Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Nationality:
French
Born: May 12, 1842, Montaud, St Etienne Died: August 13, 1912, Paris (age 70)
Méditation (from Thaïs)
(for violin and piano)
| Andante religieuse |
Duration: 6 minutes (approximately)
Composed:
1894 (age 51-52)
4 recordings,
4 videos
6:31
Janine Jansen (orchestral)
4:43
Oliveira, Koenig
4:41
Mischa Elman
4:01
Nathan Milstein
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glossary
- chamber music, Kammermusik [G], musique de chambre [F], musica da camera [I], musica cameralis [L]—"Classical Music" for a small ensemble, generally 8 or fewer players with a canonical emphasis on 3-6 players. explore
- transcription, transcribe—To re-score a work for an ensemble of instruments different from the original version. Typical examples include orchestrating piano or chamber works and visa versa. Within the realm of chamber music, a work for winds might be transcribed for strings, a symphony into a string quartet, a trio featuring a clarinet substituting a viola. One interesting question is: who made the transcription, the original composer? One interesting effect is that the transcription may become favored over the original. One of the most curious transcriptions in all of chamber music is Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht", transcribed from string sextet to piano trio with amazing success by one of his students.