Listening to the Paintings: 19th-Century French

Music & Art

David Hildebrand &

Brian Ganz

1 Summer, 2014

“Dieu d'Amour” from Les mariages samnites (1776) André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)

Age of Enlightenment

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Antoine Watteau: The Guitar Player” (c.1720)

More guitars: Vermeer and Vigée-Lebrun

Vicomtesse de Mirabeau (1774) The Guitar Player (1672)

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Renoirs

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Manet: The Spanish Singer (1860) Georges Bizet – Carmen (1875, from later Suites)

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1: Habenera 2: Aragonaise

Rivers and fountains Maurice Ravel – Jeux d’eau (1901)

Renoir, Oarsmen at Chatou (1879) Sisley, Molesey Weir at Hampton Court, Morning (1874)

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Debussy – La Mer (1905) [recordings]

Courbet: The Sea (1873)

Seurat: Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy (1888)

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4: De l’aube a midi sur la mer

3: Dialogue du vent et de la mer

Whistler: Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville (1865)

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“Monet Refuses the Operation” by Lisel Mueller (1994) Monet: Impression Sunrise (1872)

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Debussy: Reflets dans l’eau (1905) Monet: The Japanese Footbridge (1899)

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Monet: Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day (c.1876)

Emmanuel Chabrier: Idyll (1881)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau (1860/1865)

Corot - Forest of Fontainebleau (1834)

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5: Orchestral music -- Berlioz

Manet: The Old Musician (1862) – --- What would he play? Bizet’s l’Arlesienne ?

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7: Farandole

or street music?

Ah, ça ira! Downfall of Paris

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Street music of beggars Lyre-vielle or hurdy-gurdy

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Paris, c. 1899 8: Bergeres, ecoutez 9: Noce Champetre 10: Air de Fanchon La Vielleuse

Jacques Bellange: Blind Hurdy- Gurdy Player (c.1600)

In Paris . . . Franz Schubert: Der Leiermann (1827)

Georges de la Tour, Blind Hurdy-Gurdy player (c.1631-1636)

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Adolphe Nourrit – performer of Schubert’s songs

Henry Lerolle: The Organ Rehearsal (1885)

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11: Chausson

Degas: The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable”

(1876)

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Robert Schumann: Arlequin (1835)

Renoir: The Box at the Theatre (1874)

Manet: Masked Ball at the Opéra (1873) Cezanne, Harlequin (1889)

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Debussy: La Cathédrale engloutie (1910)

Monet: Rouen Cathedral, West Façade: (1894)

Monet: Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight (1894)

Debussy Medal Marie-Alexandre-Lucien Coudray (1864-1932)

Orpheus: The Genius of Music (1899/1900) “Claude Debussy/1e Prix” (4,500 cast)

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Ballet/dance

Degas: Dancers at the Old Opera house (1877) "Minute" Waltz, in D-flat major, Frédéric Chopin (1847) Degas: Four Dancers (c.1899)

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12: The Can-Can! Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (1858)

At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance (1890) Troupe de Mlle Elegantine (1896)

22 Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

Epilogue: George V. Curtis (1859-1943)

. . . bringing Barbizon to America . . .

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Paris (c.1895) Long Island (1907)

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Carol and Jacquelin Baber (c.1937)