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Benjamin Godard 1849–1895
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Themes & character
In a dream·Reverie character·Flowing lyricism·Salon idiom
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About the piece
In a Dream, a reverie in the manner that dominated French salon writing of the period, its title signalling the drifting, half-remembered mood the music sets out to evoke.
Pieces of this kind were the everyday currency of nineteenth century domestic music-making, and Godard, like most composers of his generation, wrote them alongside his more ambitious work.
The composer
Benjamin Godard
1849–1895
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) of tuberculosis and was buried in the family tomb in Taverny in the French department of Val-d'Oise.
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