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Émile Prudent: Impromptu in A♭ major

498 views · Published 4 September 2018 · 3:16 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2018 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a very Schubertian impromptu by the French pianist and composer Émile Prudent (1817-63).
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I'm quoting from Prudent's English Wikipedia page, which gives a good concise biography.  "Born at Angoulême, he never knew his parents and was adopted at an early age by a piano tuner, who gave him his first musical instruction. At ten, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, winning a first prize in piano in 1833, and a second prize in harmony in 1834. Upon graduation from the conservatory, with no patrons, he had to struggle financially for a while before he finally met with success at his first public performance. The concert was shared with the then-renowned virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg. The young Prudent performed his Fantasy on Lucia di Lammermoor, Op. 8, to great public acclaim, leading soon after to constant concertizing in France and abroad, including two trips to England in 1848 and 1852 to premiere his own works. He died in Paris in 1863, where he had spent most of his life. "   This fine piece appeared in a Russian anthology, so I am not sure of its date or opus number (if any).  It really captures the Schubertian style extremely well, whether intentionally or not, and deserves to be better known.
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