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Émile Pessard: Incertitude (Prelude in D♭)

516 views · Published 8 June 2015 · 3:57 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays an impassioned depiction of resolved uncertainty by the French composer Émile Pessard.
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I'm sure that the Parisian composer Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (1843–1917)—winner of the Prix de Rome in 1866—would wish to be remembered for his operas and church music. However, he seems to live on through one piece—'Andalouse', which remains popular in an arrangement (I think) for flute and piano.  This piece—'Uncertainty'—(without opus number) was published in 1900, and reminds me of Chaminade.  I am not sure why Pessard gave it the supplementary title of a prelude, and wonder if it was once intended as part of a series of preludes.  It is dedicated to Anna Fabre, who seems to have been a successful piano teacher and music educator in late 19th century Paris, and was the dedicatee of several salon pieces.

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