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Benjamin Godard: Menuet Pompadour, Op.119

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

Phillip Sear plays a graceful but lively minuet by the Belgian composer Benjamin Godard (1849-95).
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The French composer Benjamin Godard (1849-95) was actually a violinist (pupil of Vieuxtemps, no less), but was also an excellent composer for the piano, best-known for his several books of studies. Leaving aside the many pianist/organists I cannot think of any other composer who wrote such a substantial and accomplished body of music for a 'second instrument'. He wrote much salon music, including popular numbered series of mazurkas and waltzes. Godard's music is at last gaining some recognition, and his two piano concertos, and some of his orchestral music have recently been recorded. For more about the composer, see http://psearpianist.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/benjamin-godard.html .
This stand-alone piece was published eight years after the composer's death, and I presume that the opus number was not allocated by him. Godard wrote several pieces harking back to the 18th century, for example 'Marquis et Marquise', from his 'La Lanterne Magique' series.

Thumbnail shows a detail from a study for a portrait of Madame de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-88).
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Benjamin Godard: Menuet Pompadour, Op.119

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