Florent Schmitt (September 28, 1870, Blamont, Meurthe et Moselle – August 17, 1958, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French composer. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, where he studied under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, Gustave Sandre, and Gabriel Fauré. In 1900 Schmitt won the Prix de Rome on his fourth attempt.
Schmitt wrote 138 works with opus numbers. He composed examples of most of the major forms of music, except for ...
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Florent Schmitt (September 28, 1870, Blamont, Meurthe et Moselle – August 17, 1958, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French composer. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, where he studied under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, Gustave Sandre, and Gabriel Fauré. In 1900 Schmitt won the Prix de Rome on his fourth attempt.
Schmitt wrote 138 works with opus numbers. He composed examples of most of the major forms of music, except for opera. Today his most famous pieces are La tragédie de Salome and Psalm XLVII. His piano quintet in B minor, written in 1908, helped establish his reputation. Other works include a violin sonata (Sonate Libre), a late string quartet, a saxophone quartet , Dionysiaques for wind band, and two symphonies. He was part of the group known as the Apaches. His own style, recognizably impressionistic, owed something to the example of Debussy, though it had distinct traces of Wagner and Richard Strauss also.
Schmitt composed a ballet La tragédie de...
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