Ernest Chausson
If Marcel Proust had written music, it might have sounded something like Ernest Chausson's: intensely passionate, yet rarely given to grand gestures. The effectiveness of Chausson's ardent, even erotic, musical language derives largely from the slithery chromatic style the composer inherited from his most important teacher, César Franck. Indeed, Chausson's music forms an elegant, if swaying, bridge between Franck's lush, Wagnerian Romanticism and the sensuous Impressionist language of Debussy.
Chausson came from a well-to-do family; in fact, comfortable circumstances throughout his entire life made it unnecessary for him to seek a living as a musician. Although interested in music from a young age, he pursued law studies at his father's behest. In 1877, he was sworn in as a lawyer in Paris; in the same year, he wrote his first work, the unpublished song Lilias. The impulse to devote himself to composition was sparked in 1879, when Chausson attended a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in Munich and met there the sometime Wagner disciple Vincent d'Indy. Chausson entered the Paris Conservatory the following year and began studies with Jules Massenet. His formal musical education was rounded out by private study with Franck. Chausson's talent flowered in short order. A number of even his earliest published works -- especially the song set Seven Mélodies, Op. 2 (1879-1882) -- have long been regarded as small masterpieces.
As secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique (an organization founded by Saint-Saëns and others to promote the performance of French instrumental music) from 1886, Chausson became a full-fledged member of the Parisian musical community. His salon became a regular meeting place for literary and musical notables including Mallarmé, Debussy, Albéniz, pianist Alfred Cortot, and violinist/composer Eugène Ysaÿe. A prolific composer of songs, Chausson also composed works for voice and orchestra, choral music, and several operas. He is best known, however, for his chamber music -- especially the Concert for piano, violin, and string quartet, Op. 21 (1889-1891), and the Piano Quartet, Op. 30 (1897) -- and for imaginative orchestral works like the Symphony in B flat major, Op. 20 (1889-1890), and the Poème for violin and orchestra, Op. 25 (1896). Chausson died in 1899, at the age of 44, from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident. His death silenced the most distinctive voice in French music in the generation immediately preceding Debussy.
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Chausson: Poeme for Violin and Piano, Op. 25
Clásica - Editado por Music Online el 31 ene. 2008
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Chausson: Concert (Live)
Alexandre Brussilovsky, Natalia Khoma, Volodymyr Vynnytsky
Música de cámara - Editado por Suoni e Colori el 26 abr. 2017
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Chausson : Concert Op.21, Chanson perpétuelle Op.37, Quatuor Op.35
Clásica - Editado por Saphir Productions el 21 oct. 2010
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Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer - Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge - Bach: Arias
Música vocal (profana y sacra) - Editado por Urania el 13 jun. 2006
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Chausson: Poem for Violin and Orchestra in E-Flat Major, Op. 25 (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra, Guennadi Rosdhestvenski, Igor Oïstrakh
Clásica - Editado por EMG Classical el 1 may. 2012
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Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer [Poem of Love and the Sea] Op. 19 (1955)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Louis De Froment, Írma Kolássi
Clásica - Editado por Classical Moments el 9 may. 2013
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Chausson: Symphony & Faure: Pelleas et Melisande
Ernest Chausson, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Clásica - Editado por Denon el 1 ene. 2010
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Chausson: Poem for Violin and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 25 (Digitally Remastered)
Oliver Colbentson, Erich Appel
Clásica - Editado por EMG Classical el 9 may. 2013
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Favourite Classical Miniatures
Clásica - Editado por Piros - Send el 13 nov. 2014
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Chausson, Reger and Suk: Piano Music
Clásica - Editado por MSR Classics el 13 ene. 2015
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