This video was not meant to be published (but is done anyway for posterity's sake), and due to losing the original video files, the processing errors will not be fixed. Either way, this work is very uninspired and is not worthy of much attention.
I beg for your sympathies.
0:22's transition is supposed to occur at 0:24.
Composer: Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921)
Pianist: Erakko Ippolitov
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Original source of audio: • Camille Saint-Saëns - ...
In the January 1905 edition of Musica, the Editor presented a competition for his readers with the assurance that to take part, It is necessary only to be a good musician, that is to say to possess a reasonably complete musical education tempered with sagacity and judgement. Flatteringly, he added, That is to say all readers of 'Musica' will be included. The music supplement for that month published six specially commissioned short pieces, each headed Morceau de Concours but without clue as to the composer's identity. Having been given the assurance that the pieces were all specially composed, readers were asked to identify who wrote which. To narrow the choice, the following list of possible options was given in alphabetical order: Rudolphe Berger, Alfred Bruneau, Cécile Chaminade, Gustave Charpentier, Claude Debussy, Théodore Dubois, Camille Erlanger, Louis Ganne, Xavier Leroux, Alfred Margis, Jules Massenet, André Messager, Ernest Reyer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gaston Serpette, Claude Terrasse, Francis Thomé and Paul Wachs. It was a cunningly-contrived selection including some big Establishment names, one or two more daring ones, and a few (Ganne, Thomé and Wachs, for instance) primarily known for their lighter salon music.
Of the six competition items, four were single-pagers, one was a short song and the other a two-page violin piece. Readers were given until the end of February to brood over their answers which had to be sent to M. André Maurel at the magazine's Offices in the avenue de l'Opéra. The result of the competition was published in the April number. The first piano piece, an attractive item with a LH melody, turned out to be by Gaston Serpette - and I for one would not have guessed that in a thousand years! The second was by Camille Saint-Saëns, despite the fact that it is completely uninspiring and gives the impression of being written in about five minutes before breakfast on a cold winter morning - which it probably was. The elegant third piece was by Cécile Chaminade - and I like to think I might have identified that one. Jules Massenet contributed the song - amiable enough though it could have been by more or less anyone. Rudolphe Berger was responsible for the violin solo while - wait for it! - Morceau de Concours No. 6 was duly revealed as being by Claude Debussy ( • Claude Debussy - Morce... ). I think, too, (with hind-sight, of course) I would have twigged this - the music possesses a commendable soupçon of self-parody with its sleazy chords and suggestions of a slice of Cake-walk.
Interestingly, the Editor gave a breakdown of the answers received - Massenet was rightly identified as the composer of the song in 304 entries, while 218 had no doubts about the Debussy piece. Chaminade scored 150, Saint-Saens 146, Berger 80 and Serpette - hardly surprisingly - only 6. There was but one totally correct entry, and so the prize of a new piano was awarded to Madame Maillard, Teacher of Piano and Theory.
(mvdaily.com)
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28 июн 2023
