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Georges Bachmann : La Fête aux champs , Pastorale (1885)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music

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The French composer Georges Bachmann (1847(or 8) -94) was the son of a piano manufacturer (in Tours, I believe). He studied piano locally, and later with Louis Lacombe (in Paris?), was recognised as a prodigy, and embarked on a tour of Germany and Russia. He was encouraged by such musicians as Vieuxtemps and Henri Wieniawski, and became a friend of Henselt in St. Petersburg. While still in his teens he became a professor of a musical institute there, and court pianist to Grand Duchess Marie. However, he found Russia too cold, and returned to France in 1867. Before then, he had written a piano concerto and a symphony, but once back in France he seems to have focused on salon music.  Evocations of rustic dances were very popular in the French drawing room, and this energetic piece is a masterly example.  It appears in the Schirmer Drawing Room Favourites album, Volume 3.
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