Classique vous avez dit classique – February 3, 2016, Judaïques FM (94,8)
Laure Schnapper, welcomes Marc-Antoine Pingeon and Cédric Kleinklaus, co-founders of the Eugénie Orchestra to discuss their interpretations of the works of Emile Waldteufel (1837-1915).
Throughout this program, we will have the pleasure of hearing several excerpts from this 19th-century salon repertoire.
Laure Schnapper is a musicologist in the G. Simmel Centre in EHESS university where she teaches. She is also president of the European Institute for Jewish Music.
After the publication of her PhD, L’ostinato, procédé musical universel (Champion, 1998), she wrote many articles about music in France in the 19th century, as well as a book on Henri Herz, magnat du piano. La vie musicale en France au XIXe siècle (Editions de l’EHESS, 2011), which received the Prix des Muses award. She also dedicated several articles on “degenerated” music, to the exiled composer Joseph Kosma, and to the composer Fernand Halphen (1872-1917).
In 2017, she directed the publication of the book Du salon au front. Fernand Halphen (1872-1917), compositeur, mécène et chef de musique militaire at the Hermann editions.
