SKU: BT.DHP-1165758-140
English-German-French-Dutch.
Fields of Honour was commissioned by ‘l’Orchestre d’Harmonie de Beauquesne’, France, and tells the story of the terrifying Battle of the Somme during WW1, with more than one million of victims. The music depicts the events prior to the battle until the time after it. This impressive composition has the structure of a symphonic poem and is highly dramatic and emotional, offering challenges to all instrument groups. Fields of Honour is geschreven in opdracht van l’Orchestre d’Harmonie de Beauquesne, Frankrijk. Het werk vertelt het verhaal van de Slag aan de Somme in de Eerste Wereldoorlog een strijd met meer dan een miljoen slachtoffers. De muziek beschrijft de gebeurtenissen voor de veldslag tot de tijd erna. De indrukwekkende compositie heeft de structuur van een symfonisch gedicht en is zeer dramatisch en emotioneel, waarbij elke instrumentgroep wel een uitdaging heeft om zich aan te wijden.Das Stück Fields of Honour wurde vom Orchestre d’Harmonie de Beauquesne (Frankreich) in Auftrag gegeben und erzählt die Geschichte der entsetzlichen Schlacht an der Somme im ersten Weltkrieg mit mehr als einer Million Opfern. Die Musik beschreibt die Ereignisse vor der Schlacht bis danach. Diese eindrucksvolle Komposition ist wie eine sinfonische Dichtung aufgebaut und extrem dramatisch und emotional. Sie bietet für alle Instrumentengruppen große Herausforderungen.Fields of Honour fut commandé par l’Orchestre d’Harmonie de Beauquesne, France, et raconte l’histoire de l’effroyable bataille de la Somme durant la Première Guerre Mondiale, qui compte plus d’un million de victimes. La musique dépeint les évènements qui précédent et suivent la bataille. Cette composition impressionnante est structurée comme un poème symphonique. Elle est très dramatique et émotionnelle, et offre des défis tous les registres.
SKU: BT.DHP-1165758-010
SKU: UT.MAG-221
ISBN 9790215318625. 9 x 12 inches.
Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, born in 1770, in Dreux (Eure-et-Loir), from a distinguished family, learnt music as an entertainment art, and was obliged to make it a resource for his existence, after the troubles of the Revolution in 1789. He had acquired a remarkable talent for the harp; when he arrived in Paris he made a very good impression. Then, man of the world, knowledgeable in many fields, which is rare for a musician, he was welcome everywhere, and very soon came in friendly terms with some of the most renowned artists and men of letters of his times. The marriage certificate of the poet Legouve (15 pluviose of the year XI, or February 1803, 12th municipality of Paris), shows that Dalvimare was one of his best men and that at the time he was thirty-two years old. He became harpist of the Opera in the year VIII (1800), and was definitively confirmed in the month of fructidor of the year IX. At the time of the institution of the emperor Napoleon's private music, M. Dalvimare was appointed as his harpist. In September 1807 he obtained the title of harp master of the empress Josephine. A lucky change of his fortune allowed this artist to renounce to practise his talent for living, he resigned from all of his positions on March, 12th, 1812, and he retired in Dreux, where he still was living in 1837. For a peculiar weakness, he does not like to speak about his artist career, which had been entirely honourable, and he would like to forget his success too. His first composition was a symphonie concertant for harp and horn, which he composed with Frederic Duvernoy, and published in the year VII (1798); notwithstanding, he counted as his first opus a collection of romances with accompaniment of piano or harp, which he later published with Pleyel.In 1809 Dalvimare composed, for the theatre Feydeau, a one-act opera-comique called The Marriage for Imprudence. The music was weak; the work did not succeed, and people used to say that the greatest imprudence had been the one of the authors who had it performed. Nevertheless, the score of this opera was published in Paris by erard. (Francois-Joseph Fetis).
SKU: HL.44013406
UPC: 888680923693.
SKU: HL.44013405
UPC: 888680923686.
