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Louis Gregh : Échos du soir (Rêverie), Op.98 No.2

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays an evocation of a desert night by the Maltese-French composer  Louis Gregh (1843-1915).  Incidentally, the lavish illustrations in this score are attributed to 'Armand Segand', but I suspect this is a misprint, and that the artist is Armand Segaud (1878-1963), an Art-Deco designer, who produced much cover illustration in the period - and some naughty paintings too! ( http://bit.ly/25HvahB ).
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#2 from 'Nuits algériennes' Op. 98 (1904)
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Louis Gregh (1843-1915) was a French composer of Maltese extraction, who wrote ballets, operettas (e.g., Un Lycée de jeunes filles (1881); Le Capitaine Roland (1895)), songs and salon piano music. He also set up a music publishing business around 1876.

This set of pieces has some very brightly-coloured (even garish) illustrations, and I have reproduced the one accompanying this piece near the start of the video, and on the thumbnail.  Algeria was a French colony at the time this piece was written, and a popular holiday destination for the French.
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