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Émile Guimet: Éventail et Mantille (Seville)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays the fourth number - 'Fan and mantilla' - from 'Croquis Espagnols' (Spanish Sketches) by the French polymath Émile Guimet (1836-1918).
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Émile Guimet (1836-1918) was a well-known French industrialist, philanthropist, traveller and art-collector, remembered today by the Paris museum that bears his name, and holds items collected by him on his extensive travels, especially in the Far East.  Less well-known is that Guimet (whose mother was a musician) was a choral conductor and amateur composer, who (in 1894) wrote an opera based on the life of the Chinese emperor Tang Taizong.  The 'Croquis Espagnols' from 1863 predate his worldwide travels, but presumably reflect first-hand knowledge of the music of the places invoked.  They eschew the flamenco style so associated with Spanish music, and there is nothing of the gypsy about this evocation of Seville.  For more information on Guimet, see: http://bit.ly/2phHnwR (the French Wikipedia site).  The thumbnail shows fans and mantillas (the head-dresses) in the painting 'Admiring from afar' (1882) by the British artist John Bagnold Burgess (1830-97).  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear
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