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Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ ʃaʁl pɔl maʁi ʁusɛl]; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman , turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period .
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, ... Albert Roussel's first symphonic poem, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel Resurrection (1903), ...
129 Albert Roussel. 130 Anton Rubinstein. 131 Joseph Ryelandt. ... Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1846) Rédemption, for soprano, ...
Shock Diamonds (tone poem) Siegfried Idyll; Silent Spring (composition) Son et lumière (composition) A Song of Islands; The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) Stenka Razin (Glazunov) A Summer's Tale (Suk) Symphonic Sketches
Padmâvatî is an opera in two acts by the French composer Albert Roussel. The libretto, by Louis Laloy, is based on Théodore-Marie Pavie's La légende de Padmanî, reine de Tchitor, which retells the legend recounted in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's poem Padmavat (1540). It was first performed at the Paris Opéra on June 1, 1923.
Typical of Roussel's earlier works, the music is impressionistic, much in the style of his countrymen Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. It is lushly orchestrated. It is lushly orchestrated. Composed to order in only two months, the music was highly regarded for its "inventive counterpoints, bounding scherzos, gay and uneven rhythms, and ...
Franz Liszt composer and virtuoso pianist, one of the most influential and distinguished piano composers of the Romantic era and the rival of Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann, wrote a number of symphonic poems and extended piano technique, best known for his Hungarian Rhapsodies and other solo piano works Ferdinand Hiller: 1811: 1885: German
George Gershwin – An American in Paris (jazz-influenced symphonic poem) Ernst Krenek. Little Symphony; Piano Sonata No. 2; Maurice Ravel – Bolero; Sergei Prokofiev. Symphony No. 3; The Prodigal Son (ballet) Albert Roussel – Psalm 80; Dmitri Shostakovich – Tahiti Trot, Op. 16; Roger Sessions – The Black Maskers Suite for Orchestra; Leo ...