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Benjamin GODARD 570554bk Godard EU:570034bk Hasse 18/12/07 9:25 PM Page 8 appassionato molto bezeichneten Thema ein. Dieses verschiedene Freiluft-Szenen schildern: Dans les bois („Im Thema ist durchsetzt von verschiedenen, teils scherzo- Walde“), Dans les champs („Auf dem Felde“), Sur la artigen Passagen. Die peroratio des Solisten bringt montagne („Im Gebirge“) und das quirlige Au village („Im Doppelgriffe, und der Satz endet mit der gehörigen Dorf“). Lebendigkeit. Die atmosphärischen Scènes Poétiques für Orchester Bruce R. Schueneman op. 46 bestehen aus vier kurzen, bukolischen Stücken, die Deutsche Fassung: Cris Posslac Benjamin GODARD Photo by Ben Wright (1849–1895) Violin Concerto No. 2 Concerto Romantique Scènes Poétiques Chloë Hanslip, Violin C Slovak State Philharmonic, M Orchestra, Košice Y Chloë Hanslip Kirk Trevor Kirk Trevor K 8.570554 8 570554bk Godard EU:570034bk Hasse 18/12/07 9:25 PM Page 2 Benjamin Godard (1849–1895) werke bald ihre Publikumsgunst einbüßten. Von all seinen Triolenbewegung des Orchesters begleitet. Während der Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 131 Opern hatte die unvollendete „opéra comique“ La Satz im Viervierteltakt begann, ist der kontrastierende Concerto Romantique for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35 Vivandière den größten Erfolg. Musikalisch folgte Godard Mittelteil im Sechsachteltakt komponiert; hier gibt es Scènes Poétiques for Orchestra, Op. 46 den Traditionen Mendelssohns und Schumanns. Für Doppelgriffe und kurze Läufe, bevor die Musik langsam Wagners übertriebene Rhetorik hatte er wenig übrig, zumal zu dem lyrischen Hauptmaterial im Viervierteltakt und der Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, the son of a businessman, Pablo Casals, the Eroica Trio, and many others. Godard’s er als Jude Wagners Antisemitismus ablehnte. Wie die stetigen Triolenbegleitung zurückkehrt, die dann in der was born in Paris on 18th August, 1849. A child prodigy operatic output also included Dante et Béatrice (1890), älteren Romantiker tat sich Godard in kleinen Formen Coda aufhört. Das abschließende Allegro non troppo ist ein on the violin, Godard studied with Richard Hammer and Jeanne d’Arc (1891), and La Vivandière (1895; unfinished hervor. Der Wissenschaftler Hervey schrieb im 19. lebhafter Satz im Zweivierteltakt, vom Anfang bis zum later Henri Vieuxtemps. At the age of fourteen (some at his death and completed by Paul Vidal). The conductor Jahrhundert, Godard sei „in kleinen Dingen vielleicht Ende ein rasantes und vergnügliches Rondo. sources say when he was ten) Godard was admitted to the Jules Étienne Pasdeloup admired Godard’s music and größer als in den großen. In einigen seiner Lieder findet Das Concerto Romantique op. 35 ist ein viel älteres Paris Conservatoire and studied composition under Henri allowed Godard to conduct many of his own premières. man einen exquisiten Charme ... während viele seiner Werk und in mancher Hinsicht experimenteller. Hervey Reber. His first published work was a violin sonata written After Pasdeloup’s retirement, Godard created the Concerts Klavierstücke ein eigenes Aroma haben.“ In den letzten schrieb, in diesem Concerto Romantique habe Godards when he was sixteen. In the mid-1860s he twice competed Modernes in an attempt to continue Pasdeloup’s Concerts Jahren ist ein neues Verständnis für die Leistungen Talent „seinen wahren Ausdruck gefunden. Der Kom- unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome. From this time Populaires, but this lasted only one season (October 1885 entstanden, die Godard auf dem Gebiet der kleinen, ponist dieser Werke ist im Vollbesitz seiner Kräfte, und es forward Godard dedicated himself to composition, first – April 1886). In 1887 he was appointed a professor at the einstmals als Salonmusik abgelehnten Stücke vollbracht ist sicher nicht übertrieben anzunehmen, dass er noch viel writing chamber music (he played viola in several chamber Paris Conservatoire, and in 1889 was made a Chevalier hat. Am besten fasst man Godards Leistungen als zu sagen hat.“ Leider erschien Herveys Buch im Jahre music societies), and numerous piano pieces. He was of the Légion d’honneur. Godard died of tuberculosis at „traditionelle Romantik“ zusammen. 