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Mozart (arr. Émile Bernard): An Chloë, K.524

549 views · Published 5 March 2015 · 3:10 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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(To Chloë). Fantaisie-Transcription (#7 from 20 mélodies transcrites en forme d'études de diction vocale appliquée)
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The French composer and organist Émile Bernard (1843-1902) studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire under Antoine Marmontel.  He does not seem to have been particularly prolific as a composer (by the standards of his day) but his refined piano music plays like a blend of Saint‐Saëns and Fauré.  In 1898, he published a set of 20 fantasy-transcriptions of almost all of Mozart's songs as studies in the application of vocal diction to piano playing.  In this aim he followed the example of Thalberg, Bizet and Godefroid.  The set was dedicated to his friend 'A. Marmontel', whom I take to be his teacher's son Antonin Marmontel (1850-1907), who also taught piano at the Conservatoire.  What is fascinating about Bernard's transcriptions is the degree to which he remains faithful to Mozart's pianistic style.  He effectively presents the songs as Mozart might have written them as piano pieces (albeit with some late Romantic dynamics and tempo indications, which I have tried to follow).

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