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Chausson

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[shoh-sawn] / ʃoʊˈsɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Ernest 1855–99, French composer.


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Chausson turned this sequence into a shimmering, harmonically lush double chorus, performed here by choristers in celestial white robes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021

Chausson was well aware of the threat of merely rewriting “Tristan.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

Le Salon de Musiques The intimate chamber-music series offers an all-French program of works for piano and strings by Saint-Saëns, Franck and Chausson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2018

Across selections from Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss and Alban Berg, Piau conjured a rarefied emotional world, suffused with wistful longing and serene melancholy, and leavened by a sense of wry detachment.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2017

Of the modern French we are loth to omit the symphonies of Chausson and of Dukas.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp

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