The French composer Francis Poulenc wrote his Concert champêtre for harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. In doing so, he made a contribution to the renaissance of this historic keyboard instrument, having learned to play on a modern version made by the French builder Pleyel. The arrangement of the work is highly original. On the one hand, it is extremely contemporary. On the other hand, the piece is in the style of French Baroque harpsichordists and its most important representatives Francois Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau. The main instrumental work of the opera composer Franz Schreker not only begs a comparison to Arnold Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony, but also fulfils the principle developed by Franz Liszt of melding various types of movements into a large one-movement form. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Un “petit rien” was taken from his own music for a radio drama and links the title to a ballet composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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