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Renaud de Vilbac: Etude in F major (Allegro moderato), Op.17 No.6

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a wonderful study in bel canto figurations from a set of 48 'Études spéciales' from 1850 by the French composer and organist (Alphonse- Zoe-Charles) Renaud de Vilbac (1829–84).
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Vilbac went to the Paris Conservatoire at 13 and was a second prizewinner in the 1844 Prix de Rome. He is best known today as an arranger of operatic extracts for piano and harmonium, piano and violin and other combinations. However, he also wrote light operas and a few piano works. These include a major piano method published in 1873, which included a comprehensive set of studies for piano duet.  The earlier 1850 set from which this comes was divided into four suites.  Many of them are really 'Études de mécanisme' and not of a lot of interest for public performance-but there are a few real musical gems.  The set was cannily dedicated to de Vilbac's publisher, Achille Lemoine, who, in the year these studies were published, took over the firm of Henry Lemoine from his (now blind) father, who had founded the business.

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