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Oscar Comettant: Cantilena, Op.32 No.1

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a charming piece of bel canto piano writing by the French composer Oscar Comettant (1819-98).  It comes from a set of 'Études de salon''.
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The French pianist, composer and critic (Jean-Pierre) Oscar Comettant (1819-98) studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and wrote piano, chamber and vocal works.  He was best-known in his lifetime as a writer of books on music, and also his travels - he spent three years in the USA with his singer wife from 1852 to 1855 and visited Australia in 1888 as a juror at an international exhibition.  He was a keen observer of the piano industry, and famously estimated that in 1868 there were 20,000 people employed in piano teaching in Paris.  This piece comes from a set of '6 Études de salon' from c1850, dedicated - like so many works by anyone who ever studied or taught at the Paris Conservatoire in the 19th century - to the professor of piano there, and Comettant's friend and near-contemporary, Antoine François Marmontel (1816-98). 

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