Sheet Music by Symétrie for Discriminating Musicians

The thebaid is the place searched by the wise man to find serenity and calm. A solitary retreat. These music and text alone are to me a new form of "thebaid", a place where to revitalize, a place of t...

Capitale de la douleur (Capital of Pain) was written in 2013 as the result of the friendship between the Sità duo (a flute and clarinet duo) and the composer Romain Dumas. This cycle is a musical sett...

La Petite Sirène (The Little Mermaid), subtitled "symphonic enchantment", was composed during the summer of 2014. It was commissioned by the Orchestre philharmonique des grandes écoles and its music d...

Details: six solo voices, children's choir and chamber orchestra (1111, 111, timp., 4 perc., 1 harp, strings)

The 37 spiritual canticles constituting the collection by Charles de Courbes were published in 1622 by the music printer of Louis XIII, Pierre Ballard. They are varied polyphonies, covering all the as...

Adapted by Philippe Desriaux from Metastasio's work, Démophon's libretto isn't a mere translation of the original text, but rather a paraphrase preserving its poetic sense. Many modifications occurred...

Le Colporteur ou L'Enfant du bûcheron (The Peddler or The Lumberjack's Son) is the second of Onslow's three operas; it was composed in 1826 and first performed at the Opéra-Comique on 22 November 1827...

Last but one of his twelve operas, Les Comédiens ambulans [sic], is a two-act opéra-comique, first performed on 28 December 1798 at the Théâtre Feydeau, with the composer himself in the orchestra, acc...

Natalie, or La Famille russe (the Russian family), is an opera in three acts to a libretto by Jean-Henry Guy. It was first produced on 30th July 1816, with only five further performances, at the Acadé...

Taken from my Trois Psaumes, this Psaume 115 is meant for the liturgy as well as for the concert. It was composed in 2011, for mixed voices and organ. The set of the Trois Psaumes was then recorded tw...

These poems by Heather Dohollau, taken from Point de rosée, take us to this "other country" where frontiers are burning, this "unbelievable place" where there is no limit between here and elsewhere, t...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, Ivanhoé belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de R...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia's Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of...

I composed this mass in the first years of my presence at Notre-Dame, before the creation of the association Musique sacrée à Notre-Dame de Paris and the restructuring of the cathedral's choir in its...

Gossec wrote the 6 Symphonies opus 6 in 1762 while he was the music intendant for the Princes of Condé and Conti. The third one in C minor is a 3-movement symphony, like the vast majority of the symph...

According to the original edition, this symphony was first performed at the Concert des amateurs—a concert society in competition with the Concert spirituel​—in 1777, the year Le Duc died. It shows a...