Bozza: Complete Works for Solo Flute

Schneemann, Marieke

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Eugène Bozza was a 20th-century successor to Giulio Briccialdi, the Italian flautist who is celebrated in 2018, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Born to an Italian father in Nice in 1905, Bozza studied violin and piano in Rome as a child before winning a place at the Paris Conservatoire, where he excelled on the violin. It was in France that he made his career, initially as an orchestra leader, conductor and composer. In 1931 he won the prestigious Prix de Rome (denied time and again to Berlioz) and he was later decorated by the Republic as a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur for his services to French music. Having become director of the conservatoire in Valenciennes at the age of45, he wrote prolifically for chamber ensembles, producing the kind of music which students could study and play together. However, his style was not an academic one, nor was it especially influenced by the artistic upheavals of the century in which he lived (he died in Valenciennes in 1991).

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Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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