Horace Mansion: Montagnarde (Souvenir d'Auvergne), Op. 2
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a lively piece from 1876 inspired by the bourrée as danced in the Auvergne region of France, by the French composer, pianist and organist Horace Mansion (1846-1925). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Horace Mansion was born into a musical family in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and studied at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris. He held various organist positions accross France, and ended his career as organist at the church of St. Louis in Paris. At the time Mansion wrote this piece (dedicated to a pupil), he had an organist position in Dreux, where he had moved in 1867. Several French composers were inspired by the dance music of the Auvergne and the Massif-Central, including Saint-Saëns and Chabrier. You can read more about it here: http://bit.ly/2hvtZlC . Note the rather bizarre hand-crossing passage in the middle of this piece. The thumbnail shows a detail of an old poster of the Chateau d'Alleuze in the Auvergne. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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