Déodat de Séverac – Le Chant de la Terre (Poème géorgique pour piano)(1899-1900)[Score]

Déodat de Séverac (1872 – 1921), Le Chant de la Terre, Poème géorgique for piano (1899-1900), published in 1903. The piano suite is dedicated to Octave Maus (1856 –1919), a Belgian art critic, writer, and lawyer. Seven movements: Prologue 0:00 I. Le Labour 1:48 II. Les Semailles 6:36 Intermezzo 10:40 III. La Grêle 14:05 IV. Les Moissons 18:23 Epilogue 20:06 Played by Aldo Ciccolini. * * Déodat de Séverac was born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, Haute-Garonne. He descended from a noble family, profoundly influenced by the musical traditions of his native Languedoc. He first studied in Toulouse, then later moved to Paris to study under Vincent d'Indy and Albéric Magnard at the Schola Cantorum, an alternative to the training offered by the Paris Conservatoire. There he took organ lessons from Alexandre Guilmant and worked as an assistant to Isaac Albéniz. He returned to the southern part of France, where he spent much of the rest of his rather short life. His native south was a region that attracted a number of his contemporaries—artists and poets he had met in Paris. His opera Héliogabale was produced at Béziers in 1910. He died in Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, Roussillon. Séverac is noted for his vocal and choral music, which includes settings of verse in Occitan (the historic language of Languedoc) and Catalan (the historic language of Roussillon) as well as French poems by Verlaine and Baudelaire. His compositions for solo piano have also won critical acclaim, and many of them were titled as pictorial evocations and published in the collections Chant de la terre, En Languedoc, and En vacances. A popular example of his work is The Old Musical Box ("Où l'on entend une vieille boîte à musique", from En vacances). His masterpiece, however, is the suite Cerdaña (written 1904—1911), filled with the local color of Languedoc. His motet Tantum ergo is also still sung on occasion. (Wikipedia) Original audio:    • Déodat de Séverac - Aldo Ciccolini (1970) ...   Score: https://imslp.org/wiki/Le_chant_de_la_terr... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I DO NOT own the AUDIO neither the SCORE. I don't earn anything by doing this video and it has been done only for didactical purposes. Copyrights go to all the artists.