Fernande Decruck - Cantilene for Clarinet and Piano (1933)

Fernande Decruck (née Breilh) (25 December 1896 - 6 August 1954) was a French composer who composed over 40 works for the saxophone. Most well-known is her Sonata in C sharp minor for alto saxophone or viola, dedicated to Marcel Mule.
Cantilene for Clarinet and Piano (1933)
Mark Allen Jr., clarinet and Allison Wang, piano
Score and audio provided by Mark Allen jr.
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Fernande was born in the village of Gaillac in France to a local merchant. She began learning piano aged eight and studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse. She was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1918 studying organ and composition. There she won prizes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint, and piano accompaniment.
Her studies in improvisation on organ led her to travel to America where she gave her first organ recitals in New York. Her husband, Maurice Decruck, a clarinetist, saxophonist and double-bassist played both bass and saxophone with the New York Philharmonic. Maurice Decruck later became a music publisher, opening the company Les Editions de Paris. They married in 1924 and had three children, Jeannine Decruck (born 1925), Michel Decruck (born 1926) and Alain Decruck (born 1937). She moved to the United States with her family in 1928.
In 1932, Maurice Decruck returned to Paris and began a publishing company ‘’Les Editions de Paris’’ that would go on to publish Fernande Decruck’s compositions. Fernande Decruck later rejoined her husband in Paris in 1933. When Fernande returned to France, she began teaching harmony at the Conservatoire de Toulouse. Between 1937 and 1942 she lived in Toulouse with her children apart from her husband in Paris. During this period she continued to teach, compose and perform. In 1942 she moved back to Paris and many of her works were premiered between 1943 and 1947 including her Sonata in C# minor.
Fernande and Maurice Decruck divorced in 1950 after several years of separation. She died of a stroke on 6 August 1954.

[@baudobill547]

This make me feel ethereal.......... when I die I would like music like this playing for me somewhere........

[@markallenjr.2446]

I'm glad you guys like our recording!

[@javiersanchezsepulveda2618]

Wonderful recording! Congrats!
This is a very little-known work indeed. Would you please send me the score to my email?
We are planning to play this beautiful piece at my faculty.
Thank you so much in advance.
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[@pnocella]

Surprise ending---ending on the Dominant (A) rather than the Tonic (D)! Lovely work, reflecting the main stream aesthetic of French Impressionism (Debussy/Ravel). It would be interesting some of the saxophone works were likewise available on youtube?

[@percy445]

this is the one im gonna compete with this one its beautiful

[@whoitisnot]

Do you have the music? It seems impossible to find!

[@noongoldstein3240]

Warm music, gentle...Very nice, thanks 😊

[@jackgallagher9949]

Thank you for posting this and making it available. An engaging discovery!

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[@TimondeNood]

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[@angeliquelamri282]

J adore! Merci

[@ignazzzzzio]

women have always composed great works, I dont get why they arent performed more often

[@ignazzzzzio]

@@elijahminiuk2058 How do you seriously dare to say such a thing in 2019? I dont even know how you with your sexist bias would try to argue in favor of that statement, however, women have historically been neglected in their intelectual and artistic education, have been more or less forced to domestic labors, etc... and in spite of that there have been amazing composers such as Clara Wieck, Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, C Chaminade, Ethel Smyth, Alma Mahler, and so many more!

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Limited brain

[@violetavalery]

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[@patrickcharette2151]

Well this isn’t exactly her best work, although not of poor quality it doesn’t exactly hold up to the other larger works for the instrument which happen to be written by men. If you look at her saxophone sonata though, it’s a square competitor with the other major works for the instrument. It kind of boils down to the fact that there weren’t a lot of female composers (a product of sexism at the time) and as a result you have a smaller pool of production, so you get less relevant work by female composers, something which is changing in the modern era!

[@PacoGilClarinet]

Excellent! Where can I got the score of the Decruck´s Cantinele? It´s very interesting music.
Thanks you to share this video. Best regards.

[@bahianolosa5727]

Such a lovely piece. I'd really like to play it with my friend. Could you tell me where I can find the score for both the piano and the clarinet? Thank you!

[@MiloLucyRocky]

This is a beautiful piece! I would love to play this as my semester focus piece on clarinet, but I can't find the music anywhere.

[@WilfriedBerk]

Mark Allen Jr., clarinet and Allison Wang, piano.

[@crisalf_]

So charming, where can I found this score? 😥

[@edepillim]

Debussy esqe. Very nice

[@yuehchopin]

danke

[@amandabinaco1043]

Hello, I am a music ed major and may be playing this piece at the end of the semester. Can you tell me where I could find the score for clarinet and piano to either download or purchase?

[@bartjebartmans]

What is your e-mail address?

[@alexoglez]

Hello! I was wondering if you could also email me the sheet music, it’s such a beautiful piece

[@silkeschmidt-hederich7962]

@@bartjebartmans [e-mail] It would be very nice if you sent me the notes. I'm 13 years old and i want to play it in a contest.

[@javiersanchezsepulveda2618]

@@bartjebartmans Hello, could you please email to me as well?
Thank you so much!
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[@jonathanlopez5663]

@Bartje Batmans Hello! Is it still possible if I can get a copy of the clarinet and piano part as well? Send to: [e-mail] Thank you!

[@whoitisnot]

I'd be so happy to purchase the music for this if it could be found! Can anyone help??

[@gyutaekim3926]

Beautiful song! can i get the score?

[@silkeschmidt-hederich7962]

Can you tell me where I get the musicnotes for this?

[@perthlibao1891]

Hi where can I get the score for this?

[@deniseshahurley4210]

What clarinet is this written for?

[@markallenjr.2446]

Denisesha Hurley clarinet in Bb, but the score is in C.

[@deniseshahurley4210]

Mark Allen Jr. Do you know where I could purchase this score??

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[@jb1980ist]

Sounds like early Debussy.

[@SOBIESKI_freedom]

She only lived to the age of 57 or 58... that's too young.

[@gamer46653]

cute

[@baudobill547]

Thank you.