Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 33

Composer: FARRENC, Louise
  • Farrenc composed her piano trio Op. 33 around 18411 -1844,2 and it was published around 1850-55.3

Farrenc is “in the first rank among composers of chamber music… [she] is among the first who have sought to reconcile purity and solidity of style with the resources of the modern piano; she has studied the great works of the old masters, and has restored their true meaning.”

Music critic Adolphe Botte in La Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, after the premiere of Farrenc’s Trio Op. 334

Sources

  1. James R. Briscoe, ed., New Historical Anthology of Music by Women (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 172.
  2. Nicole Grimes, “Formal Innovation and Virtuosity in Clara Schumann‘s Piano Trio in G minor,“ in Clara Schumann Studies, ed. Joes Davies (UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 163.
  3. Bea Friedland, “Farrenc family,” Grove Music Online, (2001), accessed August 6, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009336. 
  4. Quoted in Laura Tunbridge, liner notes to Her Voice: Beach, Clarke, Farrenc, Neave Trio, Chandos 20139, CD, 2019.

Cut IDs

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