Sèrènade aux étoiles, Op. 142

Composer: CHAMINADE, Cécile
  • Enoch & Co. published Chaminade’s Sèrènade aux étoiles (Serenade to the Stars) in Paris in 1911.1
  • Chaminade dedicated this piece “à Monsieur Adolphe Hennebains, Professeur au Conservatoire.”2 Adolphe Hennebains was a flutist who studied with Paul Taffanel, and succeeded him as professor at the Paris Conservatory.3 
    • Chaminade and Hennebains had a good professional relationship and she wrote a series of works for him and his students.4
  • In 1902, Chaminade had written her famous Concertino for Flute for Hennebains’ teacher Taffanel; it had been commissioned as a conservatory examination piece for Taffanel’s flute students.

Sources

  1. “Sérénade aux étoiles, Op.142 (Chaminade, Cécile),” IMSLP, accessed June 23, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/S%C3%A9r%C3%A9nade_aux_%C3%A9toiles%2C_Op.142_(Chaminade%2C_C%C3%A9cile).
  2. Ibid.
  3. Jeremy Montagu, Howard Mayer Brown, Jaap Frank, and Ardal Powell, “Flute,” Grove Music Online  (2001), accessed June 23, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040569.  
  4. Ann McCutchan, Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1994), 50.

Cut IDs

24109