Sicilienne et burlesque alfredo casella pictures

          18th/early 19th century humorous stage works..

          This weekend I placed 2nd in the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia's Collegiate Artist Competition!

        1. Written in , Sicilienne and Burlesque represents a strange combination of French Impressionism, early Italian forms, and the Stravinsky of Rite and.
        2. 18th/early 19th century humorous stage works.
        3. Italian composer Alfredo Casella's Sicilienne et Burlesque stands out as an extremely evocative and inspiring piece, composed, notably, as WWI broke out across.
        4. Sicilienne and Burlesque for Flute and Piano.

          5. Alfredo Casella’s Sicilienne and Burlesque


              Alfredo Casella’s Sicilienne and Burlesque holds a unique place in the history of contest pieces written for the Paris Conservatoire’s annual concours for flute.

          The Italian Casella was a child piano prodigy. He went to Paris just before 1900 to study composition and remained in France for at least 15 years. His teacher was Gabriel Faure; Maurice Ravel was a fellow student whom Casella admired and later emulated.

          Erica Chung, flute, and Hsin-Chiao Liao, piano, perform Alfredo Cassella's "Sicilienne et Burlesque" for flute and piano.

          At the time Paris was the musical epicenter for most established or aspiring European and American composers, and Casella met and heard music by many great or future-great 20th-century musicians: Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky.


              In particular, Casella embraced Stravinsky after hearing the riotous premiere of The Rite of Spring in 1913. Casella’s early compositional influences from the