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Anton Lemieux: Springtime

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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#2 from 'Phantasmion' (1916)
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Phillip Sear plays a lively evocation of springtime by the British composer (Alfred) Frederic Mullen (1868–1936), writing under the pseudonym Anton Lemieux.
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Although Mullen (1868–1936) wrote a lot of music under his own name, his most popular music was written under various pseudonyms.  Anton Lemieux was one of the pseudonyms he used: others included Gustave Lind, Jean Morel and Pierre Lescaut. The suites of pictorial piano pieces by this 'group' of composers were very popular in the early years of the last century.  

'Phantasmion' was inspired by a reading of the 1837 fairytale novel of the same name by Sara Coleridge (1802–52), the daughter of the famous British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Each of the pieces in this set is prefaced by a verse from the 'songs' (without music) in this otherwise prose work.  This piece has the following preface:

"The Spring returns, and balmy budding flowers 
Revive in memory all my childish hours,
When pleasures were bright and fresh, though brief,
As petals of the May or silken leaf."

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