Émile Forgues: Mélancolie (Mélodie, aka 'Méditation') (1864)
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music
The French pianist and composer Victor-Esprit-Émile Forgues (1823–76) was born in Paris, and studied piano under Pierre Zimmerman at the conservatoire there. He won Premier Prix for piano in 1840 and then pursued a career as a virtuoso, apparently only playing his own music. This piece falls stylistically somewhere between Liszt and Chopin. Although its theme is maybe rather generic, the piece has considerable expressive range, and one or two harmonic surprises. Note that the title on the cover (Mélancolie) is different from the one on the first page of the music ('Méditation')—so possibly the latter is the correct title, and the wrong cover has been attached to the piece in the BnF! It was dedicated to Laure Bazin (née Couve) (1843–98) from Marseilles, who had married a cotton trader there the year before this piece was published.
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