Scherzo, op. 61, no. 2
Scherzo · Op. 61, No. 2
Benjamin Godard 1849–1895
Scherzo
Form
Op. 61, No. 2
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Themes & character
Quick and light·French wit·Concert piece·Rarely heard
At a glance
- Catalogue
- Op. 61, No. 2
- Form
- Scherzo
About the piece
A scherzo from Godard's substantial and now almost entirely neglected piano output. The form had travelled a long way from the classical minuet's replacement, becoming by the later nineteenth century a vehicle for lightness, speed and sudden contrast.
Godard's piano music rewards the players who go looking for it, being idiomatically written and genuinely inventive, though it has never recovered a place in the standard repertoire.
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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