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The Trios and Quintets up to Nonets by Louise Farrenc, while they remained known to a select circle of chamber music enthusiasts, are enjoying a deserved revival in new editions. Valued and admired by her contemporaries, her works were enthusiastically received in salons and concert halls, performed by the most eminent artists of the time. Coming from late Viennese Classicism's sonorous configurations of expression and form, her delicately chased themes and varied, cleverly modulating passagework have an already romantic feel for sound. This is particularly the case in her pieces for mixed ensembles of wind instruments, strings and piano, which show a sovereign grasp of the specific characteristics of the various instruments, particularly in melodic matters. Further proof of this is found in our present Trio op. 44, composed 1854-1856, which we here present in a re-engraved edition according to the 1865 edition by Paris publisher Alphonse Leduc.
Jeanne Louise Farrenc was born in Paris on 31 May 1804, the daughter of sculptor Jacques Dumont. Her musical talent was soon evident. Beside early singing lessons, she studied to become a professional pianist. At 15 she was taught harmony and orchestration by Anton Reicha. Later on, her encounter with Johann Nepomuk Hummel, who imparted to her the meaning of German music, and studies with Ignaz Moscheles were a powerful influence on her artistic life. In 1821, aged 17, she married flutist and music publisher Aristide Farrenc, who would become an untiring champion of her work as pianist and composer. Together with him she produced a 23-volume anthology of keyboard music, Le Trésor des Pianistes, spanning 300 years of forgotten compositions. The Farrencs also gave musical soirées dedicated to the great classical composers. In between, Louisa Farrenc taught the piano at the court of the Duchess of Orléans. In 1842 she was the first woman to be given, by François Aubert, a professorship for piano at the Paris Conservatoire, a post she held until she retired in 1872. In later years, now performing only rarely in public, she devoted all her energies to composing and teaching.
Louise Farrenc died in Paris on 15 September 1875. Louise Farrenc's opulent and multifarious output, not yet entirely catalogued, includes pieces for instrumental ensembles popular today. Apart from an extensive oeuvre for piano, often adorned with programmatic titles and critically commended by Robert Schumann himself, she left three symphonies, two piano quintets for violin, viola, violoncello and double bass, an important Nonet op. 38 for wind and strings, the Sextet for wind and piano op. 40, four piano trios which include the Trio op. 45 in e minor for flute, violoncello and piano (Amadeus BP 1710) and sonatas for violin and violoncello with piano.
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edited by Bernhard Pauler
