Richard Wickenhausser: Lied des Savoyarden, Op.72 No.1
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a lively Savoyard song by the Austrian composer Richard Wickenhausser (1867-1936), ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Austrian composer and conductor Richard Wickenhausser studied in Leipzig, and made a career as a choral conductor, and composer of choral and chamber music. This piece comes from a set of 10 'Kleine Tonbilder' (little tone-pictures) published in 1912. The title does not refer to the house magazine of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, but rather to the inhabitants of the French regions of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, home of some of the most famous French ski resorts. In the 19th century, Savoyards were treated with suspicion by inhabitants of other regions of France (eg, Balzac wrote 'Jews, Auvergnats, Savoyards, these races of men have the same instinct: augment their wealth by any means possible.'), and there is an active independence movement today: http://bit.ly/1RjP5yx . My thumbnail shows a detail from an 1872 painting of a Savoyard—actually made in Venice—by the Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 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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