Armande de Polignac, Preludes for Piano
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Overview
Armande de Polignac (1876-1962) composed pieces in a wide variety of genres; most remain unpublished. Some of her manuscripts can be found in archives, along with a few editions published during her lifetime. Her Preludes for piano, which she published in about 1900, have survived in their entirety only in a very rare edition preserved by her descendants. In the critical edition presented here, Florence Launay’s detailed preface situates these preludes, whose style is ‘uncluttered, almost ascetic, and tinged with nostalgia’, in the context of the composer’s career.
Edition
Edited by Benjamin Geer and Florence Launay. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
- Critical edition (PDF), ISMN 979-0-707186-03-9
Facsimiles of Sources
- EB (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Shelfmark ark:/12148/cb43209797j. This reproduction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
- EP (descendants of Armande de Polignac). This reproduction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.