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Eduard Schütt: Pêle-Mêle, Op.41: 6 - Pas lent

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays music for a slow dance from 1894 by the Russian composer Edouard Schütt (1856-1933).
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Eduard (or Edouard) Schütt (1856-1933), though Russian-born, latterly lived in Vienna and Switzerland, and his own music is cosmopolitan in style.  However, rather like that of Fauré, his music has some very distinctive harmonic and technical fingerprints that make it very identifiable.  'Pêle-Mêle' - the title of the suite from which this piece comes - means jumbled or mixed up, which may indicate that the pieces are a miscellaneous collection brought together by the composer.  Although the title literally means 'slow step', this is really a piece of music for a slow dance.  The composer marks it 'poco moto', and I conceive it as being a dance where there is one step per measure (rather than one step per beat).  The piece seems to look back to 18th century forms, and is less full of angst-filled chromatic sequences than much of Schütt's music.

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