmitt just got thinking about music during his teenage years, and researched in Nancy and later on in Paris with Massenet and Fauré. He earned the Prix de Rome in his 5th attempt, aged 30. From Rome he sent his 1st masterpiece, the choral-orchestral Psalm 47 (1904). 3 years later on he had written a ballet, later on rearranged as symphonic poem, La tragéperish de Salomé, whose assault was unusual in France music and which became his most well-known piece. He was an associate from the Societé Musicale Indépendante in 1908, movie director from the Conservatoire de Lyon (1922-1924), and music critic for Le Temps (1929-1939). In 1932, he made an appearance as soloist in his Symphonie Concertante for piano and orchestra in Boston. In 1938 he was appointed Leader from the Societé Nationale de Musique. Various other important works had been his Piano Quintet (1908), a string quartet, the Sonata Libre en deux parts enchainéha sido for violin and piano, and two symphonies, the final which was premiered just 8 weeks before his loss of life.