Emmanuel - 6 Piano Sonatinas
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Label: Melism Records
Cat No: MLSCD018
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 30th July 2021
Contents
Artists
Patrick Hemmerle (piano)About
So, it comes as something of a shock to see that at the time when one of the most radical of all composers, namely Debussy, was writing his delightful but deeply conservative Arabesques, Maurice Emmanuel, born the same year, was writing his first Sonatine, a work that explores modality, bitonality or even tritonality(!), and more generally, tonal effects stemming out of nowhere and that were vastly ahead of their time.
Nevertheless, Emmanuel is not a complete maverick. His musical language also has roots, but these roots are in a soil far more remote than his contemporaries ever dreamed of. Under the influence of Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, his history of music teacher at the Conservatoire, he developed an interest in modal music as he heard it in renaissance polyphony. This interest was to become a passion and was to determine his destiny.
As a teacher, he battled for musical language to include the modes he found in ancient Greece, in India, in liturgical music and in the folk music of his native Burgundy. He thought there was a way to breathe new life into European music, a lesson that did not fall on deaf ears, particularly when we discover that Olivier Messiaen was one of his students.
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