Concertstück in c-sharp minor, Op. 40

Composer: CHAMINADE, Cécile
  • Chaminade composed this one-movement work for piano and orchestra around 1893.1
  • Chaminade appeared as soloist in this work’s premiere, in Antwerp on April 18, 1888.2 She appeared with the Cercle Catholique Société de Musique and the conductor was Joseph Moreal.3
  • Chaminade dedicated this piece to Louise Steiger, a concert pianist who also performed this work on several occasions, including with the Concerts Colonne.4
  • Chaminade played this work in with the Philadelphia Orchestra5 during her 1908 tour of the United States. Reviewers were unsure how to cope with an assertive, large-scale work by a woman; several critics complained that this piece did not suit the womanly nature of the composer.6

Sources

  1. Marcia J. Citron, “Chaminade, Cécile,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed December 29, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005388.
  2. Ibid.
  3. “Konzertstück, Op.40 (Chaminade, Cécile),” IMSLP, accessed December 29, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Konzertst%C3%BCck%2C_Op.40_(Chaminade%2C_C%C3%A9cile).
  4. Nigel Simeone, “Concertstück in C sharp minor, Op 40,” Hyperion (2017), accessed December 29, 2021, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W19742_GBAJY1713006.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Citron, “Chaminade, Cécile,” Grove Music Online.

Cut IDs

24059