Calme sans lenteur

Composer: TAILLEFERRE, Germaine
  • This single movement for piano trio was originally the slow movement of Tailleferre’s Piano Trio (1917). When she revised the work in 1977-1978, Tailleferre removed this movement from the trio and added two shorter movements in its place.1
    • The revised version of the Tailleferre’s Piano Trio was published in 1980.2
    • In Tailleferre’s Oxford Music Online article, Robert Orledge points to the ease with which Tailleferre returned to her 1917 trio in 1977 as an example of the stylistic continuity of her career.3
  • The title is simply a performance direction: calm, without slowness.

Sources

  1. “Germaine Tailleferre: Calme et Sans Lenteur for piano trio,” Sheet Music Plus, accessed February 10, 2022, https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/germaine-tailleferre-calme-et-sans-lenteur-for-piano-trio-digital-sheet-music/20740840. 
  2. Robert Orledge, “Tailleferre, Germaine,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 10, 2022,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000027390. 
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

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