{"product_id":"french-piano-music-an-anthology-9780486233819","title":"French Piano Music, an Anthology","description":"Piano music is as essential to France as the opera is to Italy or lieder to Germany. This anthology, a broad cross-section of French piano music, selects and presents 44 short piano works ranging from 1670 to 1906. Twenty-eight composers, all French or active in France, are featured: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Jean-Baptiste Lully, André Campra, François Couperin, André-Cardinal Destouches, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Jean-François Dandrieu, Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Dagincourt, Louis-Claude Daquin, Johann Schobert, François-Joseph Gossec, Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, Georges Mathias, Camille Saint-Saëns, Léo Delibes, Théodore Dubois, George Bizet, Emmanuel Chabrier, Jules Massenet, Charles-Marie Widor, Gabriel Fauré, Benjamin Godard, Vincent d'Indy, Cécile Chaminade, Camille Erlanger, Gabriel Pierné, and this volume's editor, the well-known pianist, composer, and teacher Isidor Philipp.\u003cbr\u003eSome of the pieces are extremely popular and favorites with pianists at all levels. Others, although equally important, are more obscure. Included is a wide range of compositions: courantes, passepieds, sarabandes, gigues, gavottes, preludes, minuets, waltzes, romances, scherzos, caprices. Works of special interest include Rameau's \"The Hen,\" Gossec's \"Gavotte,\" Saint-Saëns' \"Song Without Words,\" Lully's \"Courante in E Minor,\" and Couperin's \"Les Papillons.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsidor Philipp (1863-1958) was a well-known French pianist, composer, and teacher. In 1906 he selected and edited the sourcebook of this compilation, \u003ci\u003eAnthology of French Piano Music, \u003c\/i\u003e which continues to rank among the finest anthologies of its kind.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412522963218,"sku":"9780486233819","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb458616-353f-4038-8515-6d85a4cb5392.jpg?v=1729315646","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/french-piano-music-an-anthology-9780486233819","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}