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Listening to the Paintings: 19th-Century French
Music & Art
David Hildebrand &
Brian Ganz
1 Summer, 2014
“Dieu d'Amour” from Les mariages samnites (1776) André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)
Age of Enlightenment
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Antoine Watteau: The Guitar Player” (c.1720)
More guitars: Vermeer and Vigée-Lebrun
Vicomtesse de Mirabeau (1774) The Guitar Player (1672)
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Renoirs
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Manet: The Spanish Singer (1860) Georges Bizet – Carmen (1875, from later Suites)
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1: Habenera 2: Aragonaise
Rivers and fountains Maurice Ravel – Jeux d’eau (1901)
Renoir, Oarsmen at Chatou (1879) Sisley, Molesey Weir at Hampton Court, Morning (1874)
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Debussy – La Mer (1905) [recordings]
Courbet: The Sea (1873)
Seurat: Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy (1888)
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4: De l’aube a midi sur la mer
3: Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Whistler: Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville (1865)
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“Monet Refuses the Operation” by Lisel Mueller (1994) Monet: Impression Sunrise (1872)
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Debussy: Reflets dans l’eau (1905) Monet: The Japanese Footbridge (1899)
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Monet: Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day (c.1876)
Emmanuel Chabrier: Idyll (1881)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau (1860/1865)
Corot - Forest of Fontainebleau (1834)
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5: Orchestral music -- Berlioz
Manet: The Old Musician (1862) – --- What would he play? Bizet’s l’Arlesienne ?
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7: Farandole
or street music?
Ah, ça ira! Downfall of Paris
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Street music of beggars Lyre-vielle or hurdy-gurdy
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Paris, c. 1899 8: Bergeres, ecoutez 9: Noce Champetre 10: Air de Fanchon La Vielleuse
Jacques Bellange: Blind Hurdy- Gurdy Player (c.1600)
In Paris . . . Franz Schubert: Der Leiermann (1827)
Georges de la Tour, Blind Hurdy-Gurdy player (c.1631-1636)
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Adolphe Nourrit – performer of Schubert’s songs
Henry Lerolle: The Organ Rehearsal (1885)
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11: Chausson
Degas: The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable”
(1876)
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Robert Schumann: Arlequin (1835)
Renoir: The Box at the Theatre (1874)
Manet: Masked Ball at the Opéra (1873) Cezanne, Harlequin (1889)
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Debussy: La Cathédrale engloutie (1910)
Monet: Rouen Cathedral, West Façade: (1894)
Monet: Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight (1894)
Debussy Medal Marie-Alexandre-Lucien Coudray (1864-1932)
Orpheus: The Genius of Music (1899/1900) “Claude Debussy/1e Prix” (4,500 cast)
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Ballet/dance
Degas: Dancers at the Old Opera house (1877) "Minute" Waltz, in D-flat major, Frédéric Chopin (1847) Degas: Four Dancers (c.1899)
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12: The Can-Can! Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (1858)
At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance (1890) Troupe de Mlle Elegantine (1896)
22 Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Epilogue: George V. Curtis (1859-1943)
. . . bringing Barbizon to America . . .
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Paris (c.1895) Long Island (1907)
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Carol and Jacquelin Baber (c.1937)