Who is the French composer who, in 1899, wrote a well-known solo piano piece for Prince Edmond de Polignac?
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Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Poulenc) Francis Poulenc's Concerto pour deux pianos (Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra) in D minor, FP 61, was commissioned by and dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac and composed over the period of three months in the summer of 1932. It is often described as the climax of Poulenc's early period. The composer wrote to the Belgian musicologist Paul Collaer: "You will see for yourself what an enormous step forward it is from my previous work and that I am really entering my great period." Poulenc composed the concerto for the Princess Edmond de Polignac, an American-born arts patron to whom many early 20th-century masterpieces are dedicated, including Stravinsky’s "Renard", Ravel’s "Pavane pour une infante défunte", Kurt Weill’s Second Symphony, and Satie’s "Socrates". Her Paris salon was a gathering place for the musical avant-garde.
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Pavane pour une infante défunte Pavane pour une infante défunte ("Pavane for a Dead Infanta") is a well-known piece written for solo piano by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel also published an orchestrated version of the "Pavane" in 1910; it is scored for two flutes, oboe, two clarinets (in B-flat), two bassoons, two horns, harp, and strings. A typical performance of the piece lasts between six and seven minutes. It is widely considered a masterpiece.
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Ignaz Pleyel Ignace Joseph Pleyel (] ; ] ; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.
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Léonard Gautier Jean Léonard Louis Anton Gautier (12 July 1866 – 27 October 1955) was a German-born French composer famous for his simple eighth-note melody piano piece called "Le Secret" which at one time appeared in all of the popular piano anthologies and still continues appearing in current famous piano collection pieces such as "The Piano Bench of Classical Music".
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Renaud de Vilbac Renaud de Vilbac, (3 June 1829 – 19 March 1884) was a 19th-century French organist and composer.
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Piano Sonata (Dukas) The Piano Sonata in E-flat minor is a musical work composed by Paul Dukas between 1899 and 1900, and published in 1901.
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Chanson perpétuelle The "Chanson perpétuelle", Op. 37 is a mélodie by Ernest Chausson, written in December 1898. It is one of the major vocal-orchestral works of Chausson, along with the "Poème de l'amour et de la mer". Besides the better-known version for soprano and orchestra, Chausson also wrote a version for soprano, piano and string quartet. The text comes from a poem by Charles Cros, describing the suffering of an abandoned woman.
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Émile Paladilhe Émile Paladilhe (3 June 1844 – 6 January 1926) was a French composer of the late romantic period.
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L'isle joyeuse L'isle joyeuse, L. 106 (The Joyful Island) is an extended solo piano piece by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. According to Jim Samson (1977), the "central relationship in the work is that between material based on the whole-tone scale, the lydian mode and the diatonic scale, the lydian mode functioning as an effective mediator between the other two."
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Alexis Dupont Alexis Dupont (1796, or 1798 according to his death certificate 29 May 1874) was a French operatic tenor who sang at the Opéra-Comique from 1821 to 1823 and the Paris Opera from 1826 to 1841. There he created a number of roles in operas by Rossini, Auber, Halévy and Meyerbeer. He had a significant association with Berlioz, creating the tenor solo in "Roméo et Juliette" in 1839; and he sang in the Mozart "Requiem" at Chopin's funeral in 1849.
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Joyeuse marche Joyeuse marche is a popular orchestra piece by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier. It is the second half of a pair of orchestral pieces (the other was "Prélude pastoral") first performed on 4 November 1888 in Angers, conducted by the composer. The "Joyeuse marche" is dedicated to Vincent d'Indy.
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Edmond Dédé Edmond Dédé (November 27, 1827, New Orleans, Louisiana – January 5, 1901, Paris, France) was a free-born Creole musician and composer. He moved to Europe to study in Paris in 1855 and settled in France. His compositions include "Quasimodo Symphony", "Le Palmier Overture", "Le Serment de L'Arabe" and "Patriotisme". For more than forty years, he worked as assistant conductor at the Grand Théâtre and subsequently as conductor as the orchestras at the Théâtre l'Alcazar and the Folies bordelaises in Bordeaux.
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Orchestre Lamoureux The Orchestre Lamoureux (] ) officially known as the Société des Nouveaux-Concerts and also known as the Concerts Lamoureux) is an orchestral concert society which once gave weekly concerts by its own orchestra, founded in Paris by Charles Lamoureux in 1881. It has played an important role in French musical life, including giving the premieres of Emmanuel Chabrier's "España" (1883), Gabriel Fauré's "Pavane" (1888), Claude Debussy's "Nocturnes" (1900 and 1901) and "La mer" (1905), Maurice Ravel's "Menuet antique" (1930) and "Piano Concerto in G major" (1932).
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Symphony for Solo Piano (Alkan) The Symphony for Solo Piano is a large-scale romantic work for piano composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan and published in 1857.
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Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra The Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (French: Capriccio pour piano et orchestre ) was written by Igor Stravinsky in Nice between 1926 and 1929. The score was revised in 1949.
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Armande de Polignac Armande de Polignac, Comtesse de Chabannes-La Palice (Marie Armande Mathilde; 8 January 1876 – 29 April 1962) was a French composer, the niece of Prince Edmond de Polignac and Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, the patron of Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud. She studied with Vincent d'Indy at Schola Cantorum, and married the Comte de Chabanne la Palice.
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Sonatine for Flute and Piano The Sonatine for Flute and Piano is an early work by the 20th-century French composer Henri Dutilleux, composed and published in 1943. It lasts about 9 minutes and consists of three movements, played without break.
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Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel The Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel is an 1894 piano composition by Erik Satie, intended as a musical introduction to the play "The Heroic Gate of Heaven" by Jules Bois. It is considered one of the finest works of his
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Beau Soir "Beau Soir" (French for "Beautiful Evening") is a French art song written by Claude Debussy. It is a setting of a poem by Paul Bourget. Debussy was 15 or 16 when he wrote this song (ca. 1877/8), and his music was marked by the aesthetics of the period.
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Fantaisie in F minor (Chopin) Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49, is a single-movement work for the piano, composed in 1841, when he was 31 years old. From Chopin's letters it is known that he used the name "fantasy" to show some sort of freedom from rules and give a Romantic expression. Frédéric Chopin continued the tradition of a self-contained movement in his Fantaisie. This Fantaisie is one of Chopin's longest and greatest works. Only his Polonaise-Fantaisie, sonatas, and piano concertos are longer.
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Six chansons pour piano Six chansons pour piano is a short piano suite and one of the earliest completed compositions by French composer Iannis Xenakis. It was composed between 1950 and 1951 and dedicated to Bernard Le Floc'h.
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Armand-Louis Couperin Armand-Louis Couperin (25 February 17272 February 1789) was a French composer, organist, and harpsichordist of the late Baroque and early Classical periods. He was a member of the Couperin family of musicians, of which the most notable were his great uncle Louis and his cousin François.