Classique vous avez dit classique : Isaac Strauss

Laure Schnapper invites Marc-Antoine Pingeon and Cédric Kleinklaus, founders of the Orchestre Eugénie as part of the day of study on Isaac Strauss (1806-1888) which will take place the 19th Novembre 2018 at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme.
During this broadcast, we will hear recordings of waltzes and polkas written by Isaac Strauss, in the 19th century.

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.

See the event around Isaac Strauss, on November 19th at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme