A century of French music (1830

Saturday 12 December 2009

After ten gruelling weeks of Brahms and b-minor it was a great relief
just to be able to don a paper hat and tuck in to the passing mince pie…

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

French composers

Alkan, Charles-Valentin (1813–1888) • Auric, Georges (1899–1983) • Berlioz, Hector (1803–1869) • Bizet, Georges (1838–1875) • Boulanger, Lili (1893–1918) • Caplet, André (1878–1925) • Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841–1894) • Chaminade, Cécile (1857–1944) • Chausson, Ernest (1855–1899) • D’Indy, Vincent (1851–1931) • Debussy, Claude (1862–1918) • Dukas, Paul (1865–1935) • Duparc, Henri (1848–1943) • Fauré, Gabriel (1845–1924) • Franck, César (1822–1930) • Gounod, Charles (1818–1893) • Hahn, Reynaldo (1874–1947) • Honneger, Arthur (1892–1955) • Koechlin, Charles (1867–1950) • Lalo, Edouard (1823–1892) • Magnard, Alberich (1865–1914) • Massenet, Jules (1842–1912) • Milhaud, Darius (1892–1974) • Offenbach, Jacques (1819–1880) • Poulenc, Francis (1899–1963) • Ravel, Maurice (1875–1937) • Ropartz, Guy (1864–1955) • Roussel, Albert (1869–1937) • Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835–1921) • Satie, Erik (1866–1925) • Schmitt, Florent (1870–1958) • Tailleferre, Germaine (1892–1983) • Thomas, Ambroise (1811–1896) • Tournemire, Charles (1870–1939) • Varèse, Edgard (1883–1965) • Vierne, Louis (1870–1937) • Widor, Charles-Marie (1844–1937) •