Nancy Ambrose King, oboe, Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon and Martin Katz, piano, perform Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset, Vicomtesse de Grandval: Trio de Salon (1847) pour hautbois, basson et piano Published by TrevCo Music Publishing, 2012 I. Andantino sostenuto; II. Allegro moderato "Cette musique a l'allure d'un jeune oiseau essayant ses ailes et s'élançant pour y planer vers le ciel de l'inspiration." ("This music has the quality of a young bird trying its wings and leaping to soar through the sky for inspiration.") So wrote Henri Blanchard in a review published on June 1, 1851 in the Revue et Gazette Musicale de Paris, describing a performance of another trio by Marie de Reiset. Blanchard was not the first to sing her praises in the Revue et Gazette: Hector Berlioz extolled the freshness of her ideas, her finesse and her sense of nuance after hearing two of her Septets performed at the family château in Saint-Rémy des Monts in 1850. On March 12, 1851 she married Charles de Grandval, gaining the title Vicomtesse de Grandval, and over the next decades she would become both a highly respected musician and a generous musical patron of composers and musical societies in Paris. Between the years 1871-1886 she performed at least 59 times for La Société Nationale de Musique, with 30 of those concerts including premieres of her own works. Her musical partners included the finest singers, violinists, cellists and wind players of Paris, among them the oboist Stanislav Verroust and the bassoonist Henri Barizel, to whom the Trio de Salon was dedicated. This trio is one of her earliest published works, composed when she was only 19, following her studies with the German opera composer Friedrich von Flotow. The first of its two continuous movements is all charm and grace, with subtle chromatic modulations underlying an idyllic pastoral mood. This B flat major aubade in 6/8 leads directly to the second movement in g minor, a rustic 3/4 country dance. A virtuoso piano interlude just before the end brings to mind her early training in piano with Frédéric Chopin. The edition used in this recording was prepared by Jeffrey Lyman from an original copy (Paris: Schonenberger, 1847) housed in the Women Composers Collection at the Music Library of the University of Michigan, and available from TrevCo Music Publishing (TrevCo Edition 6052, trevcomusic.com.) For more information: Read a 19th century entry on the composer in the Cyclopedia of music and musicians from 1888 : Grandval, Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset, Vicomtesse de A French site describing the château where Marie de Reiset grew up, followed by a biography in French: La Cour du Bois A German site with an extensive biography of the composer, complete with original reviews from Parisian musical journals: MUGI "Marie de Grandval" Program notes by Jeffrey Lyman. PRODUCTION CREDITS Audio Engineer: David Greenspan; Assistant Audio Engineer: Rishi Daftuar Video Director: Jacques Mersereau; Lighting Designer: Jeff Alder; Camera Operators: Jameson Eisele, Chris Schaublin, Rowan Niemisto, Jeff Alder; Slater: Takumi Ogata Producers: William King, Nermis Mieses, James Onstott, Eric Rutherford, Yaniv Segal Audio Editing, Mixing and Mastering: David Greenspan; Video Editing: Rishi Daftuar Page turner: Julian Bridges Recorded at the Audio Studio in the Duderstadt Center by the Digital Media Commons, a service of the University of Michigan Library. Glenda Radine, Senior Associate Librarian, Digital Media Commons

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