Voice and piano -
advanced
SKU:
HL.49017577
On
poems by Auguste Villiers
de l'Isle-Adam, Emile
Verhaeren, Charles
Baudelaire, Rene-Francois
Sully-Prudhomme.
Composed by Emile
Naoumoff. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Vocal. Composed
2004-2006. 28 pages.
Duration 18'. Schott
Music #ED20388. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49017577).
ISBN
9790001152204.
9.0x12.0x0.1 inches.
French.
These songs
by Emile Naoumoff are
squarely in the tradition
of French lied
composition such as by
Gabriel Faure. Here,
Naoumoff chose texts by
late 19th-century French
lyricists: Auguste
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,
Emile Verhaeren, Charles
Baudelaire and
Rene-Francois
Sully-Prudhomme.In their
elegance and suppleness,
the four songs sound
typically French. As they
are all easy to sing and
have not been composed
'against' the voice, they
are perfectly suited for
both music lessons and
concert
programmes.Naoumoff was
born in Sofia in 1962. At
the age of eight, he
began his career as a
pianist and composer; he
was a student of Nadia
Boulanger for ten years
until her death. At the
age of ten, Naoumoff
composed and performed
his own piano concerto
under the direction of
Yehudi Menuhin. He then
received numerous awards
and prizes and gave
performances as highly
acclaimed pianist. Today,
Naoumoff lives and works
as an associate professor
at the School of Music of
the Indiana University at
Bloomington. He gives
master classes in the
USA, Europe and Japan and
is director of a music
academy.