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As the 19th century ended, the salon, particularly in Paris, was where the bourgeoisie took social idleness to a new level. Artists, writers, and especially the musical avant-garde encountered a rich field of action, intent on connecting performers with audiences in an atmosphere of joint devotion to the arts. This spawned a considerable 'musical' range of programmatic character pieces which, alongside tasteful melodies and compositional finesse, made the most of the technical possibilities of the instruments. We can see from the dedications that this 'miniature literature' was also used for teaching purposes - many composers being both performers and teachers. They include Charles Lefebvre, who, despite working in all genres and large forms, made the most of this trend, and whose Caprices, Recueillements, Aubades, Ballades, Romances (sans paroles), Impromptus, Scherzi and Barcarolles provided almost every instrument with technically rewarding characteristic recital pieces. The present Fantaisie-Caprice, perfectly tailored to the specific timbre and ambitus of the clarinet, first appeared in 1905, titled: CONCOURS DU CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DE MUSIQUE DE PARIS / Fantaisi-Caprice / POUR / CLARINETTE SI b / avec accompagnement de PIANO / PAR / CH. LEFEBVRE / Op. 118. / Prix maj. 17fr.50 / ALPHONSE LEDUC / PARIS Charles Edouard Lefebvre, son of the successful painter Charles Victor Eugène Lefebvre (1805-1882), was born in Paris on 19th June 1843. Having finished his law studies, he enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Ambroise Thomas. In 1870 he was awarded the Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Jugement de Dieu. Returning to Paris after travelling abroad, he won the prestigious Prix Chartier for chamber music in 1884 and 1891. A professor at the Conservatoire, in 1895 he was given the class for instrumental ensemble-playing, succeeding Benjamin Godard. Outstanding among Lefebvre's large output (over 130 works) are six (forgotten) operas, a lyrical and wide-ranging choral work, the D major symphony of 1879, the Poème symphonique Dalila (1876), free-form piano music and chamber music worthy of revival, notably a piano quintet op. 57 (1876), the string quartet op. 80 (1890) and a piano trio op. 110. All these works, free of any excentricity, are 'traditionallly mellifluous'. Charles Lefebvre died on 8th September 1917 in Aix les Bains.
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