Fernand de La Tombelle. Musique de chambre, chorale et symphonique

CD-Book. Bru Zane Label. Portrait n. 5.

Gifted with a strong temperament and a curious nature, Fernand de La Tombelle is a highly appealing and interesting figure among French Romantic composers. He left a substantial œuvre, protean, stylistically eclectic, even atypical, that deserves reassessment not only for its own merits, but also because it illustrates a certain form of social and artistic activity in France at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His catalogue ranges over every genre, and is complemented by photographs, drawings, paintings, and writings on theoretical and literary subjects as well as works dealing with astronomy and the culinary art. Taken as a whole, it constitutes the output of an artist with an outstandingly wide culture, worthy of an honnête homme who also did a great deal for the musical education of the working classes.  This book-CD reveals the multiple facets of a captivating personality.

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