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Roussel Albert
Aitken, Robert
Arnold, Malcolm
Barber, Samuel
Bartók, Béla Viktor János
Beaser, Robert
Bennet, Richard Rodney
Berio, Luciano
Bernstein, Leonard
Bloch, Ernest
Bolling, Claude
Boulanger, Marie-Juliette
Bozza, Eugène Joseph
Brown, Elizabeth
Brun, Georges
Burton, Eldin
Büsser, Henri
Camus, Pierre
Carter, Elliott
Casella, Alfredo
Clarke, Ian
Colquhoun, Michael
Copland, Aaron
Corigliano, John
Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus
Damase, Jean-Michel
Davidovsky, Mario
Debussy, Claude
Del Tredici, David
Denisov, Edison
Dick, Robert
Dohnányi, Ernő
Dutilleux, Henri
Enescu, George
Feld, Jindřich
Ferroud, Pierre-Octave
Foote, Arthur
Foss, Lukas
Françaix, Jean
Fukushima, Kazuo
Gaubert, Philippe
Gieseking, Walter
Gordeli, Otar
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
Grovlez, Gabriel
Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo
Hanson, Howard Harold
Harsányi, Tibor
Harty, Hamilton
Heiss, John
Heith, David
Higdon, Jennifer
Hindemith, Paul
Honegger, Arthur
Hoover, Katherine
Hosokawa, Toshio
Hovhaness, Alan
Hüe, Georges Adolphe
Ibert, Jacques
Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Ittzés, Gergely
Jacob, Gordon
Jemnitz, Sándor
Jirák, Karel Boleslav
Jolivet, André
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
Kennan, Kent Wheeler
Kornauth, Egon
La Montaine, John
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Mihalovici, Marcel
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Mouquet, Jules
Mower, Mike
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Offermans, Wil
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Piston, Walter
Poulenc, Francis
Prokofiev, Sergey
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Ran, Shulamit
Ravel, Maurice
Reynolds, Verne
Rivier, Jean
Rota, Nino
Roussel, Albert
Rutter, John
Saariaho, Kaija
Sancan, Pierre
Schulhoff, Erwin
Schwantner, Joseph
Sciarrino, Salvatore
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Tailleferre, Germaine
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Varèse, Edgar
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Weigl, Vally
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Yun, Isang
Joueurs de flûte, for Flute and Piano (Op. 27)
A. Roussel: Joueurs de flûte (The Flute Players) was written in 1924. The composition consists of four parts, each named after a particular flutist from the literature and dedicated to famous flutist at Roussel's time. 1. Pan: dedicated to Marcel Moyse. 2. Tityre (lucky shepherd from Virgil's "Eclogues"): dedicated to Gaston Blanquart. 3. Krishna (Hindu god who played flute): dedicated to Louis Fleury. 4. Monsieur de la Péjaudie (protagonist from Henri de Régnier's novel "The Sinful Woman"): dedicated to Philippe Gaubert. The "Flute Players" was premiered in 1925 in Paris by Louis Fleury who was a close friend of Roussel.
Michio Kobayashi (piano), 1977, Claves
1. Pan, 2. Tityre, 3. Krishna, 4. Monsieur de la Péjaudie
Pascal Rogé (piano), Nippon Columbia / DENON
1. Pan, 2. Tityre, 3. Krishna, 4. Monsieur de la Péjaudie
Joshua Marzan (piano), 2019
1. Pan, 2. Tityre, 3. Krishna, 4. Monsieur de la Péjaudie
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) was a French composer who started his music career rather late. Initially interested in math and serving in navy for 7 years, he studied composition with Vincent D’Indy at the Paris Schola Cantorum where he later taught.
Even though his musical style was greatly influenced by C. Debussy and M. Ravel, his latest works are considered as rather neoclassical.
Among his most popular compositions: ballets Le festin de l'araignée, Bacchus et Ariane, and Aeneas, as well as four symphonies. Among his notable students: Erik Satie and Bohuslav Martinů who dedicated his Serenade for Chamber Orchestra to Roussel.