Pastorale for Flute (or Violin) and Piano

Composer: TAILLEFERRE, Germaine
  • Tailleferre composed this chamber work for flute (or violin) and piano in 1942. It premiered that same year, in Philadelphia.1 
  • Tailleferre lived in Philadelphia from 1942-1946. She fled France in 1942 when the Nazis invaded – abandoning her house to escape across Spain and Portugal before she could catch a boat to the United States.2

Sources

  1. Robert Orledge, “Tailleferre, Germaine,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed June 24, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000027390.
  2. Daisy Fancourt, “Exile and Resistance: French Resistance: Les Six,” Music and the Holocaust, accessed June 24, 2021, https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/resistance-and-exile/french-resistance/les-six/.

Cut IDs

13415, 22658