Topic: Quasi una folia

Today I tried to write something that looks like a Folia...
(Pianoteq Petrof Dreamy)

https://hearthis.at/xnwdv7yv/quasi-una-folia/

Re: Quasi una folia

Just beautiful!

It reminds me a bit the music from Déodat de Séverac, a French composer that lived in Saint Felix Lauragais, a nice and small village near Toulouse.

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Philippe Guillaume wrote:

Just beautiful!

It reminds me a bit the music from Déodat de Séverac, a French composer that lived in Saint Felix Lauragais, a nice and small village near Toulouse.


I didn't know much about Deodat de Séverac, who was stored somewhere in my locker of secondary composers.
So I spent part of last night researching and listening.
How could I have neglected this genius?
Thank you Philippe for leading me to this useful research.

I understood the relationship you could find with my little pieces of music:
Deodat de Séverac was at first an improviser, improvisation being an important step in his writing process.*
If he lived in our time I imagine he would be a great user of Pianoteq !

*A very interesting analysis of this process (which sounds familiar to me, although I don't play in the same division... :

https://medias.ircam.fr/xb2b132

And some links to listen :

En vacances
https://youtu.be/ew3D_iIeubw

Nymphes au crépuscule
https://youtu.be/cuKlhhWBmGQ

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About Déodat de Séverac, a touch of piano pedagogy :
Vera Tsybakov dissects "La fontaine de Chopin" by Déodat de Séverac (en Français)

https://youtu.be/CLn3tRqxIHM

Last edited by Gaston (13-11-2018 16:32)

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An incredibly beautiful recording done in Foix (close to Toulouse, France):
Inédits pour piano de Déodat de Severac played by Isabelle Legoux-Laboureau
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38123687b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yDR_vupY3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJHpO61BsUE

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Great idea and gorgeous execution. Thank you, Gerard.

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There seems to be a hint of late 16th / early 17th century keyboard style in that closing section, which I like very much.