Sheet Music by Symétrie for Discriminating Musicians

During the French Revolution, the Consulate and the Empire, Méhul may have been the only major French composer to fully understand and assimilate the latest perfections of the music in his times. Taug...

Created on 9 March 1873 at the Concert national, the Symphonie romantique by Victorin Joncières enjoyed a real success. The 33-year-old composer was well-known for his dramatic works given at the Théâ...

This 4th Symphony was most probably created on 24 February 1857 at the Société des concerts du Conservatoire, as they announced as part of the programm a "new symphony" by Reber. The previous ones wer...

Around 1939, Max d'Ollone orchestrated Sposalizio, a piano piece from the second set of Franz Liszt's Years of pilgrimage (1858). It is his only known orchestration. The original work was inspired by...

When Azémia ou Les Sauvages is created at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris on May 3rd, 1787, the opéra comique is a genre in full development, fostered by the uprising publishing industry, the travellin...

The first thing that stands out in the overture is the instrumentation, which includes two harps and a celeste. We hear these instruments, in an andante in 3/8, for 22 of the first 24 bars. Their timb...

The first thing that stands out in the overture is the instrumentation, which includes two harps and a celeste. We hear these instruments, in an andante in 3/8, for 22 of the first 24 bars. Their timb...

Confronting the night is probably the first time a child feels destabilised. The familiar outlines of the bedroom fade away into the darkness, the comforting face of the mother disappears behind the d...

Details: Percussionist 1: glockenspiel (sounds 2 octaves above) spring drum medium-large small water-tam tam Percussionist 2: xylophone (sounds 1 octave above) metal chimes 3 wood blocks (very low, me...

Details: Percussionist 1: glockenspiel (sounds 2 octaves above) spring drum medium-large small water-tam tam Percussionist 2: xylophone (sounds 1 octave above) metal chimes 3 wood blocks (very low, me...

This piece is an emanation of the Concerto for trombone and orchestra, La Chute de Lucifer (Lucifer's Fall) La Chute de Lucifer. It uses its main thematic elements and reorga­nize them, particularly t...

All his life, Sauguet had been in touch with artists of diμerent generations and backgrounds: composers of course, interpreters, choreographers and dancers, poets, actors, painters and decorators, fil...

All his life, Sauguet had been in touch with artists of diμerent generations and backgrounds: composers of course, interpreters, choreographers and dancers, poets, actors, painters and decorators, fil...

Learning at a very early age the piano and the violin and surrounded by brothers and sisters playing the piano and string instruments, Jean Cras quickly came to compose chamber music. First a piano tr...

Human life is often paradoxical. The human being is a living paradox. Sometimes, an author, a human being by nature, is, in the course of his expressive search, under the action of divergent sometimes...

The organ! The dream of my young life. Henri Sauguet, La Musique, ma vie. In his earlier years, Henri Sauguet was improvising and accompanying many church services at the organ, but did not write spec...

The XII Offertoires can now be added to the five previously known organ books. They fill a gap not only in the composer's output of organ music, between 1756 (IIIe Livre d'Orgue) and 1787 (Pièces d'or...

This piece was written for Denis Comtet who gave its first-ever performance at Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral on January 3rd, 2015. The contiguous piece is nonetheless articulated in 5 clearly defined par...

After purchasing a summer residence at Pont-de-l'Arche in Normandy on 10 July 1891, Massenet became friends with Father Henri Hazé, the priest of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Duclair parish. Born in 1854 in...

Jean-Pierre Sciau, in this beginning of the 21st century, is enriching the repertoire for viola with a sonata in its primitive form in 4 movements. Refering to the masters of the Enlightenment, he thu...

The F sharp minor Sonata for violin and piano was written in 1907. The form is classical, and the four movements allegro moderato - allegretto - largo - allegro molto show an unusual melancholy and gr...

This collection was written for the pupils of the Loire choir school. Its purpose is to introduce children to well- drawn musical genres, close to folk music. The collection is aimed at a first or sec...