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Koechlin rarely rewards the expectations fostered by others' music, which can come to seem predictable and hackneyed after immersion in his. For instance, one can guess all too readily what sort of piece an Épitaphe de Jean Harlow should be -- or would be in any other hands -- the muted lament set off by sensual chromatics emitting, like cigarette smoke, a saxophone's bluesy eulogy. Instead, Koechlin gives us a sicilienne of wistful charm identical in mood and key with 'Smiling-Skating' from the first Album de Lilian, composed in 1934. That would be Lilian Harvey (1906-1968), an actress whose career spanned the advance from silent films to talkies only to fizzle when she transferred from Europe to Hollywood in 1933. Koechlin saw her in Princesse à vos ordres on August 7, 1934, and suffered an immediate infatuation that informed his life and his art for the next two years. Indeed, Koechlin returned from a second viewing of the film the same evening and composed the first of the pieces of the Album de Lilian, 'Tout va bien,' 'not without covering my paper in tears....' Captivated by photographs well before seeing her onscreen, the second movement of his Seven Stars Symphony, composed over September/October 1933, bears her name. His enchantment with her prompted a novel, a film scenario, and 113 (mostly brief) musical compositions. Koechlin was 66 when he saw Princesse à vos ordres, a composer of formidable, otherworldly, and largely unpublished works known to a small coterie of admirers (including Manuel de Falla and the young Darius Milhaud) whose reputation was sinking into deeper eclipse due to the necessity of earning a living by lecturing, private teaching, and journalism. A preoccupation with counterpoint and the chorale through the latter 1920s and into the '30s rendered his music increasingly 'caviar to the general.' His interest in the cinema -- and in Harvey -- not only revitalized his flagging creativity but led him to shake down the complexities of his style to a simpler, readily accessible form, though more than a touch of the esoteric remained. As his enthusiasm for Harvey receded, his interest transferred to other stars -- for instance, Ginger Rogers, for whose appearance in Swing Time he composed the five Danses pour Ginger, for piano. A footnote to the Albums de Lilian, the Épitaphe de Jean Harlow, begun in February 1937, was put in final form between July and October; Harlow died, at the age of 26, on June 7.
Appears On
Year | Title / Performer | Label / Catalog # | AllMusic Rating |
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2017 | Various Artists | SWR 19047CD | |
2017 | 52296 | ||
2012 | 9266 | ||
2005 | Haenssler | ||
1999 | 29 |