LOCATION

The Betsy Hotel
1433 Collins Avenue The Gallery
33139 Miami Beach, FL
United States
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April 18, 2021, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Concert Series: Music in Beautiful Spaces

Debussy Piano Trio in G major (1880)
Dvořák Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 (Dumky) (1891)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Piano Trio in G major was written by an 18-year-old Claude Debussy in 1880 in Fiesole, Italy, where he resided at Nadezhda von Meck’s. Most of the work was thought to be lost until 1982, when it was discovered from the legacy of Maurice Dumesnil, a pupil of Debussy’s. The first edition was published in 1986.

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. Following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style has been described as “the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them.” The Piano Trio No. 4 is among the composer’s best-known works. At the same time it is a prominent example for a piece of chamber music deviating strongly from the customary form of classical chamber music – both in terms of the number of movements and of their formal construction.