Germaine TAILLEFERRE
Tailleferre, French composer, was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses (Val de Marne) April 19, 1892 and died in Paris Nov. 7, 1983. "A Marie Laurencin for the Ear" is how Jean Cocteau talked about Tailleferre, the only wife of the famous Group of Six (with Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc). This formula, which wants to establish a correspondence between the decorative watercolors of Laurencin and music Tailleferre, for she was friendly, was not very appropriate. Naivety, freshness, femininity, these qualities have been associated with Tailleferre upon arrival at the Group of Six, but the game of comparison, it's much more to fawn Sonia Delaunay that one associates the music that Tailleferre the sweet Laurencin as found in any part of his book an authentic force sometimes tinged, despite harmonies of great sensuality, a very unexpected austerity. We have too long considered the practice of Tailleferre was reduced to a series of charming works for the piano in between the wars and that her composition was ending the Second World War. It was ignore or forget that outside of these coins, especially of works she composed chamber music, songs, two piano concertos, three studies for piano and orchestra, a violin concerto, his remarkable even imposing Concerto Grosso for Two Pianos, Eight Solo voices, saxophone quartet and orchestra, four ballets, four operas, two operettas, besides many other works for small ensembles or full orchestra as this amazing concerto for two guitars and orchestra recently found and recorded in Germany in 2004 by Chris and Christina Bilobram Altmann. Most of these major works were written between 1945 and his death in 1983. Until recently, a huge part of his book remained unpublished. It is only recently that we could measure it and start giving him or her to the place it deserves. Google machine translation: Germaine TAILLEFERRE's original bio |
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| Germaine TAILLEFERRE Arr : Désiré DONDEYNE Publisher : Robert Martin Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band Style & options : Original music |
Set Wind Band (TAIL02450-BA) : € 254,40 Full score (TAIL02450-CO) : € 52,99 |
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| Germaine TAILLEFERRE Arr : Désiré DONDEYNE Publisher : Molenaar Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (MOL011808100-BA) : € 224,13 | ||