Cécile Chaminade: Valse tendre

Here s a compilation of many Chaminade pieces that I have played on this channel. She was a french composer and concert pianist (18571944). Chaminade experimented in composition as a young child, composing pieces for her cats, dogs and dolls. In 1869, she performed some of her music for Georges Bizet, who was impressed with her talents. In 1878, Chaminade gave a salon performance under the auspices of her professor, Le Couppey, consisting entirely of her compositions. This performance marked the beginning of her emergence as a composer and became the archetype for the concerts she gave for the rest of her career in which she only performed her own works. Her Concertino, Op. 107, is an important work in the flute repertoire. During the 1870s and 1880s several of her works were programmed by the prestigious Société nationale de musique. She toured France several times in her early years. In 1892, she debuted in England, w