Claude Debussy's Syrinx, a late work from 1913, was written for the famous flutist Louis Fleury and is stylistically comparable to his three Mallarmé Songs.
Performer Biography
Manuela Wiesler, the flutist on this album, was born in a wooden hut in Tunas/Itapiranga, Brazil, in 1955.
Composer Biography
Marin Marais, a composer featured on this album, was a gamba virtuoso at the court of the Sun King, director of the opera orchestra, and even composed a musical depiction of a gall-stone operation.
Performer Biography
Manuela Wiesler earned money for her flute lessons by playing as an "underground" musician in the Châtelet Métro station in Paris.
Composer's Artistic Vision
André Jolivet, a composer on this album, considered a work for a solo instrument to be an 'ascèse' (ascetic exercise) for both the composer and the performer.
Performer Biography
Manuela Wiesler's decision to become a flutist was made at age nine after seeing Tamino calm wild animals with his flute in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
Composition History
Jacques Ibert's Pièce pour flûte seule was reportedly composed on the spot in 1936 for flutist Marcel Moyse, who was asked to play but had no piano accompaniment available.
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