1894, wenige Monate vor Godards frühem Tod. Das erste especially inspired by the music of Robert Schumann, and Cannes on 10th January, 1895. Während sich Godard einen großen Teil seiner ungewöhnliche Kennzeichen dieses Konzertes ist, dass es orchestrated Schumann’s Kinderscenen in 1876. In 1878 Godard’s was unquestionably a romantic temperament, kompositorischen Karriere auf andere Instrumente und vier anstelle der üblichen drei Sätze hat. Der erste Satz, his Le Tasse was a joint winner of the prize for musical though more closely aligned with the romanticism of the Formen wie die Oper, das Lied und das Klavierstück Allegro moderato, ist zwar von dramatischerem Charakter composition given by the city of Paris. Le Tasse is a three- mid-nineteenth century than with Wagner and Tchaik- konzentrierte, vernachlässigte er doch auch nicht jenes als die andern Sätze, recht kurz aber für einen Kopfsatz, der part dramatic symphony with soli and chorus based on a ovsky; his talent has been compared with the facility and Instrument, auf dem er in seiner Jugend brilliert hatte. doch gern der „schwerste“ und längste Satz ist. Nach einer poem of Charles Grandmougins, which was in turn based manner of Saint-Saëns. His respect and admiration for Seine Violinkonzerte gehören zu seinen besten Werken sechzehntaktigen Orchestereinleitung setzt der Solist on The Damnation of Faust. In succeeding years Godard Robert Schumann has already been noted, as has his und zeigen sowohl seinen Erfindungsgeist als auch seinen fortissimo mit einem äußerst akzentuierten, martialischen composed an enormous amount of music, including three tutelage under Henri Vieuxtemps, one of the great Elan. Das Violinkonzert Nr. 2 op. 131 besteht aus den Thema in Doppelgriffen ein. Nach einem Orchester- programme symphonies (Symphonie Gothique, Symphonie romantic violinist-composers of the nineteenth century. traditionellen drei Sätzen. Das Allegro moderato bringt zwischenspiel singt die Geige ein lyrisches Thema; dieses Orientale, and Symphonie Légendaire), three string Godard’s music has sometimes been criticized for vom ersten Takt an einen akkordischen Wechsel von Solo Material führt schließlich zu einem Abschnitt mit der quartets, four violin sonatas, a cello sonata, two piano trios, superficiality and “over-hastiness”, and truly he composed und Orchester. Diese Geste wird mit Skalenläufen des Bezeichnung Recitativo, das eine Art begleiteter Kadenz numerous piano pieces, violin and piano concertos, various at a prodigious pace, reaching Opus 100 in 1886 while Solisten und Bruchstücken eines Motivs ausgefüllt, das darstellt. Eine Coda bringt den Satz zum Abschluss. Das orchestral works, and over a hundred songs. Godard is still in his thirties. In romantic fashion his symphonies are eine halbe Note mit Triolen verbindet. Nach einem graziöse Adagio non troppo ist mit der nachfolgenden, chiefly remembered for his operas. His first opera, Les “named”, and his operas contain the soaring melody and ritardando wird das gesangliche Hauptthema eingeführt, Allegro moderato vorzutragenden Canzonetta durch einen bijoux de Jeanette, was produced in 1878; Pedro de romantic sensibility expected of romantic opera, though his zu einem Höhepunkt gesteigert und im forte wiederholt. kurzen, improvisatorischen Teil verbunden. Dabei handelt Zalamea followed in 1884. His next opera, Jocelyn, based stage works quickly fell out of favour. Among his operas, Nach einer kurzen Einlage des Orchesters beginnt der es sich um Godards berühmtesten Konzertsatz, der bis in on a poem of Lamartine, appeared in 1888. Its fame rests the unfinished opéra comique La Vivandière had the Solist mit einer Kadenz, in der doppelte, dreifache und die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts hinein immer wieder als mainly on the well-known Berceuse, which has been greatest success. Godard’s music follows the traditions vierfache Griffe sowie ein Glissando vorkommen. Die Einzelausgabe oder in Sammelbänden für Geige und arranged for numerous combinations of instruments and/or of Mendelssohn and Schumann, and he had little sympathy thematischen Materialen werden verarbeitet, und der Satz Klavier veröffentlicht wurde. Es ist ein delikater, äußerst voices and remains Godard’s most familiar work. It has for the overblown rhetoric of Wagner, especially since, endet mit der üblichen, schwungvollen Geste. Im akzentuierter Gesang, der seinen zarten Charakter nur kurz been performed by Jussi Björling, John McCormack (in being of Jewish extraction, he disliked Wagner’s anti- anschließenden Adagio quasi andante wird das zunächst zugunsten einer breiteren Lyrik aufgibt. Das abschließende English translation as “Angels Guard Thee” and with the Semitism. Like the early romantics Godard excelled in vom Solohorn angedeutete und dann von der Violine Allegro molto beginnt mit einer dramatischen Exposition violin accompaniment of Fritz Kreisler), Alma Gluck, small forms. The nineteenth-century scholar Hervey wrote übernommene, lyrische Hauptthema durchweg von einer des Orchesters; der Solist tritt mit einem Agitato ed 8.570554 2 7 8.570554 570554bk Godard EU:570034bk Hasse 18/12/07 9:25 PM Page 6 Benjamin Godard (1849–1895) that “Godard is perhaps greater in small things than he is “its true expression. The composer of these works is in the Konzert Nr. 2 für Violine und Orchester op. 131 in large. There is an exquisite charm in some of his songs full force of his powers,
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