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Deuxieme Sonate for flute and piano
Deuxieme Sonate for flute and piano
G. Tailleferre: Sonate for flute and piano No 2 was written in 1951, originally for violin and piano, as a revision of her unsuccessful Concerto for violin (1936), without cadenza and with various musical tweaks and alterations.
"The Concerto was composed in Leysin, Switzerland, while her husband was being treated in a sanatorium. It is dedicated to Yvonne Astruc, who premiered it on 22 November 1936 with the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris under Pierre Monteux.
The Concerto is now believed to be lost."
Caroline Potter, "Germaine Tailleferre: A Centenary Appraisal", 1992
However, American composer Eliott Carter believed that her Concerto was "delightful, gay, and unpretentious, with a very fine slow movement".
Tailleferre's lyticism and frequent use of the walz may be the reason her music is often referred to as light, airy, and unimportant. Much of her music is dancelike. However, the second sonata ir less romantic in the Faurean sense and more restrained as her first sonata.
The arrangement for flute and piano was made by Virginia Broffitt Kunzer.
Tailleferre Germaine
Germaine Tailleferre (1892 – 1983) was a French pianist and composer. She is mostly known as the only female member of the renowned Les Six, the group of six French composers: Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Tailleferre. She changed her original surname Taillefesse to Tailleferre to break apart from her father’s influence and unwillingness to support her musical aspirations. Initially, she studied piano with her mother. At the age of 12, she started her studies at the Paris Conservatory with Charles Koechlin and Maurice Ravel where her musical talent was recognized with several prizes. She was praised for her phenomenal memory. Along with her classmates in the counterpoint class – Auric, Milhaud, and Honegger she actively participated in numerous concerts that led to forming Les Six, greatly influenced by their extravagant mentor Erik Satie who praised Tailleferre talents, especially her work Jeux de Plein Air (Play in Plain Air) and called her his “musical daughter”. In the 1920s she composed her most important works: The First piano concerto, Concertino for Harp, and several ballets from which La nouvelle Cythère was commissioned by the famous impresario Sergei Diaghilev. Even after her second marriage in the 1930s, she continued to compose, producing two piano concertos and several ballets, orchestral, and chamber music compositions, including Concertino for Flute, Piano, and Orchestra. Additionally, she wrote a substantial number of scores for film and television. Since 1976 she worked as an accompanist at the École alsacienne, a private school in Paris. Due to progressing arthritis in both hands she mostly performed in small-scale concerts.
The majority of her works were published only after her death in 1983.