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Florent Schmitt
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| Florent Schmitt studied in Nancy before going to the Paris Conservatoire where he was a pupil of Dubois, Massenet and Fauré. Like many of his contemporaries, he was fascinated by the exotic and a kind of Oriental element featured in several of his successful compositions. 
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| La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome), originally a dance-piece, was revised as a symphonic poem in 1910. An element of exoticism is apparent in the film-score for Flaubert's Salammbô, with its Carthaginian setting, and in a number of subsequent orchestral works. His gift as an orchestrator is evident in his two symphonies and in a number of other compositions. Schmitt won early success with his exotic setting of Psalm XLVII in 1904. Other choral works range from settings of fables of La Fontaine to liturgical music, settings of the Mass and other sacred texts. Chamber music for various combinations of instruments includes work for wind instruments and his music for keyboard shows a similar variety of conception.
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