Daily updated free sheet music resource for new musicians and enthusiasts!

Cecile Chaminade Sheet Music

Cecile Chaminade Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (August 8, 1857 – April 13, 1944) was a French composer and pianist.

Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey, Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick and Benjamin Godard, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical education.
Her first experiments in composition took place in very early days, and in her eighth year she played some of her sacred music to Georges Bizet, who was much impressed with her talents. She gave her first concert when she was eighteen, and from that time on her work as a composer gained steadily in favor. She wrote mostly character pieces for piano, and salon songs, almost all of which were published.

She toured France several times in those earlier days, and in 1892 made her début in England, where her work was extremely popular.

Chaminade married a music publisher from Marseilles, Louis-Mathieu Carbonel, in 1901, and on account of his advanced age the marriage was rumored to be one of convenience. He died in 1907, and Chaminade did not remarry.

In 1908 she visited the United States, and was accorded a very hearty welcome from her innumerable admirers there. Her compositions were tremendous favorites with the American public, and such pieces as the Scarf dance or the Ballet No. 1 were to be found in the music libraries of many lovers of piano music of the time. She composed a Konzertstück for piano and orchestra, the ballet music to Callirhoé and other orchestral works. Her songs, such as The Silver Ring and Ritournelle, were also great favorites. Ambroise Thomas, the celebrated French composer and writer, once said of Chaminade: "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman." In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. In London, 1903, she made gramophone recordings of six of her compositions for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company; these are among the most sought-after piano recordings by collectors. Before and after World War I, Chaminade recorded many piano rolls, but as she grew older, she composed less and less, dying in Monte Carlo on April 13, 1944.


Cecile Chaminade - Lolita Piano Sheet Music


Advertisement
Advertisement
Please click on the button to get the sheet music

You can share this sheet on your Twitter or Facebook account to let your friends know too!




Comments about Lolita by Cecile Chaminade

There are no comments yet


Name (required)
Email (required, will not be published)

Total 0/1000 chars

Other music sheets of Cecile Chaminade

Piano
6
pages
263.32KB - 744d ago
  ...
Piano
7
pages
246.44KB - 17d ago
  ...




Latest Artists

Amy Potter × 1
John Smith × 1
Richard Rodgers × 2
Leopold Auer × 1
Claude-Michel Schonberg × 1
Lauv × 1
Enya × 1
Clark Gesner × 1
Edward Elgar × 1
Side Show × 1
Michael Jackson × 4
Javier Navarrete × 1
Ernesto de Curtis × 1
Theodore Shapiro × 1
Yann Thiersen × 1
omoi × 1
Gershon Kingsley × 1
Jacques Ibert × 1
Led Zeppelin × 1
William Finn × 1
Enrique Granados × 2
Wicked × 1
Gilbert & Sullivan × 1
Khachaturian × 1
Krezip × 1
Thomas Newman × 2
Michael Ruff × 1
Neil Gow. × 1
Guiseppe Verdi × 1
Alan Silverstri × 1
Michael Wong × 1
Isham Jones × 1
Rufer × 1
Isaac Shepard × 1
John Williams × 2
Bruce Springsteen × 1
Steven Cravis × 1
Reynaldo Hahn × 1
Rachmaninoff × 4
Ezra Jenkinson × 1
Elton John & Bernie Taupin × 1
Ernesto Lecuona × 2
Shinee × 1
Adriano Celentano × 1
Davy Flowers × 1
Konishi Kayo and Yukio Kondo × 1
Bill Evans × 1
Piyano × 1
Ariel Ramirez × 1
Pans Labyrinth × 1
The free sheet music is provided for personal enjoyment only, not for resale purposes. The sheet music available to buy are provided by our partners who are the biggest and most respectable online merchants. For questions about your orders, please get in touch with the customer services of our partners.