First Publication | 1829 or earlier |
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Genre Categories | Fantasias; For oboe, strings; Scores featuring the oboe; |
Work Title | Souvenirs du Mont d’or |
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Alternative. Title | Souvenirs du Mont d’or. Fantaisie pour le hautbois avec accompagnement de quatuor ou piano |
Composer | Brod, Henri |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.27 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IHB 4 |
First Publication. | 1829 or earlier |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | Oboe Solo and Piano (or Harp, or String Quartet) |
Searching for the first appearance of the publication is maybe complicated by the pun, created by the fact that the work's (and I presume one of the composer's regular) publisher(s) Janet & Cotelle was located "au Mont-d'Or , rue Saint -Honoré" in the 1820s. I assume this was a deliberate pun, or hommage, or... - Schissel
(Also , a search reveals "Souvenirs du Mont d'or" by Delorieux , engravings, produced no later than 1832 - whether these existed before , were inspired by, were produced by the same independent idea as the (correlation, not causation, ...) the Brod... - well, no idea as of 7/2018...
A survey by Marie-Noëlle Colette (La Musique à Paris, 1983) gives date "1831" for Brod's work, but an article by Fétis about a concert of Brod's music in January 1829 in Revue musicale mentions this work, so composed by 1829 certainly...