SKU: AP.36-60783002

ISBN 9798888528655. UPC: 659359997112. English.

The piano trio version of LA MUSE ET LE POÈTE, Op. 132 was written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1910 during a vacation to North Africa, and that version premiered at Queen's Hall on June 7, 1910, with Eugene Ysaÿe on violin, Jospeh Hollmann on cello, and the composer at the piano. Saint-Saëns transcribed the version for violin, cello and orchestra that same year, and the same two string players premiered that version on October 20 at the Sarah Bernhardt Theater in Paris under Fernand Le Borne. Despite the title (which was later added by the publisher to make it more marketable), no program is intended for the work and neither instrument represents either the muse or the poet. Saint-Saëns himself referred to the piece as a conversation between the two instruments instead of a debate between two virtuosos.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

SKU: HL.50600644

ISBN 9781495071041. UPC: 888680633219. 9x12 inches.

String Quartet No. 2, (Musée Mécanique), was commissioned by the Ciompi Quartet for their series at Duke University, with funds from Meet the Composer. The first performances were given on April 25 and 26, 2002. The Ciompi also helped in the preparation of this edition and have recorded both String Quartet No. 1 and String Quartet No. 2 for Albany Records (Troy 717). The second string quartet is dedicated, with enormous admiration and gratitude, to my friends Eric Pritchard, Hsiao-Mei Ku, Jonathan Bagg, and Fred Raimi of the Ciompi Quartet.

SKU: HL.49008051

ISBN 9790001113564. Joachim Schuster.

Fur das gemeinsame Musizieren der Kinder - miteinander, auch mit der Lehrerin, dem Lehrer und vielleicht den Eltern - dafur kann es nicht genug verschiedenartige Litaratur geben. Das gilt besonders fur den Anfangsunterricht, wo die Sinne und Interessen geweckt werden sollen. Die 18 Geigenduos in diesem Heft sind technisch leicht und musikalisch vielseitig. Die bildhaften Themen und Uberschriften wollen die Fantasie anregen und motivieren, und das gemeinsame Musizieren soll vor allem Freude machen. Die Reise auf dem Tandem verlauft in verschiedenen Etappen, und unterwegs begegnen uns auch schon mal ungewohnte Klange.

SKU: FZ.5826

ISBN 9790230658263. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in three books. Bartolomeo BISMANTOVA - Francesco GEMINIANI (1-2) - Giuseppe TARTINI (1) - Carlo TESSARINI (1) - Aurelio VIRGILIANO - Gasparo ZANNETTI. Table of contents: Virgiliano Aurelio: Il dolcimelo d'Aurelio Virgiliano - c. 1600. Zannetti Gasparo: Il scolaro di Gasparo Zannetti - 1645. Bismantova Bartolomeo: Compendio musicale - 1677. Tessarini Carlo: Gramatica di musica - 1741. Tartini Giuseppe: L'Arte del arco - 1748. Geminiani Francesco: A treatise of good taste - 1749. Geminiani Francesco: The art of playing on the violin - 1751. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of copies from: - National Library of Paris (France). - Civico Museo Bibiografico Musicale of Bologna (Italy). - Municipal Library of Reggio Emilia (Italy).
- Gemeente Museum of The Hague (Netherlands). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose the complete theoretic documentation, methods, classical music scores on the violin.

SKU: LM.P03073

ISBN 9790230330732.

DIABELLI Anton : Petite piece en Do maj. - LATOUR Jean Theodore : Theme en Sol maj. - GLUCK Christoph Willibald : Divertissement en Sol maj. - GRETRY Andre-Modeste : Ariette en Sol maj. - ARNE Thomas : Menuet en Sol maj. - GURLITT Cornlius : Berceuse en Do maj. - CZERNY Carl : Amusement en Re maj. - PURCELL Henry : Menuet en Sol maj. - BRAHMS Johannes : L'homme au sable en Sol maj. - SCHUMANN Robert : Petite romance en La min. - KUHNAU Johann : Menuet en Sol maj. - GOUNOD Charles : Chanson du soir en Do maj. - SCHUMANN Robert : L'Etranger en Sol maj. - HAENDEL Georg Friedrich : Menuet en Fa maj. - HEROLD Ferdinand : Romance en Sol maj. - DIABELLI Anton : Andante en Fa maj. - DUVAL Francois : Sarabande en Re maj. - PINOLET de MONTECLAIR Michel : Menuet en Re maj. - DUVAL Francois : Sarabande en Sol maj. - SCHUMANN Robert : Marche militaire en Sol maj. - MION Charles-Louis : Air en Si min. - PINOLET de MONTECLAIR Michel : Entree des masques en La maj. - PINOLET de MONTECLAIR Michel : Musette en Do maj. - CZERNY Carl : Sur I'Onde en Do maj. - PINOLET de MONTECLAIR Michel : Les chasseurs en Re maj.

SKU: PR.164002720

UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.

SKU: PR.16400272S

UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.

SKU: FZ.5827

ISBN 9790230658270. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in three books.
Anonyme - Bartolomeo CAMPAGNOLI (1) - Francesco GALEAZZI - Pietro LEONE- Antonio LOLLI - Vicenzo PANERAI- Giovanni Batista RANGONI - Pietro SIGNORETTI - Giuseppe TARTINI (2-3) - Carlo TESSARINI (2-3) - Carlo ZUCCARI. Table of contents: Tessarini Carlo: Nouvelle methode pour apprendre par theorie - c. 1760. Zuccari Carlo: The tru method of playing - 1762. Tessarini Carlo: An accurate method - 1765. Leone Pietro: Methode raisonnee - 1768. Tartini Giuseppe: Lettera del defonto signor Giuseppe Tartini - 1770. Tartini Giuseppe: Traite des agremens - 1771. Signoretti Pietro: Methode contenant les principes - 1777. Panerai Vicenzo: Principi di musica - c. 1780. Anonyme: Riflessioni d'un professore - 1780. Lolli Antonio: L'ecole du violon en quatuor - c. 1784. Rangoni Giovanni Batista: Saggio sul gusto della musica - 1790. Campagnoli Batolomeo: L'art d'inventer a l'improviste - c. 1790. Galeazzi Francesco: Elementi teorico-pratici - 1796. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of copies from: - National Library of Paris (France). - British Library of London (England). - Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale of Bologna (Italy). - Conservatory Library of Music Benedetto Marcello of Venice (Italy). - Staatlische Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst of Berlin (Germany). - Conservatory Library of Music Giuseppe Verdi of Milan (Italy). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose the complete theoretic documentation, methods, classical music scores on the violin.