Phillip Sear plays an interesting miniature (marked Poco andante) from a set of three 'Picturesque Sketches' from 1890 by the French polymath Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928).
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Baron [Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand] Fernand [Fouant] de La Tombelle (1854-1928) was born into a well-off family in Paris. His mother was a student of Liszt and Thalberg, and, although Fernand was initially destined for an administrative career, he turned to music at age 18 and studied privately with Guilmant and also at the Paris Conservatoire. His teachers there included Theodore Dubois - to whose wife the 'Esquisses Pittoresques' are dedicated. Fernand's principal career was as a concert organist, and he was a very active recitalist - but he also composed for the organ and in other genres, including operatic and orchestral works. He became a baron at 19 upon the shocking murder by axe of his father by intruders at his chateau. As well as being a musician, de La Tombelle was also an accomplished poet, photographer, sculptor and astronomer. He latterly lived in a chateau in the Dordogne which he had inherited from his mother's family. For much more information on his life and works, see the French language biography at: [ Ссылка ] . The thumbnail picture shows the composer as photographer.
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