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[mikehopf]

Another musical genius whose life was cut short: Pierre Menu ( 1896-1919)

His Sonatine for String Quartet dedicated to his master, Roger-Ducasse, has just been released together with quartets by Debussy & Milhaud on Sony played by the Galatea Quartet. The CD is entitled La Belle Epoque.

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Swiss radio will broadcast the Galatea Quartet recording of the Sonatine this Thursday, 7 August at 22.25 CET on their culture channel SRF 2 Kultur.

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Coincidentally (?), parts of the Sonatine were uploaded to imslp just a few days ago. I've checked out the usual sauces (sorry!), which produced the following:

Pierre Menu (1896-1919) French Composer very little met. was very friend of Arthur Honegger, sometimes and Albert Roussel mentioned like possible member of Them to him Six .

Pierre Menu is a composer very little well-known, given its premature death to the 23 years. Not only by the mystery that often they transmit who disappear young, but to express with an authority impropia to its age - age in which the majority is even completing its Pierre learning Menu gave the impression of already to have found itself, and it does not stop surprising by the maturity of its character and its art.

In five years, from 1914 to 1919, it writes, with all the anguish and commotion of the war, a series of works that, considered each separately, would be sufficient to him for their recognition: but that, all together, indicates indicated to him as by the indefinable mark of the genius. They emphasize by its originality, its prodigious technical masters, the rythmical force and the rich harmony, by the extraordinary expresividad of those who the life and by its tenderness and humanity above all vibrate with.

Their works more well-known are: one Sonatine for quartet of cords (1920), one Fantasie dans l'ambance espagnole, for ARPA and orchestra and Quatour avec piano .