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4 unusual facts about Benjamin Godard


Benjamin Godard

Benjamin Godard: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor (Concerto Romantique) and Scènes poétiques performed by Chloë Hanslip (violin) with the Kosice Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kirk Trevor (Naxos 8.570554)

The most recent recordings of music by Godard are the Piano Concerto No. 1, Introduction & Allegro and Symphonie Orientale performed by Victor Sangiorgio (piano) with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates on Dutton Epoch CDLX 7274, released in 2011 and Piano Concerto No.2, Persian Fantasy, (again with Victor Sangiorgio and Martin Yates) Suites from Jocelyn and Overture Les Guelfes on Dutton Epoch, released in 2012.

Godard died in Cannes from tuberculosis in 1895, aged only 45, and was buried at the family plot in Taverny.

Ross Jungnickel

He also composed an orchestral version of Adagio Pathetique, by Benjamin Godard, which was published in 1910.


Eleanor Everest Freer

Eleanor Everest was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cornelius Everest and Ellen Amelia (Clark) Everest, and studied singing in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and composition with Benjamin Godard.


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