les larmes de jacqueline by jacques offenbach euphonium & piano (print) Händel or G

Händel or G

This is one of the most renowned songs by Reynaldo Hahn (1874– 1947)

MADRIGAL written in 1915

but the piece was actually simultaneously realized by the composer himself for either violin or cello

The lively and playful second movement «Allegretto» has the character of a humorous dance

les larmes de jacqueline by jacques offenbach euphonium & piano (print) Händel or GOffenbach composed Les Larmes de Jacqueline in 1846 as the second in a set of three pieces under the title Les Harmonies des Bois (Op. 76). During this time Offenbach was traveling throughout Europe performing as a cello virtuoso. Often performing his own music, Les Larmes de Jacqueline was most likely composed for himself and Friedrich von Flotow. Flotow performed regularly with Offenbach for the better part of a century and for whom Offenbach wrote