Lazzari, Sylvio

Lazzari, Sylvio – Tableaux Maritimes, Suite for Orchestra

(b. Bolzano, Italy, 30 December 1857 – d. Paris, France 10 June 1944)

Suite for Orchestra in Four Parts
(1919-20)

Soleil couchant sur la mer p.1
Vagues p.18
Berger sur la lande p.57
Navire fuyant la tempête p.78

Preface
Sylvio Lazzari, full birth name Josef Fortunat Silvester Lazzari, was, in the inimitable words of the musical chronicler Nicolas Slonimsky, a “Tyrol-born French composer of Italian extraction.”1 Born in Bolzano, capital city of the South Tyrol region in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an Italian father and an Austrian mother, Lazzari’s career would turn out to have as many twists as his lineage.

Lazzari was the only son of wealthy parents, who, after their son began learning violin, insisted he put it aside to study law. This he did, first in Innsbruck, then Munich, and finally in Vienna, where he graduated with a doctorate in 1882. During this same year Lazzari traveled to Paris, where he met Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) and Charles Gounod (1818-1893). After seeing some of his early compositions, they encouraged him to remain in Paris to study music. Lazzari moved permanently to France the following year. He entered the Paris Conservatoire, studying with Gounod, Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892), and César Franck (1822-1890). He met rapidly with success, particularly in chamber music, helping popularize the genre in France. …

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