Albert Roussel - Joueurs de flûte, Op. 27 (1924)

Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism. Please support my channel: Joueurs de flûte, Op. 27 (1924) 1. Pan (0:00) 2. Tityre (3:05) 3. Krishna (4:15) 4. Monsieur de la Péjaudie (7:28) Dedicated to: 1. Marcel Moyse 2. Gaston Blanquart 3. Louis Fleury 4. Philippe Gaubert Koos Verheul, flute and Jet Roling, piano It was written in 1924 and consists of four pieces, each named after a flute player from literature and each dedicated to a flutist of Roussel’s time. 1. Pan ’Pan’ is named after the half-goat, half-man god of nature in Greek mythology, who is often depicted pl