Bordes, Charles

Bordes, Charles – Rapsodie basque pour Piano et Orchestre, op. 9

(b. Bellangerie estate, Vouvray-sur-Huisne [near Tours], Indre-et-Loire, France, 12 May 1863 – d. Toulon, France, 8 November 1909)

ICB 19 (1888, rev. 1919)

First edition published
Margault [same imprint as Édition mutuelle], Paris, France, 1902

Orchestration
solo piano with 2 flutes, piccolo, oboe, 2 B-flat clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F,
2 trumpets in F, 3 trombones, timpani, triangle, cymbals, 2 harps, strings

Piano reduction of the orchestral part by Gustave Samazeuilh (1877-1967) published:1921
Revised edition of the full score published: Rouart, Lerolle at Cie., Paris, France, 1921
Plate R.L. 11157 & Cie.
Dedicated by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), who helped Bordes publish his music

Biography
As a French choirmaster and musicologist, Charles Bordes played a significant role in rediscovering the Renaissance polyphonic repertoire and French baroque music during the three decades preceding World War I. He is best known for his work to promote early music, which dwarfs his compositional output in scope and reknown.

Founder of the Schola Cantorum alongside Vincent d’Indy and Alexandre Guilmant, he advocated a thorough training for church musicians and choral singers. Like many young musicians of the time, he encountered difficulties in getting his compositions published and had to appeal to Ernest Chausson to have his first songs published by Hamelle. He founded a collaborative enterprise called Édition mutuelle (1902), underwritten by subscribers, to publish works by Schola faculty and students. Georges Servières, in a series of articles devoted to French composers of art song, underlines the importance of this publication in the reception of Bordes’ songs, which rank with the best of Debussy and Chausson. …

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