Frank Martin
2 Chansons populaires
Dedication: dédié à Ré Koster
Solos:
voice
Instrumentation details:
piano
Martin - 2 Chansons populaires for voice and piano
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Frank Martin
Martin: 2 Chansons populaires for voice and piano
Available digitally
Orchestration: for voice and piano
Type: Noten
Language: Französisch
Work introduction
The two French folk songs published in this new edition were discovered by Frank Martin during two mountain excursions – in a similar way to Béla Bartók when he collected his folk melodies. Frank Martin heard Chanson des Métamorphoses being sung by a child in a Savoy valley (French: Savoie) to the south of Geneva. It took a large amount of chocolate to persuade the boy to sing the whole of the long text clearly so that he could write down the many verses. The second folk song Il faut partir pour l’Angleterre was also heard by him, sung by a small boy with a strong voice in a valley in Wallis, in south-west Switzerland.
Maria Martin